The latest case shows how strong Islamists have already become in Pakistan. (John Moore via Getty Images) https://swarajyamag.com/world/in-case-it-wasnt-obvious-islamists-hold-over-pakistan-has-now-grown-even-stronger Snapshot ‘Form-A’ is a document which is submitted at the time of election by candidates in Pakistan. In this, “I solemnly swear” had been replaced with “I believe” in a clause relating […]
Source: Dawn News The government on Monday gave in to the demands of Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLY) in order to end the Faizabad sit-in. The agreement document — bearing signatures […]
Source: Dawn The Lahore High Court issued on Monday a notice to the Punjab secretary of the school education department on a petition by a teacher allegedly terminated for being an Ahmadi. Shaukat Rauf contended that he had been terminated without being given an opportunity of defence merely on a […]
Dawn Editorial: Faizabad surrender is a blow to the legitimacy of government and all state institutions Source: Dawn IT is a surrender so abject that the mind is numb and […]
Nadir Guramani Updated November 27, 2017 Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Monday admonished Minister of State for Interior Affairs Talal Chaudhry and asked that “the house wants to know what forced the government to sign an agreement with the protesters” who had staged a sit-in at Faizabad. After the […]
Message circulated in Pakistan in the beginning of September 2017, asking Ahmadis who partake in Eid rituals to be reported/jailed under anti-Ahmadi laws An ad that “Welcomes” the “honoured participants” to a 6 day “Irradication of Qadianis Course”, by Students of 4th year, Darul Aloom Nooriah Rizviah 2 ISSUE #17: […]
Source: Fox News KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say they have arrested ten people for killing a newly-wed couple who entered into a free-will marriage in the southern port […]
Source: Al Jazeera by Asad Hashim 7 hours ago Protesters have been blocking a key highway in Islamabad [Shahzaib Akber/EPA]Islamabad – Pakistan’s federal law minister has resigned, acceding to a key […]
Asif Shahzad, Drazen Jorgic ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani hardline Islamist group on Monday said it would call off nationwide protests after the government agreed to its demands and the […]
Published at October 30, 2017 Mumtaz Qadri is dead. But is he? A year before, in February 2016, Mumtaz Qadri was executed for assassinating Salman Taseer, the then Governor of Punjab in 2011. Mumtaz Qadri was neither a criminal nor a terrorist when he carried […]
Bloody, violent and effective – the latest dharna has achieved what the last three dharnas were unable to accomplish. All these achievements would not be possible had dharna technology not been invented, tested and tried on three earlier occasions, twice by Barelvi scholars. The newly invented Pakistani dharna technology is […]
Source: Time By Associated Press November 25, 2017 (WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) — The White House is calling the release of a U.S.-wanted militant by Pakistan a “step in the wrong […]
Source: Dawn There’s now a ray of hope. Last week, two towering piles of books from the Punjab Textbook Board somehow found their way onto my desk. Many bear the imprimatur ‘Punjab Chief Minister’s Programme for Education Reforms’ stamped upon their front cover. This immediately sent to me a negative […]
Source: Dawn And for three weeks, we watched as the fringe dragged itself to the centre and raised itself into a miasma that has engulfed us all. It wasn’t particularly surprising. There is effectively no government. And definitely no one who could handle this situation. Civilian government or military dictator, […]
Source: Bloomberg By Kamran Haider and Khalid Qayum Pakistan’s federal government called in the army to help police control deadly Islamist protests in the capital city, just days before […]
At 3,100m, Shimshal is the highest settlement in Pakistan’s Hunza region; its isolation has likely led to concept called Nomas, which translates as ���showing concern for humanity’. By Vanessa Nirode […]
Source: ET WASHINGTON: The White House said on Saturday there would be repercussions for US-Pakistan relations unless Islamabad took action to detain and charge Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed. “Saeed’s release, after Pakistan’s failure to prosecute or charge him, sends a deeply troubling message about Pakistan’s commitment to [combating] […]
Source: CNN By Rafia Zakaria, who is the author of “The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan” (Beacon 2015) and Veil (Bloomsbury 2017). She is a columnist for Dawn […]
Major social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter have been shut down on Saturday in major areas of Pakistan, according to reports. It is being said that the decision has been […]
Along stretches of highway and railway tracks across Pakistan, walls bear a familiar inscription: Mard kabhi boorha nahin hota, a man never grows old. It’s an advert by quacks and herbalists peddling eternal virility to aging Pakistani men. It would appear that Pakistan’s former military leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf has taken […]