اے کون اے ؟ – وسعت اللہ خان: قبل از بیسویں صدی بھارتی ریاست اتر پردیش کے دارلحکومت لکھنؤسے باون کیلومیٹر پرے ضلع سیتا پورکی ایک تحصیل محمود آباد ہے۔محمود آباد قصبے میں ایک قدیم محل ہے جسے قلعہ کہتے ہیں۔اس قلعے کے اردگرد چھیاسٹھ گاؤں ہیں
Too many false binaries: As we, The Shia Citizens Action Forum, stand in solidarity with the families of nearly a hundred of our lawyers, doctors, nurses, journalists and citizens who perished in this blast, we feel it would be a disservice
Salafists blow up 16-century mosque in Yemen: Salafists in Yemen have blown up a 16th century mosque housing the shrine of a revered Sufi scholar in the city of Taiz, a local official said Sunday. Gunmen led by a Salafist local chief known as Abu al-Abbas
‘I don’t have a job, so I paint the walls’: All over the world print and electronic media is used for advertising, and in today’s modern world social media is also playing an increasingly important role in promoting ad campaigns. However, in our corner of the world,there exists
Up the creek – Faisal Bari: ON July 19, newspapers reported that a married man who was having an affair was killed in an ‘honour killing’ allegedly by the relatives of the woman he was involved with. One report described the murder thus: “A
Fifth column in the West – Alexander Athos: Our enemy in the West is not Islam, it’s a fifth column of Wahhabi Salafi hate preachers and their appeasers who allow the Wahhabi Salafi Deobandi Takfiri Jihadi ideology to proliferate and radicalize Muslim youth to commit atrocities
’پیلٹ گن مارتی نہیں زندہ لاش بنا دیتی ہے‘: بھارت کے زیرِ انتظام کشمیر میں سکیورٹی فورس مظاہرین کو منتشرکرنے کے لیے پیلٹ گن یعنی چھرے والی بندوق کا استعمال کر رہے ہیں۔ یہ بندوق جان لیوا نہیں ہے لیکن ان بندوقوں کے سبب کئی مظاہرین کو شدید
Agha Nasir: Beyond broadcasting: ISLAMABAD: One evening, the legendary broadcaster ZA Bokhari pulled up outside the radio building and sent for three of his producers to come jump in the car for a joyride on the, nearly empty and wider than now, streets
Why liberals are losing – Pervez Hoodbhoy: LIBERALS in Pakistan have been an endangered species for quite a while. How many dodos remain? Nobody quite knows, but a day after the assassination of Governor Salmaan Taseer in 2011, the press secretary of the Jamaat-i-Islami, Farid
Iraq shrine attack: IS kills dozens in Balad: Suicide bombers and gunmen have killed at least 35 people in an attack by so-called Islamic State (IS) at a Shia shrine in the Iraqi town of Balad. At least one bomber blew himself up outside the mausoleum
In Pakistan, funding for ‘University of Jihad’ draws Fire: Weeks of scathing criticism have apparently prompted a provincial government in Pakistan to review a $3 million grant it recently allocated to a controversial Islamic seminary that some critics call the “University of Jihad.” The Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary, or madrasa, headed
Pakistan’s Vanishing History: In 2007, a Pakistani schoolteacher was arrested and put on trial by the Taliban on charges of preserving the “symbols of infidelity.” It was a sheer stroke of luck that the Taliban’s ruthless justice department could not find
15 Pakistani Heroes killed by Deobandi Terrotists: Terrorist groups would have you believe they are doing God’s work when they attack parks filled with children or gun down Sufi artists, such as Amjad Sabri. They’re not. Terrorism has no religion. In the past decade, terrorism has claimed
Safoora, Sabeen cases convicts challenge death sentence: ISLAMABAD: Five convicts of the Safoora Goth carnage and Sabeen Mahmud murder cases challenged their death sentence in a military court of appeal on Wednesday. The Inter-Services Public Relations on May 12 announced the confirmation of death
Bangladesh to ban Jamaat-e-Islami: DHAKA: A bill would be placed in the ongoing parliament session to ban the politics of Jamaat-e-Islami, the party accused of committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, says Bangladesh Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel
Return of ‘Taliban Khan’: Just as it seemed like Imran Khan was set to lose the title of “Taliban Khan” for his ideological support of the militant group, the captain swooped down to reclaim his moniker in style. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government
Anti-Ahmadi group or the Deobandi project: LAHORE: The unrelenting nationwide anti-Ahmadiyya campaign took a perturbing turn on Friday with a preeminent body calling for donations to curb Ahmadiyyat worldwide with an advert placed across all editions of a leading Urdu daily. The move comes at
An untimely curtain call: A private home in Karachi’s low-income Liaquatabad neighbourhood, which shot to prominence last week, already stood out for being unique. Postal deliveries to the address in the otherwise congested area only had to have the names Amjad Sabri
I remember Benazir Bhutto: Today is Mothermma Benazir Bhutto’s birthday. Ten years ago on this day she had sent me the following message in response to my email wishing her happy birthday: “Dear Shiraz Paracha Sahib, I thank you for the warm
Bahrain strips Shiite cleric of citizenship: Bahrain stripped the citizenship of its top Shiite Muslim cleric Monday over allegations of inciting sectarianism, drawing rebukes from Shiite-majority Iran and the U.S. Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said revoking Isa Qassim’s citizenship aimed to confront extremism