HAFIZ Muhammad Saeed, the head of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), toured Britain during the 1990s, stirring up Muslim youths to become jihadis years before 9/11, a BBC investigation has found. Hafiz Saeed, who has a $10 million bounty on his head for allegedly masterminding the Nov 2008 attacks in Mumbai, thrilled audiences in packed mosques in cities around this country by calling for a return to the days when Muslims waged jihad and infidels paid them protection money. Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has always denied involvement in…
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‘Fire and Fury’ predicts Trump’s ‘political demise’, says North Korean newspaper
North Korea has found good material to attack United States (US) President Donald Trump: Michael Wolff’s bombshell new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.” The book paints Trump as a leader who doesn’t understand the weight of his office and whose competence is questioned by aides. Trump and other White House aides have blasted it as inaccurate trash. But it was the top-selling book in the US last week, and its numbers are likely to grow far higher. On Thursday, the North’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper, run…
Read MoreZainab murder case: Punjab police chief submits report to Supreme Court
After Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar took suo motu notice of the brutal murder of six-year-old Zainab in Kasur, Inspector General Punjab Arif Nawaz Khan submitted a report to the Supreme Court on Thursday saying that 272 suspects have been questioned about the incident. The report said that geo-fencing data from the area was acquired and all resources are being employed to catch the culprit. It also said a house-to-house search was being conducted based on the information provided by the last witness of the crime. It said…
Read MoreSheikhupura man suspected of raping, murdering 8-year-old killed by police
With riots triggered by perceived police inaction over the rape and murder of 6-year-old Zainab Amin continuing throughout the day in Kasur, the alleged murderer and rapist of an 8-year-old child was killed in Punjab’s Sheikhupura district by police on Wednesday night. Police say Shiraz Arif Raja had abducted, raped and murdered 8-year-old Maliha, whose body was found in a pile of trash on January 4 stuffed in a gunny bag. Maliha, who had been visiting Sheikhupura to spend winter vacations with her maternal uncle’s family, had gone missing on December 29.…
Read More6-year-old Zainab’s autopsy suggests child endured rape, captivity before murder
A postmortem examination conducted on 6-year-old Zainab, whose body was recovered from a trash heap in Kasur days after she went missing, suggests she may have been raped before she was strangled to death. District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) Medico Legal Officer (MLO) Dr Quratulain Attique told Dawn.com on Thursday that the examination revealed the minor girl had died of strangulation. There were visible marks of torture on the child’s face, congestion in her muscles, and her tongue was badly bruised and injured as it was pressed between her teeth. She added that the hyoid…
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تحریر: سید سبطین شاہ ان دنوں ایک معصوم بچی کے ساتھ زیادتی اور اس کے وحشیانہ قتل کی خبر زبان زد عام ہے۔ یہ واقعہ ایک ایسے شہر میں ہوا جس کا تعلق پنجابی زبان کے عظیم صوفی وفلسفی شاعراور ولی خدا حضرت عبداللہ شاہ المعروف ’’بابا بلھے شاہ‘‘ سے ہے۔ شہرقصور بابابلھے کے نام سے جانا جاتاہے۔ بابا بلھے شاہ مغلیہ عروج کے دوران پیدا ہوئے اور انھوں نے اپنے گرانبہا کلام کے ذریعے انسانی معاشرے کی اصلاح کی کوشش کی۔ قصور میں سات سالہ زینب کے ساتھ یہ…
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