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پنجاب یونیورسٹی سے کالعدم تکفیری گروہ سپاہ صحابہ سے تعلق رکھنے والے دو پروفیسر، ایک طالب علم گرفتار: لاہور میں انسدادِ دہشت گردی ڈیپارٹمنٹ نے کالعدم دیوبندی تنظیموں کے ساتھ تعلقات کے شبے میں پنجاب یونیورسٹی کے دو پروفیسروں اور ایک طالب علم کو حراست میں لے لیا ہے۔ یونیورسٹی کے ترجمان کے مطابق چھاپہ صبح کے
کراچی میں ’طالبان کے شکاری‘: پاکستان گذشتہ کئی برسوں سے دہشت گردی کا شکار ہے۔ وہ ممالک جہاں حالیہ سالوں دہشت گرد حملوں کے نتیجے میں سب سے زیادہ ہلاکتیں ہوئیں، پاکستان کا نمبر عراق اور افغانستان کے بعد تیسرا ہے۔ پاکستان کو قبائلی
Salute to international volunteers fighting against ISIS and Nusra-Qaeda: Meet the American Vigilantes Who Are Fighting ISIS May was the flowering month for the Syrian thistle. The pink heads grew from the rubble in a small village south of the city of Tel Tamer, in northern Syria. A
Deobandi Butchery in San Bernardino: Roots of the Jihad Carnage in San Bernardino: Note by Ali Rizvi: Now it is clear that alternative media sites like LUBP and activists like Ali Abbas Taj پیجا مستری Aamir Hussaini Aly Iman Ali Salman Alvi Riaz Malik Eisa Ali Khurram Zaki Irfan Qadri are
Deobandi jihadists claim Pakistan market blast: Sectarian jihadist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility Sunday for a bomb blast that killed 23 people at a crowded bazaar in a predominantly Shiite area of Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region. The hardline Deobandi organisation said they had planted an
The ISIS-Deobandi connection: QUETTA, Pakistan — ISIS has created a 10-man “strategic planning wing” with a master plan on how to wage war against the Pakistani military, and is trying to join forces with local militants, according to a government memo
Saudi Arabi and Turkey planning to create a new Salafi state in parts of Iraq and Syria – Counter Punch: What is the connection between the US bombing of a Syrian military base in Ayyash, Syria, and the Turkish invasion of northern Iraq? Both of these seemingly isolated events are part of a larger plan to Balkanize the Middle East, to strengthen Washington’s
Shia Genocide continues : Blast in Parachinar: PARACHINAR: At least 15 people were killed and dozens others wounded on Sunday in a blast at a used clothes market in Kurram Agency’s Parachinar area. Hospital sources told DawnNews that 47 people were injured as a result
Ahmadi bookstore owner and manager arrested for Blasphemy: Bookstore owner Abul Shukoor and manager Mazhar Ahmad were arrested Wednesday, Dec. 2 from Ahmadiyya Book Depot in Rabwah. Both men were taken to an unknown location after their arrest. According to a leaked charge sheet the men were
Mina stampede deaths three times higher than acknowledged by Saudi authorities: report: KARACHI: It was for the second time that Uzma Haq and her husband, Naveed Ahmed Usmani, survived a tragedy. The first time was the crane crash incident at the Grand Mosque and this time a stampede at Mina, five
Turkey is a terrorist state that has invaded Iraq to support ISIS – Iraqi Parliament: If Turkey does not withdraw its troops and the Security Council, the Arab League and the international community will continue to idle, we will find a way to protect our legal rights,” Iraqi MP from the State of
سعودی تکفیری وہابی درندوں کی فضائی بمباری سے یمن میں ایک ہزار سکول تباہ – ایمنسٹی انٹرنیشنل: حقوقِ انسانی کی عالمی تنظیم ایمنیسٹی انٹرنیشنل نے سعودی عرب اور اس کے اتحادیوں پر یمن میں عسکری کارروائیوں کے دوران سکولوں کو دانستہ طور پر نشانہ بنانے کا الزام عائد کیا ہے۔ ایمینٹسی کا کہنا ہے کہ رواں
طالبان اور لشکر جھنگوی سپاہ صحابہ کے تکفیری خوارج سے جنگ میں زخمی اور معذور ہونے والے فوجی غازیوں کی جرات کو سلام: پاکستان کی فوج اپنی ہی سرحدوں میں چھپے دشمن کے خلاف جنگ کی جو قیمت ادا کر رہی ہے اس کی واضح تصویر آرمڈ فورسز انسیٹیٹوٹ فار ری ہیبیلٹیشن میڈیسن میں دیکھی جاسکتی ہے۔ یہ ہپستال ملک میں مصنوعی
San Bernardino shooter’s ‘hardline’ Islam not an outlier in native Pakistan: Anyone looking for clues for why Tashfeen Malik turned from a young mother into an Islamic State-supporting mass killer capable of slaughtering 14 people with her husband will struggle to find anything in the picture that has so far
