Source/Credit: The Express Tribune / By Rana Tanveer / September 8, 2011 Relatives allege he was targeted for his religious beliefs. NEFER SEHGAL/FILE LAHORE: A man, who was later identified to be an Ahmadi, was critically injured after being shot three times in Ferozewala of Sheikhupura district on Wednesday just as religious parties […]
Source:dailytimes Pakistan As a teenager, when I was supposed to be enjoying life, making friends, watching movies, playing games, socialising and talking about our little dreams, I was thinking of pleasing God and hating His perceived enemies “The only abnormality is the incapacity to love” — Anais Nin. According to […]
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweeden through Asian Human Rights Commission About AHRC: The Asian Human Rights Commission is a regional non-governmental organisation that monitors human rights in Asia, documents violations and advocates for justice and institutional reform to ensure the protection and promotion of these rights. The Hong Kong-based group was founded […]
Source: Express Tribune Author: Najmuddin A Shaikh If we support an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned process of reconciliation and if we are part of the solution and not part of the problem, then it is logical for the Afghans to expect us to use our influence with the Taliban to persuade […]
The minority has been under constant attack even though it keeps a low profile. DESIGN: SAMAD SIDDIQUI Source/Credit: The Express Tribune / By Shamsul Islam | September 5, 2011 [PAK] FAISALABAD: In a suspected incident of hate crime against minorities, unidentified attackers killed an Ahmadi man in Faisalabad late Saturday night. Naseem Ahmad Butt, 55, […]
By Major ® Zubair Khalil Khan Due to 1947 partition, Hindu population of Karachi/Hyderabad of Pakistan migrated, thus creating a huge vacuum which was filled in by Urdu speaking Muslim population coming from neighboring country. Influx of these immigrants from India turned the local Sindhi urban population in to minority. […]
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune : By Owais Raza | September 4, 2011 LODHRAN: The municipal administration has razed to the ground an under-construction Ahmadi place of worship in Jannat Wala, a village on the outskirts of Lodhran, after clerics staged protests. Construction was suspended after labourers working at the site received death threats […]
source:Dailytimes-Pakistan Two despicable terrorist attacks targeting the Shiites in Pakistan should ring alarm bells but it seems that the Pakistani state is oblivious to any such warnings. On Eid day, 11 people lost their lives while more than a dozen others were injured when a suicide bomber targeted a Shia […]
source:toi on line PAKISTAN: Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan have kidnapped more than 30 Pakistani boys who had mistakenly crossed the unmarked border from the country’s lawless northwest, officials said on Friday. They said the incident took place on Thursday after the group of boys, aged between 12 and 18, left […]
Source/Credit: The News: By Mansoor Ahmad:Tuesday, August 30, 2011 LAHORE: “I am convinced that this system is made for the rich and they will take away any opportunity that comes for the poor,” said Noor Elahi, who failed to find work for the second day running. “While affluent families are shopping […]
This Eid when I woke up to get ready I was in a somber mood. I knew I wasn’t going to the Aqsa mosque (the central mosque) where there would be thousands of people and the sweet smell of perfume would make the cool morning air even fresher. No. Those days […]
by Nicholas Schmidle, THE NEW YORKER Shortly after eleven o’clock on the night of May 1st, two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from Jalalabad Air Field, in eastern Afghanistan, and embarked on a covert mission into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden. Inside the aircraft were twenty-three Navy SEALs […]
source. asiatimes on line ISLAMABAD – Al-Qaeda-linked 313 Brigade has appointed a new chief, Shah Sahib, following the death of its commander Ilyas Kashmiri in a United States-operated drone attack in the South Waziristan tribal area of Pakistan in June. The decision came after weeks of consultation among members of […]
source.TOI on line PESHAWAR: At least 36 Pakistani security personnel were killed and dozens of others injured when hundreds of Taliban insurgents from Afghanistan attacked border checkpoints in Pakistan’s north western Chitral district on Saturday. More:
Shahbaz Taseer, son of slain Pakistani governor Salmaan Taseer, was kidnapped in the eastern city of Lahore on Friday. The Governor had been killed by his body guard in the recent past. Unidentified men in a black SUV intercepted Taseer’s car and abducted him. The late governor was killed by his bodyguard for his opposition to a […]
Dr Abdus Salam vs Dr A Q Khan Source / Courtesy: Daily Times By Munir Khan Parallel lives — I Whilst Salam himself rejoiced in his Muslim roots, he faced one major difficulty: a section of Islamist opinion regarded him as a heretic because he belonged to the heterodox Ahmedi sect within Islam […]
Source: United Religious Initiative For the students at the ABC4All school in Lahore, Pakistan, interfaith cooperation is a way of life. This small school for Muslim and Christian street children grew out of work the ABC4All Cooperation Circle was doing in one of the city’s slums. Begun informally in September 2009, it […]
Source/Courtesy:TheExpress Tribune KARACHI: A special meeting of the Sindh cabinet presided over by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday has decided to launch ‘surgical operations’ against suspects involved in the ongoing violence in Karachi. “We need to take action now; otherwise it will be too late and someone else would […]
(CNN) — A statue resembling the goddess Athena and jewelry bearing images from Greco-Roman mythology may not be objects you’d expect to see in a museum exhibit of Buddhist art from Pakistan. Their presence among carvings of Buddha and Indian deities is meant to serve as a reminder of Pakistan’s oft-forgotten […]