Pakistanis attend a funeral prayer of the victims of Friday’s bombing in Karachi, Pakistan on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. – AP Pakistan Government must target militants in Karachi: MQM KARACHI: Thousands of people Saturday attended the funeral of 14 people killed in Friday’s double  bomb attack in Karachi, as the death toll from the assault rose overnight to 31. “Six more people died overnight, raising the death toll to 31,” provincial government spokesman Jameel Soomro told AFP. He said at least 170 wounded people were being treated at various hospitals around Karachi. At a funeral Saturday for some of those … Continue reading Mullahs silent and smiling as thousands attend funeral as death toll rises to 31

ORAKZAI AGENCY: Taliban commander Noor Jamal alias Toofan Mullah has been declared as new caretaker chief of banned outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistab by Taliban Shura, SAMAA reported Wednesday. Taliban Shura met at the area of Argonga in Mamozai. Taliban Shura decided to appoint Noor Jamal alias Toofan Mullah as the new caretaker chief of banned outfit TTP. Taliban commander Noor Jamal alias Toofan Mullah was the commander of Orakzai Agency and Kurrum Agency. Noor Jamal alias Toofan Mullah have been involved in torturing common people and beheading his own companions. Toofan Mullah is very famous in Taliban for his militant thinking. … Continue reading ‘Toofan Mullah!’ as new TTP caretaker chief Takfiri Terror Mullah in Pakistan

New digital tools, such as RjDj and MXP4, are set to transform the way we listen to music from a passive to fully interactive experience. By Emma Barnett, Technology and Digital Media Correspondent RjDj joined forces with Little Boots last year to launch an iPhone app which allows her music to be altered by people’s environments. Photo: RjDj Despite the rapid evolution of music media in the past 30 years, from vinyl to MP3s, the industry is acutely aware that the way we listen to music has hardly changed – it has remained a passive process, allowing little interactivity. The … Continue reading The future sound of music

Equality: a two way street Religious minorities rightly demand freedom from discrimination. But they must offer the same in return Tehmina Kazi guardian.co.uk, The question: Does faith trump equality? The government’s recent defeat on religious exemptions in the equality bill has propelled us into difficult, yet depressingly familiar, terrain. How do we make our way through the panoply of groups that comprise society, and preserve a balance between the conflicting interests that arise? According to the pope, the balance has swung too far in favour of non-religious groups. In a speech to UK-based Catholic bishops this week, he claimed that … Continue reading Religious poeple rightly demand freedom from discrimination. But they must offer the same in return

S Khalid Husain The Punjab chief secretary left the scene of the accident after his chauffeur-driven vehicle knocked down and killed an ex-army officer; this was a cold-blooded act no different from that of a hit-and-run driver. This was a grave error on part of the chief secretary and speaks volumes for the arrogance and colonial mindset of the country’s bureaucrats. Maybe saying ‘colonial mindset’ is being unfair to the colonial civil servant, who would never have left the scene, and never mind if he was not driving, without making absolutely certain that the victim was fully tended, in good … Continue reading Hit and left to die

Zafar Hilaly America entered Afghanistan eight years ago to drive out the Taliban. Last week in London the Taliban were being invited, actually importuned, to return and share power. And, what is more, offered $1.5 billion over a five-year period to inveigle them to do so. Nations are entitled to change their minds, but when they adjust their principles some explanation is necessary. There was none in London. Likewise, eight years ago we were regaled with grainy newsreels of executions of adulterous women by the Taliban in Kabul. Those who wished could also view amputations interspersed with stomach churning accounts … Continue reading The London non-conference

Ayaz Amir We live in a world of our own, obsessed with self-created problems, and lashing out at windmills which, much of the time, seem wild creations of our own imagination. To real problems we are oblivious. We are not even aware, as keenly as we should be, of our own neighbourhood. It is nothing short of criminal that our media outlets don’t have full-time correspondents based in Kabul and Delhi. Our knowledge of our two neighbours, to the west and east of us, is largely derived from outside sources — western news outlets — when it should be through … Continue reading Fumbling response to a ‘cold’ doctrine

Why even some of the most zealous non-believers may abandon the crusade against religion. BY ROBERT WRIGHT Three years ago Wired magazine popularized the term “New Atheism” with a cover story about the “crusade against belief” launched by Richard Dawkins (No. 18), Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris. (Christopher Hitchens, No. 47, filled out the roster later.) Now the crusade is encountering powerful and possibly pivotal resistance. It isn’t that the citadels of faith are rolling back the tide of unbelief. Among intellectuals — a target audience of the New Atheists — professing traditional faith is no more common than it … Continue reading The Anti-God Squad Mullahs!