The Pakistani Spectator

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Posts Tagged ‘sunni’

Kill Me Because I Am Not Among You

By Rai Azlan • Sep 4th, 2010 • Category: Features

I have grown up, like many others, in an environment and society where no one was happy to tell me the simple fact that I am Muslim and I belong to Pakistan. It sounds strange but it is a fact, because we have a very strong sense of details we love to divide everything and [...]



Innocent Shias killed: What was their Crime?

By Mohammad Yusha • Sep 3rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Innocent Shias have been killed. 31 dead and 281 injured injured. What was the crime of those killed? That they are Shias? And what about the killers? Did they become better than the Shias by killing them?
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced a compensation of Rs 500,000 for the heirs of each of those killed and [...]



Twilight on the Tigris

By Prof. Michael Brenner • Mar 2nd, 2010 • Category: Worth A Second Look



Moharram Processions Should Be Held Indoors

By Altaf Khan • Dec 26th, 2009 • Category: Features

The first 10 to 12 days of first month of every Islamic year become a problem for the Pakistanis, as the sectarian tension increases between the Sunni and Shia Muslims.
Especially during the first ten days, Shia Muslims produce procession to mourn the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA). These processions pass through the whole cities [...]



The complex of Casts and Sects: The seed planted by the British has grown in to a poisenous Tree of Hatred!

By Mian Usman • Jul 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Divide and Rule, the golden and proven successful policy of the British which helped them in ruling the Sub-continent for years. The irony is that they landed on our land with a handful of traders who formed East India Company.
Read the history and relate it to our present day scenario, Are not we spending rather [...]



Talibanic Nizam-e-Adal, a new innovative as Shariah

By Dr RazaHaider • Apr 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Taliban’s and similar siblings are known culprits as deviant who have macerated the real picture of Islam and, under no means prerogative as awarded by functionaries in lieu of this grant as Nizam-e-Adal is acceptable, ethically, morally and legally.



Mutah : Should It Be Implemented as Law?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Apr 20th, 2009 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

The Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan, in its meeting here, has discussed the proposal of “Post-Divorce Muta” for wives as ordained in the Holy Quran by revisiting the half-century-old Muslim Family Law Ordinance 1961 and the West Pakistan Family Courts Act 1964 keeping in view the changing needs of the society. The commission observed [...]



Shiites the Very Next Victim of W. ON. T or Talibanic Shariah

By Dr RazaHaider • Feb 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In my opinion this talibanic version of Islam is not at all acceptable, and under no means and manner deliberate pasting of self proclaimed Islamic principality would be accepted as Shariah.



Carnage in Dera

By Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi • Feb 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The suicidal bomb blast in the funeral procession in my hometown Dera Ismail Khan on 20th like before left more than thirty dead and twice of them wounded.  It was a target attack on the Shia as they were carrying the funeral of a Shia activist gunned down a day before.   A similar attack was [...]



D.I Khan : Another Battleground After Swat

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Maulana Sufi Muhammad of the Tanzim Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) is busy in talking with his son-in-law in the Matta area of Swat valley, while fire erupts in the form of deadly suicide attacks in D.I Khan area of NWFP which borders with the tribal region and is one of the most sensitive areas of Pakistan when [...]