Source: TOI ISLAMABAD: In a dramatic power struggle within the family of former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the wife of his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif took to Twitter on Thursday to attack him saying he was heeding to “the most mediocre advisers a leader could have chosen”. Tehmina Durrani‘s […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Talat Masood, who is a retired lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army and a former federal secretary. He has also served as chairman of the […]
Source: Dawn When I first saw Dr Ruth Pfau sitting under an old banyan tree in Manghopir, it reminded me of a childhood story told by my great grandmother, Babi. Babi in her youth was the prettiest girl in her hometown of Banaras, and so was taken away by djins. She […]
Source: Dawn HUQUQ Allah (rights of God) and huquq-ul Ibad (rights of His servants) are the foremost obligations of Muslims. The first means to fulfil the obligations towards God and the second to do so for human beings. The Holy Quran enjoins returning evil with good. Being kind to others […]
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 8, 2017 FILE PHOTO: Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab Province and brother of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, gestures after appearing before a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in Islamabad, Pakistan June 17, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Mubasher Bukhari […]
Source: Reuters BY Asif Shahzad (Reuters) – A Pakistani charity that the United States accuses of being a front for anti-India militant group that staged the 2008 Mumbai attacks has […]
Source: ABNA The huge gathering was organized by Majlis-e-Wehdat Muslimeen(MWM), a Shia group in Pakistan, on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of martyrdom of Allama Arif Hussain Hussaini, one […]
Source: Independent BY Jeff Farrell A Hindu politician has been ushered into the highest level of government in Pakistan for the first time in more than two decades in the predominantly […]
Source: Dawn Second, the US appears to be seriously overestimating its power. Although the US is no longer the global hegemon, it continues to behave as if it is. Coercion and force seem to be Washington’s preferred option to address almost every challenge it confronts. Unless such belligerence is moderated, […]
Source: Reuters By Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has extended by two months the house arrest of Hafiz Saeed, accused by the United States of masterminding 2008 attacks on […]
Source: BBC News The brother of ousted Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif has been lined up to take over as prime minister. The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) anointed Shahbaz Sharif […]
FAISALABAD: “I believe life is not worth living if a person fails to seek wisdom, knowledge and serve humanity. I want to make my contribution to humanity through research as it could help understand life and find value in it.” https://tribune.com.pk/story/1468169/sitara-brooj-skys-limit/ These were the thoughts shared by 17-year-old Sitara Brooj […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]