Pakistan: Principal shot dead by student for ‘blasphemy’
Source: Reuters By Saad Sayed ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani student shot and killed his school principal on Monday, in a dispute over the student skipping classes to attend rallies […]
Pakistani humanist denied UK asylum after failing to identify Plato
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Man who renounced Islam says he has received death threats from family members in Pakistan A Pakistani man who renounced his Muslim faith and […]
Pakistan: 1,800 clerics issue fatwa against suicide bombing
Source: Daily Times By Farooq Awan ISLAMABAD: More than 1,800 clerics have issued a fatwa forbidding suicide bombings, as part of a national counter-terrorism narrative ‘Paigham-e-Pakistan’ launched here at the President’s House […]
Pakistan clerics issue fatwa against “un-Islamic” suicide bombings
Reuters International This content was published on January 16, 2018 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – More than 1,800 Pakistani Muslim clerics have issued an Islamic directive, or fatwa, forbidding suicide bombings, a book due to be unveiled by the government on Tuesday says. The South Asian nation has for years been […]
Why is Britain keeping quiet about Pakistan’s assault on free speech?
Source: Guardian By Jon Boone In recent times Pakistani social media activists of a liberal, secular persuasion have been abducted by agents of the state, tortured then released after a […]
Should Religious Freedom Advocates Cheer Trump On Pakistan?
Source: Huffington Post By Peter Henne, Contributor On Thursday, the U.S. State Department added Pakistan to a watch list for religious freedom violations. This follows an angry tweet from Donald Trump about Pakistan, […]
Pakistan’s Transgender Women, Long Marginalized, Mobilize For Rights
Source: NPR BY DIAA HADID In a Muslim shrine in Lahore’s ancient quarter, men and women pray around the tomb of a local saint. They hurl garlands and flower petals toward […]
Urdu Video: Ghamidi Declaring Ahmadis to be Muslims
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page The video is in Urdu: Pakistanis, drop everything & listen to this. Q: Do you […]
How will the US move to cut aid affect Pakistan?
Source: BBC News The Trump administration says it is cutting almost all security aid to Pakistan until it deals with terrorist networks operating on its soil. But will the cuts […]
Sovereignty belongs to God — II
Op-Ed Sovereignty belongs to God — II “There is no division of opinion about the Prophet, Abu Bakr and Omar. They had the riches of the world at their feet. […]
A dossier of the persecution of minorities in Pakistan
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Jan 5, 2018 Highlights The US State Department on Thursday put Pakistan on a special watch list for “severe violations” of religious freedom. Over the years, there have been several attacks on religious minorities such as Ahmadis, Hindus, Sufis and Christians. The country’s draconian Blasphemy law punishes […]
USA: Secretary Tillerson places Pakistan on special watch list for ‘religious freedom violations’
“Today, the Department of State announces that the Secretary of State re-designated Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan as Countries of Particular Concern […]
Where does Pakistan stand seven years later?
Pakistan Wasay Ibrahim January 4, 2018 It has been seven years since Salman Taseer was assassinated by his own security guard for raising his voice against Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy laws […]
Remembering Salman Taseer
Source: The Beginning By Saira A. Nizami January 2014 Years on, nothing has changed. Those who chant Qadri’s name stay the same and those who condemn this act and ask […]
US confirms new Pakistan aid cuts
Anwar Iqbal January 03, 2018 WASHINGTON: The White House has confirmed suspending $255 million of military aid to Pakistan, a move seen as the first step to implementing President […]
Trump says U.S. has gotten ‘nothing’ from Pakistan aid
Reuters International This content was published on January 1, 2018 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters before departing the White House for a visit to the Walter […]
Pakistan man exonerated after serving 9 years for blasphemy
Source: ABC news By ZARAR KHAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS Pakistan’s supreme court exonerated a man convicted of blasphemy after he served nine years of a life sentence in prison. A two-judge panel of the […]
Shunned by Pakistan’s Muslims, Ahmadis Find Refuge in a City of Their Own
Source: The New York Times By MEHREEN ZAHRA-MALIK Photo An Ahmadi graveyard in Rabwah, Pakistan. CreditMohsin Raza for The New York Times RABWAH, Pakistan — The guard inched open the metal gate […]
TV host Aamir Liaquat banned over ‘hate speech’
His hate speech led to murder of 3 Ahmadi Muslims by Asad Hashim 26 Jan 2017http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/tv-host-aamir-liaquat-banned-hate-speech-170126114713381.html Liaquat also accused those calling for the release of the activists of supporting blasphemy [Aamirliaquat.com] Pakistan’s media regulator has banned one of the country’s most popular television talk show hosts over “hate speech” and […]
Pakistan :Attaul Haq Qasmi resigns as PTV head to avoid allegations
Imported sexual enhancement drugs worth 150,000 rupees from UK and US every month. His salary was 1.5 million a month, spent millions on his own publicity. Has been given a new name ‘qasmi viagara’. Corruption at its worst in PTV, evidence has been gathered. Was kind and generous with female […]