Unpacking deradicalisation
Source: Dawn ONCE again, as the state rolls up its sleeves to rid society of militancy, plans beyond the conventional security operations are under the spotlight. And this includes figuring out how to deal with militants. In this regard, words such as ‘deradicalisation’ are being bandied about; but it is […]
Imran Khan releases poverty eradication policy document
Focus on extreme poverty, orphans, widows, homeless and the disabled in Pakistan Published: April 08, 2019 19:21Falah Gulzar, Social Media Journalist Imran KhanImage Credit: AP Pakistan PM released poverty eradication […]
‘Erasing the poor’: Pakistanis feel crunch of rising prices
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON APRIL 4, 2019 FILE PHOTO: A vendor with a pane of vegetable rolls and samosas, a traditional snack, walks past the sacks of grain […]
Hazrat Chaudhry Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan r.a.
29th March 2019 Hazrat Chaudhry Sahibra was a companion of the Promised Messiahas, member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council, judge of the Federal Court of India, president of the International […]
EU Ambassador to Pakistan meets with Ahmadi officials
ASIA RABWAH TIMES European Union Ambassador to Pakistan on Monday paid a visit to the Ahmadiyya town of Rabwah and met with senior community leaders. Ambassador Jean-François Cautain described his […]
Pakistan’s Khan dodges questions on mass Chinese detention of Muslims
(CNN)Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has dodged a question on the reported detention of as many as two million Muslims in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, saying he “didn’t […]
MPs want to tackle forced marriage by raising the legal age you can wed – here’s why it won’t work
Collectively, all European countries need to tackle the issue of violence against girls and women and develop support for those at risk Rabina Khan While MPs debate whether to raise […]
Ban all terrorism
Source: Dawn FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) met in Istanbul after the “savage terrorist attack which took the lives of 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch”. Notably, while the New Zealand prime minister unequivocally condemned this act as terrorism, many Western capitals refrained from branding it as […]
Mahathir, Imran witness groundbreaking for Proton plant in Pakistan
Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan on Friday witnessed the symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for the Malaysian national carmaker Proton’s manufacturing assembly plant in the country. By NST Business – March 22, 2019 @ 10:22pm ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and his Pakistani […]
Tehseen Poonawalla schools Pak minister Fawad Chaudhry who trolled Sushma Swaraj
On Sunday, Chaudhry took a dig at PM Modi after Swaraj sought a report in connection with the abduction, forced conversion and underage marriage of two teenage Hindu girls in […]
MMA to hold lock down in capital to safeguard ‘Islamic ideology’
Source: The International News ISLAMABAD: Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) during a meeting of heads of all the parties of the alliance decided to hold lock down in the federal capital to […]
There is no place for the Qadianis in Pakistan, says Adviser to Prime Minister of Pakistan
Source: Pakistan Christian Post During the 20th century when Adolf Hitler was delivering these kinds of speeches, the result came in the form of the Holocaust where millions of Jews […]
Solidarity and Hypocrisy
In the wake of the terrorist attack on a mosque in Christchurch in which over 50 worshippers were killed by a white supremacist, the world has been united in […]
Ahmadi Muslim survivors of May 2010 mosque attacks in Pakistan overwhelmed by New Zealand’s reaction
Source: nzherald.co.nz Two surviviors of vicious mosque attacks nine years ago have been overwhelmed by the solidarity and warmth shown by New Zealanders – something they didn’t receive in their own country. Zulfiqar Ahmad, 34, and Mirza Ahmad, 38, were attending Friday prayer at two different mosques in Lahore in […]
Guns and tourists: Aboard the unlikely India-Pakistan ‘friendship bus’
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON MARCH 22, 2019 FILE PHOTO: Passengers disembark the India-Pakistan ‘friendship bus’ under police guard at a rest stop in Sirhind, India, March 15, 2019. […]
A wakeup call for Muslims
Source: ET The Muslim moment of truth has arrived. One cannot forget the day of March 15 this year when more than 50 Muslim worshipers praying in two mosques of Christchurch, New Zealand were a victim of mayhem and carnage unleashed by white supremacists who openly call for expelling Muslims […]
Flames of bigotry
Source: Dawn IT is yet another needless death at the altar of moral vigilantism. On Wednesday at Bahawalpur’s Government Sadiq Egerton College, a third-year student stabbed to deathKhalid Hameed, head of the English department, accusing the professor of ‘spreading obscenity’. It appears the young man had taken exception on religious grounds […]
Pakistan: Student kills professor for alleged blasphemy
Bahawalpur student suspected of murdering professor remanded to police custody Mohammad ImranUpdated March 21, 2019 3 An old photo of deceased Professor Khalid Hameed of Government Sadiq Egerton College. — DawnNewsTV An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Bahawalpur on Thursday remanded to police custody a college student arrested yesterday for allegedly stabbing […]
Elderly Ahmadi released from Pakistani jail after blasphemy sentence cut
The 83-year-old was arrested after being accused of selling an Ahmadi interpretation of the Quran A file image of a minaret of the Ahmadi minority mosque in Lahore […]