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‘وہ تو بلیوں سے ڈرتا تھا،خودکش بمبار کیسے بن گیا’: اسپین بولدک: محب اللہ گلابی رنگت، بڑی آنکھوں، مسکراتے چہرے اور آنکھوں میں کِک باکسر بننے کا خواب سجائے ایک عام سا افغانی نظر آتا تھا، لیکن یہ 15 سالہ لڑکا، طالبان کے شکنجے میں آکر اب جیل کی
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
ایڈلجی ڈنشا اور نادر شاہ ڈنشا کے مجسموں کی تلاش: یہ ایک پارسی باپ بیٹے کی کہانی ہے، جنہوں نے کراچی کے شہریوں کے لیے بے مثال خدمات انجام دیں۔ اس خاندان نے کراچی کی سماجی اور معاشی ترقی میں اہم کردار ادا کیا۔ ایڈلجی ڈنشا اور ان کے
جوگندر ناتھ منڈل: اچھوت اچھوت ہی رہا: جوگندر ناتھ منڈل ایک ایسی شخصیت تھے جن کا انتخاب جناح صاحب نے تقسیمِ ہند سے قبل بھی مشترکہ انڈیا میں بحیثیتِ وزیر مسلم لیگ کی جانب سے کیا تھا اور وہ مشترکہ ہندوستان کے صوبے بنگال میں وزیرِ
مری ماتا مندر اور امام حسین کا تعزیہ: ایک دن ہمیں وشال نامی شخص نے فون کیا، اور ہماری معلومات میں یہ اضافہ کیا کہ وہ ڈان ڈاٹ کام پر ہمارے بلاگ پڑھتے رہتے ہیں۔ انہوں نے اپنی خواہش کا اظہار کیا کہ رتن تلاؤ کے علاقے
بھان سنگھ کیوں رویا؟: بھان سنگھ کون ہے؟ کہاں کا رہنے والا ہے؟ وہ کب رویا؟ اور کیوں رویا؟ یہ چار سوالات ہیں جن کے ہمیں جواب دینے ہیں۔ پہلے سوال کا جواب یہ ہے کہ بھان سنگھ ایک سکھ ہے۔ دوسرے سوال
Smokers’ Corner: The founder lost – Nadeem F. Paracha: For the past few years I have been researching literature written on the life of Pakistan’s founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah; and also scholarly works which quote him extensively to substantiate theories about what Pakistan is (or was supposed to
Turkish border guards ‘shoot eight Syrian refugees dead’ including women and children trying to reach safety: Abdmunem Kashkash, a lawyer from Aleppo who was with the group but escaped injury, said they had been repelled by gunfire several times before attempting the crossing near the Syrian town of Khirbet. “There was one little girl
ISIS terror thugs have a new and barbaric execution method: ISIS terrorists forced 45 of its own terrified men into a forensic freezer and left them to die slowly, it has been reported. The terror fiends committed the sickening act because the men retreated from advancing Iraqi
Turkey’s seizure of churches and land alarms Armenians: ISTANBUL — The Turkish government has seized the historic Armenian Surp Giragos Church, a number of other churches and large swaths of property in the heavily damaged Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, saying it wants to restore the area
Bangladesh Police suspect Deobandi militants in Professor’s killing: DHAKA, Bangladesh — A professor of English was hacked to death and nearly beheaded near his home in northwestern Bangladesh on Saturday, in what the police said they suspected was the latest in a series of targeted killings
How to discipline your wife Wahhabi Style: Advising Muslim men on the ‘correct way’ to discipline their spouses the sick Saudi doctor spouts about how women should be disciplined with handkerchiefs and toothpicks.Khaled Al-Saqaby appears in the ‘show’ which is put out on YouTube, which includes
More evidence emerges linking Saudi government To 9/11: Earlier this week we reported that the U.S. government had potentially covered up Saudi Arabia’s involvement in 9/11, but now yet another shocking revelation has been made. Speculation has been rife throughout the course of the past couple of weeks,
Saudi Arabia, 9/11, and what we know about the secret papers that could ignite a diplomatic war: Twenty-eight secret pages of a report locked away in a room in the Capitol in Washington lie in the centre of a crisis between America and Saudi Arabia which threatens to have severe and widespread repercussions. The US
Finally, some coverage of Saudi Arabia and 9/11: Finally, The Times decided to print articles on Saudi Arabia’s connection to the 9/11 attacks. (“9/11 attacks reemerge as a critical test of U.S.-Saudi relationship,” April 21) The unreleased 28 pages of the 9/11 Commission report are at
The U.S. might be better off cutting ties with Saudi Arabia: Our close association could undermine America’s role in the Middle East When President Barack Obama visited the Gulf this week to meet with leaders from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council countries, the big question on many
بنگلہ دیش میں تکفیری دیوبندی دہشت گردی اپنے عروج پر پہنچ گئی: بنگلہ دیش میں ایک پروفیسر کو قتل کر دیا گیا ہے اور پولیس کا کہنا ہے کہ یہ ہلاکت بھی حال ہی میں ہونے والی سیکولر بلاگرز کی ہلاکتوں کے زمرے میں آتی ہے۔ 58 سالہ اے ایف ایم
Deoband and terrorism – by Owen Bennet-Jones: HERE’S a tale of two madressahs: one Deoband north of Delhi, the other in Akora Khattak, Pakistan. Today in Deoband, at the madressah where it all began in 1866, the 4,000 students focus on religion. The institution was
Want to fight the terrorist enemy? Start with allies Like Saudi Arabia: It began, as these things usually do, with a carrot. After President Obama assailed Saudi Arabia for being a “free rider” in an interview with The Atlantic, Prince Turki al Faisal published a rejoinder at Arab News where he
All terror linked to Wahhabism, itself promoted by Saudi Arabia: Paris correspondent for American Herald Tribune: Press TV has conducted an interview with Gearoid O Colmain, the Paris correspondent for online media outlet American Herald Tribune, about a warning made by the European Union (EU) about “significant gaps” in intelligence-sharing among its member states
Setting the stage for war with Pakistan: Attempts to paint Pakistan as a dangerous enemy of the West and a prime candidate for military intervention has been made once again by those in the Western media. ABC News, in an article titled, “‘Double dealing’: How
