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Pity the Nation which gives preference to the Constitution and law and NOT to the poetic license of our democratically elected judiciary. Pity the Nation which critisizes the Chief Justice for  recieving an award from an organization of which he is a current Vice President of Pity the Nation whose journalists and scientists like Hoodbhoy [...]

12 May 2012: Ghotki (border of Sindh and Saraikistan)- Millions of Pakistanis (estimated to be two millions) belonging to Sindh, Sarikistan, Punjab, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit Baltistan and other areas of Pakistan gathered in Ghotki, Sindh, to express their support for democracy, in particular for the Pakistan Peoples Party and its [...]

Author: Realistic Voice Although our history is full of many embarrassing moments which bow our heads down as a nation, but there are TWO such disgraceful incidents that have thrown us into the depths of humiliation. No. 1 when an Ex-Prime Minister, Muhammad Khan Junejo, was toppled down as soon as he landed from a successful visit of [...]

ON the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death last week, Pakistanwas the only Muslim country in which hundreds of demonstrators gathered to show solidarity with the dead terrorist figurehead. Yet rather than asking tough questions about how Bin Laden had managed to live unmolested in Pakistan for years, the Pakistani Supreme Court instead [...]

According to media reports, the International Council of Jurists (ICJP) has conferred the "prestigious" International Jurists Award, 2012 on Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, in recognition of his contributions to the administration of justice. The award ceremony is scheduled to be held in London on May 28th in which the award [...]

Editor's note: LUBP editors have taken a lead since 2008 in clearly highlighting and condemning the Shia genocide taking place in Pakistan at the hands of Jihadi-sectarian militants, some of whom are also supported by Pakistan's military establishment. In fact since 2008, we have been maintaining an extensive database on Shia genocide which is [...]

Source: WSF "Intelligence failure" is the most easily available excuse for the government in Pakistan following the daring Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba jailbreak in the northern city of Bannu early on April 15. However, more than intelligence failure, the jailbreak appears to be an outcome of a well-planned drama by Pakistani security agencies, [...]

Related post: LUBP being bullied by Pakistan’s “liberal” elite for its coverage of Shia genocide Editor's note: Our friend Raza Rumi (editor of Pak Tea House blog and The Friday Times) has published a critical post on LUBP and its editors . We are not averse to criticism and are pleased to cross-post his article from Pak Tea House without [...]

LUBP offers sincerest condolences on the untimely death of Bashir Khan Qureshi, the chairman of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM). Qureshi was the leader of the JSQM-Qureshi, a nationalist party that came into existence after a split in the Jeay Sindh Tehreek (JST), which struggled after the death of JST founder GM Syed. Born on August 10, [...]

On 3 April-2012, at least 100 Shia Muslims were killed and over 250 abducted in Chilas area of Gilgit-Baltistan when a mob of 2000 Deobandi-Jihadi militants of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaast) stopped several buses on the Karakoram Highway near Chilas, pulled out the passengers, checked their identity documents and physical marks [...]

Related posts: We condemn brutal murder of Sunni Barelvi scholar in Quetta Attack on Sunni Barelvis Yesterday a religious scholar was martyred in Sariab Area of Quetta. Maulana Mohammad Qasim Sasoli was on his way to mosque, to lead Friday prayers when unknown terrorists shot him with multiple bullets and fled the scene. This is not the [...]

On 30 March 2012 a well-known and much loved Ahmadi Muslim, Mr Master Abdul Qudoos Ahmad (43), died after succumbing to injuries inflicted during brutal torture by local police in Rabwah, Pakistan. He was a well known government school teacher in education department. Mr Master Abdul Qudoos Ahmad was the President of the Nusrat Abad chapter of the [...]

We are saddened to learn that Jihadi-sectarian terrorists have killed a Sunni Barelvi scholar, Balochistan chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan in a firing incident on Saryab Road in Quetta on Friday 6 Apri 2012. The JUP chief, identified as Maulana Muhammad Qasim, was also the Khateeb of Jamia Masjid Noorani. He was on his was to lead Friday [...]

