Jamaat-e-Islami Archive
Ahlulbayt TV: Don’t let an Iftikhar Chaudhry loyalist obfuscate on religious extremism in Pakistan – by Kumail Rizvi: Samad Khurram’s analysis in Eyewitness Pakistan Special: Part One – The Role of Islam in Pakistan (Ahlulbayt TV) for the most part sounds like a refined version of a Jamaat-e-Islami apologist. This much is obvious from roughly 3:00 minutes into the
Pakistani State’s ambivalent policies on Taliban – by Saleem Safi: In the following thought-provoking article (published in daily Jang), Saleem Safi, former Jihadi in Afghan Jihad against Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, explains that military operation in North Waziristan will remain ineffectual as long as Pakistan army continues to pursue
Is Islam the problem behind the issues concerning Pakistan? – by Raman Seghal: Yes. How and Why – I discuss it below : The main reason of Human civilization evolving to its present form is the ability of humans to question. This questioning gives rise to reasoning which leads to formation of
Good looking Jamaat-e-Islami – by Nayyer Khan: Cross-posted from Laaltain The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has significant influence in Pakistan’s domestic politics due to its strong representation in the media, its ability to show street power and its connection with both the security establishment and militant outfits. However,
Muslim killings in Burma: Islamist parties spread fake pictures – by Faraz Ahmed: In now a days, certain people are posting pictures with captions like Muslim massacre in Burma, Muslims slaughtered by Buddhists in Burma. I have tried to check the reality of some of the pics shared frequently by the activists and sympathizers of
Mehran Gate reveals ISI’s dirty role in Pakistani politics – by Saleem Safi and Hasan Nisar: Related post: Good riddance, General Pasha! Stop it, General Kayani – by Lala Jie ہیں کواکب کچھ نظر آتے ہیں کچھ ...جرگہ…سلیم صافی اپنی صحافتی زندگی کے مشاہدات کا تونچوڑ یہی ہے کہ اس ملک میں ”ہیں کواکب کچھ نظرآتے
Yazid’s children: Islami Jamiat Talaba’s attack on Shia students at Punjab University: According to news reports, extremist Deobandi-Wahhabi affiliates of Jamaat-e-Islami’s student wing Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT) on Thursday 22 December 2011 attacked Shia students of the Punjab University with bamboo sticks and stones and opened the indiscriminate firing to sabotage a
ICG Report: Radical parties threaten Pakistan’s fragile democracy: Religious intolerance, sectarian violence and radical Islamic parties threaten to undermine the democratic reforms on which Pakistan’s stability depends. Islamic Parties in Pakistan , the latest International Crisis Group report, examines the internal workings, policies and agendas of these
Ansar Abbasi in support of Imran Khan – by Zalaan: انصار عباسی کا عمران افروز کالم ایک بار پھر سوات میں لڑکی پر کوڑے مارنے کو جائز کہنے والے ،طالبان کے حمایتی ،ملک میں طالبانوں کی غیر قانونی عدالتوں کو آسمانی حکم کہنے والے صحافی انصار عباسی عمران خان
Did someone say “Dr General-CMLA Ziaul Haq” too? — by Abbas Zaidi: Ninety-nine percent of Pakistani (electronic and print) media (Urdu as well as English) is right wing, and 100 percent of it has run amok in fury over an honorary doctorate awarded to Interior Minister Rehman Malik by Governor Sindh
Ibn-al-Maudoodi exposing the Ibn-al-Maudoodis: Haider Farooq Maudoodi is an outspoken critic of Jamaat-e-Islami. More importantly, he is one of the three sons of late Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi, the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami. In a recent interview, which has gone viral on the internet,
Pakistan and the Search for Identity (Part 2) – by Rusty Walker: PART TWO Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading them. But, there is an impulse within them, favored by their natures and reinforced by their habits
