US envoy urges Pakistan to stop protecting terrorists
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 […]
Pakistan takes radical Sunni leader off terrorist watchlist ahead of election
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 […]
Being human
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 […]
Pakistan placed on FATF grey list
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 […]
‘Green gold’: Pakistan plants hundreds of millions of trees
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 […]
The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power
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 […]
‘Green gold’: Pakistan plants hundreds of millions of trees
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 […]
Nominees of terror groups plan to run in Pakistani election
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 […]
Facing persecution, the Ahmedi community in Pakistan is going missing
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 […]
The Contribution of Islam to the Solution of World Problems
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 […]
Pakistani Christians in limbo after church closure
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 […]
First-ever UN human rights report on Kashmir calls for international inquiry into multiple violations
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 […]
Pakistan: Killing of Pakistan Taliban chief ‘significant’
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. […]
NU-Q students win Pulitzer fellowship
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 […]
Afghan Taliban raise hopes with surprise Eid ceasefire
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 […]
How much farther from Jinnah’s vision
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
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 […]
Pakistan: ‘Mirzai’ — the biggest enemy
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. […]
Imran Khan’s rise is a metaphor for a changing world the west has failed to see
Jason Burke The ex-cricketer joins a long list of outsiders who are transforming global politics Sun 3 Jun 2018 ‘The top job in one of the world’s most troubled, resilient […]
Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Condemns Attack on Ahmadiyya Mosque in Sialkot, Pakistan
Posted on May 26th, 2018 By A. Abdul Aziz. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says Ahmadi Muslims will continue to respond to all forms of provocation and injustice with prayers […]