#Coworking in Lahore

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Top Coworking Spaces for Startups in Lahore

Lahore is the cultural capital of Pakistan and is gradually coming into the limelight as the country's innovative technology hub.  With a growing startup culture, a diverse and active business community, and a history of trade and commerce, the city is an ideal environment for young businesses. One of the significant aspects of such growth is the presence of high-quality coworking spaces where startups can find all the necessary tools, openness, and support to thrive. In this article, the author takes a look at some of the finest coworking space providers in Lahore.

QuickOffice

QuickOffice distinguishes itself as one of the best coworking spaces in Lahore, suitable for startups and freelancers in particular who seek innovative and convenient work environments. QuickOffice is situated in a multiple commercial center in Lahore – like the main Gulberg and Upper Mall; therefore, it benefits from a central location close to the major businesses, food joints, and amusement sites. This coworking space includes internet connectivity, modern facilities, excellent meeting rooms and a relatively large event space. Members enjoy round-the-clock access and are actively engaged in community activities that allow them to connect with like-minded individuals and companies. Some of the advantages of joining QuickOffice shared office space include flexibility in membership plans, a professional atmosphere, and numerous networking possibilities; thus, it is ideal for startups.

COLABS

COLABS is one of the well-known coworking spaces in Lahore that provides a creative environment for people and has a more modern-looking interior. Located in Gulberg V, COLABS's vision create a work environment that fosters cooperation among startups, freelancers, and artists. These features include/user-friendly, appropriate open working station/ergonomic office space with new technologies for meeting purposes, a central gym, and a canteen. Day-to-day activities and periodic conferences and seminars provide good chances to make new connections and acquire more knowledge. The COLABS has a diverse community of people, new entrepreneur's mentorship programs, and aesthetic partnerships that enable startups to flourish.

Daftarkhwan

One of Lahore's most common coworking spaces is Daftarkhwan, which has multiple locations within Lahore with centres in Gulberg and DHA. Being oriented to start-ups, SMEs and freelancers, Daftarkhwan provides open-space workstations, tech-enabled conference rooms, unlimited bandwidth internet, and a pantry, among other amenities. There are offices for professional support staff to handle the everyday functioning of the organization. It allows members to select different locations, be in a favorable environment, and workshops/training sessions to obtain the essential skills.

Venture Drive

Venture Drive, located in the Model Town, is another well-known coworking space equipped with all the functional elements of a contemporary workspace, but it was developed in the format of a community-centered model. For startups, freelancers, and small businesses, Ventura Drive has fully furnished offices, meeting and conference rooms, high-speed fiber internet, and break-out areas. The supporting services include an administrative mainframe, while the support technologies include Information Technology services. Some factors that make Venture Drive unique include its one-stop-shop access, affordability, and focus on serving the community's interests of many business people.

The Hive

The Hive is one of the most luxurious coworking spaces today, situated in the heart of Gulberg, and its design is as efficient as it is beautiful. It supports startups and entrepreneurs in establishing and developing their businesses with ease. The Hive provides a flexible working area, technologically equipped meeting places, ordinary business get-together events, and a separate café. Easy access is flexible as it provides secure access for members around the clock. Due to its prime location, professional setup, and friendly community of members, The Hive is one of the best coworking places in Lahore.

Choosing the Right Coworking Space

In the current world economy, the best type of office or working space that your start up will take depends on one or many factors. Here are some factors to consider:

The concept of coworking spaces offers several choices, and QuickOffice is available in different price tiers. Select a plan suitable for your startup's financial capability, or choose the best plan for your business.

Accessibility is key. Consider how your team gets to work, and if distance to clients or other partners is a concern, incorporate it.

Other facilities include meeting rooms, internet access, photocopying services, and a recreation area. Determine which ones are essential for your startup business to function effectively.

The environment of the employees' workplace plays a role. Finding an environment that encourages people to work together could also lead to business relations and referrals.

