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قصہ فاطمہ جناح کی تدفین کا: محترمہ فاطمہ جناح بانی پاکستان محمد علی جناح کی نہ صرف خیال رکھنے والی مشفق بہن بھی تھیں بلکہ وہ جناح صاحب کی سیاسی شریک کار بھی تھیں۔ جناح صاحب کی وفات کے بعد لوگ انہیں اسی قدر منزلت
ISI cultivated Taliban to counter Indian action against Pakistan: Musharraf: Former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf has called for an end to militant proxies in neighbouring Afghanistan, said a report published on The Guardian. In the interview, Musharraf admitted that during his tenure as the head of state, Pakistan
Deobandi Saudi lobby in Pakistani establishment planning another genocide of Shia Pashtuns of Parachinar?: PESHAWAR: As the government has started imparting special arms training to male and female teachers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and parts of the adjoining tribal region, the law-enforcement agencies in Kurram Agency have asked people to surrender weapons. Residents said
Isis in Iraq: Britain has no plan for tackling the militants, and no idea who’s in charge – Patrick Cockburn: The traumatic experience of Britain’s participation in the 2003 Iraq war led the Government to have as little to do with the country as possible. By the spring of 2014, as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
ابن تیمیہ کے فتوی اہل ماردین بارے وھابی دیوبندی علماء کی نظر ثانی: دنیا بھر سے تعلق رکھنے والے ممتاز مسلم اسکالروں اور علمائے دین نے قرون وسطیٰ کے جہاد سے متعلق فتویٰ پر نظر ثانی کی ہے اور ان کا کہنا ہے کہ اس فتویٰ کو سخت گیر اسلام پسند بالعموم
On that which cannot be named – Olga Tkachuk: “There is no such thing as radical Islam,” reads a recent headline of a popular American publication. Individual Muslims might be radicals, writes the author, but “[t]here is only one Islam” and it has nothing to do with violence.
بارودی دیوبندی کا نزلہ درودی سنی صوفی اور بریلوی پر؟: پاکستان کے صوبہ پنجاب میں یہ احساس تقویت پا رہا ہے کہ حال ہی میں نافذ کیا گیا ساؤنڈ سسٹم آرڈیننس شدت پسندوں کی بجائے اعتدال پسندوں کی آزادیِ اظہار کے گردگھیرا تنگ کر رہا ہے۔ البتہ حُکام کے
Politically motivated cases in Karachi: Is the establishment deflecting attention from ASWJ takfiri khwarij to MQM? – Ali Arqam: LUBP’s note: The tweets and the column suggests that there are politically motivated cases in Karachi. It would appear that the security establishment is trying to deflect attention from ASWJ takfiri khwarij to MQM? The timing and sequence of
Muslims and extremism: A difficult dialogue: The comments by Prince Charles last weekend about the growing threat of Islamist radicalisation were the day’s most read item on the BBC news website. The Prince of Wales warned that young people are being radicalised at an
The militancy business in Pakistan: Unless the hypocrisy of our religious institutions vis-à-vis foreign funding is exposed, it will be difficult to cut off the power connections these organisations have managed to develop within the large swathes of Pakistan’s population Like never before, the
Deobandi madrassas want to hide details of their teachers and students: Islamabad – The federal government has decided to engage the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), Auqaf department and other stakeholders to ascertain whether or not any contentious material falls in the category of ‘hate material’ or ‘hate speech,’ as
Al Jazeera interviews Deobandi terrorist Aurangzeb Farooqi: Islamabad, Pakistan – A Pakistani crackdown on armed religious groups has resulted in more than 8,800 arrests, but analysts warn a lack of transparency in the process and clarity on policy could hurt the effort. Police and other security forces
پاکستانی ریاست اہل سنت والجماعت لشکر جھنگوی کے خلاف کاروائی میں سنجیدہ نہیں –: امریکی کانگریس کی خارجہ امور کمیٹی نے امریکی وزیر خارجہ کو ایک خط میں پاکستان پر دہشت گردوں کے خلاف دوغلی پالیسی جاری رکھنے کا الزام لگاتے ہوئے امریکی پالیسی کو تبدیلی کرنے اور پاکستان کے خلاف پابندیاں
