Source: ET. LAHORE: On the allegations of the imam of a local mosque, a first information report (FIR) was registered against a school principal here under blasphemy law by Nishtar Town police late Monday night. Police told that Qazi Iftikhar Ahmad Raza, along with three other clerics as witnesses, filed […]
Source: The News via Wasim Sr. WASHINGTON: While US intelligence agencies spend billions monitoring enemies like Al-Qaeda and Iran, they pay just as much as attention to ally Pakistan, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The United States has intensified surveillance of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, is concerned about biological and chemical […]
Source: business-standard.com Pakistani police have arrested a woman under the controversial blasphemy laws for declaring herself a ‘Prophet’. According to police, Salma Fatima, wife of Tanvir, who lived in the vicinity […]
Source: christiantoday.com It is the popular belief among the majority of Pakistani Muslims that they are duty bound to murder anyone who insults the prophet Muhammad. It is not just Muslim […]
Source: secularism.org.uk The media regulator Ofcom has imposed fines on two Islamic satellite TV channels for hatemongering. Noor TV, which broadcasts from Birmingham and is aimed at young Muslims, was fined £85,000 […]
Source: Dawn:Com In the past couple of weeks, speculation has been rife over the appointment of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) and rumours say that this time around the decision-making will be extremely judicious for which the screening process is already […]
Source: Dawn:Com Haroon Tariq. — Photo by Dawn ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani student, Haroon Tariq, has broken the current world record by securing a total of 47 As in his International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) O Level and A Level exams from the University of Cambridge International […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Rasul Bakhsh Rais Published: September 2, 2013 Peace within states is as important as it is between and among states. Let […]
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal the depth of mistrust between America and Pakistan, revealing how the US spied on Islamabad’s nuclear assets and compiled dossiers of extrajudicial killings. The revelations, published by The Washington Post on Tuesday, appear to show how billions of dollars from the so-called “black budget” […]
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: The ministry of information technology was upbeat about lifting the ban on video sharing website YouTube after having finally acquired the ‘missing’ filters to block blasphemous content within days but it seems that the matter will consume more time. On August 22, State Minister for Information Technology Anusha […]
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Source: ET Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Friday that Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government is a game for another month or two, Express News reported. He further stated that if Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) continued to rule K-P for another month or two, the province might not be a […]
Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Source/Credit: SAAPK | Ahmadiyya Times By Staff report | August 31, 2013 An Ahmadi doctor is shot dead in the southern port city of Karach in Sind province of Pakistan. Homeopathic doctor Syed Tahir Ahmad was murdered in Landhi area when he was seeing […]
Source: zeenews.india.com New Delhi: Pakistan founder MA Jinnah had spoken about “welfare and well-being of all the communities” in Pakistan in a speech made on the day of the country’s creation […]
Source: mta.tv/jalsaconnect Given that we don’t have massive Rabwah Jalsas anymore, I wondered how they would have been and what preparations would have been made for them. To find some […]
Source: NY Times: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani judicial official on Thursday overturned the convictionof a Pakistani doctor who helped the C.I.A. while it was searching for Osama bin Laden, and ordered a retrial. The official, Sahibzada Muhammad Anis, who presided over an appellate court hearing the case, ruled that […]
Source: valuewalk.com Pakistan may soon lift a year old ban on YouTube as early as September, according to the officials. Almost a year from now the country banned YouTube for a video that […]
Source: nypost.com More and more people join the crowd as they push me towards the home of the village headman. I recognize the house — it’s the only one that has […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: August 28, 2013 ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday discharged the contempt of court notice against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) […]
Source: LewRock Well.Com via Wasim Sr. Pakistan’s former military dictator, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, was indicted last week on charges of murdering former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and for treason. Never […]