As regards the choice of Lahore's coworking spaces, it is important to note that Lahore has a wide variety of coworking spaces to offer to startups and entrepreneurs. Moving from the highly personalized and networking-oriented QuickOffice to the collaborative and resourceful COLABS, Daftarkhwan, Venture Drive, and The Hive, there is a working space for everyone. Out of all these, QuickOffice is the best coworking space in Lahore because of its location, equipment, pricing options and, most importantly, its emphasis on community and networking. Given the future development of Lahore as one of the startup cities, such coworking spaces will be of great importance for the growth and development of the new generation of entrepreneurs.

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Pakistan's First Female led Coworking Space 'Workshack' signed a partnership with Garaj, Jazz Cloud

Pakistan’s First Female led Coworking Space ‘Workshack’ signed a partnership with Garaj, Jazz Cloud

LAHORE: Pakistan’s first female led Coworking Space ‘Workshack’ recently launched in Islamabad to accelerate women empowerment across the region. This coworking opportunity is created by the Managing Director Parvin Khudadad, a single mother and an educationist for more than 30 years, and the CEO Tooba Saad Khan, an active Board Member of Industries Private Limited and Ex-HR Team Member at US…

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eHaus is providing coworking office spaces in Lahore, the best space with contemporary design for entrepreneurs to focus on innovations, while office management is with our professionals. The place offers a collaborative working environment, world-class seminars, quality food, and fitness programs. Especially it is a best-shared office space for freelancers startups and small to medium enterprises. We are located in DHA Phase 5.

eHaus is not just a coworking space but is also a joint community with people working here as individual freelancers while some run small businesses and enterprises. It was built with the purpose to bring together people from different professional backgrounds so that people share their precious knowledge and experience with each other.

eHaus is a well-furnished coworking Space in DHA Phase 5, Lahore where you will get all the facilities, delightful central location, professional environment, and a friendly community that will help you to get your business to the next level.

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These shared office space in Lahore offer a lot of cost savings which is also coupled with the chances to network with the other entrepreneurs operating from the same workspace for achieving certain common pretensions. The demand for working spaces is soaring at the present times and this is a sign that the unborn growth of the co office space near me is obviously on the cards.

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History of Coworking Space Lahore

HISTORY OF COWORKING SPACE: HOW IT ALL STARTED

The history of Coworking space and how it all started is not an easy question to answer. The idea to ​​share space for work exists for some good time now. If we look at it from a broader perspective, the first shared office space is the incubator center and community center for young entrepreneurs. These centers have been around for decades if not more. Then, in the 90s there were centers, clubs and private places where computer nerds and hackers gathered to play with computers and explore IT technology at that time.

 Today, the concept of working together that we know began in San Francisco in 2005 as a result of the non-social business center and lack of productivity from working from home. The first Coworking space offered a small number of tables, less than a dozen, with limited usage times only twice per week and with limited opening hours. Soon, other Coworking spaces began to appear in the San Francisco area followed by other cities. In late 2005, London had more than forty coworkers' addresses. Berlin also has almost the same number. The first Coworking Space in Lahore was booked in advance and people were willing to pay for this service and only rent one table. Even some small companies rent out several tables for their employees because they recognize the benefits of meeting new people and exchanging ideas and views.

In 2012, there were more than two thousand workplaces worldwide, which means that throughout the planet, large cities have more than a few. At present, there are more than ten thousand, with the majority in the United States, India, Brazil, Spain, Germany and Canada. The estimate is that half a million people use a shared workspace every day and the trend will increase in the coming years. This increase was driven by demand for increased entrepreneurship, requirements for flexible and inexpensive office space, and surplus in office locations.

In just ten years or more, this co-worker has developed into a subculture that attracts many people and dynamic people. At present, most of the shared workspaces offer activities and meetings after work or open until evening or even 24 hours per day.

At present, shared workspaces are in a smaller range with several tables up to large ones that have more than one hundred tables. Some shared workspaces offer massage services and spa treatments and sports facilities. But in the end, the sky is the limit of ideas and personal entrepreneurship.

