Pakistani Village Council Arrested After Ordering Teenage Girl’s Rape
Source: New York Times ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani police arrested 25 people in a rural village on Thursday, after the village council ordered a man to publicly […]
US politician Wasserman Schultz fires Pakistani-origin IT staffer arrested for fraud
https://www.dawn.com/news/1347801 United States (US) Democratic Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired a Pakistani-origin information technology (IT) staffer following his arrest on a bank fraud charge at a Virginia airport where he was attempting to fly to Lahore. Wasserman Schultz spokesman David Damron said Imran Awan was fired by the Florida lawmaker […]
How Power works in Pakistan
NYTimes.com How Power Works in Pakistan By HARRIS KHALIQUEJULY 24, 2017 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan does not have a tradition of political parties that survive for long on the basis of their ideas. Every few years a new political party, mostly on the right, emerges with encouragement from the permanent establishment, […]
Eclipsing the plight of blasphemy: Aasia Bibi campaign sees light
Source: ET In 2009, a member of the Christian minority, just 1.6 per cent of the total population of Pakistan, Aasia Bibi was brazenly charged for blasphemy. As narrated by her daughter, Esham, her mother toiled in the heat of Sheikupura picking berries and as she sipped water to quench […]
The young boy and the politicians
A young boy came on a bicycle and parked it near the parliament building and walked away. A police man stopped the boy and told him ” do you not […]
In largely Muslim Pakistan, a taboo atheist subculture endures
PRI’s The World July 18, 2017 · By Mobeen Azhar A view of Pakistan’s landmark Faisal Mosque at sunset October 8, 2002. Credit: Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters Being an atheist in Pakistan can be life-threatening. But behind closed doors, nonbelievers are getting together to support one another. How do they survive […]
UN questions Pakistan after briefing by Atheist Ireland, Evangelical Alliance and Ahmadi Muslims
Source: http://www.michaelnugent.com/2017/07/15/un-questions-pakistan/ | by MICHAEL NUGENT This week in Geneva, the United Nations Human Rights Committee questioned Pakistan on its human rights obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Before this, the Committee was briefed by six NGOs, including a unique joint delegation from Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of […]
Malala gets her own Twitter account and these are her first tweets
Source: The Daily Times By Farhan Janjua Nobel Peace Prize winner education activist Malala Yousafzai has joined the microblogging site Twitter on Friday, she announced by saying “Hi, Twitter.” Malala’s […]
Religious group threatens to murder man accused of blasphemy in case of release, police say ‘not our problem’
National BY ABDULLAH NIAZI A Christian man has been booked on accusations of blasphemy and subsequently arrested by the Dinga Police Station in Gujrat. The man, identified as Shehzad, was taken into custody by the Dinga police on the complaint of Nadeem Ahmed, a leading figure in the Tehreek e Tahafuz […]
NYTimes: Pakistani Opposition Hopes for Leader’s Removal Over Corruption Case
Salman Masood, July 15,2017 NYTimes.com ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Imran Khan, the Pakistani cricket star turned politician, believes his moment of political triumph has finally arrived. On Monday, the country’s Supreme Court […]
Specially the Ahmadiyya cross-border brides feel the heat of Indo-Pak tension
Source: HT Who are Ahmadis? The quiet town of Qadian in the border district of Punjab’s Gurdaspur is the international headquarters of the Ahmadiyya community. Their population in India is around 1,00,000 while around the world their numbers touch 170 mn. IN QADIAN, thousands of Ahmadis from 35 countries congregate for […]
Thailand opens bail for detained UNHCR asylum seekers/refugees which includes Pakistan’s persecuted Christians & Ahmadi Muslims
Source: http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/detail.php?hnewsid=6544 BPCA announces that Thailand opens bail for detained UNHCR registered asylum seekers London: July 11, 2017. (PCP) For almost two years persecuted Pakistani Christians and Ahmadis who make up over 50% of Thailand’s asylum seeker community have been refused bail for overstaying their visa’s. For the re-persecuted victims this […]
PM chairs top-level huddle to weigh options following damning JIT report
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: A top-level low-key meeting is underway at the Prime Minister’s House in Islamabad to chalk out the future strategy as Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led government struggles to deal with the emergent situation following the submission of a damning report in Supreme Court by a high-powered inquiry panel which […]
‘We have to be a generous society,’ says the Aga Khan on his Diamond Jubilee
BY ISMAILIMAIL POSTED ON JULY 11, 2017 Source: DAWN.COM, by Jahanzeb Hussain As part of the buildup to his Diamond Jubilee, the Aga Khan gave an exclusive interview to a […]
DUAL-USE GOODS: Swiss block sale over concern about Pakistani nuclear programme
By John HeilprinJ JUL 10, 2017 – Pakistan-made missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads to different ranges (Keystone) Swiss government officials say they denied an export permit to a domestic manufacturer because of indications that its products would have supported the production of Pakistani nuclear weapons. The decision […]
Facebook meets with Chaudhry Nisar Over Blasphemy Death Sentence
Source: Pakistan Today BY SYED M MURTAZA Pakistan’s social media crack-down is officially aimed at weeding out blasphemy and shutting down accounts promoting terrorism, but civil rights activists say it […]
‘Commission to resolve sensitive religious issues’
LAHORE: The scope of newly-established Inter Faith Consultative Commission (IFCC) for resolving issues among different religious communities and assisting promotion of religious harmony in the country will be expanded all over the country very soon. The offices of IFCC would be set up in all four provincial capitals and Azad […]
Let’s call a spade a spade
In his August 11, 1947 speech while laying down the fundaments of Pakistan’s ideological moorings, our founding father Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah clearly warned us of some of the most lethal evils, if not nipped in the bud, would cause us irretrievable damage — sooner than later. How true when […]
No regional peace without Pakistan, US senator McCain says during visit
By Kamran Yousaf Published: July 3, 2017 ISLAMABAD: Former presidential candidate and veteran congressman Senator John McCain on Sunday made it clear that there was no change in the United States policy on the longstanding Kashmir dispute, stressing the need for an end to the current unrest in disputed Himalayan […]
Does Pink Himalayan Salt Have Any Health Benefits?
Source: Time BY Alexandra Sifferlin Jun 28, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Pink salt is everywhere: in salt grinders, craggy-looking lamps, sunset-hued slabs designed for cooking steak and […]