Newspaper Articles Archive
Blasphemy and the death penalty: Misconceptions explained – Arafat Mazhar: This is the fourth article in a five-part series on the untold story of Pakistan’s blasphemy law. It is recommended that the previous parts be read in order to understand the context of this article. Part 1: The untold
Saudi men manned from marrying Bengali, Pakistani, Chadian, Burmese women: Meknes – A new law in Saudi Arabia bans men from Marrying Bengali, Pakistani, Chadian and Burmese women, while it sets new restrictive rules on marrying Moroccan women. According to the Saudi daily Makkah newspaper, any Saudi man who
The mysterious murder of a Pakistani professor: Suddenly, I felt something wrong had happened to my beloved shaheed mentor.” Dr Amna Afreen was squeezed into the back seat of a Toyota Probox station-wagon, travelling at speed down the Nipa Overpass on Karachi’s bustling University
Dr Shakil Auj — my martyred father – Dr Muhammad Hassan Auj: It was September 18, 2014. I hadn’t been feeling well and received a message from my father, Dr Shakil Auj, asking me if I was feeling better, to which I replied that I wasn’t. “Did you try the
Jamiat activists attack Karachi Uni girls for playing cricket: A clash between Islami Jamiat Talba (IJT) and Punjabi Student Association (PSA) in the University of Karachi (KU) resulted from an IJT attack on girl students who were playing cricket on the campus. IJT activists allegedly attacked girls
’جھگڑا بڑوں سے ہوتا ہے بچوں سے تو نہیں‘: جیکب آباد میں محرم کے جلوس میں بم دھماکے میں ہلاکتوں کی تعداد 28 ہوگئی ہے، جن میں اٹھارہ بچے بھی شامل ہیں۔ کراچی کے آغا خان ہپستال میں زیر علاج 10 سالہ عائشہ زخموں کی تاب نہ لاکر
An insider’s account of Tablighi Jamaat – by Riaz ul Hassan: Nawaz Sharif, while he was prime minister of the country, attended a Tablighi congregation. At the congregation, he requested Maulana Omar Palanpuri, a Tablighi leader from India, to convince Sipah-e-Sahaba to give up its violent activities. “There should always
زمین کم میڈیا زیادہ ہل گیا – وسعت اللہ خان: اگرچہ کرہِ ارض کی نقل و حرکت پر مسلسل نگاہ رکھنے والے سب سے موقر ارضیاتی ادارے امریکن جیالوجیکل سروے ( یو ایس جی ایس) نے ابتدا میں ہی واضح کر دیا تھا کہ پیر کو کابل تا
It’s time to talk about Saudi Arabia – Stanley Weiss: In the House of Commons this past Tuesday, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond made two announcements pertaining to Saudi Arabia that sounded like they came straight out of the ninth century. The first was that thanks to British
بلوچستان کےعلاقے نصیرآباد کی امام بارگاہ میں دھماکا، 10 شیعہ مسلمان شہید ، بیس زخمی: بلوچستان کے ضلع بولان کے علاقے نصیرآباد میں ڈھاڈر کی چھلگری امام بارگاہ میں دھماکا ہوا جس کے نتیجےمتعدد افراد جاں بحق اور زخمی ہوگئے۔ وزیر داخلہ بلوچستان سرفراز بگٹی کے مطابق دھماکے میں 10 شیعہ مسلمان شہید ،
Suicide blast outside imambargah in Bolan district kills 10: Editor’s note : So even if those muslims commemorating Hussain and Karbala (Sunni and Shias) are denied their right to public space, they will still be targeted.What say you Honda Civic Society? Muawiya Marxists? Sufyani Liberals?Many of you want
افغان طالبان کی پاکستانی طالبان سے اتحاد کی تردید: پاکستان میں شدت پسندوں کی کالعدم تنظیم تحریک طالبان پاکستان نے اعلان کیا ہے کہ وہ افغان طالبان کے ساتھ مل کر مشترکہ کارروائیاں کریں گے۔ تحریک طالبان کے مرکزی ترجمان محمد خراسانی نے میڈیا کو ای میل کے
I am a prince and I do what I want, said drugged-up Saudi royal: A Saudi prince, who was arrested last month at his LA mansion, is accused of having a sexual relationship with a male aide, taking cocaine and threatening to kill women who refused his advances — as well as sexually assaulting
A Sunni’s Muharram lamentation – Obaid Zia: I am a Sunni. My family is Sunni. We love Abu Bakr, Uthman, Umar, Ali. We believe in their Rightly Guided Caliphates. The Commanders of the Faithful. We believe in Aisha as a wife of the Prophet ﷺ
