Monthly Archive:: October 2012

Can Malala Bring Peace to Pakistan and Afghanistan – Adapted from The New Yorker: Some selected excerpts: “Any military action in North Waziristan could only be taken, however, with corresponding anti-militant steps by United States and Afghan military across the border. So far, this has been a problem. Afghans officials have quietly admitted
ایک نہتی لڑکی سے ڈر گئے: مجھے ان ذہنی بیمار لوگوں کو دلیل دینے کی کوئی ضرورت نہیں، کیونکہ ان کی اصل جگہ پاگل خانہ ہے، اور انہیں جلد از جلد ایک نفسیاتی ڈاکٹر کی ضرورت بھی ہے۔ ملالہ یوسف زائی پر ہونے والا حملہ،
#Justice4BakeryBoy: CM Shahbaz Sharif’s daughter Rabia gets an innocent bakery worker beaten up by Elite Police: Related post: Justice, PML-N style: Bakery case victim tells court CM Shahbaz Sharif’s son-in-law, guards not culprits Mrs Rabia Imran, daughter of the so called Khadim-e-Aala (in fact Sarparast-e-Aala of PML-N goons and LeJ terrorists) Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif,
Countdown for Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry – by Arbab Zaheer: Get the Countdown Clock widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info) 11th December 2013 will be celebrated as the independence day of politics and democracy of Pakistan as that is the
Karachi says yes to Malala, no to Taliban: Altaf Hussain criticizes Pakistan army and Islamic clerics for not doing enough to counter Taliban: Tens of thousands rallied in Pakistan’s largest city (Karachi) Sunday 14 October 2012 in the biggest show of support yet for a 14-year-old girl (Malala) who was shot and seriously wounded by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education and
Liberal love galore for Altaf Hussain!: On October 14, Muttahida Qaumi Movement founder and leader Altaf Hussain delivered a speech in support of the adolescent Pashtun female education advocate Malala Yousufzai who was grievously injured in an assassination attempt and is still under intensive care
Mystery of Tahir Ashrafi’s kidnapping: This is how they distort history: The news of Tahir Ashrafi’s drinking and passing out at German Embassy Islamabad and his subsequent ordeal has been effectively wiped out from Pakistani media. The episode is also an example of how history is distorted by courtier mullahs
Pakistani nation and state should support Altaf Hussain in his war against pro-Taliban-LeJ mullahs: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has declared open war against Taliban, religious extremists and sectarian killers (Takfiri terrorists); he deserves unconditional support by all peace loving Pakistanis on one point agenda, i.e., freeing Pakistan from the clutches
War in Afghanistan is Jihad, says Imran Khan. Shut up, says Afghan government: Imran Khan said: “aap ne jo kaha ke afghanistan mein, dekhen jihad bari simple cheez hai, ye Quran mein bara wazeh hai jo apni azadi ki jang lar raha hain wo jihad hai. Afghanistan mein jo log lar rahai
آزاد عدلیہ زندہ باد: تحریر: امام بخش آج سے ٹھیک پندرہ سال قبل 10 اکتوبر 1997ء کو نوازشریف کے دُوسرے دورِحکومت میں احتساب بیورو کے چیئرمین سیف الرحمٰن نے پاکستانی قوم کو نوید سنائی کہ پاکستان سے لُوٹے ہوئے ساٹھ ملین ڈالرز کا
After attacking Malala Yousafzai, Taliban threaten to kill her father: A spokesman for the Swat Taliban has threatened to kill 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai’s father after a failed attempt to assassinate his daughter, said a report by Reuters. Sirajuddin Ahmad, a spokesman for “Radio Mullah” Maulana Fazlullah’s Swat Taliban
Islamist bigots circulating fake pictures of drone victims to deflect attention from Taliban’s attack on Malala: Since the past two days a picture of a young girl has been circulating on facebook and twitter saying that the girl did not get any coverage because she was injured in a drone attack. Majority of those circulating
Confused discourse of Iran-influenced Shia clerics of Pakistan on Malala Yousufzai: https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalShiaPakistan/posts/10151076529588059 https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalShiaPakistan/posts/313517385422881 https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalShiaPakistan/posts/376123689133495 https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalShiaPakistan/posts/454073991302295 https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalShiaPakistan/posts/378395238903792
