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 […]
Storypicker — Good news for Pakistanis who want their presence in the international film and entertainment industry that Pakistan’s first anmation series Burka Avenger has been nominated for Emmy Kids Awards. Burka Avenger nominated in the animation category and it is the first time that any Pakistani animated series has […]
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination (IPC) Riaz Hussain Pirzada has accused the Saudi government of creating instability across the Muslim world, including Pakistan, through distribution of money for promoting its ideology. Addressing a two-day ‘Ideas Conclave’ organised by the “Jinnah Institute” think tank in Islamabad, the federal minister […]
The two nation theory was not as much an ideology as it was a lawyer’s argument to get his client — in this case the Muslim people of the subcontinent — a better deal in power sharing This article is partially in response to Muhammad Taqi’s column, ‘Pakistan, Islam and […]
Buzzfeed: by Imaan Sheikh — Mohammad Jibran Nasir, a lawyer and social activist from Karachi, has started a campaign against terrorism and terrorist sympathisers in Pakistan in the wake of the attack on Peshawar’s schoolchildren. A lot comes with the stand Nasir has taken. “The religious organisation Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamat […]
Source: Samaa.tv: LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) today awarded death sentence to two militants for their role in 2010 bomb and gun attack on an Ahmadi worship place in Lahore. The two convicts, Maawia and Abdullah, were handed the sentence on seven counts. Both the militants are members of proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan […]
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By Saeed Qureshi The paramount question intriguing the discerning students of history has been that why an iconic, revolutionary and charismatic leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto met with a tragic end. […]
JOHN KERRY, the American secretary of state, has been in Pakistan over the past couple of days, on a tough assignment. He had to show the proper degree of sympathy over last month’s terrible massacre of schoolchildren by the Pakistani Taliban, and urge his hosts to draw the logical conclusion: […]
Source: thediplomat.com The attacks should prompt Muslim-majority states to examine their own records. The two major Muslim-majority states of Southeast Asia, Indonesia and Malaysia, have joined the chorus of condemnations against […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com | Dr. Faheem Younus On January 7, gunmen did not just commit the heinous murder of 12 people at theCharlie Hebdo office in Paris; they also unleashed a barrage of extremism […]