Shia Genocide and our reaction to it – by Sabah Hasan: During, and more so, just after the countrywide four-day sit-in in January against Shia Genocide, my friends had questioned and commented on certain aspects of the event. I had promised my daughter (one of the persons who asked some

Patronage of sectarian terrorists by Punjab’s CT Chief Minister Najam Sethi – by Sadiq Ameen: The caretaker Punjab government has released 112 Sipah-e-Sahaba (ASWJ-LeJ) terrorists who were unwillingly detained under Shahbaz Sharif’s government in the aftermath of Shia genocide in Quetta and Karachi and were held in various prisons across the province. This probably

کیا شیعہ ہونا جرم ہے ؟ – از حق گو: کراچی کے ایک گھر سے صبح سویرے اپنے والد کے ساتھ سکول کے لئے نکلنے والے عون و محمد نے کبھی سوچا بھی نہیں ہوگا کہ وہ اپنی ماں سے آخری بار مل رہے ہیں – سوچا تو کسی

50th Anniversary of the Therhi Massacre – by Mohammad Alo: In Remembrance Thursday, June 6, 2013 On June 6, 1963, at least 116 Shia Muslims were massacred in the village of Thehri in the Khairpur district of Sindh province in Pakistan while taking part in the Juloos (procession) of

دہشت گردوں کا فرار اور رہائی – سیکورٹی اداروں اور نگران حکومتوں کا کردار – از حق گو: انتخابات کے بعد ہونے والی پیش رفت میں یہ بات تو سامنے آگیی کہ وفاق اور پنجاب میں حکومت بنانے والی نواز لیگ بلوچستان میں حکومت سازی کے لئے بھی ایڑی چوٹی کا زور لگا رہی ہے اس کے

Pakistani mainstream media turns a blind eye to LeJ ‘escapees’ and Aiwaz Ali’s assassination in Quetta – by Mahpara Qalander: The mainstream Urdu-English media has not reported that the caretaker government of Baluchistan has facilitated the escape of two top terrorists of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) from a Quetta prison (http://islamtimes.org/vdccopqi12bqe48.c7a2.html). Muhammad Umar Lehri and Mir Ahmed Lehri ‘escaped’ from Quetta

Woolwich Beheading: Educating the West about the Wahhabi brand of terror – by Rusty Walker: Photo: Proof of Salafist connections to terrorists are often missed, as the press use generic terms like, “Jihadist.” The Wahhabi connection is more evident in this photo of Anjem Choudary, British-based Wahhabi-Deobandi hate preacher, pictured with the Woolwich terrorist

علی کے ساتھ کچھ دیر: میں سوچ رہا تھا کہ اس مرتبہ 13 رجب جب آئے گی تو اپنے احباب کو اس دن کی خوشی میں کیا تحفہ دوں-میں نے ایک خوشبو لی موتیا کی جو ایک حواری مولائے کائنات کے بقول مولا علی

Punjabi dictatorship fears – by Abdul Rehman Leghari: Editor’s note: LUBP does not support this opinion. However, we want to encourage candid debate on these issues. After the sad demise of Shaheed Mohtarma Benzair Bhutto, the “zanjeer” of the provinces is gone. Smaller provinces have genuine fears

PPP lost, PTI gained Shia votes – by Faizan Bangash: Source: The News, 7 May 2013 (with minor additions and edits) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan was able to attract a section of Shia vote bank which has traditionally been voting for centre-left leaning Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)

HDP, electoral defeats and dirty politics – by Naqi. H.: The voters of PB-2 once again rejected Hazara Democratic Party in May 11 elections by electing Majlis-e Wahadat-e Muslimeen’s candidate. This was HDP’s second consecutive defeat in elections ever since it was made in 2003. But like 2008 defeat,

Imran Khan’s deliberate obfuscation: ASWJ, and not MQM, murdered Zahra Shahid Hussain – by Mahpara Qalandar: Yesterday, 18 May, two motorbike-riding terrorists shot Zahra Shahid Hussain, the vice-president of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf, Sindh, in front of her house. She was shot twice and died immediately. The immediate reaction of pro-Taliban politician Imran Khan was to blame

شیعہ نسل کشی اور سعودی فنڈنگ – از حق گو:   سعودیہ میں اربوں رپے پاکستان میں لگائے ھیں صرف مدارسے کھولنے میں کوئی سے بھی دو پرجیکٹ بتادیں جس سے پاکستان کو بہت فائدہ ھوا ھو۔ دو بار مفت تیل دے دیا اور ساتھ میں ۳۲۰۰ مدرسے کھولدئے

