THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE > PAKISTAN By Sehrish Wasif Published: August 19, 2017 11SHARES SHARE TWEET EMAIL PHOTO: AFP/FILE ISLAMABAD: More than a hundred intending pilgrims staged a protest outside the religious affairs ministry on Friday against a private Hajj tour operator who fled away with their passports and money collected for sending them on the holy […]
Source: Pakistan Today By GHULAM NOOR JEHANIAN Anchor Amir Liaquat has been arrested in Myanmar by the immigration authorities, Bol News reported on Saturday. In his conversation with the TV channel […]
Source: Rabwah Times Over three months, Stuff journalists Adam Dudding and Chris McKeen followed a family of Ahmadi refugees from Pakistan as they arrived in New Zealand and went through an immigration […]
Source: Time Pakistani education advocate Malala Yousafzai has called on fellow Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn the “tragic and shameful” treatment of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. In […]
Source: Premier for the post and Dawn and Hindustan Times in the comment section below By Tola Mbakwe Pakistan’s senate has passed a bill that enforces the compulsory teaching of […]
Source: Daily Mail Shafilea had only just started college to study for her A-levels after hospital treatment for deliberately swallowing bleach while staying with her grandparents in rural Pakistan.On the night of the murder Shafilea had been picked up by her mother from her evening call centre job.She had been […]
67 years later the total population of non-Muslims has dwindled to less than 5 percent. Our Muslim politicians and political parties are deathly afraid of even this small number 28-Aug-17 […]
Trump’s speech, which asked India to ‘help more’ with Afghanistan, amounted to calling for calm while also setting the house on fire Abhishek Parajuli 120 comments If Donald Trump had read this anecdote from a book by a formerBritish Army Officer, the Afghan strategy he laid out on Monday might […]
Source: Hindustan Times BY Dhrubo Jyoti Hindustan Times “Sexual orientation is an essential attribute of privacy. Discrimination against an individual on the basis of sexual orientation is deeply offensive to […]
Source: Arab News ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s population has surged by more than half to 207 million, according to provisional results of the country’s first census in almost two decades released by […]
Chiniot https://tribune.com.pk/story/1489391/man-murdered-religious-belief-disagreement/The inner view of the mosque where the incident took place. PHOTO: EXPRESS A member of Tablighi Jamaat was murdered while another was injured over disagreement about religious beliefs within Sadar police station precincts in Chiniot on Wednesday. Sadar Police Station SHO Muhammad Afzal told The Express Tribunethat 70-year-old Waliur […]
Source: Dawn A meeting of high-level military and political leadership is currently underway at the PM House under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.Members of the national security meeting gathered on Thursday with the agenda to come up with a combined response to US President Donald Trump’s new […]
Source: BBC Of course Mr Trump inevitably tried to present this policy as a new departure. A conditions-based strategy means the US is involved for the long haul.Things are not going well for government forces. The Taliban hold almost half of the country and the Afghan military’s performance – other […]
NYtimes.com 2017/08/19 LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan’s Parliament is poised to pass the nation’s first law recognizing transgender people as equal citizens and laying out penalties for discrimination and violence against them, a surprising victory for activists in a country with deeply conservative social views. The Transgender Persons Protection of Rights […]
Source: Reuters KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistani soldiers on Saturday carried the flag-draped coffin of German-born Catholic nun Ruth Pfau to a state funeral where she was honored after devoting her […]
Source: Tribune By Riazul Haq Published: August 20, 2017 CREATIVE: AAMIR KHAN ISLAMABAD: In its drive against ‘cyber criminals’, especially those on social media, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has sought action […]
Source: ET I’ve been advocating for the inclusion of women in all fields for over a decade with some of my fellow activists and now it seems like we’ve need to pause, because we’ve perhaps preached to an unwanted foe — the Taliban. In a glossy, glamouresque magazine called Sunnat-e-Khaula, the […]
Source: Daily Caller BY JOSHUA GILL Religion Reporter Twenty-four British politicians pleaded with Pakistan’s leaders to repeal blasphemy laws on the 70th anniversary of the country’s independence from Britain. […]
A look into the life of Rafiq A. Tschannen, Associate Chief Editor of the Muslim Times. (moving from Switzerland to France and then on to Pakistan) Part Two ended with […]
extract: PAKISTAN TIER 1 | USCIRF-RECOMMENDED COUNTRIES OF PARTICULAR CONCERN (CPC) • Designate Pakistan as a CPC under IRFA; • Negotiate a binding agreement with the government of Pakistan, under section 405(c) of IRFA, to achieve specific and meaningful reforms, with benchmarks that include major legal reforms and releasing […]