QUETTA: The members of Al Islam Group on Thursday staged a protest demonstration against US and anti-Islam film and expressed support for the stance President Asif Ali Zardari took on blasphemy law at the United Nations. The protesters were carrying banners and placard inscribed with anti-US slogans. They chanted massive slogans against the US and […]
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge on Thursday ordered Islampura police to act in accordance with the law in an application seeking a case against the makers of an anti-Islam film, against Google and YouTube, and against the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s chairman. Judge Abdul Sattar Langah issued this order on a petition moved by […]
NOOR PUR THAL: Religious, religio-political and political parties and various educational institutions continued to hold demonstrations and rallies in the city to protest against the anti-Islam movie made by a US filmmaker. Al-Huda Public School held a demonstration at Kashmir Chowk to protest against the anti-Islam movie. A large number of students from various institutions […]
By: FAZAL SHER Security remains on high alert in the capital city and law enforcement agencies have not yet removed containers and barbed wires placed around the Red Zone. “The city police have received information that some organisations are planning protests this coming Friday which may turn violent and consequently the city police has decided […]
ISLAMABAD: The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Interior Ministers’ Conference has passed the resolution moved by Pakistan against the anti-Islam film. Interior Minister Rehman Malik had presented a resolution against the blasphemous video at the SAARC Interior Ministers’ Conference in Male, Maldives, said a message received from Maldives on Wednesday. Malik had urged […]
By: Rasul Bakhsh Rais The cowboy logic is very simple and has been known for ages; if you cannot beat them, join them. This is what the Government of Pakistan has done in closing down the country and announcing that the major ruling party, the PPP, will join the protest marches against the blasphemous video, […]
By: Roshaneh Zafar The United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “the right to freedom of expression upholds the rights of all to express their views and opinions freely. It is essentially a right which should be promoted to the maximum extent possible.” However, it is important to note that this right is […]
By: Rabia Mughal The images are depressingly familiar: the mob of angry men clashing with the police, smashing car windows, arm stretched out behind them ready to fling an ablaze bottle. Their seething anger seeps through the electronic screens and spills into the consciousness of the Western world. The US government ran $70,000 worth of […]
By: HUMAIRA KANWAL PEOPLE are abusing the movie’s team and advising each other over cell phones and online social networks to share those abusing remarks to register their protest. I am not convinced. I think propagation of a good act is a healthy activity but propagation of a bad act is negative. I believe that […]
KARACHI: MQM Chief Altaf Hussain has said sacrilegious film is a total denial of the principles of freedom of expression.He was talking to the chairman of Pakistan Ulema Council Allama Tahir Ashrafi on telephone. Altaf expressed grave concerns on the increasing wave of religious extremism, sectarian violence and bloodshed done against religious minorities and lack […]
By: AYAANA MALIK The Afghan government has banned Pakistani newspapers, which clearly exemplifies the sentiments of the US-backed Afghan government, while the criticism arising from within the Afghan community for such an approach shows that the people do not view the curb as a sensible step. In fact, there is a call for dialogue between […]
By: Bina Shah Is the anti-Muslim video, Innocence of Muslims, an issue of free speech or hate speech? That’s the question foremost on my mind as I think back to a weekend of madness, in which protestors against the film ran wild in the streets of Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore, destroying public and private property […]
After the devastation caused to cinemas across the country on September 21, the Pakistan Film Exhibitor’s Association is demanding that the government compensate it for the losses it suffered. This is an idea the government needs to consider, not just for cinema owners but for every business that suffered damages during the protests, not least […]
By: Rafay Mahmood KARACHI: It seems that only our grandparents will now remember why Karachi was christened the City of Lights. The beautifully adorned billboards on main Bandar Road and Keamari were once decorated with larger than life posters of film stars; the fairy lights around the borders were part of the panorama that earned […]
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