Mob razes ‘historic’ Ahmadi property in Sialkot
By Warda Imran Published: May 24, 2018 PHOTO: JA COMMUNITY A mob running into hundreds on Thursday razed a historic Ahmadi property in Sialkot as a two-way ownership contest remained “sub judice”. […]
Pakistan: Ahmadiyya Mosque attacked in Sialkot
Masjid Mubarak, a 100 years old mosque, was attacked during the night by a violent mob. Next door house was also damaged. Local administration, police officers, journalists were at the […]
Secularism or Shariah: Among the Believers Documentary?
The documentary – Among The Believers examines the increasing political and religious turmoil in Pakistan since the War on Terror, with specific attention to the Red Mosque (Lal Masjid) and […]
Ex-RAW chief wants India to invite Gen Bajwa
Source: Dawn NEW DELHI: Former spy chief A.S. Dulat asked the Indian government on Monday to invite Pakistan’s Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa to kick-start the stalled talks between the two countries. Speaking to NDTV together with former ISI chief Lt Gen Asad Durrani ahead of the release of […]
Why the Muslim World Needs to Follow Pope Francis?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The broader Sunni Shia conflict, with Saudi Arabia in one corner and Iran in the other, is no […]
The ‘not-yet-disappeared’ in Pakistan
Rafia Zakaria DAWN.COM – Updated May 16, 2018 The writer is an attorney teaching constitutional law and political philosophy. IT’S the stuff of nightmares: the sudden arrival of a number of men into the privacy of one’s home, a search, and then a family member taken away. This is what reportedly […]
Indian women breaking down barriers to religious leadership
Source: Religion News Service By Priyadarshini Sen PUNE, India (RNS) — Wearing a single piece of unstitched cloth and a grass girdle around his waist, 8-year-old Harshal Kulkarni chants Vedic mantras. […]
Pakistan: Ahmadiyya a persecuted minority
Forbidden From Calling Themselves Muslims, Targeted By Religious Extremists And Accused Of Blasphemy For Practicing Or Even Affirming Their Faith, Ahmadis Still Cling To The Country They Helped Establish. BY TAHA ANIS The names of some of the Ahmadis interviewed in this story have been changed to protect their identities. For […]
Pakistan: Beleaguered Ahmadiyya Community Issues ‘Annual Report of Persecution of Ahmadis in 2017’
Since the enactment of the anti-Ahmadi Ordinance of 1984, Ahmadis have been facing discrimination on political, social and legislative level, which is against the principle of the provision of […]
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) […]