An extremist Wahhabi group, backed by such countries as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, is behind the atrocious massacre of Shia Muslims in Pakistan, a political analyst says. “All these massacres […]
Dailytimes; Yasser Latif Hamdani: Much like Akbar the Great, the Mughal Emperor, Mehmet Fateh and Suleiman the Magnificent refused to give in to the whims of the Muslim clergy. Their […]
After declaring Ahmadiyya as Non Muslim, Pakistan solved all its problems, except of course electricity shortage. This was a deliberate conspiracy to make the Fort of Islam weak and to […]
Credit: Express Tribune: Report on Ahmedis reveals victimisation and harassment. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE LAHORE: The Urdu press and media are contributing to the hate campaign against Ahmedis by publishing “baseless stories,” the […]
Dawn: RAWALPINDI: A man booked for being allegedly involved in the murder of former minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti, was acquitted by an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday. In the ATC-II […]
Express Tribune: by Khalid Ahmad: Pakistan is about to face the second ‘withdrawal’ blowback from Afghanistan. The first, after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union, came under General Ziaul Haq, whose […]
Dawn: A Pakistan-based scientist has been honoured by the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), the body said in a statement released this week. Dr Yusuf Zafar, who is the director […]
Credit: Express Tribune: By Rana Tanveer Published: May 5, 2012 A hoarding is installed behind the chhatri (flattened dome) at the entrance, so that the worship place does not look like a mosque. PHOTO: EXPRESS TRIBUNE LAHORE: Two days after being told by Misri Shah police to ‘cover up’ architectural elements […]
Dawn: by Asghar Ali Engineer: RECENTLY a conference of the Muslim Personal Law Board in India saw a huge crowd of 200,000 Muslims from all over Maharashtra. The chairman of the […]
A young Sitara Brooj Akbar from Rabwah, Pakistan is the holder of both Pakistani and world records based on her passing of O Level chemistry, biology, English and mathematics. Click here for her brief interview
The Express Tribune: Policemen scratched out Quranic verses written on the walls of an Ahmedi place of worship and ordered them to cover up short minarets at the entrance as they made the place look like a mosque, The Express Tribune has learnt. After receiving a complaint about the place […]
Source: http://my.telegraph.co.uk/ May 3rd, 2012 10:08 By shermeen Sheonah asked on a blog I wrote on persecution of Ahmadi Muslims the other day: ‘But none of the other sub-sects of Islam seem to believe the Ahmadis. How can this be?’ As I said then, there are three ways to […]
Credit: The Wall Street Journal by Wasim Sroya By SADANAND DHUME Until the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the American view of radical Islam and its many discontents was shaped more by the Middle East than South Asia. The U.S. has long been at odds with the raging Ayatollah in Iran, […]
Credit: Journalist Shams Qudus of Germany. Due to hard work of Mr Shams (first Pakistani born and recognized regular member of German Journalist Association), two groups of German Journalists recently […]
Dawn: By Murtaza Haider: A year after his assassination in Abbottabad, Osama bin Laden is as irrelevant today to the welfare of millions of starving and suffering Muslims as he was when alive. The same holds true for almost all Islamist political movements who are singularly concerned with enforcing their […]
Government seems to succumb under pressure from extremists Daily Times Staff Report: LAHORE: The hate campaign against Ahmadis reached new heights in Pakistan and even innocent children are not spared now. These were the findings of an annual report, the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan, released by the Jamaat Ahmadiyya […]
Daily Times Iqbal Butt’s fate is absolutely insignificant in a country where the governor of the largest province can be shot dead by his own bodyguard for merely suggesting that the blasphemy laws need to be revised An 80-year-old man, Iqbal Butt, who had been accused of blasphemy but released […]
The Express Tribune ABBOTTABAD: In their effort to ‘wipe out’ Osama bin Laden, the Americans buried him at sea and Pakistani authorities razed his compound – but neither succeeded in erasing him from popular imagination. The slain al Qaeda chief, on the contrary, is evolving from fact to myth in […]
Credit: TOI US President Barack Obama appears to be frustrated with Pakistan, which is reflected in his address to the nation from Afghanistan, an eminent American expert on South Asian issues said WASHINGTON:US President Barack Obama appears to be frustrated with Pakistan, which is reflected in his address to the […]
AFP: ISLAMABAD: A year after Osama bin Laden died in a US raid, Al-Qaeda keeps spreading its message of terror in Pakistan, analysts say, with splinter groups threatening the country’s fragile […]