AFP A passenger plane crashed while trying to land during bad weather near Islamabad on Friday, police said. The Bhoja airline flight from Karachi came down outside Islamabad airport, police official Fazle Akbar told AFP, adding that emergency teams were on their way to the site. “It was not immediately […]
The Muslim Times editor for Pakistan Credit: Dawn.com LONDON, April 19: A hen in Sri Lanka has given birth to a chick without an egg, in a new twist on […]
Credit: Asia Times By Sudha Ramachandran BANGALORE – An avalanche near the Siachen Glacier, which buried around 140 Pakistani soldiers and civilian contractors a fortnight ago, has triggered debate in India and Pakistan over the huge costs of keeping troops in a stand-off at its icy heights. Pakistan’s army chief […]
Lankaweb An objection that is raised is that why Ahmadi Muslims do not go for Hajj? Instead they go to their holy place in Qadian (the birth-place of their Founder Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Punjab, India)? Hajj is a pillar of Islam which they disrespect and they show more love for […]
Dawn: KARACHI: Murtaza Razvi, a senior assistant editor and head of magazines at Dawn, was murdered in the early hours of Thursday, in Karachi. According to police, Razvi’s body was found […]
Credit: Asia Times: By Dilip Hiro The following ingredients should go a long way to produce a political thriller. Mr M, a jihadi in an Asian state, has emerged as the mastermind of a terrorist attack in a neighboring country, which killed six Americans. After sifting through a vast cache […]
Source: the guardian Does it matter what name people use for God? This is the question thrown up as a result of a strange development in Pakistani etiquette. Until about 10 years ago “Khuda hafiz”, which means “God protect you”, was the phrase commonly used to say goodbye. But, in […]
Pakteahouse: Maudood A. Bhatti: I was born a Muslim. Until the second amendment was passed in Pakistan’s constitution in 1974, I remained a legal Muslim. I was very young when this […]
Pakteahouse: by Aziz Bilal: Remembering Qadir & Qudoos It would not be inappropriate to commemorate the sacrifices that the Ahmadiyya community has offered in its commitment for peace and promoting […]
Pakteahouse; By Ayesha Noor: On March 30th, 43-year-old Master Abdul Qudoos lost the battle of his life in Rabwah, Pakistan. A relatively young man, he did not die of a heart attack, nor did he die of a fatal accident, neither […]
Pakistan is full of people who still think that they will someday launch a ‘holy war’ or let’s say “Gajwa–e-Hind” on India. They aspire of imposing their colonial rule on India, quite same as America has done in Afghanistan and Iraq. The subjects as it aspires will have a unbreakable […]
Dawn: By Murtaza Haider: After decades of waging the propaganda war against India for its highhanded treatment of Kashmiris, Pakistan is now the subject of a similar campaign by India […]
Credit: Pakistan Today by Wasim Saroya By:Rabia Ahmed Hundreds of people are killed in the name of religion Many moons ago in a different continent a Pakistani acquaintance asked me, very seriously, whether she should attend the wedding of her friend’s daughter. Let me explain. My acquaintance, her friend and […]
Dawn.com I’m not particularly interested in the Oscars. Surprising really as I have recently taken to making films myself, but the Oscar winning films are often of little interest (Inception and Inglorious Bastards are rare exceptions). My ears pricked up however, when news trickled through that there had been a […]
Courtesy: S.S. Ahmad, Boise ID In the November issue of the Al-Fazl, Qadian, Hadhrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad, ra), son of the Promised Messiah (AS) wrote an article in Urdu with the heading, “The month of Ramadan has a special effect in purifying one’s self. Members of the Jama‘at should take its […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Pak Tea House April 15th, 2012 | 11 Comments By Aziz Bilal: Remembering Abdul Qudoos It’s been long since I did my Pakistan Studies course […]
By Zubair Khan As a result of shortsighted and bit pre-mature reaction to the NATO areal attack on Salala military check post, on the pressure of Pakistan Army, the NATO supply route passing through Pakistan was blocked by the Pakistani Government. Attached to it the forced vacation of Shamsi Air […]
Source: Daily Times, Pakistan Secularisation and state secularism, however, are distinguishable. The former is an evolutionary process and the latter a constitutional expression of the state’s impartiality to all religious […]
Express News: LAHORE: An elderly man, recently released from prison after acquittal by the court on proving innocent in a blasphemy case, was shot dead by the complainant in the Farooqabad […]
Dailytimes: Syed Kamran Hashmi: These politically motivated religious columns yield benefits to the author socially and reward the politician in the polls He starts his essay with a Quranic verse […]