Source: ET Shahbaz Taseer has spoken up for the first time about his five-year horrific ordeal. Why now, is anyone’s guess but with so much negativity and fabrications going around, perhaps it was time to set the record straight. Even after his interview with CNN and BBC where he had […]
Source: ET Prayer leader wants Muslims to vouch for family. PHOTO: AFP/FILE LAHORE: A Gujrat-based Christian family is on the verge of having blasphemy charges pressed against it after reportedly dining on a panaflex banner, The Express Tribune has learnt. A local prayer leader and his followers have been pestering police […]
Source: Christian Today By Jeffrey Imm Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports the universal human rights of freedom of religion for all. But for the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, such […]
Source: The New York Times By MOHAMMED HANIF Mohammed Hanif is the author of the novels “A Case of Exploding Mangoes” and “Our Lady of Alice Bhatti,” and the librettist for the opera “Bhutto.” KARACHI, Pakistan — I once knew a building contractor who worked for the government of Pakistan. […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Farooq Mahmood Sadiq Khan is now the mayor of London. There are countless reasons to celebrate this feat. On a personal level, it is indeed a […]
December 31, 2010 JULIE MCCARTHY Princess Mussarat Ahmed Zeb displays a piece of traditional Swati embroidery from her collection. The “happy colors” of the embroidery are part of the heritage of a land that has seen its share of sadness. Ahmed Zeb is reviving the heritage of Swati textiles while […]
KARACHI: Names of 259 Pakistanis with links to offshore companies have surfaced in one of the world’s biggest ever data leaks through an online searchable database made public by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) late Monday evening. http://www.dawn.com/news/1257275/259-pakistanis-named-in-fresh-panama-papers-leak The names in the latest release of documents on the websiteoffshoreleaks.icij.org include: Abdul […]
Source: Dawn When news broke last night that Sadiq Khan has been elected London’s first Muslim mayor, celebrations began the world over — most notably in Pakistan, where Sadiq Khan’s […]
Source: International Business Times By Tom Porter The son of a liberal Pakistani politician murdered for his moderate views has criticised Home Secretary Theresa May for allowing a radical Islamist […]
Source: AsiaNews Dewan Bahadur S P Singha is on new 10-rupee stamp. He opted for Pakistan in a critical vote in the Punjab legislature at the time of partition. Christians […]
The men drugged her before they burned her alive. More than a dozen members of an “honor council” near the Pakistani towns of Makol and Dunga Gali, outside of Abbottabad, have been arrested for immolating a 16-year-old girl, according to a local police chief.http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/06/pakistani-girl-burned-alive-for-helping-friend-elope.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon Her supposed crime: helping a friend […]
Dr. Prof Amirali Hoodbhoy http://www.dawn.com/news/1212051http://www.dawn.com/news/1212051DAWN.com Last week, a workshop titled ‘Jinns and Black Magic’ was organised in Islamabad by the department of humanities at the COMSATS Institute of Technology (CIIT), one of Pakistan’s largest universities. The invited speaker, Raja Zia-ul-Haq, introduced as a ‘spiritual cardiologist’ is reputedly an expert on […]
Pakistan needs sweeping constitutional amendments to ensure equality of citizens regardless of their faith or sect Source: The Nation By Muntazir Sherazi, who enjoys classic rock and politics. Often at the […]
Source: BBC Police in Pakistan say village elders ordered the murder of a teenage girl because she had helped a school friend to elope. The 16-year-old was kidnapped from her […]
Source: Aljazeera Five people have appeared in a Pakistani court accused of blasphemy after a Sikh man complained they had desecrated his turban during a scuffle over a delayed bus. […]
Source: The Nation The PPP Chairperson’s origination of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir election campaign on Saturday in Kotli, was discolored by the prejudice of the country’s former Prime Minister for probably the most persecuted religious community in Pakistan. The remarks eulogized the PPP government of its founder Shaheed Zulfikar […]
Source: The Nation Just over a month ago, on March 24th, the British media reported that a Muslim man was stabbed to death in a particularly savage attack in Glasgow shortly after he wished Christians a happy Easter on his Facebook profile. British Muslims took to social media to express their outrage and […]
Source: ET The impediments that Pakistan is facing in the procurement of a meagreeight F-16 fighter aircraft are a sad reflection of the current state of Pakistan-US relations. For Pakistan, in the 1980s, the F-16 symbolised its strong alliance with the US and the West. It fed the Pakistan military’s […]
Source: ET Perhaps in an earnest attempt to set the Guinness World Record for longest simultaneous face palm across a single country a few days ago, politician Pervez Rasheed attacked rival Imran Khan at a press conference by saying that he couldn’t name the locality where Khan’s boys studied, for it […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | Published — Tuesday 3 May 2016 WASHINGTON: The CIA has marked the anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden by live-tweeting — with a five-year delay — the raid by US special forces on the Al-Qaeda founder’s compound in Pakistan. Using the hashtag #UBLRaid, […]