Newspaper Articles Archive
Press TV: 1,900 Shia Muslims killed in Pakistan by Deobandi militants since 2012: A new study shows violence against Shia Muslims has been rising in Pakistan and more than 1,900 Shia Muslims have been killed by Deobandi militants in recent years, Press TV reports. The study, conducted by the Jinnah Institute, an
Deobandi ASWJ terrorist Aqeeq Ansari’s arrest in Canada is a model for all Western governments: Editor’s note: Banned terrorist outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP aka ASWJ)’s Aqeeq Ansari’s arrest in Canada is a model for all Western governments. Arrest Deobandi militants, remove their permanent residence or citizenship status and prosecute them. TORONTO — A
Pakistan Today’s report: Shia genocide and the evils we don’t see – by Hassan Naqvi: The Hazara genocide often frequents headlines, but the situation is yet to improve or even change. In Pakistan, being a Shia is often enough for an unofficial, yet persistent, death warrant. Haji Muhammad Musa, a 90 years old
ہندوستانی ٹیم کا دورہ: سکیورٹی وجوہات کی بنیاد پرڈھاکا گراؤنڈ کے ساتھ دیوبندی مدرسے کو بند کر دیا گیا: ڈھاکا: ہندوستانی کرکٹ ٹیم کے حالیہ دورہ بنگلہ دیش کے موقع پر حکومت نے سیکیورٹی اقدامات اٹھاتے ہوئے دارالحکومت ڈھاکا کے کرکٹ اسٹیڈیم کے اطراف میں موجود دیوبند مدارس کو بند کرنے کا حکم جاری کردیا ہے۔ غیر ملکی
Pakistani Deobandi militant of banned terror outfit ASWJ to be deported from Canada next month: OTTAWA: A Pakistani citizen, charged with being a member of a banned sectarian group, will be deported from Canada next month after being caught with a cache of firearms, an immigration hearing heard on Monday. According to the
Jinnah Institute’s report: 1,304 Shia Muslims killed in Pakistan from 2012-2015: The sustained campaign of violence against Pakistan’s Shia community continues unabated. The overall number of bomb blasts and targeted attacks carried out by Deobandi militants, operating as ASWJ, SSP, LeJ or TTP, have reached unprecedented levels with 1,304 people killed from explosions,
Dear Wajahat S. Khan: You did know about Bol, but you didn’t give a damn!: Editor note: An edited version of this article was published in The Nation and then removed. LUBP located the original source of this rebuttal and is cross posting it. LUBP awaits the day when Pakistan’s other media conglomerates such as
May name is Tahera Ahmad Salafi and I need Diet Coke at United Airlines – Ale Natiq: My name is Tahera Ahmed and I am the woman who has received support from all parts of the world for being discriminated over a can of Diet Coke and today I want to tell you my story.
حیدر جاوید سید کے کالم ‘تاریخ بولتی بھی ہے صاحب’ پر عامر حسینی کا چشم کشا تجزیہ: مجموعی طور پر بہترین کالم ہے لیکن مولانا بھاشانی نے جو دعوی کیا تھا کہ امریکہ مشرقی پاکستان کو الگ کرنا چاہتا تھا یا اسے 70ء کے انتخابات میں ترقی پسندوں کی جیت سے خطرات لاحق تھے اس بات
عالم اسلام میں روحانی اقدار وروایات کے امینوں کا قتل عام – غلام رسول دہلوی: براہ راست موضوع سے متعلق گفتگو شروع کرنے سے قبل میں انتہاء پسندوں کے ہاتھوں علماء اہل سنت کے بہیمانہ قتل کے دو شرمناک واقعات کا ذکر کرنا چاہوں گا: (1) مفتی سرفراز احمد نعیمی (علیہ الرحمۃ) پاکستان
عالم اسلام میں جدید خوارج کی شرانگزیزیاں :علماء اہل سنت کا بے باک رد عمل – غلام رسول دہلوی: جدید خوارج کی وہابی دیوبندی سلفی تنظیمداعش کے خودساختہ خلیفہ ابوبکر البغدادی کی کسی بھی قسم کی حمایت اور پشت پناہی خلاف شرع اور قابل مذمت ہے: ممتاز علماء اہل سنت و دانشوران ملت کا راقم السطور کے ساتھ ایک
آج نیوز: سنی تحریک اور ایم کیو ایم نے طالبان اور سپاہ صحابہ کے تکفیری خوارج کے خلاف مشترکہ جدوجہد کا اعلان کر دیا: کراچی: آج نیوز – سنی تحریک نے متحدہ قومی موومنٹ کو اولیائے کرام و بزرگان دین کے تحفظ اور طالبانائزیشن کے خلاف جدوجہد میں ساتھ دینے کا یقین دلا دیا۔ متحدہ قومی موومنٹ کے قائد الطاف حسین نے لندن
