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 […]
Mullah and military
by Babar Sattar, DAWN GETTING mad at Munawar Hasan for attempting to subvert the resolve of our soldiers to fight the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan by challenging the moral legitimacy of their mission is one thing. Learning lessons from the Jamaat-i-Islami’s hostile response to Hakeemullah’s death and taking corrective action is quite […]
Pakistanis pushing back against killing in God’s name
By Michael Kugleman Thursday, November 14, 2013 Hope. It’s certainly not the first word that comes to mind when contemplating present-day Pakistan. This is, after all, a nation convulsed by […]
What private griefs they nurse — Yasser Latif Hamdani
Daily Times — Zafrullah Khan’s contributions to Pakistan — especially as its advocate before the Boundary Commission — were praised by Jinnah himself Before I come to the main gist of what I have to say this week, let me bring to the attention of the reader my articles “Safdar […]
Deobandi ASWJ’s role in Rawalpindi riots
Source: LUBP There was a riot/clash in Rawalpindi on Friday (15 Nov 2013). A Shia procession commemorating Ashura was passing by a mosque belonging to the Deobandi-Panjpiri sect (the mosque was a known base of the supposedly banned Sipah e Sahaba Pakistan or SSP, now officially operating as ASWJ in […]
No relaxation in Rawalpindi curfew: Punjab govt
Source: Dawn.com LAHORE: Spokesperson for the Punjab government announced on Sunday that there would be no relaxation in the curfew imposed in Rawalpindi on Friday night following a clash between two groups that had claimed at least nine lives, DawnNews reported. The spokesperson, while making the announcement, also urged the […]
From Palestine to Chitral: Miracles do Happen
In an age in which reading or watching the news is enough to turn any normal human being into a raging lunatic or a hardened cynic, the smallest piece of […]