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Lahore students rally against blasphemous sketches

LAHORE: A large number of students participated in a rally, organised by the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT), on The Mall here on Tuesday and expressed their resentment against the republication of blasphemous caricatures in Danish newspapers and the proposed screening of an anti-Islam film in Holland. Traffic was suspended on the route of the rally […]


Balochistan lawyers boycott courts

QUETTA, March 18: Lawyers boycotted courts here on Tuesday and took out a procession. They condemned the remarks made by Advocate Latif Khosa against the president of SCBA Aitzaz Ahsan and warned that similar rallies would be held in other cities if the remarks were not withdrawn. The procession taken out from the district court […]


Seminary students protest: Blasphemous images

HYDERABAD, March 18: A large number of young seminary students staged a rally on Tuesday against republication of blasphemous caricatures by Danish media. Heads of different madrassahs who led the rally urged the government to sever diplomatic relations with Denmark and expel the country’s ambassador in Pakistan. They said that if the European countries did […]


Manzar on contemporary literature and literary criticism

Shamim Manzar, head of the German Language Department, Goethe Institut Karachi is not only a teacher but also a fiction writer, a poet and translator. He has recently published an Urdu novel titled Zawal se Pehley which portrays the life and miseries of individuals who consider and question existence in a class-based society full of […]


IJT rally protests against blasphemous sketches

LARKANA (APP) – A rally to protest the publication of blasphemous sketches in the press of Denmark was held here Sunday under aegis of Islami ]amiat- e- Talaba (IJT) Larkana Division. Provincial Nazim of I]T, Ali Buriro, Kashif Shaikh and Ashique Dhamrahu advocate, led the rally from Zulfikar Bagh, through the main roads of the […]


Non-Muslims join anti-blasphemy protest

KARACHI – Nearly all the religious communities of the country on Sunday strongly denounced the blasphemous caricatures of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and demanded of the government and recently elected legislators to immediately expel the ambassadors of Denmark and Holland from the country. The clerics of various Muslim sects and other religions, including Christians, Hindu, […]


Foreigners’ haunt bombed in capital: woman dead

ISLAMABAD, March 15: Terrorists on Saturday night targeted a popular hang-out of foreign nationals, mostly western diplomats and journalists, by hitting the place with a powerful explosive device, killing a Turkish woman and injuring over a dozen guests who were having their weekend dinner. The Turkish lady who died in the blast at Luna Caprese, […]


Shikarpur repoll pleas adjourned to 17th

KARACHI, March 15: The Sindh High Court on Saturday adjourned the hearing of writ petitions moved by two National People’s Party candidates unofficially declared returned from NA-202 and PS-12 (Shikarpur) to March 17 for further arguments on the election commission’s authority to order partial re-balloting in a constituency in exercise of its powers under Section […]


Qari Saifullah’s counsel to sue Benazir’s book publisher, beneficiaries

The counsel of a Jihadi outfit leader, who is currently under arrest for allegedly masterminding the Karsaz suicide bombings at a PPP rally on October 18 last year, has said that he is going to sue the printer, publisher and beneficiaries of late PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto’s book for ‘falsely accusing’ his client of being […]


Cases of condemned prisoners, juveniles, women to be disposed of within 3 months

ISLAMABAD: The chief justices of the country approved on Friday the constitution of special benches for the disposal of cases related to condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders and female inmates within three months. In a meeting presided over by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Abdul Hameed Dogar, the chief justices of the Lahore, Sindh, Peshawar, Balochistan, […]


People show anger over blasphemous sketches

KARACHI – Karachiites Friday expressed their angered sentiments against reprinting of blasphemous sketches by the Denmark newspapers and an anti-Islamic film by Holland against the Islam. The City on Friday remained mainly closed due to strike call given by Sunni Tehreek and main shopping corridors of the City remained closed and thin presence of public […]


NRO beneficiaries reluctant to restore judges: Wajihuddin

KARARCHI – Beneficiaries of National Reconciliation Order (NRO) are reluctant to restore all the deposed judges and want to protect the CPO judges, said Justice (R) Wajihuddin Ahmed while addressing the joint general body meeting of Karachi Bar Association (KBA) held at Shuhada-e-Punjab Hall here on Thursday. The local lawyers observed ‘Black Flag Week’ on […]


Students hold rally against caricatures’ republication: resolutions submitted to UN and Dutch Embassy

ISLAMABAD (March 14 2008): Students from the twin cities on Thursday rallied against the republication of blasphemous material and submitted their resolutions to the United Nations, the OIC and embassy of Denmark. The blasphemous cartoons were first published by Jyllands-Posten in September 2005; approximately two weeks later, nearly 3,500 people demonstrated peacefully in Copenhagen. Afterwards […]


Strike against derogatory sketches

SHEIKHUPURA, March 10: A shutter down strike was observed here on Monday to protest the republication of blasphemous caricatures by the Danish media. The strike call was given by traders’ associations to express their resentment over the unholy act of the European country’s media. Traders, religious and social circles, civil society organisations and citizens took […]