’زیرِحراست بریگیڈیئر پر فردِ جرم عائد‘
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: BBC urdu.com آصف فاروقی بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، اسلام آباد آخری وقت اشاعت: ہفتہ 11 فروری 2012 , 03:15 GMT 08:15 PST […]
al-Qaeda leader killed in drone attack who killed scores of Ahmadi Muslims
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iR15ECTQK6m1Wg3sjCFHJ6VllJVw?docId=CNG.e84246ecc808f1ab609f9d56334e67f5.341 ISLAMABAD — US missiles on Thursday killed the most senior Pakistani in Al-Qaeda, one of the Americans’ main targets in the country and wanted for attacks that killed scores of people, officials said. Badar Mansoor, who reputedly sent fighters to Afghanistan and ran a training camp in North Waziristan, […]
Contempt of court: SC rejects intra-court appeal, Gilani to appear on Feb 13
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk / Azam Khan Published: February 10, 2012 ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has rejected Aitzaz Ahsan’s appeal to protect Prime […]
Shame covers sleaze: In the land of the Pure
Daily Dawn: ISLAMABAD: Sex scandals have rocked the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) in recent months, with several faculty and staff members accused of preying upon the vulnerable female students or […]
US drone kills al Qaeda leader in Pakistan: officials
Source: Dawn ISLAMABAD: US missiles on Thursday killed al Qaeda’s chief in Pakistan, one of the Americans’ main targets and wanted for attacks that killed scores of people, officials said. […]
Pakistani airspace being used for NATO supplies: Munter
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Our Correspondent Published: February 9, 2012 ISLAMABAD: US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter has hinted that Nato supplies might have resumed […]
New culture for women
ALL those working for women’s rights are receiving accolades for their continued run of success in the area of legislation. They deserve more of this because they have played a key role in getting the lawmakers round to their point of view. The passage of the National Commission on the […]
PM contempt case: Supreme Court forms new bench for Thursday hearing
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By AFP / Web Desk Published: February 8, 2012 ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has formed an eight-member bench to hear Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s […]
SC admits plea against removal of Kayani, Pasha
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Azam Khan Published: February 7, 2012 ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday admitted a petition asking the court to stop the […]
Why speak for the Ahmadis?
………. The State has a responsibility to restrain these fanatical, terrorist outfits from spewing venom against fellow citizens and so do the free media and the liberals. Every one of […]
Rs 8,500 bn corruption mars Gilani tenure: Transparency
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), […]
Dawkins made it to my sociology class
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 […]
Beg to Differ!
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 […]
Army criticism: Malik wants Chaudhry Nisar to apologise
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 […]
What’s your poison?
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 […]
Can Egypt Avoid Pakistan’s Fate?
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 […]
Gilani to discuss Afghanistan reconciliation in Qatar
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 […]
Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission about Ahmadiyya Persecution
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 […]
Farces and fiascos
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 […]
Powerless to stop rallies by banned groups: Malik-Pakistan loosing battle against Extremists
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 […]