Death toll from Mina’s deadliest Haj disaster reaches 2,121: DUBAI: The crush and stampede that struck the Haj last month in Saudi Arabia killed at least 2,121 pilgrims, a new tally showed on Monday, after officials in the kingdom met to discuss the tragedy. The toll keeps rising
حاجی کہاں گئے؟: خبر رساں ادارے ایسوسی ایٹڈ پریس کے مطابق گذشتہ ماہ سعودی عرب میں مسلمانوں کے سب سے بڑے مذہبی اجتماع حج کے دوران بھگدڑ مچنے کے نتیجے میں ہلاک شدگان کی تعداد 2110 ہے جو کہ سرکاری طور پر
Who killed Murtaza Bhutto? – Khaled Ahmed: September 20 was the anniversary of the assassination of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, the elder son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The former president of Pakistan and the Pakistan People’s Party’s “co-chairman”, Asif Ali Zardari, currently located in the UAE, spoke
Malik Ishaq Deobandi’s killing and the rule of violence – by Khaled Ahmed: Pakistan experienced a spate of deaths in August, the month it was born. General (retired) Hamid Gul, the military panjandrum, whose reductionist strategising was internalised by the people of Pakistan, died a natural death on August 15. The following
Is the PPP dying? – Khaled Ahmed: Pakistan’s only “federal” political party, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), suffered a blow to its solar plexus when Asim Hussain was arrested in Karachi for corruption on August 26. An old schoolfellow of and personal physician to PPP boss
Did Turkey’s regime just kill its own people at a peace rally?: Turkey’s government would have you believe that Kurdish terrorists killed more than 100 Kurdish party faithful at a peace rally. It’s clear the Erdogan regime thinks the world is pretty stupid to believe that. Amazingly, Western leaders are buying
’کیا تاج محل کو بھی توڑ دیں گے؟‘: ہندوستان میں عدم رواداری کے بڑھتے ہوئے رجحان کے خلاف ادیبوں کی آواز میں بھی شدت آ رہی ہے اور ان کی مخالفت کرنے والوں کے رد عمل میں بھی۔ انعامات واپس کرنے والے سرکردہ ادیبوں کی فہرست میں
The West rightly condemns Isis’ vandalism of ancient sites – but not Saudi Arabia’s – Robert Fisk: Explosives pulverise historic sites in the Middle East, bulldozers erase ancient tombs and shrines, historic forts are torn down and Ottoman facades destroyed. The home of the favourite wife of the most revered man in an entire religion is
حج کے موقع پر کیا ہوا ؟ – عامر حسینی: پاکستان علماءکونسل کے چئیرمین طاہر اشرفی کا ایک کالم ’ روزنامہ جنگ ‘ میں ادارتی صفحہ پر شایع ہوا ہے جس میں انہوں نے ’ منیٰ بھگڈر‘ کے بارے میں سعودی حکام کی مبینہ بدانتظامی پر تنقید کو ایک
The dirty war on Syria: barrel bombs, partisan sources and war propaganda – Prof. Tim Anderson: War propaganda often demands the abandoning of ordinary reason and principle, and the Dirty War on Syria demonstrates this in abundance. A steady stream of atrocity stories – ‘barrel bombs’, chemical weapons, ‘industrial scale’ killings, dead babies – permeate
دادری واقعے نے بھارتی سیاسی شعور کی قلعی کھول دی: گذشتہ ہفتے دہلی سے ملحق علاقے دادری میں گائے کےگوشت کھانے کی افواہ پر ایک 50 سالہ مسلمان کے قتل نے سیاسی شعور کی ناکامی کو اجاگر کر دیا ہے۔ یہ واقعہ بھارتی دارالحکومت دہلی سے محض 50 کلومیٹر
The Pashtun and Deobandi role in the rise of ASWJ in Karachi’s PS-128 constituency – by Ebad Ahmed (The News): Roaring motorcycles screeching to a halt, panicked bystanders scampering away to safety, snarled-up traffic and young men taking charge, blocking off the PIDC road adjacent to the Chief Minister’s House—Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqi had stamped his authority with his blusterous
A useful prep-sheet on Syria for media propagandists – Gary Leupp: State Department talking points on Syria for cable news anchors: * Keep mentioning the barrel bombs. Do not mention how their use was pioneered by the Israeli Air Force in 1948, and how they were used by the U.S.
