Source: pennlive.com Samina Arain lost her brother in May when he was shot to death during a humanitarian visit to Pakistan. But on Saturday, surrounded by fellow members of the Ahmadiyya […]
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ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri’s ‘long marches’ entered the capital late Friday night, nearly 36 hours after they set off on Thursday from Lahore. The two leaders, who have threatened to occupy the capital until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns, are set to address growing crowds in Islamabad at […]
By Herald Exclusive The backdrop of a stage shows portraits of Former President Ayub Khan and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. — Photo by WhiteStar Nationalism and patriotism in Pakistan are contested subjects. What makes us Pakistanis and what is it that makes us love our […]
Dawn.com: by Faisal Bari — Ahmadis have been hounded out of jobs; they have been booked for ‘preaching’ their religion; they have been asked to remove Quranic verses from their places of worship; some have been denied burial space in graveyards. A fellow citizen and a friend, a Christian by […]
For most Muslims, Eid marks the happy end to a month of fasting and spiritual development. It is a day filled with prayers, warm embraces and the smiling faces of children as they open their presents. For extremists, however, Eid only brings joy if it is coloured by the blood […]
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The Express Tribune: by Ayesha Siddiqa — As the state celebrates its 67th birthday, there is an absence of a natural sense of exaltation. The sense of weariness is not due to incessant roadblocks, temporary fuel shortage and uncertainty about how the government-opposition conflict will unfold. It is also not because people […]
Source: starconnectmedia.com The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Nigeria has demanded for an urgent enquiry into the killing of three Ahmadiyya female members including an eight month old infant in arson attack in […]
Source: pressahmadiyya.com In this month’s issue we regret to report the murder of four Ahmadi Muslims. Two victims were children, attacked by Anti-Ahmadiyya Mobs who set their homes on fire, while […]
Jinnah Institute: By Yasser Latif Hamdani On 11 August 1947, the Pakistan Constituent Assembly (“PCA”) met for the first time. The inaugural session was presided by Shri Jogindranath Mandal, president of the Scheduled Caste Federation and a member from East Pakistan. In this session, the PCA elected Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali […]
The Express Tribune: 1954 was the year of the Munir Report; and there haven’t been many like it since. The report raised some of the most profound moral questions splitting Pakistan at the seams, questions that haunt us today. Justice Munir found that, while the ulema were adamant as to […]
The sufferings of the Ahmadis are not confined to killings and destruction of their property. Whole generations of their young men and women have been forced to stay imprisoned within their mental recesses. Forty years ago Zulfikar Ali Bhutto claimed credit for solving the 90-year-old problem relating to the status […]
Epigraph: We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — it shall be […]
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Indian express: Barely 14 months after convincingly winning a general election, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government is being asked to resign amid threats of street protests. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and Canada-based Sunni cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri plan separate marches on Islamabad on August 14, Pakistan’s Independence Day. Several politicians and parties known […]
Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani — Given that religious scholars are nothing but shopkeepers of religiosity whose livelihood depends on such hatemongering, it is hardly surprising that Ashrafi resorts to such incitement to violence. The deadly attack on Ahmedis, killing one unborn child, two little girls and one old grandmother, […]
Source: The International News Islamabad diary By Ayaz AmirPakistani democracy has done things to itself which it now finds impossible to get rid of. We can take it as an axiom […]
Source: Daily Times By Zara Ahmad, July 29, 2014 Do we take morbid pride in calling ourselves Muslims and butchering the innocent people of our own country in the name of religion? Who gave us the authority to play God? Is it just illiteracy or did our hearts really turn as […]
Daily Times: by Aisha Fayyaza Sarwari — It is savagery at its worst, with everyone as an accomplice because there is a disagreement about your religious beliefs, under which many are unsure what kind of punishment is required. Yet there is no disagreement about random extremists acting out the judge, […]