Source: Pakistan Today By Yasmeen Aftab Ali Reminiscing was an activity of our elders, or so I thought. It seems, however, that places change, not the reminiscing. Browsing through wedding pictures of a friend’s son over on the Facebook, I saw the bride dressed in a neck to ankle heavily worked […]
daily times: The predominant narrative in Pakistan now seems to be that India and its intelligence agency RAW is responsible for all acts of terrorism, including the vicious attack on the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The federal defence minister, Punjab’s home minister and […]
ET: Dear Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, I hope this letter finds you well. I am sure you are busy; so let me cut to the chase. You know well that Pakistan’s Ahmadi community has long faced the wrath of extremist religious clerics. Despite succeeding in hijacking Jinnah’s vision, and pressurising the state […]
Pakistani author Rafia Zakaria laments troubled state of her native country In her book The Upstairs Wife, lawyer, writer and human rights activist Rafia Zakaria bemoans lack of rights for women in her native Pakistan. Rafia Zakaria By: Jennifer Hunter The Reader, Published on Fri Feb 27 2015 thestar.com Since […]
Rape and Terror on the streets of Pakistan By Rafia Zakaria 25 Feb, 2015 In the Lahore Children’s Hospital, a seven-year-old girl from Sargodha who was raped lies in critical condition. According to the doctors, the injuries sustained by the child on the lower part of her body […]
After escape from Pakistan, Christian family hides in BANGKOK: They were a middle-class family in Pakistan, living in a comfortable three-bedroom apartment with a modern kitchen and a PlayStation for the three kids. Fluent in English, the father ran his own moving company while the mother taught art. A death […]
Dawn: SHIKARPUR on Jan 30, Peshawar on Feb 13, Rawalpindi on Feb 18. In less than three weeks, suicide bombers have targeted three imambargahs packed with worshippers. Outside of Syria and Iraq, Pakistan is the world’s deadliest country for Shia Muslims. Hazara are fleeing Balochistan, and barricades surround segregated Shia […]
Dawn: POST-Peshawar the need to rethink our national security policy and terminate the state’s patronage of jihadists has been under focus. Also under spotlight has been the state’s capacity deficit that partly explains the gap between law and its implementation (obsession with military courts being a misconceived response to this […]
the News: ISLAMABAD: HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) is a subsidiary of London-based HSBC Holdings Plc, a British multinational banking and financial services company which is the world’s second largest banking entity. According to The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), 130 journalists “from 45 countries have unearthed secret bank account […]
Source: Dawn by Pervez Hoodbhoy SHIKARPUR on Jan 30, Peshawar on Feb 13, Rawalpindi on Feb 18. In less than three weeks, suicide bombers have targeted three imambargahs packed with worshippers. Outside of Syria and Iraq, Pakistan is the world’s deadliest country for Shia Muslims. Hazara are fleeing Balochistan, and […]
Source: Huffington Post By Fiyaz Mughal, Director of Faith Matters and the Tell MAMA project The recent murders of Shia community members in Pakistan has not drawn out the shock and […]
The battle for Pakistan’s survival is being fought right here, on these very catwalks, reports Tim Bale. —AFP London Extra reports from Pakistan By Tim Bale (reporting from Karachi and Lahore for the London Extra) http://www.dawn.com/news/1164428/the-bookstalls-and-catwalks-of-defiance-in-pakistan I boarded an Emirates Airline plane from Dubai to fly to the Pakistani city […]
The pair are jailed at Hull Crown Court after a “farcical” attempt to cheat UK immigration laws at a ceremony in October. 10:31, UK,Saturday 14 February 2015 Beata Szilagyi and Zubair Khan were jailed for immigration offences Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share by email A […]
Source: February 17, 2015 13:53 IST | ndtv.com LAHORE: Eleven people were killed after a bomb exploded close to the police headquarters in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore today. The blast […]
Daily Times: There are three crossroads in its pre-1971 history where Pakistan could have become the kind of inclusive, modern democratic state Pakistanis could be proud of. The first occasion was in 1958, had the general elections been allowed to take place under the 1956 Constitution. A pro-west elite feared […]
Source: nation.com.pk Chapel Hill massacre in North Carolina, where three young students were shot to death on Tuesday was a horrendous incident. To say that they were Muslim,the news would have some weight of discrimination, but the truth is they were. However, the question is has media given the news due […]
This month’s issue reports on how a national TV show in Pakistan aired hate speech against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, labelling Ahmadi Muslims the “common enemy” of the nation. A […]
ET: ‘Pakistan’s 9/11’, ‘Never again’, ‘united we stand’ and similar expressions of resolve and the severity of the situation post-APS, Peshawar were all natural, and perhaps justified in that moment of grief, and above all, horror. The All Parties Conference, the National Action Plan, the moving to tear tribute songs; […]
ET: PARIS: In its annual evaluation, the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders ranked Pakistan 159 out of 180 countries where media freedom suffered a “drastic decline” in 2014. World media freedom suffered due to the insurgence of extremist groups such as the Islamic State and Boko Haram, the evaluation found. “There […]
Peshawar: 2:15pm An eyewitness says a several grenades were thrown as worshippers performed the last sajda. The eyewitness also claims that the attackers were dressed in FC uniforms. 2:06pm At least 20 people have been reportedly injured in the blast. 2:05pm According to SSP operations, one of the explosions took […]