Newspaper Articles Archive
On the CIA estimate of number of fighters in the Islamic State – by Bill Roggio: US officials are shocked at the “Islamic State’s rapid growth.” Now, the CIA estimates that the Islamic State has somewhere between 20,000 to 31,500 Salafi Wahhabi and Deobandi fighters within its ranks. That number may include “some 15,000 foreign fighters in
The timeless fatalism of the Subcontinent – by Ayaz Amir: Real leaders, as opposed to the tinsel variety, don’t go for photo ops – where sympathy is faked and sentiment is manufactured. They see to it that things happen, which after all is their real job instead of grandstanding
There is no scope for a counter response from Ahmadis – by Farah Zia & Amel Ghani: On September 7, 1974, exactly 40 years ago, the Second Amendment to the Constitution that declared Ahmadis as non-Muslims was passed. It was a kind of culmination of their social ostracisation that began after the intense and violent
‘I am a 14-year-old Yazidi girl given as a gift, to an Isis commander. Here’s how I escaped’: This is the story told to me by a 14-year-old Yazidi girl I’ll call “Narin”, currently staying in northern Iraqi Kurdistan. I am a Kurdish journalist with a journalism degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia who covers
نواز کریسی کے دفاع میں کشور ناہید، ماروی سرمد، لدھیانوی، فضل الرحمن اور حامد میر کا اتحاد: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/sep2014-daily/12-09-2014/col5.htm محترمہ کشور ناہید نے عوامی تحریک اور تحریک انصاف کی خواتین کارکنوں کو لال مسجد اور پر امن مرد کارکنوں کو تکفیری دیوبندی طالبان سے ملانے کی ناکام کوشش کرتے ہوے تنقید کا نشانہ بنایا ہے –
پیپلز پارٹی اور مسلم لیگ نواز عمران خان کے کامیاب دھرنے اور تحریک سے خوف زدہ ہیں – از نذیر ناجی: Source: http://e.dunya.com.pk/colum.php?date=2014-09-11&edition=LHR&id=36767_90894307
سیلاب ، شریف خاندان کی باد شاہت اور پنجاب کے مظلوموں کا نوحہ – از ڈاکٹر بابر اعوان: Source: http://e.dunya.com.pk/colum.php?date=2014-09-12&edition=LHR&id=36825_31405049
عمران خان ، آخری امید ؟ از عمار چودھری: Source: http://e.dunya.com.pk/colum.php?date=2014-09-12&edition=LHR&id=36819_56245616 PTI Chairman Imran Khan Speech,9:30pm – 9th… by zemtv
سیلاب کی تباہ کاریاں اور پنجاب حکومت کی مسلسل بد انتظامیاں – از خالد مسعود خان: Source: http://e.dunya.com.pk/colum.php?date=2014-09-11&edition=LHR&id=36773_37054491 Source: http://e.dunya.com.pk/colum.php?date=2014-09-12&edition=LHR&id=36818_79291079
نواز شریف کی جعلی جمہوریت اور جعلی گڈ گورننس – از حسن نثار: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/sep2014-daily/07-09-2014/col2.htm
Shahbaz Sharif should have been sacked after the Model Town massacre – by Cyril Almeida: THE crisis is over. No, it isn’t. The crisis is winding down. No, it’s heating up. Imran and Qadri are going home empty-handed. No, they’re going home with Nawaz or parliament’s scalp. Blame it on Nawaz. Blame it on
‘See you on Judgement Day’ – Pakistani female Deobandi jihadist last message to her parents: Childhood pictures of a private schoolgirl who fled to Syria to fight for the Islamic State have been released by her heartbroken parents as part of a renewed bid to bring her home. The pictures of Aqsa Mahmood show
Mother’s agony as she learns of Lebanese soldier son’s beheading by IS militants: The mother of the second Lebanese soldier to have been beheaded by IS militants learned of her son’s gruesome murder after seeing photographs of it on Twitter. Zeinab Noun’s 20-year-old son, Abbas Medlej, was among 19 Lebanese soldiers captured
