Pakistani Militant, Price on Head, Lives in Open
By DECLAN WALSH NEW YORK TIMES LAHORE, Pakistan — Ten million dollars does not seem to buy much in this bustling Pakistani city. That is the sum the United States […]
Accused of blasphemy
Express Tribune: Editorial. Misuse of the law has become increasingly widespread, resulting in suffering for the hundreds in jail on blasphemy charges. Minority groups, including the Ahmadis, are especially vulnerable The number of persons victimised under the blasphemy law continues to grow. Recently, four employees of a printing press in […]
Female Genital Mutilation: Many Pakistani women’s painful secret
Express Tribune: Farahnaz Zahidi Moazzam. Today, as the world observes the “International Zero Tolerance Day to FGM/C”, many remain blissfully unaware that this custom, often referred to as female circumcision, is also practiced in Pakistan. In Pakistan, female circumcision is practiced by a few communities along the Iran-Balochistan border, and a few isolated […]
Government of Pakistan to get the interior minister mentally checked!
Source ET A file photo of interior minister Rehman Malik. PHOTO: PID / FILE KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) minority MPA Saleem Khurshid Khokhar moved an adjournment motion in the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday against interior minister Rehman Malik, who reportedly declared non-Muslims as terrorists. Khokhar said that Malik had […]
Malala Yousafzai Speaks For First Time After Surgery
Huff Post: Jessica Elgot. Speaking clearly, but with noticeable damage to the right side of her face, said: “Today you can see that I’m alive. I can speak. I can see you, I can see everyone. I am getting better day by day and it’s just because of the prayers of […]
Pakistan: Give back our History its Hero Dr. Abdus Salam
Ahmadiyya Times: Mohammad Jibran Nasir. Dr. Salam lived as a Muslim for the first 48 years of his life during which Pakistan loved him and decorated him. He was declared a Non-Muslim for the remaining 22 years during which he was shunned by liberals and conservatives alike. His faith did […]
The [Pakistan Ulema] council still does not believe Shias or Ahmadis are Muslims
Source: LUBP In a recent article (“Moderate Deobandis”) published in The Friday Times (edited by Najam Sethi and Raza Rumi), Maulana Tahir Ashrafi was presented as a moderate Sunni Deobandi cleric while the following atrocious remark was also attributed to him. The [Pakistan Ulema] council still does not believe Shias […]
Ahmadi literature: Printing press employees accused of blasphemy
Source:ET The four accused are Ahmadis. LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge has fixed February 7 for arguments on the after-arrest bails of four men accused of publishing allegedly blasphemous books about the Ahmadi faith. Moeed Ayaz, Asmatullah, Razaullah and Ghulamullah, employees of Black Arrow Printing Press, were arrested on […]
Discretion and valour
Source: ET The decision by the Supreme Court to order the registration of an FIR for blasphemy against Sherry Rehman has lead to much outrage and alarm amongst Pakistan’s small and perpetually beleaguered group of liberals. The alarm is justified. Frankly, so is the outrage. Before I explain myself, a […]
A new beginning, maybe: Asma Jehangir as the Caretaker Prime Minsiter?
Express Tribune: By Saroop Ijaz: “While the settler or the policeman has the right the livelong day to strike the native, to insult him and to make him crawl to them, you will see the native reaching for his knife at the slightest hostile or aggressive glance cast on him […]
Marital Rape: An Unacknowledged Crime!
By Yasmeen Ali They are married. When She says NO. And He forces. It is Marital Rape. Every woman has a right to take a decision about her body, to decide if she wants to exercise birth control, get pregnant and when NOT to have sex. Physical coercion alone is […]
Army dismisses another Human Rights Watch report
Source: ET HRW report has claimed that the Pakistan government has failed to act against abuses by security and intelligence agencies. PHOTO: FILE RAWALPINDI: A spokesperson of Inter-services Public Relations (ISPR) has termed the Human Rights Watch (HRW) recent report a pack of lies, propaganda driven and totally biased. More:
Sectarian violence: Suicide bomber kills 24 worshippers in Hangu
Source: ET Paramilitary soldiers and policemen gather at the site of the blast. PHOTO: AFP PESHAWAR: For any eyewitness, it may well have been a scene from the Armageddon. Charred human remains lay scattered amid pools of blood along the streets of a crowded market in Hangu, a brutal reminder of […]
Who will be caretaker prime minister?
Source: Friday Times. Asma Jehangir – a veteran activist against controversial laws, subjugation of women, suppression of minorities, highhandedness of state institutions, and dictators and dictatorial mindsets – is seen by some political players as unsuitable for the office of caretaker prime minister. There had been speculation for quite some […]
Nawaz Sharif’s meeting with Deobandi leader of banned terrorist group Siph-e-Sahaba
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HRW voices concern on attacks on religious minorities, ‘judicial overreach’
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweden. — File Photo by Malik Siraj Akbar ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government has failed to act against abuses by the security and intelligence agencies, which continued to allow extremist groups to attack religious minorities, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2013. The authorities did […]
Tax cases worth Rs225bn still pending before Pakistani courts
Tax cases worth Rs225bn still pending http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-3-157033-Tax-cases-worth-Rs225bn-still-pending By Mehtab Haider Wednesday, January 30, 2013 From Print Edition ISLAMABAD: The biggest case of outstanding tax involving Rs129 billion against Tehrik-e-Jadid Anjuman Ahamdia Chanab Nagar is lying before the Lahore High Court, while total stuck-up amount of the Federal Board of Revenue […]
Rehman Malik’s remarks on Shah Rukh Khan are an exercise in duplicity
Source: Hindustan Times SERIOUSLY INCLINED JOURNALISTS ARE CONVINCED THAT THE ONLY TIME MALIK ISN’T PUTTING HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH IS WHEN HE ISN’T TALKING Pakistan’s portrayal of Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) as a victim of the majority community’s distrust of Muslims is nothing but a dogmatic reassertion of MA […]
Exclusive interview: Musharraf hits back at Shahid Aziz
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Javed Chaudhry Published: January 31, 2013 LAHORE: Former president of Pakistan, General (retd) Pervez Musharraf has responded to allegations made recently by […]