Hostage to extremism
Hostage to extremism Zahid HussainPublished April 14, 2021 IT is not for the first time that a religiously motivated group has disrupted civic life but what happened this week is extremely serious. The […]
Pakistani, Indian officials held talks in Dubai over Kashmir
Pakistani, Indian officials held talks in Dubai over Kashmir Reuters Published April 15, 2021 – NEW DELHI: Top intelligence officers from Pakistan and India held secret talks in Dubai in January in […]
Beyond the ban
Beyond the ban Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Published April 16, 2021 – FOR more than four days, the PTI government remained mum in the face of pitched battles across Pakistan between activists of […]
Pakistan to ban religious party after deadly protests nationwide
Short Url https://arab.news/9fhr6 Arrest of Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan head sparks nationwide demonstrations Updated 15 April 2021 AAMIR SAEED ISLAMABAD, KARACHI: The Pakistan government on Wednesday said it had sent a proposal to […]
Hostage to extremism
Hostage to extremism Zahid Hussain Published April 14, 2021 IT is not for the first time that a religiously motivated group has disrupted civic life but what happened this week is extremely serious. […]
The 1974 ouster of the ‘heretics’: What really happened?
Nadeem F. Paracha Published November 21, 2013 The sole culprit? The legacy of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, is a mixed bag of praise, platitudes and panning. Where, on […]
Another Ahmadiyya Mosque attacked in Muzaffargar, Pakistan.
Another Ahmadiyya Mosque attacked in Muzaffargar under the watch of Police & several Ahmadi Muslims arrested for no reason. This is the second attack in a month in Punjab.This is the worst form of persecution but you won’t find any outrage or many speaking about it because raising this issue, […]
Situationer: Ramazan crucial in combating Covid third wave
Fahd Husain Published April 13, 2021 STATISTICS tell a grim story of the third wave of Covid-19 ravaging the urban centres of Pakistan. With the government struggling to enforce SOPs, manage […]
Blasphemy case registered against two nurses in Faisalabad
Saleem Mubarak Published April 10, 2021 – DAWN.COM FAISALABAD: Police have registered a case against two nurses of the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital on the charge of committing blasphemy. Scores of hospital […]
Pakistan police destroys Ahmadiyya mosque
By News Desk Published on March 28, 2021 https://www.weeklyblitz.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Pakistan-police-destroys-Ahmadiyya-mosque.png Members of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan have been facing state-patronized terror and cruelty for decades. Although Article 20 of the Constitution of Pakistan grants all citizens the right to profess their religion, members of the Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Ahmadiyya, Baha’i […]
Pakistan: Khatam-e-Nabuwat Demolishes Ahmadi Mosque with Police Help
Sun Online Desk 28th March, 2021 Pakistan: Khatam-e-Nabuwat Demolishes Ahmadi Mosque with Police Help The journalist who reported on it is now himself at risk of being arrested. Khatam-e-Nabuwat is a radical Barelvi Muslim organization in Pakistan, which opposes any change to blasphemy law and calls for increased repression of […]
Déjà vu
TODAY’S PAPER | MARCH 27, 2021 Ashraf Jehangir Qazi Published The writer is a former ambassador to the US, India and China and head of UN missions in Iraq and […]
Man axed to death over blasphemy allegations in Punjab’s Jhang
Imran Gabol Published March 26, 2021 Taqi Shah was attacked while he was visiting a local mela in Basti Murad of Shorkot tehsil with a friend on March 24. — […]
Pakistan’s dangerous turn: Shift from Jinnahist to jihadist ideology
By Ashok Bhan Anti-minority bias is inherent in Pakistan’s Constitution, with successive governments adopting discriminatory laws. The killing of 11 coal miners belonging to the minority Hazara community in Pakistan’s […]
Pakistan joins first-ever ‘Int’l Day to Combat Islamophobia’
BY ANADOLU AGENCY ISLAMABAD ASIA PACIFIC MAR 15, 2021 Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses the National Assembly after a vote of confidence session in Islamabad, Pakistan, March, 6 2021. (EPA) […]
Biden Must Press Pakistan to End Persecution of Religious Minorities
by Qasim Rashid March 18, 2021 Last year the U.S. State Department labelled Pakistan a country of particular concern over its increasing persecution of religious minorities. This label is the […]
Pakistan: Ahmadi mosque demolished with the help of police
18 Mar 2021, 13:18 MALAYSIA SUN Islamabad [Pakistan], March 18 (ANI): An Ahmadi mosque in Garmola Virkan village, Gujranwala district on Wednesday was demolished by a mob of extremist Mullahs, […]
Pakistan’s hypocrisy on Sri Lanka’s burqa ban exposed
ANI 18th March 2021, Colombo [Sri Lanka], March 18 (ANI): Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Saad Khattak, publicly intervened in the country’s internal affairs, commenting on a ban on […]
Violent extremism, religious intolerance in Pakistan poses devastating consequences for its future
ANI Wed, 17 March, 2021 Islamabad [Pakistan], March 17 (ANI): Amid religious intolerance and violent extremism in Pakistan, the anniversaries of two brutal assassinations have cast a light on how […]
Extremist Sunni group destroys an Ahmadi Mosque with the help of police in Pakistan
According to the Pakistani constitution, Ahmadis can’t call themselves Muslims, they can’t call their place of worship mosques, and their places of worship can’t look like a Masjid or Mosque, […]