Raza Rumi Archive

An open letter to Raza Rumi – by Ali Taj, LUBP Editor-in-Chief: For the last few years, LUBP website has been advocating, unapologetically and without obfuscation, for the rights of Shias, Ahmadis, Sunni Barelvis, Christians, Hindus, Balochs, Pashtuns etc, the targeted and disenfranchised communities of Pakistan. While our editors, authors, contributors
Ludhianvi’s interview: Pakistan’s Capital TV normalizes Shia genocide by maninstreaming Takfiri Deobandi terrorists: Related post: An open letter to Raza Rumi – by Ali Taj, LUBP Editor-in-Chief On 4 October 2013, head of a banned terrorist outfit led a rally in Islamabad where anti-Shia, anti-Ahmadi slogans were rampant; moments later he joined
Capital TV threatens and fires employees asking for payment of salaries: Related post: FIR against management of Capital TV: Protest against Capital TV by Pakistani journalists I had been hearing for last many months about Capital TV that its employees are not getting the salaries. Then I read on Facebook
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s article contradicts lies crafted by Najam Sethi’s TFT Blog: Related post: Exposed: Raza Rumi and Rezaul Hasan Laskar behind the fake story about Bilawal’s tiff with Zardari In his English editorial for The Friday Times (TFT Blog) as well as his Urdu column for daily Jang (literal meaning:
Raza Rumi’s War on Bloggers !: For past few weeks or so Raza Rumi of TFT has been slurring and threatening online activists with dire consequences, even going as far as threatening the families of HR activists. Now one may ask why a seemingly soft
Is it fair to throw the humiliating DI Khan jailbreak in the PTI’s lap alone? – by Dr Mohammad Taqi: Just as the intelligence agencies’ ability to detect and intercept the TTP plan to attack the Dera Ismail Khan (DIK) prison was being questioned, reports in the media started appearing about the intelligence agencies tipping off the Khyber Pukhtunkhwa
Najam Sethi’s ‘The Friday Times’ blog promotes banned sectarian terrorists – by Shia Post:   Source : Shia Post, http://en.shiapost.com/2013/07/12/the-friday-times-promotes-sipah-e-sahaba-terrorists/ An article titled “The Madarssa Network of Sindh” was published in The Friday Times magazine (TFT Issue Number: Vol. XXV, No. 22, July 12-18, 2013) written by its Ali K Chishti (@akchishti) who is known
Pakistani media and streets remain silent on massacre of 75 Shia Muslims in Parachinar – by Ahmed Bangash: Parachinar witnessed another bloody day when over 75 Shias were killed, another 180 wounded, by the Takfiri Deobandi terrorists of Sipah-e Sahaba Taliban (currently operating as Ahl-e Sunnat Wal Jamat ASWJ, led by Ahmed Ludhianvi Deobandi). Two hours before
Response to Ali Wahab’s letter – by Ali Taj: Dear Ali Abbas Taj Editor LUBP I am extremely disgusted to find that on Twitter, in the recent Raza Rumi / Farhad Jarral vs LUBP tug of war, my late mother, Fauzia Wahab has been dragged into! Yes, being
ہم دیکھتے ہیں کون بدمعاشی کرتا ہے: مجھے یاد ہے کہ جب 3 ماہ پہلے نواز حکومت الیکشن جیت گئی تو مخالفین کو پیغام دینے کے لیے اور اظہاد وجود دکھانے کے لیے کراچی میں ایم کیو ایم کا ایک بہت بڑا جلسہ ہوا، اس جلسے
War against amateur social media activists of Pakistan – by Pejamistri: It is so disgusting that the “Professional” Social Media activists tried to bring Fauzia Wahab’s name in their war against LUBP. It is a shame. Personally I think Raza Rumi and his gang is trying to threaten and scare amateur social
A letter to Ali Abbas Taj and request to Raza Rumi – by Ali Wahab: Dear Ali Abbas Taj Editor LUBP I am extremely disgusted to find that on Twitter, in the recent Raza Rumi / Farhad Jarral vs LUBP tug of war, my late mother, Fauzia Wahab has been dragged into! Yes, being
FIR against management of Capital TV: Protest against Capital TV by Pakistani journalists: Based on Asad Kharal’s tweets and emails by other journalists: I am just sharing a text SMS, received from a senior Police Officer who received the same by Reporter Huzaifa Rehman. Dear Sir, Interior Ministry and IG Punjab has
