Loving a country that doesn’t love you back
BY SANA AHMAD , (LAST UPDATED APRIL 3, 2019) The New Zealand massacre through the eyes of an Ahmedi abroad Ever since I moved abroad, I have felt it is […]
Pakistan’s Ahmadi community could be further imperiled by a new court order
World Meena Menon Jul 15, 2018 The most remarkable thing about the Ahmadis’ “place of worship” is the silence. There is no azan; nothing identifying these spaces as houses of […]
The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power
Simon & Schuster Asif M Basit Author: Tariq Ali Publishers: Simon and Schuster (2008) Pages: 315 Tariq Ali is undoubtedly a trendsetter in the field of political analysis. Those who […]
Perspective: Pakistan and our religious tests | Yasser Latif Hamdani
There is nothing in Islam that it is incompatible with modern democracy so long as the modern democracy does not prohibit its exercise Times of Ahmad | News […]
Pakistan: Police clash with Islamist protesters, 6 killed
News of the police intervention spread quickly, prompting sympathizers in cities round the country to take to the streets in a show of solidarity with the Islamabad protesters. Pakistani police cracked down on hundreds of Islamist protesters in a section of Islamabad where the protesters had camped out for weeks, […]
Pakistan government calls in army as Islamist protests spread
Islamabad on November 25, 201 Video by FRANCE 24 Text by NEWS WIRES Pakistan’s government on Saturday called on the army to help clear a sit-in by Islamist hard-liners blockading the capital after police clashed with activists and religious protests spread to other cities. Dozens of people were injured in […]
‘Why did Nawaz Sharif even go to Riyadh?’: Pakistan humiliated at US-Arab-Islamic Summit
Media and Opposition leaders in Pakistan are criticising Nawaz Sharif after facing humiliation at the US-Arab-Islamic Summit. Santosh Chaubey | Posted by Vishakha Saxena New Delhi, May 22, 2017 Media and Opposition leaders in Pakistan are criticising Nawaz Sharif after facing humiliation at the US-Arab-Islamic Summit. Mortified – that is the word used […]
CHOOSING BETWEEN SHADOWS, Part 1
The plight of Pakistan’s religious minorities RICHARD POTTER Editor’s Note: This is part one in our series on Pakistan’s persecuted religious minorities. Click here to read part two, focused on the Ahmadi Muslim population. Credit: Pakistani Christian News Nestled in the outskirts of Bangkok, hidden from the tremendous flow […]
Parrikar to hold high-level meeting with security officials following Pathankot…
Hindustan Times © Provided by Hindustan Times Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar will hold a high level meeting with security officials on Saturday evening following a terror attack on the Indian Air Force base in Indian Air Force (IAF) base in Pathankot district of Punjab early Saturday. The security counter-operation that […]
‘Secret diplomacy’ on the cards for Kashmir
By Kamran Yousaf; Published: December 14, 2015 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India are likely to rely on ‘secret diplomacy’ to broker an elusive deal on the longstanding Kashmir dispute in a move that emulates the path adopted by the Musharraf-Manmohan administrations to find an ‘out of box’ solution to the […]
BLAMING THE KALASH
Newsweek: CONSERVATIVE MUSLIMS ACCUSE THE MINORITY COMMUNITY OF CAUSING LAST MONTH’S EARTHQUAKE. Conservative Muslims in Pakistan’s northwest are blaming the animist Kalash for a powerful earthquake that flattened entire villages in October, claiming their immoral ways provoked Allah’s wrath, in the latest attack on a diminishing tribe fighting to keep […]
Video: First Pakistani woman to summit Everest encourages women to ‘climb their own mountains’
LA Times: red, cold, hungry and roughly 800 feet from Mt. Everest’s summit, Samina Baig had only one thought in mind: “I have to reach the top,” Baig said. “I […]
Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law Receives Harsh Criticism As Stories Of Abuse Surface
Religious News Service | by Naveed Ahmad Posted: 02/19/2014 2:32 pm EST Updated: 02/19/2014 2:59 pm EST ISLAMABAD (RNS) Mohammad Asghar, a 69-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, faces a death sentence in Pakistan for claiming to be the Prophet Muhammad in letters written to officials and police in 2010. The retired British national of Pakistani descent is […]
BANGLADESH I am sorry
Courtesy: http://www.thedailystar.net Faheem Younus I was born in Pakistan, a few months before the war which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh on December 16, 1971. And it was only after I moved to the US that I recognised the magnitude of human rights abuses the Pakistani army committed against their […]
Pakistan’s State of Denial
Source: NY Times Op-ED By TAHMIMA ANAM DHAKA, Bangladesh — It was a Pakistani journalist, Anthony Mascarenhas, who gave the world the first detailed account of Bangladesh’s war of independence. In April 1971, soon after the army of Pakistan started suppressing the secessionist movement in what was then still the eastern […]
Pakistan's State of Denial
Source: NY Times Op-ED By TAHMIMA ANAM DHAKA, Bangladesh — It was a Pakistani journalist, Anthony Mascarenhas, who gave the world the first detailed account of Bangladesh’s war of independence. In April 1971, soon after the army of Pakistan started suppressing the secessionist movement in what was then still the eastern […]
Staying in Afghanistan Is a Recipe for More Terrorism
Anthony W. Orlando HUFFINGTON POST Lecturer in the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Los Angeles Barack Obama is daring the terrorists. He’s standing in their front yard. He’s calling them out. Of course, that’s not how it’s reported. “U.S. ‘nowhere near’ decision to pull all troops […]
Pakistan Blasphemy Laws Reform Will Give Death Sentence To False Accusers
Religion News Service | By Richard S. Ehrlich Posted: 09/25/2013 10:23 am EDT (RNS) Pakistan’s constitutionally mandated Council of Islamic Ideology told the government anyone who wrongly accuses a person […]
80 bodies of Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorists brought from Syria for burial
SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency) – Eighty bodies of outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba’s terrorists have been brought from Syria to Pakistan. Shiite News has learnt reliably that the bodies of Sipah-e-Sahaba’s terrorists are being brought to Pakistan from Syria. Hundreds of bodies have been brought so far. Latest reports said that around […]
Court Documents Detail a Deadly Family Feud From Brooklyn to Pakistan
Source: NY Times. By MOSI SECRET She fled her husband and her family, sneaking out of her home in Pakistan to take sanctuary in the American Embassy, which then whisked her to a secret hide-out in the United States. The thrilling escape seemed to end the harrowing ordeal of Amina […]
