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Source: Pakistan Blogzine Related posts: Sipah-e-Sahaba's attacks on Sunni Barelvis Sipah-e-Sahab Pakistan (SSP, currently camouflaged as Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ASWJ) is a banned extremist organization. Comprising radicalised Jihadi-sectarian assets of Pakistan army, the SSP-SWJ represents a tiny minority of the Deobandi sub-sect of Sunni [...]

Multiple attacks have been reported on 5 February 2012 on the Eid Milad-un-Nabi (12 Rabi-ul-Awal) processions in various cities in Pakistan including Mansehra, Gujranwala, Gojar Khan, Mirpur, Khairpur and Karachi. Eid Milad-un-Nabi (birthday of the Prophet Muhammad pbub) is celebrated all over the world not only by Sunnis, Shias and Ahmadis but [...]

Setting the record straight about the whitewash in the desert Today, in the exotic desert setting of Dubai, Pakistan completed a much awaited 3-0 whitewash of England, presently the first-ranked Test team in the world. This historical win is certainly the icing on the cake after Pakistan’s two earlier Test victories in the ongoing 2012 [...]

I was always weak in mathematics. Numbers were never my forte and hence, I remained a not so bright student. Work wise, I play with numbers and like analyzing them. I wonder, if I had a better grip on elementary maths, maybe, I would have been more strong academically. Pakistan's apex investigative journalist, Ansar Abbasi has leased the front [...]

Editor's note: Here is an archive of articles and news items on acquittals of convicts in cases of terrorism in Pakistan. The aim is to demonstrate that a number of factors (military establishment's influence on judges, prosecutors and police to protect its Jihadi-sectarian assets, terrorists' threats to judges, prosecutors and police officers, [...]

نصرت جاوید کا شمار شعلہ بیان اور مرثیہ خواں؛ قومی غیرت کے نام پر 'ریٹنگ، دولت اور شہرت کےپیچھے ہلکان ہونے والے' اینکرز میں نہیں ہوتا، بلکہ ان کا شماران دوچارصحافی حضرات میں ہوتا ہے، جو عقل [...]

Dear Muslim brothers and sisters  (This message is not intended for liberal fascist Rafzi-Sabai-Qadiani-Baloch RAW-ians) I want to share with you my continued education. I have now come to accept that in order for Pakistanto be Islamic Welfare State as envisioned by Hazrat Imran Khan, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Sunni Tehrik and other Patriotic [...]

غیرت بریگیڈ میں شامل ہونے کا آسان طریقہ نیچے دیے ہوئے الفاظ کو چھوٹی پرچی پر لکھ کر ایک ڈبے میں ڈالیں اور خوب ہلائیں - پھر آنکھیں بند کر کے ایک ایک کر کے ساری پرچیاں نکالیں اور پھر ان الفاظ کو آگے [...]

This post is in support to the Baloch Students’ call to shut down the Pakistani news channels and Pakistani Media’s consistent bias towards Balochistan. Balochistan is in the midst of a ferocious insurgency; the fourth of its kind against the injustices leveled against the people by the federal government and its associated agencies. In the [...]

Oh calm the heck down!!!! I am not using the M word, you know, the same word that can be used by killers, murderers, liars, cheaters, and by every type of "ghairatmand"  but Ahmadis (because all the “Real Muslims” agreed on this, do you really know more than our ulema???) And since they are not M******, they can’t be loyal Pakistanis, [...]

We have now spent considerable time in compiling and presenting a relatively comprehensive data on attacks on Shia Muslims in the first month of 2012. SUMMARY Total killed 58 Sindh 13 Balochistan 6 Punjab 36 KP 2 GB 1 FATA ? Total Injured 67 Sindh 5 Balochistan 0 Punjab 59 KP 2 GB 1 FATA ? Total attacks 32 Sindh 15 Balochistan 4 Punjab 7 KP [...]

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” – George Orwell (Animal Farm) The phrase is from George Orwell’s allegorical novella ‘Animal Farm’. A group of animals establishes a commune to safeguard the rights of animals proposing Seven Commandments. One of which reads: “All animals are equal”. Years [...]

I try my best not to read The News, as it is an anti government, pro-PML-N, pro-military and pro-CJ newspaper. Whenever I do, there is one reason or the other to write something about it. In The News, of 31st January, 2012, an advertisement in the form of an APPEAL addressed to "Before the Honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar [...]

جہاں میڈیا معاشرے کاایک آئینہ ہے، تو دوسری جانب یہ راۓ عامہ بنانے اور بگاڑنے کا سب سے بڑا زریعہ بھی ہے۔ ہمارے ہاں جو اجتمائ انسانی رویے اورسیاسی اقدار ہیں، ان کی تعمیرو تخریب میں میڈیا کا اہم [...]

From fanfare to fiasco It started with a bang with a petition in the Supreme Court 1st Dec 2011. It almost fizzled out with a whimper after proceedings today, 30 Jan 2012! Soon after this, I had a vision of arguably the greatest Urdu language poet, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1869). As per his wishes, I am sharing a famous ghazal he [...]

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former, said Albert Einstein. Have a doubt ? You can look up Imran Khan's latest interview in Davos to understand. 'There are human beings and then there are Pathans ' this was our great revolutionary has to say to international audience in 2011 Davos [...]

He was one and only, who won the noble prize for his country. But he also was the one whose country did not recognize him. He was the one on whose death, whole world of science mourned on this great loss. But he was also a man whose grave was defaced in the most barbaric and shameful way in his own country. He was the man for listening to whom, [...]

Article 295 of the constitution of Pakistan describes that "Whoever destroys, damages or defiles any place of worship, or any object held sacred by any class of persons with the intention of thereby insulting the religion of any class of persons or with the knowledge that any class of persons is likely to consider such destruction damage or [...]

