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Posts Tagged ‘Jamat ud Dawa’

Hafiz Saeed : Should We Get Rid of Him?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Aug 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Why not? People like Hafiz Saeed are just symbolic entities which can be sacrificed and cashed if and when needed.
Whether Indians accept it or not, Hafiz Saeed is not really a terrorist. He has no say in the matters of any Lashkar within and outside Pakistan, and he was mainly involved in forming his own [...]



Hafiz Saeed’s Release ; Timely Decision

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jun 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The Lahore High Court on Tuesday ordered the release of Jamatud Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and another leader of the group, Col (retd) Nazir Ahmad, observing that the government had insufficient grounds to detain them. Where this decison has provided another leverage to the Pakistani authorities to control the terrorism in the country, arch-rival [...]



Credibility of United Nations Sinks To New Low

By Ali Yar Khan • Dec 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Well, what the heck United Nations has achieved ever besides of acting like a puppy of United States of America? It’s a tool in the hands of world power to watch guard the interests throughout the world. That happened in the case of Iraq, when UN “approved” America to attack Iraq on the pretext of [...]



Foreign Policies’ Impacts

By Farid Masood • Dec 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Foreign policies always do have a direct impact on internal affairs. Weaker foreign postures strain interior atmosphere. History tells us time gap (successful) foreign policies made much damage to interior issues of every country. When it comes to safeguard interests of others due to external pressure own interests become hard to safeguard. Sometime, it may [...]



Ask Mrs. Karkare: Was It Lashker or BJP?

By A Khokar • Dec 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The timing of Mumbai terror is well planned, just before Indian state elections! So who will reap the benefit? Lashkar-e-Taiba or BJP? If ISI did it, then they must be stupid. And they are not.
I am in receipt of an E mail which says;
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Thursday, 11 December 2008. If the America’s lapdogs in the [...]



Even China Backed Ban on Jamaat ud Dawa : Diplomacy Failure

By Gul Raiz • Dec 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In the wake of UN Security Council resolution, which added four leaders of a militant group to a list of people and groups facing sanctions for ties with al-Qaeda or the Taliban, even Pakistan’s time tested friend China hasn’t vetoed the resolution. The resolution also recommended freezing the assets of the group and banning the [...]



Jamat ud Dawa and the Image of Islam

By Kiran Ali • Dec 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Another front page story of terrorism and a wave of questions coming our way. Islamic political parties through out the world must learn a lesson from this that they are under a continuous attack of image tarnishing. They have been projected in front of this world as demons for quite some time now and none [...]



Pakistan’s Ban on Jamaat ud Dawa : A Timely Step

By Gul Raiz • Dec 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

After the Mumbai attacks, may be India tried to leverage the situation and put pressure on Pakistan, but the matter of the fact is that this is the golden chance for Pakistan to clear the country off the militancy. We have already seen the fire, blood and bloody ricochet of such non-sense strategy of cultivating [...]



Profile of Jamat ud Dawa

By Rohail Butt • Dec 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Jama’at-ud-Da’wah is a movement that aims to spread the true teachings of Islam, and to establish a pure and peaceful society by building the character of individuals according to those teachings.  It is necessary to improve not only the belief of an individual but also his or her deeds and actions, only then an individual [...]



Pakistan Starts Operation Aganinst Jama’at ud da’awa

By Gul Raiz • Dec 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics

As the India threatens Pakistan, and United States along with rest of the world pushes Pakistan to satisfy India, at last an operation is being carried out in the Muzzaffarabad region of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan on a camp of Jamatud Dawa. India has been blaming the Laskhar-e-Taiba, which formerly belong to Jamat ud Dawa for [...]