Shia Genocide & Persecution Archive

سبین محمود کی شہادت، بلوچستان کے مسائل اور پورا سچ – عامر حسینی: سبین محمود شہید – جہاں دیواروں پر آرٹ ہو اور ادیب و شاعر پورا سچ بولیں ڈان ڈاٹ کوم ویب سائٹ پر سمیع شاہ نے اپنے ایک بلاگ میں سبین محمود کی شہادت کے حوالے سے لکھا ہے کہ

اداریہ : دی لندن پوسٹ ڈاٹ نیٹ والو! شرم تم کو مگر نہیں آتی: دی لندن پوسٹ ڈاٹ نیٹ نام کی ایک ویب سائٹ پر ایک ادارتی نوٹ کی طرح کی ایک تحریر تعمیر پاکستان ویب سائٹ کے خلاف شایع ہوئی ہے اور اس پوسٹ میں ایک مرتبہ پھر گھٹیا سازشی

Taliban are said to target Shia Hazaras to try to match ISIS’ brutality: KABUL, Afghanistan — A wave of kidnappings followed by numerous beheadings of members of Afghanistan’s Hazara ethnic group have spread alarm and anger among a people who historically have been this country’s most persecuted. The police in Ghazni Province

Saudi Arabia is ‘biggest funder of terrorists’: Saudi Arabia is the single biggest contributor to the funding of Islamic extremism and is unwilling to cut off the money supply, according to a leaked note from Hillary Clinton. The US Secretary of State says in a secret

سنیئے معروف اہلسنت عالم مولانا خان محمد قادری کا فکر انگیز خطاب۔: سنیئے معروف اہلسنت عالم مولانا خان محمد قادری کا فکر انگیز خطاب۔ کبھی رایئونڈ کے اجتماع میں بم کیوں نہیں پھٹتے؟ آپ ایک ہزار اکھٹے ہو جایئں، قیامت آجاتی ہے، اور وہ پانچ لاکھ اکھٹے ہو جایئں کچھ نہیں

The living dead: The land of ‘martyrs’ – Munira Abbas: Kids playing football, a long line of elders chatting as the sun sets, a teenager staring at a picture, a middle aged woman reading from a book – the scene is not that of a park but that

خطرہ آل سعود کی باد شاہت کو ہے – حرمین کو نہیں – عامر حسینی: آج کل پاکستان میں ہر طرف کچھ لوگ ” حرمین شریفین ” کو (فرضی ) خطرات لاحق ہونے کا شور مچاکر آسمان سرپر اٹھائے ہوئے ہیں اور مجھے اس پر جالب کے اشعار یاد آئے جن کو زرا ترمیم

Putting genies back in the bottle – Murtaza Haider: It is the pot calling the kettle black. For decades India has accused Pakistan-based fundamentalists of exporting religious extremism to India. The fountainhead of Islamic fundamentalism in South Asia, however, is not Akora Khattak, but Deoband in India. India

Going KSA – Marvi Sirmed: There are several apprehensions and arguments about whether or not Pakistan should send its troops to support Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in its offensive against Yemen. According to the prevalent narrative, Saudi Arabia, a brotherly Muslim country having long-term

Pakistan’s neutrality: A heavy price to pay? – Kaneez Fatima: The Pakistani parliament’s resolution calling for neutrality vis-à-vis the Saudi-led aggression against Yemen (Operation Decisive Storm) came as a relief in many quarters. For many, the decision didn’t come as a surprise. For others, it did leave a

33% stronger: A Pakistan without terrorism – Murtaza Haider: If incompetence and corruption of the ruling elite were not enough to derail the economy, Pakistan’s sustained bout with terrorism did the rest. Recent research shows that in the absence of terrorist violence, Pakistan’s economy would have grown much

PTI in Karachi: It is Punjabi business as usual – Laleen Ahmad: Other than the gullible idealists, upper middle class fops, and Ivy League dandies, everyone knew that Imran Khan’s “New Pakistan” was a metonym for the Punjabi Army-directed political stage show as usual. It was a clever ploy hatched and

What’s wrong with the world of Islam? – Ayaz Amir: Look at the mess Muslim states are making of their affairs. From Tunisia to Yemen, Syria and Iraq to Afghanistan, the whole world of Islam is in turmoil. Pakistan has its own share of troubles, a unique republic with