Civil society activists arrested, not leaders of banned terror outfit ASWJ: Sindh Givt exposed – The Nation: On Tuesday, Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Culture, Sharmila Farooqi, confirmed that Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) is a banned organisation and promised strict action against all proscribed groups. On Thursday, the ASWJ held a public rally
Jibran Nasir and Khurram Zaki’s arrest: PPP Sindh govt reveals its colours – Express Tribune: The brief detention of the civil society activist Jibran Nasir and 22 of his compatriots is illustrative and instructive. The detentions illustrate just where the forces of law and order stand, as well as the provincial and federal
The psychology of extreme behavior – by Dr. Luc De Keyser: Stratfor opened the new year with the introduction of three new columnists, including myself, that were playfully named the three tenors. Now that each has had his overture, it seems that this label should be adjusted somewhat to reflect
The great Liars movement and Iftikhar Chaudhary – Syed Riaz Al-Malik Hajjaji: In 2007, great Liars Movement, ooops Lawyers Movement took place which restored the finest crooked, corrupt Jamaati Talibani Qazis to Supreme Court. But we forget Liars Movement Part 1 aka PNA Movement which facilitated the Coronation of “anti-establishment”
Islamic State goes official in South Asia – Arif Rafiq: The group that describes itself as the Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS or ISIL) has formally entered the fray in South Asia, recently announcing the formation of a wilayah (province) in the region. IS is positioning itself
Long live the king – Marvi Sirmed: Just a week ago we heard the American President during his Indian visit eulogizing the democratic values both the countries adhered to. One heard him emphasizing gender equality, the safety of women and protection of religious minorities while
Top al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui reveals high-level Saudi involvement in Osama bin Laden terror network: Senior members of the Saudi royal family were major al-Qaeda donors and were intimately involved with Osama bin Laden’s terror network in the 1990s, one of the group’s former members has testified to a New York court. Zacarias Moussaoui,
Terrorist killings directed against Pakistan’s Shia population – Dr. Ismail Salami: By all standards, human rights abuse in Pakistan particularly against the Shia population is taking a horrendous momentum with the government keeping silent on the ongoing bloodbath. On Friday, over 60 worshippers were martyred and 60 others injured in
Saudi Arabia a ‘breeding ground’ for terrorism, imam tells committee – Amanda Connolly: Through its relationship with Saudi Arabia, Canada has allied itself with a “breeding ground” for terrorism, a Calgary imam told a Senate committee Monday afternoon. Imam Syed Soharwardy told the the Senate Committee on National Defence that Canada needs to
جیسی پرجا ویسا راجا – تنویر اختر: ہمیں خود پر مسلط کرکے اب کس منہ سے پوچهتے ہو کہ یہ کیا ہو رہا ہے؟. اپنے سیاسی مخالف گورنر کو قتل کروانے اور اس کے قاتل کو اعتراف جرم کے باوجود جیل میں مسلسل وی آئی پی
The Anti-National Action Plan – Saroop Ijaz: The honeymoon with the new-found and misplaced sense of security was brief; it was predicated upon the flimsy assumption that enough outrage and ‘resolve’ will prevent murder. It didn’t in Shikarpur for over 57 people, including children, who went
جب تک سندھو تب تک سندھ ؟ – وسعت اللہ خان: وسطی ایشیائی آریاؤں سے لے کے انگریز چارلس نیپئر تک سندھ پر جتنے حملے ہوئے وہ یک طرفہ تھے لیکن سندھ کو پہلی بار سہ طرفہ حملے کا سامنا ہے۔یعنی اسٹیبلشمنٹ ، پیپلز پارٹی ( زرداری ) اور مذہبی
شکار پر عدالتی پابندی لیکن عرب شیخ کا کیمپ لگ گیا: پاکستان کے صوبہ بلوچستان کے ایران اور افغانستان سے متصل سرحدی ضلع چاغی میں عرب شیخ کے لیے کیمپ قائم کیا گیا ہے۔ محکمہ جنگلات و جنگلی حیات کے ایک سینیئر افسر نے چاغی میں سعودی شیخ کے کیمپ
All the terrorist groups including LeJ and ASWJ share a common ideology wth ISIS – Lord Avebury: LONDON: All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights Vice-Chair Lord Eric Avebury has said that terror attacks on Shias in Pakistan and elsewhere have reached a new dimension with hosts of terror organisations using suicide methods to kill
