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Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin becomes the First Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal: RIO DE JANEIRO – Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin kicked and punched down opponents and barriers as she became the first Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal by taking taekwondo bronze in the 57kg category on Thursday. The 18-year-old former junior
MI5 ‘blocked’ arrest of ISIS-supporting radical preacher Choudary ‘for years’: Counterterrorism officers were repeatedly blocked by British security service MI5 from pursuing criminal investigations against Britain’s highest-profile radical preacher, Anjem Choudary, it has been claimed. Last week, Choudary was found guilty of supporting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL),
The Wahhabi (Deobandi & Salafi) of the Gulf have a lot to answer for – Robert Fisk: THE US-Iranian photo op that followed the signing of the nuclear deal with Iran last year and the footage just released — by the Russian defence ministry, no less — showing Moscow’s Tupolev Tu-22M3 bombers flying out of the
Unravelling the Mystery of Pakistan’s Deobandi “Ghost Madrassas”: Sindh, the southern province of Pakistan, has always been an epicenter of progressive political parties which keep a close check over the spread of religious militancy and violent extremism in their constituencies. Even though Sindh has been a secular
اے کون اے ؟ – وسعت اللہ خان: قبل از بیسویں صدی بھارتی ریاست اتر پردیش کے دارلحکومت لکھنؤسے باون کیلومیٹر پرے ضلع سیتا پورکی ایک تحصیل محمود آباد ہے۔محمود آباد قصبے میں ایک قدیم محل ہے جسے قلعہ کہتے ہیں۔اس قلعے کے اردگرد چھیاسٹھ گاؤں ہیں
Letter from Pakistan on #IndependenceDayIndia: A thought for Partition survivors – by Ammara Ahmed: Nearly 20 years ago, my parents and I were returning to Lahore from Islamabad, on the glorious M-2 Motorway. A long night of travelling was ahead of us and Pakistan was about to turn 50 the next day.
Is Turkey Following Pakistan’s Descent Into Islamization? #GeneralErdoganUlHaq: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s oppressive response to July’s failed coup attempt – in which he sacked thousands of government officials and journalists in a sweeping purge – threatens to drive the nominally secular Turkish state further down
Too many false binaries: As we, The Shia Citizens Action Forum, stand in solidarity with the families of nearly a hundred of our lawyers, doctors, nurses, journalists and citizens who perished in this blast, we feel it would be a disservice
Exploring the Zionist-(Salafist)-Muslim Alliance – by Michael Hoffman: As Salafist/Wahhabist Saudi theology proceeds to commissar the Sunnis by means of ISIS recruitment, and while their Muslim victims among the Shiites are marginalized, Israeli Zionism and Orthodox Judaism are riding high in prestige in the West. The
Yusra Mardini: Olympic Syrian refugee who swam for three hours in sea to push sinking boat carrying 20 to safety: Almost every athlete at the 2016 Olympic Games will have an interesting backstory, but Yusra Mardini’s is more extraordinary than most. Mardini is in Rio to represent a team of 10 refugee Olympic athletes. While any other 18-year-old’s
Salafists blow up 16-century mosque in Yemen: Salafists in Yemen have blown up a 16th century mosque housing the shrine of a revered Sufi scholar in the city of Taiz, a local official said Sunday. Gunmen led by a Salafist local chief known as Abu al-Abbas
افغانستان میں دولتِ اسلامیہ کے ستر فیصد تکفیری دیوبندی دہشتگرد پاکستانی ہیں۔: افغانستان میں نیٹو اور امریکی افواج کے سربراہ جنرل جان نیکولسن نے کہا ہے کہ وہاں خود کو دولت اسلامیہ کہلانے والی شدت پسند تنظیم دولتِ اسلامیہ کے 70 فیصدجنگجو پاکستانی ہیں۔ ان کے مطابق یہ جنگجو پہلے تحریک
