Posts Tagged ‘pakistani’

Ex-Pakistani diplomat says Iran’s demands in Vienna talks are logical

Ex-Pakistani diplomat says Iran’s demands in Vienna talks are logical – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN — Asif Ali Khan Durrani, Pakistan’s former envoy to Tehran, has said that Iran’s demands in the Vienna talks that sanctions must be lifted totally are reasonable, IRNA reported on Sunday. “The Americans need to change their approach towards Iran for a […]

Pakistani Regional Influence is on the Rise

In recent months in the wake of the events in Afghanistan, Pakistan has conspicuously increased its regional influence, a fact noticed not only by the most active international actors, but also by Pakistan itself. Thus, on September, 22 at a business conference in Islamabad Pakistani Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Ahmed Chaudhry highlighted the […]

Pakistani FM holds Afghanistan talks in Tehran

Pakistani FM holds Afghanistan talks in Tehran – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN – Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmoud Qureshi met on Thursday with high-ranking Iranian officials to mainly discuss the mayhem in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over Kabul on August 16. Qureshi arrived in Tehran on Thursday after visiting Turkmenistan. In Tehran, the top Pakistani diplomat […]

U.S. leaving Afghans over a barrel of extremists: Pakistani professor

U.S. leaving Afghans over a barrel of extremists: Pakistani professor – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN – Assistant Professor at School of Politics and International Relations in Quaid-i-Azam University says that the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan will have severe consequences both for Afghanistan as well as the region. “American baseless claims to establish harmony and democracy in Afghan […]

Pakistani PM Imran Khan’s ultra-conservative inklings raise eyebrows

Widely seen as a populist with ultra-conservative inklings, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan increasingly appears to reinforce widespread traditionalist attitudes that reject religious tolerance as well as the rights of women and minorities. In doing so, Mr. Khan is aligning Pakistan in religious and social terms closer to Turkey than his country’s traditional allies, Saudi […]

Pakistani movie star invokes Hitler in calls to kill Jews following Gaza violence

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Pakistani movie star Veena Malik tweets Hitler quote about killing Jews

Veena Malik, an actress who has starred in over a dozen Pakistani and Bollywood films and shows, tweeted a series of incendiary remarks about the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict, including a quote by Adolf Hitler about killing Jews. “I would have killed all the Jews of the world … but I kept some to show the […]

West must ‘penalize’ anti-Muslim hate just like it outlawed Holocaust denial, Pakistani PM Khan says amid anti-French riots

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged Western nations to prosecute hatred against Muslims with the “same standards” it applies to Holocaust denial, amid a wave of anti-French riots in his own country. Writing on Twitter, Khan urged Western governments “who have outlawed any negative comment on the Holocaust to use the same standards to […]

Pakistani army general urges nuclear rival India to ‘bury the past’, help create conditions for peace

The head of the Pakistani army, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, said on Thursday that India should move beyond previous conflicts with its neighbor and towards peace, while making clear the US has a part to play in regional stability. “We feel it is time to bury the past and move forward,” Bajwa said in a […]

Pakistani court bans TikTok after petition was filed against its ‘immoral and indecent’ content

The Peshawar High Court has ruled in favor of a man who petitioned it to ban the video sharing app TikTok, which is popular among teenagers, on moral grounds. The court ruled that the ban should be applied starting from Thursday. The ban was issued by the court after justices reviewed the petition and heard […]

Young Pakistani activist fights forced child marriage

[Islamabad] Hadiqa Bashir, 19, has been actively working against early and forced marriages for the last eight years in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, once a hotbed of the Pakistani Taliban. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org For years, the Taliban broadcasted threats on the radio to intimidate girls into not attending school. […]

Two Pakistani Christians Studying Bible in Park Charged with Blasphemy

LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police in Lahore, Pakistan have charged two Christians with blasphemy after Muslims objected to their Bible study in a park last weekend, the attorney for one of the accused said. Haroon Ayub Masih, 26, and friend Salamat Mansha Masih, about the same age, were studying the Bible in Lahore’s Model Town […]

Two rare white tiger cubs die in Pakistani zoo after possibly contracting Covid-19 from their handler, officials say

The two white tiger cubs that died last month in a Pakistani zoo had damaged lungs. The zoo now suspects that the animals may have contracted Covid-19 from a staffer that fed them. The cubs were originally thought to have suffered from the feline panleukopenia virus, which targets the cats’ immune systems. However, an autopsy […]

Our Mutual Fight: The Case against Pakistani Normalization with Israel 

The Pakistani government should never, under any circumstances and no matter the pressure, normalize with Israel. Doing so is not only dangerous – as it will embolden an already vile, racist, violent apartheid Israel – but it would also be considered a betrayal of a historic legacy of mutual solidarity, collective affinity and brotherhood that […]

Condemnations Pour in After Pakistani Court Orders Release of Killer of Slain Journalist Daniel Pearl

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (c) is surrounded by armed police as he leaves a court in Karachi, Pakistan, March 29, 2002. Photo: Reuters / Zahid Hussein. Jewish leaders and former colleagues and friends of the murdered US journalist Daniel Pearl sharply condemned the Thursday decision by Pakistan’s supreme court to approve the release of Ahmed […]

Anti-Israel ‘Million Man March’ Held in Karachi by Islamist Pakistani Party

Footage of a January 21, 2020 rally in Karachi, Pakistan. Photo: Twitter screenshot Images and video circulated on social media Thursday of a so-called “million man march” against Israel in the Pakistani city of Karachi. The massive rally was organized by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), a right-wing Islamist party at the head of the country’s political […]

Hundreds of Pakistani Christian Families Flee Neighborhood Following Threats of Violence

LAHORE (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that hundreds of Pakistani Christian families from Charar, a neighborhood in Lahore, have fled their homes after a mob of Muslims threatened to set fire to their neighborhood. Local sources report that the mob threatened the Christians after a faith-based social media post was published […]

Pakistani PM firmly rejects Israeli ties as ‘baseless’, publicity campaign

Source Saturday, 19 December 2020 10:31 AM  [ Last Update: Saturday, 19 December 2020 11:45 AM ] Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan removes his facemask during a joint press conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (not pictured) at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on November 19, 2020. (Photo by AFP) Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has rejected as “baseless” […]

Pakistani Christian Accused of Blasphemy Released on Bail

Photo Credit: Muhammad Muzamil/Unsplash Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – According to Asia News, a Christian man and his Muslim friend have been released on bail after being imprisoned on charges of blasphemy for the past 11 months. Shahbaz Masih and a Muslim friend, Muhammad Ishaq, were accused of committing blasphemy by Shahzaib and Ahmad in […]

Pakistani Christian Woman Escapes Kidnapper, Reunites With Family

Photo Credit: Muhammad Muzamil (International Christian Concern) – On Sept. 8, Mehwish Hidayat, a 22-year-old Christian, was reunited with her family after spending three months in captivity. In June, Khurram Shehzad, a Muslim, abducted Hidayat while she traveled to her job at a garment factory in Lahore, Pakistan. According to Hidayat, Shehzad and several other […]

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