Pakistan and the Search for Identity (Part 1) – by Rusty Walker: About the author: Rusty Walker is an Independent Political Analyst, educator, author, Vietnam veteran-era U.S. Air Force, from a military family, retired college professor, former Provost (Collins College, U.S.A.), artist, musician and family man. Rusty Walker is an ardent
Listening to Munawar Hasan’s views on rape was very traumatic – by Dr. Shazia Nawaz: You might be angry at Munawar Hassan of Jamat-e-Islami for saying that in order to avoid jail time, victims of rape should stay quiet. I feel sorry for him. He reminds me of Nana Jee. He looks like Nana
Jamaati goons misbehaved with woman professor in Punjab University – by Aamir Hussaini: پنجاب یونیورسٹی میں خواتین سے بد سلوکی کب تک؟ فلاسفی ڈیپارٹمنٹ پنجاب یونیورسٹی کی لکچرار سہرین بخاری کے ساتھ اسلامی جمعیت طلبہ کے غنڈوں نے اس وقت بد سلوکی کی جب وہ نوٹس بورڈ پرایک احتجاج کا نوٹس چسپاں
The Pakistani Taliban’s media jihad: The piece examines the TTP’s media productions and the movement’s shift toward having its media distributed to jihadi-takfiri Internet forums via the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), a long-established jihadi-takfiri media and translation network. The writer argues that this
Urdu text of Amn Tehrik’s Peshawar Declaration: A comprehensive strategy to eliminate terrorism: Amn Tehrik (Peace Movement) is an emerging and dynamic movement of concerned individuals and organizations from the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the promotion of peace in the troubled regions of the province. Amn Tehrik has been regularly organising
Will CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry resign this year? – by Ali Sher Mussali: There is a rumour in market of politics that a round of talks had taken place between CJ’s party Supreme League of Pakistan (SLOP) and Nawaz Sharif’s party PMN-N during 2009. Both parties reached an agreement that Chief Justice
Barkhurdar Saleem Safi – by Danial Lakhnavi: صحافتی منظر پر جن لوگوں نے بہت تیزی سے ترقّی کی منزلیں طے کیں اور معتبرصحافی کے طور پر سامنے آئے ہیں، ان میں ایک نام سلیم صافی صاحب کا ہے، جوترقّی کرتے اور بہ یک وقت دو، تین
Imran Khan’s concert-type dharna -by Zalaan: عمران خان کا کنسرٹ نما دھرنا اور مشترکہ اعلامیہ عمران خان کے کنسرٹ نما دھرنے کے آخر میں تمام مذہبی جماعتوں ،طالبان ، چلڈرن آف ضیاء اسوسیشن پاکستان فور مودودی اور میڈیا میں شامل جہادی صحافیوں نے متفقہ قراردار
Assessing PML-N and PPP’s response in the aftermath of the Abbottabad Operation: Related post: ISI mobilizes fake civil society to defend Pakistani generals While Nawaz Sharif’s bold stance on an independent commission to investigate the circumstances in which Osama bin Laden was found in a compound in Abbottabad and also his
Why do they love Polygamy? – by Danial Lakhnavi: پاکستان کے مذہبی حلقوں میں ایک سے زائد شادیوں کی اجازت اور اولاد کی تعداد کا معاملہ ہمیشہ سے دلچسپی کا موضوع رہا ہے. یہی وجہ ہے کہ ہر مذہبی تبصرہ نگار نے اپنے تحریری معرکہ آرائیوں میں اس
Bhutto retrial: Catharsis for PPP haters – by Danial Lakhnavi: حکمران جماعت پاکستان پیپلزپارٹی نے اپنے اتحادیوں کی مشاورت اور کابینہ کی منظوری سے ایک آئینی شق کے تحت طاقت اور اختیارات کی تقسیم کے موجودہ بندوبست کے ایک اہم ساجھے داریعنی جوڈیشری سے ذوالفقار علی بھٹو پر چلائے
IJI for 2013: This post is in light of ‘news’ of meeting between Imran and Musharaff and the following piece by Dawn. Here is an extract: While the Musharraf League is not denying Musharraf-Imran contacts, it says efforts are under way to
Opportunism Jamaat-style – by Waseem Altaf: Home and madressah education, knowledge of Arabic, vast study of earlier texts on Islam and almost no exposure to modern education, yet ability to write colorful language, playing with high sounding words and experience in journalism was his qualification.
