Newspaper Articles Archive
What is often painted deliberately as a Shia-Sunni conflict is quite another creature – by Farahnaz Ispahani: Death by a thousand cuts Land of the pure or land of the purge? Saturday’s mob attack on a Christian colony in Lahore is a reminder of how unsafe Pakistan has become for minorities such as Shias, Hindus, Ahmadis
Iran’s President Ahmadinejad Censures #ShiaGenocide in Pakistan: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has censured the killings of Shia Muslims in Pakistan. Ahmadinejad made the remarks in a statement published on the Iranian president’s official website on Sunday. Ahmadinejad said those behind the killings “have no goals except
Pakistan intelligence agencies unwilling to protect Shia Muslims – Press TV’s report: An analyst says The Pakistani government and its intelligence services are unwilling to protect Shia Muslims across the violence-wracked country. The comment comes as at least 45 people have been killed and 150 others injured in a bomb explosion
The Shiite murders: Pakistan’s army of Jhangvi – by Basharat Peer: LUBP Editor’s note: We are cross-posting an excellent column on Shia genocide in Pakistan with some minor edits. Unfortunately the column highlights the Hazara identity of some of the killed Shia Muslims of Quetta but obfuscates the Takfiri Deobandi
ANP and MQM feeding the sectarian crocodiles: By:Ali Arqam Saturday, 9 Mar 2013 12:54 am The path of appeasing sectarian groups is a dangerous one For the last two weeks, I have been trying to come out of a disconcerted state of mind, as
Anti-Shia attacks in Pakistan are ‘genocide’ – by Kathy Gannon (Washington Post): Anti-Shiite attacks up in Pakistan; analysts say officials give militants room to operate QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s minority Shiite Muslims have started using the word “genocide” to describe a violent spike in attacks against them by a militant
Almost Rwanda? Rafia Zakaria’s column on #ShiaGenocide in Pakistan: “But mass violence too must be organised: it does not occur aimlessly. Even mobs and riots have a design and great sustained destruction requires great ambition.”n -Philip Gourevitch ‘Stories from Rwanda’ In the last few decades, more than 21,000
Consent and coercion in ‘Takfiristan’ — by Dr Mohammad Taqi: Both urbicide and ghettoisation of the Shia, especially that of the Shia Hazara in Quetta, remain underway in Pakistan as the politicians smoke the peace pipe with the Taliban/LeJ/ASWJ After the assassination of its brave leader Bashir Bilour, the
’توہینِ مذہب کے قوانین ختم کر دینے چاہیئیں‘: جمعرات 7 مارچ 2013 , زادئ مذہب کے لیے اقوامِ متحدہ کے خصوصی ایلچی کا کہنا ہے کہ دنیا میں جن ممالک میں بھی توہین مذہب اور مذہب تبدیل کرنے کے خلاف قوانین موجود ہیں انہیں ان قوانین کو
Nawaz Sharif’s Shariat bill: By M Ziauddin Published: March 5, 2013 No Muslim, whether in name only or a practising one, would want to be publicly counted among those who do not wish to see Pakistan’s Constitution brought in full conformity with Shariah.