“Army Chief sees deep conspiracy” screamed a banner headline in the Business Recorder of December 16, 2011 and I thought to my self - yes there is a deep conspiracy, just as there was a deep conspiracy in 1977 when the dormant FIR against the first elected Prime Minister of the country was revived and a trial was initiated and stage managed to [...]

It’s been a trend in Pakistani media to make headlines and breaking news on television that the Government is unstable and rumors of the imminent military coup are always floating around. The headlines and breaking news syndrome gained further hype when the opposition along with some other anti democratic entities were forced to acknowledge that [...]

Editor's note: LUBP urgently requests its readers to highlight the precarious situation of Ahmadi Muslims in the garrison city of Rawalpindi (Punjab). The bigotry that is consuming our society and placing Ahmadis, Christains and Shias in the firing line of Jihadis is a DIRECT result of the military establishment's support for radical militant [...]

By Naseer Ahmed

سپریم کورٹ کے تشکیل کردہ تحقیقاتی کمیشن نے ’میمو‘ اسکینڈل کے اہم گواہ منصور اعجاز کی طرف سے اُن کا بیان بیرون ملک ریکارڈ کرنے کی درخواست کو مسترد کرتے ہوئے اُن کو پاکستان آکر کمیشن کے سامنے [...]

Around 100 tragic deaths of heart patients have occured due to fake medicines provided by the Punjab Governments' PIC (Punjab Institute of Cardiolology). This is yet another blunder by chief minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif. Since three weeks, he was waiting for more death toll just like a monster, not much different from his slow-motion [...]

Related post: Pakistan’s military state enables further Shia killings in the name of Difa-e-Pakistan Six Shia Muslims were killed in Karachi and Quetta on Wednesday 25 January 2012 in the latest incidents of target killing of Shia Muslims in Pakistan. The six Shia professionals killed today included: 3 lawyers (in Karachi), 1 TV artist, 1 [...]

“The Pakistani nation has faced many challenges in the past and has always emerged strongly. This is due to the spirit of this nation as we unite in the hour of need to help our distressed brethren.” Does not this message seem as conveyed by a compassionate or dignitary person? Yes, the elder daughter of the martyr of democracy ‘Shaheed [...]

“I made mistakes and I am prepared to admit them but so must others. Others also owe it: they owe it to their own armed forces, to the people of Pakistan and to the Muslim world.” In one of her most candid interviews, Benazir Bhutto bluntly talks about her two terms in office, the difficulties that she faced, the things that she implemented [...]

Language seems to be taking one by the nerve, not just through communication medium, but by the rhetoric ensuing one's emotional dictum. Hate speech is the most subtle form of acceptance when we have internalised our judgemental fervour against a specific person/group or ideology that doesn't fundamentally conform to the mainstream unless, of [...]

“Benazir Lives”… I’ve always have heard this and possess an unyielding credence in these words. Nevertheless, as I turn up to gaze at the heavens in moments of obscurity, she is there to placate me and to grant me hope and direction. The instant, I see myself ripped by obstructions, she is there to give me valor and vigor. The empathy [...]

ملکوںاور تہذیبوں کی تاریخ انسانوں کی تاریخ ہوتی ہے۔ مگر پاکستان کی تاریخ قائداعظم سے لے کر اب جمہوری بحرانوں کی تاریخ ہے۔ جنرل ایوب خان سے جنرل یحیی سے جنرل ضیا الحق اورجنرل مشرف تک، بحرانوں کی [...]

حضرت ابن انشا نے تو عرصہ پہلے فرمایا تھا کہ 'سب مایا ہے '، ہم عموما بات سمجھنے میں وقت لگا دیتے ہیں لہٰذا بڑے عرصے دبدبا میں رہے کہ پتا نہیں کس کی بات کر رہے تھے. اترپر دیش میں اگر کوئی کہے کہ سب [...]

Related posts: Sipah-e-Sahaba will host ISI-backed Defence of Pakistan Conference on 29 Jan 2012 in Multan Imran Khan’s PTI joins banned terrorist groups in pro-army rally in Lahore Pakistan army outsources the Defence of Pakistan to Shia killers Pakistan's military establishment is currently busy in uniting and supporting [...]

We are cross-posting an old article published on BBC Urdu on 20 December 2009. Written by Wusatullah Khan, the following lines provide the crux of the article: بقولِ شیخ سعدی اصفہان کے بھیڑئیے سے اصفہان کا کتا ہی نمٹ سکتا ہے۔جب تک اسٹیبلشمنٹ اپنے حرام زادوں کو [...]

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 with the 80% of their content, however, it is the 20% part (e.g., Taliban = Pashtoon, or, sectarian clashes between [...]

Journalist Saleem Shahzad's murder (May 2011) The ISI told the commission that Shahzad kept his contact with them to the last, which, they said, proved he did not feel threatened by the agency! Their assertion that Al Qaeda could have killed Shahzad was backed by their taped conversation with another journalist, Hamid Mir, who “condemns [...]

Related posts Thank you, ISI-backed Supreme Court, for releasing Malik Ishaq Malik Ishaq wielded clout in jail; helped Pak army First the sorrow, now the fear Khanpur massacre: 20 more Shia Muslims victim to Pakistan army’s policy of Strategic Depth Pakistan's ISI-backed Punjabi judiciary once again demonstrated its institutional [...]

Ali Kazi, the owner of KTN group of print and electronic media, is going to form a new ethno-nationalist party in Sindh. Marvi Memon, the foreign educated daughter of Nisar Memon who is a retired technocrat and a good friend of ex-army chief Musharaf and the military governments, has also joined Ali Kazi for formation of new political [...]