Posts Tagged ‘Saudi Arabia’

صدر پاکستان جناب آصف علی زرداری، وزیراعظم پاکستان جناب یوسف رضا گیلانی کے نام آج ہم میں سے ہر پاکستانی اس تشویش میں مبتلا ہے کہ کیا واقعی ہم ایک آزاد ملک کے آزاد شہری ہیں۔ کیا ہمیں اپنی مرضی [...]

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: Shouting in the dark: Al Jazeera’s documentary on Bahrain Tens of thousands of Bahrainis demonstrated on Friday (9 March 2012) to demand democratic reforms, stepping up pressure on the U.S.-allied, Saudi-backed Bahrain's government with the biggest protest yet in a year of unrest. They began marching along a highway near [...]

Related posts: A war that remains unreported: The Saudi Arabian war against the Houthis of Yemen How Saudi Arabia has corrupted Yemen to spread Wahabism Editor's note: Apparently, not unlike Pakistan's Shia Muslims (in Parachinar and Balochistan) and Afghanistan's Shia Muslims (in Kabul, Bamiyan and Mazar-e-Sharif), Shia Muslims in Yemen [...]

Related post: SSP-LeJ-JUI and the Libyan connection: In the light of WikiLeaks A US official in a cable sent to the State Department stated that “financial support estimated at nearly 100 million USD annually was making its way to Deobandi and Ahl-i-Hadith clerics in south Punjab from organisations in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates [...]

Kind reader, would you conduct business with a country where Human Rights Watch confirms the following as common? “Oppression of women, persecution of religious minorities, unfair trials, detention of children, oppression of foreign laborers,” a country that is not an ‘open culture,’ in fact, a culture of hiding. Were you, the reader,  [...]

The 45 year old man was arrested in Medina while making the annual pilgrimage, and sentenced to lashes and a year in prison because he has insulted "the companions of the Prophet." The result is a diplomatic incident between the two countries. Riyadh (AsiaNews / Agencies) - An Australian was sentenced to 500 lashes and a year in prison after [...]

By Josh Rogin President Barack Obama's administration has sided with Bahrain's ruling regime over its domestic protest movement more clearly than in any other country affected by the Arab Spring. But that position is unwise and unsustainable, according to one of Bahrain's leading human rights activists, who visited Washington last [...]

With billions of petro dollars to fund their global clout, the Saudi lobbies have simply brought off opposition to their continued efforts to spread Wahabism worldwide.  In failing to confront Wahabism, North America and Europe remain paralysed by a combination of political correctness and a racism of lower expectations while in muslim majority [...]

A low-intensity military conflict between Pakistan and the United States is going on in Afghanistan and along the Pak-Afghan border since the U.S. military invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Both sides have been using proxies and guerrilla war tactics to harm each other’s interests. Nevertheless a large-scale and direct military conflict [...]

Related posts: Mecca for the rich: Islam’s holiest site ‘turning into Vegas Imam-e-Kaaba ka khutba-e-hajj – by Aamir Hussaini Editor's note: We are cross-posting a thought-provoking article by Dr. Abbas Zaidi on a much ignored topic, i.e., persecution of Shia Muslim pilgrims during the recently concluded Hajj. The Saudi-Salafi Empire [...]

Editor's note: The Saudi-Salafi-Wahhabi empire in Hijaz is implementing its on-going goal of destruction of early Islamic heritage, and their current target is Makkah, Islam's holiest site. The destruction of sites associated with early Islam is a phenomenon that has occurred mainly in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, particularly around [...]

Aamir Hussaini offers a critical analysis of the Hajj sermon on 5 November 2011 by Abd al-'Aziz Aal Ash-Shaikh, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia. Mr. Hussaini highlights the lopsided criticism of the media, silence on discrimination and persecution of women and ethnic and religious minorities in Muslim majority countries, and silence on an ongoing [...]

Related post: Saudi winter in the Middle East and Hamas militants’ attack on Shia Muslims in Gaza The public lynching and gruesome murder of Libyan dictator Maumar Qaddafi is not a matter to be celebrated; rather it represents another victory for the Saudis and their well placed and petro-dollar funded Ikhwan lobbies in the White House [...]

