A Tribute to Irfan Khudi Ali

Irfan Ali, with Khu­di Ali as his social media alias, was a peace and human rights activist belong­ing to Haz­ara com­mu­ni­ty. Last month, when two bombs blasts on Alam­dar Road in Quet­ta tar­get­ing Haz­ara Shias took more than 100 lives, Irfan was one among who died. He got mar­tyred in the sec­ond blast while help­ing […]

From Solidarity with Hazaras to a Common Destiny

A recent sur­vey by Pew Research Cen­ter gives a bleak pic­ture of the sec­tar­i­an divide in Pak­istani soci­ety. Accord­ing to the sur­vey, about 50% of Sun­ni Mus­lims in Pak­istan con­sid­er Shia beliefs to be heretic or a deviant form of Islam. Fur­ther to this, there is polar­iza­tion with­in soci­ety on almost every social and polit­i­cal […]