Source: VOA The leader of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami has been charged with war crimes by a special tribunal. Matiur Rahman Nizami was indicted Monday on 16 charges, including genocide and murder allegedly carried out during the country’s 1971 independence struggle against Pakistan. Another tribunal indicted Abdul Quader Molla, […]
London, 28 May 2012: At a dubious ceremony in London in which Pakistan’s Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry awarded himself the International Jurist Award by the International Council of Jurists […]
Credit: Pakistan Today via Wasim Sarooya LAHORE – Two female faculty member of Post-Graduate College of Nursing, Birdwood Road, are getting life threats for being “members of the Ahmadiya community”, with religious elements inside the college alleging that the two were preaching their faith inside the college, Pakistan Today learnt on Monday. […]
http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:402206 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Apart from being funny the video in the link illustrates a lesson to us all when it comes to politics, research, journalism, religion, etc. That things are not as […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By News Desk Published: May 28, 2012 Exactly two years after the attacks on Ahmaddiya places of worship that killed 94 worshippers […]
khuddam.org.uk: My name is Muzaffar Ahmad. I am originally from Lahore, Pakistan and my constituency is Garden Town which is part of the Model Town Majlis. During the Lahore massacre, […]
Express Tribune: Sectarian groups in Pakistan have grown ‘stronger than ever’ and pose a grave threat to state and society, according to an assessment carried out by the country’s intelligence […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Qamar Zaman Published: May 27, 2012 ISLAMABAD: By deciding not to file an appeal the government has, in principle, accepted the […]
Source: ABC Author: Jake Tapper Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said it was “disturbing” and “difficult to understand” Pakistan’s 33-year prison sentence for a doctor who aided the United States in […]
Credit. Human Rights Watch via Wasim Sarooya (New York) – Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments should bring to justice those responsible for the May 2010 attacks on Ahmadiyya mosques that killed 94 worshipers, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 28, 2010, Islamist militants attacked two Ahmadiyya mosques in the […]
Express Tribune: By Khalid Ahmad: Even Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who should be committed to permanent jihad under Islam, thinks that Pakistan has been damaged by the label of “national security […]
The Express Tribune: Let’s temporarily come out of our latest feverish national dilemmas — whether the final word would be spoken by an elected or an unelected functionary of the state in the matter of the prime minister’s disqualification — and consider the significance of this question in other areas of our […]
weeklypresspakistan: Pakistani Muslims must understand that how many kinds of big mistakes they have committed. First they pushed back a great leader ALLAMA ENAYTULLAH AL MASHRIQUI of Khaksar Thareek. Then they accepted the British-imported M.A. POONJA’s leadership, who was brought back to India by Sir Agha Khan. In 1973 under […]
BBC: Geneva: Tackling polio has entered “emergency mode” according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative after “explosive” outbreaks in countries previously free of the disease. It has launched a plan […]
ARABNEWS WASHINGTON: A Senate panel voted to cut aid to Pakistan by a symbolic $33 million, $1 million for each year of jail time handed to a Pakistani doctor convicted of treason for helping the United States track down Osama Bin Laden. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the amendment to […]
Now, Islamic clerics say ‘mosque-type domes’ cannot adorn non-Muslim places of worship in Pak. Source: NEWS TRACK INDIA. Lahore, May 21 (ANI): Religious clerics in Sultanpura, Pakistan have demanded for the demolition of an Ahmedi place of worship, which looked too much like a mosque. The clerics are reportedly unhappy […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: May 24, 2012 Speaker National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza, finalising her decision in Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s […]
Dawn.com A PERSISTENT failure to deal with the canker of intolerance — one of the greatest threats to the Pakistani people’s mental health and their material well-being — is making the affliction day by day more unmanageable. A young non-Muslim woman has been living in Lahore for quite some time. […]
Express Tribune: A cleric in Sialkot district disrupted a Saturday mass, abused the pastor and is now threatening to register a blasphemy FIR against him for drawing upon verses from […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Huma Imtiaz Published: May 23, 2012 WASHINGTON: US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland, offering US reaction to the sentencing of Dr Shakil […]