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Supreme Court’s Karachi verdict Abbas Zaidi No individual, party, or group (excepting Jamaat-e-Islami) has tried to read deeper into the Supreme Court’s verdict on Karachi’s law and order problem. It seems politically correct to shower praise on the verdict and express the desire to implement the guidelines given therein. The verdict, [...]

Until the beginning of the 8th century CE, Baltistan was a country inhabited by the Indo-European Shin tribe. This was a time when the superpowers of the region were China and Tibet, both vying for supremacy in High Asia. Only shortly before, the Chinese had ousted the Tibetans from what is now the Chinese province of Xinjiang. But then the [...]

As the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) predicts more monsoon rains in the coming days, low caste Hindus in Sindh’s flood affected areas face discrimination when it comes to getting relief, says a report released by Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission. The worst victims of rains and breaches in a monsoon-swollen Left Bank [...]

By Manzoor Ali PESHAWAR: Taliban insurgents ambushed a school bus on Tuesday, killing four pupils and the driver in a hail of bullets and rocket fire in Peshawar’s suburban Mattani area. Another 18 people, including four children, two of them seven-year-old girls, were also wounded in the attack. The children studied at Khyber Model School [...]

LAHORE: The Pakistan Army on Monday confirmed the arrest of a serving Major in Pakistan Railway’s (PR) copper stealing scam. PR authorities said a train with copper wire was sent from Khanewal to Lahore where the wire was to be stored at Mughalpura Workshop, however the train, was sent to Kharian where the copper wire worth millions of rupees [...]

US says King Abdullah older than previously assumed, was still using Viagra at age 92 Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah was still using Viagra pills at the grand old age of 92, according to a classified US State Department document published by WikiLeaks this week. According to a telegram sent from the American embassy in Riyadh on July [...]

By Omar Khattab in Lahore Nadia Khan, Pakistan’s dirtiest bimbo is the latest addition If you were a human being with a modicum of decency and compassion, the 10th of Muharram which fell on the 28th of December 2008, left you very, very sad. It was on this fateful day that Saudi Arabia’s Wahabi-Deobandi-ISI hatchet men blew up the main [...]

And what to do? By Omar Khattab in Lahore Immediately after the suicide bomber struck the Hazara Shia worshippers in the mosque in Quetta this morning, the highly partisan channels of Pakistan, especially GEO and ARY, relayed “Breaking News” by claiming that the attack took place in a market. Once again falsehood replaced facts. The [...]

Saleem Shahzad's family should nominate General Kiyani and General Pasha as prime suspects Yesterday the representative of the Pakistan Human Rights Commission said that Saleem Shahzad was in the custody of the ISI. He added: “The ISI is the major human rights abuser in Pakistan and it frequently keeps abusing and torturing those journalists [...]

Related article: Chief Justice Ijaz Chaudhry: The new monkey in Lahore Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry has been an active member of Jamaat-e-Islami By Omar Khattab in Lahore former CPO Saud Aziz and former SP Rawal Town Khurram Shahzad helped the military establishment in covering up BB's murder The Lahore High Court headed by its boss [...]

Related articles: How to kill the Shia snake: Letter from brother Abdullah – by Hakim Hazik Recruitment of Bahrain National Guards in Lahore to kill Shia protesters in Bahrain Zardari’s was elected by popular vote, not by anti-democratic forces By Omar Khattab in Islamabad When on 27 March Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul [...]

Related articles: LUBP Archive on Justice Deedar Shah Contempt Notices But Only Against PPP-P and People of Sindh – by Abbas Bhutto Shameless arrogance of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry et al By Omar Khattab in Islamabad God hurled Iblis/Lucifer to the earth because of his extreme arrogance. But who can take care of the Lucifer [...]

Related articles: LUBP Archive on Bahrain Saudi Arabia’s army enters Bahrain to crush pro-democracy protesters Wahhabism: The heart of darkness By Omar Khattab It is not the first time that the Shias of Bahrain have been subjected to untold miseries. However, it is for the first time that it appears that the ruling royal family of [...]