Soldiering on: Ruqayya Hashmi fights for Shia Hazara community in Balochistan – by Waqas Naeem: Undaunted by terrorist threats, Dr Ruqayya Hashmi fights for the Shia Hazara community in Balochistan. ISLAMABAD: In several cities across Pakistan, political parties and candidates have faced threats and deadly attacks on the basis of political ideology. But, in Quetta,

Pakistan’s hardliners’ political clout protecting them from the law – by Jon Boone: ‘It is against the most basic fundamental rights to have to go to a police station each day,’ says Maulana Ahmad Ludhianvi Deobandi Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images Editors’s note: We are cross posting an important article by The Guardian

Eections 2013: Pakistan’s hard right turn – Dr. Mohammad Taqi: It may be counterintuitive to say it now, but the chances are that once the desired rightwing polity has been eased in, the violent spree may actually subside  Electioneering in Punjab is in full swing while elsewhere in Pakistan

طالبان کو سیاسی حمایت اور حثیت فراہم کرنے والی تحریک انصاف اور مسلم لیگ نواز – از حق گو: پنجاب میں الیکشن مہم پورے عروج پر ہے جب کہ باقی ماندہ پاکستان میں تین روشن خیال اور ا عتدال پسند جماعتیں دیوبندی تکفیری دہشت گردوں کے عتاب کا نشانہ بنی ہوئیں ہیں – پیپلز پارٹی ہو متحدہ قومی

Who are the Taliban proxies? PTA banned Shia Killing watch site produces remarkable video: Excellent compilation by #ShiaGenocide watchdog website ShiaKilling.com which is now banned by Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA).  This video clearly shows where the political parties stand. This video is about the elections and the divide. On one side, PPP, ANP and MQM on

Sipah Sahaba ASWJ leader who fixed bounty on Salmaan Taseer given PML-N ticket – by Amir Mir: ISLAMABAD: Besides fielding the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi-linked Chaudhry Abid Raza from NA-107 (Gujrat), the PML-N has awarded another party ticket to Sardar Ebaad Dogar from NA-178 (Muzaffargarh) despite his being an ardent disciple of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) who had announced

سپاہ صحابہ اور طالبان کا سلیکشن کمیشن – از حق گو: جوں جوں الیکشن کا دن قریب آرہا ہے پاکستان میں دہشت گردی کے بڑھتے ہوے واقعات نے ہر ایک پاکستانی کو تشویش میں مبتلا کر رکھا ہے ، طالبان کی پیپلز پارٹی ، اے این پی اور ایم کیو

الیکشن 2013 – جھنگ میں سنی اور شیعہ مسلمان سپاہ صحابہ کے تکفیری دہشت گردوں کے خلاف شیخ وقاص اکرم کی قیادت میں متحد ہیں – از حق گو: جھنگ کا علاقہ شیعہ،  تکفیری دیوبندی تعلقات کے حوالے سے تلخ یادوں بھرا ماضی رکھتا ہے ، جھنگ ان دونوں فرقوں کے درمیان کشیدہ حالات اور فسادات کے حوالے سے پاکستان بھر میں مشہور ہے  سپاہ صحابہ ہو لشکر

Keep calm and vote anti-Taliban – Ale Natiq: Taliban target secular parties in Pakistan Mohammed Hanif explains how Taliban and affiliated Takfiris are try to affect the results of elections through systematic attacks on secular parties. In the same talk, he clearly mentions Sipah Sahaba ( (aka ASWJ/LEJ)  heinous

Trust me it’s our war! – by Danish Kazi: Today when I started to write this piece . I wanted to seek inspiration as everyone now speak about Elections, why Imran Khan may or not win? , why Nawaz Sharif is under threat? and a few speaking about

Pakistan, an unfortunate country? – Riaz Ali Toori: Terrorists are giving a very clear message to the people of Pakistan to either vote for those who want to see a stable country or vote for those who want us to perish How unfortunate is Pakistan that is

Iran uses Hazara settlers in demographic war to turn the Baloch into a minority in their own land – by Tarek Fatah: LUBP Editor’s note: We don’t agree with the blatantly racist, insensitive and non-factual remarks by Tarek Fathah who is obfuscating systematic country-wide Shia genocide and blaming Pakistan’s most target killed community (Shia Hazaras of Balochistan) instead of identifying and

ڈالروں اور ریالوں کے عوض تکفیری دیوبندی دہشتگرد ناحق خون بہا رہے ہیں – مفتی گلزار نعیمی: از اسلام ٹائمز پاکستان میں جاری دہشتگردی میں ایک ہی مسلک کے لوگ ملوث ہیں، مفتی گلزار نعیمی شام کی صورتحال کو خراب کرنے میں امریکہ ملوث ہے اسلام ٹائمز: جامعہ نعیمیہ اسلام آباد کے سرپرست کا “اسلام ٹائمز”

