A new civil rights movement in Pakistan is galvanizing a rapidly growing following among the country’s ethnic Pashtun minority by doing the nearly unthinkable: openly accusing the powerful and popular Pakistani military establishment of being “oppressors” who kill or whisk away Pashtuns by the thousands. Counting hundreds of thousands of […]
Source: Christiantoday.com Christian protest is under way in Quetta after the terrorist killing of two Christians yesterday near a church by four unidentified gunmen in the city in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.Local police said that a group of Christians had come out of the church when the four gunmen appeared on […]
Source: The Kashmir Monitor By Khaled Ahmed Justice Shaukat Siddiqui of Islamabad High Court, in his March 9 ruling, wants all citizens to identify themselves by their faith. He wants “applicants for public offices to declare their beliefs before being considered for employment”. He targeted the officially apostatised Ahmadi community, saying […]
The Express Tribune > Pakistan > Punjab By Our Correspondent Published: April 13, 2018 PHOTO: AFP / FILE LAHORE: Human Rights and Minority Affairs Provincial Minister Khalil Tahir Sandhu and Higher […]
ANADOLU AGENCY KARACHI In this file photograph taken on June 5, 2013, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrives to inspect a guard of honour during a welcoming ceremony at […]
Posted on April 12, 2018, updated on April 12, 2018 by Len Lear The purpose of the “Meet a Muslim” campaign started by Nameer and other members of his Ahmadi […]
By Sofia Lotto Persio On 4/12/18 A screenshot from the video of the incident shared on social media and broadcasted on several Pakistani channels. It shows the singer standing […]
Source: Dawn ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Wednesday directed the interior ministry to crack down on any individual or group involved in posting blasphemous material about the […]
Daily Times April 5, 2018 The government is feeling the blowback for its earlier capitulation to the religious right-wing agenda. And the man at the centre of the row is […]
KARACHI, PAKISTAN © Asianet-Pakistan By James M. Dorsey • April 9, 2018 James M. DorseyJames M. Dorsey is an award-winning journalist and commentator on foreign affairs who has […]
Source: Dawn I have been to Sargodha many times. In fact multiple times in a year, throughout my childhood. This is where my family comes from — both maternal and paternal. Despite all my trips, however, I have never visited the shrine of Naghyana in a village called Dharema, about […]
Source: Reuters BY Gul Yousafzai Quetta, Pakistan (Reuters) – The militant group Islamic State on Tuesday claimed responsibility for killing four members of a Christian family in southwestern Pakistan. A […]
Source: BBC News By M Ilyas Khan Malala Yousafzai’s first homecoming in six years was brief, and revealing. Brief, given the amount of time she would have otherwise liked to […]
The Girls at Dhabas movement was established to encourage women to repossess accessibility of streets and public spaces The event encourages women in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad to challenge the […]
The Express Tribune > Pakistan By Danish Hussain Published: April 2, 2018 PHOTO: REUTERS ISLAMABAD: A religious minority has expressed serious concerns over the release of identity details of its roughly […]
By Naila Inayat 3-28-2018 Ahmadi women walk past graves at the Ahmadi graveyard in the town of Rabwah, Pakistan, on Dec. 9, 2013. Three years earlier, 86 Ahmadis were killed […]
Source: BBC News Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has returned to her hometown in Pakistan for the first time since she was shot there by the Taliban. Ms Yousafzai, […]
Source: CNN BY Islambard Wilkinson, CNN Isambard Wilkinson was previously the Islamabad correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and is the author of ‘Travels in a Dervish Cloak.’ St George’s Cross billows […]
Media captionMalala Yousafzai: “My focus is only working for the good” Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has returned to her hometown in Pakistan for the first time since […]
Source: Religion News Service By Naila Inayat LAHORE, Pakistan (RNS) – A high court in majority-Muslim Pakistan has ruled that citizens must declare their religious affiliation before joining the civil service, […]