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We are offering the coworking space in Lahore. That is suitable for Freelancer, Agency, Startup, Small business, Business Consultants. And Tech startups. We have feasible seats for all kind of category and we provide multiple desk facility such as single dedicated desk, large dedicated desk, shared office space and meeting rooms. We are provide all benefits such as Unlimited Tea, 24/7 Internet facility, LED, Kitchen, Free parking and washrooms

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“I Never Thought We’d Face This Much Hatred”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, November 2019

by Raymond Ibrahim

Slaughter of Christians

Syria:  On November 11, Islamic gunmen opened fire on a vehicle known to be carrying Christian leaders.  Two Armenian priests, a father and son, were killed; a deacon was seriously wounded.  ISIS claimed the murders of Father Abrahim Petoyan and Father Hovsep Petoyan.  The Armenians were going to inspect repairs on an Armenian Catholic church that had been earlier damaged in Deir ez-Zor. “We continue to feel the presence of ISIS,” responded the Armenian Catholic Archbishop Boutros Marayati of Aleppo, adding that Deir ex-Zor “is a very important town for us, because it is there that many of our martyrs were killed as they fled the Turkish genocide of 1915. Today there are no Armenian Catholics left there. Undoubtedly, the Turks don’t want us to return, because our presence would be a reminder of the Armenian genocide.”

Turkey: On November 19, in the streets of the city of Diyarbakir, Korean evangelist Jinwook Kim, 41, was stabbed and later died from his injuries. A 16-year-old Muslim was later arrested.  According to the report,

Kim had arrived in Diyarbakir with his family earlier this year and was pastoring a small community of Christians. The assailant stabbed Kim three times: twice in the heart, once in the back. Officials, however, claim that the incident occurred in an effort to steal Kim’s phone. Local believers urge the authorities to investigate the incident as an assassination, rather than an attempt at extortion. Kim was married and had one child, although his second is expected to be born in the coming days….  He had lived in Turkey for five years.

“This wasn’t just a robbery; they came to kill him,” insists another local Christian, who received a death threat the day after this incident:

We always get threats. A brother prophesied a few days ago that they (the government) are going to kick out these foreigners, and probably kill a few Turkish brothers. They are going to cause chaos. They know that I am trying to spread the Gospel, so they may target me too. This may be a sign.

Ethiopia: “Two Ethiopian pastors have been beheaded in Sebeta, near the capital Addis Ababa, in an outburst of violence against Christians” that erupted after a leading Muslim incited his supporters against the government over some supposed infraction against him.  The report adds that “the situation on the ground has become quite challenging for Christians and many churches have been burnt this year. There is also an unverified report that a group of Christians has been forced out of the majority-Muslim town of Ginir, located 303 miles south-east of the capital.”

Nigeria: Muslim Fulani herdsmen continued their murderous raids on Christian communities.  Two incidents were especially notable and identical.  First, in the early hours of November 14, machete-wielding Muslim raiders hacked to death four Christians as they soundly slept in their bedrooms in Agban village, near Kagoro.  All of the slain were farmers and members of the local church.  Ten days later, on November 24, Muslim herdsmen attacked Agom, a Christian village in southern Kaduna state’s Sanga Country, around 4:30 a.m.  There they hacked with machetes an 87-year-old Christian to death and shot another Christian in the head, killing him instantly.  Both of the slain, regular churchgoers, had also been sleeping in their homes.

Cameroon: On November 6 in Moskota, Islamic militants connected with Boko Haram attacked a church where they killed David Mokoni, a retired pastor, as well as a hearing-impaired Christian boy; another pastor was shot in the leg.  Afterwards the militants looted the church, taking even the pastors’ ceremonial robes.  “Boko Haram has been stepping up its attacks on Christian villages in Far North Cameroon in an attempt to establish an Islamic caliphate from north-eastern Nigeria all the way to northern Cameroon,” the report says.  This most recent attack follows a “brutal spate of attacks since late October, by gangs of up to 200 militants, [which] has left eight dead”: “The first of the attacks came on 30 October with the looting of six mainly-Christian villages in Mayo Sava district….  On 31 October, five people were hacked to death when militants armed with axes, knives and wooden clubs stormed the village of Kotserehé. A sixth wounded man later died from his injuries.”  Rebecca, a witness, described the slaughter of a boy in Kotserehé: “He was a 15-year-old adolescent. He was so deeply asleep in his bed that he didn’t hear any of the noise around him. They thrust the blade of the axe so deeply into his skull, to the point we had to use a hammer to get it out of his head.” Many Christians have been displaced by these ongoing attacks and live in “extreme misery,” added another local:  “This is beyond persecution. It is a dramatic situation, plunging thousands of families into a deplorable humanitarian crisis.”

