Human Rights Advocacy and Media Watch
Ilmana Fasih is an Indian gynaecologist, health activist, silk painter and blogger, who writes on social and health issues. In her own words, she was raised by an atheist father and a Sunni mother, married to a Syed, non denominational ultra moderate Sunni, she is anti religion to be Continue reading
Brainwashed by anti-Ahmadi hate speech by some takfiri Sunni Sufi and takfiri Shias, you can see in this video clip how some Sunni Sufis or/and Shias participated in the takfiri Deobandi-led hate mob which killed four innocent Ahmadis in Gujranwala, Pakisan (27 July 2014).
[Video: Chanting Ya Ali, takfiri Sunni Sufis or/and takfiri Shias join takfiri Deobandis to Continue reading
MUMBAI! INTERFAITH UNITY AGAINST HATE is a response to the terrorist attacks in Mumbai from US-based Hindu, Muslim, Sikh & Jewish communities, along with members of all faiths and secular supporters.
• Part 1: INTERACTIVE CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL
As an interfaith community we will pass a candle in a display of hope, interreligious collaboration, and unity, providing a safe and inclusive space for South Asians and others to mourn the victims in Mumbai and stand together against interreligious hatred. Opening prayers to be lead by faith leaders.
• Part 2: TALK BACK TO HATE FORUM
Attendees will share personal accounts of their response to hateful speech and actions, giving practical and powerful guidance on how to counter extremism in our daily lives and in our communities.
OUR MESSAGE:
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Terrorism has no faith. To those who seek political gain by further dividing humanity and our faiths, stop doing so in our names! Together, as people of all faiths, we all honor the victims of these attacks, and while we may disagree on many points, we reaffirm the underlying unity of all faiths in the face of murderous hatred.
OUR MISSION:
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To reach out to the South Asian public through regional language TV and other media conveying an interfaith message of interreligious solidarity and tolerance. By posting a videotape of TALK BACK TO HATE stories on YouTube, we aim to inspire more and more ordinary people to stand up and speak out, giving a voice to hope
ISLAMABAD – 23 Feb 2013: Amidst calls from Pakistan’s religious parties for talks with the Taliban, President Asif Ali Zardari has said there is a need to adopt an “approach of peace and reconciliation to eliminate the menace of extremism and terrorism”.
Zardari made the remarks yesterday while addressing the concluding session of a national conference on inter-faith harmony at the presidency.
He called for unity and harmony among the people to address the challenges of extremism and terrorism.
He said he had been pleading with the world community that the way the issue of terrorism was currently being addressed would not lead to success.
Editor’s note: Given that this specific post has been banned by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the advice of ex-CM Najam Sethi, we are cross-posting it to express our solidarity with LUBP and support for free speech. The post was banned on 6 June 2013 by Pakistan government Continue reading
Compiled by Hina Farooqi
Abdul Nishapuri’s resignation from LUBP: http://criticalppp.com/archives/240095
At 14, she is more courageous than I or Ghulam Ahmad Bilour will ever be. The Minister for Railways caved in recently to the Taliban to have his name struck from the Taliban’s hit list. Malala Yousafzai, however, stared down the Taliban until the very moment they shot her in the head yesterday.
While I write to express my disgust with the extremists from the safe confines of a Canadian Continue reading
October 9, 2012 World bleeds as Malala Yousafzai a 14 years old ‘Children Rights Activist’ from the town of Mingora in Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan was shot by Taliban. Malala at the age of 13 started blogging for BBC about the atrocities of Tehrik-e-Taliban regime. The international children’s advocacy group ‘KidsRights Foundation’ included Malala Yousafzai among the nominees for the International Children’s Peace Prize, making her the first Pakistani girl nominated for the award. She was awarded the first National Continue reading
Imran Khan is guilty of one of two things. He is either guilty of deliberately and knowingly legitimising the Pakistani Taliban as a political force for what he perceives to be his own populist gain, or he is guilty of colossal naivety and unintelligibility.
Imran Khan the name that has once again become the topic of almost all drawing room discussions. There is not a single gathering where Mr. Khan is not talked about. The discussions have varying views regarding him, many feel that he is the next Prime Minister and the only hope we as a nation are left with, while others feel that the roar will soon be over and the so-called tsunami will settle down and Khan will disappear.
IK addressing a press conference
Few people outside South Waziristan knew Kotkai — a mesh of small hamlets strewn across a hilly area — until, of course, PTI chairman Imran Khan announced his plans to hold his peace rally against CIA-operated drones in Pakistan’s tribal borderlands.
As my title suggests, this is probably what Pakistan’s brilliant doctor-inventor-Son Arsalan Iftikhar thought. Once again, his Daddy and uncle judges were there to protect him. This is what good parenthood is all about. If your Daddy’s Supreme Court is not there to protect you from such trivial things as corruption, Continue reading
This is a brief post on a principled Pakistani blogger, Mr. Ali Arqam Durrani. Continue reading
If you don’t know this yet, know it now
BBC Urdu along with Jang Group and Dharb-e-Momin is part of every ghairatmand’s Axis of Holiness.
These are the media outlets that in their own ways project the Continue reading
Dear Ghairatmands,
Please see how the pious history of Pakistan is being re-written. Please raise your protest and write against this rubbish post in your newspapers and Blogzines. After reading this I lost my appetite and couldn’t even finish my 8th helping of Biryani. Beghairats keep bringing up these events under the guise of adding nuance to the debate. This is a typical Neo-con Zionist tactic. Please protest this on facebook and twitter, otherwise Pakistan’s history will be damaged beyond repair and even the great Zaid Hamid will not be able to rescue it.
This too was Pakistan (1947-71): A response to Nadeem Paracha’s “Also Pakistan”
It is with a heavy and Nihari addled heart that I write my latest news roundup. In this week, two very sad developments have happened. First of all, Pakistan’s two ghairatmand parties, PML N and PTI are fighting. PML N is rehashing liberal fascist propaganda that was discounted by me on Pakistan Press over a year ago. I am referring to this post Imran Khan’s Real (ty) “Investments” – Zulfiqar Ali http://criticalppp.com/archives/222545
“Editor’s Note: LUBP highlighted these financial irregularities Continue reading
A few days ago I came across an article written by Robert Fisk published in The Independent. The article was titled “If Alawites are turning against Assad then his fate is sealed”. Interestingly, there was nothing in the article to Continue reading
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Civil Society’s slap to PPP and LUBP!
Genunie liberals Ali Dayan Hasan, Marvi Sirmed, Maheen Usmani, Meera Ghani have finally decided to expose fake liberals hiding at Zionist blog LUBP, which is in fact Let Us Continue reading
Dear Ghairatmands,
If you are still mourning over the loss of the PMl N-PTI-JI-Supreme Court-Sipah Sahaba-backed candidate, the Independant Bhosan, dry your tears like the Righteously Guided Super Journalist, Hamid Mir did. Two days ago, Hamid Mir sahib was upset that his prediction of a Bhosan victory did not Continue reading
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