Russian TV: The US will significantly increase its military presence in the Philippines – an announcement that has angered China, whose Communist Party chief urged his military to prepare for a struggle and whose state-run media have criticized the agreement. The US announced in 2011 that it would increase joint […]
NY Times: By DECLAN WALSH The shootings followed a day of violence on Tuesday in the port city of Karachi in which four female health workers were killed. The attacks Wednesday brought the […]
Epigraph: Do not the disbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were a closed-up mass, then We opened them out? And We made from water every living thing. Will they not then […]
NY Times: By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Three weeks ago, the prime minister of India appointed Syed Asif Ibrahim as the new director of India’s Intelligence Bureau, its domestic intelligence-gathering agency. Ibrahim is a Muslim. India is a predominantly Hindu country, but it is also the world’s third-largest Muslim nation. India’s greatest security […]
An eerie silence hangs over what was once a busy highway that cuts through the mountains and makes for Latakia city By Ruth Sherlock, Latakia province The Telegraph Abu Yassin, […]
RAMALLAH, December 19, 2012 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday called on United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to help the Palestinian refugees in Syria, who are suffering from the bloody conflict there, to return to live in the Palestinian Territory. Abbas stressed the Palestinian position of non-interference in internal […]
AFP / NEWSWEEK PAKISTAN Gunmen opened fire on polio vaccinators in three separate attacks in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, seriously wounding one, officials said, following the earlier killings of six […]
RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARABNEWS Wednesday 19 December 2012 Abdullah bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Turki, secretary-general of the Makkah-based Muslim World League (MWL), will chair the maiden meeting of the general […]
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID ARABNEWS Wednesday 19 December 2012 Organization of Islamic Cooperation Secretary-General Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said yesterday that he would soon visit Myanmar as the head of a high-level delegation including OIC foreign ministers as part of efforts to stop the attacks against Rohingya Muslims. Addressing a press conference, […]
AFP | Dec 18, 2012 | 22:05 Updated: Dec 18, 2012 JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Key dates in the conflict over Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories seized by Israel in the June 1967 war: — June 1967: Arab-Israeli war in which Israel seizes East Jerusalem, the West Bank […]
Source: By Qasim Rashid As we prepare to lay 26 souls to rest in Newtown, Conn., countless are left behind, alone. As long as good people have existed, bad things have happened to them. And as long as religion has existed, believers and non-believers alike rightfully ask, “Why does God […]
Three day 121st Annual Convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamat to begin on December 29 By Yudhvir Rana, READ MORE Mirza Ghulam Ahmad|Annual Convention|Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamat AMRITSAR: Ahmadiyya’s from across the world including Pakistan would converge at Qadian inGurdaspur district to participate in the three day 121st Annual Convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamat, India beginning on December 29th. The […]
theguardian: George Monbiot. Barack Obama’s tears for the children of Newtown are in stark contrast to his silence over the children murdered by his drones. The children of north-west Pakistan, it seems, are not like our children. They have no names, no pictures, no memorials of candles and flowers and teddy bears. They belong […]
TOI: Yudhvir Rana. The Ahmadiyya Muslim community within Islam was founded in 1889 and spans over 250 countries with membership exceeding tens of millions having current headquarters in UK, informed Secretary Press Committee, Sheikh Mujahid Ahmad while talking to TOI on Tuesday. AMRITSAR: Ahmadiyya’s from across the world including Pakistan would converge at Qadian in Gurdaspur […]
Daily Times: Qaisar Rashid. Islam is very particular about the differentiation between the real intent and the declared objectives of its followers. Can militancy serve the cause of Islam? Why do followers of a (divine) religion resort to militancy? Is it to get the voice of the religion heard or […]
Daily Times: Babar Ayaz. Extremists give religious cover to all anti-women social and cultural values of the tribal and feudal societies and innovation: Ijtihad or Ijma Women rights activists are gearing up the world over to celebrate the ‘One Billion Rising’ of women and men against ‘violence against women’. The […]
Rfi. Tony Cross. The Taliban are to attend a conference near Paris along with supporters of President Hamid Karzai and peaceful opposition parties this week. The meeting comes after the Afghan government published a peace roadmap, which invites the rebels to take official positions if they give up violence. The Taliban […]
Guardian: They are big. They have young and growing populations. They have invested in infrastructure and education. And they are growing at the sort of rates that make them the […]
JERUSALEM — More than six decades since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls — and thousands of years after they were written — Israel on Tuesday put 5,000 images […]
A Japanese mayor has hailed a resident of his city for becoming the world’s oldest person. At 115 years old, Jiroemon Kimura inherited the title from an American woman who died on Monday. Read more