Shiite Muslims hold anti-terrorism rally in Washington: Hundreds of Shiite Muslims turned a major annual spiritual ritual into an anti-terrorism rally Sunday, marching, singing and praying for hours from trendy Dupont Circle to the White House as tourists and brunch-goers rubbernecked. Connecticut Avenue was a sea
Let’s deal with the Devil: we should work with Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad in Syria: In the last couple of days, young people have been coming up to me in the street and asking in an accusing way: “Oi, Boris, why did you vote for war?” And I try as ever to explain that
Why is Saudi Arabia dodging responsibility for Tashfeen Malik’s radicalization?: Editor’s Note: It is now a matter of public record that the moderate Sunni Barelvi relatives of Tashfeen Malik distanced themselves from the hardline Deobandi views espoused by her father. It is also a fact that Tashfeen and her
ISIS shipping weapons to Libyan affiliates via Turkey: The Greek coastguard has seized a ship loaded with thousands of undeclared, carefully concealed weapons, and possibly explosives, en route from Turkey to Libya. Local media claims the ship is linked to Islamic State (IS) and to companies who
Research paper: ISIS-Turkey list: Is Turkey collaborating with the Islamic State (ISIS)? Allegations range from military cooperation and weapons transfers to logistical support, financial assistance, and the provision of medical services. It is also alleged that Turkey turned a blind eye to ISIS
More than 5,700 innocent Muslims killed by Saudi bombing on Yemen: The Independent: Yemen’s capital city has been largely reduced to rubble by Saudi Arabia‘s continuing air strikes, with residents describing “huge explosions” and buildings shaking as if they were in the “centre of an earthquake”. Riven by civil conflict since the 2011
We wouldn’t dare call any of these world leaders terrorist sympathisers: Tony and Cherie Blair with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and his wife Asma, outside Downing Street in 2002. His regime has been accused of killing tens of thousands of civilians. Margaret Thatcher and former Chilean dictator, General Augusto
Inside Saudi Arabia’s campaign to charm American policymakers and journalists: Soon after launching a brutal air and ground assault in Yemen, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia began devoting significant resources to a sophisticated public relations blitz in Washington, D.C. The PR campaign is designed to maintain close ties with
Sunni tribes joining Shia militias as war against IS heats up in Iraq –: KARBALA, Iraq – Wearing elegant gold-fringed robes and traditional Arab head-dresses, three Sunni tribal leaders waited respectfully in an upstairs reception room inside the Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala one morning last week. The shrine is one of Shia
from Iraq to Syria: repeating a debacle: Proof that the British political class hasn’t learned anything after Iraq came with David Cameron’s ludicrous assertion that there are 70,000 moderate rebels fighting in Syria. It was an outright fabrication to rank with Blair’s sexed up dossier on
The spread of Wahhabism, and the West’s responsibility to the world: François Hollande’s declaration of war against Isis (also known as Islamic State) was, perhaps, a natural reaction to the carnage in Paris but the situation is now so grave that we cannot merely react; we also need sustained, informed
ISIL Created by US Interventionism, Saudi Money & Wahhabi Ideology – Assad: Commenting on the origins of the Islamist terrorism plaguing the Middle East, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad noted that terror groups including Al-Qaeda and ISIL have been able to find fertile soil in Iraq as a result of US interventionism,
