In the midst of the terrible sadness caused by the killings of so many innocent Ahmadis in Lahore, I cannot help but notice the glaring irony of the timing of the slaughter. After all, it was just a week ago that the pious saints in our country were outraged by the religious insensitivity of some [...]
by Agha Haider Raza What happened in Lahore is truly one of the saddest and heart-wrenching incidents I have ever experienced as a Pakistani. When places of worship no longer carry the sanctity they deserve, the stark divide in religious ideology is made clear in Pakistan. After wandering around various blogs and reading horrible hate [...]
by Nadeem Paracha Extremism is nobody’s friend. It only deals in might gained from coercion. It does not rest after it has defeated its ideological opponents because then it goes on to destroy even those supporters whom it deems too soft or moderate. This is an aspect of extremism that a lot of its more [...]
Ambassador to USA Husain Haqqani recently spoke at the Harvard University Institute of Politics about Pak-American relations – the long and difficult relationship between the two powers, including the commonalities and differences between the two. Actually, he says quite correctly that while we do not agree on everything, there are important things we can do [...]
by Nadeem Paracha for DawnBlog Over and over again I have been using Dawn and Dawn.com to hit home the point about the vicious, soul destroying mindset the bulk of Pakistan’s urban middle-classes (especially in the Punjab) have fallen in to. I have tried to give numerous examples to highlight this devastating observation and here [...]
The murderous attack on our fellow citizens today is sickening. The attack has already claimed the lives of at least 70 people in Lahore. The gunmen opened fire shortly after Friday prayers and threw what could have been grenades at two Ahmadi worship places in residential neighbourhoods in Pakistan’s cultural capital. Sajjad Bhutta, deputy commissioner [...]
Ambassador to United Nations Abdullah Hussain Haroon spoke to CBS News about the Faisal Shahzad case, Hillary Clinton’s response, and Pakistan’s ongoing struggle against the terrorists in our nation. Ambassador Abdullah is an eloquent and excellent spokesman who cuts through a lot of the conspiracy nonsense and gets straight to the point. Watch CBS News [...]
During the past few weeks, Pakistan was hijacked. What else can you call it when a small group of people seize control of an entire nation, forcibly stopping the regular business of its citizens and taking over the representations of its people? What I’m referring to are the Jamaat-i-Islami organized protests against Facebook. Certainly there [...]
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