Source: Dawn.Com “I am 86 now, too old to pen weekly columns. Besides what’s there to write about with the same old politics and same old politicians. Do you really believe that they will go away? —Dawn.com Photo KARACHI: One of Pakistan’s oldest and most renowned columnists, Ardeshir Cowasjee, passed away […]
Source: TOI LAHORE: Thirteen people have died in a main Pakistani city after drinking cough syrup suspected of being toxic, police said Monday. The victims were all drug addicts who apparently drank the cough syrup in an attempt to get high, said police officer Multan Khan. Khan said they died […]
Source: Asia Times: By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI – Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has vowed to complete the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project by 2014 despite United States opposition. Ahmadinejad, who attended the summit of the Developing-8 (D-8) countries held in Islamabad last week, told a press conference in Islamabad that […]
The Express Tribune: Vaqas Asghar. Next Friday, a group of controversial religious leaders from Britain are going to visit Islamabad’s Lal Masjid under the banner of something called Shariah4Pakistan to speak about what plagues this country. The ‘conference’, which the Lal Masjid cleric says is not authorisedand has not been discussed with him […]
Source: LUBP By Fahd Khan Takfiri Deobandi terrorists of the Sipah-e-Sahaba and Taliban have killed thousands of Shias and hundreds of Sunni Barelvis, Ahmadis and Christians in Pakistan Social media has recently witnessed the emergence of term #TakfiriDeobandi. A Takfiri Deobandi is one who declares followers of all other faiths […]
GlobalPost: Evidence suggests its human rights record has ‘deteriorated substantially.’ Dawood I. AhmedNovember 24, 2012 09:24 Pakistani missing persons families hold pictures of their missing people as they staged a demonstration in Karachi in 2007. Scores of individuals and civil liberty groups observe the International Human Rights Day in Pakistan. […]
Source: ANTARA News Islamabad – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said here on Thursday that he and other leaders of the Group of Eight Developing (D8) countries agreed that violence and […]
Daily Times: Dr. Haider Shah. Our national discourse is increasingly being controlled by religious leaders who run a network of seminaries. While the state-run educational institutions are hardly any better, the religious seminaries (madaaris) do not even acknowledge the formal control of the state. The students of these madaaris serve […]
Source: Jakarta Globe. Islamabad. Elderly men wait patiently, carefully combing their hennaed beards, while a guitar-playing student entertains the long queue of Pakistanis lined-up to be photographed, fingerprinted and questioned inside a crowded office in the capital Islamabad. This is the unlikely setting for possibly one of Pakistan’s few success […]
Source: Dawn.Com Undated photo shows Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan.—File Photo KHYBER AGENCY: A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has claimed that suspending mobile phone services in the country will not hold back the militant group from carrying out its activities. More:
Daily Times: Farhad Taimoor This is our dilemma as a society. Over the years, we have corrupted our intuitive sense of right and wrong under the influence of this intolerant culture of militancy. And now when we look at the world through this lens of a ‘biased mindset’ it only allows […]
ISLAMABAD: Muslim leaders attended a rare summit in Pakistan yesterday after militant attacks killed 36 people across the country in some of the deadliest violence claimed by the Taleban for months. The string of attacks on Shiite Muslims and police and troops underscored the immense security challenge in a country […]
Asian Human Rights Commission: Contributors: Baseer Naweed & Stewart Sloan “The Holy Quran enjoins us to reflect on the verities of Allah’s created laws of nature; however, that our generation has been privileged to glimpse a part of His design is a bounty and a grace for which I render […]
Source: The News Mohammad Ahmed 21.11. is the death anniversary of one of Pakistan’s ablest sons, Dr Abdus Salam. Unfortunately, his achievements and services remain unacknowledged in his own country, where he was made an alien because of the belief into which he was born, although they are celebrated around […]
Express Tribune: Endemic violence, targeted attacks and threats against journalists in Pakistan have contributed to a ranking of 151 out of 179 countries worldwide on the 2011-2012 Press Freedom Index issued […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Dawn.com Agencies and DAWN.COM | 5 hours ago People run away after a blast in Karachi on Wednesday. – Photo by AP ISLAMABAD: A suicide attack […]
Source: Asia Times: By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI – Pakistan has puts its newly secured trade concessions package with the European Union in jeopardy by breaking a four-year moratorium on the death penalty with the execution of a former army serviceman. More:
Daily Times: Mohammad Ahmad. Despite the heights Dr Salam achieved and the services to his country, his motherland did not celebrate him as a hero and his name remains unknown to a large section of the public November 21 is the death anniversary of one of Pakistan’s ablest sons, Dr […]
The Express Tribune: Khaled Ahmed. Sunday’s column by Salman Rashid on Alexander as Zulqarnain/Cyrus has taught me a great deal as usual. But he has also triggered my own curiosity. Since this is a vague subject, I must assert that I do not claim to be right about anything. We all believe […]
Source: TOI via Wasim Sroya: Sitara Brooj Akbar, a 12-year-old girl, hails from Rabwah, a town of 70,000 people, some 180km west of Lahore. Last year the young Sitara achieved a noteworthy academic record: she became the first girl of her age to clear the Cambridge University Ordinary Level examinations […]