Source: Muftah By Usman Ahmad March 10th, 2017 Recent months have seen Pakistan’s blasphemy laws come under the spotlight once again. In January, five liberal-leaning bloggers and activists went missing under […]
Source: Dawn By Irfan Hussain I HAVE often wondered why the people of Pakistan put up with all the awful stuff they endure on a daily basis. Why don’t they rise up in protest against the incompetence and corruption rampant in the country? The state provides virtually nothing in the […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Rizwan Shehzad ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad High Court judge on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to scrub off all blasphemous content from local social media accounts. […]
TOI An influential US lawmaker has sought a “radical reset” of ties with Islamabad and introduced a bill in the Congress that pushes the American government to declare Pakistan a “state sponsor of terrorism”, or give a detailed justification for not doing so in a limited time. More:
AMAL HASHIM Whatever conservative conceptions you had of the province of Gilgit Baltistan should be removed by now because the region has managed to have its first female judge since 2006. And she is definitely someone you do not want to cross. Her court is one of the strictest […]
Pakistan by Mahmood Idrees | Published on March 7, 2017 🔗 KUWAIT CITY – The Kuwaiti government on Tuesday lifted a ban on visas for Pakistani citizens which had been imposed six years ago. It is being reported that the decision was made during a meeting between PM Nawaz […]
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE > PAKISTAN By News Desk Published: March 6, 2017 Army chief Gen Qamar Bajwa. PHOTO: ISPR Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa, who is on an official visit to Qatar, has said that Pakistan Army greatly values its defence cooperation with the middle-eastern country. “Pak-Qatar […]
Source: BBC By Secunder Kermani and Sajid Iqbal BBC News Image captionTanveer Ahmed claimed that he murdered Mr Shah as he had “disrespected” Islam When Tanveer Ahmed was sentenced to […]
Source: Reuters By Saad Sayeed | ISLAMABAD Thousands of religious hardliners in Pakistan defied a ban on demonstrations to rally on Wednesday in support of a man executed for murdering […]
APP The National Accountability Bureau arrested a former police constable and his son, also a police constable, from Hyderabad and seized cash, gold and property documents worth billions. NAB conducted the raids within jurisdiction of Latifabad police station and arrested Mohammad Yousuf and his son, Arif Yousuf on February 25 […]
Source: Reuters Reporting by Saad Sayeed; Editing by Robert Birsel In the first episode of the program on Sunday, the former general appeared live from Dubai and responded to questions […]
Source: The Conversation On Feb. 16, 2017, a bomb ripped through a crowd assembled at the tomb of a Sufi saint, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, in southeastern Pakistan. Soon thereafter, the […]
Source: HT There are several Muslim-majority countries where Mahershala Ali’s Oscar win for his role in Moonlight won’t be celebrated. That’s because he belongs to the minority Ahmadi sect.In countries such as Malaysia and Pakistan, Ahmadis are reviled by hardline Sunni Muslim groups as heretics, apostates and even infidels. So much […]
Source: ET A senior UAE police official held the Afghan government responsible for the deadly bombing in Kandahar which on January 10 killed five UAE diplomats and injured its ambassador. The blast had occurred inside the Kandahar governor’s high-security guest house where the UAE diplomats, including Ambassador Juma Mohammed Abdullah […]
Source: http://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/news/local/muslim-women-s-annual-interfaith-event-saturday-will-promote-loyalty/article_80e654bc-f9d7-11e6-9278-3b33e009e0ec.html The Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association’s annual interfaith women’s event at the Al-Nasr Mosque on Bridge Street has united women from all faiths for almost 20 years. WILLINGBORO — After 12 years in America, Amtul Wadood is still grateful she can go to the grocery store on her own […]
Source: Dawn Military operations work. Where they are meant to recover territory, they do. Swat is steady and North Waziristan no more terror central. Where operations are meant to deny free movement to militants, they do. Bajaur, Mohmand, South Waziristan — none of them truly normal, but a long way […]
Source: The Washington Post By Pamela Constable February 23 at 2:44 PM ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — When the Pakistan army announced that it was launching a nationwide military operation to “indiscriminately” […]
Source: Dawn MANY Muslims today might be offended by the statement that the Quran wants people to use their powers of reasoning and intellect. For such Muslims, faith should be blind, followed with emotion and demonstrated through traditions established by clerics and forefathers. The Quran specifies that the only characteristic […]
By AFP – Feb 22,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Hospital workers transport a man injured in the Charsadda blast to the hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday (Reuters photo) ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s military announced the launch of a nationwide anti-terrorist operation on Wednesday, days after a series of bloody […]
Reuters International FEB 21, 2017 – Hospital workers transport a man injured in the Charsadda blast to the hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan February 21, 2017. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez (reuters_tickers) By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Suicide bombers attacked a court complex in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing five people and […]