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Christian student killed by firing of Muslims in native village of Shahbaz Bhatti: Faisalabad: May 20, 2013. (PCP) A Christian village named Khushpur in sub-district Samundari of Faisalabad district came under attack of Muslims on May 19, 2013, killing one Christian student of 10th Grade and injuring many Christian by firing.Father Felix,
Every party’s hardcore supporters view the supporters of other parties as ignorant, irrational and malicious, with an ethnic/cultural stereotype to boot – by Saroop Ijaz: The writer is a lawyer and partner at Ijaz and Ijaz Co in Lahore [email protected] The chief minister (CM)-designate for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) has already made the silliest statement for the next few years, or at least, let us hope so;
Balochistan: Nawaz Sharif directly in partnership with the ISI – by Amir Mateen: PML (N)’s Balochistan Chief, Sanaullah Zehri’s electoral alliance with ISI-backed Shafiq Mengal group has thrown Balochistan politics into a tailspin. This may have seriously threatened the security and political stability of the already violence prone province. This also
افغان نواز شریف سے خائف -از داؤد اعظمی: پاکستان کے عام انتخابات میں نواز شریف کی فتح کو افغانستان میں تشویش کی نظر سے دیکھا جا رہا ہے اور بعض لوگوں کا خیال ہے کہ اس سے وہاں میں مزید عدم استحکام پھیلے گا۔ طالبان نے نواز
ضیاء کا بھوت کہیں نہیں گیا: مسلم لیگ نواز قومی اسمبلی میں سادہ اکثریت کے ساتھ حکومت بنالے گی-اور وہ کسی حدتک اتحادی جماعتوں کی بلیک میلنگ سے بھی محفوظ رہے گی-اس سے بہتر صورت حال اس کے پاس پنجاب میں ہے-بلوچستان میں وہ جے
Lost identity: The incredible story of Kamran Rizvi – by Anirvan Ghosh: MAY 9, 2013 Kamran Rizvi is 55 and looks a decade older. It has taken a while to meet him. He has a day job at a Hess gas station, and during the evening he works at a department
The agony and esctasy of PTI – by Maheen Usmani: m ‘’It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was
My party, PPP, lost because it forgot about the people – by Malik Zameer Hassan: Let’s accept it; we kept playing the footage of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto’s assassination to grab sympathy votes. PHOTO: REUTERS One factor which always made me proud to be a part of thePakistan Peoples Party (PPP) was the its representation in
Post-elections 2013: What Pakistani nation expects from PML-N – by Marvi Sirmed: Congratulations to PML-N for overwhelming victory in the Punjab and in National Assembly. Now that we are almost sure that it will make federal government hopefully without alliances with smaller groups, there comes a heavy responsibility on PML-N.
پیپلز پارٹی کی شکست کے بعد رہنماؤں کے استعفے: پاکستان کی سابق حکمراں جماعت پیپلز پارٹی کی گیارہ مئی کے عام انتخابات میں غیر متوقع انتخابی کارکردگی کے بعد پارٹی رہنماؤں کے مستعفی ہونے کاسلسلہ جاری ہے۔ گیارہ مئی کے اب تک غیر حتمی انتخابی نتائج کے مطابق
لیفٹ بیانیہ ہوگا تو بات بنے گی: پیپلز پارٹی الیکشن کیوں ہاری؟: اس مرتبہ مقابلہ سنٹر رائٹ کی دو پارٹیوں میں تھا تو پنجاب کے اندر کہیں بھی سنٹر لیفٹ کی پارٹیاں اپنے سنٹر لیفٹرجحان کے ساتھ انتخابات کے اندر اپنے روائتی ووٹ بینک کو متحرک نہ کرسکیں-ویسے بھی پیپلز پارٹی
IMU suicide bomber targeted top police commander in Quetta – by Bill Roggio: The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan claimed credit for yesterday’s suicide attack in Quetta that targeted the chief of police in the southern Pakistani city. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan took credit for the attack, in a statement that was
Democracy wins, federation loses – by Farahnaz Ispahani: AP CHALLENGES AHEAD: Nawaz Sharif is not the only one facing challenges. While Nawaz Sharif has won the election decisively, he faces the challenge of reaching out beyond his main base in Punjab to the rest of Pakistan Pakistan achieved
ایک مرحلہ اور طے ہوا: جمہوریت کا ایک اور سنگ میل طے ہوگیا-پاکستان میں پہلی مرتبہ ایک سویلین حکومت نے اپنی مدت پوری کرنے کے بعد الیکشن کراڈالے اور اب جلد ہی نئی حکومت بھی سامنے آجائے گی- اس مرتبہ پھر سے الیکشن کے
