A 50-year-old doctor, belonging to the Ahmadi community, was gunned down in his clinic in the Abul Hasan Ispahani area of Karachi on Monday evening. Reportedly, the murder of Dr Chaudhary Abdul Khaleeq was second such incident in the same vicinity within a month. He was shot in his clinic […]
BlogOpinion Anonymous June 21, 2016 This week, PEMRA banned public figures Hamza Abbasi and Maulana Noorani from appearing on broadcast media and discussing anything related to the Ahmadiyya community. While both bans may have made sense to many Pakistanis, one of them stands on shaky legal ground. Unless a […]
Junaid Jahangir Become a fanAssistant Professor – MacEwan University Posted: 06/20/2016 When a popular TV talk show host in Pakistan, Hamza Ali Abbasi, questioned the right of the state to brand a minority Muslim group as non-Muslim, social media went ablaze with calls for Abbasi’s death. While Abbasi would get […]
BY SATP JUNE 21, 2016 By Ambreen Agha* The Ordinance promulgated by the President (of Pakistan) on April 26, 1984, goes a long way in accepting the most extreme demands and transforms much of the daily life of the Community into a criminal offence. — Yohanan Friedman, Prophecy Continuous (1989) […]
As much as Jinnah is revered now even by religious groups, what many people don’t know or overlook is that throughout his political life Jinnah shared a close affinity with […]
By Life&Style Published: June 18, 2016 As the ineffable media policing continues. PHOTO: FASHIONCENTRAL Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) surprised the Pakistani audience yesterday by banning actor Hamza Ali Abbasi’s Ramazan transmission. The ban was imposed over violation of the media regulator’s code of conduct as Pemra found Hamza […]
Source.ET The actor and social activist questioned the oppression of Ahmadis. PHOTO: FACEBOOK Hamza Ali Abbasi has arrived everyone. Practice makes perfect. After numerous social media posts that only received the ire of many, Hamza has finally done something many in his position wouldn’t dare to — question the oppression of […]
Source.ET It is the interior ministry which is responsible for the identification of groups that are to be banned under the Terrorism Act of 1997. PHOTO: EXPRESS There is a sense of weary resignation hung around the shoulders of reports that the government is struggling, and largely failing, to keep […]
Source. The Nation. Chenab Nagar: Dawood Ahmad S/O Haji Ghulam Muhiyuddin, 55, was shot dead in Gulzar Hijri, Karachi last night by unidentified assailants due to religious hatred. He was waiting for his friend outside his house when two unidentified men came on a motorbike, the man sitting behind disembarked […]
Posted by Madeeha Bakhsh On April 09, 2016 For the very time ever, in the history of the country, three Christian women have been recruited in the Tribal police. These three Christian women, who have been short- listed from 15 Christian women, who had sent in applications for the vacancy. […]
Isn’t a triple suicide-bombing in the capital of Belgium more surprising than a terrorist attack in Turkey? Not more appalling, not more deadly, not more grotesque; but more unexpected and unpredictable? Surely it is Will Gore @willjgore 42 comments Last week I answered my phone to an angry man. Why, […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Latest on the bombing of a park in the Pakistani city of Lahore (all times local): 10.00 p.m. A spokesman for the Punjab government says that a bomb attack on a park in the Pakistani city of Lahore has killed 60 people and injured 300. Zaeem […]
UMER ALI Full of contradictions The hanging of Mumtaz Qadri united all religio-political parties last week as together they protested against it. Blocking roads, closing down markets forcibly, thrashing journalists and attacking media houses for not covering their protests – all was done to send a message that come what […]
02/29/2016 Aparna PandeDirector, India Initiative, Hudson Institute The execution in Pakistan of Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri — the bodyguard who in 2011, under influence of religious zealots, killed secular Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer — has strategically coincided with the US-Pakistan strategic dialogue taking place in Washington DC. Given Pakistan’s history […]
Daily Times: LAHORE – Pope Francis has accepted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s invitation to visit Pakistan this year, a media reported said on Thursday. The last pope to have visited […]
Hindustan Times: The Sindh Assembly on Monday passed the Hindu Marriage Bill 2015, becoming the first provincial legislature in Pakistan to formalise the recognition of marriages of the Hindu, Sikh and Jain minorities. Pakistan Hindu Council (PHC) general secretary Deepak Kumar Bhagchandani said the bill fulfilled a long-standing demand of […]
Saturday, 30 January 2016 | Ashok Malik | Farahnaz Ispahani in her book, Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan’s Religious Minorities, bravely records not just the near-annihilation of religious minorities in Pakistan, but also the intensifying sectarian conflict Farahnaz Ispahani’s recent book, Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan’s […]
Both countries are waging a war on terrorism, but their enemies appear to have several faces Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 21 January 2016 People move the body of a victim outside a hospital in Charsadda, Pakistan EPA Like Pakistan, like Turkey. If the university massacre outside the old North West Frontier […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s Pick: Forty Hadiths or Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad about Compassionate Living Source of News: ABNA24 January 23, 2016 – 8:11 PM News Code : 731641 A Pakistani […]