Islam’s Lesser Muslims: When “Khuda” became “Allah”
Published on September 2nd, 2016 | by Guest by Alia P. Ahmed In 1985 a curious thing happened: a prominent Pakistani talk-show host bid her audience farewell with the words Allah Hafiz. It was an awkward substitution. The Urdu word for goodbye was actually Khuda Hafiz (meaning God be with […]
Ahraristan not Pakistan
It is quite a popular thing to trample on religious liberty of the citizens of Pakistan provided it is done in the name of Islam By: Yasser Latif Hamdani 15-May-17 I hate to keep repeating myself, but repeat myself I must so long as necessary. Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam was a party founded […]
U.S. Commission Says Russia, Pakistan Among Worst Violators Of Religious Freedom
April 26, 2017 Pete Baumgartner Crimean Tatars pray inside a mosque during the Eid al-Adha festival in Crimea. The annexed Ukrainian peninsula has been referenced in a new report on religious freedom that criticizes Russia’s “repressive policies” toward people of certain faiths. Share Print A U.S. government commission on religious […]
Ten Iranian guards killed at Pakistani border, Tasnim news agency reports
Reuters International APR 26, 2017 – LONDON (Reuters) – Ten Iranian border guards were killed by Sunni militants in a cross-border attack on the frontier with Pakistan on Wednesday, Tasnim news agency reported. The militant group called Jaish al Adl, or the Army of Justice, has claimed responsibility, the report […]
Pakistan: The Lynching of Mashal Khan Proves Pakistan is Dystopic
Source: New Age Islam By Arshad Alam, who is a social and political commentator and a columnist 20 April 2017 Mashal, a 23-year-old journalism student was lynched by a ferocious blood thirsty mob for alleged blasphemy. A university as a space is supposed to nurture critical ideas: ideas which have […]
Dorm debate led to death in Pakistan ‘blasphemy killing’ – witnesses
Reuters International APR 14, 2017 – People demonstrate after the killing Mashal Khan, accused of blasphemy, by a mob at Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan, during a protest […]
Mardan university student lynched by mob over alleged blasphemy: police
REUTERS | ALI AKBAR | HASSAN FARHAN A 23-year-old student of Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan was killed and another seriously injured by a vigilante mob for allegedly “publishing blasphemous […]
Pakistan Ambassador Refuses to Acknowledge State-sponsored Persecution of Ahmadi Muslims
Kashif N Chaudhry, ContributorPhysician, Writer, Human Rights Activist 03/30/2017 During a forum in Washington D.C. yesterday, a Pakistani American journalist questioned Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Aizaz Chaudhry, on Pakistan’s state-sponsored persecution of Ahmadi Muslims. Mr. Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States. The diplomat, who […]
Kufr fatwa issued against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for speaking at Holi festival
Source: Daily Pakistan By Hamza Rao | Published on March 21, 2017 ISLAMABAD – A religious scholar has issued a fatwa against Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif for ‘blaspheming’ against Islam […]
Mahershala Ali’s Oscar win stirs controversy in Pakistan
Source: The Express Tribune Controversy arose in Pakistan after Mahershala Ali — who won the best supporting actor Oscar on Sunday for his portrayal of a drug dealer in coming-of-age […]
Why Ahmadiyya being targeted?
Source:Quora They are extremists having wrong interpretation of religion, misguided, ignorant,and misguiding others to act like them doing it for political and personal benefits. We condemn such acts. Some groups of Muslims use unlawful means and suicide bombers, bombing in the name of religion to kill and harm non-Muslims including […]
‘Luckily I escaped’: Man accused of role in deadly Pakistan mosque attack tells of his return to Canada
Stewart Bell | February 16, 2017 | HandoutA mob attacked the minority Ahmadiyya community’s mosque in Dulmial village, Chakwal. TORONTO — Rashid Ahmed answered the phone at his suburban home in Mississauga this week, which would not be unusual except for the fact that he is being investigated by Pakistani […]
Will the real infidel please stand up?
We have become so rigid in our beliefs that we have forgotten the basic message of Islam: peace. Every time we declare someone an infidel, are we promoting peace? February 06, 2017 Nirvaan Nadeem Aamir Liaqat, apologies, ‘Dr.’ Aamir Liaqat was, for a brief period, officially banned. That it took […]
Dulmial’s Ahmadis reel in aftermath of mob attack
NABEEL ANWAR DHAKKU CHAKWAL: Dulmial resident Malik Zahid Hameed was shocked when he received a transfer order stating that he was being transferred to a primary school in Lari Shah Nawaz on Jan 6. Mr Hameed, 47, is a primary school teacher who taught at a school in his hometown […]
Abdus Salam: the real story of Pakistan’s Nobel prize winner
HASHAM CHEEMA A star is born Abdus Salam’s birth certificate. Source – ICTP Photo Library On the 29th of January 1926, Chaudhry Muhammad Hussein and Bibi Hajira Hussien had a baby boy at their two-bedroom abode in Jhang. They named him Abdus Salam; ‘servant of peace’. “I was born in […]
Second missing Pakistani blogger found, leaves country fearing for life – family
Reuters International JAN 29, 2017 Human rights activists hold a picture of Salman Haider, who is missing, during a protest to condemn the disappearances of social activists in Karachi, Pakistan January 19, 2017. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (reuters_tickers) By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani blogger Aasim Saeed who went missing […]
Gen. (r) Raheel Sharif ‘sets three conditions’ to become commander of Islamic military alliance
by Hamza Rao | Published on January 10, 2017 KARACHI – Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif has set three conditions to assume the command of a 39-nation Islamic military alliance, a retired army officer claimed. Talking to a private TV channel, Former Pakistan army officer Lt-Gen […]
Pakistan and the Rise of Barelvi Sunni Extremism
01/09/2017 Kashif N Chaudhry Physician, Writer, Human Rights Activist This post is hosted on the Huffington Post’s Contributor platform. Contributors control their own work and post freely to our site. If you need to flag this entry as abusive, send us an email. “It was a mistake, and I assure […]