Death to Islam, Long Live Yazidiat!: Karachi shuts down, mourns attack on Shia procession Tuesday, 29 Dec, 2009 KARACHI: Karachi shut down Tuesday to mourn at least 33 people killed in a suicide bombing at a Shia procession on their holiest day. Monday’s blast sparked
Judging versus lynching: Asma voices concern over NRO verdict Wednesday, December 23, 2009 ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court in its verdict on NRO has targeted the whole democratic structure by extending its power and crossing the constitutional limits, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
Knowing that she has been in a coma over a decade: Accountability court calls Nusrat on Dec 24th By Mudassir Iqbal Raja Sunday, 20 Dec, 2009 Accepting an application of the National Accountability Bureau about reviving the corruption reference against Begum Bhutto and Mr Siddiqui, Judge Najmul Hassan Najam directed
16 December 1971 and 2009: two days of infamy: By Omar Khattab On 16 December 1971, the Pakistan army led by the cruelest and most criminal generals of the time surrendered to the Indian army after a war which the former could not sustain even for two weeks.
This is the worst American-Hindu-Jewish conspiracy of the year!: Our Talibanic media, our everything-Arab-worshiping politicians and generals, and religious leaders have always explained that no Muslim can do any act of barbarity. Every suicide bombing, destruction of schools, and rape of women is dubbed a big lie and
The Taliban apologists – by Farrukh Khan Pitafi: . . . . We citizens of Punjab have proven more gullible in the past in buying the jihadi set of rationalisations. Since Osama and the Taliban were known to have shown more tolerance toward the Muslim Leagues based
Lal Mosque: General Musharraf’s greatest achievement: By Omar Khattab Pakistan’s overwhelmingly right-wing media and politicians have been condemning General Musharraf for taking action against the Islamofascists of the Lal Mosque. Even Chaudhury Shujat and Mushahid Hussain who were more pro-Musharraf during
Announcement: Pakistan Ignoble Award for Journalism (PIAJ): Let Us Build Pakistan proudly announces the establishment of Pakistan Ignoble Award for Journalism (PIAJ). It will be awarded annually to a Pakistani journalist who has flouted all the norms of journalistic decency, objectivity, and fair play. Every December
Announcement: Pakistan Ignoble Award for Journalism (PIAJ): Let Us Build Pakistan proudly announces the establishment of Pakistan Ignoble Award for Journalism (PIAJ). It will be awarded annually to a Pakistani journalist who has flouted all the norms of journalistic decency, objectivity, and fair play. Every December
Geo: journalism without conscience: Pakistan’s conspiracy theories stifle debate Ahmed Rashid Switch on any of the dozens of satellite news channels now available in Pakistan.You will be bombarded with talk show hosts who are mostly obsessed with demonising the elected government, trying to
Geo: journalism without conscience: Pakistan’s conspiracy theories stifle debate Ahmed Rashid Switch on any of the dozens of satellite news channels now available in Pakistan.You will be bombarded with talk show hosts who are mostly obsessed with demonising the elected government, trying to
Consequences of Zia’s misrule and Talibanization: Wasted youth: Reflections on the British Council report By Nadeem F. ParachaSaturday, 21 Nov, 2009 Released today (Saturday 21 November), the Pakistan British Council’s hefty report titled, Pakistan: The Next Generation, encapsulates the economics, demographics and, more importantly, the
Consequences of Zia’s misrule and Talibanization: Wasted youth: Reflections on the British Council report By Nadeem F. ParachaSaturday, 21 Nov, 2009 Released today (Saturday 21 November), the Pakistan British Council’s hefty report titled, Pakistan: The Next Generation, encapsulates the economics, demographics and, more importantly, the
Hafiz Saeed’s Islamofascist office in Chicago: Lashkar-e-Taiba threat revived after Chicago arrest Friday, 20 Nov, 2009 LONDON: The arrest of two men in Chicago on terrorism charges linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba has revived fears about the
Hafiz Saeed’s Islamofascist office in Chicago: Lashkar-e-Taiba threat revived after Chicago arrest Friday, 20 Nov, 2009 LONDON: The arrest of two men in Chicago on terrorism charges linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba has revived fears about the Pakistani militant group’s global reach and its ability to plot
We support Sardar Khosa’s fling at the Scandinavian mujra: From the editorial team of Let Us Build Pakistan Many readers of this blog have drawn our attention to PML-N’s senior leader Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa’s participation in a Scandinavian mujra recently. We support the Sardar’s participation. By gracing the
The ugly handiwork of Shireen Mazari, the media Baji of the Taliban: Editors criticise newspaper article against WSJ reporter By Iftikhar A. Khan Tuesday, 17 Nov, 2009 ISLAMABAD: Top executives and editors of 21 leading international media organisations have collectively voiced concern over publication of an article in a Pakistani national
The ugly handiwork of Shirin Mazari, the media Baji of the Taliban: Editors criticise newspaper article against WSJ reporter By Iftikhar A. KhanTuesday, 17 Nov, 2009 ISLAMABAD: Top executives and editors of 21 leading international media organisations have collectively voiced concern over publication of an article in a Pakistani national newspaper
The high cost of ‘ghairat’: By Irfan Husain Saturday, 07 Nov, 2009 JUDGING from the heated bombast that passes for informed debate on our airwaves, it would appear that ghairat, or honour, is a virtue restricted to those who permanently inhabit our TV studios.
The high cost of ‘ghairat’: By Irfan HusainSaturday, 07 Nov, 2009 JUDGING from the heated bombast that passes for informed debate on our airwaves, it would appear that ghairat, or honour, is a virtue restricted to those who permanently inhabit our TV studios. People
Where did the funds go?: As the Obama Administration focuses more on the social sectors of the Pakistani economy and separates its aid to Pakistan under the Kerry-Lugar Bill from assistance to the Pakistan Army, new information about how the old US funds were
Editorial: Non-state actors in South Punjab: Editorial: Non-state actors in South Punjab A report published in London’s The Telegraph alleges that the outlawed terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Muhammad has acquired a 4.5-acre compound outside the city of Bahawalpur in addition to the madrassa named Usman-o-Ali inside the
This is how Pakistan Army serves the nation!!!: How Shujaat declined millions offered by Gen Beg Wednesday, September 02, 2009 By Rauf Klasra LONDON: Former caretaker prime minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain emerges as the only top politician of today’s Pakistan, who had the guts to say “NO”
Amputees bear cost of conflict in Pakistan: PESHAWAR: Fourteen-year-old Asmit Ali has no hands — they were blown off while he was playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance 10 days ago.The Pakistani schoolboy, his face dotted with scars from the explosion, sits on a plastic