Tag: Islamabad
Close aide of Abdul Aziz goes missing; Lal Masjid cordoned off
Jul 21, 2020: Trouble flared in Islamabad yet again as Maulana Idrees, the close aide of Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Aziz, went missing outside Jamia Fareedia in E-7 on July 15. Lal Masjid has once again been cordoned off to prevent Abdul Aziz from ...
Traders to honk in protest in front of PM house
Jul 18, 2020: Honking in protest, traders from across Pakistan led a car rally from Lahore, headed for the Prime Minister House in Islamabad. They complain that it has become nearly impossible to do business due to heavy taxation by the ...
IHC dismisses petitions against halting of mandir construction
Jul 08, 2020: After a suspenseful silence, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has finally dismissed the petitions filed against the construction of the Shri Krishna Temple, and has directed the Islamabad ...
Hunger, not Coronavirus will kill us: say slum dwellers
Jul 06, 2020: The health services of the capital announced contact-tracing and testing for the coronavirus in the abandoned slums of Islamabad under the Trace, Test and Quarantine (TTQ) policy on 29th of June but for slum dwellers, the novel ...
Hindu community stands firm in face of fatwa and petition against temple
Jul 2, 2020: Just a few days after the groundbreaking ceremony of the capital’s first Hindu temple being constructed, a fatwa was issued by Jamia Ashrafia declaring the act ‘un-Islamic and illegal’. The fatwa came from Mufti Ziauddin of Jamia ...
Temple at last for the Hindus of Islamabad
Jun 28, 2020: A small ceremony was held this week to lay grounds for the construction of a Hindu temple in Islamabad, which will be called Shri Krishna Temple. The Shri Krishna ‘mandir’ will be Islamabad’s first functional temple for the Hindu ...
End of an alliance pushes Balochistan further away
Jun 29, 2020: The current situation in Balochistan seems conducive for a political upheaval as widespread protests have erupted in the province against what the locals describe as the excesses of the death squads and criminal gangs ...
In Shameful Surrender, Government Appeases Abdul Aziz
Jun 8, 2020: The controversial Maulana Abdul Aziz of Lal Masjid fame is firmly back in the spotlight as the government has reached an agreement with him whereby, he and his family have vacated Lal Masjid G-6 today (8th June 2020) and moved to the ...
IHC Gives Landmark Judgement In Favour Of Animals
Recognizing the rights of animals, Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Athar Minallah on Thursday, May 21, ordered the prompt relocation of the wildlife held in captivity at the Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad to sanctuaries within or ...
Islamabad Emerging From The Lockdown With Infections On The Rise
The government eased restrictions on Pakistan’s partial lockdown claiming that by extending it, the poor would starve. But as soon as businesses opened, people from the higher and middle-income bracket groups were ...
