Source: Asia times on line Syria will have to wait. The next stop in the Pentagon-coined “long war” is bound to be Pakistan. True, a war is already on in what the Barack Obama administration named AfPak. But crunch time in Pak itself looms closer and closer. Call it the “no […]
KHUZDAR: Balochistan National Party (BNP) leader Abdul Salam was gunned down by unidentified people in Khuzdar, Express 24/7 reported on Wednesday. Two armed men riding a motorbike opened indiscriminate fire on Salam’s vehicle and injured him and his daughter. Both the victims were taken to the hospital, where Salam succumbed to […]
Source/Credit: Asian Human Rights Commission: 26 September 2011: http://www.humanrights.asia Malice, hatred and discrimination against Ahmadi Muslim students in Pakistan are part of a wider scheme to cripple Ahmadis educationally, economically and socially. Ahmadis were declared a non Muslim minority in Pakistan by the amendment in the Constitution and they […]
Source/Credit: Asian Human Rights Commission: 26 September 2011 Malik Ishaq, well known as a killer in many incidents of sectarian violence and bomb blasts has been taken by the state after killing over 100 victims. He is currently being held under house arrest for a period of ten days, supposedly […]
Source/Credit: The New York Times ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The United States might still be weighing its options about how to deal with Pakistan, but many politicians, retired army generals and popular television talk show hosts here have already made up their minds that America is on the warpath with their […]
Source: Dawn.com I woke up this morning to the news that Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, had directly accused Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of supporting the insurgents who attacked the US Embassy in Kabul last week. The New York Times called it “the […]
Source: Dawn.com The role of the ‘public intellectual’ is in disrepair. In the Arab Spring the revolutions and uprisings were brought about by a new generation of social activists. The surprising thing about the Arab Spring was how the main intellectual class of the Arab World was so severely disconnected […]
Source/Credit: The Washington Post via AP ISLAMABAD — Police say at least 26 school children and two teachers have been killed in a bus accident in Pakistan. The bus was returning from a school trip to a salt mine popular with tourists when it plunged into a ditch late Monday. […]
By Zubair Khalil Khan Followings are the few excerpts from the news recently appeared in media reports encompassing tense situation which unfortunately has propped up between USA and Pakistan. Few days back, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pressurized the Pakistani government to crack down on Haqqani network, saying, “Our biggest […]
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune ABBOTTABAD: It may have been a mere misplaced dot that led to accusations of blasphemy against a Christian eighth-grader, whose miniscule error led to her expulsion from school and uproar amongst local religious leaders. Faryal Bhatti, a student at the Sir Syed Girls High School in Pakistan […]
ISLAMABAD: As tension prevails between the United States and Pakistan, Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani summoned Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar back to Islamabad on Sunday for the All Parties Conference (APC). Khar’s presence is said to be vital during the APC as she was one of the few members […]
Truth about National Assembly of Pakistan 1974. our beloved hazur delivered friday sermon on 17th may 1985
Source/Credit:Dawn.com Pakistan ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s foreign minister on Saturday warned the United States against sending ground troops to her country to fight an Afghan militant group that America alleges is used as a proxy by Pakistan’s top intelligence agency for attacks in neighboring Afghanistan. The warning came as […]
By Zubair Khalil Khan Dental Surgeon MM Bajwa MSc, recieving the Europe Star Award from Lord Ahmad of United Kingdom. On the eve of Pakistani Achievement Award-2011, for which the ceremony held at London Marriot on 16th of September, a Pakistani Origin Ahmadi Dental Surgeon of Germany, Mohammad Muzafar […]
Hate leaflets circulating in Pakistan have been linked to Stockwell Mosque Source/Credit: BBC London: By Kurt Barling: Special correspondent / 22 September 2011 A south London mosque is at the centre of allegations it helped promote of acts of terror and hate in Pakistan. Leaflets circulating in Pakistan calling for the […]
WASHINGTON: A US Senate committee voted on Wednesday to make economic and security aid to Pakistan conditional on its cooperation in fighting militants such as the Haqqani network, which Washington blames for last week’s attack on the US embassy in Kabul. The Senate Appropriations Committee decision reflected lawmakers’ anger at Islamabad […]
Source/Credit: Aljazeera Pakistani officials say thousands of livestock have been killed in the floods, brought on by heavy monsoon rains. Officials at the ministry for food and agriculture said that a rapid response was needed to keep animals in flood affected areas alive. As Imtiaz Tyab reports from Mirpur Khas, the […]
WASHINGTON: Amidst growing pressure on Pakistan to act against the Haqqani Network, Pakistan ISI chief General Ahmed Shuja Pasha visited Washington DC quietly on Tuesday for a one day visit to meet with his CIA counterpart General David Petraeus. As first reported by Washington Post, the CIA officially declined to comment […]
Source /Credit: Al Ufaq: 16 September 2011: Written By Atif S. Ahmad: http://alufaq.com I’m a Pakistani Ahmadi Muslim. I know you haven’t read these three words in a single sentence because of an amendment made to the constitution of our country that precludes the composition of such a statement; legally! Still, I have to […]
Source: Moballigh Wasim Saroya of Bosnia/Silvenia/Macedonia, The Nation on Web 19,Septmber 2011 September 19, 2011 CJ urged to take action against land grabbingCHINIOT – Advocate Supreme Court Malik Rab Nawaz has appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to take suo motu action against Qadiani Jama’at which […]