ہیومن رائٹس واچ رپورٹ: پاکستان میں دیوبندی انتہا پسندوں کے ہاتھوں شیعہ مسلمانوں کی بڑھتی ہوئی ہلاکتیں: دیوبندی اہل سنت ولجماعت لشکر جھنگوی کےعسکریت پسندوں کو غیر مسلح کیا جائے اور ان پر مقدمات چلائے جائیں۔شیعہ ہزارہ برادری کو تحفظدیا جائے ۔ ہیومن رائٹس واچ کی جاری کردہ رپورٹ میں کہا گیا ہے کہ بلوچستان میں
How I tackled the “Sir, I don’t think Shias are real Muslims” concept – Zameer Hussain: I started my career as a Religious Education (RE) teacher in September 2013, in a school that has nearly 1500 students ranging from the ages of 11 to 18. Of these, approximately 75% come from a Muslim background. Due
Al-Jazeera: Pakistan’s top Deobandi cleric Fazlur Rehman blames jeans-wearing women for earthquakes: A top Pakistani cleric called upon the army to launch a military operation against women who wear jeans, the New Indian Express newspaper reported on Saturday. Speaking during a press conference in an Islamabad hotel, Fazlur Rehman blamed what
The Bol ship and the jumping rats: PFUJ warns media against hiring Azhar Abbas, Kamran Khan: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) will not tolerate any curbs on freedom of expression and democratic institutions, says a resolution passed in an emergency meeting of PFUJ’s Executive Council, which was convened on Saturday to review
Besides madrassas, varsities also on watch list – Zia Ur Rehman: Intelligence agencies have started keeping a close eye on Karachi’s academic institutions too along with madrassas following the recent arrest of three university students in connection with high-profile terrorist attacks. The alleged involvement of young men who
Pakistan of the Ismailis – Zaigham Khan: The past is another country, and 1906 is located at a distance of more than a century. In that eventful year, the imam of the small Ismaili Muslim community led the process of forming a political platform for
Pakistan Rah-e-Haq Party is the new face of LeJ-ASWJ and TTP terrorists in KP: Political analysts, media and civil society organisations are concerned over barring women from voting in by-polls in PK-95, a constituency in Upper Dir district, held on May 7. They, however, seem oblivious of a new and dangerous trend
Four ways to condemn violence against minorities in Pakistan that are all wrong – Saba Fatima: Editor’s note: Saba Fatima’s blog could have been much better had she clearly identified the Deobandi identity of terrorists who are killing Shias, Sunni Sufis, Christians etc instead of using the generic term ‘Sunni’. Also, she and other authors
Arfi Rafiq continues to obfuscate and justify Shia genocide by constructing false Sunni-Shia sectarian violence binary: Editor’s note: Instead of Shia genocide by Deobandi ASWJ terrorists, in his article for DW, Arif Rafiq misrepresents it as equal Sunni-Shia violence. In recent past, Arif Rafiq a consultant and scholar of the Middle East Institute, published articles
Deobandi Imam arrested on sodomy charges: Tension prevailed in Bareilly on Tuesday after Barelvi and Deobandi sects of Sunni Muslims clashed over the appointment of an Imam in a local mosque, Masjid Qutubkhana, in Lucknow. The appointment was necessary as the Imam of the mosque was arrested
Not Axactly – by Arif Nizami: Samuel Johnson, literary titan of the 18th century, once famously said: patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. I was reminded of the famous quote while reading allegations against Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh, the beleaguered Chief Executive of Axact,
Riaz Al-Malik Hajjaji’s comment on Ayaz Amir’s commendable column on Axact: One of the most balanced articles on AXACT that highlight the staggering hypocrisy of Pakistan’s elitist liberals. Pakistanis, especially Shia muslims are being massacred daily. Christians are being regularly attacked. The Punjab provincial government, lead by Shahbaz Sharif; the
