Dawn: OVER the years, as self-anointed ‘defenders of the faith’ have multiplied in a rightward-drifting Pakistan, the number of people accused of ‘offences against religion’ has gone up exponentially. As reported in this paper, the Punjab prosecution department, in collaboration with the home and police departments, has shortlisted 50 undertrial […]
Extremists in Pakistan murdered eleven Ahmadi Muslims in faith-based attacks during 2014. Source: pressahmadiyya.com In one incident, a mob of 150 attacked an Ahmadi Muslim neighbourhood in Gujranwala and locked a group of […]
Source:Dawn KARACHI: While challenges such as terrorism and religious extremism were among the country’s major concerns, there was a “deficit of logic and common sense in governance” that was compounding such issues, senior lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jahangir said here on Saturday. She was addressing a panel discussion […]
Source: sputniknews.com According to US Senator Jim Inhofe, a new US Senate resolution urges the United States to work toward repealing existing blasphemy laws internationally. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — A new US Senate […]
Dawn.com: by Yumna Rafi — DawnNews screengrab showing activist Jibran Nasir speaking to the media after being released from police custody. KARACHI: Lawyer and activist Mohammad Jibran Nasir, who has been leading protesters in Karachi against activities of the banned Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), was freed by the police after he […]
Daily Times: ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday remarked that no one had the right to “kill anyone and violate the law” as it heard convicted killer Mumtaz Qadri’s appeal against his death sentence. Qadri murdered former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer and was sentenced to death by an […]
Source: nation.com.pk By Shamila Ghyas We Pakistanis are a very caring nation and constantly worry for the plight of others– the Muslims in India (Kashmir), the Muslims in Palestine, etc are […]
By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid Newsline: Such is the unfortunate volatility of our state that a blast in Peshawar, on any other day, might have been viewed as just another act of terrorism. Bomb blasts have been ubiquitous in Pakistan in the last several years, and this city has been jarred […]
ڈاکٹر عبدالسلام مرتے دم تک پاکستانی رہے‘ Sara Hassan BBC Urdu.com January 30, 2015 Dr Abdus Salam was a true Pakistani till his last breadth. Says son Ahmad Salam پاکستانی طالبہ ملالہ یوسف زئی کو حال ہی میں نوبیل انعام ملا جو اگرچہ پاکستان کے نام ہونے والا امن کا […]
Dozens of innocent Pakistanis were killed in Friday’s bomb blast. Source: pressahmadiyya.com The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community categorically condemns the attack against a Shia mosque in Shikarpur, Pakistan earlier today, where it […]
Bomb blast at Shia religious centre in south Pakistan kills at least 12 people and injures many more, officials say This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. If you want to receive Breaking News alerts […]
ET: LAHORE: Since 1981, a small 400-square foot house comprising two rooms in Mohalla Dawood Nagar in Jhang tehsil has been designated a ‘national monument’. This is the house where Pakistan’s first Nobel Laureate in Physics Dr Mohammad Abdus Salam was born in 1926. Today marks what would have been Dr […]
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: The illegal construction of madressahs and mosques in Islamabad caused a loss of Rs1.1 billion to the public exchequer. This was disclosed in an audit report of financial affairs of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) for the fiscal year 2012-2013 during the meeting of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) […]
Dr. Salam’s Vision for Popularization of Science & its benefit for society By Zakaria Virk, Toronto, Canada “I have spent my life working on two problems. First to discover the basic building blocks of matter. Of the two passions of my life the second has been to stress […]
29 January 1926 – 29th January 2015 Dr. Albert Einstein and Dr. Abdus Salam – A comparison Einstein was born on a Friday on 14th March 1879 in Ulm Germany. Dr Salam was born on Friday on January 29, 1926 in Jhang, India. Einstein belonged to a small community of […]
Aljazeera America: by Zehra Abid — Bullet holes are seen at the Garhi Shahu mosque, where members of the persecuted Ahmadiyya community pray during Friday prayers, on July 16, 2010 […]
INTERNATIONAL Pakistan’s silent partition Ahmadis, a persecuted Muslim sect, have been flocking to Sri Lanka in search of asylum. Now they’re being turned away January 27, 2015 5:00AM ET by Zehra Abid @zehra_abid4 The Ahmadi Garhi Shahu mosque in Pakistan Bullet holes are seen at the Garhi Shahu mosque, where […]
SUKKUR: A teenage girl was set on fire by a young man in Kaltarpur Muhalla in Kandiyaro, Naushahro Feroze district, on Monday morning. The girl, who has received 60 per cent burn injuries, has been referred to a hospital in Karachi for medical aid. Reports said that […]
Source: ET In the 1970s, the then prime minister of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, famously declared that, “We will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will have our own,” while referring to the attainment of nuclear weapons. Forty years after that declaration, we both have the bomb and — […]
The Telegragph: by Neil Tweedie — Geoffrey Langlands has long been waiting for a British successor to run the remote Pakistani school he founded. Now he’s handing over – to a woman. ‘The elders said, ‘Look, you can’t kidnap the principal.’ So the kidnappers agreed to release me on condition […]