Development is the latest twist in trial of former Pakistan military ruler Pervez Musharraf By Mohsin Ali, Correspondent GULF NEWS Islamabad: A special court handling the treason trial of Pakistan’s […]
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in Muzaffar Ahmad of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is perhaps the first civilian Pakistani who caught the suicide bomber alive without any use of weapon and handed over to the police. […]
Dated: 2014 Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in The killings are the direct result of a reckless disregard by Pakistani authorities of the hate-materials routinely published against Ahmadi Muslim which openly provoke and incite public […]
Source: ET Globally, acts of religious hostility hit a six-year high in 2012 with Muslims and Jews suffering most hostility. PHOTO: FILE A report placed Pakistan at the top of a list of 198 countries most suffering from social hostilities involving religion, by the end of 2012. The Pew Research Center’s […]
Eid Miladun Nabi: Mobile phone services suspended in various cities ET: Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas, Quetta, Peshawar, Dera Ismail Khan cut off. KARACHI: Mobile phone services have been suspended in several cities of the country for security reasons on the occasion of Eid Miladun Nabi, Express News reported on Tuesday. Eid Miladun Nabi, […]
Source: ET: It seems that bad ideas never truly die in Islamabad. There is a notion among both politicians and bureaucrats that the economy can simply be forced by fiat to behave the way the government wants it to. The latest example of this mode of thinking is the government’s decision […]
Islamabad’s inaction on extremism is a recurring theme in many of the WikiLeaked cables emanating from the U.S. embassy in Pakistan. By Michael Busch, May 26, 2011 We’re honored to have Michael Busch dissecting the latest WikiLeaks document dump for Focal Points. This is the fifty-sixth in the series. It’s hardly a […]
Courtesy: http://www.thedailystar.net Faheem Younus I was born in Pakistan, a few months before the war which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh on December 16, 1971. And it was only after I moved to the US that I recognised the magnitude of human rights abuses the Pakistani army committed against their […]
By Pamela Constable, Published: January 11 E-mail the writer AKORA KHATTAK, Pakistan — In the tribal badlands of Pakistan’s northwest, where Pakistani soldiers and American drones target Taliban insurgents, a parallel war is being waged over a crippling virus that endures in only three places in the world. Last year, […]
ET: ISLAMABAD: The historic trial of former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf has thrown up a number of puzzling constitutional questions – particularly given that this case is the first of its sort in Pakistan. Among the questions are the arguments being posed by Musharraf’s legal team – and not only […]
On Thursday, January 2, Musharraf (main picture) was taken to a military hospital after suffering a ‘heart problem’ on his way to court. The 70-year-old former president had been summoned […]
Hundreds of students gathered for assembly saved from harm because of boy’s actions Aitazaz Hassan Bangash and his cousin Musadiq Ali Bangash were on their way to Ibrahimzai School in a Shia dominated area of northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, when a man raised their suspicions by asking them […]
By Saeed Qureshi The assassination of the Superintendent of Police, Chaudhry Aslam, a vanguard and fearless CID police officer fighting against terrorism and lawlessness, through a huge bomb blast, reinforces the gnawing fear that the outlaws were still organized and possess the means and network to put up a defiant […]
Rare pic of Imran Khan and Javed Miandad with Nawaz Sharif taken in 1992 at the reception hosted by the Prime Minister in the honor of Cricket Team Youngsters of Pakistani Cricket team was hosted by Indian Film Industry in #Mumbai during 1950s. Wicket Keeper Imtiaz Ahmed, Waqar Hasan and […]
The Christian Science Monitor (06.01.2014) By Umar Farooq, Correspondent Leaders of major Islamic sects in Pakistan have agreed to curb provocations, but enforcing a voluntary code will be a challenge. Pakistan’s top body of Islamic scholars is pushing for a crackdown on hate speech in an effort to curb intra-faith violence in […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former military ruler, General (retired) Pervez Musharraf who is facing treason charges is expected to leave the country this month, according to US media reports. A report in ‘The Los Angeles Times’ states that officials close to Pakistan’s security services said Musharraf could depart within days. “It is […]
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The mystery of Raiwind palace ownership Iftikhar A. Khan and Kalbe Ali PM Sharif among billionaire lawmakers iSLAMABAD: The ownership of the Raiwind palace spread over thousands of acres is a mystery because it has never been mentioned in the statements of assets and liabilities of Prime Minister Nawaz […]