ET: LAHORE: Fearing a reprisal following the killing of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud in a drone strike on Friday, the local UN office has issued an alert to its employees, The Express Tribune has learnt. “Imminent security threat at Centaurus Mall, Islamabad, for two (02) weeks. Huge security threat of […]
Source: Jihad Watch vis Wasim Sr. “Islamophobia is the biggest threat to peace in the world today.” — U.S. “academic” Kevin Barrett in Iran’s state-run PressTV “Punjab, Christians hunted for blasphemy: fireworks wrapped in Koran pages,” by Jibran Khan for Asia News, November 2 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Islamabad (AsiaNews) – Two […]
Asian Human Rights Commission — The Government of Pakistan must act now to stop religious hate mongering in the country and apply sanctions to the liberty of Mullahs bent upon destroying the little that is left of law and order in the country. Mr. Bashir Ahmad Kiyani (70), was murdered […]
Source: persecutionofahmadis.org 02-11-2013: Press Section Nazarat Umur Aama Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya Pakistan Rabwah Press Release The third member of a family was target-killed due to difference of faith After son in law and son the 70 years old Mr. Bashir Ahmad Kiyani became the victim of barbarous killers The murders of innocent […]
Dawn.com: Peerzada Salman – KARACHI: The Jewish community was once an integral component of Karachi and played an important role in the city’s development. If its synagogue had not been destroyed, our younger generation could have learnt a lot from their history and the region’s multicultural past. This was said […]
Source: blogs.tribune.com.pk Though Malala survived the Taliban’s bullets last year, she is now again under attack in Pakistan by the very same ideology. They attacked her physically then, and now they […]
LONDON — An American drone strike killed the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, on Friday, according to Pakistani intelligence officials and militant commanders in the tribal belt. Hakimullah Mehsud, 36, the ruthless leader of the Pakistani If confirmed, his death would be a major achievement for the covert […]
Source: Ahmadiyya Times: An Ahmad Muslim is shot dead for his faith in Orangi Town area of Karachi, a southern port city in Sind Provence of Pakistan. According to the local reports, approximately 70 years old victim, Bashir Kiyani, was on his way to offer Friday prayers when he was […]
Source:Rediff.Com The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project is probably becoming history (RFERL). Why it is dying a miserable death after raising such high expectations cannot be attributed to a single factor. To begin with, Iran’s hope was always that India too would join the project at some point, but that hope […]
Source: Asia Times: KARACHI – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Pakistani government have come under heavy fire for a sudden U-turn on its policy over US drone strikes in the country’s northwestern tribal areas along Afghanistan border following the Sharif’s visit to Washington last month. Criticism has culminated in […]
by Shahzad Rana, Friday Times Is Jemima Khan’s new film against drones one sided? Not very far from the glittering lights of Las Vegas, the foundation of America’s drone war […]
(Reuters) – Even as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani was one of the most eloquent critics of Pakistan’s military, the nuclear-armed country’s most powerful institution. Haqqani, once derided at home as Washington’s ambassador to Pakistan for his pro-Western views, has taken a step further, accusing the government of directly […]
(Reuters) – Even as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani was one of the most eloquent critics of Pakistan’s military, the nuclear-armed country’s most powerful institution. Haqqani, once derided at home as Washington’s ambassador to Pakistan for his pro-Western views, has taken a step further, accusing the government of directly […]
The ongoing Lal Masjid case, leaving aside everything else, is an example, if one were still needed, of what’s wrong with us. By Ejaz Haider TRIBUNE Two sets of people […]
In the following interview from Der Spiegel, a Pakistani nuclear physicist gives a lucid account of the state of Islam in the 21st century. Notice that the interviewer is actually […]
Source: MINN Post via Wasim Sr: By Jean MacKenzie | 10/28/13 The long-running sham of US-Pakistani relations enjoyed yet another farcical episode last week. In the wake of a report by an international rights group showing the failures and dangers of Washington’s drone program, Islamabad takes its alleged ally to task, warning of dire […]
Source: Dawn.Com They blamed Pakistan for allegedly sending its “troops, not just the Taliban” for attacking US soldiers in Afghanistan. They accused Pakistan of “patronising” cross-border terrorism in Afghanistan and for “sending terrorists” into India to “kill Indian civilians”. Pakistan was also blamed for nurturing Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaatud Dawa and […]
Ahead of Bangladesh’s liberation in 1971, the Pakistani Army systematically committed genocide of the Hindu community in the then East Pakistan and the Nixon Administration turned a blind eye to it, a new book says. While the Indian Government was aware of it, it tried to play it down and […]
Viewpoint: by Kunwar Khuldune Shahid – How can I accept Malala to be a hero, when her speeches do not have any Islamic or nationalistic agenda? How can I consider her to be my future leader when nothing she says or does imbues a false sense of superiority in me […]