شیخوپورہ میں کالعدم تکفیری دیوبندی لشکر جھنگوی سپاہ صحابہ کے سات دہشتگرد ہلاک: پاکستان کے صوبہ پنجاب کے ضلع شیخوپورہ میں محکمۂ انسداد دہشت گردی پولیس نے ایک کارروائی میں سات مبینہ شدت پسندوں کو ہلاک کرنے کا دعویٰ کیا ہے۔ لاہور سے صحافی عبدالناصر کے مطابق سی ٹی ڈی پنجاب کے
Pakistan’s Blasphemy law leaves Hindu boy shot dead, another in critical condition: Leaders of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) demanded justice after two young Hindu males were shot by members of a mob at a tea stall in Mirpur Mathelo, in the Ghotki district of Pakistan’s Sindh province. Kumar Satish
‘I don’t have a job, so I paint the walls’: All over the world print and electronic media is used for advertising, and in today’s modern world social media is also playing an increasingly important role in promoting ad campaigns. However, in our corner of the world,there exists
Sunni-Sufi demand for ban on Zakir Naik: A call for counter-extremism or sectarian slugfest?: As awaited, the apex body of Sunni-Sufi Muslims in India, All India Ulama and Mashaikh Board (AIUMB) has come to the fore, after a prolonged pause, calling for action against Zakir Naik, the controversial Salafist-Islamist preacher for his
Up the creek – Faisal Bari: ON July 19, newspapers reported that a married man who was having an affair was killed in an ‘honour killing’ allegedly by the relatives of the woman he was involved with. One report described the murder thus: “A
Fifth column in the West – Alexander Athos: Our enemy in the West is not Islam, it’s a fifth column of Wahhabi Salafi hate preachers and their appeasers who allow the Wahhabi Salafi Deobandi Takfiri Jihadi ideology to proliferate and radicalize Muslim youth to commit atrocities
Why do I write about Wahhabi Salafi and Deobandi Takfiris – Alexander Athos: I do not propose to waste my time with roughians who play the man and not the ball. I have better things to do with my time. However, I pause to counter the accusation in some small circles
لا تکفیر کانفرنس کے حوالے سے اے آر وائی نیوز کا تفصیلی آرٹیکل: کراچی: سینیٹر تاج حیدر نے کہا ہے کہ قائد اعظم کے پاکستان میں تعصب کی کوئی گنجائش نہیں ، نعروں والا دین تعصب ہے اور پڑھے لکھے پاکستانی ہر قسم کے تعصب کی مذمت کرتے ہیں۔ یہ بات انہوں
Turkey’s secret pact with Islamic State exposed by operative behind wave of ISIS attacks: New evidence has emerged that the Turkish government under President Erdogan is covertly providing direct military, financial and logistical support to ISIS, even while claiming to fight the terror network. The evidence comes in the form of testimony
سعودی عرب کے سابق جنرل کی اسرائیلی حکام سے ملاقاتیں: اسرائیلی وزارت خارجہ کے مطابق سعودی عرب کے ریٹائرڈ جنرل اور تھنک ٹینک کے سربراہ کی اسرائیل میں ایک اعلیٰ اہلکار سے ملاقات ہوئی ہے۔ امریکی خبر رساں ایجنسی اے پی کے مطابق سعودی فوج کے سابق جنرل انور
’پیلٹ گن مارتی نہیں زندہ لاش بنا دیتی ہے‘: بھارت کے زیرِ انتظام کشمیر میں سکیورٹی فورس مظاہرین کو منتشرکرنے کے لیے پیلٹ گن یعنی چھرے والی بندوق کا استعمال کر رہے ہیں۔ یہ بندوق جان لیوا نہیں ہے لیکن ان بندوقوں کے سبب کئی مظاہرین کو شدید
Agha Nasir: Beyond broadcasting: ISLAMABAD: One evening, the legendary broadcaster ZA Bokhari pulled up outside the radio building and sent for three of his producers to come jump in the car for a joyride on the, nearly empty and wider than now, streets
FIR against Abdul Aziz: Interior ministry gets earful from court: ISLAMABAD: Representatives of the interior ministry on Wednesday got an earful from a high court judge for failing to submit a reply on a petition seeking court intervention to register a case against Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Aziz. Petitioner
Why liberals are losing – Pervez Hoodbhoy: LIBERALS in Pakistan have been an endangered species for quite a while. How many dodos remain? Nobody quite knows, but a day after the assassination of Governor Salmaan Taseer in 2011, the press secretary of the Jamaat-i-Islami, Farid