Jonathan Shaw: We can only beat Islamic State with Muslim support: President Obama suffers for being what we all clamour for — an honest politician. Still smarting from admitting in The New Yorker that he hasn’t got a joystick with which to control the world, he is now being
Hypocrisy: CM Shahbaz avoids being seen at Ahmadiyya Flood Relief Camp: The Chief Minister of the Punjab, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, ended-up in Rabwah today because his helicopter could only land at the Rasheed Rice Mills grounds owned by an Ahmadi, right next to the Ahmadiyya Flood Relief Camp. The
Missing Libyan Jetliners Raise Fears of Suicide Airliner Attacks on 9/11: Wahabi Islamist militias in Libya took control of nearly a dozen commercial jetliners last month, and western intelligence agencies recently issued a warning that the jets could be used in terrorist attacks across North Africa. Intelligence reports of the
کیمرون کا سر نیزے پر دیکھنا چاہتی ہوں: برطانوی دیوبندی/ سلفی دوشیزہ: برطانیہ سے تعلق رکھنے والی ایک دیوبندی / سلفی جنگجو دوشیزہ نے کہا ہے ”میں برطانوی وزیر اعظم ڈیوڈ کیمرون کا سر نیزے کی نوک پر دیکھنا چاہتی ہوں کیونکہ کیمرون مسلمانوں کے خلاف جنگ کو طاقت دے رہے
Iran arrests ‘Afghans and Pakistani Deobandis joining Islamic State’: Iran says it has arrested Afghan and Pakistani Deobandi citizens who were trying to join Islamic State (IS) jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq. Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani said the foreigners planned to cross Iran – but did
AFP issues arrest warrant for Islamic State jihadist accused of sending Australians to Syria and Iraq: Police have issued an arrest warrant for a former Kings Cross nightclub bouncer believed to be Australia’s most senior member of the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Syria and Iraq, following an investigation by the ABC’s 7.30 program.
Sotloff family spokesman: Syria’s ‘so-called moderate rebels’ sold Sotloff to ISIS: A spokesman for the family of murdered journalist Steven Sotloff claimed Monday night that Sotloff was sold to the terrorist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) by Syria’s “so-called moderate rebels.” Sotloff family spokesman Barak Barfi,
Islamic State fighters using US arms: study: London (AFP) – Islamic State fighters appear to be using captured US military issue arms and weapons supplied to moderate rebels in Syria by Saudi Arabia, according to a report published on Monday. The study by the London-based
Saleem Safi threatens to harm PTI leaders, workers and their families: Citing his Pashtun Taliban honour, Jamaat-e-Islami Jihadist experience and background, Saleem Safi threatens to harm Imran Khan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Jahangir Tarin and their families and workers. Proudly he acknowledges that he has the same tribal Pashtun Deobandi Jihadist
تحریک انصاف اورپاکستان عوامی تحریک کے جلسوں میں خواتین کی شرکت اور دیوبندی مولویوں کی تشویش – از نذیر ناجی: Source: http://www.awaztoday.com/urducolumns/columnist/144/1/Nazeer-Naji.aspx
چودھری نثار اور چودھری اعتزاز احسن کی کرپشن کی داستانیں بے بنیاد نہیں – رؤف کلاسرا: Source: http://e.dunya.com.pk/colum.php?date=2014-09-09&edition=LHR&id=36616_96956834