Related articles: A tale of two Pakistani girls which remains hidden in other more important news No Place for Ahmadi Body in a Muslim graveyard LUBP Archive on Hindu (tag) THERE is no end to the injustices suffered by Pakistan`s minority communities because of the regressive thinking of many among the dominant religious group. As the [...]

By Ayesha Siddiqua Agha One was always concerned about President Asif Ali Zardari’s rule but never expected that it would get so bad that even King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia would remark that Pakistan’s president was leading the country to disaster. If a monarchical state, which oppresses its people, refuses to do justice and is [...]

By Omar Khattab in Islamabad A couple of days before, a Multan-based lawyer filed a case in a court alleging that a detergent powder TV advertisement insults Caliph Omar. In this advertisement, there are two characters: one little boy names Omar and his grandmother. The grandmother searches for Omar who is shown to be a clever boy. The boy is [...]

Kurram has had to run the gauntlet of the first TTP chief, Baitullah Mehsud, who sent his Waziristan lashkar there under the blood-thirsty Qari Hussain in 2007. According to a report published in a newspaper on November 30, the government has allowed a very dubious meeting between the elders of the Kurram Agency, members of the outlawed [...]

Related articles: King Abdullah, the great-grandson of Abu Jahl – by Omar Khattab A Lesson in media manipulation – by Eqbal Alavi Saudi Arabia without King Abdullah – by Hassan Hanizadeh The role of Saudi Arabia in the religious extremism - by Arshad Mahmood It was never really a secret that Saudi Arabia did not like [...]

Even in the intensely divided and zero-tolerance society of Pakistan, we do have a consensus on something. If you ask a man in the street what the cure to Pakistan’s problems is, the invariable answer is: a messiah. We need a Pakistani Ayatollah Khomeini who can rid us of the immoral, the corrupt, the inept and the unpatriotic leaders who have [...]

Wikileaks have made it clear what the world already knew: That King Abdullah, the notorious womanizer-cum-custodian of the Ka’aba carries on the work of King Fahad the boozer who, in turn, continued the task which was initiated by the ancestor of the House of Saud. This unenviable task is to create mischief in the world. The Prophet Muhammad [...]

Courtesy ARY Channel (All breaking news items) 1. Today the President of the ARY channel Dr Shahid Masood visited (dora kia) the flood-affected areas of the Muzaffargarh district. He expressed complete dissatisfaction with the Zardari government’s relief efforts (What about the Sharif government?) 2. The President of the ARY channel Dr [...]

By Omar Khattab On 17 July a convoy of Shias was attacked by the Taliban who used rockets and automatic weapons and cut down killing 18 including women and children. The most significant part of the attack is not the murder of the Shias, which has become a routine in Pakistan. The point to consider is that the Shia convoy was being escorted [...]

By Omar Khattab On 17 July a convoy of Shias left Peshawar for their hometown Parachinar. On the way near Charkhel, they were attacked by the Taliban. The Taliban used rockets and automatic weapons killing 18 including women and children Scores were injured, some seriously. Pakistan’s newspapers and dozens of channels only referred to [...]

17 July 2010 By Omar Khattab in Lahore Everyone know that the Punjab’s government’s “action” against the terrorists in the backdrop of the Data Sahib bombing is as bogus as the Pak Fauj’s action against the Taliban in the Northern Areas including Swat. The following is just one small example: Narang Mandi is not very far from [...]

What about thousands of Shia and Ahmedi Muslim families? By Omar Khattab in Islamabad Ali Raza was killed during the ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan. The government of Pakistan did well by bringing his body to Pakistan and then taking it to his hometown Shorkot where he was buried. That should have been the end of the matter. But things [...]

Is Qazi Anwar allowed to make such a statement while the case is sub judice? But Iftikhar Chaudhry will not punish him for judicial breach. Govt has no choice but to write for reopening Swiss cases: Qazi Updated at: 1925 PST, Saturday, June 12, 2010 SANGHAR: President SCBA Qazi Anwar has warned the establishment against being aggressive [...]

Every journalist knows Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman’s weakness, but none wants to talk about it. By Omar Khattab in Islamabad June is almost there. In 33 days July will come and the Jang Group will become even more desperate against its campaign to get President Zardari out of presidency through whatever means. Why has the Jang Group been [...]

