A Compliment in Disguise: Pakistan Government has Banned the Muslim Times
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor As of 7th of June, 2013, the Muslim Times has been banned in parts of Pakistan. When the readers try to log in, […]
Pakistan’s Baffling Response to Extremism
The New York Times — Despite the grief and rage that followed the massacre of 148 students and their teachers by Taliban militants at an army-run school in Peshawar last week, Pakistan persists in its duplicitous and self-defeating response to the extremism that is threatening the country. Immediately after the attack, Prime […]
Islamabad’s Red Mosque Imam’s Brazen support for terrorists
Islamabad’s Lal Masjid Imam Maulana Abdul Aziz’s Brazen Support to the Terrorists المولوي عبد العزيز -الإمام الديوبندي للمسجد الأحمر بباكستان- دعم الإرهابيين دعما كبيرا مقال افتتاحي في صحيفة نوائ وقت اليومية الأردية، باكستان (ترجمه من الإنجليزية: نيو إيج إسلام) الإمام في المسجد الأحمر( أو لال مسجد) الواقع في إسلام […]
Musharraf: State Has No right to interfere between Man and God
I also believe that religion is a private matter between a person and his creator. The state has no right to interfere in the relationship between man and God. The […]
Eleven Christians Including A Pastor Accused Of Blasphemy In Islamabad
Christiansinpakistan.com: According to details, eleven Christians all resident of the Capital. These eleven include a pastor who have been allegedly accused of committing blasphemy by a women namely Naseem Bibi. […]
Pakistan women’s team win bronze in Kabaddi World Cup
DAWN.COM,Sports Desk Published Dec 19, 2014 01:17pm This picture shows members of the Pakistan women’s Kabaddi team during a practice session. — AFP/File BARNALA- India : Pakistan’s women defeated Denmark on Friday to grab the 3rd position in the 2014 Kabaddi World Cup being played […]
Peshawar massacre: It was’t the final atrocity
It wasn’t the final atrocity Pervez Hoodbhoy Updated 2 days ago The author teaches physics in Lahore and Islamabad. http://www.dawn.com/news/1151930/it-wasnt-the-final-atrocity THE gut-wrenching massacre in Peshawar’s Army Public School has left Pakistan aghast and sickened. All political leaders have called for unity against terrorism. But this is no watershed event that […]
Pakistan’s Old Curse
NY times: LONDON — Only a week ago, the Red Mosque seemed a nearly untouchable bastion of Islamist extremism in Pakistan, a notorious seminary in central Islamabad known for producing radicalized, and sometimes heavily armed, graduates. On Friday evening, though, the tables were turned when hundreds of angry protesters stood at […]
It wasn’t the final atrocity
Dawn.com: by Pervez Hoodbhoy — THE gut-wrenching massacre in Peshawar’s Army Public School has left Pakistan aghast and sickened. All political leaders have called for unity against terrorism. But this is no watershed event that can bridge the deep divides within. In another few days this episode of 134 dead […]
Pakistan takes on the Taliban as grief over Peshawar school massacre gives way to rage
The Independent: The grief has given way to rage. Three days after Pakistan suffered its worst ever terrorist attack, with the massacre of 132 schoolchildren in Peshawar, the country has hit back. In the tribal areas of North Waziristan and Khyber along the Afghan border, Pakistani jets strafed militant targets […]
Remembering The Weight Of Small Coffins
Patheos.com: By Qasim Rashid Today in Pakistan at least 132 sets of parents will remember this Jummah as their first Jummah without their precious child. This Jummah they will be forced to remember the crushing weight of small coffins. I left Peshawar in the 1980s, not long after Dictator Zia […]
What to say when your Muslim child asks about Peshawar
The Washington Post — (RNS) The massacre of 145 people, nearly all of them children, at a Pakistani school on Tuesday (Dec. 16) is almost too horrible for adults to talk about, much less children. But what if your Muslim child brings it up? What if you want to open […]
India: Anupam Kher Open letter to Peshawar Terrorists
Peshawar attack: Anupam Kher writes open letter to terrorists Courtesy : Dawn News Devastated by the news of the recent attack on Army Public School in Peshawar, Bollywood icon Anupam Kher […]
Pakistan: Taliban Attack on School in Peshawar
We have killed all of the children in the auditorium. What do we do now?’: Ismail Khan, The New York Times | December 18, 2014 10:31 AM ET More from The New York Times AP Photo/Muhammed MuheisenDamages inside the Army Public School attacked last Tuesday by Taliban gunmen, in Peshawar, […]
Pakistan must separate religion and politics, say academics
firstpost.com: Terrorist massacres of the kind Peshawar saw will end only when Pakistan separates religion and politics, a Pakistani academic said in comments published on Friday. Aasim Sajnjad Akhtar also faulted the tendency in Pakistan to gloss over the military’s patronage of the politics of jihad, saying it is this […]
Pakistan attack reveals the truth about terrorism: it kills more poor Muslims than rich westerners
theguardian: by Ben Doherty — Those who suffer most from Islamist extremism are not people in rich western nations, but other poor Muslims. This is the fundamental truth that obliterates the false cloak of righteousness so ostentatiously donned by Islamist jihadists: the very people these misguided men and women claim […]
Islam condemns the killing of children — Queen Rania
AMMAN — “When did children become legitimate targets for radicals? When did global human rights treaties designed to protect children cease to matter?” Her Majesty Queen Rania asked in an opinion piece published Wednesday on The Huffington Post. In the article, the Queen commented on recent attacks in Pakistan and Yemen, […]
Pakistan’s greatest enemy is denial
India Express: Over the last few decades, Pakistanis have become accustomed to terrorists, as well as terrorism. But the Taliban’s slaughter of schoolchildren in Peshawar on Tuesday was an unprecedented act of savagery. It has caused grief and generated outrage that earlier attacks on hotels, mosques, shrines and even the […]
Pakistani Army Chief Asks Afghans to Help Find Taliban Commanders
Pakistani Army Chief Asks Afghans to Help Find Taliban Commanders Behind Massacre By ISMAIL KHAN DEC. 17, 2014 Photo A soldier stood guard amid the damage at the Army Public School in Peshawar on Wednesday, a day after the massacre by the Pakistani Taliban. Credit Zohra Bensemra/Reuters PESHAWAR, Pakistan […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Condemns Taliban Attack on Peshawar School
Rabwah Times: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA condemns in the strongest terms today’s terrorist attack on Peshawar Government schools. Reports indicate at least 150 children have been killed and scores more injured. The Community mourns with the families and friends of those afflicted by this horrible atrocity. May God give them strength, […]