Pakistan

Taliban commanders say Pakistan intelligence helps them

Source: Reuters Reporting By: Adrian Croft Pakistan’s security service provides weapons and training to Taliban insurgents fighting U.S. and British troops in Afghanistan, despite official denials, Taliban commanders say, in allegations that could worsen tensions between Pakistan and the United States. A number of middle-ranking Taliban commanders revealed the extent […]

Clinton has hearty laugh at meeting in Islamabad

Islamabad: Washington’s troubled relationship with Pakistan has triggered plenty of heartburn for US officials, but rarely sidesplitting laughter. That changed yesterday when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton erupted in amusement during a town hall meeting in Islamabad when a participant described the US as Pakistan’s impossible to please mother-in-law. Read […]

A history of religious violence

Source/Credit: Dawn.com The killing of 13 Shia Muslims in Quetta today is a grim reminder of how intolerant Pakistan has become when it comes to religious freedom. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s report ‘State of Human Rights in 2010’, 418 people have been killed in various attacks on Muslim sects, including 211 in […]

Intolerance in the curriculum

Source/Credit: The News (International) By Kamila Hyat There have been several shocking incidents over the past week or so that go only to highlight the kind of intolerance we are facing in our society and the manner in which this is spreading. Worst of all the spirit of hatred has […]

Former LHC chief justice to defend Mumtaz Qadri

By Obaid Abbasi Published: October 10, 2011 Source/Courtasy: Express Tribune ISLAMABAD: Former Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Khawaja Sharif will defend Mumtaz Qadri, the murderer of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, in court on Tuesday, confirmed Lawyer Raja Shujaur Rehman. Justice Khawaja was appointed Chief Justice of the LHC on April 12, […]

Qadri supporters rail against US, Ahmadis

By Rana Tanveer Published: October 10, 2011 Source/Courtesy:Express Tribune LAHORE: Speakers at the Sunni Ittehad Council’s (SIC) National Khatam-i-Nabuwat Conference railed against the death sentence handed to Mumtaz Qadri for the murder of Salmaan Taseer, as well as Ahmedis and America, on Sunday. SIC Chairman Sahibzada Fazle Karim announced that they would […]

Ahmadis expelled from school

By Shamsul Islam Published: October 8, 2011 Source/Courtesy: Express tribune FAISALABAD: At least 10 students, including seven girls, and a female teacher were expelled from Chenab Public School and Muslim Public School, Dharanwali area of Hafizabad, for being Ahmadis. “It is extremely unfortunate that my daughters are being deprived of the most […]

Behind the veil of deceit

Source:  Wasim Saroya of Bosnia and Friday Times.       It was early winter, in 1947. Lal Chowk, the city centre of Srinagar, was about to be “historic”. Thousands of people who had gathered in the square were listening to Jawaharlal Nehru who was standing up on a make […]

Why not free Qadri?

  By Ayesha Siddiqa Published: October 8, 2011 Source / Courtesy: Express Tribune How about freeing Mumtaz Qadri for the simple reason that the state system has lost the capacity to execute punishment? The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) judge, who gave him the death sentence, is already on the run. It will be […]

Muslim women leaders convene at global conference

SOURCE: DAILY TIMES PAKISTAN NEW YORK: The American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) announced the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality (WISE) Conference to be held from October 14 to October 17 in Istanbul, Turkey. “Soon the world will witness how Muslim women activists, scholars, politicians jurists and poets have assumed […]

Haqqani: Military or political solution?

Source:  Asia times on line. A divisive policy debate pits top US military leaders, Pentagon officials and the Central Intelligence Agency, who want to put priority on pressuring Pakistan to attack Haqqani network forces, against those in the Barack Obama administration who doubt that a military effort could be decisive […]