An update on this story. “Mardan barbers warned not to shave beards,” from the Daily Times: MARDAN: After Dir and Bajaur, barbers in Mardan have also received letters from a purported jihadi outfit to stop shaving beards. Sana hairdresser, a barbershop in the Par Hoti area, has received a letter from an organisation called Tanzeemul […]
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Pakistan and Iran to strengthen ties
Is Pakistan backing what it sees as the strong horse? Friend and Ally Update: “Pak-Iran cooperation to continue in future, says Sherpao,” from Pakistan News Service, with thanks to DFS: ISLAMABAD: Interior Minster Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has said that ongoing cooperation between Pakistan and Iran in various fields would be furtherer strengthened in future, […]
Pakistan: Jihadists bomb music and video shops
The fact that Islamic law forbids music is often ignored by Muslims, and bringing it up will get you a quick charge of “Islamophobia” in the U.S. today. But in Pakistan, Islamic jihadists know full well that Islam forbids music, and are acting upon it. The moral of this story is: Never accept a random […]
Pakistani women “married” to Qur’an to keep property in the family, protect bloodlines
While not a mainstream Islamic practice, “marriage to the Qur’an” is clearly the product of a society where women are the property of men, and where the nature of that relationship, as defined by the Qur’an, is enshrined as the divinely determined order of things, and thus highly resistant to change. “Prominent families in Sindh […]
Pakistan: Man faces life in jail for desecrating Quran
Sharia Alert. “President General Pervez Musharraf tried to reform the law in 2000, months after he took power in a bloodless coup, but had to drop that plan after widespread protests from powerful religious parties.” “Man faces life in jail for desecrating Quran,” by Imtiaz Shah for GulfNews, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Karachi: A […]
Top Pakistan nuclear scientists in Taliban custody
So says Zee News (thanks to Davida): New Delhi, March 07: Two top nuclear scientists of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) are currently in Taliban custody. The two were working at PAEC”s facility in North West Frontier Province. Zee News investigations reveal that the two scientists were kidnapped about six months ago. To avoid international […]
Taliban, Al-Qaeda regrouping in Pakistan
A Stop-The-Presses Alert from the Secretary of Defense. “Taliban, Al-Qaeda regrouping in Pak: Gates,” by Sridhar Krishnaswami for PTI, : Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said Taliban and Al-Qaeda are using Pakistan’s tribal areas particularly north Waziristan to regroup, a problem the United States is trying to address with Islamabad. “I would say the Taliban […]
Bombings destroy music store, barbershops in Pakistani border area
An escalation from written warnings to bombings while the shops are closed. One assumes the next step will be bombings during business hours. “Bombs raze music centre,” from the Daily Times: KHAR: Five shops, including a music centre and two barbershops, were destroyed in two bomb blasts in Inayat Kalay town, about six kilometres from […]
Senior Taliban leader held in Pakistan
A major setback to the retalibanization of Afghanistan, and evidence that the recent calling of Pakistan to account is having some effect, at least in the short term. From Reuters, : ISLAMABAD/KABUL (Reuters) – Pakistani security forces have captured a high-ranking Taliban leader in the southwestern city of Quetta, a senior Pakistani security official and […]
Pakistani policeman murders Ahmadi “infidel”
The Ahmadi sect is one of the few Muslim groups that eschews jihad violence, and for this reason among others it is persecuted and vilified as heretical by other Muslim groups. Westerners sometimes point to the Ahmadiyya as evidence that Islam can reform and become peaceful, and attach a great deal of hope to the […]