Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), a Shia-majority province in a Sunni-majority country, has a diversified religious landscape, with Shia, Sunni, Noorbakshia, and Ismaili populations coexisting. It is located between the disputed regions of…

The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ruling at a time when India is the fifth largest economy in the world and rather dear to the West, especially the…

The suppression of local voices in Pakistan is primarily the result of two different forms of colonialism, which might be described as external colonialism and “internal colonialism.” External colonialism refers…

On July 12, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) voted to adopt a resolution on “Countering religious hatred constituting incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence” (A/HRC/53/L.23). Of the UNHRC’s…