Newspaper Articles Archive
Class-based activism? Sympathy for Shahzeb Khan, apathy for Baldia factory fire victims: The Global Trade and Labour Compliance conference organised by the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (Piler), in collaboration with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Pakistan, took an interesting turn when Advocate Faisal Siddiqi compared the death of Shahzeb Khan to
Deobandi takfiris, not Sunnis, are involved in religious terrorism – Allama Hamid Saeed Kazmi: Editor’s note : “Voice of Sunnis”, the official page of Sunni Sufi posted an image of an Urdu article by former Federal Minister for religious affairs in Pakistan Sahibzada Hamid Saeed Kazami (the head of Sunni Sufi political party “Nizam-e-Mustafa
Strategic asset or eternal enemy – Naseer Memon: After the terrorists executed their barbarous action, the government mercifully woke up to develop a plan for its action. A committee of political wizards, including Sheikh Rashid who had been publically inciting violence, has been constituted to contemplate
‘Not-so-Taliban Khan’ called for action against banned outfits: Sources say PTI chief Imran Khan sought action against hate-mongers, banned sectarian outfits during APC on Dec 24, also proposed time-barring operation of military courts Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, dubbed as ‘Taliban Khan’ by his political opponents,
Jordanian Fighter Pilot captured by ISIS: Malfunction or Malice?: Fahwad Al-Khadoumi (nsnbc) : On Wednesday, ISIS claimed that it downed a Jordanian fighter jet near the city of al-Raqqah, displaying photos of the captured pilot. The Jordanian Air Force confirmed the capture of the pilot and his identity,
ISIS ‘launches new chlorine gas attack’ in Iraq’s Anbar – report: Islamic State militants have reportedly shelled a city in the western Iraqi province of Anbar with chlorine gas-imbued missiles, media reports citing security sources say. The attack is said to have targeted a district with trapped and starving civilians.
‘Mufti’ Naeem Deobandi says Peshawar attack is ‘wrath of God’: President of prominent Madrassa movement Jamia Binoria ‘Mufti’ Naeem slammed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government while condemning the Peshawar school attack. He, however, quickly turned to advice the nation to seek repentance from God claiming that such problems are a
Pakistan’s baffling response to Extremism: Despite the grief and rage that followed the massacre of 148 students and their teachers by Taliban militants at an army-run school in Peshawar last week, Pakistan persists in its duplicitous and self-defeating response to the extremism that is
نواز حکومت کے مشکل فیصلے۔۔۔۔۔۔ از نور درویش: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-34868-Lashkar-e-Jhangvi-leader-Malik-Ishaq-set-to-be-freed ایک طرف بحث چل رھی ھے فوجی عدالتوں کے قیام کے بارے میں۔ کبھی وزیر اعظم صاحب دہشت گردی کی جنگ کے بارے میں انقلابی بیان دیتے نظر آتے ھیں۔ مشکل فیصلے کرنے کا عندیہ دیتے دکھائی دیتے
Nazir Naji on Peshawar Massacre and Lal Masjid’ Molvi Abdul Aziz – Daily Dunya: Pakistan’s leading urdu Columnist raises few valid questions while responding to Peshawar (APS) massacre and to the recent bloody tones of Lal Masjid’s Molvi Abdul Aziz. I am confused, whom to criticize first, The Molvi of Lal Masjid or
From these terrified men what can we expect? – Ayaz Amir: The country’s two leading politicians are now Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan (mercifully not anymore Asif Zardari, and even more mercifully not the likes of Khursheed Shah). Nawaz Sharif is terrified of the Taliban and not in a hundred
مولوی عبدالعزیز کو گرفتار کیا جائے اور لال مسجد کو جلا دیا جائے، الطاف حسین کا مطالبہ: شیعہ نیوز (پاکستانی شیعہ خبر رساں ادارہ) متحدہ قومی موومنٹ پاکستان کے قائد الطاف حسین نے کہا ہے کہ طالبان کی حمایت کے جرم میں مولوی عبدالعزیز کو گرفتار کیا جائے اور جامعہ حفصہ کو بند کیا جائے۔ ان
