Pakistan Names New Army Chief
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: The NewYork Times By SALMAN MASOOD Published: November 27, 2013 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In a surprise move, Lt. Gen. Raheel Sharif was appointed the […]
Justice Tassaduq Jillani as new Chief Justice of Pakistan
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani to be appointed the next Chief Justice of Pakistan, Express News reported. More:
Lt Gen Raheel Sharif appointed new army chief
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: Lieutenant General Raheel Sharif was appointed as the new Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) and Lieutenant General Rashad Mehmood was appointed as the new Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff Committee (CJCSC) on Wednesday, Express Newsreported. More:
Pakistan to build six nuclear power plants
SOURCE: ARABNEWS ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced Tuesday that his country will build six civil nuclear power plants. Speaking at a function, Coastal Power Project K-II and K-III […]
‘56 women killed in 2013 for giving birth to girls’
Source: ET Fifty-six women have been killed in Pakistan this year for giving birth to a girl rather than a boy, human rights activist IA Rehman said at a symposium here on Monday. “A country where mothers are killed for giving birth to baby girls can’t be called an ethical […]
Accolade: Pakistani scientist features on leading American journal
By Farooq Baloch Published: November 26, 2013 The Express Tribune KARACHI: A leading American science magazine has listed a technology by a Pakistani scientist in its ‘World Changing Idea’ list– […]
UK: Attorney General Dominic Grieve blames Minority Communities for spreading corruption in the UK
Source: London 23rd November (Ch.Maqbool Ahmad) Attorney General Mr Dominic Grieve blamed Minority Communities spreading corruptions in UK Politicians need to “wake up” to growing problems of corruption involving sections of some […]
Urdu Poem: میں بھی کافر، تو بھی کافر
میں بھی کافر، تو بھی کافر پھولوں کی خوشبو بھی کافر لفظوں کا جادو بھی کافر یہ بھی کافر ، وہ بھی کافر فیض بھی اور منٹو بھی کافر نور جہاں کا گانا کافر میکڈانلڈز کا کھانا کافر برگر کافر ، کوک بھی کافر ہنسنا بدعت ، جوک بھی کافر […]
Answering Nadeem F. Piracha: Bhutto – a reluctant hero? | Mohammed Rafiuddin
A masterful wordsmith as I believe NFP to be, I’m disappointed by some of his word selection, whether intentional or not, it was misleading,… Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | […]
Pakistan’s Imran Khan to Block NATO Supplies After Drone Strike – Attack on School Putting Civilian Lives in Danger
by Jason Ditz, November 21, 2013 NATO is about to lose access to its primary supply line into occupied Afghanistan, the Khyber Pass, as Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistani Tehreek-e Insaf (PTI), the political party which runs the Khyber Pakhtunkhah Province (KP) through which the supplies travel, has […]
Nadeem Paracha’s ‘The 1974 ouster of the ‘heretics’”: Some observations | Shermeen Butt
Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | UK Desk Source/Credit: Ahmadiyya Times By Shermeen Butt | November 21, 2013 The following was written as a comment on Nadeem Paracha’s piece in Dawn yesterday – but Dawn has chosen not to publish it. I really do not know why. [Shermeen Butt] Mr […]
Pakistan: We are sorry, Dr Abdus Salam
Source: blogs.tribune.com.pk November 21, marks the death anniversary of Dr Abdus Salam – Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate and one of the legendary physicists of the 20th century. The list of his achievements and awards is so […]
1974: In response to Nadeem F. Paracha
Source: lutfislam.blogspot.co.uk Nadeem F. Paracha is a respected columnist of the left-wing variety, a rare species in Pakistan these days. He is a keen observer of the modern history of a nation in the process of self-combusting into oblivion. I understand and share his pain at this hopeless, prolonged and soul […]
No Muslim can do it, really?
November 22, 2013 Gul Bukhari THE NATION Sympathisers and facilitators of Islamic extremist forces in the Pakistani mainstream media, representatives of clerical bodies and even some politicians of mainstream political parties, have long held that massacres, be they suicide bombings indiscriminately aimed at men, women and children in a Bazaar, […]
The 1974 ouster of the ‘heretics’: What really happened?
Source: Dawn.com By Nadeem F Paracha The sole culprit? The legacy of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, is a mixed bag of praise, platitudes and panning. Where, on […]
The 1974 ouster of the ‘heretics’: What really happened? Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: The sole culprit?
Source: dawn.com The legacy of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, is a mixed bag of praise, platitudes and panning. Where, on the one hand, he is hailed as being […]
Shia-Sunni schism: A challenge to world peace
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Dawn.Com MURTAZA HAIDER Members of the Internal Security Forces ride on their vehicle in the Bab al-Tebbaneh neighbourhood in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, Nov […]
[Video] State Sponsored Persecution of Ahmadis in Lahore, Pakistan – Chali Hai Rasm (Program 5)
Source: vimeo.com Part 5 in a series of discussions on state sponsored persecution of Ahmadi Muslims and other minorities in Pakistan. For more information please visit persecutionofahmadis.org State Sponsored Persecution of Ahmadis in Lahore, Pakistan – Chali Hai Rasm (Program 5) from Ahmadiyya Muslim Community on Vimeo.
Is Gen Tariq most favourite for next Army Chief job?
Source: Asia Times: Dark-horse candidate According to Hussain, there is little chance of Lieutenant-General Raheel Sharif being appointed, because he is not seen as a strong enough commander. Tariq Khan, on the other hand, could be considered a dark-horse candidate. Over the course of his 36-year military career he has […]