Expropriating Malala Yousufzai: Discourses in Pakistani social media: A dominant majority of those in Pakistan’s mainstream and social medias condemning attack on Malala Yousafzai are committed helpers of Pakistani establishment. Their populist, opportunist and partial discourse is revealing. On Twitter and facebook, quite a few of those
Attack on Malala: Give up extremism, gentlemen, and let this country breathe – by Kamran Shafi: As this country plumbs ever newer depths of the crap-hole, it becomes clearer to Pakistanis that those that hold it by the throat were always wrong; that they were not merely deluded, they were dishonest because they wanted a
Malala Yousafzai: A child soldier in the war for Pakistan – by Sadanand Dhume: Fourteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai stood up for modernity. Few others do. It’s not every day that Barack Obama and Ban Ki-moon agree with the head of the Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami or an America-bashing Pakistani politician. But Tuesday’s Taliban attack on
سوات کی ملالہ اور کوئٹہ کی ہانیہ: کل جب قوم کی بیٹی ملالہ یوسفزئی پر حملہ ہوا تو میں خون کے آنسو رویا. پھر جب دیکھا کہ آزاد میڈیا، سیاستدان، آزاد عدلیہ، شیعہ، سنی، جوان، بوڑھے، بچے، مرد عورتیں، امیر، غریب الغرض پوری قوم رنگ و
Taliban are Pakistan Army proxies, not Pashtun nationalists – by Farhat Taj: Taliban are Pak Army proxies, not Pashtun nationalists – I Taliban, both in Pakistan and Afghanistan, are an attempt to wipe out entho-nationalism among the Pashtun and temper with the Pashtun cultural identity Insight By Farhat Taj One of
You can kill a man, but not an idea – by Maleeha Manzoor: “I am what the terrorists most fear” – the anecdote of valor is chronicled in the chapters of history extolling the valiance of my leader Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, who gazed into the eyes of terrorism to rend it from the
World Shia Forum condemns the shooting of Malala Yousafzai – by Ali Taj: Malala was a symbol for resistance against the oppression and school burning by Talibaan. A beacon of hope for young girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan desiring empowerment and education. Much has been written about this in Pakistani and international
A Tribute to Malala Yousafzai “گُلِ حیا کی ڈائری کا اک وَرق” – by Atta Turab:
Malala -by Dr. Zulfiqar Ali: Munafaqo , ‘Mujahido’ Malala se hai Mali tukk Zahr tum ne jo Boyya Tum ko kuch nahiN Maalom Kaya hai tumm NaeN KKhoya Jiss kay naam lewa ho Uss ne ye tha kab kaha? Zulm tumhare dekh kar Shatan
ملالہ یوسفزئی کے نام – فہمیدہ ریاض: ہم اسے مل کر سلا دیں گے ملالہ کے لیے ہم سرخ چادر لے کر آۓ ہیں بہت پیاری یہ بچی ہے اسے انعام دیں گے ہم گلے میں سرخ مالا اس کو پہنائیں گے خوش ہو کر وه
HDP flaming Pashtun-Hazara fight, endangering thousands of lives for politics – by Raza Changezi: Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) has always stood along with Sipah-e-Sahaba/Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in its activities against Shias of Quetta. In a recent diabolical propaganda campaign, HDP has written a vicious pamphlet and scattered it in the city. In the statement which
The unsung tale of our red…No protest vigil? – by Saria Benazir: Every month has a heart jerking fiction of its own – the morsels of red dominate the grime, and the cries of the crestfallen reach their peak: where blood of humankind gets easy on the pocket and the demolishers
Shia Muslim dynasties and countries in Islamic history: Throughout Islamic history, Sunni Muslim and Shia Muslim empires have co-existed and contributed to the development of Islamic civilization and culture. However, in the mainstream projections (in the media, curricula and historical accounts), contributions of Shia rulers and dynasties
Inside of the Muslim mind -by Arshad Mahmood: What we find today is that it is only Islam and its followers which are privileged to be the focus of the entire world. Islam, though a minority religion of the world is struggling hard to excel all other