Pakistan: Muslim bakers murdered a teenage Christian coworker and police are covering it up, alleged Sarwar Masih, the father of Akash Masih, the slain 18-year-old:  “My son was an expert at baking and making shawarma and burgers” and his “expertise was liked by the customers.”  As a result, “he faced discrimination and religious jealousy at his workplace. He often complained about the unfavorable situation at the bakery, but he continued working to help his family.”  One day the bakery called the father and said his son was sick and sent to a hospital.  Sarwar rushed there only to learn that his son had already died.  When he contacted police, the bakery threatened him and police were unresponsive, claiming that his son had “committed suicide,” even though signs of torture were visible on his neck and back. “These are delaying tactics to defuse the evidences against the culprits,” Sarwar last reported: “Christians face hatred and discrimination even after their death.”

Separately, on November 16, an armed Muslim mob attacked and drove out the Christian families of a small village in Lahore.  One Christian teenage girl, Sonia Sarwar, was killed and six others were seriously injured in the riot.  “The attack was aimed at displacing around ten Christian families from this area,” Nazir Masih, whose legs were wounded in the attack, explained: “Arshad Kambho, an influential Muslim, wants to grab the property of the Christians.”  Since 2015, Kambho had been trying to steal the Christians’ land; he took them twice to courts and twice the courts ruled in favor of the Christians. “Since then, Kambho has been creating disputes with the Christians to damage them and drag them into an allegation,” said another local.

Attacks on Christian Churches

Syria:  On November 11—the same day that two Armenian priests were killed in a hail of bullets (see above)—three car bombings occurred in the city of Qamishli, which holds a significant Christian population.  One of the bombs detonated near a Chaldean church and killed at least six civilians, as well as damaging the church building; another detonated near an Assyrian Christian owned market, and a third detonated near a Catholic school.  All were claimed by ISIS.

Egypt: On Friday, November 1, a fire broke out in a Coptic church in Shubra.  According to the report, “The fire had started at around 8:30am close to the church theatre hall, in a building adjacent to the church itself. Anba Makary, Bishop of South Shubra, was then officiating Mass on the ground floor for persons with disabilities. They were all safely evacuated.”  In the preceding two weeks, two other churches were torched in October.  Police concluded that the fires in all three cases were due to electrical malfunctions.  Christians argued otherwise, indicating that arson was responsible.

Separately, the civil council of the village of Neda ordered the church of St. George to remove its bell tower, in keeping with Islamic law.  The church, fearing that this is just the first warning of a downward spiral  to closure, made a direct appeal to President Sisi.  According to the November 17 report,

[T]he actual construction of the church has been a slow process. It was originally established in 1911, but it didn’t receive building permits until 2006. Because the village Christians are poor, construction has been slow. They are afraid that the village extremists will stop them from continuing construction without the intervention of the President.  Churches are a contentious subject in Egypt, which is an officially Islamic country. The construction of churches is tightly regulated by the state…

Pakistan:  A Muslim mob demolished a wall and the front door of a Catholic church in the Punjab on the pretext that it was not formally registered.  However, according to church member Naseer Masih, “Muslims do not want the church in the village because they have bad feelings towards Christians.”   The report explains:

“On 4 November 50 policemen arrived in front of the [church] gate and asked Catholics if they had ever had problems praying in church. Christians have responded that they had never had difficulties. Meanwhile, a crowd of 60 people gathered to bring a tractor and hammers. With the tractor they knocked down the door, then the Muslims completed the destruction with hammers.”

Police just stood by and watched.  “[W]e had no warning from the police before the accident,” said Naseer. “The Muslims carried out the destruction and the policemen did nothing against them. This means that they are on their side….  We have prepared all the documents,” he added, concerning the legality of the modest and now ruined church that was built in 2007.

