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Why Pakistan may be a reluctant ally in Saudis’ Yemen campaign – Omar Waraich: Still, it now finds itself drawn into a geopolitical alliance with a strongly sectarian pallor. This isn’t first time Pakistan has been dragged into the poisonous Saudi-Iranian rivalry. After the 1979 revolution that brought the Ayatollahs to power,

یمنی کھچڑی ذرا احتیاط سے کھائیے – از وسعت اللہ خان: جن زیدی شیعوں کے خلاف سعودی عرب اور اس کے خلیجی ساتھی آج یکجا ہیں کبھی یمن پر ہزار برس حکومت کرنے والے یہی زیدی شیعہ سعودیوں اور ان کے اتحادیوں کی آنکھ کا تارہ تھے اور بات بھی

طاہرہ شاہ: شہیدِ سندھو دریا: سماجی کارکن طاہرہ شاہ، جنہوں نے اپنی ساری زندگی پاکستان کی ماہی گیر برادری کے حقوق کی جدوجہد میں گزار دی، اس مہینے ایک کار حادثے میں جاں بحق ہوگئیں۔ مجھے یاد ہے میں ان سے پہلے بار جنوری 2010

Yemen about to make Saudi Arabia very unhappy – by Ziad Fadel: No, this is not Nellie Fox, the legendary American baseball player. He is a typical Yemeni who is about to be turned into a savage fighting machine thanks to the blundering of the Saudi apes. There are 2

A Palestinian blogger’s perspective on Saudi Arabia’s attack on Yemen: Just yesterday I wrote that the Saudis would not dare to attack Yemen. I was wrong with this: While the Saudi army is now sending some troops to its southern border with Yemen neither the Saudi army nor the

Mr Nawaz Sharif, the Saudi-Yemeni conflict is not our war to fight – Zulfikar Ali: As the Houthi rebels strengthen their stranglehold over the country, amid the surreptitious flight of the Yemeni president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, the long raging civil war in Yemen has finally come into the international spotlight. Pakistan is, once again, at crossroads with Saudi Arabia, who

Pakistan’s long history of fighting Saudi Arabia’s wars – Ishaan Tharoor: Saudi Arabia’s campaign against Houthi rebel forces in Yemen, which began with waves of airstrikes overnight on Thursday, has laid down a new marker in the dangerously unstable Middle East. As WorldViews discussed earlier, the Saudis coordinated their

1,054 policemen killed since 2007 in KP province by TTP-ASWJ terrorists: PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has sacrificed 1,054 policemen, more than any civilian law-enforcement agency, but the cops get meager compensation package compared to the one being given to the policemen in Punjab, a source said on Tuesday. The

3,000 Indian Deobandi madrasas affiliated to Darul Uloom Deoband reject govt financial aid for modernisation: Nearly 3000 madrasas affiliated to country’s largest Islamic seminary, Darul Uloom, Deoband, have decided to shun any government aid for modernisation and to stay away from modern teaching. In its maiden budget, the Narendra Modi government had announced Rs

How I stood up to Chicago’s abusive Deobandi Imam – by Zainab Khan (Daily Beast): Mohammed Abdullah Saleem, who faces new criminal charges of sexual assault, tried to ban Zainab Khan from burying her father. Now, she tells her courageous story of standing up to one of Chicago’s most powerful imams. The decision by

Becoming a part of a Saudi-led coalition will be stupidity at its most stupid – Ejaz Haider: Editor’s note : Very good column by Ejaz Haider on the Saudi invasion of Yemen. Also note that Ejaz Haider clearly mentions Deobandi and Salafi militants who are massacring Shias and Sunni Sufis in Pakistan and elsewhere. A March

اس سال کالعدم سپاہ صحابہ کے 16 دہشت گردوں گرفتار جبکہ لشکر جھنگوی کے 6 دہشت گرد مارے، قائم علی شاہ: خبر ٹی وی (کراچی) وزیر اعلیٰ سندھ سید قائم علی شاہ نے کہا ہے کہ اس سال کالعدم سپاہ صحابہ کے 16 دہشت گردوں گرفتار جبکہ لشکر جھنگوی کے 6 دہشت گرد مارے، تحریک طالبان کے 52 دہشتگردوں کو

