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 […]
Ninety-five per cent Pakistanis see themselves in trouble
Source: DAWN WASHINGTON: Ninety five per cent Pakistanis believe they are in financial trouble and blame their government for the same, says a US survey. About 10 per cent blame banks and financial institutions, 32 per cent blame the world’s biggest scapegoat, the United States, while two per cent also […]
Is Pakistan’s TV evangelism sprouting a dangerous creed of intolerance?
Pakistan’s private television channels offer a host of programs in current affairs and entertainment but in the absence of an effective regulatory body, talk show hosts can get away with murder. Source: Al Arabiya But as print journalists became media superstars, and film actors or super models became household names […]
Punjab Government repeating History of Mumtaz Daultana 1953: Partnership with Extremists
You tube: Started by Mumtaz Daulatana, well documented by Munir Commission Report on 1953 riots against Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan, Punjab government continues to play with fire. This time is […]
Asma Jahangir or Hussain Haroon as caretaker PM? Has the Time Come to Undo Wrongs done to Pakistani Ahmadi Muslims?
Express Tribune: Don’t be taken in by the negative sound-bites. On the face of it, political forces seem to be struggling to succeed in the litmus test of managing the […]
The rise of Pakistan’s televangelists
BBC: Islamic groups in Pakistan were initially hostile to cable TV because of concerns about “obscene” foreign imports, but religion now dominates the airwaves. A new breed of Islamic TV evangelist has emerged, leading to a confrontation with liberals. On any day of the week, television in Pakistan is a […]
Terrorist praises ‘Islamic’ lifestyles of British leaders : Hafiz Saeed urges Pakistan to look to London mayor and British PM as role models
BY ROB CRILLY, DAILY TELEGRAPH JULY 14, 2012 4:01 AM It is hardly the sort of endorsement that Britain’s Conservative elite would want or expect. But one of the world’s […]
FIJISUN – Islam updates around the globe
KRAUTHAMMER: Islamic uprising, not Facebook revolution Santa Rosa Press Democrat Post-revolutionary Libya appears to have elected a relatively moderate pro-Western government. Good news, but tentative because Libya is less a country than an oil well with a long beach and myriad tribes. Popular allegiance to a central national … See all stories on […]
A demolition in Kharian
Express Tribune: by Amna Agha: The persecution of the Ahmadiyya community has reached new heights following the destruction of six minarets at an Ahmadi place of worship in Kharian on July […]
Pakistan: F. G. Ebrahim’s First Test as New CEC Restore Ahmadiyya Right to Vote!!
Dawn: Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim was formally appointed the Chief Election Commissioner on Friday, DawnNews reported. Ebrahim was appointed the CEC after President Asif Ali Zardari, on the advice […]
Pakistan-An act of bigotry
Express Tribune: Editorial The demolition of six minarets by the police at an Ahmadi place of worship in Kharian says a lot about the continued official discrimination against the beleaguered community and our culpability in this discrimination. The spate of attacks on Ahmadi places of worship and the continuous assault on their […]