Turkey: According to a November 21 report, “Turkey’s Council of State, the country’s highest administrative court, has recently approved changing the historic Chora Greek Orthodox Church located in Istanbul, currently a museum, into a mosque”:

Commentators say that sets the legal precedent for transforming Hagia Sophia, the very symbol of Byzantine and Orthodox Christianity, which is also currently an official museum, back into a mosque….  The interior of the [Chora] church, which was originally built as part of a monastery complex outside the walls of Constantinople, is covered with some of the oldest and finest surviving Byzantine mosaics and frescoes.

Chora Church’s uniquely old and surprisingly intact artwork was first made in 1315—over a century before the Turkish invasion and conquest of Constantinople in 1453—and includes images such as of Joseph and Mary (above).  All these historically precious frescoes are set to be destroyed in the church’s transformation into a mosque.

France: On Sunday, November 3, a statue of St. Bernadette in the chapel of the St. Florent hermitage in Oberhaslach was found beheaded. Because two churches are reportedly violated every day in France, this bit of vandalism attracted little attention.  According to PI-News, 1,063 attacks on Christian churches or symbols (crucifixes, icons, statues) were registered in France in just 2018.  A separate January 2017 study revealed that “Islamist extremist attacks on Christians” in France—which holds one of Europe’s largest Muslim populations—rose by 38 percent, going from 273 attacks in 2015 to 376 in 2016; the majority occurred during Christmas season and “many of the attacks took place in churches and other places of worship.”  Unsurprisingly, the parish where the beheaded statue was found suffered an arson attack the year before.

General Hate for and Abuse of Christians

Norway: A group of Muslims beat, robbed, and threatened to kill a Christian evangelist if he did not convert to Islam.  According to the report, Roar Fløttum was “preaching the gospel and praying for the sick” on November 27, following a prayer meeting in the church he attends in Trondheim, when he encountered a group of Muslim men.  During their conversation, the Muslims indicated that they had physical pains and injuries.  Fløttum offered to pray for them, they accepted, and he complied.  They said they felt better and urged him to go with them and pray for another of their friends who was also suffering from a foot injury. Fløttum went.  “They were very nice and I couldn’t believe they would deceive me,” he later explained.  They took him to a backyard, pushed him down a cellar staircase, and began to beat and kick him in the face.  They kept him hostage there for about an hour, robbed him of his credit cards and about a thousand kroner (equivalent to about $108 USD). “While they kept me there, they threatened me and said they would kill me if I did not convert to Islam,” recalled the Norwegian. “They wanted me to say some words in Arabic [likely the shahada, “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah,” which, when recited before Muslim witnesses, makes the reciter a Muslim]. I was scared and actually thought they were going to kill me because they said they had a knife and didn’t want witnesses.”

Egypt:  A knife-wielding Muslim man stabbed a Christian family—consisting of a mother and her two sons—and left one of the sons in critical condition. The incident occurred on the evening of Sunday, November 17, in Minya.  When the Muslim man saw the family sitting outside their home, as is customary in Egypt, he began yelling at them to go back inside.  When the older son refused to comply, the man, identified variously as “Ali,” or “Muhammad” went to his nearby home and returned with a knife.  He lunged at the family, stabbing the mother in the head, slicing the younger brother’s face, and stabbing the older brother several times in the gut (images here). A separate report adds that, “Last year, Mohammed attacked another Christian man with a cleaver…. He is known to hate Christians.”  “We can’t get back to the village,” one of the sons last reported.  “Right now, we try to avoid fights and disputes with them. The extremists’ family live in a house which is not far away from us. We will not let them induce us to fight them or anything like that. If we did something like that, we will lose our rights to punish the extremist. We want law enforcement.”

