Civilians are dying, Campaigners are being kidnapped
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT The world cannot turn a blind eye to America’s drone attacks in Pakistan – Why was Karim Khan prevented from speaking out against drone warfare? […]
Very Unfortunate but Very Much True, Pakistan a Lost Cause?
Source: Guardianlv.com via Wasim Sr. It is very unfortunate but very much true that Pakistan is a lost cause. On 14, August 1947 at the stroke of mid-night , a new independent state appeared on the map of the world. Pakistan with meager resources and defunct treasury did not have […]
Is Islam better practiced in the West?
Express Tribune: by Faiza Iqbal — Most people are very quick to point out the flaws and imperfections of Western lifestyle, citing promiscuity, free flowing alcohol, homosexuality, gay marriage and a free mixing of sexes as the main ingredients in its destruction and thus its aberration from Islam. However, I personally […]
Inside story of govt-TTP talks
Source: The International News By Hamid Mir Saturday, February 15, 2014 ISLAMABAD: It was for the first time that a Taliban leader participated in the government-TTP negotiations on Friday through a phone call and promised that the Taliban will seriously consider a ceasefire. But sources in the government committee fear that […]
I Left ‘America’ for Its Hatred of Muslims… This Is My Story
Huff Post: by Kashif N. Chaudhry — I was born in 1982, in the beautiful American city of San Jose, California. A proud patriotic Muslim American, my dad would decorate our house with lights every Fourth of July. Fast forward to the year 2001, when I got admitted to one […]
Pakistan: Jailed British Ahmadi Muslim Dr Masood Ahmad granted bail by Lahore High Court
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in The 72 years old, Dr Ahmad has been jailed for over two month on blasphemy charges after he was ceased by the Anarkali Police for having read a verse […]
Blast at Pakistan cinema leaves many dead
Aljazeera: At least 10 people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an explosion targeting a cinema in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, Al Jazeera’s correspondents have said. Tuesday’s blast hit Shama cinema, known to show adult rated movies, and is owned by the Bilour family, one of the […]
Religious Minorities In Islamic Pakistan Struggle But Survive Amid Increasing Persecution
Huff Post: by Jaweed Kaleem — KARACHI, Pakistan — Every Sunday, thousands celebrate Mass at St. Peter’s, a three-floor, 21,000-square-foot Catholic church that’s the biggest in Pakistan. Dressed in their best tunics and loose cotton pants, worshippers sit barefoot in the pew-less building — a style adapted from nearby mosques […]
Say no to dialogue: Selling Jinnah’s Soul to Deobandi Militants
The only negotiation that can happen between the state and the Taliban is on the time and mode of surrender — nothing else. Anything beyond that is specifically barred by the constitution In February 1948, Mr Jinnah said, “In any case, Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic state to […]
مگر اس کے لیے ’تپڑ‘ کہاں سے لائیں؟
وسعت اللہ خان بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، کراچی آخری وقت اشاعت: اتوار 9 فروری 2014 , 00:54 GMT 05:54 PST پاکستان میں حکومت اور طالبان کی نمائندہ کمیٹیوں کے درمیان مذاکرات جاری ہیں نہ نہ نہ۔۔۔بات چیت کا مقصد اگر واقعی نفاذِ شریعت ہے تب تو یہ مذاکرات ہونے […]
Taliban Are Right, We Are Wrong!
Source: Pak Tea House By Obaidullah Khan How painful is this fact for those who have not yet abandoned reason that our independent and sovereign state is negotiating with the […]
27 Year Old Ahmadi Martyred in a Target Killing in Karachi.
Source: Press Release Chenab Nagar, Rabwah: On Saturday 8 February, 2014 at 2:30 pm Raziullah Din Sahib son of Muhammad Hussein Mukhtar Sahib was shot at and killed by unknown by unknown assailants. The deceased was 27 years old and a resident of Ogervi Colony, Aurangi Town, Karachi. Raziullah Din […]
Are Pakistan’s talks with the Taliban bound to fail?
On Thursday, February 6, representatives of the Pakistani government and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) met in the Pakistani capital Islamabad to discuss a road map aimed at ending a decade-long violent insurgency in the country. In a joint statement issued after the talks, the two sides agreed on […]
Urdu Op-Ed: Taliban are True and All Pakistanis are Wrong
طالبان سچے ہیں اور ہم جھوٹے ہیں Courtesy: Obaidullah Khan تحریر: ٹیپو یوسفزئی یہ ملک طالبان کا ہےاور انکا موقف سو فیصد درست ہے۔ وہ سچے محب وطن ہیں اور پاکستان کے مقدس آئین کے محافظ ہیں۔ پاکستان کے سچے محافظ اس وقت طالبان ہیں اور جو لوگ انکے مخالف […]
A farce gone too far
by Zahid Hussain DAWN.COM Published 2014-02-05 NOW that the Taliban too have nominated their representatives for the negotiations, a state of shambles is unfolding. With both teams more or less standing on the same side of the divide, it is virtually a dialogue within outlawed militant outfits. The government has […]
Islamabad fails to turn up at peace talks with Taleban
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s much-awaited talks with the Taleban got off to a shambolic start on Tuesday after government negotiators failed to turn up at an agreed time following days of confusion over who should represent the insurgents. The preliminary peace talks began following a spate of killings, but there is skepticism […]
First Person: A community under threat from fanatics
Source: leicestermercury.co.uk Is it an offence to read the Holy Quran? You would have thought not, but it is – in Pakistan…. that is if you are a member of my community, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Because in Pakistan, increasingly in the grip of extremist and fundamentalist thinking, there is little […]
Musharraf to appear in special court on Feb 7: sources
DAWN.COM ISLAMABAD: Sources close to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf have confirmed that the ex-army strongman would appear before the special court on February 7 for the treason case hearing, […]
Pakistan sentences man to death for blasphemy
Epilogue There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has […]
The Pakistani Taliban’s P.R. Offensive
Source: NY Times via Wasim Sr LONDON — A joke has been circulating among Pakistanis on Twitter: “How to negotiate with the Taliban: Blast. Condemn. Blast. Condemn. Blast. Condemn. #Fail.” It mocks the government’s swiftness at denouncing terrorist attacks while doing too little to stop them. In 2013 alone, the […]