Getting Away With Murder by Heraldo Munoz: review Toronto Star January 5, 2014 By: Dimitri Nasrallah Published on Tue Dec 31 2013 For all but the most ardent outsider, it can be difficult to untangle the complex web of Pakistan’s political history necessary to properly contextualize the country’s current events. […]
By: Jim Coyle News, Published on Sat Jan 04 2014 The Toronto Star, Human rights campaigner Asma Jahangir says the older generation of women who fought for equality “are all the proud mothers of our Malalas.” She’s just 16, yet known worldwide — as the ultra-famous are — by a […]
Credit: TheExpressTribune By Hassan Naqvi / Photo: Abid Nawaz Published: January 5, 2014 LAHORE: “Salmaan Taseer was a brave man who never shied away from raising his voice for the voiceless, the marginalised, the poor, and for women and minority rights. His martyrdom shook us all but it also made us realise that […]
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Source: ET ALALPUR: With religious discord seeping in, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Muhammad Yousaf on Saturday said that the government was introducing a code of ethics for religious harmony. Talking to a delegation of religious scholars at Usman bin Affan seminary in Mulstan, he said that terrorists had no […]
Source: ET Former president Pervez Musharraf is unwell and will not appear in court on January 6, Musharraf’s advocate Ahmed Raza Kasuri said on Sunday. Speaking to Express News, Kasuri said a request will be submitted in the court, seeking exemption for Musharraf from personally appearing before the bench. The 70-year-old was […]
By Munir Varraich, Sweden Let us not forget that it was a secular minded soldier President who took a bold decision after 9/11 and tried to put the Pakistani Mindset on the […]
ISLAMABAD: Gunmen killed two senior members of a hardline Sunni Muslim group in a rare attack in the Pakistani capital yesterday, officials said, after weeks of sectarian tensions in the country. The secretary-general of the Islamabad chapter of the Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) organisation, , and his colleague Qari Asad […]
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweden. A one-and-a-half-year-old infant was buried four days after she died from pneumonia in Toba Tek Singh, Punjab province. The girl, who was from an Ahmadi family, died on December 19, and was taken for burial the following day. At the cemetery the local clerics gathered with […]
Source: ET ISLAMABAD / RAWALPINDI: Former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf fell sick on his way to the hearing of the treason case in the special court, Express News reported on Thursday. Musharraf’s convoy was redirected to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi. According to government officials, Musharraf complained of pain in his […]
Source: Express Pk story via Wasim Sr. Click HERE for a profound article. (only in Urdu)
Yudhvir Rana,TNN | Dec 31, 2013, TIMES OF INDIA AMRITSAR: Taking advantage of the Ahmadiyya Muslim annual convention, many couples tied the knot cross-border nuptial knot this time too-strengthening India-Pak people-to-people bonds. For 23-year-old Pakistani national Tehmida Naeem, India became her second home after she married Umar Abdul Qadir during […]
Pakistan Today: It appears that Bishen Singh, a Sikh character from Saadat Hassan Manto’s Toba Tek Singh who was displaced after the partition of India and sent to a mental […]
A man from the minority Ahmadi community has been barred from burying his wife in a graveyard in Pakistan’s Punjab province by a group of Muslims. The wife of Iqbal Ranhja, a resident of Faisalabad district, died yesterday. When Ranhja and members of the Ahmadi community took the body for […]
Religious Networks are a Diabolic Threat to Pakistan By Saeed Qureshi Pakistan could be devoured by the merciless, ignorant and intolerant religious networks, if their proliferation is not checked well in time on war footing level. Pakistan indeed was created as an Islamic state and for the social, political and […]
Source BBC via Wasim Sr: پاکستان کے صوبہ پنجاب میں ضلع ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھ کے شہر گوجرہ کے قریب ایک گاؤں کتھووالی میں 19 دسمبر کو ایک ڈیڑھ برس کی بچی کی لاش کو مقامی افراد نے دفن کرنے سے روک دیا۔ اس بچی کا تعلق جماعت احمدیہ سے تھا […]
Source: Dawn. The authorities at the Saudi Hospital where they finally found him said they had found his body in a rubbish heap near an industrial area in Arafat. The young Pakistani men who had been looking everywhere for him since his disappearance a day or so ago did not […]
ISLAMABAD: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of Pakistan’s slain premier Benazir Bhutto, said Friday his two sisters would follow him into politics, in a speech on the sixth anniversary of his mother’s death. The 25-year-old scion of the Bhutto dynasty has been the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman since his […]
Source: NY Times Op-ED By TAHMIMA ANAM DHAKA, Bangladesh — It was a Pakistani journalist, Anthony Mascarenhas, who gave the world the first detailed account of Bangladesh’s war of independence. In April 1971, soon after the army of Pakistan started suppressing the secessionist movement in what was then still the eastern […]
Source: NY Times Op-ED By TAHMIMA ANAM DHAKA, Bangladesh — It was a Pakistani journalist, Anthony Mascarenhas, who gave the world the first detailed account of Bangladesh’s war of independence. In April 1971, soon after the army of Pakistan started suppressing the secessionist movement in what was then still the eastern […]