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Mingora’s ‘Khooni’ chowk and the rise of Fauji Taliban in Swat – By Baela Raza Jamil: Saturday, January 10, 2009 The emerging lexicon of ’emergencies and violence’ in the name of religion such as ‘Khooni chowk’ ‘Fauji Taliban’ etc., trigger the urgency for redefining our belief and value systems and what we mean by civil
Mingora’s ‘Khooni’ chowk and the rise of Fauji Taliban in Swat – By Baela Raza Jamil: Saturday, January 10, 2009 The emerging lexicon of ’emergencies and violence’ in the name of religion such as ‘Khooni chowk’ ‘Fauji Taliban’ etc., trigger the urgency for redefining our belief and value systems and what we mean by civil
Acting on the Mumbai dossier – By Praful Bidwai: Saturday, January 10, 2009 (The News) Six weeks after the Mumbai attacks, the Indian government is still groping for a strategy to get Pakistan to crack down on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and other extremists. The Pakistani
Acting on the Mumbai dossier – By Praful Bidwai: Saturday, January 10, 2009 (The News) Six weeks after the Mumbai attacks, the Indian government is still groping for a strategy to get Pakistan to crack down on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and other extremists. The Pakistani government has finally admitted
Rauf Klasra: Nawaz Sharif moving in the wrong direction….: Qadam barhao Nawaz Sharif, traitors are with you, once again…. Jang, 11 Jan 2009
Terrorists of Sipah-e-Sahaba and the Taliban kill a number of Shias in Hangu and Sibbi….26 dead, 50 wounded: Daily Jang, update 10 Jan 2009 …. Fierce battles in Hangu leave 26 dead By Abdul Sami Paracha KOHAT, Jan 10: A fierce gunbattle between rival sects in Hangu continued on Saturday amid efforts to broker an early truce
Terrorists of Sipah-e-Sahaba and the Taliban kill a number of Shias in Hangu and Sibbi….26 dead, 50 wounded: Daily Jang, update 10 Jan 2009 …. Fierce battles in Hangu leave 26 deadBy Abdul Sami Paracha KOHAT, Jan 10: A fierce gunbattle between rival sects in Hangu continued on Saturday amid efforts to broker an early truce to
Robert Fisk: Wherever I go, I hear the same tired Middle East comparisons: On both sides of the Atlantic the experience has been weirdly repetitive Saturday, 10 January 2009 (The Independent) It all depends where you live. That was the geography of Israel’s propaganda, designed to demonstrate that we softies – we
Robert Fisk’s World: Wherever I go, I hear the same tired Middle East comparisons: On both sides of the Atlantic the experience has been weirdly repetitive Saturday, 10 January 2009 (The Independent) It all depends where you live. That was the geography of Israel’s propaganda, designed to demonstrate that we softies – we
Children of Auschwitz, have mercy on children of Palestine…: Remembering our Jewish brothers and sisters, victims of the Holocaust
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Two Qaeda Leaders including the mastermind of the Marriott Hotel Bombing Killed in U.S. Strike in Pakistan: By ERIC SCHMITTJanuary 8, 2009 WASHINGTON — An American missile strike on Jan. 1 in Pakistan’s tribal areas killed two senior leaders of Al Qaeda, including one militant suspected of overseeing last September’s deadly suicide bombing at a Marriott
Two Qaeda Leaders including the mastermind of the Marriott Hotel Bombing Killed in U.S. Strike in Pakistan: By ERIC SCHMITTJanuary 8, 2009 WASHINGTON — An American missile strike on Jan. 1 in Pakistan’s tribal areas killed two senior leaders of Al Qaeda, including one militant suspected of overseeing last September’s deadly suicide bombing at a Marriott
PPP and PTI (Imran Khan) join hands to support Ziaur Rehman Advocate….: Aitzaz, Hamid in all-out efforts to win LBA polls PTI Vice Chairman Hamid Khan and PPP lawyers jointly supporting Ziaur Rehman against Tariq Javed a candidate jointly supported by Kurd and Aitzaz Ahsan in LBA elections PTI VC and
PPP and PTI (Imran Khan) join hands to support Ziaur Rehman Advocate….: Aitzaz, Hamid in all-out efforts to win LBA polls PTI Vice Chairman Hamid Khan and PPP lawyers jointly supporting Ziaur Rehman against Tariq Javed a candidate jointly supported by Kurd and Aitzaz Ahsan in LBA elections PTI VC and
Why did Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani dismiss his National Security Adviser Major General (retd) Mehmud Ali Durrani?: Durrani, a mysterious character? (By Abbas Ather)
Why did Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani dismiss his National Security Adviser Major General (retd) Mehmud Ali Durrani?: Durrani, a mysterious character? (By Abbas Ather) Indiscretion cost Durrani his job By Our Staff Reporter (Dawn, 8 Jan 09) ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday summarily dismissed his National Security Adviser Major General (retd)
Jinnah, Ayesha Jalal, Safdar Mehmood, Irshad Haqqani, Khurshid Nadeem – an interesting debate: also read: An unlikely Indian admirer of Jinnah: Jaswant Singh of BJP
From Swat – with no love — The main town of Swat, Mingora, has now virtually fallen to the militants.: From Swat – with no loveZubair Torwali The main town of Swat, Mingora, has now virtually fallen to the militants. The police are escorted by army officials and come out from their ‘hide-outs’ only for a couple of hours.
