We reject Sham Noora Commission: A Comment on PM Nawaz Sharif’s Speech: First and foremost, we reject the Supreme Court Commission because all judges are on Nawaz Sharif’s payroll. Silly of Nawaz Sharif to think that Imran Khan and Tahir ul Qadri will fall into the Noora Commission Trap. Can we

جمہوری حکومتوں کے خلاف نواز شریف کی جدوجہد: تاریخ کے جھروکوں سے: بے نظیر سکیورٹی رسک ہے، ملک دشمن عورت ہے گیلانی نے وزیر اعظم کا عہدہ نہ چھوڑا تو تحریک چلائیں گے – نواز شریف کا اعلان جنگ زرداری استعفیٰ دیں ورنہ کہیں جگہ نہیں ملے گی – شہباز شریف

اکثریت پر امن بریلوی سنی مسلمان ، سعودی وہابی حمایت یافتہ نواز حکومت کی دہشت گردی کا شکار:   روزنامہ ڈان کی رپورٹ کے مطابق پنجاب حکومت نے بدھ کو پاکستان عوامی تحریک کے رہنما طاہر القادری پر عوام کو ” تشدد پر اکسانے ” کا مقدمہ قائم کر دیا – یہ مقدمہ فیصل ٹاؤں تھانے میں

LRB: For America, Britain and the Western powers, the rise of Isis and the Caliphate is the ultimate disaster – by Patrick Cockburn:       As the attention of the world focused on Ukraine and Gaza, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) captured a third of Syria in addition to the quarter of Iraq it had seized in June.

پنجاب میں پیپلز پارٹی کی سیاست کی ناکامی اور بلاول کے ڈھول کا پول – از عامر حسینی: عوامی سیاست کی دعوے دارجماعتوں پی پی پی، اے این پی و دیگر کی حالت یہ ہے کہ اپنے دور اقتدار میں انہوں نے اقتدار بچانے کے لیے فوجی و عدالتی اسٹبلشمنٹ سے سمجهوتے کئے، معشیت کے میدان میں

جن پہ تکیہ تھا وہی پتے ہوا دینے لگے: طاہر اشرفی بنام یاسر لطیف ہمدانی اورمحمل سرفراز – از عامر حسینی: مجهے بڑی حیرانی ہوئی پچهلے دنوں ٹویٹر پر اچانک ایک ایسے آدمی کی مولوی طاہر اشرفی کے خلاف ٹویٹس پڑھکر جو ابهی کچه عرصہ پہلے خود اپنے مرشد خاص نجم سیٹهی اور لبرلز میں اینٹی شیعہ، اینٹی سنی بریلوی

SOS from Saudi Arabia: Rights activist and dissident Sheikh Nimr facing execution: An outspoken dissident against the oppressive Saudi regime, Sheikh Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr is facing imminent execution.  The Saudi prosecutor wants to literally crucify him for speaking against the regime. All those who support the Right to Free Speech should

Rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria: This is the Arab world’s Salafi-Jihadi moment – by Shadi Hameed:   A believer in the possibilities of coexistence, Sayed Kashua is, or perhaps was, the most prominent Arab-Israeli author writing in Hebrew. Punctured with staccato prose, his column on leaving Jerusalem, perhaps forever, was a beautifully written, heartbreaking admission

Obama is mute on his friendly ally Saudi Arabia, whose Salafists are the inspiration and fund-raisers for the Deobandi/Wahabi militias of Iraq and Syria – by Robert Fisk: He wouldn’t bomb Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s bloody caliphate when it was butchering the majority Shia Muslims of Iraq. But Barak Obama is riding to the rescue of the Christian refugees – and the Yazidis – because of “a potential

‘Jihadist’ flag flown at entrance of East London housing estate:   A black flag, bearing white Arabic inscriptions similar to those flown by Jihadis, was mounted at the entrance of a housing estate in Canary Wharf’s East London early this week. Surrounded by an array of Palestinian slogans and

Australian PM appalled at decapitated head photo:   A shocking image of what is believed to be the young son of an Australian man holding a decapitated head in Syria shows how barbaric the Islamic State “terrorist army” is, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monday. Abbott

Syria’s Military: Last Man Standing? – by Florence Gaub:   Not long ago, every defection from Syria’s armed forces was hailed as yet another sign that the country’s military was about to collapse—and with it, the regime as a whole. In a dramatic public countdown, Al Jazeera installed

Media discourse on Deobandi terrorism – 15 Jul to 15 Aug 2014: Meet this young doctor who joined ISIS and killed 30 people in a suicide attack Daily Bhaskar Jul 16, 2014, This is not the first time that Salafi Wahhabi and Deobandi have transformed into suicide bombers. The Saudi-funded Salafi

‘F*** off Jew!’ What I was told when I photographed a ‘jihadist’ flag flying in London – by Ted Jeory: I WAS told this morning by a community activist in east London to be kind in this article to the Bengali Muslim youths who threatened violence last night…and who told me to “F*** off Jew, you’re not welcome here.”So

India shaken by case of Muslim men missing in Iraq – Mansi Choksi & Ellen Barry:   KALYAN, India: For more than a decade, as alienated young Muslim men from all over the world left home to fight on the side of Islamists in distant conflicts, it has been a truism that they were not

Nawaz Sharif is unfit to govern Pakistan – by Cyril Almeida:   IT’S happening. It really is. Scorched earth. Pyrrhic victory. Cutting off nose. Shooting in the foot. The custodians of democracy have done what the anti-democrats wanted. Lahore feels like a war zone. Fuel is unavailable. Roads are shut.

Wahabi/Deobandi militants in Iraq are widely loathed, yet action to curb them is elusive – by Somini Sengupta:   UNITED NATIONS — Its fighters have seized oil fields, held water supplies hostage, and commandeered heavy artillery that the United States once supplied to a friendly government in Iraq. In late July, they decapitated Syrian soldiers, put their

United agianst a Sunni Sufi cleric: The undeclared alliance between certain liberals and Deobandi fanatics in Pakistan – Aamir Hussaini: What we are currently witnessing these days is an undeclared alliance between Deobandi right-wingers and PMLN-friendly-liberals in opposing Dr Tahir ul Qadri. Recently, Hamid Mir (on Jang Group’s Geo TV) once agian showed his malicious Salafi-Deobandi approach toward Dr

Could ISIS retaliate against the West? – by Paul Cruickshank: The U.S. air strikes carried out Friday against ISIS are likely to have one unintended consequence: immediately increase the terrorist threat in Europe and the United States, Western counter-terrorism officials tell CNN. Within hours of U.S. military jets and

Jamhooriat running scared and wolves at the door – by Ayaz Amir:   Imran Khan stands isolated. Tahirul Qadri is a shady character and is of no account. If both these propositions are correct what is the government’s problem? Why is it so out of breath? If Shahbaz Sharif’s interview to