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Media persons in the Indian subcontinent are crying hoarse and are weeping and wailing over the curbs on media freedom and gagging of press freedom in both India and Pakistan. In India, many complain that they dare not question the government lest they lose their jobs and/or are booked for sedition and on other charges, as indeed many have been. In Pakistan, they lament over the arrest and long detention of Mir Shakil ur Rehman, owner of the Jang group …
When officials at the Islamic Center of Southern California (ICSC) told prominent imam Khaled Abou El Fadl that his invitation to give the Friday sermon at the mosque had been rescinded, he was furious. Before a small group of his own supporters at the Usuli Institute, he launched an hour-long attack on ICSC officials, at times screaming with rage and repeatedly stabbing his walking stick into the ground. He condemned the ICSC as “mute devils,” “idiots” and “authoritarians.” What exactly …
Indian reunification is actually a brainchild of the former justice of Supreme Court, Markandey Katju, who conceived it in 2012, and aims at unifying India with what is now Bangladesh and Pakistan under a secular government. The nation was divided on the spurious two nation theory of Ali Mohammad Jinnah, propagated over years, the theory that people of different religions cannot live harmoniously together, which was actually the upshot of the divide and rule policy of British. This partition resulted …
Islamic Relief and Qatar Implicated in Tunisian Terror Finance Investigation A leaked report allegedly produced by the Tunisian Commission for Financial Analysis (CTAF) reveals an investigation into a prominent leader of Islamic Relief – the international Islamist charitable network founded in the U.K. and named by the United Arab Emirates as a terrorist organization – over concerns that monies given to Islamic Relief’s Tunisian branch by the British parent branch, Islamic Relief Worldwide, were used to fund jihadists at the Tunisian-Libyan border. …
L’infame Ahmadiyyas are a tiny peaceful community of about 5 million in Pakistan,( which has a total population of over 200 million ) who have been treated barbarically by religious extremists since long, the way Jews were treated in Nazi Germany. The whole world celebrated Human Rights Day on 10th December, and on this occasion the Pakistan Minister for human rights, Shireen Mazari, waxed eloquent in a hypocritical statement about how Pakistan is committed to upholding human rights, and she …
” You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed that has nothing to do with the business of the State”. This was the vision of Pakistan that our beloved Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah expressed in his historic speech of August 11, 1947 to the first Constituent Assembly of …
Aleeza and I grew up in families where public service was valued and encouraged. We have been involved in many campaigns over the years. Our start occurred when my father Shukoor Ahmed, ran for office several times without any support from the Democratic party establishment. My sister, Raaheela Ahmed, also ran unsuccessfully in 2012 and lost a very close race for the Board of Education. Although she too had no establishment support, she ran again in 2016 and won. Senator …
The Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan is passing through a perilous period of attention and scorn. There is a relentless campaign by religious extremists harassing and targeting Ahmadis. This is not a new phenomenon for the Ahmadiyya Community, however, in the recent past this drive has intensified many fold. Urdu newspaper Nawa-e-Waqt recently published a paid advertisement by the Ahmadiyya Community and later due to sheer bigotry and pressure by religious extreme elements published an apology for printing it. The advertisement …
Eid Mubarak – or at least I thought so, until I heard that 6 innocent Ahmadi Muslims were shot and persecuted for their beliefs. On July 25th, 2018 the people of Pakistan elected star-cricketer Imran Khan from the PTI party to be the country’s Prime Minister. Throughout his campaign Imran Khan had boasted about creating a “Naya Pakistan” but it is evident that Pakistan once again remains the same as it did 30 years ago. In 1974 the Pakistani Government …
Imran Khan has been elected as the Prime Minister of Pakistan and taken charge of the government. He has invoked inspirational sentiments among everyday Pakistanis both inside the country and outside. As an Ahmadi of Pakistani origin, I welcome his government and expect improved progress of the nation during his tenure. He has appointed his cabinet and has finally started to govern this great nation of 220 million people. Dr Shireen Mazari has been given the portfolio of Human Rights …
27years of my life, multiple elections I have seen but never found my parents going on the election day to cast their vote. Confused and indignant at the same time, tried to figure out the actual issue. The only answer I could get get was “we can’t vote because we are Ahmadis (Qadiyanis as per 99.9% Pakistanis). So after much research I found two major facts in this regard and to my shock hardly people are aware of them and …
We are at the eve of the long-awaited day of general elections in Pakistan. There is a continuous effort by almost all political parties to justify their position on Ahmadis in turn to validate their own faith. This has become the central theme by all lead politicians with the unique exception of Jibran Nasir who has refused to talk about religious affiliations during his campaign. In this process of reclaiming Islam many politicians have uttered vile and hateful declarations against …