Express Tribune removes its report on release of LeJ terrorists in Rajanpur by Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif: Note: Express Tribune editor Omar Quraishi is not being truthful when he claims that no post was removed from ET website. He is referring to a different news report. Read this entire post and reviews screen images and tweets
What is the difference between Malala’s father and a pimp? – by TFT Bloggers: LUBP and other progressive Pakistani activists have been condemning Najam Sethi and his protégés like Ali K Chishti, Raza Rumi, and Mohammad Shehzad for rationalizing and enabling Shia genocide in Pakistan by giving voice to leaders of banned Deobandi
Najam Sethi’s The Friday Times columnist Shehazad’s shameful attacks on Malala Yousafzai and Benazir Bhutto: Here are some Facebook status updates of Mohammad Shehzad, regular columnist of The Friday Times (TFT) blog (owner: Najam Sethi, editor: Raza Rumi). It’s the same writer who published a number of articles in TFT promoting and humanizing Deobandi
#ShiaGenocide: We condemn ASWJ terrorists and their humanizers on murder of 5 Shia Muslims in Quetta:   QUETTA (15 July 2013): At least four Shia Muslims were killed Monday evening when Takfiri Deobandi terrorists of banned militant oufit Sipah Sahaba (currently operating as Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat-Deobandi ASWJ-D) opened fire at a vehicle in Quetta.
ایک سنی مسلمان کے ڈاکٹر علی حیدر شہید کے بارے میں جذبات: ڈاکٹر علی حیدر پاکستان کے ایک مایہ ناز ماہر امراض چشم تھے جن کو سپاہ صحابہ کے تکفیری دیوبندی دہشت گردوں نے لاہور میں شہید کر دیا بتایا جاتا ہے کہ شیعہ ڈاکٹرز اور دیگر پروفیشنلز کے نام پتے
PPP does NOT tolerate any form of abuse! Also no official “media” appointment has been made: Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari: PPP’s central leadership has denied that it has appointed anyone as social medial coordinator of the party. On 13 July 2013, Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari clarified on Twitter that she was “not aware of any ‘official’ social media posts.” In
Najam Sethi and Raza Rumi’s TFT blog promotes ASWJ-LeJ terrorists, once again!: According to Sipah Sahaba ASWJ-LeJ terrorits Aurangzeb Faruqi Deobandi who spoke to Ali Chishti of The Friday Times (TFT) blog, ASWJ-LeJ maddrasas don’t teach sectarianism. Farooqi also claimed that ASWJ-LeJ has 100s of madrassas with 1000s of students, and they
اسٹیبلشمنٹ کے ہم بستر صحافی اورعائشہ صدیقہ کی سچ بیانی: عائشہ صدیقہ کی سچ بیانی اور بوزنے عائشہ صدیقہ نے ایک ٹویٹ کیا جس کی بنیاد پر  “ٹائمز آف انڈیا “میں  ایک آرٹیکل شائع ہوا-اس آرٹیکل میں انہوں نے بتایا کہ کیسے پاکستان کی معروف خفیہ ایجنسی آئی ایس
Why do anti-establishment activists use pen names in Pakistan?: In Pakistan, the fate of anti-establishment writers and activists is very clear. Just refer to how prominent Asia Times correspondent Syed Saleem Shahzad was killed and dumped for being critical of the ISI due to its supports to Jihadist
Did LUBP publish hatred and lies against Salmaan Taseer before his murder?: A certain group of establishment-friendly liberals is currently busy in circulating a baseless slander against LUBP website that LUBP published hatred against Shaheed Salmaan Taseer a few days before his murder. According to da vincian ‏@evo8X8, a close friend
Mehran Bank Scam Part 2: Is ISI pumping money into Jinnah Institute via Tameer Bank?: In the light of increasing evidence, it would be a grave sin of omission to ignore the connections between the powerful ISI, Tameer Bank and the Jinnah Institute. (ISI has infiltrated US thinktanks, Pak scholar says) Now a former
Raza Rumi’s dangerous ad hominem war against journalists and bloggers – by Mahpara Qalandar: “This Ali Abbas Taj let it be known, is another coward who is a puppet of Nishapuri who calls himself ‘former editor’ but orchestrates hate.” This is how Raza Rumi, the Editor of The Friday Times (TFT) and a
HRW Egypt: Lynching of Shia Follows Months of Hate Speech similar to Pakistan: Editor’s Note : We are cross posting the HRW report on a build of two years of hate speech which has placed the Shia Muslims of Egypt at risk in their own homes. The demographics are different in Pakistan,