Letter from Quetta: Is non-Hazara Shia blood not red? – by A. Naqvi: Editor’s Note: We have received this letter from a non-Hazara Shia from Quetta and publishing it with very minor changes ensuring that the original meaning remains the same. Shias of all ethnicities have been killed in Quetta during the
Fake campaign in vogue to arouse Muslim passions -by Husain Haqqani: Thousands of cellphone subscribers in Pakistan received an anonymous text message recently announcing a miracle: an earthquake on Tuesday, Sept 18, had destroyed the Washington, D.C. movie theater that was exhibiting ÎInnocence of Muslimsâ, the controversial film that has
چیف جسٹس افتخار چودھری کے نام تاریخ کا پیغام – سعد منصور: ہم نے سوچا کہ چیف جسٹس  میں اپنے پی سی-او-پر لئے گئےحلف پر معافی مانگنے کی ہمت نہیں تو کیا ہوا- بلا شبہ وہ دل میں ضرور نادم ہوگے پر آج تو انہوں نے ہماری ساری  خوشفہمی دور کرکے
A poem for unity by a Shia who is a Sunni – by Ali ibn Abdun Nur: Despite what the foolish ones say, We Shia are your religious kin. We are your brothers and sisters, and we are not some evil twin Bent on destroying the fabric of God’s great deen. But you should know that
General Kayani’s children kill famous musician Qamar Allah Ditta: Jihadist children of Pakistan Army have struck once again, this time killing Pakistan’s famous musician Qamar Allah Ditta. On 4 October 2012, Takfiri Deeobandi Jihadists of Sipah-e-Sahaba (operating as Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi) abducted and killed a
Pakistan’s steady decline since 1977 – by Ayaz Amir: Returning to the kingdom of moral decay Source: The News, October 05, 2012 Mr Majid Nizami, foremost champion of that nebulous concept celebrated as the ideology of Pakistan – and therefore my favourite ideologue – for all his renown
Questioning the veracity of FFR assisted Stanford report on drone attacks – by Ali Arqam: The recent report on drones by Pakistani and non-Pakistani students of Stanford University and New York University raised more questions instead of properly addressing the existing ones. For instance, the report talks of deleterious psychological effects of drone victims. 
Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) and the human trafficking gold mine – by Raza Changezi: Hazara Democratic Party has been misrepresenting Shia Genocide as ethnic killing and continues to deny the martyrdom of at least 200 non-Hazara Shias in Quetta. I have previously written on the same blog about the reasons due to which
پاکستان کے شیعہ مسلمانوں کو سیکولر پارٹیوں سے لڑوانا پاکستان کے دشمنوں کی نئی چال ہے: پاکستان میں شیعہ مسلمان ایک حقیقت کا نام ہے۔ شیعہ مسلمان ایک ایسی قوم کا نام ہے جو اس ملک کا 20 فیصد حصہ ہے۔ اس ملک کا ہر پانچواں شخص شیعہ ہے۔ الحمداللہ اس ملک کے تمام بڑے
Shiite Muslims find refuge in U.S. to escape persecution in Muslim countries – by Omar Sacirbey (Washington Post): Turkish Shiites take part in a religious procession held for Ashura in Istanbul on Dec. 5, 2011. Source: Adapted and edited from Washington Post QUINCY, Mass. — Sayed Mohammad Jawad Al-Qazwini was 12 years old when his family fled
Women and Voting in Pakistan – by Mustafa Kamal: Orders of Election Commission Pakistan to fully ensure the women participation in voting has been out rightly rejected  by various political parties.  The political parties argue the ongoing war against terror and militancy in KPK and tribal areas a
Roses, not violence: Norwegian Muslims respond to anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims”: A youth organization of Norwegian Muslims, Stand4Hussain, handed out flowers to the people in Oslo (Norway) with cards attached to them containing an introduction to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). This was in response to the anti-Islam
Husain Haqqani’s rejoinder to Orya Maqbool Jan: Extremist jihadi sympathizer Orya Maqbool Jan is a civil servant from the DMG cadre. Instead of doing his job as a civil servant, he moonlights as a columnist and TV commentator, spouting contra-factual gibberish. Recently he joined daily Dunya