The consequences of hate
Credit: ET My point here is not to focus on the Shias. After all, the massacre of the Shias in Balochistan is happening along with the widespread persecution and killing […]
Tense Talk in Conference Between U.S. and Pakistan
Credit: NY Times. ASPEN, Colo. — Tensions flared between the United States and Pakistanon Friday, as two top officials traded accusations of doing too little to combat Taliban sanctuaries in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The tart exchange between the officials, Douglas E. Lute, President Obama’s top adviser on Afghanistan and Pakistan, […]
REFUTATION: Allegation Ahmadi Muslims attacked non-Ahmadis in Rabwah in 1974
Credit:Cult Girl | Ahmadiyya via Wasim Sroya Ahmadiyya Mosque, Pakistan During the month of Ramadhan, the admins of this blog are making a concerted attempt to avoid getting involved in pointlessly stupid arguments. However, there was one issue that several anti-Ahmadi commentators brought up in the comments section of our […]
Why Pakistan abandoned its Nobel laureate
Credit:NDTV via Wasim Sroya Jhang: The two-room bungalow, the birth place of Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate, today stands empty, testament to the indifference, bigotry and prejudice surrounding the country’s greatest scientist. Professor Abdus Salam, the child prodigy born to a humble family on the sun-blasted plains of Punjab who won […]
Amidst religious intolerance, Pakistan’s Nobel laureate fades away
Dawn: The two-room bungalow, the birth place of Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate, today stands empty, testament to the indifference, bigotry and prejudice surrounding the country’s greatest scientist. Professor Abdus Salam, […]
Forced to flee Pakistan
Toronto Sun: When Zakria Nasrullah Khan heard the third gunshot, he realized it wasn’t a tire bursting or a car backfiring. It was two men shooting at him and his mosque, […]
FIJISUN – Zardari to attend meet in Saudi Arabia and Islam updates
Ramadan Reflection Day 10: Supporting Converts To Islam Huffington Post Imam Khalid Latif is blogging his reflections during the month of Ramadan, featured daily on HuffPost Religion. For a complete record of his previous posts, click over to the Islamic Center at New York University or visit his author page, and to follow […]
Decision on Haqqani network: Could Pakistan be declared a Terrorist State?
Dawn: The US Senate’s unequivocal endorsement of a bill demanding a terrorist label for the Haqqani network was widely expected, yet it will impact the Pak-American equation in ways that […]
Why should minorities suffer in Ramazan?
The Express Tribune: Komal Ali The holy month of Ramazan is here once again in all its glory and our hypocrisy. Yes, you read me right. Come Ramazan and all of us put our pious cloaks on just like all the female anchors adorn dupattas on their heads in Ramazan, sidelining all […]
Why I’m not celebrating U.S. exit from Afghanistan
Pervez Hoobhoy Viewpoint July 28, 2012 Why I’m not celebrating U.S. exit from Afghanistan Pervez Hoodbhoy Viewpoint Magazine, Pakistan After a trillion dollars and 2000 dead Americans, there is precious little to show as the U.S. heads towards its 2014 exit. America’s primary goal had been to create a stable, […]
Live conversion on Pakistan TV stirs anger !!!
Source: AL ARABIA NEWS A Pakistani Hindu’s conversion to Islam live on television during a prime-time Ramadan chat show has sparked criticism on behalf of religious minorities in the overwhelmingly Muslim country. In just five minutes, the 20-year-old introduced as Sunil officially changed his religion under a cleric’s guidance. A […]
Dr Abdus Salam: He found God in a hopeless place
Credit: The Express Tribune via Wasim Sroya: They scraped his person from his gravestone, because those in the underworld would also object to his being Muslim. ILLUSTRATION: ERUM SHAIKH They […]
Pakistan: Religion for ratings, Not for Spiritual Change
Daily Dawn: IT’S been apparent for a while now that the country’s electronic media will go to extreme lengths to spice things up. But religion is now fair game too. […]
Abdus Salam and the Higgs boson particle: Deserves a Second Nobel
God particle’ — a particularly recalcitrant subatomic particle that supposedly helps explain how the universe acquired mass and could in principle, therefore, explain how decay takes place — was discovered […]
Asian Human Rights Commission: ‘Pakistan Government turns a blind eye to the murder of Ahmadiyya Muslims’
It is devastating for human rights activists the world over and those who stand for religious freedom, practise and tolerance, that the Government of Pakistan is not only stone deaf and dumb but also blind to the continuous murders of the followers of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. We have received […]
Pakistani’s scientific achievements obscured by religious intolerance
Khabar: Fearing the wrath of religious fundamentalists, Pakistan’s scientific community has been unable to properly acknowledge Nobel Prize winner Abdus Salam (1926-1996), whose theoretical work helped pave the way for […]
PAKISTAN: Government turns a blind eye to the murder of Ahmadiyya Muslims
Asian Human Rights Commission: It is devastating for human rights activists the world over and those who stand for religious freedom, practise and tolerance, that the Government of Pakistan is […]
Islamic artist finds peace in his work
ARAB NEWS Thursday 26 July 2012 The calligrapher of the Prophet’s Mosque, Shafeeq uz Zaman, is from Pakistan. Since 1990, he has been doing calligraphy work (in the Thuluth script) […]
Ashraf given two weeks to write Swiss letter or file review petition
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: July 25, 2012 ISLAMABAD: Following the dismissal of Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf’s reply submitted a day earlier […]
Swiss letter: PM has to flout ‘unlawful’ court orders, govt tells SC
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Qamar Zaman Published: July 25, 2012 ISLAMABAD: The desperation is evident.The government attempted a curious move on the eve of a potentially-decisive […]