Punjabi Islamofascist judicial mafia strikes Z.A. Bhutto again!: Related article: Chief Justice Ijaz Chaudhry: The new monkey in Lahore Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry has been an active member of Jamaat-e-Islami By Omar Khattab in Lahore former CPO Saud Aziz and former SP Rawal Town Khurram Shahzad
MQM, Politics of a Chameleon – by Danial Lakhnavi: ہندوستان میں اپنے آبائی علاقے چھوڑ کر سندہ کو گھر بنانے پر جب ہم ہندوستانی اور مہاجر کہلائےجانے لگے، اور ہمارے کچھ احباب نے اس اصطلاح کو اپنا بھی لیا اس وقت میرے والد محترم کو اس اصطلاح سے
Faith in trade – by Nadeem F. Paracha: The urban trader class in Muslim countries — usually comprising middle-class urbanites — is a conservative section of society. In Pakistan too it has been one of the most willing recipients of faith-based socio-political trends and phenomena that began
Raymond Davis release: “All is well” when it comes to Saudi Arabia: ’رہائی میں سعودی عرب نے کردار ادا کیا‘ صوبہ پنجاب کے دارالحکومت لاہور میں دو پاکستانیوں کو ہلاک کرنے والے سی آئی اے کے اہلکار ریمنڈ ڈیوس کی رہائی پر پاکستان کی سیاسی و مذہبی جماعتوں کی جانب سے
Raymond Davis Saga: Everybody was Looking For The Happy Ending – by Shaista Aazar: In Pakistan, Hamid Mir and Javed Chaudhary have been conferred with the title of “Moderate” by none other than Mufti Hanif Qureshi, the man who incited lunatic Qadri, (the lone wolf as per the anti-American lobby) to take law
Pakistan’s first two militant Islamist groups, Al-Badar and Al-Shams – by Nadeem F. Paracha: Violent ghosts Ever since 2009, the secular Awami League government in Bangladesh has been moving the country’s law enforcing institutions and courts against various members of the Bangladeshi Jamat-i-Islami and other (mostly Deobandi and Salafi) rightist groups. The League
Pakistan’s Islamists take center-stage – by Arif Jamal: Nearly a month and a half after he gunned down two Pakistani men in Lahore, the public rancor about CIA contractor Raymond Davis is finally starting to subside. But during that period the Davis incident brought Pakistan’s Islamist parties
“The Karachi affair” & French Naval bombing: In this very good investigation, Ali K Chishti has shattered the myth being created by our media, especially the Jang Group that the Sheraton Bombing of French Engineers was orchestrated by Asif Zardari. It is a very interesting revelation
Islam and Pakistan must be purged of Munawar Hasan and his Jamaat-e-Ghair-Islami – by Asim Hameed: I had fits of laughter when I read a ticker being run by Aaj TV that the Jamat-e-Islami chief Syed Munawar Hasan has demanded that disciplinary action be initated against PPP Information Secretary Fauzia Wahab by the PPP and
Whose ideology is it anyway? – by Nadeem F. Paracha: The following is what Sindhi nationalist leader and scholar, G.M. Syed, said about Pakistan’s future – and mind you, he said this way back in the summer of 1953: “In the years to come, Pakistan will not only become
In Pakistan, everybody hates Raymond? – by Brandon Wallace: Related articles: Lahore shooting by a US national and “the legal issues to settle”: Some questions for Ejaz Haider Raymond Davis – by Shoaib Adil Curious case of Raymond Davis – by Sindhyar Talpur Civil society demands Raymond Davis’s
Pakistan, from Jinnah to Maududi – by Zalaan: پاکستان، جناح سے مودودی تک میں اتنہائی ادب کے ساتھ ایک عرض کرنا چاہتا ہوں مگر ڈر ہے کے مجھ پر ناموس قائد اعظم کا فتویٰ نہ لگ جائے کہنا یہ ہے کہ آج کے پاکستان میں قائد اعظم
Don’t take human rights lessons from Iran and Saudi Arabia – by Qudsia Siddiqui: This is in reference to “Kill the sectarian killers: Will Pakistan follow the Iranian example?” published by a fellow editor, Sarah Khan, on December 20, 2010. In her post, Sarah was giving the example of how Iran executed 11