Karachi shuts down: Live updates
Source: ET KARACHI: Following the arrest of former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) MPA Nadeem Hashmi, violence broke out and parts of the city shut down on Wednesday. More:
Blasphemy alleged: LHC suspends sessions court’s orders against columnist
Source: tribune.com.pk LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday suspended a lower court’s directions to the police to register a blasphemy case against columnist Ajmal Niazi for portraying Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as […]
Pew Research: 7% Pakistanis accept Ahmadis as fellow Muslims
In Pakistan, most say Ahmadis are not Muslim By Neha Sahgal ………… Two-in-three Pakistani Muslims say Ahmadis are not Muslims, according to a Pew Research poll conducted in November 2011. […]
Rare civil-military partnership: Ringing endorsement for dialogue with Taliban
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Kamran Yousaf / Sumera Khan Published: September 10, 2013 ISLAMABAD: In a shift in the country’s security strategy, the top civil-military leadership – united […]
Parliament’s decision will not fade the Ahmadi contribution to Pakistan
Source: Pak Tea House via Wasim Sr: Today 7th September would mark the 39th anniversary of the infamous decision by Bhutto’s parliament to declare Ahmadis ‘non-Muslims’ for the purpose of constitution. By meddling in religious matters and pandering to Mullahs, the progressive Pakistan of 1960s eventually turned into a hotbed […]
Jinnah unequivocally wanted Pakistan to be a secular state
Source: Pak Tea House By Yasser Latif Hamdani I am writing this article as a rebuttal to Khuldune Shahid’s article “Jinnah’s Pakistan a mirror of his contradictions.” It is necessary because if you do not counter a falsehood in public domain over time it is taken to be the truth. […]
Sickening & Scary: Second Amendment Anniversary Speakers call for isolation, banishment of Ahmadis
Source: tribune.com.pk Lahore: Several clerics called for further persecution of the Ahmadi community at conferences held on Saturday night to mark the 39th anniversary of the passage of the Second Amendment, which […]
Pakistan: What was to be and What it is
By Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd) Introduction Pakistan came into being sixty two years ago. There are not many around who saw it happening. Some alive today though may have been born yet might not have been mature enough to grasp the politics of the time, unless they are today in their […]
7th September, a horrifying day for Pakistani Ahmadis
Source: troubledmindsthoughts.blogspot.in | Saturday, September 7, 2013 Today is 7th September, 2013. 40 years ago, on this day, Bhutto took the step of declaring the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan to be non-Muslims and forcefully turning them into a minority, according to the wishes of all the religious extremists, regardless of the fact […]
Nawa-i-waqt columnist Ajmal Niazi penalized for portraying Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as secular
Source: tribune.com.pk Freedom of speech: SHO told to register complaint against ‘offensive’ columnist The petitioner’s counsel, Advocate Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry, submitted that Niazi, in his April 9 column Najam Sethi aur […]
Worldly events Vs Spiritual events: Sharing A Great Experience of Live Presence in Jalsa Salana UK by Dr. Ejaz Seerat, Islamabad Pakistan
(Keeping in view High Tech Modern Human Society) I’m not sure if I will be able to explain all my feelings and experience of attending Jalsa Salana UK. But I will try my best to explain the feel of the spiritual waves, which were scattered all over the occasion and […]
My Christian house help: Pakistan never wants its minorities to succeed
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Rabia Ahmed Published: September 2, 2013 Pakistan’s fertility rate is likely to drop if women […]
Jinnah unequivocally wanted Pakistan to be a secular state
pakteahouse; Jinnah unequivocally wanted Pakistan to be a secular state August 13th, 2013 | 68 Comments By Yasser Latif Hamdani I am writing this article as a rebuttal to Khuldune Shahid’s article “Jinnah’s Pakistan a mirror of his contradictions.” It is necessary because if you do not counter a falsehood in […]
US prevented disclosure of Pakistan’s rights abuses: report
US intelligence reports said senior Pakistani military and intelligence officials knew of and possibly ordered a broad campaign of extrajudicial killings of militants and other adversaries, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, adding that public disclosure of such information could have forced the Obama administration to sever aid to the […]
Pakistan: School principal held for blasphemy; medical varsity forces veil on students
Source: thehindu.com The head of a private school in Lahore was arrested on charges of blasphemy, even as a Peshawar medical university introduced a conservative dress code forcing female students to wear the Islamic veil. Salma Tanvir, principal of the Umar School System in Nishtar Colony was booked on Monday on […]
Anastasia Karklina: “Halalgoogling” and the Censorship of Ahmadiyya Islam
Source: islamicommentary.org | by ANASTASIA KARKLINA for ISLAMiCommentary “O ye who believe! Be strict in observing justice, and be witnesses for Allah, even though it be against yourselves or against parents and kindred. Whether he be […]
False accusation?: School principal booked for blasphemy
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Akbar Bajwa Published: September 4, 2013 LAHORE:On the allegations of the imam of a local mosque, a first information report (FIR) […]
School principal booked for blasphemy
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 […]
US has stepped up Pak surveillance
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 […]