We’re dying from apathy, not terrorism – Murtaza Haider: Thousands have been targeted, but only a few have lived to tell the tale. Sitting in the semi-lit lounge at the Washington Plaza Hotel, Raza Rumi narrated the details of the fateful Friday in March when his driver

The IS behemoth, yet another Western project gone wrong – Murtaza Haider: It is a typical summer flick, but it holds a great lesson for the global power politics. Hercules, released earlier in the summer, shows how the son of Zeus fights against tyrants only to realise later that he

Beardless folks – Shazia Gulzar: Beard holds a significant importance in the Islamic Society. It plays a pivotal role in how people should perceive you. You are instantly known as a Sufi or Ustad ji, even if you aren’t one. It definitely changes

فیصل آباد: القاعدہ، طالبان اور سپاہ صحابہ کی حلیف شہبازشریف حکومت کی جانب سے پر امن سنی اتحاد کونسل اور صاحبزادہ حامد رضا کے خلاف انتقامی کاروائی: فیصل آباد میں مذہبی جماعت سنی اتحاد کونسل کی جانب سے لاؤڈ سپیکر ایکٹ کے خلاف ہڑتال کے دوران گھنٹہ گھر کے آٹھ بازاروں میں زبردستی دکانیں بند کروانے اور تاجروں سے ہاتھا پائی کے الزام میں نقضِ امن

Karachi Police: Sectarian terrorist group ASWJ and TTP behing the attacks on Bohra mosque and Rangers mobile: Karachi: Last Friday’s dual terror attacks on a Bohra community mosque and a Rangers patrol mobile were the work of two separate groups, according to city police chief Ghulam Qadir Thebo. “The investigation teams have been looking

We’re not moving towards civil war, we’re in it – Murtaza Haider: Being a Shia is not a crime, but in Pakistan it now carries a death sentence. The 24 Shias from Kohat and Orakzai agency, who were summarily executed by the militants near the Pak-Iran border, have now been

Sectarianism in Iraq — is Pakistan watching? – Murtaza Haider: Iraq has descended into a full-blown civil war. The Jihadists have captured three towns and are marching on to Baghdad. They claim to have killed 1,700 prisoners in violation of Islamic and other laws governing warfare. They have also

Jummah mubarak, you ‘kafir’! – Ale Natiq: Last Friday, nearly 150 Shias were killed and 400 wounded in triple suicide blasts that targeted the Shia community during the Friday congregational prayers in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. ISIS/ISIL claimed responsibility of the attack and a statement released

Rs400,000, or hand over your son to the madrassa – Murtaza Haider: It is one of the weirdest school enrolment drives ever: Surrender a son to the madrassa (religious seminary), or pay 400,000 rupees (US$4,000) instead. The militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas are openly coercing families to hand over their sons,

There is a mini Boko Haram thriving in every Muslim society – Murtaza Haider: We know them as al Qaeda, Boko Haram, and the Taliban. Their branding may differ, but their misogynist ideologies do not. These so-called Islamists have promoted discrimination against women for centuries. Now, they abduct young women and threaten to

250 Sunnis and Shias killed in Yemen, Pakistan and Syria by Deobandi-Salafi terrorists: For the Deobandi-Salafis, its Friday. The day set aside for massacring Shia muslims. You know, those “sectarian Shias” as described in increasing sections of the global media – who are getting too uppity and want to decide their own

دیوبندی مدارس کی حمایت کرنے پر پنجاب حکومت کا جامعہ المنتظر کو 80 لیپ ٹاپ کا تحفہ: شیعہ نیوز (پاکستانی شیعہ خبر رساں ادارہ) حکومت پنجاب نے وفاق المدارس الشیعہ پاکستان سے الحاق شدہ مدارس کے پوزیشن ہولڈرز طلبا و طالبات کے لئے 80 لیپ ٹاپ فراہم کر دیئے جو جامعتہ المنتظر ماڈل ٹاؤن لاہور

Sheikh Ibn Taymiyyah: Founder of excommunication and exclusion – Aamir Hussaini: Sheikh Ibn Taymiyyah is a very controversial figure in Muslim history. On the one side there are those who believe that he adopted Imam Ahmad bin Hanbals’ rigid, violent and Zahiriya (emphasizing on outward appearance) in Tauheed (‘the oneness’)