For the past few weeks I have been watching different morning talk shows. Two days ago, I happened to watch one such show. The guest was a self-described mind sciences expert who has a PhD in mind sciences. Given the solutions offered by the mind scientist, it was overall a very funny show and I thought it could make anyone laugh for free till a [...]

When a chief justice provokes people to violence Lahore High Court’s Chief Justice has been provoking the lawyer community to take vigilante actions against Pakistan’s People’s Party (PPP) so that the democratically elected government is either sacked and the army returns to power, or new elections are held and somehow Nawaz Shiarif’s [...]

LUBP Exclusive The Rottweiler of Islamofascism is cannibalized by his own ilk By Omar Khattab in Islamabad Khalid Khawaj’s bullet-ridden body thrown onto a rubbish mound in Waziristan reminds one of William Shakespeare’s central theme in his tragedies: Evil is self-destructive. Khalid Khawaja was an extremely evil man who was one of [...]

Picture Source: Attack on a Shia funeral in D.I. Khan Yesterday, the LUBP posted an article about Malik Ishaq, a most dangerous terrorist of Sipah-e-Sahaba, who is about to be released by Shahbaz Sharif’s government. Previously we have pointed to the sinister affiliation between various members of the PML-N's government in Punjab, namely Rana [...]

Picture: Benazir Bhutto gazes towards a crowd of thousands of supporters at a campaign rally minutes before she was assassinated in a bomb attack December 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi The debate on the 18th Amendment is ISI’s smokescreen to hide its role in Benazir’s assassination By Omar Khattab in Islamabad Suddenly the media has swept [...]

Editorial: Tragedy in Kohat Kohat was struck with tragedy on Saturday as two suicide bombers attacked an IDP camp as a group of internally displaced persons (IDP) were waiting to get themselves registered and receive aid handouts. More than 40 people were killed, including a journalist, and dozens more injured. After the first suicide attack, a [...]

Premature warning Dawn Editorial, 18 Apr, 2010 Taken at face value, the comments made by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Friday simply restate a known legal approach: “Judiciary supervises a regime of the rule of law and not the rule of men”; the judiciary “has to prevent the arbitrary or illegal exercise of authority”; and the [...]

Arrested woman alleges being raped by Rangers * Uzma was caught carrying liquor at a picket near the Pak-India border * Medical examiner refusing to disclose whether Uzma was raped or not * Rangers SP claims woman was in police custody, denies rape allegations * SHO refutes claim, says Uzma was in police custody ‘only for a little [...]

Civil judges in Punjab rally against lawyer Dawn Report Saturday, 27 Mar, 2010 LAHORE, March 26: Judicial officers took to the streets on Friday in protest against slapping of a civil judge by a lawyer in Faisalabad earlier this week, highlighting tensions between the bench and the bar. The civil judges wearing black armbands marched from [...]

PM Gilani honours PPP tormentor Dawn Reporter Saturday, 27 Mar, 2010 ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani conferred the Nazria-i-Pakistan (posthumous) award on the late Lt-Gen Mujibur Rahman, one of Zia-era tormentors of the PPP. Gen Mujib was information secretary in the Zia regime and was accused of using his expertise in [...]

A quest for personal glory or strength of an institution? By Saeed Minhas ISLAMABAD: Preceded by kangaroo, jiyala and Dogar courts, the Chaudhry court is certainly the product of a months-long lawyers’ movement that shook not only the power corridors of the country, but also washed away several stigmas – such as the ‘doctrine of [...]

Nawaz wants CJ’s input in Rabbani panel’s proposals Tuesday, March 09, 2010 By Tariq Butt ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) Quaid Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has urged Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani to seek opinion and input of Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on the Raza Rabbani committee’s [...]

Iranians face terror threat in Pakistan KARACHI: The arrest of Jundullah chief Abdolmalek Rigi by the Iranian government has raised the risk of attacks on Iranian nationals and installations including the embassy and consulates in Pakistan, as the militant group might retaliate, Daily Times has learnt through sources privy to the matter. The [...]