Original Articles Archive
Hujr bin Adi’s grave’s desecration: Flowers of treasured heritage, plucked in ‘Spring’ – by Xain Gardezi: Spring usually is a long awaited and pleasant affair. After the brisk autumn and a long winter which dampens the moods, spring promises to bring blossoms, not only to the gardens but for the faces as well. That is
#PakVote 2013: An analysis of PPP’s manifesto – by Adil Hoodbhoy: Roti, kapra aur makaan Ilm, sehat sab ko kaam Dehshat sai mehfooz awam Ooncha ho jamhur ka naam The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) manifesto (PDF here: manifesto2013) correctly identifies the country’s significant youth population as the major driver for
Pakistan Elections 2013: Let the games begin – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi: For the last five years, the most hated political party in Pakistan, according to the paid media, children of General Zia ul Haq and Bhutto haters went along with their mantra of “Corruption, Bad Governance and destruction of Pakistan”
Senator Rehman Malik exposes corruption by Sharif Brothers: Senator Rehman Malik’s press conference on Sharif Brothers and corruption/Money laundering. [youtube id=”CyhN5rjGmy8″] LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader, Rehman Malik on Monday exposed modus operandi of corruption how Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif’s family multipled their wealth. Mr.
A review of PPP government’s 5-year performance in Pakistan 2008-2013 – by Abdul Nishapuri: The present post is based on various media reports, independent analyses and also official report published by Pakistan Peoples Party (released in March 2013) that offers an overview of the party’s five year performance, highlighting major achievements during 2008-2013
آزاد عدلیہ – آزاد دہشت گرد – از حق گو: Andha Qanoon اندھا قانون by f757563946 عدالت کا لفظ کسی زمانے میں عدل کی پہچان ہوا کرتا تھا ، مگر پاکستان میں عدالت پہلے پہل تو خاکی وردی والوں کی رکھیل کے طور پر کام کرتی رہی اور جب
الیکشن 2013 – جھنگ میں سنی اور شیعہ مسلمان سپاہ صحابہ کے تکفیری دہشت گردوں کے خلاف شیخ وقاص اکرم کی قیادت میں متحد ہیں – از حق گو: جھنگ کا علاقہ شیعہ، تکفیری دیوبندی تعلقات کے حوالے سے تلخ یادوں بھرا ماضی رکھتا ہے ، جھنگ ان دونوں فرقوں کے درمیان کشیدہ حالات اور فسادات کے حوالے سے پاکستان بھر میں مشہور ہے سپاہ صحابہ ہو لشکر
Naya Pakistan? Balla bashing of senior journalist Quatrina Hosain – by Maryam Sadiq: We need a ‘Naya WORLD’. Without intolerance, cowardice and deceit. Without war and greed and avarice. Without violence against any innocents anywhere. WITH respect for women and girls. However IK’s ‘balla’ seems to have missed it’s ‘mark’. When a
Nawaz League in League with the LeJ: party ticket awarded to a convited murderer and terrorist – by A Z: Reading today’s press, I came across a piece from the renowned journalist Amir Mir that makes for extremely difficult reading. This piece resonates emphatically with my previous accounts and analyses of how these elections are conducing to facilitate admittance
RIP Abbas Ather: Your progressive voice will be missed amidst retrogressive landscape of Pakistani media: Lahore (5 May 2013): Renowned veteran journalist and Group Editor of Urdu daily Express Abbas Ather has expired after long ailment in Lahore. Syed Abbas Athar was suffering from cancer ailment from a long time and hospitalized in CMH
Keep calm and vote anti-Taliban – Ale Natiq: Taliban target secular parties in Pakistan Mohammed Hanif explains how Taliban and affiliated Takfiris are try to affect the results of elections through systematic attacks on secular parties. In the same talk, he clearly mentions Sipah Sahaba ( (aka ASWJ/LEJ) heinous
The smaller infinites of our thoughts – Qurat ul ain Haider Zaidi: Tweets and Facebook posts; thank god instagram is still away from all this shorbazi which seem quite interesting now a days.On one hand, the Young blood is doing a good job in front of computers/laptops and on the other
Trust me it’s our war! – by Danish Kazi: Today when I started to write this piece . I wanted to seek inspiration as everyone now speak about Elections, why Imran Khan may or not win? , why Nawaz Sharif is under threat? and a few speaking about