Former NATO commander Wesley Clark: ‘ISIS serves the interests of Turkey and Saudi Arabia’: Former Supreme NATO Commander Gen. Wesley Clark is quite a character. Immediately after the Kosovo War, Clark actually ordered NATO troops to attack Russian peacekeeping troops (the order was ignored). But sometimes he does or says things which
Senator Richard Black: War in Syria would end if US stopped supporting terrorists: Virginia State Senator and decorated Vietnam veteran Richard Black says it like it is. The United States continues to supply terrorists in Syria with weapons, making them a grave threat to global security as well as deepening the conflict
why Turkey stabbed Russia in the back: It’s absolutely impossible to understand why the Turkish government would engage in the suicidal strategy of downing a Russian Su-24 over Syrian territory – technically a NATO declaration of war on Russia – without putting in context the Turkish
The shrine that is the Lahore Museum – Ayaz Amir: On Sunday with my son Sheheryar I went to the Lahore Museum after a long time. The word epiphany, or revelation, I find is a bit over-used these days but it was very much like that. I have stood
Iran, Hezbollah and Russia – the real coalition – Ayaz Amir: Daesh or the Islamic State is the most extreme form of Salafist Islam, so toxic that it makes the Taliban look mild and Al-Qaeda look like a backward cousin. Al-Qaeda was only an ideology, Daesh is ideology plus geography.
One of the world’s biggest and most dangerous pilgrimages is underway: One of the biggest pilgrimages in the world is underway, with millions of Shia Muslims risking their lives to travel through Iraq. They are making their way to the city of Karbala, 62 miles south-west of Baghdad, for the
Ishtiaq Ahmed — Tracing Pakistan’s fundamentalist transition: A few days ago, I read about the demise of Urdu novelist Ishtiaq Ahmed. I was introduced to him in the early days of my childhood when I had just discovered the pleasures of reading. My uncle, who was
Russian Pilot Rescued by Iran’s General Soleimani: Russian sources revealed on Thursday that the pilot of the Russian Su-24 jet that was shot down by Turkey over the Syrian airspace on Tuesday was rescued in an operation by Iran’s globally renowned IRGC Qods Force Commander
Pakistan’s Ahmadis face persecution, threats from local mobs and the state: “Are these the people with bullets who took my papa away?” two-year-old Sabiha Ahmad asked her mother anxiously when AFP visited her family, members of Pakistan’s persecuted Ahmadi minority, who are currently living in hiding. The toddler’s family
The West still not getting it – Ayaz Amir: The present turmoil began from Syria and from the desire of a range of countries, western and Arab and including Turkey, to get rid of Bashar al-Assad. By aiding the opposition to Assad they helped fuel the fires of
ISIS claims attack on Shia mosque in Bangladesh: SITE: Editor’s note: Shia Genocide continues in Bangladesh Takfiri Deobandis of Ansar Allah attack Shia mosque in Bangladesh killing one and injuring two. DHAKA: The militant Islamic State (IS) group has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on worshippers at
Pakistan’s most un-Pakistani institution – Ayaz Amir: The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation is an aberration that doesn’t fit into the national landscape. The creed animating its work is pure craziness: that the sick are entitled to not just free treatment, from start to finish,
Why is LUMS bowing down to the misogynists: No one would have expected one of Pakistan’s most prestigious institutions, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), to land into hot water for organising a conference titled Pakistan’s Contribution to the Muslim Intellectual Tradition. But that is exactly
Pakistan warns Turkey: Don’t make our mistakes: The armed uprising in Syria, with the goal of changing the regime, has given birth to organizations that are threatening the entire population of the region, but Turkey is continuing on its way in total disregard for the perils of “Pakistanization.”