سعودی شیعہ انصاف چاہتے ہیں: وہ غصے اور صدمے میں ہیں لیکن سعودی عرب کی اقلیتی شیعہ برادری ان کی مسجد میں اس خود کش بم دھماکے کی ہولناک تباہی کے بعد بھی مشتعل نہیں ہوئی جس کے بارے میں حکام کا کہنا ہے
Pentagon report predicted West’s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS – Nafeez Ahmed: A declassified secret US government document obtained by the conservative public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad. The document reveals that
مسلک کی بنیاد پر دیوبندی تکفیری دہشت گردی اپنی انتہا کو پہنچ گئی ہے – عطا الحق قاسمی: وفاقی وزیر سینیٹر پرویز رشید کو بھی حال ہی میں دائرہ اسلام سے خارج کر دیا گیا ہے۔ ابن انشاء کی بات کتنی سچی ہے کہ ہمارے بڑے، کفار کو دائرہ اسلام میں داخل کرتے تھے اور ہمارے چھوٹے
Understanding the educated, well off Deobandi and Salafi militants – Muhammad Amir Rana: To many, Tahir, Saad, Azfar and Nasir may appear new militant characters. But, profiles and ambitions of similar characters have been highlighted many times in the recent past. The confessions made by these detainees shocked many, particularly those who
Shia genocide, silence, obfuscation and denial: A critical comment on Mohsin Hamid’s interview: Editorial note: Good questions by Mr Aabbas Zaidi although Mohsin Hamid appears to be a typical elitist fake liberal. Particularly in regards to Deobandi violence against Shia Muslims and other communities, his answers are simplistic and naive. Ahmadi genocide and Shia
انصاف کا قتل: نواز یافتہ تحقیقاتی کمیشن نے ماڈل ٹاؤن لاہور میں قتل عام کرنے والے شہباز شریف اور رانا ثنا اللہ دیوبندی کو بری کر دیا: پاکستان عوامی تحریک نے ماڈل ٹاؤن میں پولیس فائرنگ سے ہونے والی ہلاکتوں کی تحقیقات کے لیے جوائنٹ انویسٹی گیشن ٹیم (جے آئی ٹی) کی رپورٹ کو مسترد کرتے ہوئے احتجاج کرنے کا اعلان کیا ہے۔ ادھر پنجاب اسمبلی
Police report: Sabeen Mahmud was killed by Deobandi ASWJ militants for her campaign against Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Aziz: KARACHI: Police investigators said on Thursday that the four terrorists arrested for killing 45 members of the Shia Ismaili community in a bus attack near Safoora Goth last week told them that they had targeted human rights activist
القاعدہ اور سپاہ صحابہ کے سلفی و دیوبندی دہشت گروں میں شمولیت کے لئے اسامہ بن لادن کا تیار کردہ سوالنامہ: امریکی حکام نے القاعدہ کے رہنما اسامہ بن لادن کے کمپاؤنڈ سے ملنے والی مزید دستاویزات جاری کی ہیں جن میں کتابیں، خطوط اور القاعدہ کا آپریشن چلانے کے حوالے سے معلومات شامل ہیں۔ فارم میں مندرجہ ذیل سوالات
Despite sanctions, Pakistan’s ‘terrorists’ thrive – Asad Hashim: Islamabad, Pakistan – For a man with a $10m bounty on his head, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed seems surprisingly relaxed. “I meet thousands of people every day, I am open and among them,” he said, laughing at his office in
Deobandi imam jailed for five years for anti-Shia sermons: LAHORE: A court in Pakistan has jailed an Imam or prayer leader for five years for inciting hate against a rival sect, officials said Wednesday. Maulana Abubakar a prayer leader was arrested in February in Kasur district, Punjab, some 50
Tipu Sultan the great – Tahir Kamran: A popular exhibit in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is a musical instrument made in the shape of a tiger devouring a European settler. It signifies the mindset of the important individual from South India who commissioned it and
Celebrating death not life – Tahir Kamran: “IS celebrates death, not life” was a statement from a young Jordanian colleague who works on Middle Eastern politics. Despite being visibly distressed and shaken over the gruesome killing of the Jordanian pilot, Moaz al-Kasasbeh, who was burnt
Islam and open societies – Tahir Kamran: The shooting at Charlie Hebdo in Paris has acted as a wake-up call for several European nations, Belgium and the United Kingdom being the most conspicuous of them. Their concern seems all the more visible primarily because Western