Source: tribune.com.pk LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge has framed charges against four printing press employees under the blasphemy laws for allegedly publishing blasphemous literature and summoned witnesses for September 14. […]
Source: jconline.com Born into the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam, Saeed Ahmad was part of a religious minority in Pakistan, where mostly Sunni Muslims reside. “It’s difficult to be a (religious) minority in Pakistan,” […]
Source: Dawn Com PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa elementary and secondary education minister Atif Khan on Friday said his government would rectify the mistake of removing Quranic verses on jihad from the curriculum. He was speaking during a meeting at the Textbook Board of Peshawar offices, where Zakat and Usher minister Habibur […]
A Karachi based Islamist tabloid ‘Daily Ummat’— through one of its most dishonest reports— has squarely levelled the residents of Gilgit-Baltistan with some serious blows of allegations that, if unattended, would bump the genuine efforts to relinquish the terror factor in the region. The news report was widely relayed by […]
Source: Dawn. Com Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Zamurd Khan was instrumental in helping to capture the gunman when he jumped at him and tried to take away his weapon. Earlier on the armed man opened fire in the heavily policed heart of Islamabad after slipping past the capital’s many […]
Source: ET It is a sad statement about Pakistan that 67 years after its founding, our education system and public culture continue to distort key ideas enunciated by Mohammad Ali Jinnah to govern the country. To make matters worse, even his words end up being mutilated. In his landmark speech […]
Dawn.com: by Zubeida Mustafa. Jinnah, it seems, did not envisage Pakistan as a state exclusively for Muslims — especially those of a particular sect. Had he done so he would have been trapped in a futile debate on semantics. Admittedly, he spoke of following Islamic principles, though in a broad […]
Source: Dawn.Com The Ahmadis are one of the worst sufferers as horrors are being visited on them.Qasim Rashid, a 31-year old Pakistani-American who migrated to the US when he was five, returned home to explore his roots and learn more about the status of his community, the Ahmadis, in the […]
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Please click on the image to zoom it By – Asif Arif | Translation – Mahrukh Arif Asif Arif is an Advocate, a Lecturer in Paris Dauphine University, and also the Head […]
When freedom of religion remains as a mere « peau de chagrin ». Let us begin with this “delightful” expression, so beautifully chosen by Balzac, whose book enables us to understand what “peau de chagrin” can represent. Freedom of religion is a right that occupies an essential place, not to […]
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Source: dailytimes.com.pk Pakistan has seemingly ensured that no Ahmedi demographic, including the dead, are spared the harsh reminder that they do not belong “That looks very biblical,” I said out loud […]
Source: Dawn.Com PESHAWAR: The outlawed Punjabi Taliban, an offshoot terrorist organisation of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), on Monday warned the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government of dire consequences if it carries on with its plan of executing some convicts on death row. In a pamphlet, distributed in southern Punjab and […]
Source: sanasaleem.com Dear Parliamentarians, I write to you in the hope of assisting you in a rather arduous task being assigned to you by the PTA. If recent reports are to be believed, […]
ISLAMABAD: THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, PAKISTAN President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday sent out their separate messages on the occasion of “Minorities Day”. President Zardari stressed […]
Source:Worldpress.Com via Wasim Sr: I’d always been a bit sceptical about the Kalash people’s claim to be descended from the invading armies of Alexander the Great. The famous Macedonian leader passed through what is now northern Pakistan more than 2000 years ago. Nice idea, that some of his soldiers, had […]