As graphic pictures were broadcast on television of mangled bodies strewn across roads, commentators were quick to blame militant groups with ties to Pakistan’s intelligence services, particularly the army’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The claims resonated in a city regularly traumatised by rush-hour attacks. The principal suspect in Wednesday’s bombings, Lashkar e-Taiba (LeT) […]
RABWAH: The tombstones in Rabwah’s graveyards tell a macabre tale. The graves of the men killed in the attacks on Ahmadi places of worship in Lahore – retired army officers and young factory workers among them – rest with the dozens killed due to the persecution of the Ahmadiyya community. […]
Pakistan may be taking a deleterious turn, especially as the United States plans to pull out of Afghanistan by 2012 and threatens to withdraw military aid from the country, but its media has reacted indignantly to claims that put it on the same scale as the poorest African countries. Foreign […]
RABWAH: The tombstones in Rabwah’s graveyards tell a macabre tale. The graves of the men killed in the attacks on Ahmadi places of worship in Lahore – retired army officers and young factory workers among them – rest with the dozens killed due to the persecution of the Ahmadiyya community. […]
Staff Report LAHORE: Representatives of the Ahmedi community and human rights activists have slammed the government over religiously motivated killing of an Ahmedi advocate, Malik Mabroor Ahmad, while demanding immediate action against the culprits. Jama’at Ahmadiyya Pakistan spokesperson Saleem ud Din stated on Tuesday that the well-known Ahmedi lawyer was assassinated in a religiously motivated attack […]
Before the end of 2011, Pakistan will start working on its stretch of the IP (Iran-Pakistan) gas pipeline – according to Asim Hussain, Pakistan’s federal minister for petroleum and natural resources. The 1,092 kilometers of pipeline on the Iranian side are already in place. IP, also known as “the peace […]
An Ahmadi man was shot dead last evening around 8 pm as his car approached his office in Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan. Malik Mabroor Ahmad, a renowned advocate and president of the local Ahmadiyya Muslim Community fell victim to anti-Ahmadiyya hate campaign by the Islamist extremists. According to the reports an armed man casually […]
// Pak defence minister said his country could not afford to keep forces deployed at the Afghan border following the suspension of US aid. Times of India ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday threatened to pull back its troops from the border with Afghanistan, as defence minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar said his […]
A Pakistani paramilitary soldier secure an area as other troops move toward a forward base during a military operation against militants in Pakistan’s Khurram tribal region, Saturday, July 9, 2011. – AP Photo // http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?correlator=1310380730771&output=json_html&callback=GA_googleSetAdContentsBySlotForSync&impl=s&prev_afc=1&pstok=9_xZlHzqzoYKBRDzwb8E&client=ca-pub-8258178831251847&slotname=Dawn_Pakistan_inside_468x90&page_slots=Dawn_Pak_Ip_top_728x90%2CDawn_Pakistan_inside_468x90&cookie=ID%3D7bc0595e8816825a%3AT%3D1303908499%3AS%3DALNI_MaWM22AkqRAF5fH1tLDjMKxcxeZPw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dawn.com%2F2011%2F07%2F11%2Fless-us-military-aid-to-pakistan-harms-relations-not-army.html&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fdawn.com%2F&lmt=1310380730&dt=1310380731775&cc=100&biw=1007&bih=458&ifi=2&adk=1029873945&u_tz=120&u_his=3&u_h=768&u_w=1024&u_ah=738&u_aw=1024&u_cd=24&u_nplug=7&u_nmime=23&flash=10.0.2&gads=v2&ga_vid=1666339365.1310223579&ga_sid=1310379498&ga_hid=1597776697&ga_fc=true ISLAMABAD: A US decision to suspend $800 million in military aid to Pakistan is more […]
THE arrest of Brig Ali Khan and four majors last month bring Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) into the spotlight. Though HT did not confirm or deny their links with itself, its spokesman in Pakistan said in a recent interview that the idea of resonates with officers of the armed forces. HT […]
By MD MUJAHID SYED | ARAB NEWS Published: Jul 8, 2011 23:29 Updated: Jul 8, 2011 23:29 JEDDAH: “Urdu is the second most spoken language after Arabic in the Kingdom. It is no more the language of the Subcontinent but is spoken in all continents by hundreds of millions of […]
KHAR, Pakistan: One of Pakistan’s most notorious Taleban radio voices is back on the air after the army raided his stronghold last year and drove him across the border into Afghanistan. The resurgence of Maulvi Faqir Mohammed — also one of the Pakistani Taleban’s top commanders — illustrates the resilience […]
That reporting a rape is an arduous ordeal is a truth that resounds globally. When braving for police investigations, enumerating the ordeal in court and damaging stereotypical media representations become a norm then the argument for a pellucid approach becomes preemptory. In 2006, a much-heated debate on the Hudood Laws […]
BY: Laiq Ahmed Atif, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Malta We live in an age of competition, threats and challenges; surviving between problems, material as well as spiritual. At different times, there were different problems; there were always hurdles to be overcome and threatening dangers to be conquered. But, the peaceful […]
WASHINGTON: The founder of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program claims that in the late 1990s North Korean officials paid kickbacks to senior Pakistani military figures in exchange for critical weapons technology. Abdul Qadeer Khan has given a United States-based expert documents that appear to show North Korea’s government paid more than […]
Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT), or the Liberation Party, was founded in 1953 in Jerusalem. The party advocates the politics of pan-Islam by calling for the re-establishment of the Islamic caliphate. Hizb ut-Tahrir is active in most Muslim countries in addition to Western Europe, North America and Australia. […]
Spinning yarn into cloth used to be a path to fortune in Pakistan, but a story of decline encapsulates how far a crippling energy crisis and rocketing inflation are suffocating the economy. Power cuts sometimes lasting more than 12 hours a day have forced factory owners in the country’s cloth […]
On the American drone attacks and possible military incursions into Pakistan, like the operation to get bin Laden, I am reminded of an incident narrated to me by a very dear elder, Sayeed Hasan Khan. He recalls it was during the freedom movement around 1946-47 when he ran into a woman […]
Anjum Naveed/Associated Press A vigil in Islamabad in June for Saleem Shahzad, who wrote scathing reports about the infiltration of militants in the army. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Obama administration officials believe that Pakistan’s powerful spy agency ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the […]