Daily Times: ISLAMABAD: Islamic Ideology Council’s (IIC) Chairman Maulana Muhammad Sheerani on Wednesday provisionally termed the Pakistan Protection Ordinance (PPO) and National Security Policy against the shariah, media reports said.The final edict will be announced after consulting the legal, defence and political experts. Maulana Sheerani also said that women cannot […]
Dawn.com — A student from the Shimshal Mountaineering School uses ice axes to climb a slope on a glacier near the Shimshal village in the northern Hunza valley. –– AFP Photo HUNZA: A group of young girls sit on a carpeted floor listening as their teacher writes on a whiteboard, […]
Source: ipsnews.net BOSTON, Oct 20 2014 (IPS) – Two years ago, gunmen shot dead Farooq Kahloun’s newly married son Saad Farooq, 26, in an attack that severely injured Kahloun, his younger son […]
ET: They asked him whether it had ever happened before. “Meray saath kabhi waqeya nahin hua aisa. Mujhay daaka maartay huay chhor diya tha,” Abdul Sattar Edhi said. “Aisay waqiay huay hain, lekin daaka nahin maara.” A stupid question. How could it have happened before? After all, this is Edhi […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Zehra Mehdi-Barlas, Media Relations Manager, Communications Specialist and certified news-junkie Yes, I was fortunate enough to be born in a country and into a family […]
One of Pakistan’s top charity leaders has told the BBC he is heartbroken after being robbed at gunpoint. Abdul Sattar Edhi, 86, was asleep when a gang of armed men […]
Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani — When the English were building courtrooms, hospitals, mental asylums, schools and universities, rulers in the subcontinent of India were busy building mausoleums, gardens and pleasure houses In a speech and a subsequent tweet recently, Imran Khan produced this alleged quote from Macaulay: “I […]
Dawn: WASHINGTON: In Pakistan, people were more concerned about nuclear weapons than religious and ethnic hatred as a major threat to their security, says a US survey released on Friday. In India, however, people saw religious and ethnic hatred as a greater threat, although, like Pakistan, India too is a […]
Guardian: In November 2010, Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five, was sentenced to death in Pakistan. Her crime was allegedly insulting the prophet Muhammad during an argument with some Muslim neighbours. The case caused an international outcry; politicians and international human rights organisations took it up; lawyers appealed. Today, the […]
Guardian: After three years atop a list of the world’s worst airports, Manila’s Ninoy Aquino international airport (NAIA) is now only the fourth worst, behind Islamabad, Jeddah and Kathmandu, thanks to a “slight improvement” in services. Manila earned some positive points due to terminal renovations and reduced congestion, according to […]
Attock, Pakistan Courtesy: Mr Nasim Malik & Mirza Nasim Baig “It is reported with sadness that an Ahmadi Mr. Lateef Alam Butt son of Khursheed Alam Butt from Kamrah in district Attock was shot dead by unknown assailants at around 7.30 PM today. Mr. Lateef was 62 year old […]
Herald Dawn: Nationalism and patriotism in Pakistan are contested subjects. What makes us Pakistanis and what is it that makes us love our land and nation? The answers to these questions vary widely depending on who is being asked. A large part of our national identity stems from our sense […]
Source: MSN News Courtesy: Dr. Hameed A. Mirza, Canada Malala Yousafzai may have won the Nobel Peace Prize, but she remains an object of hate for many Pakistanis who view her […]
From Twitter: An Ahmadi Latif Alam Butt Sahib has been shot dead near his home coming back from his shop in Kamra (Attock) at 7.30 pm this evening. 15th October 2014
Epigraph: And if Allah did not repel some men by means of others, there would surely have been pulled down cloisters and churches and synagogues and mosques, wherein the name […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — TO truly understand Malala Yousafzai, the youngest person ever to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, we need to understand the place she comes from. Ms. Yousafzai is from Pakistan. The day Taliban terrorists shot her in the head she was on her way to school. Pakistan’s schools, its teachers and […]
Credit: Laaltain.com Tauseef Ahmad Malala can win Nobel but she wont be allowed to drive a car in Saudi Arabia, not leave her home in parts of Pakistan. ملالہ نوبل […]
THE SOUTH ASIA CHANNEL Pakistan’s Original Sin BY USMAN AHMAD OCTOBER 13, 2014 The fields of Hampshire are usually associated with blazing crops of rapeseed and fragrant lavender. But on the final weekend of August, over 30,000 Ahmadi Muslims from all over the world converged on Oakland Farm in East […]
pakteahouse: Malik Malala Yousufzai was given the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 on her championing the cause of Children’s right for education, especially for girls. This is the young girl who was brave enough to ask for her right of education despite the ban from Taliban in Swat on Girls’ […]