Twitter bans extremist accounts, Supports ‘True Islam’ campaign August 21, 2016 | by Alia Manzoor | Rabwah Times This week Twitter announced that it has removed an additional 235,000 twitter accounts, “in order to maintain a safe environment for users on Twitter”. The company said that the accounts were banned […]
Source: BBC A former US Navy Seal who wrote a bestseller about his role in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden is to pay nearly $7m (£5m) to the […]
Source: Dawn THE post-Quetta commotion is heading towards a predictable denouement: those who pointed fingers at the security apparatus have been chastened, the government has pleaded guilty to its indictment by the COAS and a new body to oversee implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) has been created. Is […]
Source: TOI ISLAMABAD: Pakistan today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi crossed the “red line” by talking about Balochistan and asserted that it will “forcefully” raise the Kashmir issue at the UN General Assembly session next month.”The Prime Minister strongly pleaded the case of Kashmir during General Assembly session last year […]
Source: The Washington Post By Tim Craig KALASH VALLEY, Pakistan — Hidden up in the mountains near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, the Kalash tribe loves homemade wine and whiskey, dances […]
By Zubair K Khan According to International Print Media Reports, Indian Prime Minister Modi earned a unique distinction this weekend as the first prime minister in India’s history to raise human rights violations in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan. He took advantage by mentioning some acts, carried out in the […]
Source: Dawn By Hajra Mumtaz ANOTHER Independence Day celebrated, another round of frenzy that the citizenry has fallen into the habit of indulging in at this time of the year. […]
Source: Dawn WASHINGTON: The United States continues to view the Kashmir issue as a dispute that needs to be settled by both India and Pakistan, says the US State Department, while distancing itself from India’s claims over Azad Kashmir. In his Independence Day speech on Monday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra […]
Source: Time By Patrick French The migration that accompanied India’s independence and partition in 1947 was the largest movement of peoples in human history, but almost no one expected it to […]
Source: The Express Tribune Pakistan on Sunday celebrated its 70th Independence Day. Ceremonies were held in Islamabad as well as the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi and the Pakistani […]
Source: Aljazeera By Faras Ghani Karachi, Pakistan – Nargis Latif lay on her hospital bed dying. The doctors had given up on her. Her children and husband were at her side, […]
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 […]