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Saudi Arabia’s execution of Sheikh Nimr was worthy of ISIS – Robert Fisk:   Saudi Arabia’s binge of head-choppings – 47 in all, including the learned Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, followed by a Koranic justification for the executions – was worthy of Isis. Perhaps that was the point. For this
‘داعش میں شمولیت کیلئے پاکستان سے تقریباً سو افراد شام اور عراق گئے’ – رانا ثناء اللہ: پنجاب کے وزیر قانون رانا ثناء اللہ نے کہا ہے کہ پاکستان سے داعش میں شمولیت کے لئے جانے والوں کی تعداد سو سے زیادہ نہیں لیکن اس کا یہ مطلب نہیں کہ تنظیم پاکستان میں موجود ہے ۔
American deaths in terrorism vs. gun violence in one graph:   (CNN)During his presidency, President Barack Obama has had to deliver statements on gun violence 15 times. After a gunman opened fire at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College, killing nine people and injuring seven, a visibly upset Obama said the
سپاہ صحابہ اور دیگر دہشت گرد تنظیموں سے تعلق رکھنے والے نو تکفیری دیوبندی خوارج کو فوجی عدالت نے موت کی سزا سنا دی: پاکستانی فوج کے شعبۂ تعلقاتِ عامہ کے مطابق برّی فوج کے سپہ سالار جنرل راحیل شریف نے سزائے موت پانے والے نو شدت پسندوں کی سزا کی توثیق کر دی ہے۔ آئی ایس پی آر کی جانب سے جاری
تکفیری دیوبندی طالبان کے ہاتھوں شہید ہونے والے ڈاکٹر فاروق خان کی یاد میں – خورشید ندیم:   http://www.dailyurducolumns.com/datColumn.aspx?ColumnID=41626
پاکستان میں تکفیری سلفی دیوبندی گروہ داعش کے بارے میں بی بی سی اردو کی رپورٹ – وسعت الله خان: کیا پاکستان میں دولتِ اسلامیہ پاؤں جما رہی ہے ؟ یہ سیدھا سیدھا سوال اگر وفاقی وزیرِ داخلہ چوہدری نثار علی خان سے پوچھیں تو شاید وہ اس بار چڑ جائیں کیونکہ گذشتہ فروری سے آج تک ان کا
ملتان تاشفین کا نہیں: عشق کی داستانوں کے دریا چناب کے کنارے ایک شہر آباد تھا جو صوفیوں ، سنتوں اور بھگتوں کا شہر کہلاتا تھا۔ وہ شہر جہاں امن کا گیان رقم ہوا ، جہاں مہاویر ، بدھ اور اشوکِ اعظم جیسے
گلگت بلتستان کو کیا فائدہ؟ – وسعت اللہ خان: پچیس دسمبر کی چھٹی ضایع نہیں ہوئی کیونکہ ’’ پاک چائنا اکنامک کاریڈور اور گلگت بلتستان کا مستقبل ’’ کے موضوع پر ایک سیمینار میسر آگیا۔کئی نئے اور مفید نکتے معلوم ہوئے۔ مثلاً یہی کہ گوادر تا کاشغر لگ
Deobandi Cleric denies ties to San Bernardino killers as phone records surface:   The cleric acting as spokesman for the San Bernardino mosque where terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook worshipped claims he barely knew Farook and didn’t know his terrorist wife at all. But phone records and other evidence uncovered by federal
Pakistan joins Russia, condemns any attempts to topple Assad in Syria:   Pakistan opposes any efforts to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Pakistan’s foreign secretary said on Wednesday. “Pakistan is also against foreign military intervention in Syria and fully supports the territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic,” Aizaz Chaudhry
Revealed: The mercenaries commanding UAE forces in Yemen: An Australian citizen is the commander of an elite UAE military force deployed in Yemen as part of the Saudi-led coalition, which human rights groups accuse of war crimes. Mike Hindmarsh, 59, is a former senior Australian army officer
محبتوں میں گندھی رتی جناح آج بھی تنہا: مبئی کے مجگاﺅں علاقے میں واقع مسلمانوں کے تین مسالک کے قبرستان ایک دوسرے سے متصل ہیں ۔ ان میں سے ایک آرام باغ قبرستان خوجہ شیعہ اثنا عشری فرقے کا ہے جس میں پپیتے ، بادام ، ناریل
Nigeria: Army attack on Shia unjustified:   (Abuja) – The killing of hundreds of Shia Muslim members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), by Nigerian army soldiers from December 12 to 14, 2015, appears to have been wholly unjustified. The Judicial Commission of Inquiry set
