Source: Christian Science Monitor By Jeremy Ravinsky, Correspondent and Ariel Zirulnick, Staff writer Throughout the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims will fast from dawn until dusk. Here are 10 facts to […]
ET: KARACHI: Security in-charge Bilawal House, Bilal Sheikh was killed along with three police officials in a blast that took place in the Jamshed Quarter area, near Gurumandar, Karachi on Wednesday, Express News reported. […]
PAKISTAN: Ahmadis are once again persecuted even as the new government is formed June 4, 2013 For some time now anti-Jamaat-e-Ahmadiya (Jaamat) activities have been escalating all over Pakistan and particularly in Lahore. The members of Jamaat have been mercilessly tortured and rebuked in public over fake and felonious accusations. […]
Source: Newsweek Pakistan Pasha also criticized the provincial leaderships, claiming the Punjab police had “protected those who attacked the Qadianis last year [2010].” According to the report, the former ISI chief claimed the police even directed the militants to the hospital where the wounded were being treated. “The provincial government […]
Islamabad (CNN) — Osama bin Laden typically wore a cowboy hat while tending his garden. Its broad brim obscured his features from the view of pesky eyes or satellite cameras that might blow his cover while he was hiding out in Pakistan, according to a report published widely in Pakistani media. […]
Source: AlJazeera Courtesy: Imran Jattala “In Lahore the police protected those who attacked the Qadianis last year (2010)and even directed them to the hospital where the wounded were being treated. […]
Source: ET Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram is engaged to Melbourne woman Shaniera Thompson, after proposing to the 30-year-old ‘on his knee and asking her to marry him’, according to the Herald Sun. The former star cricketer, 47, proposed to Thompson, a former public relations consultant from Brighton who has […]
By Rob Crilly, Islamabad 9:03PM BST 30 Jun 2013 The girls, aged 15 and 16, are seen running around wearing traditional dress, covered in green and purple headscarves, outside their simple stone bungalow in the town of Chilas, in the far north of the country. Local media reports named them […]
Source: bbc.co.uk An Asian TV channel has been fined £85,000 by Ofcom after it broadcast a speech by an Islamic scholar who said Muslims had “a duty to kill” anyone who […]
Source: ET LAHORE: A powerful bomb went off at took place at the food street in the old Anarkali area of Lahore, killing at least three people and injuring 40 others, Express News reported. According to Express News correspondent Nauman Shaikh, the explosion took place at the ground floor of a three storied restaurant. “Civil […]
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Source: China Daily By LI XIAOKUN and ZHANG YUNBI (China Daily) Huge project to boost business ties between the two nations China and Pakistan signed an agreement on Friday on the blueprint for a huge transport project linking northwestern China to the Arabian Sea. Observers said the project, named the […]
Source: Dawn.com BEIJING/SHANGHAI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday held meetings with delegations of China’s top business executives and discussed with them energy, development and infrastructure projects in Pakistan. The prime minister met the delegations on board a high speed train while traveling from Beijing to Shanghai, where he visited […]
Source: TOI “The government is completely confused over the terrorism problem,” said Zahid Hussain, whose books plot the rise of militancy in Pakistan. “The government’s indecisiveness and dithering has emboldened the militants.” At least 160 people were killed in suspected militant attacks in June, according to an Associated Press count. It was the second […]
Source: ET I was to give you “far sadder stuff” from my trip to Quetta with the HRCP, in continuation of my piece of last week, wasn’t I? Well, a most sad event, yet another killing of yet more innocent Hazaras took place mid-week just as I was marshalling my thoughts […]
Source: BBC At least 17 people have been killed in a suspected US drone strike on a compound in north-west Pakistan, Pakistani officials say. At least two missiles were fired at a house in North Waziristan tribal region early on Wednesday, the deadliest drone attack in Pakistan this year. It […]
Source: Asia Times: I was beginning to think that Pakistan was finally on its way to improving its dismal public image. The recent national elections, bloody and chaotic as usual, at least had the effect of reenergizing the country on the domestic front and the global stage. Social media played […]
The food assistance worth over $1.5 million will be distributed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province WAMPublished: 18:21 June 29, 2013Gulf News Swat, Pakistan: Acting upon the directives of the President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the team overseeing implementation of the UAE project to help Pakistan have announced […]
Source: ET LAHORE: The biases and prejudices in school textbooks are one of the main reasons for the radicalisation of young people and poor quality of education in Pakistan, said academics and civil society activists at a conference here on Wednesday. “These are not textbooks as much as propaganda brochures which […]