Pakistan: Honor Killing Sana Cheema was strangled
Pakistani-origin Italian citizen Sana Cheema ─ whose death in Gujrat, was reported by Italian media as an alleged honour killing ─ was found to have been strangled to death, according […]
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Zakaria Virk is a writer, translator, author and historian of Islamic science. He has compiled 17 books in Urdu and English, written scores of article published in newspapers, magazines of India, Pakistan, UK, USA and Canada. He is a retired civil servant. He has two sons both living in the US, one Adnan is ESPN sports TV anchor in Bristol, Connecticut. He has traveled to more than 15 countries. He has published 5 books on the life and achievements of Muslim world's first Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam. (1926-1996).
He has donated blood 50 times in Canada. He is a card carrying member of Liberal Party of Canada.
Pakistan: Jinnah and Dr Salam
OP-ED dawn.com Jinnah and Salam Inspired perhaps by Pakistan, India has also become obsessed with fifth columns and rewriting history Yaqoob Khan Bangash MAY 9, 2018 If there was ever any doubt that Pakistan and India were conjoined twins who grew up to have a volatile and self-destructive rivalry, the […]
UK establishment gangs up on another mainstream Muslim politician
Peter Oborne Monday 7 May 2018 14:17 UTC It’s been exactly two years since the Conservative Party joined forces with the big battalions of the British media establishment in an attempt to destroy Sadiq Khan as the Labour candidate for mayor of London. It was one of the nastiest political […]
India: Nawazuddin biopic ‘Manto’ to be shown at Cannes
Dawn.com Nawazuddin Siddiqui has come a long way. In just over a decade, Siddiqui has gone from a struggling bit-part actor worried about finding food to an acclaimed international star coveted by directors for his versatility across all genres. “When your film gets selected in a good category, you feel […]
Pakistan: Multan court indicts five for the murder of model Qandeel Baloch, including an imam
Shafique Khokhar- Asia News The famous Pakistani blogger was strangled by her younger brother in the name of family “honour”. Her easy-going ways were disliked by orthodox Muslims. “Justice for many other women killed or burnt for ‘honour’ waits for years.” Multan (AsiaNews May 4, 2018) – A court in […]
25 INFLUENTIAL AMERICAN MUSLIMS
25 INFLUENTIAL AMERICAN MUSLIMS By Daniel Burke and Madeleine Stix, CNN.com 4/5/2018 We asked American Muslims to name the most influential people in their fields. Here’s what they said Who speaks for American Muslims? The short answer is, no one. No individual or group can claim to speak for this country’s nearly 3.5 million Muslims, a diverse […]
Pakistan: Prof Abdus Salam Centre for Physics name change
NA calls for naming QAU physics dept after Khazini DAWN.COM A ReporterMay 04, 2018,Facebook Count30 Twitter Share 0 ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly passed a resolution on Thursday calling for the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) physics department to be named after Abu al-Fath Abd-al Rehman Mansour-al-Khazini. The resolution was signed by […]
Utah: 16,000 years old horse unearthed in Utah
Paleontologists recently determined that a skeleton discovered during a landscaping project belonged to a horse from the Pleistocene Era. NYTimes 03/05/2018An illustration of Haringtonhippus francisci, an extinct horse species that was found in North America during the last ice age. Rick Hunter, a Utah paleontologist, said the horse, whose skeleton […]
Quebec: Muslim event for children pledging to ‘wear hijab for life’ canceled
An annual event that celebrates the “decision” of girls aged nine to 12 to wear the hijab was canceled in Quebec. (Shutterstock) Staff writer, Al Arabiya EnglishTuesday, 1 May 2018 An annual event that celebrates the “decision” of girls aged nine to 12 to wear the hijab for life was […]
USA: Pres Trump lied 3001 times in 466 days
President Trump has made 3,001 false or misleading claims so far Washington Post (CNN)The Washington Post’s Fact-Checker blog has been keeping a strict count of President Donald Trump’s many misstatements, untruths and outright lies. And, over the weekend at a rally in Michigan, Trump hit a(nother) milestone: He topped 3,000 untrue or […]
Bangladeshi Maids abused in S. Arabia
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bangaldesh-women-in-saudi-domestic-workers-maid-are-sold-a-dream-flee-nightmare-brac-1336317441 DHAKA – The crowds wait outside the arrivals terminal at Shahjalal International airport as dozens of taxi drivers line the streets looking for business. Armies of beggars plead for attention from passersby, while passengers leave the arrivals hall carrying flat-screen TVs or oversized boxes wrapped in cling-film. A group of […]
UK: Sajid Javid to be new home secretary
BBC.COM Share this with Email Media captionSajid Javid appointed home secretary Sajid Javid has become the UK’s first home secretary from an ethnic minority background after Amber Rudd’s exit. The […]
Italy: Honor Killing of Sana Cheema in Pakistan
BBC.COM Pakistan exhumes Italian Sana Cheema’s body in ‘honour killing’ probe 25 April 2018 Image copyright INSTAGRAM/SANA_CHEEMA2014Image captionGujrat, PakistanSana Cheema was buried last week without an autopsy Pakistani police have […]
Canada: Poet Rupi Kaur comes full circle with Brampton Performance
At the Rose Theatre in Brampton on Thursday April 26th Brampton, Ontario On Thursday night Aril 26th, in Brampton, Rupi Kaur returned to the same stage she’d walked across at her high-school graduation. Instead of a diploma, she now held her two books of bestselling poetry and the attention of […]
Indian Guru Asaram Bapu found guilty of rape
JODHPUR, India: An Indian guru with millions of followers was found guilty Wednesday of raping a teenage devotee on the pretext of ridding her of evil spirits, and sentenced to a life in prison. The judgment was pronounced by Special Judge for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe cases, Madhu Sudan […]
In Berlin, a Show of Solidarity Does Little to Dampen Jewish Fears
NYTimes April 26, 2018 BERLIN — After an attack on a young man wearing a kipa in a trendy Berlin neighborhood, the leader of Germany’s largest Jewish organization urged Jews to wear baseball caps instead. It was just too dangerous, he said, to walk around openly with a kipa or […]
What India owes to its first PM Nehru
Parvez Hoodbhoy, Lahore PANDIT Jawaharlal Nehru would never have won a popularity contest in Pakistan quite simply because he did his best to oppose our country’s creation. But nowhere is he reviled more than in India’s current ruling circles and among those whose loyalty they command. The accusations against Nehru […]
USA: Michael Cohen case shines light on Sean Hannity’s real estate empire
Fox News host who said Trump’s fixer ‘knows real estate’ has a portfolio that includes support from Department of Housing and Urban Development, a fact he did not mention when interviewing secretary Ben Carson last year When Sean Hannity was named in court this week as a client of Donald Trump’s embattled […]
USA: 2 year old accidentally shot dead by mom
By Mary Papenfuss Huffingtonpost.com “She’s gone. My baby’s gone.” OHIO> A gun being handled by a young mother in a town outside Cleveland accidentally discharged, sending a bullet into her two-year-old daughter’s chest and killing her, police said Saturday. The mother, who investigators did not identify, owned the weapon legally and had a […]
India’s A.T.M.s Are Running Out of Cash. Again.
By Hari Kumar, NYT NEW DELHI — For the second time in 18 months, India has a shortage of cash. And like last time, economists say, it’s primarily the government’s […]