Saudi royal calls for regime change in Riyadh: A senior Saudi prince has launched an unprecedented call for change in the country’s leadership, as it faces its biggest challenge in years in the form of war, plummeting oil prices and criticism of its management of Mecca, scene
What Putin told the UN: the US and allies are to blame in Mideast: Those who hoped Vladimir Putin would lead the way out of the Syria crisis with a detailed new plan on Monday were disappointed. The Russian president used his address to the UN General Assembly for a tour de force
The evil empire of Saudi Arabia is the West’s real enemy: Iran is seriously mistrusted by Israel and America. North Korea protects its nuclear secrets and is ruled by an erratic, vicious man. Vladimir Putin’s territorial ambitions alarm democratic nations. The newest peril, Isis, the wild child of Islamists, has
Putin is talking more sense on Syria than anyone else – John R. Bradley: At the outset of Syria’s brutal four-year civil war, I was an almost unique voice in the British media deploring the push to depose the secular dictator President Bashar al-Assad, especially in the absence of a genuinely popular
GB administration accused of allowing banned groups to collect hides: GILGIT: Despite a ban on collection of hides by banned organisations, different groups affiliated to outlawed sectarian outfits freely collected a large number of hides in Gilgit-Baltistan during Eid holidays. Sources said the Gilgit administration allegedly allowed some
The failure of the Custodian of the Holy Sanctuary – Mustafa Hameed: The tent city at Mina, six miles east of Mecca, is a maze of 160,000 identical fiberglass cones — bright white, air-conditioned, and spread beyond sight over the Holy City’s eastern plains. Immediately to its west stand three
Obama’s Iran Deal creates international safety – Pranaav Jadhav: You may have often heard from political pundits that the second term of a presidency is often uncharismatic and low-key. This certainly does not seem to apply to President Obama who used up every bit of his last resource
Why Prime Minister’s meeting with the Sufi scholars is significant? – Vicky Nanjappa: A delegation of 40 Barelvi Sufi Scholars on Thursday, Aug 27 called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The event which was organized by the National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval aimed at sending a strong message in the sub-continent that
Defining the face of the Taliban – Wolf D. Fuhrig: The Taliban is a movement of fundamentalist Islam that dominated Afghanistan as an “Islamic Emirate” from 1996 until the death of their founder, Mohammed Omar, in 2013. The group gained diplomatic recognition from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United
how Pakistan protects Itself from regional sectarian war – Arif Rafiq: As sectarian wars continue to rage across the Middle East, Pakistan has managed to largely insulate itself from this regional plague. After a surge in Sunni-Shia sectarian violence from 2007-13, deaths from sectarian violence plummeted in 2014 by approximately
Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia, and their gift to Yale – Omer Aziz: The first thing you need to know about Saudi Arabia is that it is not a country but a financial and religious empire with a million poisonous tentacles stretching across both the West and the Muslim world. Its
Turkish daily exposes transfer of weapons to ISIS: On Sept. 1, police raided numerous news outlets, including one that happened to publish on that same day a report documenting weapons being transported from Turkey to the Islamic State (IS) in Syria with the knowledge of the local customs
بھارت سوکھی لکڑیوں کے ساتھ گیلی لکڑیاں بھی جلارہاہے – از عمار کاظمی: ہندوستان میں ایک عرصہ سے افغانوں اور پٹھانوں کو مثال بنا کرفلمیں بنائی جارہی ہیں امیتابھ بچن کی “خدا گواہ” اور “کابل ایکسپریس” جیسی بہت سی فلمیں مثال کے طور پر پیش کی جا سکتی ہیں اور عظیم اداکار