The continued abuse of the Pashtun woman – Murtaza Haider: They all suffer in silence, but compared to the rest of Pakistan, women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) suffer domestic violence in greater proportions. While terror-stricken Pakistan is focused on North Waziristan for a breakthrough with the violence sponsoring Taliban,

Fasaad Fi sabilillah? – Murtaza Haider: It could have been just another ordinary patient arriving at an eye clinic for treatment. Abdul Rauf, a 20-something resident of Badami Bagh Lahore, took his father to Dr. Ali Haider’s clinic. A delay at the clinic ticked

You are free to go to your mosques ….. Just as long as it is a Deobandi one with Arabic-only Khutbas: ISLAMABAD: On Friday, students at the International Islamic University (IIUI) Islamabad offered prayers outside the locked doors of a mosque, recently shut down by the university administration. The administration recently closed down the decades old mosque aligned with the

The Deobandi Salafi terror: Islamabad’s International Islamic University shuts down Sunni Sufi Barelvi mosque: ISLAMABAD: On Friday, students at the International Islamic University (IIUI) Islamabad offered prayers outside the locked doors of a mosque, recently shut down by the university administration. The administration recently closed down the decades old mosque aligned with the

Yemen massacre of Zaidi Shias by the Salafi Al-Qaeda: It’s not ISIL and it’s not Sunni-Shiite Conflict – Juan Cole: The massive twin bombings at mosques in the capital that shook Yemen on Friday, killing over 100 and wounding many more, were immediately claimed by Daesh (ISIS, ISIL). Since the mosques were largely attended by members of the

Aamir Hussaini-Remembering Langah: I was in Lahore last week when a friend informed me that the President of Pakistan Seraiki Party, Taj Muhammad Langah, had passed away. That was sad and very shocking news to me but I could not attend

Deobandi extremists in the UK – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: It could be a millenarian crisis or a delayed reaction to decades of bad history, but millions of Muslims seem to have turned inwards, hankering for an imagined golden age. They are contemptuous of modernity’s bendable, ductile values. Some

The News: Nexus of Deobandi terror outfits strikes again: Police suspect the involvement of the nexus between the Taliban, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the Jundullah and other terrorist outfits, which is already responsible for several sectarian attacks, in the bomb attack on a Bohra community mosque in Arambagh on

The Islamic State arrives in Pakistan: Since the beginning of 2015 Pakistan’s press, both printed and electronic, together with independent blogs, have been reporting with increasing frequency the spread of the Islamic State’s (IS) influence on Pakistani territory. Both the intelligence services of the USA

President Obama’s message to everyone celebrating Nowruz across the US and in countries around the world (2015): Hello! To everyone celebrating Nowruz—across the United States and in countries around the world—Nowruz Mubarak. For thousands of years, this has been a time to gather with family and friends and welcome a new spring and a new

Ayaz Amir’s analysis of the Rangers’ selective operation against MQM: The Urdu-speaking population which migrated from India at the time of Partition came in two categories: 1) the upper-crust or the elite class which settled in such places as Clifton, Bath Island, PECHS and later Defence; and 2) the

Perverse Pontification by Friedman of the NY Times: It is not just his selective, hypocritical and trite appropriation of other people’s bad ideas and analysis that endears Tom to the everyday douchebag. It his also the ability to switch comfortably between false humility and braggadocio while never

Karachi’s dragons: Is banned Deobandi terror outfit ASWJ gearing up to replace MQM? – Dawn newspaper (Khurram Hussain): Here’s a little story, which some might find interesting given the times. In the 2013 election, the provincial assembly of Sindh narrowly missed having to swear in the leader of a banned organisation who contested a provincial seat from

Open letter to Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz – by Ani Zonneveld: in this letter, Ani Zonneveld has correctly identified the major source of extremism, bigotry, intolerance and misogyny in the Muslim world. Instead of using vague and obfuscatory terminology like “Islamist”, she has correctly highlighted Saudi Wahabism as a major

Pakistan warns Turkey: Don’t make our mistakes: As Turkey was discussing the training and equipping of Syrian opposition militants in Turkey, Pakistan recalled its own painful experiences. In Islamabad, Al-Monitor asked Mushahid Hussein, the chairman of the Pakistani Senate’s Defense Committee, about his country’s role in Afghanistan and in