Dawn: Nadeem F. Paracha | The most convenient understanding of the phenomenon of Pakistani extremists that one hears being echoed from TV studios and their favourite ‘guests’ suggests that young Pakistanis turning into religious fanatics has something to do with illiteracy and unemployment. Though not entirely incorrect, this notion, however, is a […]
Daily Times: by Mohammad Ahmad: If there are Muslims elected to the US Congress or the UK House of Commons, why cannot a Christian or a Hindu be elected to a general seat in our assemblies? Elections are a representation of the will of the people and form the basis […]
Dawn: WASHINGTON: One of the major tasks of Jonathan Pollard, an Israeli spy in the United States, was to collect information about Pakistan’s nuclear programme, shows a document released this week. Between 1984 and 1985, Mr Pollard passed on to his Israeli handlers several sets of official US documents about […]
Aljazeera: Our online community requested that we cover the largely underreported struggles of the Ahmaddiya community. Discussion on Ahmadiyya starts at 11:40 minutes into the programme. Controversy surrounds the Ahmadiyya community […]
See Source in Urdu: ا ملزم پکڑا گیا December 16, 2012 – Updated 2354 PKT 20 1 19 0 کراچی …کراچی کے مختلف علاقوں میں سی آئی ڈی نے کارروائیاں کر کے کالعدم تنظیم کے دہشت گرد سمیت 4 ملزمان کو گرفتار کر کے اسلحہ اور دستی بم برآمد کر لیا، سی آئی […]
Daily Times: Yasser Latif Hamdani: Those gentlemen who we claim to seek inspiration from for Nazaria-e-Pakistan, from Iqbal to Jinnah, had supported Bhagat Singh in the name of humanity and freedom Thanks to the three on average traffic jams caused by the Punjab government that an average person encounters on […]
From Twitter: Saira Niz@sainiz A Terrorist Abid Ali Malik arrested in Karachi, he admitted the killing of Two #Ahmadi Doctors. #Pakistan #AhmadiPersecution – via @amcgul Does anyone have more details?
Source: Rawal TV: Focus with Waqas Munawar Episode 88 – Issues: Lahore: Extremists Vandalise Cemetery …….
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Guardian: Members of a Muslim sect persecuted in Pakistan have called for action to prevent groups from peddling hate against them in the UK. The Ahmadiyya community in the UK […]
Dawn: When one is sitting thousands of miles away from Pakistan, every horrifying story and news event come across as more malicious than ever. Perhaps, living in safer countries, where rights are mutually respected and accepted, puts things into clearer perspective. There are times when I want to question God […]
Dawn: Nadeem Paracha: It is believed that Pakistan’s descent into the quagmire of violence, partaken in the name of religion has its roots in 1974 when the otherwise ‘secular’ government […]
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This is the third in a series of entries looking at what we can expect in 2013. Each weekday, a guest analyst will look at the key challenges facing a selected country – and what next year might hold in store. By Michael Kugelman, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Michael […]
The Nation: ISLAMABAD – The ruling PPP in Tuesday’s National Assembly session explicitly stated that none of the government departments had the authority to declare the Ahmadis and Qadianis as Muslims. “There has been no change in the government’s policy. And in the light of the Constitution, the Ahmadis and Qadianis […]
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Express Tribune: by Rabia Mahmood: LAHORE: Walls of the recently desecrated Model Town Ahmadi graveyard stand high, while an armed guard patrols the gate. On the very same road stands a Muslim graveyard with an open gate, low boundary walls and no armed guard on duty. The beefed up security follows in the […]
Daily Times: By Yasser Latif Hamdani: After the Lahore High Court’s verdict, Mr Sharif’s bravado is calculated to rally the people of Punjab behind the PML-N ‘Shahinshah-e-Punjab’ Shahbaz Sharif is the great Muslim ruler of the mighty province of Punjab in this ‘Islamic’ Republic of ours, or at least he likes to […]
Source: Express Tribune by Khaled Ahmad: Ijazul Haq, son of army chief General Zia, has accused Zia’s then vice-chief General Aslam Beg of being a part of the conspiracy to kill his father. He appeared on Geo TV on December 1, 2012, and said he was sorry that General Hameed Gul, who was the […]
Daily Times: Mohammad Ahmad. Both the targeted communities have nothing in common except that both despise violence and work in their own ways to bring man closer to God December 3, 2012 will be remembered in history as a black day for Jinnah’s Pakistan. Two separate incidents occurred in Lahore […]