A climate of crime
Opinion ByKamila Hyat October 27, 2022 There has been an extraordinary rise in street crime across major cities in the country, notably Karachi and Lahore. According to official figures and […]
1,200-Year-Old Hindu Temple In Pakistan To Be Restored After Long Court Battle
Idrees Bukhtiyar Updated on Aug 04, 2022 Highlights The Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) last month retrieved the possession of Valmiki Mandir (temple) situated near the famous Anarkali Bazaar Lahore from […]
Archbishop of Canterbury arrives on three-day visit
PAKISTAN APP FEBRUARY 26, 2022 LAHORE: The Archbishop of Canterbury most Revd Justin Welby reached Lahore on a three-day visit to Pakistan early Saturday night. Special Representative of the Prime […]
Thousands march in Pakistan Shia procession as virus cases soar
Shi’a Muslim devotees take part in a procession to commemorate the death anniversary of Prophet Mohammad’s companion and son-in-law Imam Ali in Lahore on May 4, 2021. (AFP/Arif Ali) AFP […]
Letter of the Day: A comparison of two tragedies
Letter to the editor from Hammad Sharif READER LETTERS Updated: April 17, 2019 Recently, I read the story about how one Saskatonian just missed being a possible victim of the […]
Lahore attack: Pakistan PM Sharif demands swift action on terror
Source: BBC Pakistan’s PM has urged better co-ordination between security agencies against terror, a day after a suicide bomb killed more than 70 in Lahore. At a meeting of security officials, Nawaz Sharif said the nation’s resolve to deal with militants was growing. A number of arrests were made […]
‘Save the state, not politics’: Qadri returns, in style
Source: ET Tahirul Qadri acknowledges supporters at Minar-e-Pakistan. PHOTO: NNI LAHORE: Influential religious scholar Tahirul Qadri set a three-week deadline on Sunday for the Pakistan Peoples Party-led coalition government to introduce election reforms or else face a “million-man march” on January 14. “Elections without reforms will be meaningless and people will […]
Minority Rights Day: 2012 saw rise in attacks on places of worship
Source: ET LAHORE: Just this year, nine places of worship have been damaged, destroyed or vandalised in Pakistan. This includes five churches and three Hindu temples. Part of a disturbing trend in violence against minorities in the country, at least 27 places of worship of religious minorities have been vandalised in […]
Altaf Hussain condemns the act of damaging graves in Ahmadiyya graveyard in Lahore
Source:www.mqm.org The Founder and Leader of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Mr Altaf Hussain has strongly condemned the act of damaging graves in the Ahmadiyya graveyard in Lahore by some miscreants. He said that Islam teaches us to respect places of worship and graveyards of other religions and hence the act […]
Silence resonates after Ahmadi graves’ vandalised
Express Tribune: by Rabia Mahmood: LAHORE: Walls of the recently desecrated Model Town Ahmadi graveyard stand high, while an armed guard patrols the gate. On the very same road stands a Muslim graveyard with an open gate, low boundary walls and no armed guard on duty. The beefed up security follows in the […]
The case of a country being mortgaged in the name of religion
Three alleged incidents in the past few days have gone relatively unnoticed: the desecration of over 120 Ahmadi community graves in close neighbourhood of the Sharifs’ mansions in Model Town, […]
Police demolish Ahmadi worship place minarets in Kharian,Lahore in Pakistan.
LAHORE: Six minarets of an Ahmadi place of worship, Baitul Hamd, were demolished by the Kharian city police Tuesday night. The demolition took place on the application of Saqib Shakeel Ghazi, Syed Iftikhar Kazmi and others from the Barelvi religious organisation called Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Islam. It had been filed to the Kharian police […]