By Patrick French in Liberty or Death(excerpts) French writes: Given that Amritsar could not become part of Pakistan, the adjoining district of Gurdapur (which was only 51 per cent Muslim) should […]
Source: The Hindu Op-Ed by Haroon Habib December is a landmark month for Bangladesh. It is the month of the liberation of the country from Pakistan in 1971. And it is also a reminder of a great national tragedy — it was during the same month that year that the […]
Source: The Nation By S M Hali Bangladesh is a sovereign country and has every right to award anyone of its choice for contributing to its “liberation”, whether they are Indians, Americans, Russians, French, Australian, British, Swedes, Sri Lankans, Nepalese or Bhutanese. Conferring the awards 41 years later is Bangladesh’s […]
AFP / NEWSWEEK PAKISTAN Gunmen opened fire on polio vaccinators in three separate attacks in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, seriously wounding one, officials said, following the earlier killings of six […]
It seems that the hotbed of news items and endless supply of blood splattered images of innocent minority victims are coming from mostly Pakistan these days. Often times, a question is raised as to what is the sentiment of the people of Pakistan regarding this image, extremism, and human […]
Source: The Express Tribune. When Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar visited Dhaka in November to invite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid to attend the D-8 summit in Islamabad, a demand was put forward that Pakistan apologise over “crimes committed by the state in 1971.” Khar responded with the standard […]
Source: Rawal TV: Focus with Waqas Munawar Episode 88 – Issues: Lahore: Extremists Vandalise Cemetery …….
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Express Tribune: bu Abdul Majeed: It has been 41 years today. 41 years ago, Pakistan was broken up into two parts, the former West Pakistan and Bangladesh. Apart from a distance of around 1000 miles separating the two parts of Pakistan, there was enough resentment on part of East Pakistani populace that […]
Mr Maqsood Ahmad son of Nawab Din shot dead in Quetta on December 7, 2012 was a decent man. On December 7 at 9am he arrived at his hardware store in satellite town along with his employee. after dropping off the employee at the store he took his two children […]
By Zubair Khan In unfortunate country of Pakistan the defence minister has to appear in the National Assembly to declare that no official department of Pakistan is authorised to consider […]
Dawn: Nadeem Paracha: It is believed that Pakistan’s descent into the quagmire of violence, partaken in the name of religion has its roots in 1974 when the otherwise ‘secular’ government […]
This is the third in a series of entries looking at what we can expect in 2013. Each weekday, a guest analyst will look at the key challenges facing a selected country – and what next year might hold in store. By Michael Kugelman, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Michael […]
Youtube: An everlasting beautiful poem by Obaidullah Aleem written in 1971 in his melodius voice and in the presence of Khalifatul Masih IV, doubling the pleasure. What an apt description […]
Dawn: WASHINGTON: The “Next Eleven,” which include Pakistan, will collectively overtake EU-27 in global power by 2030, says a US government report released on Monday. Although America’s influence will reduce, it will remain the “first among equals,” adds the report prepared by the US National Intelligence Council with inputs from […]
Source: Global voices. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) is an ongoing tribunal in Bangladesh that was set up to investigate and provide justice regarding the war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. It is claimed that up to three million people were […]
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 […]
Click Here to read his Urdu article. Note by the Editor: Mr Ansar Abbasi does not know that it is the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community which is considered to be the most effective defender to protect the respect of prophet Muhammad (saw). Instead making anti-Ahmadiyya propaganda he shoul accept the truth. […]
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 […]
Daily Times: Mohammad Ahmad. Both the targeted communities have nothing in common except that both despise violence and work in their own ways to bring man closer to God December 3, 2012 will be remembered in history as a black day for Jinnah’s Pakistan. Two separate incidents occurred in Lahore […]