Shia Blood, On Rocks! – Marvi Sirmed: January 30 added another blood-soaked page in the history of Pakistan — the country stalled among other challenges by religious bigotry, extremism and violence in the name of Islam. Around 60 Shia worshipers were killed in a suicide blast,
King Salman’s shady past – Rafia Zakaria: It has been a month dominated by Saudi Arabia. Last week, I wrote about the beheading of a Burmese woman in the Holy City of Makkah. The Saudi King was not dead then, but he died a few days
#DeobandiTerrorism: Only the very myopic won’t see that all terrorists are cut from the same cloth, share ideas and ideologies – Abbas Nasir: PAKISTAN’S national security obsessions and the utter contempt for dissent and diversity of opinion are threatening its existence now as at no time in the past. Although so many in Pakistan raised their voice against it over the years,
Is Pakistan really cracking down on Deobandi terrorism?: An interview with C. Christine Fair – By R.M. Schneiderman (Newsweek): Many have called it a game-changer. On December 16, gunmen loyal to the Pakistani Taliban attacked a military school in Peshawar, killing 148 people. Most of the victims were children, and many were killed as they hid under
Shikapur Shia massacre and the Deobandi footprints – Ali Araqm: It is heartbreaking to see the worst of your nightmares come to reality. But as they say, “You learned to run from what you feel, and that’s why you have nightmares.” It was 2011 when I visited Larkana
Dawn News reports on Deobandi Terror: An expanding war: Editor’s note: LUBP appreciates the clear condemnation of Deobandi Terror by Dawn News. We urge other media outlets to clearly point out that Deobandi Terrorists are the only ones killing Shia, Sunni Brelvi, Christian, Ahmedia and Hindus. AS though
#DeobandiTerrorism: Under Pakistani state patronage it was Deobandi Islam, another toxic form of the faith already indigenous to South Asia, that has flourished far more than Wahhabism.: We all need stories ‘to help us make sense of the complexity of reality’, intones the sensible sounding voice of Adam Curtis at the start of his new documentary about Afghanistan, Bitter Lake. But stories told by ‘those
Foreign Policy: Saudi King Salman’s troubling ties to transnational Salafi and Deobandi terrorists: President Barack Obama arrived in Riyadh today to offer his condolences on the death of the beloved Saudi King Abdullah and to meet his successor, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. But just who is King Salman? The U.S.
وکلا کا فوجی عدالتوں کی تشکیل کےخلاف احتجاج کا فیصلہ: پاکستانی وکلا کی سب سے اعلیٰ تنظیم پاکستان بار کونسل کے زیر انتظام وکلا کنونشن میں فوج کی سیاسی معاملات میں مداخلت کی مذمت اور 21ویں آئینی ترمیم کے تحت فوجی عدالتوں کے قیام کو بنیادی حقوق کے خلاف
پاک فوج طالبان اور دیگر تمام تکفیری خارجی دہشتگردوں کے خلاف کارروائی کرنا چاہتی تھی جنرل کیانی ہچکچا تے رہے – سابق صدر پرویز مشرف کا انکشاف: کراچی: سابق آرمی چیف جنرل (ر) پرویز مشرف کا کہنا ہے کہ ملک کو درپیش سیکیورٹی چیلنجز کے قابو سے باہر ہونے کی ایک وجہ ان کے پیشرو جنرل اشفاق پرویز کیانی کی دہشت گردوں کے خلاف ایکشن لینے
Narrative building in Pashtun society: It is ominous to make predictions these days. Predictions aside, detecting the currents and threads that underlie events and analysing causation and consequences is a futile exercise. But events needs to be dissected and the behaviour it generates should
Eleven things women in Saudi Arabia can’t do: As Saudi Arabia mourns the death of King Abdullah, human rights groups argue he should not be remembered for championing women’s rights, despite the modest changes that he introduced. The conservative kingdom has an abysmal human right record,
The King of Hearts — an obituary: The Australian musician Nick Cave, who often touches on love and death, once mused on a great man’s last rites (his own), “The motorcade will be ten miles long, the world’ll join for a farewell song … they’ll sound