Source: BBC Image captionWajiha Arooj hoped to continue her education – until gossip changed everything A Pakistani-born woman has won a 17-year legal battle over a university error that triggered damaging gossip that changed the course of her life, reports the BBC’s Umer Nangiana in Lahore. “The university crushed my […]
Dawn.com Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions (Safron) Lt Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch on Saturday said if former army chief Gen Raheel Sharif accepts the appointment as head of a 39-nation military alliance of Muslim states he will become controversial. “If Raheel Sharif takes up the appointment, he […]
By M Ilyas KhanBBC News, Islamabad 21 March 2017 Image captionMr Musharraf has his own show – but what do Pakistanis make of it? Pakistan’s controversial former military ruler, Pervez […]
Pakistan by Hamza Rao | Published on March 25, 2017 🔗 ISLAMABAD – A new letter that harks back to 2010 has revealed that the former Ambassador to US Husain Haqqani was given exclusive powers to renew visas for 36 CIA agents despite instructions from Foreign Ministry to not review the visas […]
by Sarfraz Ali | Published on March 25, 2017 🔗 ISLAMABAD – Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that Pakistan government has formally permitted ex-army chief Gen Raheel Sharif (r) to lead Saudi military alliance to fight militancy. The minster on Saturday revealed this during an interview with Geo TV […]
Source: Reuters By Saad Sayeed | ISLAMABAD Pakistan will punish social media companies that fail to take action against online blasphemy, the interior minister said on Wednesday, adding that he […]
Source: Daily Pakistan By Hamza Rao | Published on March 21, 2017 ISLAMABAD – A religious scholar has issued a fatwa against Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif for ‘blaspheming’ against Islam […]
http://eacpe.org/articles-by-pervez-hoodbhoy/whos-enemy-number-one/ By Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, Islamabad ASK people around you to identify the three greatest threats facing Pakistan. Ordinary people, chatterbox anchors, mullahs, generals and politicians will name everything from corruption, bad governance and religious terrorism, to Indian and American conspiracies, and general moral decay. But few, if any, waste […]
By John Cheeran Published: March 23, 2017 Narendra Modi. PHOTO: REUTERS To provoke a somnolent establishment into action, your message has to be blunt. There cannot be a more blunt warning to India’s political leadership and defence establishment than what Pravin Sawhney and Ghazala Wahab have delivered in their admirable […]
Source: Dawn Pakistani representatives seem to be getting their ankle-length trousers into quite a few unseemly knots these days over unprecedented ‘slights’ against our battle-hardened culture.Under attack (as it usually is from unseen forces and a stunted perception of the public profile), lawmakers look ready to redeem our social experiment […]
Source: ET Sometimes accidents give us more perspective than reading or travelling. That is exactly what happened with Jeroen Swolfs, a Dutch photographer who got drunk and fell on a pavement in Amsterdam almost a decade ago. As he stared at the pavement and streets around him, he felt a […]
Source:RT Residents of Pakistani town of Chenab Nagar have asked the Government to open an investigation after a local police officer harassed and detained a young Ahmadi child. Children of local Ahmadiyya Youth Association were holding banners to raise public awareness about traffic rules and road safety when officer Asif charged […]
Source: Associated Press By KATHY GANNON Mar. 18, 2017 8:32 AM EDT 6 photos FILE – In this file photo taken on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, civil society activists rally […]
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/groom-arrested-for-wife-s-murder-3-days-after-wedding-in-pakistan-1.3331272 The Associated Press Published Sunday, March 19, 2017 7:54AM EDT Last Updated Sunday, March 19, 2017 10:58AM EDT LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistani police say they have formally arrested a young man for killing his newlywed bride three days after their wedding in the eastern city of Lahore. Senior […]
Associated Press | Published — Thursday 16 March 2017 Pakistan says it has asked Facebook to help investigate “blasphemous content.” (File photo: Reuters) ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said Thursday it has asked Facebook and Twitter to help it identify Pakistanis suspected of blasphemy so that it can prosecute them or pursue their […]
Source: Dawn ASK people around you to identify the three greatest threats facing Pakistan. Ordinary people, chatterbox anchors, mullahs, generals and politicians will name everything from corruption, bad governance and religious terrorism, to Indian and American conspiracies, and general moral decay. But few, if any, waste sleep worrying about the […]
Source: Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan said Thursday it has asked Facebook and Twitter to help it identify Pakistanis suspected of blasphemy so that it can prosecute them or […]
By YUSRA SALIM Published: March 17, 2017 KARACHI: There exist women in Karachi – the most ‘modern’ city of Pakistan perhaps – who are still deprived of franchise: female residents of a neighbourhood in Mauripur are not allowed to obtain Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs). Mauripur is a suburban area […]
Source: Dawn By Dr. Niaz Murtaza, who heads INSPIRING Pakistan, a progressive policy unit, and is a senior fellow with UC Berkeley. MANY people say Pakistan’s problems today stem from the […]