CIA Chief Petraeus resigns due to extramarital affair
Russian TV: CIA Director David Petraeus has announced he will resign from the Central Intelligence Agency. Petraeus, age 60, released a statement on Friday obtained by CNN confirming that his […]
Million-name petition and Nobel calls for Malala: UN Envoy Brown
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: More than a million people have signed a global petition supporting shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, UN envoy Gordon Brown said Friday, amid calls for her to be […]
Try a little love
Atifa Ahmed, Calgary Herald Published: Saturday, November 03, 2012 Re: “The liberation of a Jew hater into a Zionist,” Licia Corbella, Opinion, Oct. 27. I think everything Licia Corbella tried to say can be summed up in Kasim Hafeez’s words: “Life is just so much better when you’re not so angry […]
جاپان کی سب سے مشہور یونیورسٹی میں حضرت محمد مصطفی صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم بطور امن کے سفیر کے موضوع پر تقریر
جاپان کی سب سے بڑی اور مشہور ٹوکیو یونیورسٹی میں اسلام اور انسانیت نیز حضرت محمد مصطفی صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم بطور امن کے سفیر کے موضوع پر تقریر کے لیے […]
Building Better Bridges in Barrie, Ontario
Building Better Bridges in Barrie-1 TIKKUN OLAM-Heal the Word The city of Barrie witnessed a unique event this morning; city council’s first Annual Interfaith Breakfast – sharing spirituality enlightenment over […]
Researchers develop effective thermal energy storage system
Source: R&D Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a thermal energy storage system that will work as a viable alternative to current methods used for storing energy collected from solar panels. Incorporating the researchers’ design into the operation of a concentrated solar power plant will dramatically increase […]
An uncanny victim of Faizabad riots
Source: The Hindu A bilingual publication that promotes communal harmony — ‘Aap ki Taaqat’ – was targeted by mobs during the recent Faizabad riots The recent Faizabad communal riot witnessed the usual religious symbols and shops being targeted in an attempt to disturb the communal amity of the city, which […]
Nearly 100 Missing As Rohingya Refugee Boat Sinks
Source: RTT News Nearly 100 people reported missing after a rickety boat carrying Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar to Malaysia sank off the Bangladesh coast early on Wednesday morning, reports quoting officials said. A top official of the Bangladesh Border Guard said the vessel was carrying around 110 passengers when […]
More loyal than the king
Source: ET There they go again, the Ghairat Brigades, so trying to prove themselves loyal to the king that they have become more loyal than him. Hehehe, what fun it is to watch them yet another time do contortions, turn cartwheels and jump through hoops trying to prove that the […]
Bangladesh seeks Pakistan apology for 1971 war crimes
Source: ET Bangladesh’s foreign minister asks Khar to apologise for war crimes committed by army in 1971. PHOTO: AFP/ FILE DHAKA: Bangladesh’s foreign minister on Friday asked his Pakistani counterpart to apologise for war crimes committed by the army during Bangladesh’s bloody liberation struggle in 1971, a ministry official said. Dipu […]
Seven members of US Navy SEAL Team 6 punished for secrecy breach
Source: TOI This product image released by Electronic Arts shows action from the video game ‘Medal of Honor: Warfighter.’ WASHINGTON: Seven members of US Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in carrying out a raid that killed al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, have been reprimanded for allegedly […]
A Blessing to Live in Germany
Source: Spiegel What a blessing it is, one must conclude, to live in Germany, a country where the highways are regularly repaired and the washing machines use so little water that one could water the entire Sahara with what is left over. In which citizens’ initiatives are formed against McDonald’s, […]
Not much blue sky on the horizon for Germany
Source: The Local With grey skies and intermittent rain on the cards, there’s little here to raise the spirits. While the temperatures should remain relatively mild, the overall outlook is uninspiring. The west looks set to get off more lightly on Friday, with heavy rain-bearing clouds concentrated in the east. […]
Pakistani rhetoric blind to reality. Human Right Issue: What actually happened in Geneva?
Source: Asiatimes: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar carefully crafted an opening speech boasting about the achievements of the Pakistan Peoples Party-led government since 2008. The speech made repeated mention of the catch-words “democracy” and “women’s rights”. Even drone strikes – or their purported illegality rather – surprisingly received a paragraph […]
Islamic Law,Adoptions and Kafalah
Islamic Law, Adoptions, and Kafalah by Faisal Kutty / November 8th, 2012 There hasn’t been a concerted push to open doors for Muslim orphans because the expectation would be that those efforts would fall flat… – Chuck Johnson, chief executive, National Council for Adoption Conventional wisdom — among both Muslims and non-Muslims — […]
Should Chilean banks force ‘no hijab’ on Muslim women customers?
(WNN) Santiago, CHILE: When 40-year-old Chilean citizen Ms. Fabiola Palominos Flores converted to Islam in 2007 she started wearing a hijab (headscarf) as part of her identity as a Muslim woman living in Chile. But at the time she didn’t know she would run into trouble. On August 2010 Palominos […]
‘Reading can mould your personality’
Reading can mould the personality and transform people, according to Shaikh Sultan bin Ahmad Al Qasimi, Chairman of the Sharjah Media Centre. Speaking at the sidelines of the ongoing Sharjah International Book Fair, Shaikh Sultan bin Ahmad Al Qasimi said there is much to gain by interacting with leading authors, […]
Justin Welby confirmed as next archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby, a former oil executive who was made a bishop just over a year ago, has been appointed the next leader of the Church of England, Downing Street confirmed on Friday morning. A statement on the website of the prime minister’s office said the Queen had nominated Welby. A […]
Assad vows to ‘live and die’ in Syria
Agence France Presse ARABNEWS DAMASCUS: A defiant President Bashar Assad rejected on Thursday calls he seek a safe exit, vowing he would “live in Syria and die in Syria,” as […]
Missteps by Rebels Erode Their Support Among Syrians
By ANNE BARNARD THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria’s rebel fighters — who have long staked claim to the moral high ground for battling dictatorship — are losing crucial support from a public increasingly disgusted by the actions of some rebels, including poorly planned missions, senseless destruction, criminal […]