There is no future for the young in the PML-N, none in the PPP – by Ayaz Mir: If there was a conspiracy and this is the outcome, the conspirators deserve a long stint in purgatory – or what the Chinese used to call a re-education camp. After the long marches and the dharnas what do we
David Cameron must ‘consider cooperating with Syria’ to crush ISIS – by Rajeev Syal: Lord Richards also spoke for the first time about the failure of Cameron to adopt his 2012 plan to contain Assad and extremist militants who opposed him. Photograph: PA The former chief of the defence staff has urged
اسلام آباد دھرنوں کے تناظر میں محمود اچکزئی، نون لیگ، پیپلز پارٹی اور جاوید ہاشمی کا کردار – از ہارون رشید: Source: http://www.awaztoday.tv/singlecolumn/17997/Haroon-ur-Rasheed/Ju-Uqal-Ka-Gulam-Hu-wo-Dil-Na-Ker-Qabool.aspx
شاہراہ بے دستور – از ڈاکٹر بابر اعوان: Source: http://e.dunya.com.pk/colum.php?date=2014-09-05&edition=LHR&id=36424_44479502
تین سال کی قید ، سات سال کی نا اہلی اور نواز شریف کا مقدر – از کنور دلشاد: Source: http://e.dunya.com.pk/colum.php?date=2014-09-05&edition=LHR&id=36421_55481076
بلاول کی باد شاہی ، اعتزاز کی غلامی اور خورشید شاہی پارلیمنٹ – از حسن نثار: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/sep2014-daily/05-09-2014/col2.htm
Israel’s ‘land for lives’ is theft. Pure and simple – by Robert Fisk: So a bit more of Palestine has slidden down the plughole. A thousand more acres of Palestinian land stolen by the Israeli government – for “appropriation” is theft, is it not? – and the world has made
پارلیمنٹ عوام کی کب بنے گی؟ – از ڈاکٹر محمد اجمل نیازی: پارلیمنٹ کا یہ رویہ بھی کسی پریشر کا نتیجہ ہے مگر وزیراعظم کی حمایت میں ناراضگی بھی تھی۔ اعتزاز احسن نے کمال کر دیا۔ وہ پہلی تقریر تھی اور پہلے نمبر کی تقریر تھی۔ پہلی تقریر تو چودھری نثار
ISIS wants to enforce caliphate in Pakistan and Afghanistan through Deobandi ASWJ and Taliban militants – The Telegraph: The Islamic State is challenging the Taliban and al-Qaeda in its Afghanistan and Pakistan heartlands and claiming both countries as part of its ‘caliphate’. Islamic Slate leaflets proclaiming the group’s intention to bring its barbaric form of
Indicting the Pakistani left: reflections on Jamal Naqvi’s biography – by Dr. Khalid Sohail: During my last visit to Vancouver my dear friend Saif Khalid strongly recommended that I read Professor Jamal Naqvi’s book Leaving The Left Behind and write my reflections. Once I started reading the book I could not put it
British researchers ‘missing’ in Qatar: The UK Foreign Office is looking into reports that two British men in Qatar who were investigating the treatment of migrant workers have gone missing. Krishna Upadhyaya, 52, and Gundev Ghimire, 36, have not been heard from since
آپریشن ضرب عضب: نو سو دس تکفیری دیوبندی دہشت گرد ہلاک: شمالی وزیرستان میں شدت پسندوں کے خلاف آپریشن ضربِ عضب ماہ جون میں شروع کیا تھا پاکستانی فوج کے شعبۂ تعلقاتِ عامہ کے ادارے آئی ایس پی آر نے کہا ہے کہ آپریشن ضربِ عضب منصوبہ بندی کے مطابق
Islamabad sit-ins: The inevitable against PM Nawaz Sharif postponed, not averted – by Ayaz Amir: If the bugles had been sounded on Sunday evening when the corps commanders met, and if what is now an apology of a government had been given its marching orders, no one would have been surprised. A country
اعتزاز احسن کی تقریر اور نواز شریف کی شرمندگی – از ارشاد عارف: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/sep2014-daily/04-09-2014/col15.htm
اشرافیہ کی دائمی حکومت کا نام جمہوریت نہیں – از ایاز امیر: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/sep2014-daily/03-09-2014/col2.htm