Monthly Archive:: April 2013
The good, the bad and the ugly – by Zarrar Khuhro: The writer is Associate News Editor, The Express Tribune Pakistanis are used to carnage. We’re used to bomb blasts, assassinations and industrial accidents. We know that when the tickers turn red, more often than not, something terrible has happened.
Lal Masjid fan club – by Syed Riaz Al-Malik Hajjaji: Someone please forward a copy of this to His Holiness Highness Hazrat Iftikhar Chaudhary (HHHHIC) aka Abu Arsalan. HHHHIC and his Chacha Supremes must be so proud of reading this as they have always shown a soft corner for
Victims of Balochistan earthquake need our urgent attention and assistance: Balochistan: Residents claim that relief operations in the quake-struck region of Mashkhel and its surrounding areas falls short of their needs, while government officials say they are doing all they can. The death toll is also disputed. The deputy
Saudi-sponsored Wahhabi-Deobandi terrorists from Chechnya chief suspects in Boston bombing: Related posts: Boston bombing suspect ordered deported after Obama meets with Saudi minister http://fb.me/2sA8K9kAf Exposed: Links between Deobandi militants of Sipah Sahaba Pakistan and Uzbek militants It has unfortunately become clear that two Chechan Salafi-Wahabi Muslims are the prime
Military takeoever and 18th amendment – by Pejamistri: One of the funniest question asked on Facebook the other day, not by a common man living somewhere in remote village of Dera Ghazi Khan, but by a very informed blogger, social activist and highly educated person living in
Chaudhry Court trying Gen Musharraf under Article Six is like Justice Munir trying Gen Ayub: The Chaudhry Court trying Gen Musharraf under Article Six is like Justice Munir trying Gen Ayub or Justice Anwarul Haque trying Gen Zia for the same crime the six of them (8 including Gen Yahya and his CJ) committed
Filmistan: Here and there – by Waseem Altaf: Pakistan’s film industry shares a common culture with Indian film world. However, as Bollywood (inclusive of regional films) occupies a center stage on the international film scene, Lollywood is history; Bollywood was the largest producer of films in the
The Half Truth Told By Farha Naz Isphahani: I had an opportunity to attend the APPNA spring meeting this past weekend. APPNA held a social forum to talk about the genocide of Shia doctors in Pakistan, and to see if anything can be done by the Physicians
Taliban and ECP/SCP are fulfilling Gen Kayani’s dream by killing and disqualifying liberal candidates: In Army dominated Pakistan, intelligence agencies and their affiliates play a major role during election times. As general elections 2013 are scheduled to be held on May 11, these dark forces have once again started using all their resources
اور کمانڈو فرار ہوگیا – از حق گو: چند ہی سال پہلے کی بات ہے کہ پاکستان پہ ایک فوجی کمانڈو حکومت کرتا تھا، جو اس ملک کے سیاہ و سفید کا ملک تھا ، اس کی مرضی کے بغیر پاکستان میں پتہ ہلنے کا تصور بھی
PK-69 Tank: Gullana Bibi withdraws from election race following security threats – by Zulfiqar Ali: People inspect damages resulting from the attack on the house of Pakistan Peoples Party’s NA-1 candidate, Zulfiqar Afghani. As the polls draw closer, militants have increasingly targeted election candidates. PHOTO: INP DI KHAN: Gullana Bibi, 62, stepped down as an
Left in the lurch – by Ali Arqam: The state is looking the other way The Awami National Party (ANP) campaign for the upcoming elections is going along the swaggering video statements and escalated bomb attacks by Taliban and nonchalant responses by the other political parties especially
Pashtun Genocide: Taliban’s relentless terrorism against ANP: While pro-Taliban parties like PTI, PML N and JUI F campaign freely, Pakistan’s oldest secular party, ANP is the daily victim of terrorist attacks. Two ANP leaders, dozens of its activists have been killed and scores wounded in the
