· June, 2013

Stories about Pakistan from June, 2013

Bottling Happiness in Lahore and California

  26 June 2013

California-based Pakistani blogger Noorulain Noor writes a hauntingly beautiful blogpost about her desire to bottle her happy moments from California and her childhood in Lahore, Pakistan.

No Witnesses? No Rape, Says Pakistan's Islamic Council

  12 June 2013

A ruling by Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) dismissing DNA as primary evidence in rape cases has received much flak from activists in the country. The ruling has its fair share of supporters though, with some happy that there is a legitimate institution pondering religious issues in Pakistan.