High-level huddle discusses ISI chief’s strategy in US
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Our Correspondent Published: July 19, 2012 ISLAMABAD: A high-powered gathering of the country’s civil and military leadership here on Wednesday finalised a […]
When silence replaces celebration
Credit: The News via Wasim Sroya The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor We should, right now, be celebrating. The announcement by physicists in Switzerland last week that they have all but proven the existence of the Higg’s Boson, a subatomic particle, also known as the “God […]
US, Pakistan eye a new cold war
Credit:Asiatimes. By MK Bhadrakumar The United States’ “de-hyphenated” relationship with the two South Asian rivals, Pakistan and India, is taking a curious turn. In a dramatic shift of fortunes, Pakistan is regaining its status as a key ally of the US in regional security. At the same time, Washington is […]
BREAKING NEWS: Orangi Town, Karachi, Pakistan: Local Ahmadi president martyred. Attackers shot bullets to the head.
Inna lilla he wa inna alaehe rajeoon. We all are from Allah and to Him we all return. Who has more detailed News? Editor Update (source: Ahmadiyya Times/Social Media): http://ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.com/2012/07/pakistan-local-ahmadi-leader-shot-to.html A […]
Pakistan National Suicide: Ban on polio vaccination: Is this the future Pakistani Child from Tribal Areas?
Express Tribune: Tribesmen endorsed a Taliban ban on polio vaccinations Wednesday, closing the door to the prospect of any child being vaccinated in North Waziristan as part of a nationwide campaign. Officials […]
Unique memorial in Rome honours new martyrs including Shahbaz Bhatti
ROME: From the Bible of a murdered Pakistani government minister to the prayer book of a slain San Salvador archbishop, a Rome church has created a unique memorial to modern-day […]
Pakistan’s courts take on the ISI
Credit:Asiatimes: Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency to close a notorious cell that focused on monitoring internal politics, in a direct challenge to the ISI’s ability to operate as a “state within a state”. In a judgement that puts pressure on the agency to be […]
Drawing parallels between Jamaat-e-Islami and Muslim Brotherhood.
Credit: ET The leadership of the two parties met at the Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo in June last year. DESIGN: FAIZAN DAWOOD KARACHI: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) maintains close ties with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, a religious party which has recently found its voice again in mainstream Egyptian politics, and a group […]
Rent-a-donkey: Gujranwala kiln worker’s family takes first ever vacation
Credit:ET No need to spend on Petrol – Diesel – CNG. Get a Donkey instead for only Rs 10 per hour. PHOTO: EXPRESS GUJRANWALA: Liaqat Ali, his wife and parents will on Saturday return from a week-long vacation to Murree financed by savings from their rent-a-donkey business. Ali’s mother Rabia Bibi […]
Pakistan: Website ban for Shias after Ahmadiyya — Protests
In what was possibly the first protest of its kind, a religious organisation was met with aerial firing by the police in Karachi, when they gathered to demonstrate against the […]
US should pressure nations to rescind anti-Ahmadiyya laws
Source/Credit: The Hill’s Congress Blog By Katrina Lantos Swett On June 27, along with members of Congress and other guests, I heard a message of peace and freedom from the Ahmadiyya world leader, His Holiness Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, at a Capitol Hill reception co-sponsored by the U.S. Commission on […]
Courts have a duty to provide people with justice: CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: July 17, 2012 RAWALPINDI: Terming the judiciary as the ultimate protector of citizens’ rights and liberties, Chief Justice […]
Our silence condemns only us: Falling Minarets
Pakistan Today. com: Six minarets falling to the ground should generate some tremors and cause a lot of noise. Yet the demolition of a mosque run by the Ahmadi sect […]
To forgive divine: S. Arabia to punish anti-Islam tweeters?
Saudi Arabian leaders are discussing new laws to penalize insults against Islam, reports a Saudi newspaper. The new regulations could even extend to social media and stipulate severe punishments for […]
For Illegal Immigrants, Greek Border Offers a Back Door to Europe
Source: NY times. By J. MICHAEL KENNEDY Published: July 14, 2012 ALEXANDROUPOLIS, Greece — At the train station here, an unshaven man with a weary look leaned against the brick wall of a building, taking in the morning sun. He said that his name was Zulifoar Baht; that he was 38, […]
Don’t Forget Pakistan’s Liberals.
Source : THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. By SADANAND DHUME Mr. Dhume is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a columnist for WSJ.com. …. Perhaps the biggest potential defenders of liberal ideas such as freedom of worship are the minority Shiites and other heterodox Muslims. The Ahmadis have […]
“I do not want Democracy”
Source: Dawn Author: Nighat Kamal Aziz I do not want democracy if it means that I wait in the streets for long periods of time in the sweltering heat in […]
USA-Pakistan What a relation!
Credit: Adeel Abbasi of Germany Click HERE to see this relationship of two countries.
The U.S.-Pakistan couple patches up a new quarrel.
By David Ignatius The Daily Star, Lebanon Why did it take Washington nearly eight months to apologize for the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers? But you know the answer: It’s because the United States and Pakistan have the most neurotic, mutually destructive “friendly” relationship in the world. Secretary of State […]