Elections 2013: PML-N’s alliance with banned terrorist group Sipah Sahaba in Islamabad and Rahim Yar Khan: Islamabad and Rahimyar Khan: Worried by the potential for an upset defeat, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidates in various constituencies in Pakistan, particularly in Punjab province, are joining hands with pro-Al Qaeda banned terrorist outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba (aka Ahle Sunnat
Exposed: PPP’s Qamar Kaira’s secret meeting with terrorist Sipah Sahaba leader Molvi Nisar Deobandi: PPP’s central leader and former federal minister for information Qamar Zaman Kaira held a secret meeting with local head of banned terrorist outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba (aka Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat or Lashkar-e-Jhangvi) in order to beg for votes for a
Pakistan Elections 2013: Predictive Results – by Abdul Nishapuri: Pakistan’s general election on 11 May 2013 will mark the first time a democratically elected government in the country has been succeeded by another. Since independence from Britain in 1947, civilian rule has been repeatedly overturned by military coups,
To ‘Khan’ or not to ‘Khan’?: The Election Dilemma – by A Z: Imran Khan is an institution of cricket. Not just because of his extraordinary prowess as a player but also because of his excellence as a leader of men on the field. After retiring from cricket, he did some tremendous
The Fight Must Go on – by Waseem Altaf: May 3, 2013, Chaudhary Zulfiqar, the public prosecutor in Benazir murder case was shot dead by unknown gunmen while he was on his way to the court. He had vital information. A message was conveyed to the conscientious. May
Election Commission and Lahore High Court must not favour corrupt Sharif brothers of PML-N – by Ali Asad: An advertisement being shown on TV channels with former Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif asking a Judge Malik Malik Qayum to spare an MNA of PML-N on behalf of the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif has been banned by the
Najam Sethi and Raza Rumi launch a vicious propaganda campaign against LUBP: Owner (Najam Sethi) and editor (Raza Rumi) of The Friday Times (TFT) have deputed a TFT columnist Mohammad Shehazad to launch a vicious propaganda campaign against LUBP, an independent Pakistani blog known for providing non-mainstream reflections on issues of
شام میں وہابی دہشت گردوں نے عظیم صحابی رسول حضرت حجر بن عدی کی قبر کھود کر جسد مبارک اغوا کر لیا: شام میں سعودی عرب اور امریکہ کے حمایت یافتہ وہابی دیوبندی دہشت گردوں نے جلیل القدر صحابی رسول (صلی الله علیہ والہ وسلم) حضرت حجر بن عدی رضی الله تعالیٰ عنہ کی قبر مبرک کی بے حرمتی کی اور
ہم جو تاریک راہوں میں مارے جایں گے – از شمع جونیجو: لگتا ہے ارزاں جسموں کی ایک فصل ہے جو کے کٹ کے ہی نہیں رہ رہی. ہم گو کے لاشیں اٹھا اٹھا کے تھک گئے ہیں لیکن وہ تازہ دم ہیں.. ابھی مزید لاشیں ملیں گی، مزید دھماکے ہونگے.
Imran Khan to Ahmadis: ‘I want your votes, not your dirty name’: In a press release published on PTI’s official website, Imran Khan has unabashedly chickened out in wake of criticism from Mullahs and right-wing parties and not only distanced himself from Ahmadiyya Muslims (an off-shoot of Sunni Islam) but also
PMLN-SCP-ASWJ i.e. Nawaz, Iftikhar, Ludhianvi alliance remains intact: Anybody saying it’s ‘fake’ should know that based on this evidence the SCP overturned a LHC decision and acquitted Benazir Bhutto and Asif Asif Zardari, famously stating that the “bias is floating on the surface of the decision.” Resultantly
شیعہ ہزارہ کے قتل عام میں ایک عرب ملک ملوث ہے، مولانا محمد شیرانی -از اسلام ٹائمز: Islam times: Chief of Islamic Ideology Council Molana Sherani said that the Shia Hazara Genocide is backed by a US sponsored Arab nation. All politicians know about this but are afraid to speak. اسلام ٹائمز: چیئرمین اسلامی نظریاتی کونسل
ASWJ/LEJ (Sipah Sahaba) is the political face of Taliban – by Ejaz Haider: Editor’s note: LUBP commends Ejaz Haider for clearly stating that ASWJ (aka Sipah Sahaba or Lashkar-e-Jhangvi) is the political face of Pakistani Taliban (TTP). However, we also noted that as usual Ejaz Haider has declined to mention their true
