Source/Credit: Atlanta Journal Constitution ISLAMABAD — Text books in Pakistani schools foster prejudice and intolerance of Hindus and other religious minorities, while most teachers view non-Muslims as “enemies of Islam,” according to a study by a U.S. government commission released Wednesday. The findings indicate how deeply ingrained hardline Islam is […]
By Owais Jafri Published: November 9, 2011 Religious organisation Jamaatud Dawa on Wednesday announced organising countrywide protests and marking Fridays as black days if the Pakistani government opts to grant the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India. Jamaatud Dawa calls itself a charity group and denies having anything to do with militancy, […]
More than nine million flood victims in Pakistan face an “unimaginable catastrophe” of disease and malnutrition due to a massive shortfall in emergency funding, aid agencies have warned.
ISLAMABAD: Another major attack on American interests in Afghanistan by Pakistan-based militant groups would greatly damage the alliance with Islamabad, a senior US official said Tuesday. The official was voicing Washington’s frustrations with Pakistan and its failure to tackle safe havens in its territory that militant groups such as the Haqqani network use […]
Source: Daily Times * Spokesperson says no one should ‘underestimate’ Pakistan’s capability to defend its national interests ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday described as “pure fiction” a US media report about possible American plans to secure the country’s nuclear arsenal in the event of any extremist threat, saying no one should […]
By Hafeez Tunio Published: November 8, 2011 Source:Xpress Tribune LARKANA: Following the final rites of three Hindus who were shot dead on Monday in Shikarpur district, upper Sindh, the Hindu community shut their business in protest and announced an indefinite strike till those responsible for the killing are brought to book. They […]
source: asiatimes: Former Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan is pitching his aspirations at the country’s college-going urban youth and women – traditionally left out of the political process. Many believe that whether Khan’s enterprise – “tsunami” as he calls it – succeeds or not he will be a game-changer in the […]
Source: TOI on Line: KAARACHI: Four Hindu doctors have been gunned down in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, sparking fears and panic among the minority community. The doctors were gunned down yesterday at their clinic in Chak town close to Shikarpur. Dr Ramesh Kumar, a former member of provincial assembly and […]
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake jolted the federal capital and various areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Upper Punjab and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, reported Express 24/7 on Tuesday. The earthquake’s epicenter was found to be the Hindukush mountain range with a depth of 203 kilometres. http://tribune.com.pk/story/288945/6-3-magnitude-earthquake-jolts-parts-of-punjab-kp-ajk/
The basic human right to food is, along with a whole host of other ‘rights’, non-existent in Pakistan, where an estimated 48.6 per cent of the population no longer have access to adequate nutrition. read more: http://tribune.com.pk/story/288494/the-right-to-eat/
One of the best examples of what results from the collapse of a sociopolitical system is the rise of the Third Reich in Germany during the 1930s. Burdened by global recession and a humiliating military defeat, the bulk of middle-class Germany found refuge in Adolf Hitler’s ideology. read more http://tribune.com.pk/story/288139/transition-without-transformation/
Published: November 5, 2011 Source/Courtesy: Xpress Tribune LAHORE: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani formally inaugurated the commercial operation of Pakistan’s first indigenously made communication satellite Paksat-1R near Kala Shah Kaku in Lahore on Saturday. Addressing the inauguration ceremony‚ Gilani said that the application of space technology would contribute significantly […]
WASHINGTON: The Strategic Plans Division (SPD), in charge of the storage and security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons has started moving them in low-security vans on congested roads in order to hide them from US spy agencies, and Indian agents all the while making the weapons vulnerable to theft by Islamist militants, […]
By Agencies Published: November 4, 2011 Source/Credit: Xpress Tribune LONDON: Last night, the Pakistan cricket team went to bed wondering how to take the remaining eight Sri Lankan wickets on a flat pitch in Sharjah. Miles away, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir lay awake behind bars in London, wondering where it […]
By Muhammad Sadaqat Published: November 3, 2011 Source/Credit: Xpress Tribune HARIPUR: A hakim accused of being an Ahmadi and proselytising was expelled from Haripur on Wednesday. The police, however, denied expelling Sheikh Arif from the district and said he had decided to leave himself. Chased out or left voluntarily? Haripur police officials said that local ulema, […]
By Fida Muhammad Adeel Published: November 2, 2011 Source/Courtesy:Xpress Tribune PESHAWAR: Afghans have lost faith in Pakistan due to the latter’s “impulsive” actions, veteran Afghan warlord Gulbudin Hekmatyar said on Tuesday even as Washington has enlisted Islamabad’s help in finding a negotiated settlement to the decade-old war in Afghanistan. “In its quest […]
By Abdul Manan Published: October 31, 2011 LAHORE: It’s official: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has arrived. The chairman of the party, Imran Khan, addressed an enormous crowd at the Minar-e-Pakistan grounds in Lahore. Intelligence sources said that between 65,000 and 70,000 attended the rally, while PTI’s deputy information secretary claimed the figure was over […]
By Shehzad Baloch Published: October 15, 2011 QUETTA: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Friday that efforts were underway to revive the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), claiming that religious parties had the capability to foil the nefarious designs of the United States. Maulana Fazlur Rehman, addressing a gathering at the […]
By Saroop Ijaz Published: October 15, 2011 Source/credit: The Express Tribune The former Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court, Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, has volunteered to represent Mumtaz Qadri. Ordinarily, a lawyer representing a client is an unremarkable phenomenon, even those accused of heinous crimes. The lowest of low amongst the criminals […]
By Zofeen T. Ebrahim| DAWN.COM A month after ten Ahmadi students were expelled from two schools in the village of Dharinwala, in Faisalabad district, all have been put back to school, not in there old ones, but in two schools in Hafizabad, thanks to Khalil Ahmad, father and grandfather of […]