Pakistan’s Dunya News reports Saudi Arabia has proposed a “NATO-like” military alliance of Muslim nations, meant not as a defensive alliance against a particular country, “but to combat terrorism and emerging threats like ISIS.”
A conference of religious groups and political parties convened by an Islamic political party in Pakistan has called on the government to retract an “un-Islamic” law that gives wide-ranging protection to female victims of violence. The Women’s Protection Act was
Austria has extended its anti-migration advertising campaign to Pakistan, as critics note similarities between the posters and those of the right wing Freedom party. Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner has announced a new stage in the public relations campaign the central European
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wants the Senate to vote on the State Department’s decision to send F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan.
Police in Pakistan rescued a nine-year-old girl from an arranged marriage to a 14-year-old boy in her village in Punjab province. They arrested four village elders responsible for the wedding.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is reportedly seeking to recruit individuals with sophisticated skills as it expands its foothold in Pakistan.
A man in Pakistan shot and killed his two sisters to protect his family’s “honor,” he claims, after his family forgave him for killing his mother, leaving him free from charges. This incident was one of a string of such “honor killings” committed recently in the country.
Pakistan serves as a sanctuary for Taliban leaders, admitted an adviser to the Pakistani prime minister, echoing the most recent Pentagon report on the situation in Afghanistan.
One of the most popular Imams in the UK, who commands a following of hundreds of thousands, has praised the killer of a moderate Pakistani politician who defended murdered christians, declaring him a “martyr” who “did what he did in honour of the Prophet”. It
TEL AVIV – The leading Pakistani daily accused the U.S. and its allies of creating the Islamic State as an excuse for attacking Muslim countries, MEMRI reported Tuesday. The Urdu-language Roznama Ummat published an editorial titled “Daesh [the Islamic State]
Over a hundred documents seized in the 2011 special-forces raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan were released to the public on Tuesday, including a handwritten will. The al-Qaeda mastermind made some provisions for his family but wanted most of his $29 million fortune devoted to “jihad, for the sake of Allah.”
Contents: Pakistan unexpectedly executes murderer of liberal politician Salman Taseer; Generational changes of behavior; Salman Taseer’s son describes what’s happened to Pakistan; Greece turns into a huge refugee camp
Pakistani security forces have been placed on high alert for the funeral of the convicted assassin of former Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, Mumtaz Qadri, who was hanged yesterday in Rawalpindi. Millions of Islamic extremists have reportedly already assembled for the
Rioting and demonstrations broke out on the streets of Pakistan after an Islamic terrorist was hanged Monday morning for having assassinated the governor of the province for his call to relax the state’s severe anti-blasphemy laws.
Anti-death-penalty activists have been asking the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to cut some $20 million in funding for Iran’s anti-drug campaign, because Iran executes too many people. The latest evidence against Iran is an astounding report that every adult male in a certain village was executed for drug offenses.
Contents: More on China’s New Silk Road through the ‘Caspian Trade Corridor’; China and Cambodia hold military exercises amid South China Sea tensions
A parliamentary report has called for new guidelines recognising Pakistani Christians as genuine asylum seekers, with one Peer demanding the government wake up to the “reality” of Christian persecution in the Muslim world. The report comes at a time when the
Over the weekend, militants in the volatile Kashmir region ambushed an Indian military convoy, then holed up in the local headquarters of the government’s Entrepreneurship Development Institute, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India.
Pakistani police have booked three men for rape after a hospital confirmed an unmarried deaf and mute woman’s pregnancy.
Pakistani Minister for the Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has ordered a ban on Valentine’s Day for the capital city of Islamabad, promising “strict action” against anyone caught engaged in outward celebration of the festivity.
A Pakistani court is set on Thursday to hear a petition asking Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond [pictured above set in a crown worn by the Queen Mother] more than 150 years after it was taken
A gruesome story of anti-Christian police brutality has emerged from the Punjab province of Pakistan, where police allegedly tortured a Christian man to death in an attempt to make him confess to stealing from his Muslim employer. When a wealthy
Thousands of Muslims in the West are turning to Islamic scholars in Pakistan for lessons on the Quran delivered via Skype. For less than £20 a month they can get daily one to one lessons on the correct Arabic pronunciation of
Pakistan’s religious body known as the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has deemed a bill that would outlaw pedophilia “anti-Islamic” and “blasphemous,” according to various media reports.
A large number of people in India are ready to join the brutal terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and wage jihad against their own country, the second most populous in the world, reports Zee News, citing unnamed sources.
The leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Mullah Fazlullah, has been executed in a joint drone strike in Afghanistan carried out by the Pakistani army in collaboration with the United States military, news outlets in the Pakistan region report.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration insisted that it continues to support the peace talks between the Taliban and the government of Afghanistan even after the terrorist group restated preconditions prior to ceasing hostilities.
Four rich Pakistani Muslim men allegedly killed a Christian girl after she shrugged off their sexual advances.
Survivors at Bacha Khan University have called Professor Syed Hamid Hussain a “martyr” after he fired back at Taliban jihadists storming the school, allowing his students to flee to safety.
Taliban members in Pakistan have claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on a university in the northern region.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Khorasan province, a branch of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, has declared victory over the Taliban in the most recent edition of its propaganda magazine, Dabiq.
A 15-year-old boy in the Pakistani village of Hujra Shah Muqeem has cut off his own hand after the local imam called him a “blasphemer” during a sermon. Even more horrifying, the boy’s neighbors, and even his own father, are hailing him as a hero for mutilating himself in the name of Islam.
Pakistan has unblocked popular social media site YouTube after three years, but only because the site provided the government with a version it can censor.
A video game that depicts the gory events from the day when Taliban terrorists massacred more than 130 children inside a Pakistani school has been pulled weeks after it was released as part of an army-backed peace and tolerance campaign.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to travel to Saudi Arabia and Iran Monday, in an effort to alleviate inflamed tensions between the two regional rivals after the Sunni kingdom’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric sparked a divide across the Muslim world, pitting Sunnis against Shiites.
Contents: Pakistan tries to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran; Reader questions about Mideast country alignments
Contents: Mideast trends: Sunni-Shia countries align along predicted lines; Saudi Arabia faces increased social unrest with sudden austerity budget
(AFP)- A 15-year-old Pakistani boy cut off his own hand believing he had committed blasphemy, only to be celebrated by his parents and neighbours for the act, police told AFP Friday. Local police chief Nausher Ahmed described how an imam
The government has been asked to stop giving foreign aid to countries where Christian persecution is rife without ensuring that the money reaches Christians in need. Britain currently gives £12 billion in aid abroad, but little of that reaches Christians
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on the Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad, the provincial capital of Nangarhar, which has become the jihadist group’s primary stronghold in the country.
