Source: ET Sources say kingdom pressuring Islamabad to drop gas import, pipeline project. ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar is expected to travel to Saudi Arabia soon after Riyadh voiced concerns over Pakistan’s rapidly growing economic and trade ties with neighbouring Tehran. According to diplomatic sources, Saudi Arabia, on behalf of […]
Source: Tribune Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari signed ‘The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill 2012’ into law on Wednesday. The bill, which sought to ensure all children between five to 16 years of age are provided free education, was signed in a special ceremony held at the Chief […]
Time: Ayesha Mir didn’t go to school on Tuesday, Nov. 27, the day after a security guard found a shrapnel-packed bomb under her family’s car. The 17-year-old Pakistani girl assumed, as did most people who learned about the bomb, that it was intended for her father, the television news presenter Hamid […]
AFP / NEWSWEEK PAKISTAN Gunmen opened fire on polio vaccinators in three separate attacks in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, seriously wounding one, officials said, following the earlier killings of six […]
Daily Times: Qaisar Rashid. Islam is very particular about the differentiation between the real intent and the declared objectives of its followers. Can militancy serve the cause of Islam? Why do followers of a (divine) religion resort to militancy? Is it to get the voice of the religion heard or […]
Daily Times: Babar Ayaz. Extremists give religious cover to all anti-women social and cultural values of the tribal and feudal societies and innovation: Ijtihad or Ijma Women rights activists are gearing up the world over to celebrate the ‘One Billion Rising’ of women and men against ‘violence against women’. The […]
Rfi. Tony Cross. The Taliban are to attend a conference near Paris along with supporters of President Hamid Karzai and peaceful opposition parties this week. The meeting comes after the Afghan government published a peace roadmap, which invites the rebels to take official positions if they give up violence. The Taliban […]
It seems that the hotbed of news items and endless supply of blood splattered images of innocent minority victims are coming from mostly Pakistan these days. Often times, a question is raised as to what is the sentiment of the people of Pakistan regarding this image, extremism, and human […]
Dawn: WASHINGTON: One of the major tasks of Jonathan Pollard, an Israeli spy in the United States, was to collect information about Pakistan’s nuclear programme, shows a document released this week. Between 1984 and 1985, Mr Pollard passed on to his Israeli handlers several sets of official US documents about […]
Source: ET LAHORE: Just this year, nine places of worship have been damaged, destroyed or vandalised in Pakistan. This includes five churches and three Hindu temples. Part of a disturbing trend in violence against minorities in the country, at least 27 places of worship of religious minorities have been vandalised in […]
Daily Times: Fawad Aslam. I stood by the statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba erected to honour this great Islamic polymath. Then I remembered the grave of our very own Dr Abdus Salam The year is 1492, the year of the discovery of America, the year when Granada, the last […]
From Twitter: Saira Niz@sainiz A Terrorist Abid Ali Malik arrested in Karachi, he admitted the killing of Two #Ahmadi Doctors. #Pakistan #AhmadiPersecution – via @amcgul Does anyone have more details?
Daily Times: Noshe Lynn. If Muslims can come out on the streets to protest about cartoons and books, why can they not come out in protest against these outrages being committed in their own country? Many people refuse to blame the Taliban (and others like them) for anything, saying that, […]
Epigraph: O ye people! be mindful of your duty to your Lord, Who created you from a single soul and created therefrom its mate, and from them twain spread many […]
Dear Readers, any one who is qualified may apply directly to the address below: Dear Rafiq, Greetings from the International Rescue Committee! I am writing to ask for your help in identifying candidates for a large upcoming Education project. The IRC is recruiting candidates for a 5 year, $160 million […]
Faisal Kamal Pasha Sunday, December 16, 2012 From Print Edition THE TIMES, PAKISTAN Rawalpindi The Muslim religious scholars have rejected the baseless prophecies of Mayan civilisation predicting eschatological events on December 21, 2012 with an annihilation of life from the face of the earth. The scholars criticised the role of […]
Source: LUBP Tens of thousands of women, men and children, most of them Shias abut also some Sunnis, Ahmadis, Christians and Hindus, are currently part of a peaceful sit-in in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, to express unity and outrage against Shia genocide in Pakistan. The protest started on Friday 14 […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk / AFP / Riaz Ahmad / Umer Farooq / APP / Photo: Iqbal Mamound Published: December 15, 2012 A house damaged during the car explosion and rocket attacks on […]
PESHAWAR: At least five people were killed and dozens sustained injuries in Peshawar when at least three rockets, fired from unknown location, landed near the city’s airport, DawnNews reported. Read more
Source: The Lahore Times NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan on Friday announced a new visa regime that will make cross-border travel easier as part of a thaw in their long-hostile […]