Muslims in the world of Modern Science – by Muhammad Faisal Younus: Thousands of years ago, it was a golden era of Muslims in terms of science and education. 800 AD to 1100 AD was a time when Baghdad was well-known for its scientific knowledge and inventions. A large number of
Iraq shrine attack: IS kills dozens in Balad: Suicide bombers and gunmen have killed at least 35 people in an attack by so-called Islamic State (IS) at a Shia shrine in the Iraqi town of Balad. At least one bomber blew himself up outside the mausoleum
In Pakistan, funding for ‘University of Jihad’ draws Fire: Weeks of scathing criticism have apparently prompted a provincial government in Pakistan to review a $3 million grant it recently allocated to a controversial Islamic seminary that some critics call the “University of Jihad.” The Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary, or madrasa, headed
Pakistan’s Vanishing History: In 2007, a Pakistani schoolteacher was arrested and put on trial by the Taliban on charges of preserving the “symbols of infidelity.” It was a sheer stroke of luck that the Taliban’s ruthless justice department could not find
Christian woman gang raped in front of 5 children in ‘Honor’ attack in Pakistan: A Christian woman in Pakistan was beaten and gang-raped in front of her five children by a Muslim man seeking to avenge his family’s “honor,” because the woman’s sister fell in love and fled with the man’s brother.
15 Pakistani Heroes killed by Deobandi Terrotists: Terrorist groups would have you believe they are doing God’s work when they attack parks filled with children or gun down Sufi artists, such as Amjad Sabri. They’re not. Terrorism has no religion. In the past decade, terrorism has claimed
Amnesty, HRW want Saudis removed from UN Human Rights Council: UNITED NATIONS: Two leading human rights group urged UN member-states on Wednesday to suspend Saudi Arabia from the UN Human Rights Council over the killing of civilians in Yemen and repression at home. Amnesty International and Human Rights
Safoora, Sabeen cases convicts challenge death sentence: ISLAMABAD: Five convicts of the Safoora Goth carnage and Sabeen Mahmud murder cases challenged their death sentence in a military court of appeal on Wednesday. The Inter-Services Public Relations on May 12 announced the confirmation of death
Bangladesh to ban Jamaat-e-Islami: DHAKA: A bill would be placed in the ongoing parliament session to ban the politics of Jamaat-e-Islami, the party accused of committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, says Bangladesh Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel
Return of ‘Taliban Khan’: Just as it seemed like Imran Khan was set to lose the title of “Taliban Khan” for his ideological support of the militant group, the captain swooped down to reclaim his moniker in style. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government
Anti-Ahmadi group or the Deobandi project: LAHORE: The unrelenting nationwide anti-Ahmadiyya campaign took a perturbing turn on Friday with a preeminent body calling for donations to curb Ahmadiyyat worldwide with an advert placed across all editions of a leading Urdu daily. The move comes at
An untimely curtain call: A private home in Karachi’s low-income Liaquatabad neighbourhood, which shot to prominence last week, already stood out for being unique. Postal deliveries to the address in the otherwise congested area only had to have the names Amjad Sabri
I remember Benazir Bhutto: Today is Mothermma Benazir Bhutto’s birthday. Ten years ago on this day she had sent me the following message in response to my email wishing her happy birthday: “Dear Shiraz Paracha Sahib, I thank you for the warm
Bahrain strips Shiite cleric of citizenship: Bahrain stripped the citizenship of its top Shiite Muslim cleric Monday over allegations of inciting sectarianism, drawing rebukes from Shiite-majority Iran and the U.S. Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said revoking Isa Qassim’s citizenship aimed to confront extremism