Dawn.com: Niaz Murtaza. SINCE religious, racial and ethnic identities are central to human conceptions of self-worth, non-constructive speech whose sole purpose is to deliberately insult such identities should certainly be […]
Source: Dawn CHAKWAL, Nov 4: After being restored to life, the pond at Katas Temple greeted the first flock of Hindu pilgrims. The sacred pond was specially showered with rose petals as pilgrims drank its water and filled bottles to take home. The pond had dried up in summer however […]
Source: Duluth News Tribune By: M. Imran Hayee, In America, where freedom prevails and the literacy rate is 99 percent with 40 percent of the population possessing college degrees, fact-checking is a common routine, especially during the heated presidential election campaign. The fact-checkers around the country have been working diligently […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: November 6, 2012 Doctors at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in UK successfully removed a bullet from the nose […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: November 5, 2012 Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said that Pakistan, as a […]
فی زمانہ وطنِ عزیز میں جو حالات چل رہے ہیں ان کو دیکھ کر دل خون کے آنسو روتا ہے۔ حالانکہ ہمارے ملک کے لوگ نماز روزہ زکٰوۃ پر کافی توجہ دیتے ہیں۔ اور کسی کی تعریف کے لیے یہ کہنا کہ فلاں پنج وقتہ نمازی ہے کافی ہے۔ ہم […]
Why Are Muslims So Boring? By Ziauddin Sardar October 9, 2012 For the last 25 years, my wife has been doing semi-voluntary work at a special school near where we live. It is a small school for pupils with physical disability or delicate health needs who need a structured and […]
Written by Ram Puniyani Pakistan has been facing innumerable troubles, not entirely due to its own faults. The whole politics of oil, the designs of Empire and the subservience of Mullah-Military complex to the US designs have brought in lot of misery in the region. Currently one is painfully witnessing […]
Humanist: by Beena Sarwar. Those calling for a global blasphemy law should heed the lessons from Pakistan In Pakistan a democratically elected but weak government struggles to hold on to power against tremendous odds. If, despite the challenges, it completes its tenure and makes it to the next election it […]
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/world/asia/gays-in-pakistan-move-cautiously-to-gain-acceptance.html?ref=todayspaper LAHORE, Pakistan — The group meets irregularly in a simple building among a row of shops here that close in the evening. Drapes cover the windows. Sometimes members watch movies or read poetry. Occasionally, they give a party, dance and drink and let off steam. Related Times Topic: Homosexuality […]
AGENCIES – ARABNEWS Sunday 4 November 2012 LAHORE: A Pakistani court yesterday refused bail to the head teacher of a school caught in a blasphemy row. Asim Farooqi, 77, was […]
The Express Tribune: LAHORE: A court on Saturday refused bail to the principal of a school caught in a blasphemy row over a piece of homework allegedly containing derogatory references to Prophet Mohammed (PBUH). Asim Farooqi, 77, was remanded in custody for 14 days on charges of blasphemy despite arguing he […]
Source: Rediff The statement by West Bengal [ Images ] Director General of police Naparajit Mukherjee, regarding a nexus between Naxals and the Inter-Services Intelligence is something that needs to be taken seriously, says Vicky Nanjappa. There has been much talk about this since the last three years, and investigations […]
Source: Asianews A brutal murder has schocked the Indian Christian community in the UAE: Dr. Rajan Daniel, 58, urologist at the Ahalia Hospital in Abu Dhabi, was killed with eight stab wounds by Mohamed Abdul Jamil, 46, a Pakistani national. A native of Kerala, the Christian doctor died on the […]
sys.con.com: LONDON, November 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Ahmadiyya Muslim recalls horror of gun attack in Karachi as family returned from Friday prayers A terror attack victim from Britain is to undergo a rare operation to remove […]
Source: BBC An inquiry comprising clerics and local politicians has been formed in Pakistan to investigate the destruction by a mob of a leading school in Lahore. Hundreds of protesters […]
Chicago Tribune: GENEVA (Reuters) – Pakistan, plagued by Islamists militancy, sectarian violence and frequent disasters that push its people deeper into poverty, told the United Nations on Tuesday it is a democratic and progressive state working to protect human rights. But Western countries and the normally anti-Western Belarus countered that […]
Express Tribune: LAHORE: The police arrested a teacher and the owner of a high school on blasphemy charges on Wednesday evening, following a day of clashes with enraged protesters outside the school in Karim Park. An FIR was registered against the Farooqi Girls High School administration, owner and principal Asim Farooqi, […]
NewsPakistan.pk: Despite many challenges on different fronts, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said that Pakistan strongly remains steadfast in its commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights. In her opening statement at the 14th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, […]