Saudi Arabia created the monster now devouring it – William Dalrymple: Last autumn I visited a Sufi shrine just outside Peshawar in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan. Rahman Baba was a 17th-century mystic poet, and his tomb has for centuries been a place where musicians and poets have
Pakistan arrests suspected South Asian al Qaeda commander: (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities have arrested a man they describe as an important commander in al Qaeda’s newly created South Asian wing, police told Reuters on Friday. Police arrested Shahid Usman, in his mid-thirties, and four others in the
EU urges Pakistan to repeal blasphemy laws: STRASBOURG – The European parliament called Thursday on Pakistan to overhaul its blasphemy laws with a view to repealing them, saying they were “increasingly used to target” Christians and other minorities. The parliament expressed particular concern about the
The Saudi King who fought the wrong wars: There is one man for whom Hosni Mubarak’s acquittal will come as welcome relief: his friend and fellow potentate King Abdullah. Such was the Saudi King’s anxiety about Mubarak that he has nudged the Egyptian military to be
Indignity and death in Saudi Arabia: Many years ago, an uncle of mine, since deceased, was employed in the Baldia of Riyadh — capital of the land of the very pure, Saudi Arabia. During his annual trips back home, he had many stories to narrate
سوات میں ٹارگٹ کلنگ میں اضافہ: محمد ذہین خان وادی سوات کے تحصیل کبل کے علاقے ڈھیرئی میں طالبان مخالف ویلج ڈیفنس کونسل یا امن کمیٹی کے سربراہ ہیں۔سوات میں امن لشکروں پر حالیہ حملوں میں اضافے کی وجہ سے ذہین خان جیسے لوگوں کےلیے
Is apolitical Islam possible? – Tahir Kamran: When Prof Joya Chatterji posed the question, ‘is apolitical Islam possible’ I was flummoxed simply because it is a rare nevertheless extremely relevant query. The advent of IS in Levant, which flaunts a peculiar brand of Islam and Tehreek-i-Taliban
Loud speaker: An intrusive presence – Tahir Kamran: Once seen as a technological invention of considerable utility, the loudspeaker (mukabir-e-sawt) is now looked upon by some as a social bane and a source of nuisance. Affixed to the tall minarets of mosques, the loudspeaker has, over the
Analysis: Why it matters that ISIS is not ‘a Sunni outfit’ as reported: Iraq: the last opportunity to counter Islamofascism? IT SEEMS the Western media remains confused about who ISIS are. They are still being labeled a ‘Sunni’ outfit, but it is certain they are Salafi/Deobandi jihadists fighting against both Shias and
The shared history of Saudi Arabia and ISIS: The participation of young Saudis in the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts is neither surprising nor an historical accident, writes Madawi Al-Rasheed. The Saudi regime has imprisoned its moderate Islamists and allowed its radicals to cause mayhem in the
Khalid Mehmood Soomro’s murder: Who is behind systematic attacks on JUI-F leaders?: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl’s (JUI-F) ranks have been under a concentrated attack for the past few years. Several key party leaders have been killed, and most of the remaining have barely survived assassination attempts. The party chief, Mulana Fazl-ul-Rehman himself lived
Rights groups, activism and Deobandi response – Muhammad Amir Rana: Multiple processes of activism are gaining ground in Pakistan with political and religious parties leading the recent discourse on activism. Social welfare and rights groups are also quite active in Pakistan, but ultimately they contribute to enriching existing religious
جنوبی کوریا کی عورتوں، قومی غیرت اور امریکی فوج کی کہانی جو امریکہ نواز لبرل آپ کو کبھی نہیں سنائیں گے: ماضی میں ایک امریکی فوجی اڈے کے نزدیک کام کرنے والی 120 سابق طوائفوں نے جوبی کوریا کی حکومت کے خلاف معاوضے کے لیے عدالت سے رجوع کرنے کا فیصلہ کیا ہے۔ ان کا دعویٰ ہے کہ جنوبی کوریا
UK: Two Deobandi brothers of Pakistan origin jailed for training at terrorist camp in Syria: Two jihadist brothers have become the first Britons to be jailed for going to Syria to attend a terrorist training camp. Hamza Nawaz, 24, and Mohommod Nawaz, 30, took photographs and videos of themselves as they travelled via France
