Has John Kerry no shame? First he cuddles up to both Palestinians and Israelis and announces the renewal of a “peace process” which the Palestinians don’t trust and the Israelis […]
JEDDAH: P. K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS STAFF New projects worth more than SR300 billion are being implemented in Makkah to improve services being rendered to millions of pilgrims […]
Source: BBC US President Barack Obama has strongly condemned the violence in Egypt, and cancelled joint military exercises. He said co-operation could not continue while civilians were being killed. Egypt’s […]
Source: ET It is a sad statement about Pakistan that 67 years after its founding, our education system and public culture continue to distort key ideas enunciated by Mohammad Ali Jinnah to govern the country. To make matters worse, even his words end up being mutilated. In his landmark speech […]
Souce: The Guargian Genetic map of cancer reveals trails of mutation that lead to disease Map shows how 20 patterns of mutation drive 30 cancer types, pointing the way to prevention and treatment strategies Researchers at the Sanger Institute explain how they identified the patterns of mutation underlying cancer The […]
By Zhang Yuwei Source: China Daily Even with the ongoing slowdown of China’s economic growth, the world’s No 2 economy is expected to overtake the US to become the world’s […]
The Amnesty International has urged the Bangladesh government to restore land rights of the indigenous people in the country, said a blog post of Live Wire, the … See all stories on this topic » http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/bangladesh-must-restore-land-rights-of-indigenous-people-says-ai/
Dawn.com: by Zubeida Mustafa. Jinnah, it seems, did not envisage Pakistan as a state exclusively for Muslims — especially those of a particular sect. Had he done so he would have been trapped in a futile debate on semantics. Admittedly, he spoke of following Islamic principles, though in a broad […]
islamicenter.org: ISLAM AND THE WEST Speech by HRH The Prince of Wales, at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on the occasion of his visit to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies: […]
Source: Dawn.Com The Ahmadis are one of the worst sufferers as horrors are being visited on them.Qasim Rashid, a 31-year old Pakistani-American who migrated to the US when he was five, returned home to explore his roots and learn more about the status of his community, the Ahmadis, in the […]
Source: NY Times: The death toll from Egypt’s bloody crackdown on supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, soared beyond 500 across the land on Thursday with over 3,700 people injured, the Health Ministry said, in a further sign of the extent and the ferocity of Wednesday’s scorched-earth assault by […]
cbn news: What do Muslim Brotherhood members do when Egyptian Security Forces launch a forewarned operation to clear them from Cairo tent cities? Attack Christians. That’s right. Morsi supporters responded with a monumental attack–unprecedented in modern times–on churches throughout Egypt. The torching and destruction of churches occured within six hours […]
Source: The Independent: The Egyptian crucible has broken. The “unity” of Egypt – that all-embracing, patriotic, essential glue that has bound the nation together since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1952 and the rule of Nasser – has melted amid the massacres, gun battles and fury of yesterday’s suppression […]
Fox News guest: Keith Ellison’s transactional tax could be ‘Sharia creep’ Posted by The Right Scoop Fox News guest Jonathan Hoenig suggested today that Keith Ellison’s ‘Wall Street transactions tax’ idea could be seen as ‘Sharia creep’ given that Ellison is a practicing Muslim and that, as Hoenig says, Sharia law […]
Economic times: NEW DELHI: Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s founder and first Governor-General, declared August 15 as the country’s Independence Day but the authorities advanced it by a day in 1948 as it fell on an auspicious day of Ramzan. “August 15 is the birthday of the independent and sovereign state […]
Toronto Star Nickolas Keung immigration reporter Aug 15, 2013 Deepak Sharma has fought for Canada in Afghanistan and Libya, but the air force veteran just cannot beat Canadian immigration officials. The 33-year-old corporal, based at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario, has been unsuccessful in obtaining a visa for his parents […]
youtube: by talmis-alislam: The head of Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, a Pakistani by birth gave this statement last year in one of his sermons. Today one day after the Pakistan independence day this is a message for those who accuse Ahmadiyya Muslims of being agents of enemies of Pakistan should […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comment: We have added the name Muhammad, may peace be on him, to the title as the article is about him. Source: The Telegraph Calcutta: A messiah of […]
An Asian app-developer, creative designer or instrument maker wanting to set up their business in the Netherlands will soon have easier access to the Dutch market. As of 1 August 2013, the Ministry of Economic Affairs will ease regulations for entrepreneurs outside of the European Union who wish to start […]
According to the first estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands, the Dutch economy shrank 0.2 percent in the second quarter of 2013 compared to the first quarter. This is the fourth quarter in a row showing economic decline, although with each quarter the decline became less severe. The economy contracted 1.8 […]