Operation Yemen Liberation – Asad Rahim Khan: Some context, to start with: Mr Nawaz Sharif is Prime Minister of Pakistan — his third try. His second ended in Jeddah, whence a long, loving bond was established. He returned in 2007 (two years early, despite Lebanon’s Saad
Anti – Militancy Long March that changed Punjab: Sunni Ittehad Council is an alliance of traditional Barelvi religious / political parties, which is moderate in its essence and is popular with traditional and folk Muslims in Pakistani villages of Sindh and Punjab. The Council started a long
Extremist Barelvis vomit hate and violence: LAHORE: Religious clerics belonging to the (Barelvi) Sunni Tehrik and Aalmi Tanzim Ahle Sunnat (ATAS) on Tuesday condemned government officials and religious figures who expressed sympathy for the Christian woman convicted of blasphemy, during a protest in front of
Mad in the middle- By Nadeem F. Paracha: The political and social aspects of Islam in Pakistan can be seen as existing in and emerging from three distinct clusters of thought. These clusters represent the three variations of political and social Islam that have evolved in
Terrorists of Sipah-e-Sahaba on the loose in Karachi: …. Update 12 June 2010: Shia and Barelvi leaders in Karachi point towards the Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorists for sectarian terrorism in Karachi: Shia cleric Allama Abbas Komaili, heading the Jaffaria Alliance Pakistan rally at Kharadar, condemned the attacks and said