Pakistan-Iran relations – Ayesha Siddiqa: Posts by some militant outfits on social media about Iran indicate the presence of an ideological lobby inside Pakistan, which opposes improvement of bilateral relations between the neighbours. It also gives an impression that the matter is nothing,
I prayed for your success during Haj, ex-ISI chief told PM: ISLAMABAD: “Sir, I take it an opportunity to tell you that I had prayed for you and your success during Haj,” former ISI Director General Lt. Gen. Zaheerul Islam told Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif during his farewell
Dawn: Deobandi militant organisations exploiting conservative rhetoric: ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a conference on national security argued that radicalisation of traditional religious narratives was a dangerous phenomenon that could lead to an outbreak of violence in the society. Speaking during a session on ‘Narratives on Militancy and
Despite controversy, religious art increasingly popular in Iraq: Painter Mohammed Hetlr has been preoccupied with drawing and painting sacred Shiite figures from Iraq and around the world. He has been making good money selling his work and, in an interview with Al-Monitor, said that he considered his
Muawiya, the takfiri khariji connection and Imam Ali’s assassination: From the second half of 658, Muawiya, the governor of Syria, had been steadily escalating violence against the dominions of Ali. Some of his inroads reached Ain-at-Tamar and Anbar, only 170 miles north of Kufa. The men of
How Pakistani law inspired Israel to seize Arabs’ land: In an irony of history, the new state of Israel, a year after its founding in 1948, was “inspired” by Pakistan in enacting laws to seize the property of defeated Arabs. Mark Twain’s quip, “Buy land, they’re not making
Wahhabism to ISIS: how Saudi Arabia exported the main source of global terrorism: As the so-called Islamic State demolishes nation states set up by the Europeans almost a century ago, IS’s obscene savagery seems to epitomise the violence that many believe to be inherent in religion in general and Islam in particular.
War against Isis: British Deobandi Jihadist Abu Rumaysah taunts police and heralds new ‘generation’ of terrorist as he parades ‘newborn son’ in Syria: Abu Rumaysah appears as a talking head throughout a 20-minute programme for Aljazeera – at one point being identified simply as ‘a British Muslim’ A British jihadist who skipped bail to join Isis in Syria has taunted police
صاحبزادہ ابوالخیر محمد زبیر نے داعش کو عالم اسلام کےلئے سب سے بڑا خطرہ قرار دیدیا: جمعیت علمائے پاکستان (نورانی) کے صدر ملی یکجہتی کونسل کے سربراہ ڈاکٹر صاحبزادہ ابوالخیر محمد زبیر عالمی اسلامی کانفرنس میں شرکت کے لئے ایران میں موجود ہیں جہاں انہوں نے ایران کے شہر قم میں تکفیریت کے خلاف
بابا فرید، بیت المقدس اور ہندوستانی سرائے: تاریخی شہر بیت المقدس (یروشلم) میں ایک چھوٹا سا کونہ ایسا ہے جو ہمیشہ سے ہندوستان سے منسوب رہا ہے۔ اگر ہمیشہ نہیں تو گذشتہ آٹھ سو برس کی تاریخ تو ہمیں یہی بتاتی ہے اور اس جگہ کے
Economic targets: Govt has failed to deliver on most of its promises: In its first year, the PML-N government could not achieve all but one of the economic targets it promised to deliver in its election manifesto and prospects for the current year also remain uncertain, shows the findings of an
Long term state support of Deobandi militant outfits leaves pakistan vulnerable to infiltration by ISIS: ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a conference on national security argued that radicalisation of traditional religious narratives was a dangerous phenomenon that could lead to an outbreak of violence in the society. Speaking during a session on ‘Narratives on Militancy and
Bahrain’s sham election ignores calls for reform: Bahrain’s national election planned for this Saturday portends no change in the al-Khalifa regime’s anti-Shi’a stance and is yet another futile exercise in sham democracy. The mainstream al-Wefaq Shi’a opposition party has decided to boycott the election because of