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

Fatima Bhutto’s Blog in New York Times Photoshopped by Tribune – by Zulfiqar Ali: 1. Fatima Bhutto wrote Op-Ed in New York Times. Tribune reproduced it. I believe they have arrangements with NYT. BUT 2. They changed Op-Ed to Blog of E-Tribune. SO it means that FB writes ‘blog’ for tribune. Blog has

دنیا کا سب سے بڑا بھائی ، منی لانڈرنگ اور کوہ نور – از عمار کاظمی:

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

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

Sellout Shia clerics’ alliance with Hanif Jalandhri and other Takfiri Deobandi disciples of Yazid- by Laleen Ahmad: “Hussain was a rebel and traitor. He rebelled against the Allah-appointed Caliph Hazrat Yazid, Allah be pleased with him, and deserved death [Wajibul Qatal]!” These were the very words which the head of the Raja Bazaar Deobandi seminary uttered

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

طالبان پر سیکورٹی فورسز کا کاری وار – از حیدر جاوید سید:

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