Soldiering on: Ruqayya Hashmi fights for Shia Hazara community in Balochistan – by Waqas Naeem: Undaunted by terrorist threats, Dr Ruqayya Hashmi fights for the Shia Hazara community in Balochistan. ISLAMABAD: In several cities across Pakistan, political parties and candidates have faced threats and deadly attacks on the basis of political ideology. But, in Quetta,
روشنی پھیلتی رہے گی: الیکشن 2013 کی انتخابی مہم کے دوران میرا زیادہ فوکس اس بات پر رہاکہ میں لوگوں کو اس بات پر قائل کرسکوں کہ وہ دائیں بازو کی جماعتوں کو ووٹ نہ دیں-میں جس ایریا میں رہتا ہوں وہاں پر
Death mandate: Mehsud sanctions polling day attacks – by Nasruminallah: Referring to poll candidates and the democratic system, Mehsud expressed hope that the Taliban commanders would be busy working against the agents of an “infidel system.” PHOTO: FILE WANA / MIRANSHAH: Taliban commanders have been issued a mandate to carry
Pakistan’s hardliners’ political clout protecting them from the law – by Jon Boone: ‘It is against the most basic fundamental rights to have to go to a police station each day,’ says Maulana Ahmad Ludhianvi Deobandi Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images Editors’s note: We are cross posting an important article by The Guardian
Non-Muslim candidates largely absent in Pakistan’s election: Few non-Muslims are running in Pakistan’s planned election, which critics say reinforces non-Muslims’ status as a poor underclass there. by Aamir Saeed, written for UPI.com Pakistan’s major parties are ignoring Christians, Hindus and other minorities as potential candidates —
Pawns and prisoners of manufactured hatred – by Beena Sarwar: Screenshot of Sanaullah from a TV report last year, on Indian and Pakistani prisoners participating in a kite-flying festival together. “It’s really nice, I feel like a child myself,” Sanaullah told the reporter.b Tragically, Sanaullah, the Pakistani prisoner
LHC admits petition on PML-N rare tiger’s death – by Sana Saif: LAHORE: Animal rights activist and actor Faryal Gauhar has filed a petition in Lahore High Court against the Pakistan Muslim Lesgue-Nawaz (PML-N) for the death of a rare tiger which they brought to many of their rallies. The
Shiites reel at desecration of holy shrine – by Lauren Williams: Photos on SANA and social media websites showed the shrine before and after. BEIRUT: The destruction of a holy Shiite shrine near Damascus and exhumation of the body within, allegedly at the hands of Sunni rebels, was met with fury and
Sipah Sahaba ASWJ leader who fixed bounty on Salmaan Taseer given PML-N ticket – by Amir Mir: ISLAMABAD: Besides fielding the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi-linked Chaudhry Abid Raza from NA-107 (Gujrat), the PML-N has awarded another party ticket to Sardar Ebaad Dogar from NA-178 (Muzaffargarh) despite his being an ardent disciple of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) who had announced
I will not vote for Imran Khan – by Shahryar: I might be starving for a leader that is attempting to change the face of my country for the better, but I will not vote for PTI. PHOTO: REUTERS In less than a week’s time Pakistan reaches a historic
Over 900 Pakistani Hindus eligible for Indian citizenship: report: A Hindu woman weeps while seeing off a relative at the railway station. – Photo by INP KARACHI: Officials in India’s western state of Rajhasthan say around 919 Pakistani Hindus there have become eligible to apply for Indian citizenship,
Azizabad Blasts: When MQM Puts Your Life Before Theirs: Recently, I was out with my cousin shopping for ingredients to bake a cake. Soon after we reached home, there was a loud bang and suddenly everything became silent for a few minutes. I could hear a roar of bikes
کیا الیکشن لڑنے کا حق طالب نواز جماعتوں کو ہی ہے؟: اس وقت پنجاب کو جھوڑ کر باقی سارے صوبوں میں پی پی پی ،اے این پی اور ایم کیو ایم کے خلاف طالبان نے کاروائی شروع کی ہوئی ہے- اور عملی طور پر ان جماعتوں کے کارکن اور امیدوار
