Source: Dawn RELIGIOUS experience has been a profound phenomenon in human history in terms of holding beliefs, adopting a religious language, and interpreting the mundane and sacred. There is no one type of experience all religions universally acclaim, but a “variety of religious experiences”, as William James rightly demonstrates. Therefore, […]
Source: Dawn By Amjad Iqbal Established in 1952 by Ayub Khan, the Hassanabdal Cadet College was the first quasi-military boarding school of its kind in Pakistan. The first principal of […]
Source: Associated Press By ASHOK SHARMA NEW DELHI (AP) — Nikki Haley, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, said Thursday her country is urging Pakistan more strongly not to […]
Source: Reuters BY Asif Shahzad, Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has removed the leader of one of the country’s largest Islamist extremist groups from its terrorist watchlist while the Election […]
Source: ET We have strange notions of accountability in Pakistan. We are not satisfied with audit reports or bureaucratic mechanisms that give holistic accounts of performance. No, we enjoy a good berating. The more humiliating the better. Extra points if it is done in front of television cameras and is […]
Source: Dawn WASHINGTON: Pakistan was officially placed on a terrorism financing watchdog’s grey list on Wednesday, failing the country’s efforts to avoid the designation, diplomatic sources claimed. The report could not be confirmed independently and the FATF did not make an official announcement till late in night. The sources said […]
Source: Al Jazeera News The change is drastic: around the region of Heroshah, previously arid hills are now covered with forest as far as the horizon. In northwestern Pakistan, hundreds […]
Simon & Schuster Asif M Basit Author: Tariq Ali Publishers: Simon and Schuster (2008) Pages: 315 Tariq Ali is undoubtedly a trendsetter in the field of political analysis. Those who […]
1 / 3 Pervaiz Manan, head of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa forest department, shows pictures of a previously deforested hill in Heroshah district in northwest Pakistan. (AFP) 2 / 3 Khyber […]
Source: AT Another contestant is Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan, which bears the legacy of Mumtaz Qadri, a security guard of the former Punjab governor Salman Taseer. The governor was killed in 2011 by Qadri for allegedly demanding changes to the draconian blasphemy law. Qadri, who was hanged in 2016, has become a […]
Pakistan Parliament tried to do away with some of this discrimination when it passed the Elections Reforms Amendment Act 2017 in October last year Haniya Javed | The Wire Last […]
by Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan (ra) On the occasion of the 16th Congress of International Association for Religious Freedom held in Chicago, Illinois (USA), on the 10th August 1958, Sir […]
Community cries foul after parish blasted as affront to Muslim faith but new land deeds outside village still not forthcoming Kamran Chaudhry, Nayya Sarabah Pakistan June 16, 2018 Christians have […]
GENEVA (14 June 2018) – There is an urgent need to address past and ongoing human rights violations and abuses and deliver justice for all people in Kashmir, who […]
This frame grab taken November 11, 2013,from 2008 video footage shows Maulana Fazlullah, newly appointed chief of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), speaking with local journalists in the Pakistan’s northwestern Swat valley. […]
June 15 2018 Qatar NU-Q students will join research fellows from top universities around the world in pursuing their research. Three students from Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) will investigate […]
Source: Reuters KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan Taliban on Saturday announced a surprise three-day ceasefire over the Muslim Eid holiday in the middle of June, their first offer of its […]
June 7, 2018 BY Remshay Ahmed Why so much religious persecution? On 31st May 2018 the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a statement labelling Pakistan as a […]
Growing persecution of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan. By Ata Us Salam Since a Sunni political party Tahrik Labbak-ya-Rasool-Allah (TLYRA) has started to gain popularity in Pakistan during the last […]
Source: The Daily Times How painfully helpless would one feel when one cannot even defend oneself? When one’s so-called ‘protectors’ are complicit in the crime being committed By Hassaan Khan Niazi As the world watches the drama unfold in Jerusalem, al-Aqsa mosque is once again the centre of our attention. […]