Uganda:  On November 10, Muslim relatives of a Christian father of four young children poisoned and almost killed him for leaving Islam.  Ronald Rajab Nayekuliza, 48, had converted earlier and proceeded to build a church and raise pig livestock.  His brothers, already angered by his conversion, responded by building a mosque near the church, while local Muslims regularly hurled stones at the church during Sunday worship.  Next, his older brother, Anus Wako, began sending threatening messages:  “You rearing pigs is against the faith of our father.  We are from a Muslim family, and our father did not allow the keeping of pigs. While our father was still alive, you were a Muslim; that is why he gave you land to live in, not for the construction of the church. Our family has become a laughingstock to our Muslim neighbors.”  Then, on the morning of November 8, Ronald found six of his piglets slaughtered: “I knew it must be my brothers; that really confirmed my earlier fears. My brothers had threatened me with witchcraft as well as receiving curses from Allah. This has made me live in great fear of my life and that of my family.”  Two days later he attended a memorial for his father, where his brothers and other local Muslims were gathered. Before leaving, Ronald told his pregnant wife that “he was feeling a kind of nausea,” she said.  “Immediately he started to vomit, then followed by diarrhea, with fever and complaining of abdominal pain.” They rushed him to a hospital, where he lost consciousness.  After doctors confirmed that he had been poisoned with a pesticide, police were sent to the brothers’ home: “When the four brothers saw the police vehicle, two of them fled,” a Christian local said. “The police arrested two brothers, Anus Wako and Kalipan Waswa, who were released on bond after four days.” Ronald spent more than a week recovering in the hospital.  “My husband is better but still very weak, with blurry vision and feeling numbness in his body,” his wife last reported.

Pakistan:  On November 10, Muslim arsonists reportedly torched a Christian home in Al-Noor town.  Witnesses saw two motor cyclists who had attended a nearby Islamic rally hurl a packet near where the house first caught fire. “The fire was extremely hot and it melted the stuff inside,” Manzoor Masih, the father of the family explained:

It looks like they used some chemical which turned all the stuff into ashes within no time.  The fire damaged beds, mattresses, furniture, trunks, cloths, crookery, fans, computers, the UPS, and the entire electric system….  For the last six months, different groups keep [sic] pressuring my family to leave this neighborhood and go to a Christian settlement.  However, we never gave into their threats…. I never thought we would face this much hatred for not selling our house.  It’s really heartbreaking and disappointing for a Christian living in this country…

Turkey:  A recreational facility in the town of Dargeçit  which is being referred to as the “Nation’s Garden” is, it was revealed in November, being built atop the graves of Christian and Armenian Christians—both of whom were victims of the 1915 genocide by Ottoman Turkey. “Is it now the turn of our deceased?” responded Evgil Türker, chairperson of the Federation of the Syriac Associations: “This mustn’t happen; we strongly condemn it… Of course, this event reminded us of the past. There had been similar cases in the past….  [T]his is looting. This is proof that the deceased of others [meaning non-Muslims] are not respected…. [T]his mentality has to be stopped.”

Egypt: In order to silence him, a Christian activist and social media blogger who exposes the plight of his coreligionists was arrested and falsely charged with “terrorism.” In response, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) issued a statement in which it “strongly condemns” Egypt’s treatment of Ramy Kamel:

Mr. Kamel is an activist and prominent member of the Maspero Youth Union, advocating for full civil rights for Egypt’s Coptic Christian community and documenting abuses against its members. On November 23, National Security Agency officers stormed his home; confiscated his mobile phone, laptop, and other belongings related to his advocacy work; and took him into custody. One day later, the Supreme State Security Prosecution announced a series of spurious charges against Mr. Kamel, including membership in a terrorist organization, spreading false information, and disturbing the public order.

USCIRF Vice Chair Nadine Maenza elaborated:

USCIRF calls on the Egyptian government to immediately release Mr. Kamel from detention and dismiss the preposterous charges against him. His arrest casts doubt on the sincerity of Egypt’s promises of working toward greater religious freedom; Egypt cannot pledge improved rights and freedoms for Copts and other non-Muslim communities, while at the same time bringing false charges against its own citizens who are advocating for those same reforms.

