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Saaeda Begum, Mother of Irfan Khudi Ali -by Asim Rafiqui: Irfan Ali was perhaps one of the most well known young Hazara activists and human rights worker. His death in the January 10, 2013 suicide bomb attack sent shock waves across the country, and solicited outrage and statements of
PML-N should consider that buying ASWJ-LeJ votes with Shia and Sunni Barelvi blood is bad politics: Note: The following is an adapted version, with minor changes, of Mr. Feisal Naqvi’s article on the unholy alliance between Takfiri Deobadni militants of ASWJ-LeJ and PML-N. The minor changes reflect the fact that it is not only Shias
Steely resolve of Shia Hazaras: ‘We are not victims — we choose to live and to fight’ – by Rabia Ali: Trauma alone from a blast such as the one which took place in Quetta on February 16 can leave an individual paralysed with fear – but the girls of Hazara, the community which was targeted in the attack, have
Banned terrorist outfit SSP (ASWJ-LeJ) chief Ludhianvi confirms talks with PML-N – by Amir Mir: The cat is finally out of the bag. What was vehemently being refuted by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has actually been confirmed by none other than the chief of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ — defunct Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan-SSP) Maulana
کیا میں تکفیری ہوں؟ ڈاکٹر علی حیدر اور ان کے بیٹے کے قتل پر ایک سنی مسلمان کی تحریر: میرا ایک ہی بیٹا تھا ۔۔۔۔ مالک نے دیا ۔۔۔۔۔۔ اس کا انعام تھا ۔۔۔۔ اس نے لے لیا ۔۔۔۔ آپ سوچ بھی سکتے ہیں کہ ایک باپ، اپنے ہونہار بیٹے کی موت پہ، یہ الفاظ، کس دل سے
Two-nation theory 2.0: It is Sunni vs Shia this time around – by Kunwar Khuldune Shahid (Pakistan Today): The writer is a financial journalist and a cultural critic. Twitter: @khuldune, Email: khulduneshahid@gmail.com Source: Pakistan Today, 22 Feb 2013 It is Sunni vs Shia this time around. Even though the original two-nation theory drowned in the Bay of
CM Shahbz Sharif will not act against LeJ because PML-N has political alliance with ASWJ – by Amir Mir: Punjab govt may not act against LeJ as PML-N has seat adjustments with defunct SSP While the federal government wants the Punjab government to launch a massive crackdown on the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) and defunct Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP, currently operating
Pakistan intelligence services allow terrorists to slaughter Shia Muslims – Press TV’s report: Pakistan intelligence services allow terrorists to slaughter Shia Muslims: Ali Wasif Pakistan’s intelligence agencies have allowed terrorists to kill Shia Muslims across the violence-wracked Pakistan since the mid-1980’s. In the background to this, the outlawed Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
An example of how a Deobandi blogger obfuscates Shia genocide in Pakistan – by Ada Khakwani: On a relatively unknown pro-establishment blog (Five Rupees), a Deobandi Pashtun blogger (a graduate of a military academy and an under-training establishment mouthpiece) known as an emering commercial iberal along with Samad Khurram and Mohsin Hijazee, has published a dishonest
#ShiaGenocide: When the victims are buried in mass graves, it’s genocide – by Farooq Tirmizi: When they need mass graves to bury the victims, it is time to start calling it a genocide. I have seen gut-wrenching images of poor Hazara men and women mourning their loved ones who were killed simply for being Shia. I
#ShiaGenocide: Pakistan announces operation after bombing, but is it just for show? – by Taha Siddiqui: In an apparent effort to end three days of country-wide protests, the Pakistani government ordered an operation today against the perpetrators of a bomb blast Saturday that killed at least 89 people in Quetta. The bomb attack targeted Pakistan’s Shiite Muslim
Dr Taqi debunks Iran-Saudi proxy war theory that Najam Sethi and others use to obfuscate #ShiaGenocide: There is no indication that the dark night of Takfiri terrorism is about to lift its heinous shadow from Quetta’s Shia Hazara. Are 40 days enough of a respite for the Hazara to be digging mass graves for their
From Quetta to Lahore, you’re condemned to suffer, and suffer heavily, for being a Shia – by Dr. Murtaza Haider: He was only 12-years old, full of life and promise. But that was on Sunday. Monday morning Murtaza Haider and his father, Dr Syed Ali Haider, were shot dead in a targeted attack by militants in an elite neighbourhood
