Source: The Express Tribune Perturbed by legislation making eating in public during Ramazan a jailable offence, Bakhtawar Bhutto took to Twitter to condemn the rule. The daughter of former […]
Source: Tribune Express By Zafar Bhutta PHOTO: AFP ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has agreed to finance solar power projects from its Green Fund in an effort to improve the energy […]
Source: Tribune Express ISLAMABAD: Millions of Pakistanis have been receiving text messages from the government warning them against sharing “blasphemous” content online. “Uploading & sharing of blasphemous content on Internet […]
Source: Dawn AN item in the press appearing some days ago under the headline ‘Ahmadi professor found murdered’, drew attention to the challenges of news coverage, especially news related to crime.Such a report could have been given quite a few other headings. For instance, the heading could have been ‘A […]
Source: TOI With Iran’s top military official warning Pakistan of reprisals for sheltering Sunni militias attacking targets in Iran, three of Islamabad‘s neighbours have accused it of cross-border terrorism. Iran’s warning that it might be considering its version of“surgical strikes”+ comes after 10 of its border guards were killed+ by […]
Source: Dawn SEVENTY-ONE deaths in 27 years. According to data collected by Al Jazeera, that is the estimated number of people killed in violence connected to blasphemy allegations. It includes the 12-year-old who lost his life in the town of Hub on Thursday, after a mob resorted to aerial firing […]
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE By Rana Tanveer Published: May 5, 2017 PHOTO: REUTERS LAHORE: An Ahmadi man was shot dead on Wednesday night in the Saddar area of Rahim Yar Khan district. Basharat Ahmad, 61, was on his way to his house in Green Town from his own petrol pump on […]
Source: https://www.rabwah.net/pakistani-hindu-wins-emerging-young-leaders-award/ A Pakistani Hindu has become the first Pakistani to be awarded the Emerging Young Leaders Award. The award is granted by the U.S. Department of State to a group of young leaders in recognition of their efforts to promote positive social change in their communities. Raj Kumar who is […]
Pakistan Has Few Pauses or Prayers to Spare For Its Women or For Its Poets By Rafia Zakaria May 3rd, 2017 Farzana Naz, a budding poet was attacked by a mob in a library where she was reciting poetry, and succumbed to her injuries in hospital in […]
Source: The Guardian Five other people wounded after mob attacked police station in bid to seize Hindu man accused of insulting Islam A protest in Peshawar following the death by […]
Source: https://www.alislam.org/library/book/review-pakistani-governments-white-paper/ A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper” Qadiyaniyyat — A Grave Threat to Islam by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IV (rahmatullah ‘alaih) Replies to Some Allegations: A Deplorable Scheme of Falsification and Accusations Khutba #1 Was Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Planted By The British? Khutba #2 The […]
Source:ET A 35-year-old Hindu man was arrested in Hub, Lasbela on Wednesday over charges of blasphemy. Prakash Kumar, 35, was arrested after locals complained he allegedly sent blasphemous content via WhatsApp. “Prakash s/o Prem Chand has been arrested after local people accused him of blasphemy,” SSP Lasbela Zia Mandokhel confirmed. More:
Source: ET Basharat Ahmad is the fourth Ahmadi to have been killed in the province in the past five weeks. PHOTO: EXPRESS LAHORE: A 62-year-old Ahmadi man was shot dead on Wednesday night in Saddar area of Rahim Yar Khan district. Basharat Ahmad was on his way to his house in […]
DAWN.COM 29/04/2017 By Pervez Hoodbhoy, Islamabad THE mental state of men ready and poised to kill has long fascinated scientists. The Nobel Prize winning ethologist, Konrad Lorenz, says such persons experience the ‘Holy Shiver’ (called heiliger Schauer in German) just moments before performing the deed. In his famous book On […]
Source: Dawn How did so many Pakistanis become bloodthirsty vigilantes? Evening TV talk shows — at least those I have either seen or participated in — circle around two basic explanations. One, favoured by the liberal-minded, blames the blasphemy law and implicitly demands its repeal (an explicit call would endanger […]
Source: TOI A spokesperson of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamat, India, Tariq Ahmad told TOI on Wednesday that triple talaq in a single session couldn’t be justified. Stating that talaq was the most displeasing acts in the eyes of Allah, he alleged that due to the unjustified interpretation by so-called Muslim clerics […]
April 26, 2017 Pete Baumgartner Crimean Tatars pray inside a mosque during the Eid al-Adha festival in Crimea. The annexed Ukrainian peninsula has been referenced in a new report on religious freedom that criticizes Russia’s “repressive policies” toward people of certain faiths. Share Print A U.S. government commission on religious […]
Reuters International APR 26, 2017 – LONDON (Reuters) – Ten Iranian border guards were killed by Sunni militants in a cross-border attack on the frontier with Pakistan on Wednesday, Tasnim news agency reported. The militant group called Jaish al Adl, or the Army of Justice, has claimed responsibility, the report […]
Source: BBC By Secunder Kermani BBC News, Mardan Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionThe mob killing has shocked many in Pakistan The brutal mob killing of a university student who was accused of […]
Source: The Washington Post By Haq Nawaz Khan and Pamela Constable April 24 at 6:01 AM ZAIDA, Pakistan — Even in his ancestral village here in northwestern Pakistan, where 23-year-old […]