PPP is being singled out by Judiciary-Media?: Question: Why only PPP is being singled out by Judiciary-Media? Former PM Raja Pervaiz Ashraf is being attacked for developing his constituency – this should be good. but no, today’s daily times calls it pork barrel politics. when sharif
پیپلز پارٹی کسی بھی دہشتگرد سے اتحاد نہیں کر سکتی ، پیپلز پارٹی کے ذمہ داران – از حق گو: گزشتہ دنوں پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی کے امید وار قطب شاہ اور دیوبندی تکفیری دہشتگرد لدھیانوی کے درمیان ہونے والی ایک ” اتفاقیہ ” ملاقات کو لے کر سوشل میڈیا پر پیپلز پارٹی کو سخت تنقید کا نشانہ بنایا گیا-نواز
Saudi funding and radicalization (Wahhabisation) in N. America and Europe: It has been proven beyond a shadow of doubt the a vast majority of terrorists acts in the world can be attributed to Wahhabi Salfists terrorists, in Pakistan they are called Takfiri Deobandis. Not all Wahhabis/Salafis are terrorists but the data
Growing with the world Part 2 – by Mobarak Haider: کسی معاشرہ کی نشو و نما کے لئے ضروری ہے کے نظریہ اور انسان سے متعلق سوالوں کے درست جواب فراہم کیے جائیں۔ کیا ہمارا یہ ماننا ہوشمندی ہے کہ ہم سب دوسرے انسانوں سے بڑھ الله کرعزیز ہیں
Boston marathon bombings remind us of previous massacres of sportsmen by Deobandi-Wahhabi militants: 2013, April 15, Boston, USA: Massacre of American sportsmen Two large explosions at the final stretch of the Boston Marathon killed at least three people and injured more than 100, sending a pall of smoke over the area and
LUBP condemns the cowardly terrorist attacks on Boston marathon and stands in solidarity with the victims: LUBP unequivocally condemns the horrific bomb blasts that have left three people killed and over 98 injured in Boston (based on news reports like this http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/15/177349725/two-explosions-rock-boston-marathon-finish-line-at-least-3-dead-dozens-injured) As a blogzine that focuses primarily on Pakistan, we are all too familiar
Objectives of the Resolution -by Dr Mohammad Taqi: Zia is rightly blamed for defacing the constitution but he did not pull his ‘Islamisation’ process out of thin air The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has completed the initial vetting of nomination papers. The antics that the returning
ECP said political parties must not campaign against any personor on the basis of religion – by Iftikhar A.Khan: ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) warned candidates on Sunday against seeking votes in the name of religion or sect. Briefing reporters on the rules of the game for May 11 polls, a senior ECP official said political
Pakistan Warms up to Elections Amidst Killings and Death Threats – by A Z: The elections scheduled for May have brought a degree of excitement and hope to a country that has witnessed a descent into violence and terrorism accompanied by economic woes over the past few years. Campaign posters, with the candidates’
ویرو کوہلی ، پارلیمنٹ اور پاکستان – از حق گو: الیکشن کا وقت جوں جوں قریب آتا جا رہا ہے لوگوں میں اس حوالے سے جوش و خروش بڑھتا جا رہا ہے ایسے میں صوفیوں کی دھرتی سندھ سے آنے والی ایک دلچسپ اور کافی حد تک پر مسرت و
Freedom: what freedom and for whom? – by Waseem Altaf: The derogatory term and its connotations, still in use by some; Hindu “baniya” does not in any way reflect the reality. The Hindu shopkeeper or businessman, mostly in charge of business and trade in this part of the sub-continent
طالب زدہ—–قسط ٥: یہ مختصر قسط اس تسلسل میں تو نہیں جس سے میں آگے بڑھ رہا ہوں لیکن ایک قسم کی وضاحت سمجھ لیں پچھلی قسط کی کیونکہ اس میں بہت سی ایسی باتیں ہوئیں تھیں جو وضاحت طلب تھیں لیکن جو میری کوشش
Once a landlord’s serf, Pakistani Hindu woman enters poll fray: Reuters | Apr 14, 2013, 06.12 PM IST HYDERABAD (Pakistan): When Veero Kolhi made the asset declaration required of candidates for Pakistan’s May elections, she listed the following items: two beds, five mattresses, cooking pots and a bank