Doubts about Saudi Arabia’s antiterrorism coalition: One of the greatest weaknesses in the American-led fight against the Islamic State is the lack of competent regional forces to join in defeating the militants, especially on the ground. Saudi Arabia’s plans to organize a military coalition of
Pakistan will not help topple Syrian govt: FO:   ISLAMABAD: After initial opposition from most political parties, parliamentarians and civil society, the government has been compelled to make a major announcement in which it assured Syria that it would under no circumstances topple the government of Syrian
The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again – Andrew Cockburn:   One morning early in 1988, Ed McWilliams, a foreign-service officer posted to the American Embassy in Kabul, heard the thump of a massive explosion from somewhere on the other side of the city. It was more than eight
Most Syrian rebels sympathise with ISIS, says thinktank:   More than half of the rebel fighters in Syria who are opposing President Bashar al-Assad are sympathetic to Islamic State views, a leading thinktank has claimed. The Centre on Religion and Geopolitics said efforts to wipe out Isis
Assistants of terror: How women raise funds for Da’ish in Karachi: It all started with a request. Short and simple. “Aap se darkhwast hai [We’re making a request to you]”. And that was enough. It was a code, used by Islamic State-inspired militants to raise funds for their activities in
یمن کے مظلوم سنی صوفی و شیعہ مسلمانوں کے خلاف سعودی وہابی فوج کی جنگ پر بی بی سی اردو کا تجزیہ: سب سے غریب اور کونے میں پڑے عرب ملک یمن پر قیامت بدقسمتی سے ایسے موقع پر ٹوٹی ہے جب تمام کیمرے شام کا خونی ڈرامہ کور کرنے میں مصروف ہیں۔یمن کے دیسی ڈرامے کے برعکس شامی خانہ جنگی
Don’t fear all Islamists, fear Salafis (or Deobandi/Wahhabi extemists):   Editors’s Note: While the author is talking about Salafis, the same hate teachings have been used by Deobandis in South Asia. A substantial number of ISIS fighters are recruited at Deobandi Madrassas in South Asia. Other terms like
Indian police identifies more Deobandi terrorists affiliated with Al-Qaeda:   Sources in Delhi Police have claimed that the interrogation of Mohd Asif Abdul Rehman, Abdul Rehman and Zafar Masood, who were arrested for alleged links with Al-Qaeda of Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), has helped them identify more modules of
San Bernardino massacre and the Deobandi connection – Daily Mail: A founding member of Department of Homeland Security says a database he spent years creating could have helped stop the San Bernardino terror attack, before it was destroyed by federal officials. Phil Haney, who investigated terror groups in the
SHO suspended, SSP served notice over arrest of civil society members outside Lal Masjid:   ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Saturday took strict notice over arrest and manhandling of protesting civil society representatives outside Lal Masjid, Dunya News reported. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that use of
Protest outside Lal Masjid disrupted by police: islamabad – The law-enforcing agencies yesterday briefly held six persons in front of Lal Masjid (mosque) as soon as they reached there to stage a protest against, what they believed, the mosque’s chief cleric’s role in fanning intolerance in
Al Qaeda chief in India was educated in Darul Uloom Deoband India and Deobandi Jamia Uloom-e-Islamia, Banoori Town, Karachi:   NEW DELHI: Almost out of the blue, intelligence agencies learnt that the elusive head of the Indian branch of al-Qaida had been born in a family of freedom fighters in Sambhal, less than 200km from the national capital.
