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Zubair Khan
" Holder of three bachelor (honours) degrees in administration, management and strategic studies. Possess more than 40 years of experience on various managerial and adminstrative posts of private and public organizations. Contributes to Urdu and English periodicals regularly. Currently engaged as in charge Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Croatia
US Navy shoots down intercontinental ballistic missile in space from a warship off Hawaii for the first time in a landmark test
Source: Daily Mail The U.S. has shot down an intercontinental ballistic missile in space from a warship for the first time in a successful test, officials announced on Tuesday. In a first for the Pentagon’s push to develop defenses against such missiles capable of striking the United States, a missile […]
Dozens of doctors speak out against assisted suicide
Source: CT Over fifty doctors working in palliative medicine and care for dying patients have signed a letter to The Times in opposition to any proposed changes in the assisted suicide law. In the face of continual attempts to legalise assisted suicide, fifty doctors have signalled their continued support for protections […]
Research suggests link between declining fertility rates and increasing secularizing
Source: CT Declining fertility rates have a significant correlation with increased secularization, according to Baylor University professor Philip Jenkins. In a Regent College (Vancouver, British Columbia) live-stream titled “Fertility and Faith: A Conversation with Philip Jenkins,” the Baylor University professor of history and co-director of the programme on historical studies […]
Extremist siege: Pakistan’s self-destructive journey
Source: AT It is very uncommon to find a country where a few hundred or even a few thousand religious extremists can besiege the capital for two days and paralyze life there. However, it is a common thing in Pakistan, at least for the extremist religious cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who heads […]
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern wins second term in landslide election victory
Source: CNN Jacinda Ardern has won a second term as New Zealand’s Prime Minister after her success at handling the country’s coronavirus outbreak helped secure a landslide victory. Preliminary results show that Ardern’s center-left Labour […]
Judith Collins, the woman taking on juggernaut Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand’s election
Source: CNN The woman taking on Jacinda Ardern is a tough-on-crime veteran politician who admires former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and won the nickname “Crusher” due to her bold policy on illegal street racing.When New Zealanders head to the polls on Saturday they will decide whether to elect 61-year-old […]
IS IT TRUE? IF someone can confirm it!
Italy has become the first country in the world to have an autopsy (postmortem) on a dead body from a Kovid-19 and after an extensive investigation has found out that Kovid-19 does not exist as a virus, rather it is a very There is a big global scam. People are […]
Why is Germany doing better than the UK at fighting a resurgence of Covid-19?
Source: The Local Boris Johnson’s comments about why “freedom-loving” UK has higher coronavirus cases than Germany and Italy have sparked a heated debate and given us a reason to look at why Germany is coping better than the UK in the fight against a second wave. What’s happening? On Tuesday […]
Secular Faiths Are Remaking the American Religious Landscape
Source: Christianity Today Meaning-making is a growth industry.” That’s how Harvard researcher Casper ter Kuile put it in a 2018 interview for Vox. He was commenting on the explosive popularity of extreme fitness regimes like CrossFit and SoulCycle, noting how the overt spirituality of both programs allowed them to function […]
China, India fire fueled by Pakistan Belt and Road
Source: AT PESHAWAR – Pakistan’s army and Chinese companies are in big business lockstep in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a US$87 billion plan to build ports, roads, railways and power plants to facilitate trade, spur growth and consolidate power over geopolitically contested lands. The scheme, designed to span Pakistan’s […]
The fourth R
Source: Dawn PAKISTANIS have an imperfect knowledge of the four Rs — Reading, ‘Riting, ‘Rithmetic, and Russia. To master the first three requires education. To open one’s mind about Russia requires a different set of intellectual pliers. Winston Churchill once defined Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside […]
European court rules insulting Prophet Mohammed ‘not freedom of expression’
Source:Al Arabiya English The decision by a seven-judge panel came after an Austrian national identified as Mrs. S. held two seminars in 2009 in which she insulted the prophet.The court said that the woman’s comments could not be covered by the freedom of expression, stating that it had found that […]
London’s Tower Bridge gets stuck open, causing traffic chaos,
Source: CNN Traffic in the capital was “gridlocked” after the bridge failed to close after allowing a ship to pass along the River Thames, the PA Media news agency reported. Queues of motorists and pedestrians waited for at least an hour, while police asked motorists to find alternative routes around […]
Planes heard, seen in skies of Beirut before blast
Source AT BEIRUT — Military aircraft were heard, and in some cases seen, flying in the sky in the moments before the apocalyptic Beirut explosion, war-hardened residents of the Lebanese capital told Asia Times this week. Araz Bedros, a resident of the Metn district overlooking Beirut, told Asia Times that […]
Jacinda Ardern beats Angela Merkel & Narendra Modi to top list of most eloquent world leaders
Source: Development Academy UK World leaders have the ability to inspire us, motivate us, shock us and even scare us – there is tremendous power in great public speaking. But […]
Merkel named world’s ‘second most eloquent leader’
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Source: The Local Merkel joins other women scoring highly in the Development Academy’s list with […]
A ban on good sense
Source: Dawn THE recently passed Punjab Tahaffuz-i-Bunyaad-i-Islam Act provides sufficient cause for concern to anyone invested in the intellectual and cultural climate of this country. There are several aspects of the legislation that elicit consternation, but I want to focus on three in particular: the first is the deference to […]
Changing dynamics
Source: Dawn THE geopolitical calculus in Pakistan’s immediate neighbourhood is clearly changing, and those who formulate this country’s foreign policy must plan now to ensure we are comfortably placed to take political and economic advantage of the emerging scenario. Over the past few days, reports have emerged of a 25-year […]
Mysterious events in Iran raise questions about Trump strategy
Source: CNN Sam Vinograd While US news feeds are dominated by unspeakable tragedies and trivial Trump pursuits, a series of events unfolding in Iran warrants close attention.Over the last few weeks, as the world has grappled with the Covid-19 pandemic, multiple explosions and fires have occurred at Iranian nuclear military […]