طاہر اشرفی نے لال مسجد آپریشن میں وفاق المدارس کے دیوبندی علما کے دوغلے کردار کو بے نقاب کر دیا – از حق گو: لال مسجد آپرشن کے حوالے سے مولانا طاہر اشرفی کی ایک وڈیو ابھی کچھ دن پہلے ہی منظر عام پر آی ہے جس میں موصوف نے کافی جرات و صاف گوئی سے کام لیتے ہوے لال مسجد آپرشن میں
Elections 2013: An analysis of PB-2 provincial seat in Quetta – by Khan Mohammad: The April 23 bomb blast was another reminder for the Shia Hazara residents of Alamdar Road that security and peace is a distant dream. After two months of tense calm, the blast shattered all the hopes of peace for
Labour rights and Election 2013: Pakistan is one of the largest countries with respect to its labour force. More than 40% of labour force belongs to agriculture, around 20% in industry and rest to other services. It is a shame that farmers, fishermen, ordinary
Saudi-sponsored ISI using Takfiri Deobandi militants to hijack Pakistan elections: PPP, ANP and MQM’s press conference: KARACHI (30 April 2013): The political parties, which are being targeted by the Pakistani Taliban for having ‘secular views,’ late on Tuesday (30 April) said the coming May 11 polls are being hijacked by “local and international establishment,” DawnNews
Free fair and impartial elections 2013: It is clear as sunlight that for the banned extremist outfit Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the next best thing to eliminate Democracy or what they call “kufr ka nizam” is to throw their full illegal militant weight behind
PMLN’s shameless shenanigans continue nevertheless – by Sadiq Ameen: A lot has been written on this forum condemning the mainstream parties’ collaboration with the extremists in the forthcoming elections. We have also explained how these elections have paved the way for the extremists in the mainstream politics. Having
LUBP lauds Mufti Gulzar Naeemi’s brave stand against the Takfiri Deobandis – by Mahpara Qalander: The head of Jamea Naeemia Mufti Naeemi has come out with a brave stand against the Takfiri Deobandis who in his words “spill innocent blood in lieu of dollars and Saudi riyals”. In his interview which was published by
Al-Qaeda, TTP, and LeJ: A Medieval Orchestra of ‘Danse Macabre’ – by A Z: I write this as a memoriam to those who have lost their lives to the reprehensible acts of terrorism. I write this in compassion with the numerous families who have lost dear ones and bread winners as a result
Iran uses Hazara settlers in demographic war to turn the Baloch into a minority in their own land – by Tarek Fatah: LUBP Editor’s note: We don’t agree with the blatantly racist, insensitive and non-factual remarks by Tarek Fathah who is obfuscating systematic country-wide Shia genocide and blaming Pakistan’s most target killed community (Shia Hazaras of Balochistan) instead of identifying and
The inspiration behind PTI’s Hum Dekhain Gay – by Riaz Malik Al Hajjaji: My Dear Mummy Daddy Khanistas, May 11 is approaching faster than the latest intellectual nugget to emerge from Dr. Shahid Bin Al-Masood Al-Haq. Are you as energized as me after seeing PTI’s advertisement “Hum Dekhain Gay”? Here’s a link
اسان ڪنهن کي منتخب ڪيون؟ شاهد شاه: هاڻوڪي ڏينهن ۾ جتي هڪ طرف مون جهڙا وائٽ ڪالر مڊل ڪلاسي ايئرڪنڊيشن ڪمرن ۾ ويهي هن سوال تي ٻڏتر جو شڪار آهن ته11 مئي تي جيڪڏهن اليڪشن ٿيا ته پولنگ بوٿ تي وڃي مهر ڪهڙي
تبلیغی اجتماع یا اجتماعی فرار – از وسیم الطاف: راولپنڈی اور اسلام آباد کے سنگم پہ واقع کیرج فیکٹری کے قریب ایک کھلی جگہ پہ آج تبلیغی جماعت کا سہ روزہ اجتماع آخری دعا کے ساتھ اختتام پذیر ہوا جس میں امت مسلمہ کی سربلندی اور یہود و
No surrender: PPP, MQM, ANP show unity against Taliban and affiliated Takfiri terrorists: Karachi (29 April 2013): The three centre-left political parties part of the previous federal coalition government, namely the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Awami National Party (ANP), vowed to fight terror and brave targeted attacks by
Tahir Ashrafi is a moderate and progressive cleric but a sinister campaign was launched to delegitimize him – by Raza Rumi: Raza Rumi writes: “It is time to engage with clerics like Tahir Ashrafi and get them to join the struggle for a moderate and progressive Pakistan. Maulana Tahir Ashrafi, Chairman of Pakistan Ulema Council (an apex body of country