No Compulsion in Religion!
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Pakistan: Diversity in Hypocrisy
Source: LUBP: By Shoaib Mehmood Nagi Shakespeare once said ‘Few love to hear the sins they love to act’. One has to only look at the political opinions of various Pakistanis to corroborate his observation. The phenomenon of hypocrisy in Pakistan is not limited to a specific quadrant on the […]
‘Malala ahead of Obama among world thinkers’
Dawn.com: WASHINGTON: Malala Yousufzai is number six on US magazine Foreign Policy’s list of 100 top global thinkers in 2012. She is ahead of US President Barack Obama who is number seven. The other three Pakistanis on the list are former Pakistani ambassador to the US, Hussain Haqqani, his wife […]
Five peasant girls gang-raped for ‘demanding wages’
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Asad Kharal Published: November 27, 2012 Four out of the eight accused have been identified. PHOTO: FILE LAHORE:A family of farmers […]
Holy Family Hospital suspends five staffers after rat bites newborn
Source: ET The administration at the Holy Family Hospital on Tuesday suspended five staffers after a rat scratched and bit a newborn in the gynaecology ward on Monday, Express News reported. According to Express News correspondent Adnan Mukhtar, the nurse in charge, two nurses and two sanitary workers were suspended […]
Pakistan: Remove politics from religion if not religion from politics
Daily Times: By Muhammad Akram LAHORE: The rough and ready security arrangements like closure of cellular phone service in fifty cities, ban on pillion riding in four big cities and […]
A SAMPLE OF GUARD AGAINST TERRORISTS IN FRONT OF MOSQUE.
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Veteran Pakistani columnist Cowasjee passes away at 86
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 […]
13 die after drinking cough syrup in Pakistan
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 […]
Iran renews support for Pakistan pipeline
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 […]
Shariah4Pakistan: Send in the clowns
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 […]
Who are Takfiri Deobandis?
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 […]
Pakistan’s human rights: the growing gulf between reality and rhetoric
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. […]
D8 Countries Ready to Send Peacekeeping Forces to Syria: Yudhoyono
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 […]
Need for de-radicalisation of Pakistan — IV
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 […]
Pakistan ID Cards Remove Ghost Voters, Target Poor for Aid
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 […]
Jamming cell phones will not stop us: Taliban spokesman
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:
Malala, Aafia and our Mindset
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 […]
Pakistan attacks kill 36 – Muslim leaders attend rare D8 summit
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 […]
PAKISTAN: Is Dr. Abdus Salam – a Nobel Laureate or persona non grata?
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 […]