#ShiaGenocide: Narratives on Hazara pogroms – by Wajahat S Khan: In less than five weeks, the Hazara of Quetta – one of that city’s original Shia communities – have lost close to 200 of their people. Both the old Hazara stronghold of Alamdar Road, and the newer, more ghettoised
Hassan Abbas’s book reveals ISI was Involved in 1990 murder of Iranian diplomat in Lahore: Source: http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/sept04/P1_isi.htm Special SAT Report WASHINGTON, Sept 15: A former Pakistani police official has disclosed that Pakistan’s infamous Inter Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) operatives were directly involved in the 1990 murder of a senior Iranian diplomat in Lahore, an
The collapse of Al-Jazeera’s credibility: “Before the beginning of the Arab Spring, we were a voice for change…a platform for critics and political activists throughout the region. Now, Al-Jazeera has become a propaganda broadcaster.” Related post: Deconstructing Al Jazeera and its paymasters Since the
Who’s afraid of the Karachi Literature Festival? -by Ayesha Siddiqa: Here we are seemingly in an age of intellectual freedom, burgeoning media industry and literature festivals. There are numerous festivals held all over South Asia celebrating books new and old, bringing people together for exchange of ideas. But these
’چھ برس میں ہزار سے زیادہ عمائدین ہلاک‘: دلاور خان وزیر بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام پشاور پاکستان کے قبائلی علاقوں میں گذشتہ چھ سالوں کے دوران کم سے کم ایک ہزار سے زیادہ قبائلی عمائدین اور قومی مشران (رہنما) ہدف بنا کرمارے گئے ہیں جب
A pro-establishment fake liberal, Ali Chishti, blames Shias for murder of moderate Sunnis in Karachi: Update: Only within 24 hours of Ali Chishti’s incitement to violence against Shias, at least 25 Shias were killed by Takfiri Deobandi militants of Sipah Sahaba (ASWJ-LeJ) in Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A senior Deobandi cleric from a high profile
Endless paranoia or systematic harassment of critical voices on Twitter?: Related posts: LUBP owes me an apology – by Ravez Junejo On LUBP’s apology to Najam Sethi club: Why can’t we respect free speech even if we disagree? – by Salma Jafar Currently there is a sinister campaign on
Abdul Nishapuri’s resignation from LUBP: We have now received formal resignation from Mr. Abdul Nishapuri, founder-editor of LUBP. On his wish we are publishing the same as his last post on this blog. “I am forced to resign from LUBP because of serious threats
LUBP blog and the liberal betrayal – by Asma bint Marwan: In this essay, I have used the conceit that the LUBP, currently under assault from Takfiri `Lawfare’ as well as being the object of faux-liberal ire is the `Gadfly’ and hence deserving of support from all those who hold the
A U.S. citizen’s view on a pro-Taliban cleric’s litigation against a liberal Pakistani blog #LUBP – by Rusty Walker: The head of the Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC, a union of pro-Taliban Deobandi clerics), Tahir Ashrafi, apparently is intent on initiating a Jihad against LUBP blog (Let Us Build Pakistan, www.lubpak.com). For telling the truth? Well, the truth hurts
In Pakistan, a pro-Taliban cleric files law suit against a pro-rights blog #LUBP: Chairman of Pakistan Clerics Council, a conglomerate of pro-Taliban Deobandi clerics, has filed a law suit against LUBP (Let Us Build Pakistan www.lubpak.com), a liberal blog which is known for human rights advocacy and media watch in the military-mullah
“LUBP is only there to divide the people who’re antiestablishment”, claims Marvi Sirmed: As if Tahir Ashrafi Deobandi’s harassment campaign and legal action against LUBP was not enough, pseudo-liberals too have straightened their guns at LUBP. The timing of the joint onslaught appears to be well coordinated. Marvi Sirmed, an NGO-style rights
Why are they saying terrible things about Tahir ul Qadri?: Note: Here’s a sample of those criticizing Tahir ul Qadri: https://lubpak.com/archives/239195/comment-page-1#comment-361123 Related post: Why did Pakistani plutocrats go hammer and tongs at #TahirulQadri – by Ayaz Amir The entire media and right wing politicians have been demonizing Tahir ul
Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool Protest versus Shias’ Quetta Protest: You Cannot be a Muhammadi without being a Hussaini: Do you remember the Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool (Day of Love for the Prophet) observed in Pakistan on 21 September 2012? The day was observed as a protest against a short, stupid movie called Innocence of the Muslims. The Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool was announced
All Islamofascist Party convenes in Raiwind: Thank you, Saudi Arabia: Today, on 16 January 2013, Nawaz Sharif (head of PML-N) spoke on behalf of a bunch of Islamofascists leaders who held a meeting in the drawing room of his sprawling estate in Raiwind. All the luminaries, discounting a dead
Massacre on Alamdar Road: On January 10th the besieged Hazara Shia community in Quetta suffered their worst day yet when two bombs (probably a suicide bomber followed by a remote controlled car bomb) killed scores of people on Alamdar road (the death toll
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi/ISI fulfill PPP government’s desire to send a truckload of tissues to the Shias: In the history of Pakistan, the year 2012 is considered the bloodiest year for the Shias. The majority of them were murdered in Baluchaitsn. When a journalist asked Raisani who as the Chief Minister of the province is responsible
The game has begun…! -by Shama Junejo: Pakistan! The land of bomb blasts, terrorism, corruption, and political uncertainty is perhaps going through most critical capricious social evolution. After Musharraf’s eleven years of dictatorship, Year 2008’s elections too could not bring any economic or law and order
Why all non-Takfiri Pakistanis should boycott elections: Not a word of condemnation from PML-N. Shahbaz Sharif did condemn, but it was not the cold-blooded murder spree of 103 Shias of Quetta, but the bomb blast in Swat which killed 12 men. Not a word from Imran
Nadeem Paracha defends Ejaz Haider?: In keeping with an established pattern of voicing a racist, bigoted and pro-military establishment discourse, Ejaz Haider’s latest article in Express Tribune (Karachi: Welcome to Hell) is no different.  It is replete with racist stereotypes, half truths and omissions.
کیا فوجی ڈاکٹرائن بدل گئی ہے؟ لیل و نہار /عامر حسینی: کشمیر کے پاس لائن آف کنٹرول پر جنگ بندی کی خلاف ورزی ہوئی اور پہلے ایک پاکستانی فوجی مارا گیا تو اگلے دن دو بھارتی فوجی مارے گئے یہ کاروائی اس موقعہ پر سامنے آئی جب نیشنل ڈیفنس کالج
Maulana “The Moderate” Tahir Ashrafi’s intellectual stand against Zionist website LUBP – by Riaz Al-Malik Hajjaji: Dear Ghairatmands, I applaud the move by my moderate Maulana and intellectual stud, Tahir Ashrafi, for criticizing liberal fascist Zionist Indian website LUBP (www.lubpak.com). Upset by a “fake video” posted on LUBP, attributed to holy Jihadist warriors of Sipah
Mehzar will live. Maula makes miracles happen -by Sidrah Roghay: There were thirteen bullets; nine killed her father, three hit her, and one punctured the school bag perched on her tiny shoulders. Semi-conscious after the attack, she could only muster enough strength to mumble her phone number to a
Pakistani Generals’ War on Innocent Baluch: Asian Human Rights Report: PAKISTAN: For the arrest of one guerilla leader, military units kill more than fifty innocent citizens, including women and children In the middle of the night of Dec 24-25, more than 12 gunship helicopters started shelling on Mehi village,
Punjabi Police Protecting Nawaz Sharif’s Paedophile Comrades: Asian Human Rights Report: PAKISTAN: Police protect perpetrators who poisoned a young man after sexually assaulting him The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 19-year-old tea vender was sodomised and poisoned, and that he later died in hospital. The
Salman Ahmad: From talented rocker to Fake Civil Society’s PTI propagandist: It is truly disappointing to see an educated and talented musician like Salman Ahmad take undignified digs at Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.  From his counterfactual article to his tweets, Salman Ahmad is only lowering his dignity with his reactionary polemics
Don’t dream for Shariah! -by H.A.Khan: Today in morning while seeing news on different sites, I saw news that in Egypt the prosecutor will interrogate that the famous host Jasmine Yusuf was involved in insulting the current president Marsi in his famous TV show. Now