There is a peculiar genius among certain Muslim intellectuals in the West: they can detect Islamophobia everywhere except where naming it might cost them something. In Paris, they are forensic. In Delhi, incandescent. In Gaza, thunderous. In Washington, fluent in the grammar of empire. But when Muslim political agency is crushed in Pakistan, when Imran Khan is imprisoned and millions of his supporters are treated as civic contamination, the vocabulary collapses. The seminar goes quiet.
#Opinion by Junaid S. Ahmad
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Sides represented at the talks in Islamabad:
➡️Iran: Abbas Aragchi & Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf
🇺🇸USA: JD Vance
🇮🇱Israel: Jared Kushner & Steve Witkof
☕️Coffe Break & Biscuits: Shehbaz Sharif🇵🇰
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
When I first visited Afghanistan in 2024, I went to the “Omid” (Hope) drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul, which was bombed by Pakistan last night.
Afghanistan has one of the most successful opium addiction rehabilitation programmes in the world. This is despite 20 years of a brutal US-led NATO occupation that proliferated opium usage domestically and monopolised its global exportation.
I met former addicts who had become Huffadh of the Quran, as well as electricians, tailors, carpenters, bricklayers, and teachers of Pashto, while others were studying English. Many had completely rebuilt their lives. Some had spent just three months there and never wanted to leave, choosing instead to stay on as mentors and volunteers to help others recover.
In the space of just a few years, opium addiction across parts of the country had dropped so significantly that in many towns and cities it had become almost non-existent.
To now see Pakistan bomb the same rehabilitation centre, killing at least 400 civilians, is deeply disturbing.
Those killed were patients, people who had entered that centre with hope. Muslims in the process of turning their lives around, who could have gone on to become Quran teachers, labourers, and contributors to their society.
To carry out such an attack in the concluding nights of Ramadan, at a time when the Muslim world is already in turmoil, is utterly shameful, regardless of any anti-terrorism justification put forward by Pakistan.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji‘oon.
اگر افغانستان کا بارڈر کھلا رہتا تو دھان کا ریٹ +6500تک چلے جانا تھا۔ایکسپورٹ سے کاشتکاروں کو کھلا پیسہ ملنا تھا۔اب آلو ،مٹر اور کنو بھی روڈوں پر ضائع ہونگے۔مزاکرات کے زریعے جتنی جلدی بارڈر کھولا جائے کسان کےلئے اچھا ہوگا
Youth of Pakistan must listen courageous Dr Amir Aziz carefully, he is unveiling existing corrupt system based on elite capture.
Future of Youth rests on strict Merit and devolution of power to people at grass root level.
Time to speak for rights.
مفتی زرولی خان صاحب رحمہ اللہ سے سوال کیا گیا کہ دجال کہاں ہے ؟
فرمایا، ، وہ جامعہ الرشید تک پہنچ گیا ہے۔
۔
یہ اس وقت کی بات ہے جب معاملہ ابھی پورا کھلا نہیں تھا۔
It’s not strength that overcomes darkness but light. Armies may rise, hearts may fail, yet still light endures, and its mightier than strength. For in its presence all darkness must flee.
As a Paediatrician, I've witnessed Children die, each one holding immense value. But it’s agonisingly painful seeing this, innocent children massacred. Nothing can be compared to this. This time in history the victims are filming a #genocide for the rest of us to see as Evidence
Subhanallah
يُرِيدُونَ لِيُطْفِـُٔوا۟ نُورَ ٱللَّهِ بِأَفْوَٰهِهِمْ وَٱللَّهُ مُتِمُّ نُورِهِۦ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ ٱلْكَـٰفِرُونَ
They want to extinguish the light of Allāh with their mouths, but Allāh will perfect His light, although the disbelievers dislike it.