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قابل رحم ہے وہ قوم جو آج کی اس جدید ترقی یافتہ دنیا میں بھی جمہوریت کے ثمرات سے محروم ہے۔ پاکستان کے عوام کی حالت قابل رحم اس لیے رہی ہے کہ یہاں اقتدار اور قوت کے مراکز غیر منتخب ادارے رہے ہیں۔ یہ [...]

انتہا پسندی اور ریاستی ادارے پاکستان اور امریکہ کے درمیان جو ڈیڈ لاک سلالہ چیک پوسٹ پر حملہ کے ردعمل میں نیٹو سپلائی کے بند کرنے سے پیدا ہوا تھاٴ وہ بظاہر ختم ہوتا نظر آرہا ہےٴ وزیراعظم یوسف [...]

Related post: Restoration of NATO supplies: Let’s blame Zardari and Gilani! طواف کوئے ملامت نذیر ناجی دل پھر طواف کوئے ملامت کو جائے ہے۔ ہمارے سیاسی حکمران بار بار چوٹ کھانے اور رسوا ہونے کے بعد بھی سبق نہیں سیکھ سکتے۔ مشرقی [...]

An increase in sectarian violence has killed hundreds of Pakistanis in recent years. Many attacks have been concentrated in the Northern Areas and Balochistan province. Shias and other minority communities say those behind the violence - such as the banned Sunni militant organisation Lashkar-e-Jhangvi - are rarely caught or punished. BBC [...]

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 [...]

نواز نے 500ملین پائونڈ برطانیہ کیسے منتقل کیے؟ ٹیکس بچانے اور اپنے کاروبار اور کمپنیوں کو سرکاری وسائل سے بے تحاشا وسعت دینے کے لیے میدان سیاست میں کودنے والے نوا زشریف اور عدلیہ مبینہ طور پر [...]

After decades of waging the propaganda war against India for its highhanded treatment of Kashmiris, Pakistan is now the subject of a similar campaign by India who has highlighted the plight of Shias being murdered by sectarian terrorists in Gilgit-Baltistan. The Asian News International reported recently that “in Gilgit-Baltistan, [...]

From Riyadh to Ramallah to the Ivy League, Saudi Arabia’s “Wahhabi Lobby” is funding the goals of radical Islam and undermining America’s War On Terror. The press has reported the Department of Justice’s closures of Saudi “charitable” fronts like the Muslim World League, the Al-Haramain Foundation, the International Islamic Relief [...]

آزاد عدلیہ کا ورثہ پاکستان کی تاریخ کے سب سے بڑے عدالتی بحران کا آغاز اس وقت ہوا تھاجب سابق چیف آف آرمی سٹاف جنرل پرویز مشرف نے وردی میں چیف جسٹس آف پاکستان کو اپنے کیمپ آفس میں طلب کیا اور [...]

نئے صوبوں کی تشکیل پاکستان ایک کثیر الثقافتی ٴ کثیر اللسانی اور مختلف قومیتوں پر مبنی ایک ملک ہے۔ اس کے بانیوں کو بھی اس حقیقت کا ادراک تھا کہ ایک مضبوط اور کامیاب وفاق کو چلانے کے لئے ضروری [...]

    I appreciate Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplant (SIUT) and the Transplant Society of Pakistan (TSP). 7th April was observed as 'Organ Donation Day' by SIUT and TSP. Transplant surgeons are of view that our country is facing acute shortage of cadaver organ donations and because of that around 50,000 lives are lost [...]

Eighty-feet-deep snow, boulders and slush buried more than a hundred human beings, snuffing out life and subjecting families to unfathomable grief and sorrow. Was it worth it? Has the Siachen debacle been worth it since 1984? States are driven by the desire to attain security from being attacked or annihilated. As John Herz puts it: “Since [...]

ISLAMABAD, April 9 (APP) Following is the text of the speech of Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari delivered on Monday on the occasion of Pak-LOT one-day Summit held at Aiwan-e-Sadr. Text Begins “Bismillah Ir Rehman Nirrahim Assalamo-allaikum I am not here to compete to be the leader of the youth. I am the [...]

Following is the complete text of the speech of Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari delivered during the Central Executive Committee meeting of the PPP on the eve of 33rd death anniversary of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto on Tuesday. Text beings: Bismillah-ir-rahman Rahim When we mourn Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, we [...]

On the morning of April 4, 1979, the military dictatorship of General Ziaul Haq hanged to death Pakistan’s first popularly elected Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Today is the 33rd anniversary of what turned out to be perhaps one of the gravest judicial and dictatorial crimes in the history of the troubled nation of Pakistan. If you are [...]

شہید ذوالفقار علی بھٹو ایک زندہ تحریک قائد عوام شہید ذوالفقار علی بھٹو کی 33 ویں برسی آج دنیا بھر میں عقیدت و احترام کے ساتھ منائی جارہی ہےٴ مرکزی تقریب گڑھی خدا بخش میں منعقد ہوگی جس میں صدر [...]