Scholars call for end to discrimination against minorities: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 – Karachi—Scholars and parliamentarians representing different South Asian states identified that there was democracy deficit in the entire region that had caused weakening voice of minorities. People had become merely vote banks and the
Shura Hamdard discusses nation’s responsibilities towards minorities: April 13, 2013 RECORDER REPORTER Speakers at the meeting of Shura Hamdard Karachi chapter urged the government to improve governance, change the mindset of people and bring the minorities in main stream of the society in order to
No respite for Ahmadis in Chief Minister Najam Sethi’s Punjab: Related post: Worldwide concern about CM @NajamSethi’s inaction about attacks on Ahmadis in Punjab Christians continue to be attacked, Shias continue to be target killed, Ahmed Ludhianvi and other Takfiri Deobandi terrorists of Sipah Sahaba (ASWJ-LeJ) are free to
Najam Sethi’s tiff with the ISI is nothing but a fog of deceit: According to media reports and social media, caretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi is currently busy in making photo copies of classified documents. Given Sethi’s close connections with intelligence agencies of Pakistan and a foreign country, it is being speculated
PPP Trading Shia Blood for Votes? – by Sidq Maqaal: The clandestine nexus between PPP and SSP is a reality ever since PPP offered SSP (ASWJ’s ancestor) a new lease of life in 1993 when SSP was on the run after being hounded by Wyne and PML. During its
کاش ہم یہ لائبریریاں نہ جلاتے – از وسیم الطاف: نومبر انیس سو اناسی تک راولپنڈی چھاونی میں دو بڑی لایبریر یاں تھیں -کشمیر روڈ پہ امریکن سینٹر اورمال روڈ پہ برٹش کونسل لائبریری. امریکن سینٹر لائبریری عین صدر کے وسط میں تھی اور کوئی بھی مین دروازہ کھول کے
طالب زدہ —-قسط ٤: جب میرے میٹرک کا نتیجہ آیا تو میرے نمبر اتنے تھے کہ جس سے کسی اچھے گورنمنٹ کالج میں داخلہ لیا جا سکتا تھا اور اوپر سے قبایلی علاقوں کی اپنی سیٹس بھی ہوتی ہیں تو مسلہ کوئی نہیں
Pakistan in the throes of Barbarism Beyond Execution – by A Z: Only in the last few hours, ten innocent passengers were blown up in Peshawar and a father and a son were gunned down in Karachi for the mere crime of being Shias. And this is our routine life as
Pakistan’s biased and Jihadist judiciary and its fake liberal supporters: LUBP would like to recommend the following article by Khuda Bux Abro for DAWN. It is a bold critique of Pakistan’s pro-Taliban, biased judiciary. Barring a few courageous writers like Saroop Ijaz, Aqil Shah, Tauseef Kamal, Asad Jamal etc,
طالب زدہ -قسط ٣: میں اگر دوبارہ سے یہ قسط آپ سب کا شکریہ ادا نہ کر کے شروع کروں تو بہت زیادتی ہوگی کیونکہ ان تین دنوں میں جتنی محبتیں آپ سے ملی ہیں ، پوری تیس سالہ زندگی میں اتنا اخلاص نہیں دیکھا
NewYork Times: How a Single Spy Helped Turn Pakistan Against the United States: The burly American was escorted by Pakistani policemen into a crowded interrogation room. Amid a clatter of ringing mobile phones and cross talk among the cops speaking a mishmash of Urdu, Punjabi and English, the investigator tried to decipher
Pakistan still global jihad hub: Since the 1980s “jihad” to expel Soviet troops from Afghanistan, Muslim fighters from all over the world have lived and trained on the Afghan-Pakistan border, moulded into Al-Qaeda and a host of spin-off militant networks. – File photo PESHAWAR:
Article 6 for Pervez Musharraf and co conspirator PCO judges – by Ali Asad: The apex court of Pakistan is ceased with the matter of the emergency declared by the then “dictator” Gen. Parvez Musharraf (Retd.). The Chief Judge has withdrawn himself from the bench which is hearing a petition seeking action against
ذوالفقارعلی بھٹو کی یاد میں – از تاثیر چیمہ: مرزا ساگر سنده دا ميں پتر شاه لطيف دا،مينوں بلهے بدهى پگهـ ميں شيراں دے گهر جمياں، مين بگهياڑاں لتا ٹهگ ميں مرزا ساگر سنده دا، ميرى راول دے وچ منگ بهانوے وچ جنڈولے سولياں، ميں ريۂناں اس دے