Related posts: Congratulations on Chilas victory – by Riaz Malik What exactly happened with Shia passengers in Chilas? – by Ali Raza What happened in Chilas: An interview with a Skardu-based educationalist – by Nakvisson On Tuesday, 3 April 2012, at least six passenger buses were stopped by Al Qaeda affiliated Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat [...]

Not unlike other areas of Pakistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) has  suffered numerous incidents of anti-Shia violence in the last few months. In the recent wave of anti-Shia violence by Jihadi-Deobandi militant group Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaast (ASWJ), so far at least 26 lives have been lost, most of them Shias abut also a few ASWJ-SSP militants, and [...]

Editor's note: We are cross-posting a thought provoking piece by Dr. Farrukh Saleem on the current wave of violence and target killings in Karachi. Notwithstanding our political, ethnic or religious affiliations, it is evident that Pakistan government (federal and provincial governments) as well as Pakistani state (security agencies (army and its [...]

It is now increasingly evident that Pakistan's military establishment has successfully infiltrated the emerging Shia political party, Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM). In the last few months, Pakistan army, ISI in particular, became nervous due to increasing awareness in Shia Muslims about the ISI and other agencies' complicit role in Shia [...]

Fakhra Younus, an acid-attack victim, committed suicide less than a month ago – a horrid crime leading to a murder. Not many would be uninformed about the incident and unaware of the woman herself; for, it received heavy media attention followed by prolonged criticism and condemnation by different segments of the society. The subject of the [...]

A report in today’s issue of the Express Tribune reads, in part, as follows: “When students appearing for the compulsory Urdu paper in Lahore on Wednesday morning turned to the multiple-choice section, they were in for some surprises. One question asked: Who is responsible for Pakistan’s security? Options were: God, Zardari, Gilani [...]

 پاکستان کا بلوچستان سے زبردستی کا رشتہ ایک دفعہ تاتاریوں کے سردار چنگیز خان سے کسی نے پوچھا "اے خان تاتارتو نے کبھی کسی پہ رحم کیا ہے ؟ ہاں ! چنگیز خان نے جواب دیا . "ایک دن میں گھوڑے پر سوار نیزہ [...]

ام الاخبائث سوچ کو شکست دینا ہوگی تحریر: امام بخش ۱۹۵۲ سے لے کر آج تک ھماری فوجی قیادت ہمیشہ سے سمجھتی آئی ہے کہ پاکستان میں ہر چیز اس کے تابع ہونی چاہیےاور ملک کے ہر معاملے میں صرف اس کی گرفت [...]

Today the Baloch nation is observing black day to mark its annexation to Pakistan. For me it is not a black day it is a day I want to celebrate. I want to celebrate because it gave me the occasion to grow up with these lovely people known as the Baloch. I want to celebrate my Baloch friends, my Baloch students, my Baloch relatives and many of them [...]

LUBP offers condolences to the family of noted Sufi singer Iqbal Bahu and millions of his fans in South Asia and other parts of the world. In the current era of state sponsored violence against Sufi (Barelvi) and other non-Salafi, non-Deobandi Muslims and systematic propaganda against internal heterogeneity of Muslims by Salafi-Deobandi preachers [...]

Related posts: Sunni genocide in Pakistan Attack on Shrines Often, when we highlight the ongoing and systematic massacres of Shia Muslims taking place in Pakistan, we are asked not only by right-wing activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, Sipah-e-Sahaba, PML-N and and PTI (of Imran Khan) but also by seemingly liberal and progressive colleagues, "why [...]

Related post: HRCP’s dark humour on Shia massacre in Kohistan VFBMP condemns the report of HRCP, figures listed are not accurate – Abdul Qadeer Baloch Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VFBMP) has condemned the misrepresenting report of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan about the Baloch Missing Persons and victims of Pakistan army's [...]

My mother can never forget the gloomy day of 10th of Muharram in the year 1963 when the dead body of her brother was brought home. He was among the hundreds of Shia Muslims slaughtered while commemorating Ashura in Theri, a suburb of Khairpur, Pakistan. Suicide bomb attacks not having been introduced back then, the perpetrators made use of axes [...]

Despite the propagation of urban legend in ill-informed, ill-advised Western media, the attack on a Shia Muslim mosque in Burssels, in which a prayer leader (Imam) Sheikh Abdallah Dadou was killed and various copies of the holy Quran burnt, was not carried out by a Sunni Muslim. It is a much ignored fact that despite some minor ideological and [...]

