Pakistan: Honor Killing Sana Cheema was strangled
Pakistani-origin Italian citizen Sana Cheema ─ whose death in Gujrat, was reported by Italian media as an alleged honour killing ─ was found to have been strangled to death, according […]
Pakistan: Jinnah and Dr Salam
OP-ED dawn.com Jinnah and Salam Inspired perhaps by Pakistan, India has also become obsessed with fifth columns and rewriting history Yaqoob Khan Bangash MAY 9, 2018 If there was ever any doubt that Pakistan and India were conjoined twins who grew up to have a volatile and self-destructive rivalry, the […]
Islamist terrorism wanes in Pakistan, but religious fervor threatens national unity
Source: The Washington Post By Pamela Constable ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — By voting last week to revoke an honor bestowed on the first Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize in science, Pakistan’s National […]
The Myth of Patriotism in Pakistan
In Pakistan today, service alone lacks impact and the politicization of faith necessitates violence. By Hannan R. Hussain May 08, 2018 Nations across the world […]
How Pakistan Weaponized ‘Love for Prophet Muhammad’
How Pakistan’s anti-Ahmadiyya campaigns links to a recent assassination attempt. By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid May 08, 2018 On Sunday, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal survived an assassination attempt during […]
Pakistan and India, the failure of nation state idea
Pakistan and India are two foremost examples today of why the idea of nation state as organization of humanity has turned out to be an unmitigated disaster at least in this Century. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 was no doubt an iconic achievement bringing to an end the wars […]
Pakistan Interior Minister, Champion of Minorities, Is Shot
Ahsan Iqbal, the Pakistani interior minister, being transported to a hospital after he was shot on Sunday.CreditPunjab Government/EPA, via Shutterstock By Meher Ahmad and Maria Abi-Habib May 6, 2018 KARACHI, […]
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Survives Suspected Assassination Attempt
May 7, 2018 Diaa Hadid Abdul Sattar Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal talks to journalists outside the accountability court, in Islamabad, Pakistan, in October. Anjum Naveed/AP Updated at 4:40 […]
Pakistan: Multan court indicts five for the murder of model Qandeel Baloch, including an imam
Shafique Khokhar- Asia News The famous Pakistani blogger was strangled by her younger brother in the name of family “honour”. Her easy-going ways were disliked by orthodox Muslims. “Justice for many other women killed or burnt for ‘honour’ waits for years.” Multan (AsiaNews May 4, 2018) – A court in […]
Incompetence trumps bigotry: How NA has actually failed to rename QAU’s Dr Abdus Salam Centre
Source:Daily Pakistan The Lower Chamber of the Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution to rename the Quaid-i-Azam University’s Dr Abdus Salam Center. However, in their haste and bigotry, the members displayed their incompetence by mentioning the wrong facility. As soon as the resolution was passed, social media buffs lashed out at […]
Ahmadi anger as Pakistan MPs drop scientist’s name
University’s physics department to be renamed as activists claim move reveals discrimination against minority Nuclear physicist Abdus Salam, pictured here in 1987, was Pakistan’s first Nobel laureate. (Photo from Wikimedia) […]
Social media reacts to NA’s resolution to drop Dr Salam’s name from QAU Physics dept
BY Staff Report The National Assembly (NA) on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution to rename the Physics department of Islamabad’s Quaid-i-Azam University in a bid to drop the name of […]
Pakistan: Prof Abdus Salam Centre for Physics name change
NA calls for naming QAU physics dept after Khazini DAWN.COM A ReporterMay 04, 2018,Facebook Count30 Twitter Share 0 ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly passed a resolution on Thursday calling for the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) physics department to be named after Abu al-Fath Abd-al Rehman Mansour-al-Khazini. The resolution was signed by […]
National Assembly of Pakistan passes resolution to rename QAU’s Abdus Salam Centre to al-Khazini Department
Source: Dawn By Nadir Guramani The National Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution to change the name of the National Centre for Physics at the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) from the […]
Cash for religious fanatics in new Pak Budget
Source: AT Cash for religious fanatics He said Rs 4.5 billion ($39 million) in “extra-budgetary grants” would go to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for “strategic assignments” but could not explain what these were. However, last year the ISI distributed cash envelops among religious fanatics such as the Tehrik-e- Labaik party, […]
Pakistani lawyer ends protest after army reassures Shiites
Source: Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A lawyer in Pakistan ended her three-day hunger strike on Wednesday after the country’s top general vowed to redouble efforts to protect the Shiite minority, which has been targeted in a string of attacks by Sunni extremists. Jalila Haider called off her protest […]
Muslims need to unite and set an example of being tolerant: AJK president
* The president made these remarks while addressing the AJK National Coordination Council seminar. APP May 2, 2018 MIRPUR: Azad Jammu & Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan has emphasised that […]
Rethinking minority status for Lingayats
Monday, 30 April 2018 | Priyadarshi Dutta | in Oped ‘Lingayatism’ is about shunning pretention and leading a sincere and spiritual life while staying engaged with the world. Hindu society […]
Foreign case law and Ahmadis
Op-Ed Foreign case law and Ahmadis The question that the CJP must address at some point is whether, given his antipathy to foreign case law, he would be willing to […]
Pakistan’s Ahmadi community releases damning persecution report
Source: Reuters By Saad Sayed ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s disenfranchised Ahmadi community released an annual report on Saturday that detailed growing hostilities against the minority sect, including indiscriminate arrests and […]