LUBP’s Open Letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Shia Genocide in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: Honorable Ban Ki-moon Secretary General, United Nations HN HQ; New York City NY 10017; USA Sir, On behalf of the Shia Muslims of Pakistan, we wish to state that we have found the UN completely silent and inactive on

UN Scretary General Ban Ki-moon’s meeting with Grand Ayatollaah Al-Sistani:   Assalam Alaikum. Ramadan Kareem. I am extremely honored to have met His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Al-Sistani today for the first time. He is a man of the deepest wisdom and tolerance.  He is an inspiration and a role

My thoughts on the anti-Islam movie – by Naveed Javed: Past one week has been a rough one for not only Muslims across the globe but also for the people of other religions. It all started with a movie “Innocence of Muslims” by an (allegedly) Egyptian-American Coptic Christian, Nakoula

Kashmir Bleeds, Does Anyone Heed?- by Hafsa Khawaja: Befittingly termed once as ‘Heaven on Earth’, with millions martyred since the past 6 decades, thousands of half-widows, orphans and missing – Kashmir today is a Palestine-in-the-making of Asia. As the Kashmir intifada continues, anyone keeping a keen eye on

Shame all around – by Kamran Shafi: First published in Dawn At exactly 23:12 i.e. 12 minutes past 11pm last Thursday night, my mobile telephone rang. My old friends of ‘Private Number Calling’ infamy were at the other end. “Aap aaj XYZ embassy gaye they —

As the noose tightens – by Usama Bhutto: Since December last when the Supreme Court of Pakistan started hearing the petitions for NRO, political climate of the country took a revolve. Newspapers were littered with twisted facts about the controversial ordinance and the eletronic Media celebrated an