The USCIRF statement concludes with relevant background information:

Egypt’s Coptic Christians represent the single largest non-Muslim community in the Middle East, likely comprising 10-15 percent of the country’s population of over 100 million. Despite their integral role in Egyptian society and history, they have long faced discrimination and periodic violence for their faith. In its 2019 Annual Report, USCIRF found that although the Egyptian government has made some modest progress toward legalizing informal churches around the country and improving public discourse about Coptic rights, it has taken few steps toward systematically improving religious freedom conditions for vulnerable Christian populations, particularly in rural areas.

Pakistan: The only Christian journalist registered with the Lahore Press Club finally resigned after years of harassment and discrimination from her Muslim coworkers.  Gonila Gill, 38, covered the persecution of minorities since 2002.  In 2014 she married a Muslim journalist, while remaining Christian.  The harassment began in earnest soon thereafter.  Her coworkers “told me that I would never get pregnant until I converted,” while her husband was accused of being an “infidel.”   She finally quit, “owing to the mental torture her colleagues put her through from not converting to Islam” notes a November 19 report.  “Speaking to the media, Gill said people are vile, but no matter what she will not lose faith in her religion.”

Raymond Ibrahim, author of the new book, Sword and Scimitar, Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

About this Series

The persecution of Christians in the Islamic world has become endemic.  Accordingly, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed in 2011 to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that occur or are reported each month. It serves two purposes:

1)          To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, persecution of Christians.

2)          To show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Islamic Sharia.

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You can have desired designs of customized mugs in Lahore. This is the right place for your gift shopping. Here in Pakistan, you can have loads of ways you can customize your mug, whether it is with a name or a photo or any wish or text. For birthdays big and small, on Eid or spring festivals, or even just because, the gift shops have got stunning customized gifts to suit everyone. Here you find a great gift for each special occasion. You get creative for your mum on Mother’s Day, your Dad on Father’s Day, and for your favorite coworkers on every celebration in between the work. You can choose their fun themes, birthday themes, and anniversary ideas that range from creativity to modern styles of mugs and other amazing gift items.

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[chaandkeeroshni]

the day goes on and there are bits of it

where I feel empty

and sad, sadness filling in the empty

homesick, i toast bread

to spread butter on it

been keeping it under budget at least

Go through the work days, day after day

don’t text the beloved, no matter what,

you’re moving on, u can’t jeopardize the moving on journey

is he even the beloved anymore lol

this is bizarre, the times we live in

i think about my naani who fell in love with my nana who sometimes visit

and took to his room a glass of milk everyday

and somehow made it work

People who didn’t give up on people

My cousin’s in laws send a whole basket of mithai

For my graduation

Mithai I’m not there to eat myself

haha, my parents, I get to speak to on one day of the week

the guy whom I text on bumble once a week

And also go to work with all other parts of the week

waiting for his texts and sharing the flirtatious energy with him

a little bit of spice in my otherwise life

keeps it going some days

other days I switch on the tv and find comfort in comfort shows

i miss him, still some days,

i miss home, i miss my parents,

i miss me,

moments that are the past now, carrying me still

I’m trying to embrace this new life as mine,

if nothing else, I always find pleasure in

indulging in ice cream at any local store

in the neighborhood

and in the few moments of pleasure

when I’m intimate with myself

coming to terms with myself my sexuality

my feelings

the authenticity of it all,

moments where the rude coworker is being nice for a change

wishing me a happy long weekend

moments where I deal with an ugly situation with grace and beauty

showing me progress has been made, I’m really growing up

other time just going around the apartment

Thinking it’s mine

And that I’m creating a beautiful life for myself help

i stand besides the car of the guy with whom I go on an impromptu date

and smoke Pakistani cigarettes after a while

talking about Lahore

you really wanna go back don’t you Drishti asks me

and I don’t know but my heart is constantly pulled back by home

like

i don’t know

i sleep through hours and hours and I am never in one place

Maybe I will be

im sometimes still the little girl who holds her own hand tight

and reminds herself it’ll all be okay

and if nothing else that’s what always grounds me.

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Colabs gets $3 million seed to expand across Pakistan, launch back-office SaaS solution

Colabs gets $3 million seed to expand across Pakistan, launch back-office SaaS solution

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs, is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. It also plans to hire more staff, which will include increasing the product team for its SaaS workspace business service that is emerging from the beta phase. The…

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