Topic: Lal Masjid

An anti-terror Pakistani Mullah Maulana Hasan Jan has been assassinated Saturday. According to details, Maulana Hasan Jan had gone to attend the marriage ceremony of a local party leader. After the ceremony, he was going to the nearest mosque to attend evening ...
The world is poised on the horns of a dilemma due to twofold extremisms. Since the birth of this country most of the rulers used the slogan of Islam for their own vested interests of strengthening grip on the bridle of power ...
Deadly new militant group emerges in Pakistan to avenge army assault on Red Mosque 3 years agoPakistani authorities now believe a dangerous new militant group, out to avenge a deadly army assault on a mosque in Islamabad three years ago, has carried ...

Mind body and spirit

Mind, body and spirit Carla Power Madrasah Life Mohammed Akram an-Nadwi Turath Publishing, 104pp, ?7.95 The recent siege at Islamabad's Red Mosque fo- cused western attention, once again, on the in- stitution of the madrasa. Jamia Hafsa, the seminary linked ...

Battle for Pakistans soul

This article discusses the struggle between the Pakistani state and the jihadists, the storming of the Red Mosque in Islamabad, and how Pakistan is facing one of the most serious political crises in modern history. Despite the fact that the crisis over ...

Pakistan the exPMs roadshow

In this article the author discusses the political state of Pakistan during 2007. The declining authority of president Pervez Musharraf is indicated by the proposed return to Pakistan of two former leaders Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto. Barely four months ago it ...

The McCann case is all in our minds

The article discusses a case concerning a missing British infant, Madeleine McCann, and the September 2007 announcement that her parents are suspects in the crime. The battle for the Red Mosque in Is- lamabad in July was the real breaking point in ...
Islamabad's radical Red Mosque is getting a refit, two years after a deadly siege by government troops and as fears grow of an extremist resurgence against Pakistan's anti-Islamist crackdown.Government forces surrounded the mosque on July 3, 2007, following a ...

War Reporters’ Top Travel Secrets

?So, the journalist goes up to the baggage check and says, 'I want to send this bag to Ulaanbaatar and the other one to Rio.'?. ) So Travel + Leisure asked some of the world's most intrepid foreign correspondents for travel advice?what ...

Bailed cleric calls for Islamic order in Pakistan

The most radical mosque in Islamabad reverberated Friday with calls for jihad as a cleric released on bail asked thousands of people to make sacrifices to turn Pakistan into an Islamic order.Maulana Abdul Aziz, captured two years ago during a siege ...