Source: https://www.rabwah.net/isis-claims-responsibility-for-sectarian-murders-in-karachi/ ISIS claims responsibility for Sectarian murders in Karachi November 29, 2016 | by Rabwah Times | 1 Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the murder of a senior Pakistani police officer and a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Both men were killed in a near-identical drive-by shooting on […]
By Zoya Anwer November 29, 2016 After a crackdown on terrorists was launched in Karachi in September 2013, it has been difficult to spot graffiti or posters instigating hatred against religious minorities or sects. While most organisations are clever about it, some still openly run a hate campaign against […]
Source: http://nation.com.pk/blogs/24-Nov-2016/some-of-pakistan-s-finest-military-minds-have-been-ahmadi-clerics-need-to-stop-abusing-them November 24, 2016, 4:03 pm/ 1 Comment By Kashif Chaudhry When Donald Trump belittled a Muslim American Gold Star family, he received strong backlash from the civil society. The Democratic Party and the media came out in full support of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son captain Humayun Khan had been killed in […]
Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1238698/forgotten-legend-abdus-salams-death-anniversary-passes-without-mention/ By Rana Tanveer, Published: November 22, 2016 LAHORE: The 20th death anniversary of Pakistan’s first Nobel prize winner Dr Abdus Salam passed away without any significant mentions on Monday. The only event in his memory is scheduled at his alma mater, the Government College University (GCU) Lahore, and that too two […]
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1198895/india-clips-spy-pigeons-wings-fears-will-fly-back-pakistan/ Indian police have clipped the wings of a “Pakistani pigeon” they claim to have arrested from Bamial village in Punjab province nearly two weeks ago over suspicion of ‘spying’. “The wings of the pigeon have been clipped to ensure the suspected spy does not fly back to Pakistan,” The Telegraph […]
Source: The Tribune Express By Rana Tanveer LAHORE: Several religious organisations celebrated September 7 as Khatm-i-Nabuwat Day. They demanded more religious and social sanctions on Ahmadis in Pakistan. These organisations held […]
Source: rabwah.netrabwah.net August 11, 2016 | by Rabwah Times | 2 The U.S. State Department has criticized Pakistan’s treatment of Ahmadiyya Muslims in its annual international religious freedom report. During the report launch on Wednesday Deputy Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken said “When a government denies religious liberty, it turns […]
A man killed his two sisters on the eve of their weddings in Pakistan’s central Punjab province Image Credit: AFP Pakistani activists carry placards during a protest against the murder of social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch by her own brother in this file photo. Published: 16:53 July 30, 2016 […]
S.Mubashir Noor Two Ahmadis were gunned down in Karachi recently. On June 20, a homeopathic doctor named Abdul Khaliq fell to unknown assailants in Malir district. This followed the brazen drive-by shooting of Dawood Ahmad in Gulshan-e-Iqbal town less than a month earlier. Neither killings registered on the 24/7 news […]
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE > PAKISTAN > PUNJAB By Rana TanveerPublished: June 25, 2016 LAHORE: The unrelenting nationwide anti-Ahmadiyya campaign took a perturbing turn on Friday with a preeminent body calling for donations to curb Ahmadiyyat worldwide with an advert placed across all editions of a leading Urdu daily. The move […]
June 21, 2016 RECORDER REPORT The management of Aaj TV and organisation’s staff members have unwavering faith in the finality of prophethood of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). This was stated by Shahab Zuberi, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Aaj TV, in his meeting with a […]
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) […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]