18 politicians named in ISI funds scam contesting polls – by Amir Mir: ISLAMABAD: At least 18 politicians belonging to several mainstream political parties, including Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif, who had been named in the Mehrangate scandal as the alleged recipients of millions of rupees dished out by the ISI before
Keep calm and vote anti-Taliban – Ale Natiq: Taliban target secular parties in Pakistan Mohammed Hanif explains how Taliban and affiliated Takfiris are try to affect the results of elections through systematic attacks on secular parties. In the same talk, he clearly mentions Sipah Sahaba ( (aka ASWJ/LEJ) heinous
طالب زدہ……قسط 9: یہ قسط شروع کرنے سے پہلے ایک گزارش کرنا چاہونگا کہ میری کوشش رہی ہے کہ اس تمام سلسلے میں اپنی راۓ بلکل شامل نہ کروں ..اور اگر کروں بھی تو اس کی وضاحت کر کے کہ یہ میری
Too little, too late – by Zarrar Khuhro: The writer is senior staffer at The Express Tribune [email protected] It’s great to see the PPP, the ANP and the MQM standing together on
Right Needs Wise Counsel: “AL QAEDA hardly exists here,” he said, “and what are called the Taliban are [our] own tribal people. The more we kill them, the more militants we produce.” Thus spoke PTI leader Imran Khan to BBC’s Islamabad reporter Orla
Pakistani Taliban praise Bin Laden by ‘waging jihad for the Caliphate’ – by Bill Roggio: The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan has released a video praising slain al Qaeda emir Osama bin Laden on the second anniversary of his death and vowing to continue “waging jihad for the Caliphate” in his name. Umar Studio, the
سربجیت سنگھ کا قتل یا ہارٹ اٹیک – از وسیم الطاف: 22 سال جہنم میں گزارنے کے بعد بلآخر سربجیت سنگھ کو قتل کر دیا گیا -وزارت خارجہ کہہ رہا ہے کہ اسکی موت ہارٹ اٹیک سے ہوئی – یار کیس کو بیوقوف بنا رہے ہو ایسی واہیات باتوں سے
An Expedient Alliance? The Muslim Right and the Anglo-American Left – by Meredith Tax: I was recently in London to launch my book Double Bind: the Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights, published by a new transnational think tank, the Centre for Secular Space. (The New York City launch is
Book Review : Where is the fountainhead of jihad? – by Dr Mohammad Taqi: Book Review: Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus 1973-2012 Authors: Vahid Brown and Don Rassler Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Columbia University Press (March 26, 2013) Price: US$ 35 The general elections in Pakistan scheduled in ten days from now
شیعہ ہزارہ کے قتل عام میں ایک عرب ملک ملوث ہے، مولانا محمد شیرانی -از اسلام ٹائمز: Islam times: Chief of Islamic Ideology Council Molana Sherani said that the Shia Hazara Genocide is backed by a US sponsored Arab nation. All politicians know about this but are afraid to speak. اسلام ٹائمز: چیئرمین اسلامی نظریاتی کونسل
Can This Alliance Be Saved? Salvaging the U.S.-Pakistan Relationship – by C. Christine Fair: As the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan looms ever nearer, opponents of “abandoning Afghanistan” continue to rehearse the ostensible lessons from the U.S. exeunt from the region in 1990. They warn that the U.S. failure to stay the course and rebuild Afghanistan led inexorably to the rise of
Hamza Ahmed and the urban feudalism in Karachi – by Maheen Usmani: In Pakistan, lest we forget, the hired underlings are at the lowest rung of the ladder and are the puppets of their masters. PHOTO: IRFAN ALI Karachi gives off a palpable sense of fear which stems not just from
Obama orders first Boston bombing suspect deported back to Saudi Arabia: Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, the Saudi national who was taken into custody moments after 2 bombs rocked the Boston Marathon, is being deported back to Saudi Arabia. On Thursday, FOX News announced that Ali Alharbi, 20, was being deported back to