The blocked number, untracable call has already been made to family and a journalist union's rep. When they do it, everyone knows.
This is a Military state.
Journalist Saleem Shahzad goes missing
DAWN.COM
Yesterday
ISLAMABAD: Syed Saleem Shahzad, the Pakistan bureau chief of Asia Times Online, went missing Sunday evening, DawnNews reported.
Days before his disappearance, Shahzad had authored an article that alleged links between navy...
Must say that even though it is Russia that is warming up, necessitated by its desire to play a bigger role post US troop pullout from Afghanistan, kudos to the govt and FO for responding in the most warm way possible. Musharraf sat on Putin's invitation for a state visit for a long time, and we...
I demand all the lovers of the 'ummah' and associated variety declare UAE an enemy for having sublet the air strip to the US for drone strikes. At once they should boycott Emirati products including their khajoor, Etihad & Emirates Airlines and the Dubai Shopping Festival. All people should come...
We have to rely on foreign media to report even the best of news. Our media is fixated on the rants of the middle class. Bravo, democracy in action, shall I say?
Tenant farmers become unlikely land owners in Pakistan
Published On Fri Apr 29 2011
By Rick Westhead South Asia Bureau
Zuhra, 50...
Zardari leaving for Turkey to take up US-Taliban talks
By: Shaiq Hussain | Published: April 11, 2011
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari will leave for Turkey today (Monday) on a four-day official visit to discuss with Turkish leaders the US-backed Afghan reconciliation process that will...
First one is from Asia Despatch, another Syed Saleem Shahzad venture. Last one is from a TTP video where he is identified and talked to. But, I see your point.
Your bigotry count has been increased by another point.
Taliban’s Suicide squad commander’s killing confirmed
Asia Despatch Report
After much mystery about his death, at last asiadespatch.com can confirm the death of dreaded Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan suicide squad chief Qari Hussain Mehsud alias Qari Sahib despite the persistent...
Her full name is mentioned on many publications and news sources. People stick to their original name (as in before taking married surname) so that they'll still be recognized in the academic world and public sphere.
If you have anything to contribute towards any of her opinion-editorials, do...
The chickens have truly come to roost. The 'interlocutor' who said he could offer negotiations with the Taliban attacked, twice.
Attacks on Pro-Taliban Politician Point Toward Intra-Jihadi Divide
Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a leading Pakistani Islamist politician, was the target today of a second...
Re: The point about the Punjab University, IJT, the student wing of the JI, is notorious for having used cigar cutters as finger cutters in UofPunjab. They've attacked Ahmedi students enmass not long ago. They have a moral police division of their own who break musical instruments, force women...
Indians, I love you. But no liberalism, no cutey love now. This is war. Bring it on and be prepared to die. Just don't burn the stands like '96. We're going to slaughter you.
The Hanafi Madhab on Shatam-e-Rasool (Blasphemy)I
There has been a consistent iteration of a claim from the contemporary religious clergies that there has been a consensus amongst the four madhab, including the Hanafi Madhab which is the dominant source of Islamic Law in Pakistan. In order to...
Wish of ailing girl from Swat comes true
our correspondent
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
PESHAWAR: It was like a dream come true for the 12-year-old Grade-4 student, Naima Gul, from Swat when she became the first lady pilot of the Pakistan Army Aviation.
Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq...