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Pakistan erased Int. NYT cover story

Pakistan erased an entire International New York Times cover story By Chris Welch on March 22, 2014 12:53 pm Email 191Comments Don’t miss stories Follow The Verge 71 inShare Today’s edition of The International New York Times was stripped of its cover story in Pakistan. Instead of seeing a lengthy report on […]

Musharraf’s case heading towards a Catastrophe!

By Saeed Qureshi Barring providential intervention, apparently Pakistan’s former strong man and president Musharraf is in deep waters. Justice Faisal Arab the head of the special court seems to be poised to send Musharraf either to gallows or long imprisonment for high treason charge. Musharraf’s decision to return to Pakistan […]

Religious Persecution in Pakistan by Pervez Hoodbhoy

Source: View Point Online Blaise Pascal, the famous 17th century philosopher and mathematician, observed that “men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it for religious conviction”. His words could apply to Muslim-killing Hindus of Gujarat, 2002. Or to today’s Pakistan, where your religious affiliation—whether by birth […]

LOST IN RITUALS

By Abida Ruby for The Muslim Times  — The culture and traditions give us a sense of identity or belonging to a specific group, ethnicity, country/nationality, religion etc. These are handed down by one generation to another and are observed with religious zeal in most cultures. In most of the […]

Bigotry in the name of God

by Babar Sattar Dawn: THE chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), Muhammad Khan Sheerani, has stated that prohibition of child marriage under the Muslim Family Law Ordinance is un-Islamic. He argued that the requirement to seek permission of the first wife before taking on a second (or third […]

Pakistan Taliban announce month truce

Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid emailed the statement to reporters on Saturday The Pakistani Taliban have announced a month-long ceasefire aimed at reviving stalled peace talks with government. Pakistan’s government welcomed the announcement as a “positive development”, and said it was prepared to resume talks. The talks broke down last month, […]