Pakistan

Shezhad Arshad On October 14, students from the Punjab Group of Colleges (PGC) in Lahore staged a massive protest against a rape on a college campus. The assault reportedly took place some days before on the Gulberg Campus where a security guard raped a first year student. While the students are certain that rape was committed, the Principal has threatened to stop them protesting. The students of Gulberg Campus 10 say, „She was called to the basement and the security guard raped her“. Hearing her screams from a classroom, students went to help the student whose condition was so bad that teachers called for an ambulance and she was taken to hospital. When the students of this college gathered to protest and to demand action and an investigation against the accused, they were intimi...

2 Comments / Art / Literature, History, International, National / By left Prof. Ameer Hamza Virk This is a story of tears, sighs, hiccups, sobs, and tales of love, hatred, and prejudices. It was not a partition of India. It split two great nations of the subcontinent Punjabies and Bengalies. The Partition is a subject on which much has been written in the past and much will be written in the future, but there are many aspects of it that are still hidden from the public eyes. Many stories are untold. The people of Punjab, who were known as the protectors of each other’s honor since the time of Dulla Bhatti, in the name of religion, broke the mountains of such brutality, that in modern history, such barbarism has no parallels. It is an insult to humanity. Somewhere, it happened to ...