For more than 2 years, VC of Islamia College University is held hostage by Takfiri Deobandi militants (Taliban-ASWJ): مغوی وائس چانسلر کی نئی ویڈیو جاری پاکستان کے صوبے خیبر پختونخوا کے دار الحکومت پشاور میں واقع اسلامیہ کالج یونیورسٹی کے سابق وائس چانسلر ڈاکٹر اجمل خان کے اغوا کو ڈھائی سال پورے ہونے پر ان کی پانچویں
Turning Shia homes into graves – by Murtaza Haider: This is new even for Pakistan. The sectarian attack in a predominantly Shia neighbourhood in Karachi, which left 48 dead and several more injured, deliberately targeted the homes of Shias. In the past, mostly Shias and others were attacked
Pakistani State is complicit in #ShiaGenocide? – Press TV’s Report: In the killing fields of Pakistan, the bloodletting continues unabated. In a latest incident, on March 03, a massive car bombing just yards away from my sister’s house in seaport city of Karachi claimed 45 lives, and left 150
#ShiaGenocide: Chotoo group of Deobandi militants key suspect in Abbas Town carnage in Karachi – by Amir Mir: Source: The News, 6 March 2013 Despite the absence of a responsibility claim for the March 3 bombing in the Shia-dominated Abbas Town area of Karachi, the investigating agencies are certain that the deadly assault was carried out by
Takfiri militants of Taliban-ASWJ release video of beheading of 6 Pakistani soldiers: Source: The News, 6 March 2013 ISLAMABAD: Barely four days after an All Parties Conference convened by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi Group) announced its support to the dialogue process with the Takfiri Deobandi militants and asked
Florida imam convicted in Pakistani Taliban case: March 05, 2013 – Updated 150 PKT MIAMI: An elderly Muslim cleric in the US was convicted on Monday of funneling thousands of dollars to support the Pakistani Taliban terror organisation. Hafiz Khan, the 77-year-old imam at a
Hunting down Shias: Society’s deafening silence on #ShiaGenocide – by Maheen Usmani: KARACHI: Hauled off buses, targeted in their clinics, on boulevards, in alleys, in shops, in offices, in processions and pilgrimages, is there any place left safe for Shias in Pakistan? At Ashura, they were chastised for taking out Moharram
Why Pakistan army needs LeJ-ASWJ and other proxy militants: The Kayani doctrine – by Dr Farrukh Saleem: The Kayani Doctrine, built on four pillars, comprises: American troops would have to withdraw from Afghanistan; reconciliation among Afghan factions is not possible without the ISI; the Jalalabad-Torkham-Karachi route remains the most viable for withdrawing American forces and India
Does the majority approve of alliances with the ASWJ, of surrender to the TTP, of misogyny? – by Saroop Ijaz: Making it Count Jam Tamachi was a ruler of Sindh and was immortalised by Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai in Shah Jo Risalo in the form of the tale of Noori Jam Tamachi. It is a simple beautiful folk tale. Noori was
Pakistan army rejects dialogue with Taliban, says no difference between TTP and LeJ -by Amir Mir: ISLAMABAD: While an All Parties Conference has supported talks with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, the security establishment believes that holding a dialogue with the TTP would be like negotiating with the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) since there was barely any difference between
Takfiri terrorists’ attacks on naval officers in Karachi: Excise this cancer or else – by Abbas Nasir: Related post: Will Pakistan Navy care to protect its Shia officers from ASWJ-LeJ terrorists? RECENT events have been a reminder of what journalist Saleem Shahzad reported on May 27, 2011, even though he feared what was lurking round the
Political and military leadership must take decisive action against Deobandi-Wahhabi militants – by Iqbal Jafar: Battle for our souls Let me begin with the obvious: This nation is in the throes of an ideological struggle that is reflected in the entire spectrum of our daily lives, from the theoretical field of school textbooks to
Malik Ishaq Deobandi’s arrest by Punjab govt: An eyewash? – by Mohammad Shehzad: The Punjab government has put Lashkar-e-Jhangvi founder Malik Ishaq under house arrest after it was strongly criticized for being soft on perpetrators of sectarian violence. But the move, made under the Maintenance of Public Order law, will not stop
Kamran Shafi’s column and PML-N’s Khawaja Asif’s speech on #ShiaGenocide: ‘Outrage’, indeed! Kamran Shafi We were ‘outraged’ by the killing of well over a hundred — we’ll never know the exact number — Hazara Shia, including women and old men and little children, slaughtered in a massive explosion caused
A legal framework for fighting terrorism – by Nadir Hassan: Everyone can agree that in the legal realm, the fight against militancy has been failing. Too many cases against alleged terrorists end up with acquittals. In recent months, the government has tried to come up with legislative fixes for
