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 […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk / APP Published: October 20, 2012 LAHORE: As many as 44,200 Pakistanis sang the national anthem together at the National Hockey Stadium, […]
Source: ET Bridging the gap amongst individuals, states by common understanding and sharing of knowledge about law, peace and religion and exploring the factors that can help in achieving the objective of global peace, says Justice Chaudhry. PHOTO: ONLINE/ FILE LAHORE: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said Saturday that religious fragmentation, […]
LAHORE: The secretary general of a village level Ahmadi community was gunned down in Ghatialian, Sialkot on Thursday night. DPO Sialkot, Afzal Kausar told The Express Tribune that Riaz Ahmed […]
Bloomberg: Pakistan’s government is squandering its “Malala moment”: the chance to harness public outrage over the Taliban’s shooting of 14-year-old education activist Malala Yousufzai and take the fight to the terrorists who […]
UPDATE: According to Press Secretary SAAPK, Riaz Ahmad of Ghatialian, Sialkot also martyred. “We have to understand that a new family has been destroyed as Saad Farooq was starting his […]
Express Tribune: BIRMINGHAM: Malala Yousufzai has come out of her coma and is trying to stand for the first time since the shooting, Express News reported on Friday. Malala, international media said, was now out of danger. The BBC tweeted an update saying: Pakistani teenager #Malala Yousafzai standing for first time since being shot by […]
Source: Asia Times: By Dilip Hiro The United States and Pakistan are by now a classic example of a dysfunctional nuclear family (with an emphasis on “nuclear”). While the two governments and their peoples become more suspicious and resentful of each other with every passing month, Washington and Islamabad are […]
Source: ET On October 9, 2012, little Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head and neck by a brave and, according to Imran Khan, an ‘ideological’ member of the great TTP, as she travelled home from school in a Suzuki van. Two masked men (which leads one to ask immediately […]
Source: ET It would be folly and treasonable for anyone who accepts the version of religion that kills little girls. PHOTO: FAZAL KHALIQ/ EXPRESS The Taliban have issued an elaborate seven-page statement detailing their explanation for their reasons to execute Malala Yousufzai. Somebody within the Taliban’s world of terrorism and […]