Source: rabwah.netrabwah.net August 11, 2016 | by Rabwah Times | 2 The U.S. State Department has criticized Pakistan’s treatment of Ahmadiyya Muslims in its annual international religious freedom report. During the report launch on Wednesday Deputy Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken said “When a government denies religious liberty, it turns […]
Source: Dawn THERE can be no doubt that we are wading through an uncertain era of religious atavism. But let us also not ignore another by-product of this apparent iodine deficiency — cultural cretinism. It is steadily shrinking our life skills, including the ability to bond with people from different […]
Source: Dawn Pakistan is far from isolated. It enjoys a very close strategic relationship with its largest neighbour China, the emerging superpower. Relations with Iran are complex, but not hostile, and can become cooperative. Relations with regional neighbours Saudi Arabia, the GCC and Turkey remain friendly, with considerable potential for […]
Source: Dawn ISLAMABAD: Top military commanders believe that the terrorist threat is transforming because of a growing nexus between hostile actors in the neighbourhood and ‘facilitators’ within the country. At a corps commanders’ conference held at the General Headquarters on Tuesday, the generals reviewed the threat perception and discussed measures for […]
Source: dailytimes.com.pk Persecution of Ahmadis hurts Pakistan more By Yasser Latif Hamdani Our belief in Islam has been made subject to our denunciation of the Ahmadis. This is a bigoted policy […]
Source: Reuters A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 70 people and wounded more than a hundred on Monday in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in […]
At least 60 people killed in blast and scores wounded as suicide bomber targets gathering of lawyers in emergency room. A suicide attack at the accident and emergency department of a hospital in Pakistan’s Quetta, where a group of mourning lawyers were gathered to accompany the body of a murdered […]
Source:ET The Council of Islamic Ideology is at it again. After suggesting that men should gently beat their wives, it now wants jihad verses to be recited in schools all over Pakistan. According to Maulana Sheerani, this is being done at the behest of the Americans who need mercenaries to […]
By Bilal Farooqi July 17, 2016 KARACHI: In Pakistan, calling another Muslim a ‘Kafir’ (an infidel) sells really well and is as easy as buying an over-the-counter drug. Not only is it a lucrative affair, but ensures power and dominance too, so the merciless killing of hundreds as a consequence […]
Source: Dawn ISLAMABAD: As sacrificial animals pour into urban centres ahead of Eidul Azha, health experts warn of the risk of contracting Congo virus from cattle after five people suffering from the illness died in Punjab, with three others now in stable condition. Health expert Dr Gulzar Malik said that […]
Source: Tribune By Kazim Alam KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will issue a commemorative coin in honour of humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi, who passed away last week. Speaking to The Express Tribune […]
Source. Asia Times. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently sent Home Minister Rajnath Singh to a South Asian regional meeting in Pakistan to show that India is willing to engage a difficult neighbor and, in doing so, to bring about a calming effect on the acute ground situation in the […]
By Zubair K Khan According to the Indian Media reports, members of the Ahmadiyya community living in India will now be listed as Muslims in the census. They have been recognized as a sect of Islam, a religion whose orthodoxy has gone to great lengths to keep the community out […]
Source: ET Though 2016 brought expectations of there being decreased space across the world for terrorists, there was an increased frequency of terror attacks in peaceful areas such Nice on the eve of Bastille Day. This not only increased concerns, but also raised questions regarding the efficacy of ongoing anti-terror […]
Source. Dawn ISLAMABAD: A Punjab government Mi-17 helicopter crash landed on Thursday in Afghanistan’s Logar province where Taliban insurgents took the crew hostage before setting the helicopter on fire. DawnNews reported the helicopter had seven people onboard at the time of the incident, and was on its way for maintenance […]
August 23, 2015 “After its defeats in Anglo-Afghan wars in 1842, 1880 and 1919, Britain wanted to avenge the defeats in form of carving Pakistan out from the land of Afghanistan and India. Pakistani leadership was aware of the fact that Pashtuns would never accept Pakistan as their homeland, therefore, […]
Source: Dawn IN times of tumult such as these, it takes sagacity and courage to rise above the clamour and appeal to people’s common humanity. In Europe, where the past few weeks have witnessed horrific violence, much of it perpetrated in the name of Islam, it was heartening to see […]
Source: Dawn BOTH Islamists and Islamophobes find Islam and democracy incongruent. Some cite a verse that deprecates majority views. To call Islam anti-democracy by citing a brief verse non-contextually is odd. Even in democracy, small ruling groups usually make decisions. Majority only decides who rules. The mode of this decision […]
Source.Dawn NEW YORK: Sales of pocket versions of the US Constitution have soared since the Pakistan-origin father of a fallen American soldier brandished a copy to denounce Donald Trump, igniting a major backlash against the Republican nominee. Khizr Khan, a Harvard-educated lawyer whose son died in a 2004 suicide bombing […]
Source: Dawn TWO young Pakistani men have caught Europe’s eye in recent weeks. The first is 35-year-old Mohamad Usman, who has been charged by French authorities for conspiring with the terrorists who carried out the attacks in Paris in November. He was meant to participate in that carnage but was […]