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan are the Axis of Evil in the Middle East. U.S. President George W. Bush coined the term "Axis of Evil" when refering to North Korea, Iran, and Iraq in his 2002 State of the Union Address. There are reasons to believe that like several of his strategic blunders (e.g., reliance on Pakistan army to neutralize the Al [...]

Related post: Good riddance, General Pasha! Stop it, General Kayani – by Lala Jie ہیں کواکب کچھ نظر آتے ہیں کچھ ...جرگہ…سلیم صافی اپنی صحافتی زندگی کے مشاہدات کا تونچوڑ یہی ہے کہ اس ملک میں ”ہیں کواکب کچھ نظرآتے ہیں کچھ“۔ [...]

Sobho Gianchandani  (born 1920) in Larkana), is a leading Pakistani Sindhi social scientist, and revolutionary writer. At age 91, Comrade Sobho Gianchandani is one of the oldest living communists in the subcontinent. He has seen it all, done it all – and still believes that communism will return to the world in a big way. In this wide-ranging [...]

Recently I read two excellent articles on the systematic murder of Shia Muslims in Pakistan, by Marvi Sirmed (in Daily Times, 5 March 2012) and Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy (in Express Tribune, 4 March 2012). While I laud the honest and bold highlighting of Shia genocide (and persecution of other oppressed groups) in Pakistan by the two authors, one [...]

Eighteen bloodied bodies, shot Gestapo-style, lay by the roadside. Men in army uniforms had stopped four buses bound from Rawalpindi to Gilgit, demanding that all 117 persons on board alight.Those with Shia sounding names on their national identification cards were separated out. Minutes later it was all over; the earlier massacres of Hazara [...]

More kicks than half pence! — by Marvi Sirmed Probably the engineers of these dozens of sipahs and lashkars and jamaats did not realise that it might not be just Indians or Afghans at the receiving end of violence always. They could not foresee that the madness they were instilling in their trainees for jihad in Afghanistan and Kashmir [...]

Related posts: Four types of lesser Muslims of Pakistan Sunni Muslims reject Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan In defense of our Salafi (Ahl-e-Hadith) brothers and sisters Do not ignore the distinction between Deobandi jihadis and Salafi (wahhabi) jihadis in Pakistan Salafi cannon fodder: ISI’s jihad in Kashmir through JuD/LeT There are [...]

In a recent article highlighting refined tactics of urban elite affiliates of Pakistan army, Sarah Khan writes: Traditionally lifestyle liberals in Pakistan use an 80-20 mixture formula, i.e., they inject the 20% pro-military establishment discourses within the 80% objective facts or neutral assessments in their articles. Of course we agree [...]

First, my deep anguish and pain at the wanton and repeated killings of our Shia brothers and sisters and children across the length and breadth of our poor and blighted country: from Mastung to Parachinar, to Karachi to Kohistan to Khanpur to Dera Ismail Khan. What has happened to this country that we knew to be such a different place; with [...]

We welcome PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's statement and await actual steps towards safety of Shia Muslims and other persecuted and target killed communities of Pakistan: Sindh Minorities Minister Dr Mohan Lal calls on Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari KARACHI, Mar 1 (APP): Sindh Minister for Minorities Dr. Mohan Lal Kohistani on [...]

Cyril Almeida's column on Balochistan (Balochistan, the unattributable story, Dawn, 26 Feb 2012) is an example of how Pakistan's military establishment manufactures confusion and obfuscation through friendly journalists. The column is an example of how false neutrality and contrarian views are used to obfuscate military state's atrocities [...]

Related posts: Media blackout The blackout of news from and about Balochistan is now being viewed as an integral part of the broader conflict — as if the media is responsible for the ignorance of the rest of the country about the province The previously overlooked fury in Balochistan against the mainstream media has gradually transformed [...]

Editor's note: Departing from collective silence in Pakistan's mainstream media, Daily Times is the only outlet in English and Urdu media which has published at least two articles highlighting the 17 Feb 2012 Shia massacre in Parachinar in which 47 Shias Muslims were massacred; at least 12 of them were killed by live firing by Pakistan's [...]