کائنات، حرا اور گھٹن
BBC Urdu: قاصد کی عمر ابھی ایک سال بھی نہیں مگر وہ اپنے والد کی گود میں آنکھیں بند کیے دنیا مافیہا سے بے خبر لیٹا ہوا تکلیف سے ہولے ہولے کراہ رہا تھا یا شاید اسے سانس لینے میں تکلیف ہو رہی تھی۔ قاصد کے سر کے اگلے حصے […]
Tenu Kaafir Kaafir Aakhday
The Nation: Let me start with a profound apology for covering, what many might deem an “unimportant” issue this week. With all my sympathies with the innocent children and civilians being killed on the pretext of targeting terrorists, I for one, could not help thinking about a ‘minor’ incident that […]
White flags for them, green for us
ET: Even after deliberating for 60 years, the jury’s still out on Muhammad Munir. Pakistan’s second chief justice was a symptom of the times he lived in: brilliant but tragic, visionary but weak. He cared nothing for the rule of law; he cared for nothing but the rule of law. […]
CONFERENCE CALL WITH NCIC-RESHMA INAMDAR
This is a quick report: Dear Sister Reshma: Assalamo Allaikum Wa Rahmatullah! May Allah bless you for hosting the conference call on a very, very important issue. I am glad you had GAZA in your mind when you sent the invitation. I was in my car and cell phone died […]
My daughter and Kainat
Dawn: It was one of those hazel sort of days that you sometimes get in Pakistan, in which a pleasant chill permeates the shining bright rays of the sun. The sky was as azure as the sea and the trees never looked so verdant. Summer was just around the corner, […]
Silence of ‘good men’: A week on, Gujranwala mob attack victims await justice
ET: LAHORE: Last week an elderly woman and her two minor grand daughters were burnt alive in Gujranwala by a charged mob. A week of silence has passed since then. No suo motu notice of the mob attack was taken, no joint investigation team was formed to investigate the incident, no […]
France 24 Video Report: Pakistan’s Ahmadis living in fear of extremist attacks
France24: As Muslims across the world celebrate the end of Ramadan, we look at the persecution suffered by Pakistan’s Ahmadis. They consider themselves Muslim, but many Pakistanis see them as […]
Religious doublespeak- by Yasser Latif Hamdani
Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani — Given that religious scholars are nothing but shopkeepers of religiosity whose livelihood depends on such hatemongering, it is hardly surprising that Ashrafi resorts to such incitement to violence. The deadly attack on Ahmedis, killing one unborn child, two little girls and one old grandmother, […]
While we persecute you
Daily Times: by Aisha Fayyaza Sarwari — It is savagery at its worst, with everyone as an accomplice because there is a disagreement about your religious beliefs, under which many are unsure what kind of punishment is required. Yet there is no disagreement about random extremists acting out the judge, […]
State Dept. should act on Pakistan’s religious freedom violations, watchdog group says
(RNS) 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. The list of “countries of particular concern” had remained unchanged since 2006 — and hasn’t been formally issued by the State Department since 2011 — when Burma, China, […]
Local MP Calls for Protection of Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan
seemamalhotra.com: Seema Malhotra has called on the British Government to do more to protect the Admadi community in Pakistan. Ms Malhotra’s call comes in light of the latest harrowing attack […]
Killing the Children: Gujranwala will happen again!
ET: Murder is commonplace and so is mass murder. It is a news item, and news items change too quickly to keep count, to mourn properly, to be disturbed over for very long. Yet, even now, occasionally the soul is bruised. It will not last, however, it does linger. Death […]
The Contemptible Gujranwala Attacks: A Testimony of the Truthfulness of Islam Ahmadiyyat and the Promised Messiah
‘By the heaven having mansions of stars, And by the Promised Day By the testifier and the one who is testified Cursed be the people of the trenches – The fire fed with fuel – […]
Footprints: No space for Ahmadis
Dawn: TWO policemen stand guard over the charred remains of Boota’s house in a narrow alley of Arafat Colony off Racecourse Road in Gujranwala. They were deployed there on Monday to protect the ashes. For further security, the police have locked up the house, inside which may lie evidence against […]
Pakistan’s shrinking minority space
The Hindu: The desire of Islamist extremists to ‘purify’ Pakistan has resulted in a major catastrophe for the minorities. The country cannot emerge as a modern pluralist state until the reversal of this culture of intolerance The murder in Gujranwala of an elderly woman, a seven-year-old girl and an infant […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA Condemns Terrorist Attack on Children in Pakistan
Ahmadi Muslims mourn death of four Community members, including two female minors and an unborn child Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA condemns in the strongest terms the July 27, 2014 terrorist attack on Ahmadi Muslims in Gujranwala, which is in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The targeted attack resulted in the deaths of […]
Paint it Black!!! Dr Adib Rizvi road
Grand Trunk Road: by aliarqam — On 23, 2010, President Asif Ali Zardari while signing “gift of life” certificate ceremony announced that his government would nominate prominent medical professional, philanthropist and founder of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT)Dr Adibul Hassan Rizvi for Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his services in the […]
Tales of horror, from Gaza to Gujranwala
Dawn.com: by Murtaza Haider — It was supposed to be a month of peace and tolerance. It turned out to be anything but. A mob attacked homes belonging to Ahmadis in Gujranwala, causing the death of three innocent civilians. In the backdrop of religious chants and slogans, the youth ransacked private property […]
Ahmadis, seared to the wall
Dawn: “Saaday vuss di gal nayi” “It is not something that we can control”, was what the SHO of the local police station said to the Ahmadi men, watching the burning down of their fellow community members’ homes in Gujranwnala the night of July 27. Arshad Mahmood, one of the eye witnesses […]
Fading of the light for Ahmadis living in Pakistan.
Source: ET But the even bigger tragedy is the fading of the light for Ahmadis living in Pakistan. It is hard to know if we can restore some sense of equilibrium where so much hatred flows and from time to time ignites even over what appear to be the most […]