Takfiri Deobandis slaughter Shaheed Soran Singh just like Shaheed Shabaz Bhatti in the past: SWAT: Sardar Soran Singh, special assistant to chief minister KP on minorities’ affairs and an MPA, was gunned down in a targeted attack near Pir Baba in Buner district on Friday. “Gunmen riding on two motorbikes came in
Kashmir is not ‘normal’, let’s not negate it: Kashmir is the most sought after place which tempts one and all. According to Mughal emperor Jahangir, “Agar Firdaus bar e zameen ast, hameen ast, hameen ast, hameen ast, which means, ‘’If ever there is a heaven on
Seymour Hersh: Saudi Arabia bribed Pakistanis to hide bin Laden so Americans couldn’t question him: Award-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh talked in a wide-ranging interview with journalist Ken Klipperstein about the complex relationship between the United States, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, which he reported on extensively in his new book, The Killing
Saudi Arabia’s rights abuses have only gotten worse since Obama’s last visit: President Barack Obama is meeting with Saudi Arabia’s king and other Gulf Cooperation Council leaders key issues including counterterrorism. But his arrival in the capital Riyadh on Wednesday has also shone a spotlight on the U.S. ally’s appalling human
Obama in Saudi Arabia, exporter of oil and bigotry: A college senior boarded a flight and excitedly called his family to recount a United Nations event he had attended, but, unfortunately, he was speaking Arabic. Southwest Airlines kicked him off the plane, in the sixth case reported
Here is why Saudi Arabia is a pro at passing anti-women rulings: In what would be ‘historic’ considering Saudi Arabia’s treatment of women is the declaration that came from an important religious leader about the possibility of women admitting into Heaven. While delivering a sermon at the Prophet’s Mosque in
مارکسزم اور ڈی کنسٹرکشن – عمران شاہد بھنڈر: 1960ء کی دہائی سے مابعد جدید مفکرین کی تاریخ، سماج اور طبقات کے متعلق مختلف تعبیرات اور 1989ء میں امریکی مصنف فرانسس فوکویامہ کی ’’تاریخ کا خاتمہ‘‘ کے بعد مارکسی نظریہ سازوں کو یہ چیلنج درپیش رہا ہے
How Saudi Arabia dangerously undermines the United States: Iran is our external enemy of the moment. Saudi Arabia is our enduring internal enemy, already within our borders and permitted to poison American Muslims with its Wahhabi cult. Oh, and Saudi Arabia’s also the spring from which the
How it all started in South Punjab: Editor’s Note: The article suffers from some crucial omission. The last paragraph which talks about the Taliban and thousands of madrases completely omits the Deobandi identifier. Similiarly, the pogroms against Christains are primarily Deobandi lead. Deobandism
Finally, the chickens are coming home to roost – by Agha Shaukat Jafri: Finally, the chickens are coming home to roost, as the peace loving people of the world are getting ready to witness an acrimonious audacity by the wicked Wahhabi regime of Saudi Arabia. The Wahhabi warlords, after demeaning defeats
Dr. Sebastian Gorka: ‘potentially some very embarrassing things’ For Saudi government In 9/11 documents: Dr. Sebastian Gorka, national security editor for Breitbart News and author of the new book Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, tells host Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily about tensions with Saudi Arabia, as pressure to declassify the
Bernie Sanders voices concerns about role of Saudi Royal family In terrorism: On ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Bernie Sandiers said the U.S. cannot be blackmailed by Saudi Arabia. “Saudi Arabia is one of the most powerful and wealthiest families of the world. That’s why they can threaten to withdraw hundreds of
How two Red Sea islands shed light on secret relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia: JERUSALEM – The announcement that Egypt transferred two small Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabian sovereignty drew protests from Egyptians this week, but in Israel it quietly shed light on the Jewish state’s secret and selective dealings with Saudi
Saudi money behind spread of radical Islam, terror, violence: The West’s willingness to allow Saudi Arabia to spend over $100 billion spreading Islamic extremism across the globe and financing terror has led to the emergence of the Islamic State (ISIS), as well as the growing terror threat to
How US covered up Saudi role in 9/11: In its report on the still-censored “28 pages” implicating the Saudi government in 9/11, “60 Minutes” last weekend said the Saudi role in the attacks has been “soft-pedaled” to protect America’s delicate alliance with the oil-rich kingdom. That’s quite
Former US senator blasts Saudi Arabia officials over 9/11 links: Former US Sen Bob Graham blasted Saudi Arabia officials, who he said are against a bill that would make it easier for families of 9/11 victims to sue during a trial because they are worried that their ties
NY Post: Saudi Arabia’s role in 9/11 ‘deliberately covered up at the highest levels of our Government’: Paul Sperry writes that the “highest levels” of the U.S. government are implicated in a cover-up of Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 attacks, all to preserve diplomatic relations with the oil-rich Islamist nation. In its report on
9 misconceptions about Shia Islam that need to stop: “O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous
Saudi Arabia warns of economic fallout if Congress passes 9/11 bill: WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would