Terrorism Archive
سب باغی ایک جیسے نہیں ہوتے۔ سید عون عباس: تیونس میں ایک ماسٹرز کئے ہوئے لڑکے نے جب اپنے حقوق نہ ملنے پر خود کو آگ لگائی تو اس آگ نے صرف اس نوجوان ہی کو نہیں جلایا بلکہ پورے تیونس میں یہ آگ پھیل گئی، اور برسوں
The ‘halal’ curriculum – Murtaza Haider: There is no limit to folly when ideology takes over. Radicalised middle-aged men will again determine the curriculum of primary schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). These men are not informed by training in early childhood education or children
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
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
ISIS’s role in the destruction of Sunnis of Iraq – by Patrick Cockburn: Yet for all Mahmoud’s (an Iraqi Sunni) passionate sense of injustice, his belief that the government is irredeemably anti-Sunni is only part of the story. Sunni and Shia have both used mass violence against one another’s communities in the
From Tunisia to Iraq, Afghanistan to Egypt, Salafi and Deobandi terrorists are enemies of culture and civllization – Robert Fisk: Coming from a group which has burned and bulldozed churches and Islamic shrines in Iraq, axed 3000-year old statues in the Mosul museum and boasted of destroying the ancient city of Hatra, the Tunis Tweet is a warning to
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
Beardless folks – Shazia Gulzar: Beard holds a significant importance in the Islamic Society. It plays a pivotal role in how people should perceive you. You are instantly known as a Sufi or Ustad ji, even if you aren’t one. It definitely changes
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
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,
There is a mini Boko Haram thriving in every Muslim society – Murtaza Haider: We know them as al Qaeda, Boko Haram, and the Taliban. Their branding may differ, but their misogynist ideologies do not. These so-called Islamists have promoted discrimination against women for centuries. Now, they abduct young women and threaten to
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
The continued abuse of the Pashtun woman – Murtaza Haider: They all suffer in silence, but compared to the rest of Pakistan, women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) suffer domestic violence in greater proportions. While terror-stricken Pakistan is focused on North Waziristan for a breakthrough with the violence sponsoring Taliban,
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
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
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
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
The Islamic State arrives in Pakistan: Since the beginning of 2015 Pakistan’s press, both printed and electronic, together with independent blogs, have been reporting with increasing frequency the spread of the Islamic State’s (IS) influence on Pakistani territory. Both the intelligence services of the USA
President Obama’s message to everyone celebrating Nowruz across the US and in countries around the world (2015): Hello! To everyone celebrating Nowruz—across the United States and in countries around the world—Nowruz Mubarak. For thousands of years, this has been a time to gather with family and friends and welcome a new spring and a new
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
Perverse Pontification by Friedman of the NY Times: It is not just his selective, hypocritical and trite appropriation of other people’s bad ideas and analysis that endears Tom to the everyday douchebag. It his also the ability to switch comfortably between false humility and braggadocio while never
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
Open letter to Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz – by Ani Zonneveld: in this letter, Ani Zonneveld has correctly identified the major source of extremism, bigotry, intolerance and misogyny in the Muslim world. Instead of using vague and obfuscatory terminology like “Islamist”, she has correctly highlighted Saudi Wahabism as a major
Pakistan warns Turkey: Don’t make our mistakes: As Turkey was discussing the training and equipping of Syrian opposition militants in Turkey, Pakistan recalled its own painful experiences. In Islamabad, Al-Monitor asked Mushahid Hussein, the chairman of the Pakistani Senate’s Defense Committee, about his country’s role in Afghanistan and in
Can we really blame the Christian mob? – Ale Natiq: Yesterday was an unusual day on Pakistani television channels as well as on social media. Clerics who are always short of words to condemn violence, and never speak of sanctity of human life, were seen demanding justice and denouncing