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When I migrated to America 15 years ago it was a different country to what it is today, and the same goes for my native country, Pakistan. I am now a U.S. citizen. However, I maintain a strong interest and concern in both countries’ social, political, educational and economic conditions.

Imran Khan is former Prime Minister of Pakistan. His arrest by Pakistan’s paramilitary forces is simply a slap on the face of democracy and a black day for the people of Pakistan. Imran Khan’s arrest in Pakistan is simply an act of revenge under the banner of a so-called National Accountability Bureau case against him.

Arshad Sharif, a prominent journalist from Pakistan was forced to flee his own country and live in hiding. Despite that, he still became a victim of his own dictator and ineligible government. He was shot by Nairobi police in Kenya in a car chase of “mistaken identity.”

Growing up in Karachi Pakistan, fasting, celebrating and feasting during Ramadan is very different from celebrating anywhere else in the world.

An independent religious freedom watchdog panel has welcomed the State Department’s annual religious freedom report and its list of the world’s worst offenders, which had laid dormant for three years.

Lawyer, writer and women’s rights advocate Rafia Zakaria will present a lecture, “Drones and Terrorism: The Ultimate Miscalculation,” on Sept. 23, at 7 p.m. in the Robinson Teaching Theatre in Weyerhaeuser Hall at Whitworth University.