Pakistan PM’s visit to India deemed as ‘intolerable’
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Friday 8 March 2013 JAIPUR, India: The spiritual head of a revered Muslim shrine in India where Pakistan’s premier Raja Pervez Ashraf is set to visit […]
Upright Opinion – For God Sake Deweaponize Karachi
By Saeed Qureshi Lately there has been a spate of deadly explosions in Karachi and Quetta killing scores of innocent, peaceful citizens of this hapless country. It is indispensable to de-weaponize Karachi in order to restore a modicum of peace in that city now entirely left at the mercy of […]
Saudi Arabia: Council of “Supreme Scholars” Rejects the Appointment of Women
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: wluml.org Source: PI Online “A controversy erupted this week in Saudi Arabia when some scholars suggested that the top religious organization in the Kingdom, […]
Jamaat-e-Islami should stop violence and practice Islam, i.e. peace!
War-scarred Bangladesh torn by new tensions DAWN.com Three years on, its first verdicts have plunged the country into one of its most turbulent chapters since independence from Pakistan four decades ago and threatens lasting damage to the world’s eighth most populous country. More than 80 people have been killed in […]
A Marked Life – by Saba Imtiaz
Source: the revealer “His last gesture was that he pointed to me that he had been shot in the back,” Aijaz recalls. “We barely managed to give him a spoonful of water and dragged him into a car. He took his last breath before we reached the hospital.” By Saba […]
The State’s Role in Pakistan’s Ethnic Violence
Source: Huff Post via Wasim Sroya Violence against minority groups has become a staple of life in Pakistan these days – a crisis that country’s government has been complicit in impelling. The most recent attacks against Shias, the minority Muslim group in the country of 180 million, occurred Sunday evening […]
Pakistan plunged into election dilemma
Source: Asia Times: By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI – Violence continues unabated and tragically in Pakistan. As Shi’ites in Karachi buried their dead on Monday – a day after twin bombs killed 48 people in Abbas Town – gunmen in the Sohrab Goth area of the southern port city opened fire […]
An open letter to the preachy married friend all singles have
Source: ET Dear friend, Let me start by telling you I love you and I love our time together. All except your breathless speech about how to find a “good man”, “settle down”, “stop being an idealist”, and “stop evaluating too much”. I know you want me to get married […]
Opponents of Girls’s Right Violate Islam, Pakistan UN Ambassador: Dawn .com
Opponents of girls’ right to education violate Islam, ambassador tells United Nations From the Newspaper | Masood Haider Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan. –APP File Photo UNITED NATIONS: “Those who deny women and girls their right to education, violate Islam,” Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan told an audience […]
Pakistan: Ahmadi man among 40 dead in Karachi blasts
Source: Ahmadiyya Times. An Ahmadi man is among the over 40 killed in twin blasts that occurred on Sunday evening in Abbas Town, Karachi, a Shia-dominated neighborhood, which also left […]
Pakistan Karachi bomb blast kills dozens
Source: BBC At least 45 people have been killed by a bomb explosion in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police say. The blast in the mainly Shia Muslim area of Abbas Town destroyed several buildings and set others on fire. Some reports spoke of a second explosion. No group has […]
Pak Supreme Court ECP’s Reply Against Bar on Ahmedis Listing on Electoral Rolls!!!
March 01, 2013 SC seeks ECP reply against bar on Ahmedis’ listing on electoral rolls * Court asks for reply on 2002 order that prohibits […]
Only 900,000 people pay taxes: Mandviwalla
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: March 2, 2013 ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Saleem Mandviwalla, while talking to the media, said that around 1.5 million people […]
Musharraf to return to Pakistan in March to contest Pak elections
DUBAI: ARAB NEWS Saturday 2 March 2013 .Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf said yesterday he would return home this month after almost three years in Dubai and take part in a forthcoming parliamentary election. Parliament is due to be dissolved by March 16, after which an interim administration will take […]
Higgs Boson! Dr Salam honoured in Germany
By Zubair Khan Photographie: Abdullah Adeel Land of pure, its leaders as well masses have shunned and vilified Dr. Salaam. Even Pakistan history has been mitigated to denounce this great man of the Pakistani soil. However still there are some loyal organisations, entities and sons of soil who feel their […]
Bangladesh’s ‘Pakistani’ party
Courtesy: Hindustani Times Indrajit Hazra Dhaka, February 26, 2013 The signs are there all over Dhaka. If it’s not blatant demands to “hang the war criminals” in posters and billboards surrounding Shahbagh Square where Bangladesh erupted on February 5, there are murals depicting demonic Islamist fundamentalists on the […]
Literary festival brings feel-good factor to Lahore, Pakistan
“It’s all about words.” So says the slogan of the Lahore Literary Festival, scribbled in the earthy shades of this city’s exquisite Mughal architecture. “Lahore has fired the imagination of writers, […]