There are a number of serious questions about the whole episode, i.e, the alleged Iranian plot to murder Saudi ambassador to the USA. Timing of the alleged plot or expose is quite meaningful. Saudi Arabia is currently facing a four pronged spasm of democracy: (i) One from its Eastern borders where majority population of Bahrain, Shia as [...]

Osama bin Laden was protected by elements of Pakistan's security apparatus in return for millions of dollars of Saudi cash, according to a controversial new account of the operation to kill the world's most wanted man. Raelynn Hillhouse, an American security analyst, claims his whereabouts were finally revealed when a Pakistani intelligence [...]

Cross-posted from LUBP old website. Can we put a stop to the self-created Deobandi-Barelvi, Shia-Sunni, Pushtun-Punjabi conflict in Pakistan in the name of moon-sighting?. Can we put a stop to the Saudi-ization of Eid and Ramazan in Pakistan and elsewhere? Why can't Muslims in Pakistan use modern technology to ascertain the visibility of [...]

Foundation linked to the Pakistani army has been providing Bahrain thousands of soldiers for its crackdown on protests. "] In March, as a government crackdown on pro-democracy protestors intensified in Bahrain, curious advertisements started appearing in Pakistani media. "Urgent requirement - manpower for Bahrain National Guard," said [...]

The Saudis as well as their Gulf Arab cousins are arming the Taliban. This influx of foreign money and religious ideology is causing irreparable damage to the national identity and integrity as well as the centuries old cultural heritage of Pakistan Since its birth as an independent state, the Pakistani military establishment has focused [...]

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had enemies in the Pakistani military, Saudi Arabian ruling classes and the U.S government.  Benazir had equipped the Pakistani military with missile technology, which she had successfully obtained from North Korea, and supported the military in many other ways but despite her efforts she remained [...]

By Adnan Rehmat The primary function of a national constitution is to guarantee universal rights and to ensure all citizens of the state are dealt with equally in terms of these rights. The guarantees are supposed to be unambiguous. But Pakistan’s constitution is a document as ambiguous as the state it governs. For starters, Article 25 [...]

Related articles: LUBP Archive on Bahrain Why no outcry over these torturing tyrants? Christopher Hill, a former US secretary of state for east Asia who was ambassador to Iraq – and usually a very obedient and un-eloquent American diplomat – wrote the other day that "the notion that a dictator can claim the sovereign right to abuse his [...]

Official discourse of Pakistan army and its proxies Pakistan Army has done "extraordinarily well" in the history of Pakistan. Yes, we need army otherwise India, Israel and America will control our arsenals. And yes, for this we have to allow them to bread and rear non-state actors sectarian jihaids and Arab terrorists by using our foreign loans [...]

باخبر ذرائع سے معلوم ہوا ہے کہ پاکستان کے تمام بڑے دیوبندی مدارس جیسے دارالعلوم حقانیہ اکوڑہ خٹک، جامعہ مدنیہ و اشرفیہ لاہور ‏، نصرت العلوم گوجرانوالہ، خیرالمدارس ملتان، فاروقیہ کراچی، [...]

Saudi invaders and Pakistani mercenaries have demolished at least 25 Shia mosques to implement a radical Wahhabi, sectarian agenda in Bahrain. We must thank General Kayani of Pakistan and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia for providing mercenaries to Bahrain's King Hamad Al Khalifa to carry out anti-Shia violence and persecution in the tiny island. [...]

Related articles: The role of General Zia-ul-Haq in the events of Black September (1970) in Jordan LUBP Archive on Bahrain There is no future without the past. These words were written by our Mentor Dr. Lal Khan in his article a fews days back on www.marxist.com. With the new waves in Egypt, Yemen and Bhahrain we are seeing the tense [...]

Related articles: Sectarianism and racism: The dishonest narratives on Bahrain – by Hasnain Magsi Recruitment of Bahrain National Guards in Lahore to kill Shia protesters in Bahrain Racist Shia Arabs lynching Pakistanis in Bahrain? – by Ram Alamdar Hussain Tehran has conveyed its resentment to Islamabad over continuing recruitment of [...]

