Source: Pew Research Center BY JACOB POUSHTER A senior researcher focusing on global attitudes at Pew Research Center. The bombing that took place on Easter Sunday in Lahore, Pakistan, was a devastating reminder that the scourge of terrorism is not confined to the recent headlines from the Middle East and […]
Police have launched a probe into alleged links between two leading figures in two of Scotland’s most prominent mosques and a banned sectarian group responsible for terrorist attacks against minority communities in Pakistan.Hafiz Abdul Hamid and Sabir Ali have been linked to the proscribed group A BBC investigation has revealed […]
او دیس سے آنے والے بتا کس حال میں ھیں یارانِ وطن؟ کیا اب بھی یونہی پہلے کی طرح اٹھتا ھے دھواں، جلتے ھیں چمن؟ کیا اب بھی وہاں لوگوں کے دل ملا کے دیں سے ڈرتے ہیں اور خودکش حملوں میں وحشی حوروں کی خاطر مرتے ہیں؟ کیا اب […]
Shamila Ghyas is a young Pakistani blogger and writer who is challenging Islamism in Pakistan through her writing and on social media. BY ELLIOT FRIEDLAND, Mon, March 28, 2016 Shamila Ghyas. (Photo: © Shamila Ghyas) Shamila Ghyas is an author, blogger and satirist from Pakistan. She writes for The Nation, Dawn and the Express […]
Guardian: Paranoid parents have always known that children’s parks are potentially dangerous places. That rickety seesaw might fling your child skywards. That slide is always too steep. That swing will snap one day. That toy plane that vibrates after you insert a metal token and sings Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star […]
Source: The Guardian By Mohammed Hanif, whose novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes was longlisted for the Booker prize, shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, Commonwealth literary prize and […]
Source: Dawn WISCONSIN: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Tuesday said that amongst all the presidential hopefuls only he can solve the problem of “radical Islamic terrorism”. During an interview with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, Trump termed Pakistan “a vital problem” for the United States (US) “because they have a […]
Source: Reuters ISLAMABAD | BY ASAD HASHIM Pakistan has rounded up more than 5,000 militant suspects, then released most of them, in the two days since a suicide bomber killed […]
Source: The Daily Beast By Majid Nawaz We cannot pretend that the extremism driving jihadist terror around the world has nothing to do with Islam. LONDON — At least 72 […]
Source: Time By Kathy Gannon and Zarar Khan (LAHORE, Pakistan) — In an emotional televised address, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed Monday to hunt down and defeat the militants who have […]
Isn’t a triple suicide-bombing in the capital of Belgium more surprising than a terrorist attack in Turkey? Not more appalling, not more deadly, not more grotesque; but more unexpected and unpredictable? Surely it is Will Gore @willjgore 42 comments Last week I answered my phone to an angry man. Why, […]
Source: BBC Pakistan’s PM has urged better co-ordination between security agencies against terror, a day after a suicide bomb killed more than 70 in Lahore. At a meeting of security officials, Nawaz Sharif said the nation’s resolve to deal with militants was growing. A number of arrests were made […]
Source: Huffington Post LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities launched a hunt on Monday for militants behind a suicide bomb that killed at least 65 people in an attack that […]
Source: Aljazeera Thousands of protesters have clashed with police near parliament in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, against the execution of a man charged with murdering a governor for his criticism […]
By Sophia Saifi, CNN Updated 6:51 PM ET, Sun March 27, 2016 | Video Source: CNN (CNN)A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on Easter Sunday, saying it intentionally targeted Christians. The suicide blast in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore killed at least 67 […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred. Killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) By Sophia Saifi (CNN) A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban has […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Latest on the bombing of a park in the Pakistani city of Lahore (all times local): 10.00 p.m. A spokesman for the Punjab government says that a bomb attack on a park in the Pakistani city of Lahore has killed 60 people and injured 300. Zaeem […]
Source: Huffington Post On March 23, 1940 the All India Muslim League adopted a historic resolution in the city of Lahore. This resolution has since come to be known as […]
Courtesy: Dawn.com Former Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal addressing a press conference –DawnNews KARACHI: Announcing the name of his ‘new party’ on Wednesday, former Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal said the “Pak Sarzameen Party” will release its manifesto in the near future. The manifesto is being drafted by those who are […]
Source: BBC At least 24 people in southern Pakistan have died from poisoning after drinking illegally-made alcohol, police say. A number of others are in hospital after Monday’s incident in […]