Peter Jacob

Peter Jacob

  • A hateful education

    On March 20, Khalid Hameed, a professor at Sadiq Egerton College Bahawalpur was stabbed to death by his student Khateeb Hussain, who suspected his...

  • Women in the minority

    On this International Women’s Day, let us look at the challenges that minority women and girls face, in addition to those of an average Pakistani...

  • Moral interventions

    A cursory look at the cases of corruption of those in power draws similar conclusions, though each story might have more than one moral. Ms...

  • The Hindu marriage bill

    Notwithstanding the positives, the Hindu Marriage Bill, 2016 approved by the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Law and Justice leaves...

  • The blasphemy laws

    Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani, the chairperson of the Council of Islamic Ideology, has offered to look into the possible doctrinal inconsistencies...

  • Questions of norms

    The ongoing hearing of the petition challenging the 21st Amendment in the Supreme Court has brought forth some extremely important issues that...

  • Let education live

    It was the scorching summer of 1976 in the heart of southern Punjab when I first met Bernadette Dean . She had come to Amritnagar, a village in the...

  • Interfaith dialogue

    Interfaith harmony, interfaith relations and interfaith dialogue are terms used synonymously in Pakistan – with a measure of ambiguity, even by...