The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Geo News Updated yesterday Ansar Abbasi ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has lost an unbelievably high amount, more than Rs8,500 billion (Rs8.5 trillion or US$94 billion), […]
Credit: Imam Wasim throuhg Express Tribune: A Pakistani undergraduate class was shown a Richard Dawkins documentary in a sociology course. DESIGN: SIDRAH MOIZ: Growing up in a society that discouraged asking too many questions, I often wondered what it is about modern western education that the conservative right is so […]
By Zubair Khan Strategically, Pakistan is situated at the crossroads of the important regions of South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population exceeding 180 million people, it is the sixth most populous country in the world and has the second largest Muslim population after Indonesia. Its […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: February 5, 2012 ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik pressed opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar to take back his statements regarding the Army, while speaking to the media on Sunday. Malik said that if the people of the country start […]
Courtesy Dawn.com: The Sunni Tehrik (ST), a Barelvi Islamist organisation, announced last Sunday that it was converting itself into a political party. To quite a few Pakistanis the ST comes across as being another sectarian outfit triggered by the controversial Islamisation process of the Ziaul Haq dictatorship in the 1980s. It […]
Credit NY Times as referred by Imam Wasim Saroya. ONE year after the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military is closing down civil society organizations and trying to manipulate the constitution-writing process to serve its narrow interests. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, where the military has also held sway […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Reuters Published: February 4, 2012 Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will travel to Qatar next week to talk with officials from […]
Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-025-2012 February 3, 2012 A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: The Ahmadiyya community has once again been targeted […]
Credit: Dawn .com: By Irfan Hussain ODDLY, the two institutions that bang the accountability drum the loudest are the very ones that won’t submit to oversight themselves. The higher judiciary has used the threat of contempt of court laws to pre-empt any criticism. The security establishment relies on its muscle […]
Courtesy: Express Tribune: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday said that he was helpless against banned religious outfits rallying across the country under the banner of the Pakistan Defence Council […]
One cannot be faulted for assuming that the Difa-e-Pakistan Councilmay perhaps comprise of officials of the defence ministry, four-star generals and decorated admirals who wish to ponder over the defence needs of the country and make major strategic decisions. To find out that it is actually a motley crew of fourty-odd religious […]
The writer is Op-Ed editor, Daily Times, Pakistan. Reach her at mehmal.s@gmail.com In Satellite Town Rawalpindi, ‘Ewan-e-Tawheed’ is in place for the last 17 years. It is the property of […]
Express Tribune: A recent protest against Ahmadis in Rawalpindi was an act of harassment and in clear violation of the constitutional rights of Pakistanis, said a press release issued by […]
Credit: Imam Wasim Saroya: If you are Pakistani passport holder chances are you have signed a declaration claiming Qadianis as non-Muslims, this means that you declare them prohibited from calling themselves ‘Muslim’, to call their ‘places of worship’ mosques, to pray in ‘Muslim mosques’ or ‘public prayer areas’, to give […]
Credit: Dawn.com as intimated by Imam Wasim Saroya: -Photo Courtesy Ayesha Vellani/White Star What have the Ahmadis done to deserve this treatment in this Islamic republic of ours? The latest bout of hate speeches against the Ahmadi community and threats hurled at them was witnessed in Rawalpindi’s Satellite Town last […]
Pakistani authorities must do more to protect the Ahmaddiya community, Amnesty International said today amid threats from religious groups to block Ahmadis from entering their place of worship in Rawalpindi on […]
Source: Huffington Post: By Mike Ghouse: It is a shame that many of the Pakistani people I have been interacting have bought the government-fed idea that Ahmadiyya Muslims are not […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Azam Khan Published: February 3, 2012 ISLAMABAD: The political calm was short-lived. The prime minister, it transpired on Thursday, will indeed have […]
Source: ESPN CricInfo Author: David Hopps Mohammad Amir, the Pakistan fast bowler, has been released from Portland Young Offenders Institution in Dorset after serving half of a six-month sentence for […]
THE list of those charged or accused under the country’s questionable blasphemy laws — that too on the flimsiest of pretexts — is far too long. Soofi Mohammad Ishaq, sentenced to death by a judge in Jhelum on Monday in a blasphemy case, is another addition to this unenviable list. As […]