Youth, women among seven killed in PAT supporters’ clash with police – by Arif Malik & Nadeem Haider:     LAHORE: Members of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) were among the seven people killed during a clash between PAT protesters and policemen in Lahore on Tuesday. According to initial reports, one of the deceased PAT supporters is

لشکر جھنگوی کی سرپرست نون لیگ کے ہاتھوں بریلوی مسلمانوں کا قتل عام – از عامر حسینی: ڈاکٹر طاہر القادری کے گهر اور منهاج القران یونیورسٹی کے آگے لگائے گئے حفاظتی پائپ هٹانے کے نام پر پنجاب پولیس نے ماڈل ٹاون لاہور کے ایم بلاک پر دهاوا بول دیا اور اس نے 365 ایم ماڈل ٹاون

شیعہ نسل کشی کے بعد نواز لیگ کی سرپرستی میں بریلوی نسل کشی کا آغاز:   لاہور میں ڈاکٹر طاہر القادری کی رہائش گاہ اور منہاج القرآن کے گرد کھڑی رکاوٹیں ہٹانے کا معاملہ سات بیگناہوں کی جان لینے کے بعد ایک نیا رخ اختیار کر چکا ہے – پولیس کی جانب سے نہتے

ISIS Expands its Killing Fields from Syria to Iraq – by Rusty Walker: Salafist ISIS ‘execute’ 1,700 Iraqi Soldiers Why are organized soldiers attacking Iraq, and who are these Army combatants in Iraq? And, who is funding them? The first question includes the component of timing: Iraq is neither militarily or economically

عراق اور سعودی نواز میڈیا: مغربی میڈیا کے متوازی وہابی عرب ریاستوں کا میڈیا عراق میں جاری حالیہ وہابی-دیوبندی فاشسٹ حملوں اور اسے ملنے والی چند ابتدائی کامیابیوں کو ایک انقلاب اور عراقی قومی تحریک کے طور پر دکھانے کی کوشش کررہا ہے بلکہ

Pak Army should take out all Taliban not just “bad” Taliban all over Pakistan – M Ilyas Khan: Pakistan’s military operation to clear al-Qaeda and Taliban militants from its side of the Afghan border has long been demanded by Kabul and Washington. Troops are now on alert in Pakistan’s towns and cities after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

Saudi Salafi inspired and funded Al Shahaab kill at least 50 people in a Kenya – by Drazen Jorgic:   (Reuters) – Somali-linked Islamists have killed at least 50 people in a Kenyan coastal town, executing men in front of their families and killing others who had gathered to watch World Cup soccer on television. The al Shabaab

Iraq blowback: Isis rise manufactured by insatiable oil addiction – by Nafeez Ahmed: Following the bulk of western reporting on the Iraq crisis, you’d think the self-styled ‘Islamic State of Iraq and Syria‘ (Isis) popped out of nowhere, took the west completely by surprise, and is now rampaging across the Middle East

بلوچ و پختون قوم تحریکیں اور دیوبندی وہابی فاشزم – از عامر حسینی: بلوچ قوم کی تحریک کے وہابی دیوبندی مذھبی فاشزم سے رشتے اور اس کے اینٹی شیعہ دھشت گرد تنظیموں سے تعلق کا سوال نیا نہیں ہے ایران میں شیعہ انقلاب کے آنے کے بعد جب ایران کی مرکزی حکومت

سعودی پالتو وہابی دیوبندی تنظیم آئی ایس آئی ایل حضرت غوث الاعظم عبدالقادر جیلانی کے مزار کو گرانا چاہتی ہے: سعودی عرب ،کویت اور قطر کے وہابی ملوک اور وہابی سرمایہ داروں و ملاّؤں کی پروردہ دولت اسلامیہ عراق و الشام یا داعش کے نام نہاد خلیفہ و امیر المومنین وہابی خارجی ابوبکر البغدادی سلفی نے عراقی شہر موصل

Ahmadiyya persecution in Pakistan – by Khaled Ahmed:     On May 27, this appeared on the front page of the Pakistani daily, Dawn: “Gunmen shot dead a doctor from the minority Ahmadi community in Chenab Nagar town in Punjab. Mehdi Ali, a 50-year-old heart surgeon from

ISIS: Ankara’s spoiled child? – by Mahir Zeynalov:   It was Dec. 25, 2013. A week after a major raid against suspects implicated in a corruption investigation in Turkey, including the sons of three ministers and pro-government businessmen, prosecutors ordered another wave of raids. Police chiefs appointed

US prepares for talks with Iran to stop Iraq militants, says official:   Volunteers to fight Wahabi militants gather in the streets in Al-Fdhiliya district, eastern Baghdad on Sunday. Photograph: Thaier Al-sudani/Reuters The United States is preparing to open a direct dialogue with Iran about how to deal with the Sunni

Anti-al-Qaeda Sunni Group Backs Iraq’s Shiite Government – by Zaid Sabah and Caroline Alexander:   A key Sunni Muslim tribal leader said his forces are helping Iraq’s Shiite-led government battle Islamist militants and called for urgent U.S. military intervention to help stop their advance. “We’ve been fighting al-Qaeda in Anbar for the past

Well Orchestrated Muslim Holocaust in the Middle East – by Hasan Rana: Iran is backing Assad in Syria, Gulf states are against Assad! Assad is against Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood and Obama are against General Sisi. But Gulf states are pro-Sisi. Which means they are against Muslim Brotherhood! Iran is pro-Hamas,

Different Salafi movements and the growth of ISIL in Iraq:     Turkish intellectuals are largely ignorant about the new threat that is bordering Turkey. The so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is still an unknown entity for Turks. We have been hearing comments declaring that

Survival of the plural: A singular identity breeds violence – by Khaled Ahmed:       An article in a Lahore Urdu monthly, Naya Zamana, of May 2014 by a friendly writer, Ubaidullah Ubaid — using a naming technique of the Taliban when they threaten someone with assassination — has upbraided me

Revolution in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? – by Bruce Riedel:     The overthrow of the Saudi royals is finally a possibility. In an excerpt from a new Brookings Institution briefing book for Obama’s second term, Bruce Riedel on what a catastrophe it would be for Obama. Saudi Arabia

Shia genocide by Deobandis in Pakistan and the Lucknow connection – by Khaled Ahmed: It may shock many Indians to know that the massacre of the Shia in Pakistan since 2002 has been caused by edicts of apostatisation issued by a Deobandi madrasa of Lucknow. Deobandi is a sub-sect of Sunni Islam which

Nationalists and Terrorists in Cahoots?: Here is a Facebook Status Update by our contributor AZ : Though it makes for surreal reading, it is a harsh reality that today Baluch Nationalists are as much in cahoots with the LeJ and other sectarian killers as