The budget speech of Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh delivered today, 1 June 2012, has been hailed as being "historic" because it is the first time that a government has made it to the end of its five year term and presented a budget each year. So, this budget is not "historic" because it would provide affordable energy, or revive industry and agriculture, or give people relief from back breaking rises…

I write with reference to an article published in your daily on 26th of May 2012, entitled "LHC upholds ban on HT" by Ashraf Javed. We wish to raise the following points for the benefit of your readers 1. We notice that the reporter is the same one who wrote an article packed with lies in your newspaper of 14th April, 2012 entitled ‘19 Hizb ut-Tahrir men booked under sedition…

Having declared war on the work to establish the Khilafah "Caliphate", Kayani and his thugs from amongst the military and political leadership, have now "graduated" in filthy tactics from persecuting the shebaab of Hizb ut-Tahrir to persecuting their elderly and infirm fathers. At the bail hearing of a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir who was arrested during distribution in Peshawar, the police promptly detained

Respected media community, Assalamu Alaikum, On 11 May 2012, shortly before Jummah prayers, Pakistani secret agencies personnel, in plain clothes, seized Naveed Butt, the Official Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir in Pakistan, in front of his children of tender age, as he was returning home with them from school, bundling him into an agencies' vehicle, whilst leaving his children abandoned in the street. His whereabouts remain unknown