On May 11, the world's second most populous Muslim country, Pakistan, marked a historic election. The country's 66-year history is marred by the presence of martial laws and never before has one elected government replaced another. As Pakistanis rushed to the polling stations to cast their vote, more...

Our hospital's chapel is typically empty. I offer my afternoon prayers there. Yesterday, as I was hopping from one patient room to another, I saw the dreadful slide of "Breaking News" of the Boston Bombings across TV screens. And even before I knew the death count, my Twitter feed was...

Here are your choices: flay, frown, fume or feel any number of positive emotions about Time Magazine's covers, but don't make decisions based on them.

Take for example, last week's dual-covers of the Time, flaunting two men and two women kissing with a...

Billa was his nickname. A poor, uneducated Christian boy who cleaned sewer lines, removed garbage and, on a good day, played cricket with us on the streets of Lahore. I fondly remember how he could hit the ball out of the park and make the team proud.

But life...

More than 30 years ago, when my parents enrolled me in St. Anthony's, a Catholic school in Pakistan, our neighbors expressed a concern: Will my faith be at risk because of attending a Catholic school?

But I experienced no conflict. I noted how the nuns wore a...

Sen. Mitch McConnell is guilty on both counts: What he believed to be news was a joke, and what he missed was the real news.

It started on Nov. 12, when on The Duffle Blog, America's John Stewart for the fake and funny military news made an...

Never go to a barber shop while you are still mulling over controversial news like, "Obama invokes gay rights in inaugural address."

Because your mind may sputter an even more controversial question like, "Why then we smother the discussion on the topic of first cousin marriages?"

Pakistan went through a Rosa Parks moment on Jan. 10 when twin bombings killed more than 100 members of the persecuted Shiite Muslim sect. The families refused to bury their kin. They protested -- in subfreezing temperatures -- by sitting next to the dead bodies for four days,...

Let me guess: A flu-like illness afflicted you or someone you know in the past two weeks.

What else would you expect? CDC is now reporting widespread Influenza (flu) activity in more than 41 states. Since the virus infects blacks and whites, gays and straight, Christians and Muslims...

Every December, Muslim youth, parents and converts in the Western countries face a familiar dilemma: Why (or how) should they "celebrate" Christmas?

On this issue, Muslim scholars are divided. Integrators like the British Cabinet Minister, Baroness Warsi admonish immigrant Muslims to "celebrate Christmas in traditional style, with carols,...

Last week, I was taking pictures at my son's elementary school's winter concert. The kindergartners were dressed as elephants, monkeys and other animals; my son was wearing the zebra costume. The children were singing; the parents were clapping. It was like watching The Lion King on Broadway.

Then on Friday,...

Plato may have inadvertently summed up the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2,500 years ago when he is thought to have declared: "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

The cyclical bloodshed in the Arab-Israeli...

After a gruesome reelection campaign, President Obama should unwind. And instead of playing basketball, he should watch a movie. How about the 2007 biographical drama, "Charlie Wilson's War"? It's about the period when the United States was leaving Afghanistan after wrapping up its covert anti-Soviet operation there. Tom...

There are many similarities between the candidates vying for the District 5 seat on the Prince George's County (Maryland) Board of Education: they are both women, both members of minority groups, both long-term residents of the county and both highly qualified. Yet there is a key difference: Age.

Where is the guy who pulled our car out of the ditch?

Remember? In May of 2010 when President Obama encapsulated a ton of economic jargon for the average American in one succinct metaphor: "After they drove the car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us...

Someone is missing from this picture. Because just when I was wondering if extremists could do anymore damage to Islam's image, they committed yet another despicable act.

As if flogging the adulterers, executing the civilians, and selling the women were not enough, on Oct. 8, the Taliban attempted to assassinate...

Sir, it was 1995, North Medical Ward of Pakistan's Mayo Hospital, where you famously said in your English-Punjabi accent, "Putter ji, batti uthay balo, jithay hanaira howay" (Son, light a candle where it's dark).

You didn't want your students to go abroad after completing medical school. You wondered what...

At some stage, we all run out of words.

To me it happened yesterday, as I witnessed the news of four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, killed by militants in Benghazi.

Perhaps because I have previously denounced such violence here, upheld freedom of expression

I bet you didn't know these two recent stories:

A 49-year old female in New York suffered burns on more than 50 percent of her body because her father poured acid on her face and body.

A 29-year-old female in Montreal suffered burns on...

The straw man of the famous post 9/11 slogan, "Not every Muslim is a terrorist but every terrorist is a Muslim" was debunked by a 2005 FBI report.

It showed that only 6% of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil from 1980 to 2005 were carried out by...