Related articles: Sectarianism and racism: The dishonest narratives on Bahrain – by Hasnain Magsi Recruitment of Bahrain National Guards in Lahore to kill Shia protesters in Bahrain The fabrication of Bahrain’s Shiite-Sunni divide – by Shirin Sadeghi The Mainstream Narrative in Pakistan and the Muslim World On Bahrain, the [...]

Is it me or has someone else read this thing with amazement, where GCC headed by Saudi Arabia, wants to broker a deal to get the Yemeni President Saleh ousted? Come to think of it, it looks quite hypocritical of the Saudi regime to take a lead in such an initiative, because it sounds ludicrous. By all means, I am in favor of freedom, democracy [...]

Related articles: Blackwater is the new name of Taliban Taliban/Sipah-e-Sahaba’s terrorists massacre 50 Barelvi and Shia Muslims at Sakhi Sarwar shrine The extremist Deobandi-Takfiri jihad against mushrik Barelvis and kafir Shias A blasphemy against Caliph Omar (RA)! پاکستان میں آلِ سعود کا دفاع سعودی [...]

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: Why are Pakistan’s urban chatterers neglecting the Bahrain uprising? Recruitment of Bahrain National Guards in Lahore to kill Shia protesters in Bahrain The fabrication of Bahrain’s Shiite-Sunni divide – by Shirin Sadeghi Currently, there are two false narratives that are being used to misrepresent the [...]

Related articles: Saudi Arabia’s military intervention in Bahrain is a slap in the face of the United States – by Jean-Francois Seznec An open letter to President Obama: People of Bahrain need your help U.S. follows two paths on unrest in Iran and Bahrain – by Mark Landler and David E. Sanger What's the difference between [...]

George Orwell said: repression is the seed of revolution. The term repression is quite wide in its spectrum as it contains meaning of suppression, tyranny, exploitation, injustice, poverty, inflation and subjugation. All these are the motivating factors that contribute towards upsurge of people. A careful analysis of French revolution, Russian [...]

کل رات اپنے ناسٹلجیا کے تحت امجد خان مرحوم، آنجہانی سنجیو کمار، دھر میندر اور امیتابھ جی کی شاہکار فلم "شعلے" دیکھ رہا تھا، اس دوران بارہا نیوز چینل بھی دیکھتا رھتا جس میں ریمنڈ ڈیوس کی سلطنت [...]

Related articles: The Shia genocide in Bahrain shows Islam’s replacement by Wahhabism – by Omar Khattab Sectarianism and racism: The dishonest narratives on Bahrain – by Hasnain Magsi LUBP Archive on Bahrain Saudi Arabia’s army enters Bahrain to crush pro-democracy protesters One afternoon last year, as I was driving through [...]

’رہائی میں سعودی عرب نے کردار ادا کیا‘ صوبہ پنجاب کے دارالحکومت لاہور میں دو پاکستانیوں کو ہلاک کرنے والے سی آئی اے کے اہلکار ریمنڈ ڈیوس کی رہائی پر پاکستان کی سیاسی و مذہبی جماعتوں کی [...]

Related articles: An open letter to President Obama: People of Bahrain need your help LUBP Archive on Bahrain Saudi Arabia Strikes Back The House of Saud's intervention in Bahrain is a slap in the face of the United States, and a setback for peace on the island. One thousand "lightly armed" Saudi troops and an unspecified number of [...]

Related articles: The Shia genocide in Bahrain shows Islam’s replacement by Wahhabism – by Omar Khattab Saudi Arabia’s military intervention in Bahrain is a slap in the face of the United States – by Jean-Francois Seznec LUBP Archive on Bahrain Pakistan army exports new mercenaries to kill Bahraini protesters About 1,000 Saudi [...]

Editor's note: Here is a selection of recent articles on the uprising for human rights and democracy in Saudi Arabia. Pakistanis will keep ignoring it because of their Shia phobia and Wahhabi philia. The West (US) will keep ignoring it because of their ‘Oil over Democracy’ strategy. ******* The pro-democracy protests in Saudi Arabia and [...]