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I think the word "Istisna" is even aware who are unaware with urdu in Pakistan. I think the real beneficiary of ISTASNA (immunity) in Pakistan are 1. General 2. Judges 3. journalist All three have had never been accountable in any court ( even not in Asghar khan petition) in history-...

If Muhammad Ali Jinnah happened to be on the Quetta-bound bus of Shia pilgrims on June 28, the self-proclaimed custodians of Islam would have killed him, along with 13 others. They would do so because Jinnah was a Shia and that would have been reason enough. Jinnah, for most Pakistanis today...

Removal of elected PM sad day for democracy: HRCP In a statement issued on Wednesday, HRCP said, “The Supreme Court judgement was perhaps not unexpected. The removal of the elected prime minister Lahore, June 20: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called the removal of Prime...

Did Abdul Qadir Gilani call Mubashar Lucman of his own accord or was he returning Lucman’s call during Lucman’s and Meher Bokhari’s disgraceful interview of Malik Riaz, or was Gilani returning Lucman’s call made to him a minute or so earlier? Well, a friend who I respect tells me that Gilani...

Pakistani officials insist that the Beijing Summit, held on June 8-9, turned out to be very useful considering the troubled times the country faces. After President Barack Obama did not officially meet President Asif Ali Zardari at the Chicago Summit (May 21-22), the Chinese responded by turning...

In his article of May 21 titled “Lal Masjid: rewarding insurrection”, renowned physicist and columnist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy seemed upset over Pakistan’s Chief Justice’s instructions to the Islamabad administration to expedite work on the restoration of the Jamia Hafsa, a seminary attached with the...

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Death sentence for Rangers, freedom for terrorists? – The Express Tribune Blog Rejoice all ye faithful, for justice has been served. Seven terrorists who spread fear among the good people of Pakistan have been tried and sentenced. These weren’t any slap-on-the-wrist sentences either...

My Beloved Nephew and only Son of his Parents Lt. Syed Yasir Abbass has martyr in terrorist attack last night. He was an outstanding Student and cadet. He has pass out from Aeronautical institute Risalpur last year.

This was realised when, in November 1994, madrassa students, the Taliban as they came to be known, captured Kandahar and, within two years, took control of about 90 per cent of Afghanistan. Also, the distinction between the Pakistani Pashtun Taliban and the Afghan Taliban is not clear or...

250 ulema has given once again statement that suicide bombing is haram. How long would these uIema keep making fool by these statements. I am saying for ages that Ulema fatwa against suicide bombing isn’t enough.Time of condemning has passed now. These ulema(if not munafiq) must declare...

http://http://tribune.com.pk/story/118298/taliban-in-charge/ Sometimes one is forced to wonder who is in control of this country. A few days after Shia and Sunni tribal elders from Kurram Agency reached a peace agreement in Islamabad, the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief in the agency...

Former Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP) commander Baitullah Mehsud’s brother Yaqoob Khan has reportedly been shot dead by undentifeid men in Mir Ali, North Waziristan. Local sources say that Khan’s body was recovered from a nearby field, but it is yet to be determined who is responsible for...

On October 29, the Sunni Ittehad Council, led by Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP), staged a protest in Karachi and a dozen cities of Punjab against the destruction of tombs and shrines. This multi-city protest was triggered by the latest attack on the shrine of Baba Farid in Pakpattan in Punjab...

The Faisal Shahzad case is a Western conspiracy, and I’m an idiot for not believing it. Why am I the idiot? Because when a US district judge passed the final sentence on the 31-year-old, condemning him to a lifetime imprisonment, I for one was glad that such a menace to society will stay...

JEDDAH: One of Saudi Arabia’s most wanted terrorists has given himself up to security forces, the Ministry of Interior has said. Badr Muhammad Nasser Al-Shihri, who features on a list of 85 most wanted criminals, turned himself in after flying back to Saudi Arabia from Pakistan, ministry...

Haroun Fazul comes from the impoverished Comoros Islands off East Africa where he attended a Wahhabi madrassa (religious school) and, at the age of sixteen, received a scholarship to study at a Wahhabi madrassa in Pakistan. From there he went to Afghanistan, to join the Al Qaeda terrorist...

Jones and Panetta left feeling as though they had taken only baby steps. "How can you fight a war and have safe havens across the border?" Panetta asked in frustration. "It's a crazy kind of war." The United States needed some kind of ground forces to eliminate the safe havens, Panetta...

Ahmadis claim 95 killed in Lahore attack By Faisal Ali Sunday, 30 May, 2010 A police official shows guns and ammunition on Saturday, May 29, 2010 recovered from militants who stormed the Garhi Shahu mosque on Friday, in Lahore. - Photo by AP. METROPOLITAN Rally held to condemn...

An inconvenient truth By Anjum Niaz Sunday, 05 Sep, 2010 The 'Saudi flag fluttering on Hotel Plaza on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. – (File Photo) Once upon a time there stood a building that housed a cheap retail store going by the name of ‘Burlington Coat Factory.’ It was near the...