Pakistan Charsadda: Deadly assault on university
Source: BBC Security forces have ended a gun and bomb attack on a university in north-west Pakistan in which 19 people were killed and 50 injured. Four suspected attackers also […]
Finding ourselves playing the mediator
By Talat Masood Published: January 19, 2016 rime Minister Nawaz Sharif meets Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on January 19, 2016. PHOTO: PM OFFICE The current toxic rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran is another manifestation of the deep decay that has set in the Muslim world. The two […]
Pakistan Charsadda: Deadly assault on university
From the sectionAsia Media captionThe BBC’s Shahzeb Jillani: “The gun battle was intense. Blasts were heard” A gun attack on a university in north-west Pakistan, has killed at least 19 people and injured 50, officials say. Nearly three hours after the attack began, an army official said firing had stopped […]
Report launch: ‘Change in attitude needed to protect minorities’
Tribune: ISLAMABAD: It is important to talk about issues considered a taboo and an attitudinal change is required to protect Pakistani minorities. This was consented at the launch of Jinnah Institute’s (JI) report ‘State of religious freedom in Pakistan’ and screening of its documentary, ‘Strangers in Their Own Land’, on Tuesday. […]
Pakistan unblocks access to YouTube
Source: BBC Pakistan has unblocked the video sharing site, YouTube, more than three years after it was banned for posting a video deemed insulting to Islam. Pakistan’s telecoms regulator said […]
Pakistan PM voices ‘deep concern’ in Saudi Arabia over Iran tensions
By AFP – Jan 19,2016 -JORDAN TIMES A photo provided by the Saudi Press Agency on Monday shows Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the capital Riyadh (AFP photo/SPA/HO ) RIYADH — Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday expressed “deep concern” to […]
Mosque Establishment Vs Pakistan
Mosque versus Pakistan By Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, Islamabad JAN 10, 2015 THE mosque in Pakistan is now no longer just a religious institution. Instead it has morphed into a deeply political one that seeks to radically transform culture and society. Actively assisted by the state in this mission in earlier […]
Mullahs: Our ‘United Global Muslim Alliance’ defeated by Ahmadiyya.
http://kashifmd.com: Mullahs (clergy) from all sects have been opposing the Ahmadi Muslims since the inception of the community by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) in 1889. Many leading clerics of United India called for a complete boycott of Ahmadis and incited attacks on them. They boasted that Ahmadiyyat would die in a […]
Was Jinnah confused?
Source: Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani As a Congressman, Jinnah viewed with suspicion the creation of the All India Muslim League in 1906 and was trenchantly opposed to the […]
The rise of Pakistan’s ‘burger’ generation
Source: AlJazeera Karachi, Pakistan – On the evening of April 24, 2015, Sabeen Mahmud, the director of The Second Floor, a beloved cafe and communal space in Karachi, was shot and […]
Imam arrested after ‘blasphemer’ teen cuts off hand
Source: Al Jazeera Pakistani police have arrested the imam of a mosque for inciting violence after a 15-year-old boy, who was told by the religious leader that he was a […]
Pakistan PM to visit Saudi and Iran ‘to ease tension’
© Provided by AFP Pakistan Information minister Pervez Rashid told AFP Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (pictured) Sharif would travel to Riyadh on Monday and Tehran on TuesdayPakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will lead a high-level delegation to Saudi Arabia and Iran this week to try to ease tension between the […]
Switzerland rejects Baloch leader’s request for asylum
Brahamdagh Bugti AGENCIES Published — Sunday 17 January 2016 KARACHI: Citing sources in Switzerland, a private local broadcaster said that a request by the self-exiled Baloch leader Brahamdagh Bugti for political asylum had been turned down by Swiss authorities, a claim which local sources did not corroborate. Sources confirmed that […]
The CII: overstepping its advisory role
Source: ET It is time our parliamentarians started making laws that reflect the country’s realities instead of being browbeaten by the pronouncements of a body that is only supposed to have an advisory role. PHOTO: AFP The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) is a constitutional body that advises the legislature […]
The Tale of the Pakistani Taliban Father Whose Baby Had Polio
Source: Time Even though the Quetta attack showed the Taliban is still bent on disrupting Pakistan’s attempts to eradicate polio, a one-on-one encounter proves instructive There’s a special place in […]
Pakistan bill aiming to ban child marriages shot down as ‘anti-Islamic’ and ‘blasphemous’
Source: The Independent A move to ban child marriages in Pakistan has been withdrawn after meeting staunch resistance from a religious body, which branded the bill as “anti-Islamic”. The ruling […]
Pakistani seeking realease of his elderly father
Son of 81-year-old Ahmadi man jailed in Pakistan turns to Australian Government for help Rabwah Time…. http://www.rabwah.net An Australian man will turn to the Australian Government for help after his 81-year-old Ahmadi Muslim father was imprisoned in Pakistan last month. Khalid Ahmad’s father, Abdul Shakoor, who owns a bookshop in […]
Sharif pledges to end honour killings
AFP — DAWN.COM ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan would eradicate ‘evil’ honour killings as he congratulated director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on her Oscar nomination for a harrowing documentary on the practice. ‘A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness’, which follows the story of a rare survivor, was […]
Police arrest cleric for ‘inciting’ boy to cut off his hand
IMRAN GABOL — PUBLISHED 18 MINUTES AGO LAHORE: Local police on Saturday arrested the imam of a mosque on terror charges in relation to the incident involving a 15-year-old boy who had cut off his own hand believing he had committed blasphemy. On Friday night a first information report (FIR No. […]
Mosque versus state
Source: Dawn.com By Pervez Hoodbhoy THE mosque in Pakistan is now no longer just a religious institution. Instead it has morphed into a deeply political one that seeks to radically […]