Raza Rumi is being willfully obtuse: ASWJ-LEJ terrorists boast Shia massacres: Raza Rumi and the owner of TFT Najam Sethi have consistently ducked legitimate  questions by various journalists and critics on social media about their shameless promotion of Takfiri Deobandi fascist Mullahs of Sipah Sahabah. https://lubpak.com/archives/252959 If a mainstream magazine
Ada Khakwani is a Twitter terrorist – by Raza Rumi:  
Lovely Marxist debates sponsored by U.S. consulates in Pakistan – by Abdul Majeed Abid: “Organised in Karachi by PeaceNiche, in collaboration with the United States Consulates in Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi, it was supposed to be a gathering of social media enthusiasts from India and Pakistan. It was an invite-only affair and most
Why no one reads The Friday Times anymore – by Mahpara Qalandar: For over a decade, The Friday Times was a respected weekly and very well read. Najam Sethi thrived on its reputation which some of its contributors built up. If you look through the early issues down to the middle
We resort to ad hominem and abuse when we lose arguments – by Mohsin Sayeed:
Sipah Sahaba terrorists first celebrate and then shed crocodile’s tears over Prof Azfar Rizvi’s murder in Karachi – by Mahpara Qalandar: Only a week before, on 31 of May, respected educator Professor Azfar Rizvi was gunned down in Karachi. Since there are very few Sunni Muslims who have ‘Rizvi’ as their surname, he must have been mistaken for being a
New wave of #ShiaGenocide engulfs Pakistan after Punjab CM Najam Sethi released 112 Takfiri terrorists: New wave of Shia genocide has engulfed Pakistan after caretaker Chief Minister of the Punjab, Mr. Najam Sethi, decided to release 112 arrested terrorists of banned sectarian outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP, also known as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi LeJ and Ahle Sunnat
The mysterious case of the white tigress used in PML-N’s political rallies – by Rina Saeed Khan: LUBP Editor’s note: The following article published in Dawn deconstructs how foreign journalists based in Pakistan are either naive or incompetent; some of them also happen to uncritically promote pro-establishment politicians. BBC’s Owen Bennett-Jones wrote an article recently that
Raza Rumi’s proxy jihad against anti-establishment bloggers: Related post: Raza Rumi unleashes ISI-ASWJ touts to harass and harm anti-establishment bloggers Raza Rumi, editor of Najam Sethi’s The Friday Times (TFT) and director of pro-establishment think tank Jinnah Institute, continues his proxy Jihad by using a TFT
I am very happy that PML-N has captured imagination of the Punjab electorate; PPP almost routed – by Raza Rumi: Note: The king is dead, long live the king. Boat jumpers and opportunists are abundant in arena of Pakistani politics and media. It’s a fact that in the last 5 years 24/7, Najam Sethi and certain other liberal-seeming anchors
This is how CM Najam Sethi and TFT columnists react to abduction of ex-PM Gilani’s son by ASWJ-TTP terrorists!:     Raza Rumi and Mohammad Shehzad stage the hacking drama
Whither animal rights? White tiger used by Maryam Nawaz Sharif for PML-N electioneering dies – by Laibaah: Related post: Elections 2013: Maryam Nawaz Sharif is an emerging star campaigner – by Raza Rumi Lahore (8 May 2013): The white tiger, part of the election campaign of Maryam Nawaz, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N),
Najam Sethi and Raza Rumi launch a vicious propaganda campaign against LUBP: Owner (Najam Sethi) and editor (Raza Rumi) of The Friday Times (TFT) have deputed a TFT columnist Mohammad Shehazad to launch a vicious propaganda campaign against LUBP, an independent Pakistani blog known for providing non-mainstream reflections on issues of
Tahir Ashrafi is a moderate and progressive cleric but a sinister campaign was launched to delegitimize him – by Raza Rumi: Raza Rumi writes: “It is time to engage with clerics like Tahir Ashrafi and get them to join the struggle for a moderate and progressive Pakistan. Maulana Tahir Ashrafi, Chairman of Pakistan Ulema Council (an apex body of country