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Posts Tagged ‘Quran’

Evil Eye

By Mohammad Yusha • Feb 2nd, 2012 • Category: Features

Evil eye has existed since centuries but has never been a topic of real discussion. Since black magic is thought of to be dangerous, it takes the spotlight. However, the damage that the evil eye can do should not be underestimated.
In South Asian countries, the level of jealousy is unimaginable. People are distressed more by [...]



Call to the Muslim Scholars

By Aftab Alam • Jan 29th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Al Qur’an, is not an ordinary religious book, it’s the only authentic Divine Book, its Al Kitab. It is Allah Almighty Final Testament, which was bestowed by Allah Almighty through His final Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) for the genuine guidance of entire human race in this life as well as hereafter. It’s the only Divine book, [...]



Has the People’s Revolution Arrived?

By Dr. Haider Mehdi • Jan 2nd, 2012 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“There is a difference between those who can see and those who cannot.”
–An Islamic tenant from the Qur’an.

Today’s most important question is: Has the people’s revolution arrived in Pakistan?
Indeed, Imran Khan’s promised “tsunami” hit the Karachi shores on Quaid-e-Azam’s birthday at Quaid’s ‘mizaar’ – a symbolic re-birth of Quaid’s dream.  There [...]



Make Love Not War

By Shaukat Masood Zafar • Dec 10th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Everyday when we rise in the morning and switch the TV on or go through the newspapers, we are confronted with the same sad news: bomb blasts, violence, crime, suicides, wars, and disasters. I cannot recall a single day without a report of something terrible happening somewhere in Pakistan. Even in these modern times it [...]



The Traces of Sufism

By Ayaz Kolachi • Nov 16th, 2011 • Category: Features

The first article of mine that stirred many people out of their slumber-though many of them for the wrong reasons-was nevertheless an awful spicy ride through the peaks and vales of the critics.Many of them personalized the issue as if  i was twitching their ears but there were a few heads who left aside the [...]



Zardari Mirza Notanki

By Jalal Ahmad • Nov 14th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Mirza and Zardari soap opera has reached new heights in recent days. Fierce it may look but it is just a good guy bad guy routine.
Zardari risked losing the entire nationalist vote in Sindh by his unrelenting commitment to alliance with MQM. And he had a scare when Sindhi nationalists gathered a storm in response [...]



Sufism : An antidote to all brands of terrorism

By Ayaz Kolachi • Nov 9th, 2011 • Category: Features

If angels were to descend on earth and hold us to book for the wrongs that we have perpetrated, surely most of us will untie their seat belts in anger telling them about the number of good things that they are so zealously wedded to.The list might be stretchy,but most of them will feel overwhelmingly [...]



Open Inquiry

By Dawar Naqvi • Oct 18th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There’s nothing more dangerous than an idiot political activist. On Oct 8th ex home Minister Mr. Zulfiqar Mirza appeared in the talk show. Once again he used very terrible language against some political parties and their leaders. In his world he and only late PPP leaderships Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto and Mr. Zardari are [...]



9 / 11 Episode Revisited

By Inam R Sehri • Sep 21st, 2011 • Category: Politics

Exactly a decade back, on 19th September 2001, Gen Musharraf addressed the nation, acknowledging that many Pakistanis were bitterly opposed to his policy of support for the US in its efforts to track down Osama Bin Laden and dealing with his Al-Qaeda. He made it clear that ‘the US plans are not an attack on [...]



Zulfikar Mirza’s Political Blast

By Tahir Hameed • Aug 29th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Zulfiqar Mirza sahib has resigned from the cabinet. In a press conference, he swore upon the Quran that MQM was behind the unrest in Pakistan. He further revealed that ambulance services in Karachi had been used for kidnapping people and for dispatching and dumping dead bodies.
It has been further revealed that the MQM had succeeded [...]