لــــك يا بحرين السنة والشيعـــة-بحرین تمہارے سنیوں اور شیعہ سب کے نام – عامر حسینی: آیات حسن القرمزی بحرین کی شاعرہ مزاحمت کی ایک نظم جو بحرین ، یمن سمیت سارے عرب میں آزادی و خودمختاری کی تحریکوں کو شیعہ -سنی اور فرقہ ورانہ عینک سے دیکھنے سے باز نہ آنے والوں کے منہ

Shia scholar Ammar Nakshawani condemns persecution and massacres of Ahmadis, Christians and Sunni Sufis: LUBP lauds Shia scholar Ammar Nakhawani on his principled and bold stance on the persecution and massacres of Ahmadis, Christians and Sunni Sufis along with Shias, all of whom are being killed by transnational Salafi and Deobandi terrorists known

Why Pakistan may be a reluctant ally in Saudis’ Yemen campaign – Omar Waraich: Still, it now finds itself drawn into a geopolitical alliance with a strongly sectarian pallor. This isn’t first time Pakistan has been dragged into the poisonous Saudi-Iranian rivalry. After the 1979 revolution that brought the Ayatollahs to power,

France 24 TV debunks Pakistan’s secular sectarians’ false Sunni-Shia binary – Riaz Malik Al Hajjaji: Attention to Pakistan’s Pseudo Sufyani Liberals, Secular Sectarianists and Muawiya Marxists, The following short documentary by France 24 blows a giant hole in the Intellectually Dishonest “Sunni vs Shia”/”Iran vs Saudi” binaries that you have been peddling to

عمران خان اور پرویز خٹک ڈیرہ اسمعیل خان میں دہشت گرد گروہ سپاہ صحابہ کے ہاتھوں شیعہ نسل کشی روکنے کے لئے اقدامات کریں: عمران خان جہاں ایک طرف نیا پاکستان بنانے کی بات کرتے ہیں وہاں جس صوبے میں ان کی حکومت ہے وہاں آے دن بے گناہ شیعہ مسلمانوں کا خون تکفیری دیوبندی دہشت گردوں کے ہاتھوں بہایا جا رہا

We’re dying from apathy, not terrorism – Murtaza Haider: Thousands have been targeted, but only a few have lived to tell the tale. Sitting in the semi-lit lounge at the Washington Plaza Hotel, Raza Rumi narrated the details of the fateful Friday in March when his driver

The IS behemoth, yet another Western project gone wrong – Murtaza Haider: It is a typical summer flick, but it holds a great lesson for the global power politics. Hercules, released earlier in the summer, shows how the son of Zeus fights against tyrants only to realise later that he

Karachi Police: Sectarian terrorist group ASWJ and TTP behing the attacks on Bohra mosque and Rangers mobile: Karachi: Last Friday’s dual terror attacks on a Bohra community mosque and a Rangers patrol mobile were the work of two separate groups, according to city police chief Ghulam Qadir Thebo. “The investigation teams have been looking

PPP’s Khurshid Shah is ASWJ’s Ludhyanvi’s best friend: Do you need further evidence that some PPP’s leaders are committed allies of Lashkar-e-Jhanagvi aka ASWJ? Remember what Faisal Raza Abidi said a few days ago? Here’s a recent news report about PPP’s Khurshid Shah’s mateship with ASWJ-LeJ’s

We’re not moving towards civil war, we’re in it – Murtaza Haider: Being a Shia is not a crime, but in Pakistan it now carries a death sentence. The 24 Shias from Kohat and Orakzai agency, who were summarily executed by the militants near the Pak-Iran border, have now been

Sectarianism in Iraq — is Pakistan watching? – Murtaza Haider: Iraq has descended into a full-blown civil war. The Jihadists have captured three towns and are marching on to Baghdad. They claim to have killed 1,700 prisoners in violation of Islamic and other laws governing warfare. They have also

Jummah mubarak, you ‘kafir’! – Ale Natiq: Last Friday, nearly 150 Shias were killed and 400 wounded in triple suicide blasts that targeted the Shia community during the Friday congregational prayers in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. ISIS/ISIL claimed responsibility of the attack and a statement released

250 Sunnis and Shias killed in Yemen, Pakistan and Syria by Deobandi-Salafi terrorists: For the Deobandi-Salafis, its Friday. The day set aside for massacring Shia muslims. You know, those “sectarian Shias” as described in increasing sections of the global media – who are getting too uppity and want to decide their own

