Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) & Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) & Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) Archive
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
Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif, not his army, the world’s most dangerous – Kamal Alam: No country has had more written about its army in the past decade than Pakistan. Every three years, there is more global speculation about who will be Pakistan Army Chief than there is on the appointment of the head
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
Talking peace: (Are we) All the Saudi king’s men? – Shahzeb Ahmed: KARACHI: The National Assembly has decided Pakistan will not partake in the Yemen conflict. We will only play a mediatory role, declared the lawmakers. The motion came after five days of debate on the Yemen crisis, in which the majority
Condolences to the House of Nawaz Sharif for failing to defend his Masters at the House of Saud – Syed Riaz Al-Malik: Condolences to the House of Nawaz Sharif for failing to defend his Masters at the House of Saud. You see, the “anti establishment” Nawaz Sharif did his best to drag Pakistan into Saudi Arabia’s aggression on Yemen. (Refer to https://lubpak.com/archives/334712 for
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
How deep-rooted are jihadists in Canada? – Murtaza Haider: We have dreaded this, but knew it may happen one day. An armed assailant attacked the Canadian Parliament and other sites in Ottawa, Canada’s capital. Killing one soldier; and injuring at least three others. The attacker, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32,
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A year ago, I was almost killed by LeJ terrorists – Raza Rumi: A year ago, I suffered the fate of thousands of Pakistanis who have been attacked, maimed and terrorised by violent extremism. I was lucky to have physically survived but my driver Mustafa was not. An innocent human life lost
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,
ایم کیو ایم کے خلاف یکطرفہ آپریشن پر میرے اعتراض کی وضاحت – خرم زکی: میں نہ ایم کیو ایم کا سپورٹر ہوں، نہ پیپلز پارٹی کا، نہ نواز شریف کا اور نہ ہی عمران خان کا ۔ عمران خان کو چھوڑ کر باقی سب سیاستدانوں کے ہاتھ عوام الناس کے خون میں رنگے
1,054 policemen killed since 2007 in KP province by TTP-ASWJ terrorists: PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has sacrificed 1,054 policemen, more than any civilian law-enforcement agency, but the cops get meager compensation package compared to the one being given to the policemen in Punjab, a source said on Tuesday. The
Leaked tapes against MQM, PTI and PPP and the rogue elements’ agenda: In the last few weeks, a number of “leaks” have been carefully released by invisible agencies to mainstream and social media. All of these leaks are against those parties which were a part of or supporters of Imran Khan
پنجاب حکومت کالعدم دیوبندی دہشت گرد تنظیم سپاہ صحابہ اور القاعدہ کی سرپرست ہے – صاحبزادہ حامد رضا: مفتی منیب الرحمن اور دیگر سے جواب طلب کیا ہے کہ وہ کیوں کالعدم تکفیری دہشت گرد جماعتوں کے حلیف دیوبندی علما کے ساتھ مل کر اکیسویں ترمیم اور فوجی عدالتوں کی مخالفت کر رہے ہیں، جو دیوبندی مدارس
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
اس سال کالعدم سپاہ صحابہ کے 16 دہشت گردوں گرفتار جبکہ لشکر جھنگوی کے 6 دہشت گرد مارے، قائم علی شاہ: خبر ٹی وی (کراچی) وزیر اعلیٰ سندھ سید قائم علی شاہ نے کہا ہے کہ اس سال کالعدم سپاہ صحابہ کے 16 دہشت گردوں گرفتار جبکہ لشکر جھنگوی کے 6 دہشت گرد مارے، تحریک طالبان کے 52 دہشتگردوں کو
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
فیصل آباد: القاعدہ، طالبان اور سپاہ صحابہ کی حلیف شہبازشریف حکومت کی جانب سے پر امن سنی اتحاد کونسل اور صاحبزادہ حامد رضا کے خلاف انتقامی کاروائی: فیصل آباد میں مذہبی جماعت سنی اتحاد کونسل کی جانب سے لاؤڈ سپیکر ایکٹ کے خلاف ہڑتال کے دوران گھنٹہ گھر کے آٹھ بازاروں میں زبردستی دکانیں بند کروانے اور تاجروں سے ہاتھا پائی کے الزام میں نقضِ امن
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
Rs400,000, or hand over your son to the madrassa – Murtaza Haider: It is one of the weirdest school enrolment drives ever: Surrender a son to the madrassa (religious seminary), or pay 400,000 rupees (US$4,000) instead. The militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas are openly coercing families to hand over their sons,
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
ایم کیو ایم کے خلاف آپریشن اور مذہبی اور سیاسی جماعتوں کی منافقت: ایم کیو ایم کے خلاف آپریشن سے اس کی مخالف سیاسی اور مذہبی جماعتوں میں خوشی کی لہر دوڑ گئی۔قیام پاکستان کی مخالف جماعت اسلامی نے بانیان پاکستان کی اولادوں کی جماعت ایم کیو ایم کے خلاف آپریشن پر
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
The Deobandi Salafi terror: Islamabad’s International Islamic University shuts down Sunni Sufi Barelvi mosque: ISLAMABAD: On Friday, students at the International Islamic University (IIUI) Islamabad offered prayers outside the locked doors of a mosque, recently shut down by the university administration. The administration recently closed down the decades old mosque aligned with the
The Battle For Saudi Arabia : Royalty Fundamentalism and global Power: پروفیسر اسد ابو خلیل امریکی یونیورسٹی میں پولیٹکل سائنس کے استاد ہیں اور وہ لبنانی نژاد عرب ہیں ، بیروت سے شایع ہونے والے عربی روزنامہ ” الاخبار” میں باقاعدگی سے آرٹیکل لکھتے ہیں اور کئی کتابوں کے
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
Deobandi extremists in the UK – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: It could be a millenarian crisis or a delayed reaction to decades of bad history, but millions of Muslims seem to have turned inwards, hankering for an imagined golden age. They are contemptuous of modernity’s bendable, ductile values. Some
The News: Nexus of Deobandi terror outfits strikes again: Police suspect the involvement of the nexus between the Taliban, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the Jundullah and other terrorist outfits, which is already responsible for several sectarian attacks, in the bomb attack on a Bohra community mosque in Arambagh on