دنیا میں کہیں یہ تصور کیا جا سکتا ہے کہ ملک کے 62 فیصد حصے پر حکومت کرنے والی پارٹی اپنے ہی شہروں کے کھمبے گرا رہی ہو، اسٹریٹ لائٹس توڑ رہی ہو، حکمراں پارٹی کے اپنے ارکان قومی و صوبائی اسمبلی [...]

In the coming week, the nation will commemorate the thirty-third anniversary of the day on which Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s soul was forcibly separated from his body. For more than sixty percent of the population who came into this world after that April morning, Bhutto is a chapter — albeit a major one — in their Pakistan Studies textbooks. But [...]

In Pakistan, old soldiers just don’t fade away Source: Pakistan Today Haroon-ur-Rasheed recently in a newspaper article fantasised about Imran Khan’s great relationship with General Kayani after becoming Prime Minister in 2013. According to Hamid Mir, when asked about this, Imran’s comments on Kayani were unpublishable (for reasons [...]

Related post: While General Kayani looked the other way: Quran-o-Ahlebait Conference in Karachi After failing in the moral duty of highlighting Shia genocide, Pakistan’s media particularly the champions of liberalism and progressive ideology in English press are once again up to their usual tactics of misrepresenting and obfuscating the [...]

The protests, rallies and demonstrations by the legal community from 2007 to 2009 took everyone in and outside Pakistan by surprise. People were impressed with the perseverance of the lawyer's from around the country in the face of a military dictator and in forcing a political government to ensure that the chief justice of the Supreme Court [...]

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“۔ [...]

It took the screams of a young woman being beaten in Swat to galvanise the country and the army to take a stand against the gruesome cruelties inflicted by the Taliban on the local population. Till then a sense of ennui, national indifference, if you like, had trumped worldwide horror that Swat had fallen into in the clutches of the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In Pakistan, at times one feels the need to check oneself and restrain the use of hyperbole and absolutisms; I personally am particularly prone to this tendency. Yet, some days are easy and have little room for shallow nuances and complexities. People were offloaded from buses, their sectarian affiliations ascertained from their identification [...]

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 [...]

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell" -- Friedrich Durrenmatt. A year ago on this day (March 2), Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated. His assassination took place less than two months after Governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer was shot dead by his bodyguard. Both of them were ardent supporters of minority rights. [...]

Related posts: LUBP archive on Sunni Shia Unity Kohistan massacre: In the heart of darkness, humanity triumphs By Shabbir Mir GILGIT: Even amidst depths of despair, the human spirit can survive. Following the cold-blooded execution in Kohistan of 16 Shia Muslims travelling home to Gilgit on a bus, panicked residents deserted the roads [...]

The bloodbath of Shia Muslims at the hands of fundamentalist Sunnis continues along the streets and roads in Pakistan. The Shia victims of sectarian violence have little hope for justice since three out of every four terrorism cases end up in an acquittal on technicalities. Yesterday, Shias en route to their homes in Gilgit were removed from [...]

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 [...]

Predictions were made, bets were placed and wild speculations made the rounds. It seemed that the fall of the prime minister was imminent and the PPP-led government was doomed. One could see gloating faces on TV channels, faces that had been forecasting the end of the Gilani’s government for the last four years. It seemed as though their [...]

THERE has already been adequate kerfuffle around the appearance of PTI senior vice-president Ejaz Chaudhry at the Difaa-i-Pakistan Council’s rally in Karachi. Source: DAWN This is the latest demonstration of PTI’s tendency to cavort with the religious right and extremist groups. Imran Khan himself delivered a message via his envoy [...]

I was surprised a fortnight ago to receive a note from Lahore’s General Post Office saying I had imported a banned book which the Post Office had duly confiscated. The book was Punjabi Taliban by Mujahid Hussain (Pentagon Press, India, 2011) which is available in Pakistan too and advertised by a Karachi bookseller on the internet. The [...]

We support the following petition for release of the doctor and request our readers to sign it. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/drop-treason-charges-against-shakeel-afridi/ Related :Dr. Shakeel Afridi is a benefactor, not a traitor      Dr Shakil Afridi —Farhat Taj A native of Khyber Agency in the Federally [...]

Members of al-Qaeda have infiltrated Syrian opposition groups, and likely executed recent bombings in the nation’s capital and largest city, the United States’ top intelligence official said Thursday. The remarks by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper are the most definitive to date from a senior Obama administration official [...]

Related post: The banned outfit and General Hameed Gul’s Lies Chief of banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Malik Ishaq was in attendance at the Difa-e-Pakistan Council rally in Multan, a spokesperson for the council’s member organisation Jamaatud Dawa has said. “General (retd) Hamid Gul (more...)

Ministry asked to compensate owners of land encroached by ISI Malik Asad Barrister Shah said now the ISI had only two options, either to compensate the owners or de-acquire their land which would enable the actual owner to get possession of the land. Rawalpindi: Justice Rauf Ahmed Sheikh of Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on [...]