پاکستان شدت پسندی اور دہشت گردی کو فروغ دینے والے دیوبندی مدرسے بند کرے، امریکی سینیٹر ایڈ روئس کا مطالبہ – بی بی سی اردو: امریکی کانگریس کی خارجہ امور کی ایک کمیٹی نے پاکستانی حکومت سے ایسے مدارس کو بند کرنے کا مطالبہ کیا ہے جو شدت پسندي کو فروغ دے رہے ہیں اور پاکستان پر امریکی پالیسی میں تبدیلی کا بھی مشورہ
Adil Msood Butt, the ISIS-affiliated Deobandi terrorist, arrested in Karachi for his role in the massacre of Ismaili Shia Muslims:   KARACHI: – Vice Chancellor (VC) of a private university was arrested from Clifton area Friday for allegedly facilitating the terrorists. The VC has been allegedly funding Al-Qaeda from personal account and was also a business partner of the terrorists
کراچی میں دولتِ اسلامیہ کی ہمدرد دیوبندی اور سلفی خواتین کا گروہ سرگرم – بی بی سی اردو: کراچی میں انسداد دہشت گردی پولیس نے انکشاف کیا ہے کہ شہر میں داعش(شدت پسند تنظیم دولتِ اسلامیہ کا ایک اور نام) کی حمایتی خواتین کا ایک گروہ سرگرم ہے جو خواتین کی ذہن سازی اور چندہ اکٹھا کرنے
Civil society members ‘arrested’ for protesting at Lal Masjid:   ISLAMABAD: Civil society representatives were picked up by police from Lal Masjid, where they were staging a protest, and shifted to a police station to avoid a standoff situation with the mosque’s clerics that occurred last year, officials
Highly educated Deobandi terrorists: Police arrests Punjab University professor held for links with banned terror outfit Sipah e Sahaba:   LAHORE: Police’s Coun­ter-Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested on Monday a Punjab University teacher for his alleged association with the banned Hizbut Tahrir (HuT) (Sipah-e-Sahaba) group. A CTD team raided the house of Assistant Professor Ghalib Ata of the Institute
پشاور آرمی پبلک سکول میں دیوبندی خوارج کے ہاتھوں شہید ہونے والی معصوم بچی خولہ کی داستان – بی بی سی اردو: 16 دسمبر 2014 کو آرمی پبلک سکول میں ہونے والے حملے کی بدترین یادوں کو مٹانے کے لیے انتظامیہ نے سکول میں بڑے پیمانے پر مرمت کا کام کرایا ہے۔ حملے میں 141 سے زیادہ جانیں ضائع ہوئی تھی۔
The Ongoing Crisis in Islam and the role of Salafi, Wahhabi and Deobandi Ideologies – by Divya Kumar Sotti:   After every major massacre perpetrated by Jihadists, the opinion space all over the world gets polarized between the two extremes. The liberals refuse to acknowledge any causal connection between the actions of Jihadists and the Islamic Scriptures. They
US lawmaker seeks shutting down of Deobandi madrasas in Pakistan:   WASHINGTON: An influential US lawmaker has sought the closure of 600 Deobandi madrasas in Pakistan, describing them as an “infrastructure of hate”. Congressman Ed Royce, Chairman of the powerful House Foreign Relations Committee’s comments came after the deadly
کراچی میں ڈرون تیار کرنے والا القاعدہ کا گروہ گرفتار: کراچی – سیکورٹی اداروں نے کراچی میں کارروائی کرتے ہوئے القاعدہ برصغیر کا ایسا گروہ گرفتار کیا ہے جو ڈرون سے متعلق ٹیکنالوجی پر کام کررہا تھا۔کچھ گرفتاریاں شہر کے حساس ترین علاقے سے ہوئی ہیں ۔ قانون نافذ
Saudi Arabia’s 34-nation Salafi-Sunni alliance against terror: A coalition of the surprised?:   A number of countries have expressed surprise that they were included by Saudi Arabia in a new military alliance to fight terrorism. Officials in Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia all said they had not formally agreed to join the
سانحہٴ پشاور: لال مسجد کے سامنے ’درجن بھر‘ شہریوں کا احتجاج: سول سوسائٹی کے درجن بھر ارکان نے لال مسجد کے بالمقابل واقع سڑک کے کنارے کھڑے ہو کر شدت پسندی، دہشت گردی اور طالبان کے خلاف نعرے بازی کی۔ اس موقع پر مسجد کے اردگرد رینجرز، ایف سی اور
Pakistan surprised by its inclusion in 34-nation military alliance:   ISLAMABAD: Pakistan found itself in the crosshairs of Middle Eastern politics on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia named it as part of its newly formed 34-nation military alliance of Muslim countries meant to combat terrorism, without first getting its
Two women referred to ‘terror’ court for driving in Saudi Arabia:   Two Saudi women detained for nearly a month for defying a ban on females driving were referred to a court established to try terrorism cases on Thursday, according to friends of the defendants. Activists said it was the
List of Assyrian and Other Churches Destroyed in Syria:   The following is a list of Assyrian churches and monasteries in Syria that have been destroyed by ISIS and other Muslim groups. Also included is a list of non-Assyrian churches that have been destroyed. Attacks on Christians in
70000 Sufi Sunni clerics signed on fatwa against Takfiri Wahhabi Organization ISIS and other terrorist groups: Nearly 70,000 Indian Muslim clerics have signed a fatwa against Isis and other terror groups saying they were “not Islamic organisations”. Around 1.5 million Muslims visiting a shrine dedicated to a Sufi Islamic saint near the city of Ajmer in north