(Dream of General Kyani-Another Extention in Service or Interior Ministry! جنرل کیانی کا خواب : ایک اور ایکسٹینشن یا وزارتِ داخلہ
Source: LUBP (Sorry only for Urdu readers) جنرل اشفاق پرویز کیانی اور اُن کے روایتی مدّاح جو کہ اپنی فکری وابستگیوں کے حوالے سے “مولانا مودودی کے فکری خوشہ چین اور دائیں بازو کی حامل جماعتوں مسلم لیگ، تحریک انصاف وغیرہ میں بکھرے ہوئے ہیں اس بار پھر میڈیا میں […]
Two Pakistans coexist side by side
Story Summary To witness two realities in one country, one needs go no further than a suburban coffee shop in Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan. The dissonance between the two Pakistans is even more dramatic as the world reports more on Malala than media do in the stable, educated […]
VIEW : Who will take a bullet for Sherry Rehman? — Qasim Rashid
No other logical choice exists but to unite as one community against religious discrimination, oppression of conscience, and violence Pakistan Ambassador to the United States of America, Sherry Rehman’s twitter […]
Do we ever learn from history?
Source: ET LAHORE: “China will be the economic salvation of Afghanistan. The Chinese have bought mineral rights in Afghanistan and plan to build a railway there. India has also invested hugely in Afghanistan. Pakistan can also benefit, but it cannot do this alone. It can partner with India and China to […]
Protecting minorities
Source: ET Speaking at an interfaith conference in Islamabad, President Asif Ali Zardari called on clerics and religious scholars to take the lead in preventing the misuse of blasphemy laws, conveniently forgetting that it is the government that has the primary responsibility to protect minorities. He said this even as […]
Another February 24
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Courtesy of Dawn.com Amar Sindu | 8 hours ago Today is February 24. Last year, on the same date, Rinkle was picked up from her […]
Insight – Spiral of Karachi killings widens Pakistan’s sectarian divide
By Matthew Green KARACHI (Reuters) – When Aurangzeb Farooqi survived an attempt on his life that left six of his bodyguards dead and a six-inch bullet wound in his thigh, […]
Islamic Socialism: A history from left to right
Nadeem F. Paracha DAWN.COM Between the 1950s and early 1970s, a powerful ideology in the Muslim world galvanised itself from the minds and fringes of modern Islamic intellectualism and made its way into the mainstream political arena. But this ideology did not have a single originator. Its roots can be […]
Pakistan nabs leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militant group
Pakistan has arrested Lashkar-e-Jhangvi’s leader Malik Ishaq following the militant group carried out two deadly bombings, mainly targeting Shia Muslims. Ishaq was detained at his residence in the central city of Rahim Yar Khan on Friday and taken to the local jail. “Malik Ishaq has been detained under the Maintenance […]
Peace in Islam
Source: Observer, by Shaukat M Zafar. God has given us free will to choose our own belief system. I am a strong believer in freedom of religion, and condemn no-one […]
Austrian Ambassador accepts Islam, marries PTV host Sadia Afzaal
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Editor’s note: The Muslim Times has not independently confirmed this news. Islamabad: Austrian Ambassador in […]
‘Outrage’, indeed!
Source: ET We were ‘outraged’ by the killing of well over a hundred — we’ll never know the exact number — Hazara Shia, including women and old men and little children, slaughtered in a massive explosion caused by an estimated 1,000 kilogrammes of explosives in Hazara Town, Quetta, where they […]
Picture of the Day: Shias will Continue to be Murdered until they Address Ahmadiyya Muslim Persecution
Source: Twitter Picture by Tahir Imran Comment by Abdul Alim: This picture summarizes the contradictions in Pakistan. While Shias protest against murders of their fellows in Quetta after the grissly […]
Root out Lashkar-e-Jhangvi LeJ as a whole – by Dr. Taimur Rahman (Laal Band)
Source: The Local It is not enough to launch an operation against the individual perpetrators of the Quetta bombings, it must root out the entire Lashkar e Jhangvi from Pakistan. And those captured must be sentenced, not released. These terrorist attacks escalated when the Supreme Court released the leader of […]
Pakistan Hindu Refugees: HAF Press Release
“There is fear 24 hours a day,” Pakistani Hindu Refugee Tells HAF Team Washington, D.C. (February 19, 2013) — “There is fear 24 hours a day…Hindus see themselves as helpless,” recounted Chetan Ram, while describing life in Pakistan to the Hindu American Foundation’s Director & Senior Human Rights Fellow, Samir Kalra, Esq., […]
7 suspects in Pakistan sectarian killings arrested
MAAZ KHAN | AFP arabnews Tuesday 19 February 2013 QUETTA, Pakistan: Pakistani forces on Tuesday killed four men and arrested seven others accused of killing Shiite Muslims, including an alleged […]
Hate is the Reason
Sourse: Stop Extremism, by Soheb Ahmed. There was a time when Ahmadis were brutally murdered and everyone kept quiet, thinking that it will never happen to anyone else and now we see that Shias are on target. This criminal silence of the past is haunting the nation today. If this […]
IMRAN KHAN, LeJ MUST STOP TERRORISM IN THE NAME OF ISLAM: DAWN
LeJ must stop terrorism in the name of Islam: Imran DAWN.COM | 2 hours ago A strongest contender for Pakistan’s top position in the next elections, Superstar Imran Khan, leader of Tahrik-e-Insaf in a recent Indian TV interview told the female host that his stop priority will be establishing “the rule […]
Pak Shias refuse to bury victims’ bodies, demand protection
Source: TOI QUETTA: Thousands of Pakistani Shias furious over a sectarian bombing that killed 89 people protested on Monday, demanding that security forces protect them from hardline Sunni groups. The attack, near a street market in the southwestern city of Quetta on Saturday, highlighted the government’s failure to crack down […]