طالب زدہ …..قسط 8: جہاں تک میرا یقین ہے ، آئی ایس آئ  دیو بندی خیالات سے متاثر یا دیوبندی سوچ رکھتا ہے ، جس کی وجہ یہ ہوسکتی ہے کہ دیوبندی مکتبہ فکر سے منسلک لوگوں میں جہادی سوچ زیادہ ہوتی ہے

LUBP policy on appeasers and humanizers of terrorists:   This is to reiterate LUBP policy on those writers, institutions and groups that appease, promote or humanize hate mongers and terrorists.  This includes people who obfuscate Shia Genocide by Takfiri Deobandi terrorists as Shia Sunni sectarian violence or

Of Boston and Quetta – by Ali Lahori: The American response to the Boston bombing provides a powerful example of how national tragedies should be handled. The entire nation came together to commiserate and support the victims. All of the key government agencies mobilized to find the

Shia blood continues to be spilled even in the time of election – By Mahpara Qalandar: Yesterday’s suicide bomb blast near Alamdar Road in Quetta killed eight men including two security personnel. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) has once again proudly owned up to its misdeed. Khaliq Hazara’s supporters were too quick to say that he was

Institutional decay!: Pakistan is a country suffering from within and outside, but mostly from within, and with years of ineffective governance and complete breakdown of law and order, it comes as no surprise that the society has lost its moral compass,

تکفیری دیوبندی و سلفی دہشتگردی اور سعودی عرب – چولی دامن کا ساتھ – از حق گو: پاکستان، شام، عراق ، بحرین ، اور افغانستان کے بعد تکفیری دیوبندی دہشت گردوں کی دہشت گردی بوسٹن امریکا بھی پہنچ گیی ، حالیہ بم دھماکوں میں ملوث افراد گو کہ چیچن ہیں مگر ان کا سلفی وہابی عقیدے

I am going to call the Embassy of Iran… – by Raza Rumi: Context: In Pakistan, Shia and other rights activists are being monitored by Takfiri Deobandi militants of ASWJ-Taliban and pro-establishment fake liberals. https://lubpak.com/archives/254753 Raza Rumi’s discourse on Shia Muslims: https://lubpak.com/archives/75388 https://lubpak.com/archives/251181 https://lubpak.com/archives/241085 http://pakistanblogzine.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/jinnah-institutes-extremist-watch-report-is-anti-shia-anti-ahmadi-and-anti-pashtun/ https://lubpak.com/archives/231304    

The good, the bad and the ugly – by Zarrar Khuhro: The writer is Associate News Editor, The Express Tribune Pakistanis are used to carnage. We’re used to bomb blasts, assassinations and industrial accidents. We know that when the tickers turn red, more often than not, something terrible has happened.

Pakistan Warms up to Elections Amidst Killings and Death Threats – by A Z: The elections scheduled for May have brought a degree of excitement and hope to a country that has witnessed a descent into violence and terrorism accompanied by economic woes over the past few years. Campaign posters, with the candidates’

The ‘Ahrar-Ahmadiya controversy’ of 1953 and Shia killings of today in 2013 – by Zahir Ebrahim: Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org April 09, 2013 In order to perceptively comprehend some of the dynamics behind the latter day Shia Killings in Pakistan, it is pertinent to read the very insightful report convened by the Government of Pakistan

اپیل بنام چیف الیکشن کمشنر : دہشت گردوں کو انتخابات میں حصّہ لینے سے روکا جائے – از مہ پارہ قلندر – مترجم – حق گو: اپیل بنام چیف الیکشن کمشن محترم جناب جسٹس رٹائرڈ فخر الدین جی ابراہیم صاحب جناب عالی اب جبکہ کے الیکشن کا اپنے وقت پر انعقاد آپ کی بھرپور کوششوں سے یقینی ہو چکا ہے تو آپ کے نوٹس میں

A Pakistani paradigm shift may be in order: A step forward in an election year – by Rusty Walker:                     Your true liberty, you, as a person living in a nation of a diversified people, can only be assured personal freedoms through a massive election turn-out, bent on a

ISI wants to micromanage social media debate on #ShiaGenocide – by Ayesha Siddiqa: The writer is an independent social scientist and author of Military Inc. The idea was to gather in a coffee shop in Islamabad and discuss ways civil society could help stop the killing of Hazaras, Shias and minorities in

Quetta: The dream city gone rogue – by Quetta Revolution: Quetta, which once used to be called a dream city now lies nothing more than a pile of rubble for crushed dreams and as a new name for the Sawat Valley. What once used to be called the “Little