Badami Bagh tragedy

Posted by Irshad Ahmed Saturday, March 16, 2013 - Our heads hang in shame over the tragic incident at Badami Bagh Lahore, where more than 175 houses were burnt in a mob attack on a Christian colony over an alleged blasphemy incident. The mob comprising thousands of people attacked Joseph Colony, torched houses, ransacked several shops and looted them. The police took into custody a 28-year-old sanitary work ...

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Egypt opening window to the east

Amany Maged assesses President Mohamed Morsi’s current visit to Pakistan and India Egypt’s new regime is apparently shifting the focus of its foreign policy. Instead of focussing on the West, as the old regime did, Mohamed Morsi is heading eastward. Morsi started his foreign visits with a trip to China in late August 2012. And, on Wednesday 20 March, he wrapped up an Asian tour that took him to Pakistan and ...

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Sanjay Dutt’s punishment & Hindutva mindset

By Zaheerul Hassan Supreme Court of India maintained Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt’s punishment and ordered to send him jail. Sanjay Dutt is a famous and well known name of Bollywood and he is in the list of superstars of Bollywood.   Actor has charge that he has some dealings with the criminal who was involved in Mumbai bomb blast on 12 March 1993. There were 12 bomb blasts from 1:33 PM to 2:40 PM which kill ...

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‘Follow’ the Essence of the Pakistan Resolution

By Sajjad Shaukat The 23rd of March 1940 was a watershed in the history of the Sub Continent, when All India Muslim League passed the Resolution in Lahore for the creation of an independent state. Now, it is popularly called as Pakistan Resolution. Earlier, in his address to the Muslim League at Allahabad in 1930, the idea of a homeland for Muslims in their majority areas had been envisioned by the poet All ...

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Pakistan: A paradise on earth

By Shaukat Qadir Yes, what a country! A paradise on earth, that's what Pakistan, got from shining sea to the second highest peak in the world. Before you declare it paradise lost, tarry a while and think: Only in this country does the heart beat faster when a PIA plane brings you back to your roots. In no other country does it feel like home. In no other country does the desi food taste as delicious as here ...

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Sectarianism: What went wrong?

Farid Khan Kasi Pakistan was born under the ideology of Two-Nation theory, this new state had promised a better future for the Muslims of sub-continent. But with changing times this theory received utmost criticism from every quarter especially at the time of “Debacle of Dhaka”, when majority left minority. There were two main mistakes that were committed by the state in the incipient stage: it separated th ...

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Lahore Inferno and beyond!

Posted by Sumera The unfortunate incident of Joseph Colony, Badami Bagh, Lahore, where homes, shops and Churches of the Christian community were set on fire, brought collective shame and embarrassment for the entire Pakistani nation. Each time an incident of violence against a minority community takes place, we think that it couldn’t have been worse. But soon after, another episode presents yet bigger chall ...

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Why Indian parlimenterians are not interensted in early Elections ?

Whether People of India Will Find in Form the ‘THIRD FRONT’? By Balbir Singh Sooch: Due to self-interest and opportunism (somebody who takes advantage of something, especially somebody who does so in a devious, unscrupulous, or unprincipled way), no member of parliament (MP) wants early Lok Sabha elections. About the question as specially debated on almost all the TV channels on March 20, 2013, the general ...

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