The PML-N government was not always soft on ASWJ-LeJ militant groups -by Ayesha Siddiqa: LUBP Editor’s note: In the following article published in Express Tribune, Dr Siddiqa notes that the PML-N government was not always soft on ASWJ-SSP-LeJ and other Deobandi-Wahhabi militant groups. It had contested the ASWJ/SSP/LeJ network during the 1990s, but
With little trust in security forces, Pakistan’s Shia Hazaras take up arms over attacks by Deobandi militants – AFP Report: QUETTA: Ismatullah holds an AK-47 and checks vehicles on the road. “Enough is enough. We have no trust in the security forces anymore and we’ll protect our community ourselves,” says the teenage Shia student. Extremist bombers killed nearly 200 people
Hyderabad blasts: 1 kg of ammonium nitrate used in bombs: NEW DELHI: The ingredients and make of the bombs that exploded in Hyderabad’s Dilsukhnagar area, killing 16 people, point to the involvement of banned Indian Mujahideen (IM). Preliminary investigations, which is likely to be completely entrusted with
Conference demands an end to militant groups: News Desk, London Tuesday, 26 February, 2013 03:36:35 PM Electoral alliances with militant outfits responsible for Shia genocide will create more mayhem, warned the speakers at the conference to condemn recent wave of Shia killings in Pakistan. The Conference
Evil in its most horrid form: Kamila Hyat The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor Even now, when our country has been brought to its knees by terrorists; when its very existence is under threat and the lives of citizens
#ShiaGenocide: An echo of Pakistan’s tragedy in Delhi – by Amit Baruah: Delhi was the scene of an unusual protest on Friday. Some members of the Shia including Shia Hazara community and a few Pakistani students gathered outside the United Nations office to demonstrate against the killings of hundreds of Hazara and
Steely resolve of Shia Hazaras: ‘We are not victims — we choose to live and to fight’ – by Rabia Ali: Trauma alone from a blast such as the one which took place in Quetta on February 16 can leave an individual paralysed with fear – but the girls of Hazara, the community which was targeted in the attack, have
Banned terrorist outfit SSP (ASWJ-LeJ) chief Ludhianvi confirms talks with PML-N – by Amir Mir: The cat is finally out of the bag. What was vehemently being refuted by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has actually been confirmed by none other than the chief of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ — defunct Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan-SSP) Maulana
LeJ is part of the larger Deobandi network in Pakistan: Interview with Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa: “LeJ’s ideology is to strengthen a Sunni state” — Defense and security analyst Dr Ayesha Siddiqa By Farah Zia The News on Sunday: In a recent study that you have conducted “The New Frontiers: Militancy & Radicalism in Punjab”
No distinction can be made between the LeJ and its political wing ASWJ – by Zarrar Khuhro: Related post: ASWJ-LeJ terrorist Malik Ishaq Deobandi’s arrest is a face- saving exercise by PML-N govt in Punjab – by Amir Mir Arresting Malik Ishaq under the MPO (maintenance of public order) and carrying out ‘targeted operations’ — whatever that
ASWJ-LeJ terrorist Malik Ishaq Deobandi’s arrest is a face- saving exercise by PML-N govt in Punjab – by Amir Mir: Although, the founder of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Malik Mohammad Ishaq has finally been detained by the Punjab government under mounting pressure from the federal government and security establishment, the Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) strongly believes that his detention is a
#ShiaGenocide: What if it was your child? – by Saroop Ijaz: What if it was your child? What if you had to sit with the body of a parent, or of both, in freezing cold, with the feeling that nobody cared? Imagine, if you can, the sound and smell of
#ShiaGenocide in a dysfunctional state – by Abbas Nasir: WHO knows what a failed state is? Such definitions are for the academics and experts. But what one can easily ascertain is a state that is dysfunctional. For what would you call a state that has neither the power
Saudi petro-dollars, Western intelligentsia and #ShiaGenocide in Pakistan – by Nadeem F. Paracha: After thousands of Pakistanis turned up at the many sit-ins that took place across the country to protest against the brutal terrorist attack on the men, women and children of the Hazara Shia community in Quetta, something unprecedented emerged.
George Galloway conquered liberal elite at Karachi Literature Festival – by Maheen Usmani: George Galloway came, he saw, he conquered. Conquered who, one may well may ask? Karachi’s literati and liberal elite who intermingle, for one, who fawned over the UK Member of Parliament (MP) at the recently held Karachi Literature Festival (KLF).