The Story of Mother Who Lost Her Daughter
Source: CNN Author: Amanda Enayati The first thing I do when I arrive in D.C. is lose my kid. Our plane has just landed at Reagan National Airport. My children […]
Source: CNN Author: Amanda Enayati The first thing I do when I arrive in D.C. is lose my kid. Our plane has just landed at Reagan National Airport. My children […]
Credit: CNN Perhaps Han Solo said it best in Star Wars when, describing his hyper-fast smuggling spaceship the Millennium Falcon, he said, “It may not look like much, but it’s got it where it counts.” While the Air Force might take exception to being likened to the Falcon, in reality […]
Credit: DODO CAN SPELL via Wasim Sroya The article below is a good one to help us understand the Ahmadiyya, a sect of Islam. The Ahmadis are to be found mostly in Pakistan and India. In Pakistan, they are the victims of terrorism and apartheid by the Sunnis who consider […]
By Paul Kokoski In the years following the collapse of Nazism and Communism much of the West turned its back on its hard-won freedom and voluntarily succumbed to a new dictatorship of relativism that is no less evil than the totalitarian regimes that preceded it. This new tyranny, Pope Benedict […]
Retail sales in the United States rose in July by the largest amount in five months, buoyed by more spending on autos, furniture and clothing. All major categories showed increases, a sign that consumers may be gaining confidence after the longest stretch of declines since the fall of 2008. The […]
http://tribune.com.pk/story/420803/fareed-zakaria–from-pundit-to-bandit/ The world of punditry, journalism, and all civilisation that is good and decent erupted on August 10 with the news that writer and commentator Fareed Zakaria plagiarised from the New Yorker in an article about gun control and the Second Amendment. This led to his being suspended from Time […]
Ten thousand dollars followed by a million dollars pile: One Hundred Million Dollars Pile One Trillion Dollars 16 Trillion Dollars, US Debt Ceiling for now $122 Trillion – US unfunded […]
Source: NY Times. It is one of the more elusive commercial cyberespionage tools available. It is marketed as a way for governments to spy on criminals. And for over a year, virus hunters unsuccessfully tried to track it down. Now it is popping up across the globe, from Qatar to […]
Source: AlJazeera Ramallah, occupied Palestinian territories – A dirty mattress fills up a space barely two metres long and one metre wide. A suffocating stench emanating from the toilet hovers over the windowless room, and a light turned on 24/7 means sleep is a distant dream. This is the infamous […]
‘Pakistan is for Islam’ By: The Nation Monitoring | August 14, 2012 | 14 ABBOTTABAD – Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Monday said Pakistan came into being in the name of Islam and no power could dare eliminate Islam from the country, reported a private TV channel. Addressing a special […]
Credit: ET Smile and (tsunami) wave – The politician. DESIGN: AMNA IQBAL & ESSA MALIK KARACHI: 1- Holier than thou – the dars aunty Much like the scorned mullah, the dars Aunty’s default settings are programmed in a manner that will surely drown you in self-loathing. She will seize every opportunity […]
Credit: Speigel: Banks, companies and investors are preparing themselves for a collapse of the euro. Cross-border bank lending is falling, asset managers are shunning Europe and money is flowing into German real estate and bonds. The euro remains stable against the dollar because America has debt problems too. But unlike […]
Geneva – Tensions between Iran and Israel have been making the news for several months. But while politics have often proved intractable, cultural efforts have shown that individual Iranians and […]
Palestine, (Pal Telegraph) – Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation, and denial of access to appropriate health care, such is […]
Credit: Stratfor: Crises are normally short, sharp and intense affairs. Israel’s predicament has developed on a different time frame, is more diffuse than most crises and has not reached a decisive and intense moment. But it is still a crisis. It is not a crisis solely about Iran, although the […]
Credit: TOI ISLAMABAD: Pakistan needs stricter laws to deal with terrorism, army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said in comments published on Tuesday. Addressing a parade at the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul town, Gen Kayani underlined that the entire world had framed new laws to punish terrorists. Geo TV […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Many Sunni Muslims have continued to harbor prejudices from medieval times, against Shia Muslims that are completely counterproductive in this day and age of […]
Credit: TOI NEW YORK: In the wake of the tragic Wisconsin gurdwara shooting, a senior New York City official has asked Mayor Michael Bloomberg to allow Sikh police officers to serve without forsaking their turbans and beards. More:
Credit: Asia Times: Mitt Romney, the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party ticket, has picked Paul Ryan, a seven-term congressman from Wisconsin, to be his running mate in this year’s US presidential election. It resulted in waves of elation among the Tea Party and conservative Republicans, as it pushed Romney […]
NABLUS, Palestinian Territories — A baby boy was born by Caesarian section on Monday, the product of a successful smuggling attempt by a Palestinian prisoner who managed to sneak out […]