Pakistan

Accepting our ignorance

Dawn.com: by Raasti Said – Growing up in Pakistan to become an informed citizen is no easy feat. The country is accompanied by its fair share of ignorance and bias against Israel and the West as exists in the West towards the Middle East and South Asia. During my first […]

Urdu: Absolutely hair raising Fatwa against Pakistani Journalists, Reporters and Media by Taliban

ہم پیشکش :: صحافیوں، رپورٹرز اور میڈیا والوں کے بارے میں تحریک طالبان پاکستان کے علمائے کرام کا تاریخی فتوی بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم تحریک طالبان پاکستان (مرکزی امیرحکیم اللہ محسود حفظہ اللہ) شوریٰ علماءمجاہدین، تحریک طالبان پاکستان صحافیوں، رپورٹرز اور میڈیا والوں کے بارے میں تحریک طالبان پاکستان کے علمائے […]

Are Ahmadis Non-Muslims?

Credit to Pakteahouse: Repost: By Yasser Latif Hamdani The poison of ignorance and extremism that Bhutto and General Zia jointly fathered during their dictatorial regimes has fully indoctrinated even those who otherwise describe themselves as educated. This week the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN inched closer to the discovery […]

Pakistan: a culture of intolerance

Source: Asia Times: Pakistan’s impoverished and peaceful Christian community has endured mob rampages, blasphemy charges, and was largely spared the ravages of suicide bombings, till last month. Suicide bombings on September 22 at Peshawar’s All-Saints Church, which is designed like a mosque to reflect inter-faith harmony, killed 83 worshippers and […]

Time out:

Source: Dawn.Com: It was, perhaps, inevitable given the work ethic that prevails in Pakistan. After initially declaring a three-day holiday period for Eidul Azha, the federal government followed Sindh’s lead and, on Monday, announced that on Friday, too, the country would be taking time out from business as usual, thus […]