We remember Sabeen Mahmud: Between April 2015 and June 2016, Pakistan lost 100 years of greatness! Terrorists affiliated with Deobandi hate group ASWJ-LeJ and Salafi Al Qaeda/ISIS murdered 3 individuals whose activism, musical talent and academic contributions stood in the way of
Safoora, Sabeen cases convicts challenge death sentence: ISLAMABAD: Five convicts of the Safoora Goth carnage and Sabeen Mahmud murder cases challenged their death sentence in a military court of appeal on Wednesday. The Inter-Services Public Relations on May 12 announced the confirmation of death
انٹر نیٹ، سوشل میڈیا انتہاء پسندوں کی آماجگاہ: پاکستان میں انٹرنیٹ اور ٹیلی کمیونیکشن کی نگرانی کے لیے پی-ٹی-اے (پاکستان ٹیلی کمیونیکیشن اتھارٹی) نامی ادارہ قائم کیا گیا، حال ہی میں سائبر کرائم بل بھی زیرِ بحث ہے، جبکہ ایف- آئی-اے نے سائبر کرائم سِل بھی بنا
Who Was Khurram Zaki?: (This is a brief narrative of the writer’s experiences with Zaki, a human rights activist, who was mercilessly killed in Karachi, Pakistan.) I met Khurram Zaki in the winter of 2009. The meeting was short but worth remembering.
LUBP Urgent Update on Khurram Zaki’s Murder: Those who are blaming Pakistan’s security agencies for Khurram Zaki’s murder are the apologists for Takfiri Deobandi terrorist outfits like Sipah-e-Sahaba. Why else are they trying to divert attention from these terror groups? A certain lobby is working
Khurrum Zaki, You got your job done: How were you sure that your first video address, aired on the 4th of May, will be the last? It is so comprehensive; you tell us what you fight for, you identify who you fight against, you
صفورا حملہ آوروں کے خاکے: ایڈیٹوریل نوٹ : ملزمان کے یہ خاکے ظاہر کرتے ہیں کہ جماعت اسلامی ، تنظیم اسلامی ، سپاہ صحابہ پاکستان اور کشمیر و افغانستان کی نام نہاد جہادی تنظیموں کے نیٹ ورک سے جڑنے والے کیسے پاکستان میں شیعہ
خرم زکی کی یاد میں – عامر حسینی: میں ماٹی کی مورتی، ماٹی میرا دیس ماٹی موری جات ہے میں لائی سندیس ماٹی بهیدا گم کا، ماٹی کی کیا بات سندر پهول سے پوچهیو ماٹی کیسا دیس! ماٹی میں جل، اگنی ماٹی پون جهکور ماٹی ہی
Rights activist Khurram Zaki shot dead in Karachi: Khurrum Zaki, a civil rights activist and digital media campaigner known for his firm and consistent struggle for the rights of Pakistan’s diverse religious and ethnic groups, was shot and killed by unidentified men in Karachi on May
A fearless activist, Khurram Zaki: It was February 4, 2015 when the police briefly arrested a handful of social activists protesting near the Chief Minister House in Karachi against a suicide attack on an Imambargah in District Shikarpur, killing over 60 worshippers and
Hear our voices! Activists demand justice for Khurram Zaki: KARACHI: Different religious organisations, mostly those belonging to the Shia community, staged a protest on Friday against the killings of members of their community, particularly rights activist Khurram Zaki. Unidentified assailants gunned down Zaki in North Karachi last Saturday
Dangerous Fiction of Saudi-CIA mouthpiece Dexter Filkins: In a panegyric account of Pakistani novelist Muhammad Hanif’s life and works, New Yorker journalist Dexter Filkins indulges in an astonishingly uninformed conversation with the former, and the end result is as dangerously fictitious as his usual write-ups on
PEMRA rules in favour of Dr. Taimur Rahman: We won the case against Ahmed Qureshi and Express TV. Several months ago, I charged Ahmed Qureshi and Express TV with defamation and hate speech. I took the case to PEMRA. Waqas Mir represented me brilliantly. The PEMRA Council
Anatomy of a murder – Naziha Syed Ali | Fahim Zaman: It was a 9mm gun, probably a Stoeger. Before Saad Aziz got this “samaan” through an associate, by his own admission, he had already plotted a murder. On the evening of Friday, April 24, 2015, he met four
ظلم کب تک سہیں گے؟ سید عون عباس: مجھے یہ بات سمجھ نہیں آتی کہ ہم سچ بات کہنے سے کیوں گھبراتے ہیں ، ہمارا مذہب اسلام ہمیں یہی سکھاتا ہے کہ انسان کتنی ہی مجبوری میں کیوں نہ ہو لیکن اس کا اولین کام یہی ہونا
یہ ظلمت کدے اور معاشی قتل – عمار کاظمی: سبین کون تھی، کہاں رہتی تھی، کیا کرتی تھی، اپنی کم علمی پر پیشگی معذرت کے ساتھ میرا سبین سے تعارف زیادہ پرانا نہیں۔ ابھی کل ہی سوشل میڈیا اور میڈیا نے ان کے مرنے کے بعد ان کا