Foreign Islamic militants worry Syrian rebels but also provide a powerful … Fox News ALEPPO, Syria – The presence of foreign Islamic militants battling Syria’s regime is raising concerns over the possible injection of al-Qaida’s influence into the country’s civil war. Syria’s rebels share some of those misgivings. But they also see in … See all […]
Ahmadiyya Times: Bashir A. Khan, Esq. Ahmadiyya Times Editor’s Note: The following account is published with permission from the author, Bashir A. Khan, Esq., Barrister and Solicitor, who reports a painstaking follow up […]
By Michael Georgy GILGIT, Pakistan (Reuters) – About 20 men dressed as Pakistani soldiers boarded a bus bound for a Muslim festival outside this mountain town and checked the identification cards of the passengers. They singled out 19 Shi’ites, drew weapons and slaughtered them, most with a bullet to the […]
Dawn.com: by Waris Husain. An obstacle that seems to define US-Pakistan relations is the lack of a common enemy recognised by both parties. There is a mutual threat within the military ranks of both nations in the form of infiltrators, using their military training to assist extremist groups. Pakistan’s Army […]
Dawn.com: PESHAWAR: Following the deadly attack on activist Malala Yousafzai a few weeks ago, another schoolgirl from Swat, Hina Khan who was a pioneer in raising her voice publicly against Taliban atrocities in the Malakand Valley, is now also claiming to be on the Taliban’s hit list. What has been further worrisome […]
Updates from Press Secretary SAAPK who posts from his public twitter account … tweets are listed in reverse order (i.e. latest first): Saleem ud Din @SaleemudDinAA @Hi_Its_Annie No but they were working […]
Express Tribune: Pakistan dropped 3 places to rank at 107 in the World Bank’s ‘Ease of Doing Business’ index for 2013, according to data released on Tuesday. In the South Asian region, however, Pakistan ranked third, below Sri Lanka and the Maldives, and left Bangladesh and India trailing behind at […]
Source: ET MULTAN: Blinded by an uncontrollable fit of rage and jealousy, a landlord is said to have buried his one-year-old daughter alive to avenge his wife’s ‘sin.’ Resident of a village in Kot Addu in Muzaffargarh district, Younus Allahditta* buried his infant daughter Abeera* after convincing himself that she was […]
Source: ET LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Javedul Hassan Chishti has cancelled the pre-arrest bails of a school principal and six other employees, who are accused of blasphemy for including the principal in a list of role models alongside the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). The respondents attended proceedings […]
Source: Mr Rafiq A. Tschannen Daughter of Mr Amanullah Malik, Miss Afshan Malik, student of FSC-part II pre-engineering, Government Degree College for women in Lahore, was honoured with the first prize shield in “Naatiyya Competition” (poem singing competition in the praise of prophet Muhammad SAW). She took part in the […]
Huff Post: Richard Clarke described Pakistan as a nation of “pathological liars” on the Bill Maher Show last year. He also called Pakistanis “paranoid.” In the public mind there is little apart from suicide bombings, terrorism, violence and corruption associated with Pakistan. Commentators freely call Pakistan a “nursery for terrorism.” […]
Source: LUBP Note: The context of the following letter is discussed in this post: Jamia Salafia Deobandia LUMS fires Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy *********** From: Pervez Hoodbhoy Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 1:44 PM To: Adil Najam Cc: syedbabarali@yahoo.com; sahil; jaffe; Sohail Qureshi; Amer Iqbal; Muhammad Sabieh Anwar; Anjum Altaf; Shahab […]
Source: LUBP: Former Military Intelligence (MI) officer Brigadier Hamid Saeed has revealed that Karman Khan, senior journalist of The News (Jang Group) and anchor of Jang Group’s Geo News TV, was on payroll of Pakistan Army drawing Rs. 7,000 per month in 1991. Brigadier Hamid disclosed this secret this in […]
Express Tribune: Conditions continue to deteriorate in Pakistan. Watch HRW interview video here:
Source: LUBP It is disturbing but hardly surprising to learn that LUMS administration has refused to renew the employment contract of Pakistan’s eminent scholar Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy. Apparently the decision to fire him has to do with the content of his course Science and Religion. In the last few years, […]
Source: Daily Times via Wasim Sroya: What is needed is a paradigm realignment of the country; unless Pakistan is declared a secular state there will not be any tangible development on the human rights front. According to the Minority Rights Group International, Pakistan had the world’s highest increase of threats […]
Source: Dailytimes via Wasim Sroya: The argument of both Ahmadi delegations was simple and straightforward: whatever the personal views of a sect within Islam, the state had to remain neutral and respect each sect’s interpretation. In other words, if a person professes to be a Muslim, the matter becomes one […]
Source: Tribune LAHORE: Chacha Pakistani, the man who come rain or shine would reach the Wagah Border for the flag ceremony, passed away at the age of 90 on Sunday. If you […]
Our two competing hatreds: Khalid Ahmad Express Tribune: We have learned to hate America which tried very hard to teach us to hate the Taliban. The Taliban communicate with us — not by asking us to ‘do more’ — but by killing us and telling us we are not good Muslims. The […]
Source: CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan’s highest court began criminal proceedings against former army and intelligence chiefs over allegations of bribery that involved senior politicians in the country’s 1990 general elections. The petition, filed in the Supreme Court in 1996 by former Air Force Marshall Asghar Khan, alleges that […]