India provides evidence of the Mumbai terrorist attacks to Pakistan….: A page from the dossier given to PakistanDossier: handlers used virtual number to contact a mobile with one of the terrorists Siddharth Varadarajan (The Hindu, Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009) New Delhi: Amidst the clutter of telephone calls the Indian
India provides evidence of the Mumbai terrorist attacks to Pakistan….: A page from the dossier given to PakistanDossier: handlers used virtual number to contact a mobile with one of the terrorists Siddharth Varadarajan (The Hindu, Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009) New Delhi: Amidst the clutter of telephone calls the Indian
Robert Fisk: Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask: A child injured in the Israeli bombardment of a UN school yesterday is taken to Shifa hospital in Gaza City So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty
Robert Fisk: Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask: A child injured in the Israeli bombardment of a UN school yesterday is taken to Shifa hospital in Gaza City So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty civilian refugees dead in a
IRI award for Sherry Rehman: ISLAMABAD: International Republican Institute (IRI), renowned for conducting various political surveys in Pakistan, has awarded Federal Minister for Information Sherry Rehman the title of ‘democracy’s hero’ for her struggle for democracy in the country. According to IRI, Sherry worked
Terror, not India, the enemy, says ISI chief: LAHORE: Terrorism, and not India, is Pakistan’s greatest enemy, and Islamabad is distancing itself from conflict with New Delhi, Inter-Services Intelligence Director General Lt Gen Ahmad Shujaa Pasha has said, a private TV channel reported. According to the channel,
Robert Fisk: Bring in the peacekeepers? It’s not as easy as it sounds: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 (The Independent) UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, where they have had mixed success Do I hear the braying of the UN donkey in Gaza? On his Middle East tour, the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, may well
Allama Iqbal and Ahlul-Bayt: Here is a collection of Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s poems on the Ahl-e-Bayt of the Prophet Muhammad (peace by upon him and his progeny) including Iqbal’s poems on Hazrat Ali, Hazrat Fatima Zahra and Imam Hussain: Iqbal on Hazrat Imam
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Karbala and the Imam Hussain in Persian and Indo-Muslim literature – by Annemarie Schimmel: Annemarie Schimmel, Allama Muhammad Iqbal and the significance of Karbala In this era of the qehtur-rijal, we needed to have voices such as Iqbal and Schimmel. Instead, we have “scholars” such as Dr Israr Ahmed and Dr Zakir Naik
Karbala and the Imam Hussain in Persian and Indo-Muslim literature, including the poetry of Allama Iqbal – By Annemarie Schimmel: For a detailed account of Iqbal’s poetry on Ahlul-Bayt (A.S.), read the following article: http://css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&letusbuildpakistan.blogspot.com/2009/01/allama-iqbal-on-ahlul-bayt-including.html …. Annemarie Schimmel, Allama Muhammad Iqbal and the significance of Karbala In this era of the qehtur-rijal, we needed to have voices such as
Haroon-ur-Rashid’s column on Imam Hussain (and those who praise Yazid including Dr Israr Ahmed and Dr Zaik Naik): This site has moved to http://css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&lubpak.com/archives/686, click this link if you are not redirected
According to the polls, Barak’s predicted election result rose within 48 hours by five Knesset seats. About 80 dead Palestinians for each seat.: Molten lead — Uri AvneryIsrael is missing the historic chance of making peace with secular Arab nationalism. Tomorrow, it may be faced with a uniformly fundamentalist Arab world, Hamas multiplied by a thousand. Just after midnight, January 2, Al-Jazeera’s
Baloch protest against ‘Talibanisation’: The Balochistan National Party (BNP) Information Secretary and former senator Mr Sanaullah Baloch told Daily Times on Sunday that “supporters” of the Taliban had “captured land worth Rs2 billion in the eastern and western parts of Quetta” to “undermine
Ansar Abbasi reveals assets of Nawaz Sharif; the story of Nawaz Sharif’s plea bargain…: Sharif family lose 80% of assets, says Qureshi By Ansar Abbasi ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: The exile of the Sharif family to Saudi Arabia following the pardon announcement by the government, has deprived the Raiwind dwellers of their 15 assets,
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