دیوبندی مدارس کی حمایت کرنے پر پنجاب حکومت کا جامعہ المنتظر کو 80 لیپ ٹاپ کا تحفہ: شیعہ نیوز (پاکستانی شیعہ خبر رساں ادارہ) حکومت پنجاب نے وفاق المدارس الشیعہ پاکستان سے الحاق شدہ مدارس کے پوزیشن ہولڈرز طلبا و طالبات کے لئے 80 لیپ ٹاپ فراہم کر دیئے جو جامعتہ المنتظر ماڈل ٹاؤن لاہور

Fasaad Fi sabilillah? – Murtaza Haider: It could have been just another ordinary patient arriving at an eye clinic for treatment. Abdul Rauf, a 20-something resident of Badami Bagh Lahore, took his father to Dr. Ali Haider’s clinic. A delay at the clinic ticked

Yemen massacre of Zaidi Shias by the Salafi Al-Qaeda: It’s not ISIL and it’s not Sunni-Shiite Conflict – Juan Cole: The massive twin bombings at mosques in the capital that shook Yemen on Friday, killing over 100 and wounding many more, were immediately claimed by Daesh (ISIS, ISIL). Since the mosques were largely attended by members of the

Aamir Hussaini-Remembering Langah: I was in Lahore last week when a friend informed me that the President of Pakistan Seraiki Party, Taj Muhammad Langah, had passed away. That was sad and very shocking news to me but I could not attend

Ayaz Amir’s analysis of the Rangers’ selective operation against MQM: The Urdu-speaking population which migrated from India at the time of Partition came in two categories: 1) the upper-crust or the elite class which settled in such places as Clifton, Bath Island, PECHS and later Defence; and 2) the

Gatestone Institute: The Deobandi and Jamaat-e-Islami roots of extreminsm and terrorism in the UK: Ataullah Siddiqui, an official of the Islamic Foundation, which publishes radical tracts of the Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami. In 2003, The Times reported that two of the Islamic Foundation’s trustees were on the UN sanctions list of people associated

ایم کیو ایم ، ملٹری اسٹبلشمنٹ اور اہلسنت والجماعت – از پاش: یہ بات تو طے ہے کہ ایم کیو ایم کے خلاف پاکستانی ملٹری اسٹبلشمنٹ پوری طرح سے حرکت میں آگئی ہے اور اس حوالے سے ان میں کہیں کوئی اختلاف نظر نہیں آرہا ، ایم کیو ایم سے ہٹ

Karachi’s dragons: Is banned Deobandi terror outfit ASWJ gearing up to replace MQM? – Dawn newspaper (Khurram Hussain): Here’s a little story, which some might find interesting given the times. In the 2013 election, the provincial assembly of Sindh narrowly missed having to swear in the leader of a banned organisation who contested a provincial seat from

جامعہ کراچی: شیعہ طلبہ پربم دھماکے میں ملوث اسلامی جمعیت طلبہ کے دو دہشت گردوں کو 14 سال قید کی سزا: کراچی ١٩ مارچ ٢٠١٥ (شیعہ نیوزو دیگر میڈیا): جامعہ کراچی میں دوران نماز ظہرہونے والے بم دھماکے میں ملوث اسلامی جمعیت طلبہ کے دو کارکنا ں عمیر دیوبندی اور حفیظ اللہ دیوبندی کو انسداد دہشتگردی کی عدالت نے 14

صولت مرزا کا بیان: منافقت نہیں “الباکستانیت” – تنویر اختر: دُنیا میں ایسا کہیں ہوتا ہے یا نہیں، قانون و انصاف کی تاریخ میں ایسی “نظیر” بے شک موجود نہ ہو کہ سزائے موت کا منتظر قیدی پھانسی چڑھائے جانے سے چند ساعت قبل ٹی وی چینلز پر نمودار

سراج الحق، ایم کیو ایم اور منافقت – خرم زکی: جماعت اسلامی پاکستان کا رہنما سراج الحق دیوبندی ایم کیو ایم کے کارکنوں کے اعترافی بیانات پر ایم کیو ایم کے خلاف پابندی کا مطالبہ کرتا ہے لیکن یہی سراج الحق دیوبندی پہلے سے ہی کالعدم دہشتگرد گروہ اہل

Second martyrdom anniversary of Professor Sibte Jaafar – Riaz Malik Al Hajjaji: This is Sibte Jaffar – a Shia Rafdi “terrorist” who terrorised the country with his musical renditions of poetry. He is part of Pakistan’s majority Sunni and Shia communities who use and advance poetry and music for a

Religious extremism destroying Pakistani society – Analysis: On February 18, 2015, at least four Shia Muslims were killed and six others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up during evening prayers at a mosque in Qasr-e-Sakina Imambargah (Shia place of commemoration) located on Kurri Road