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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

Plight of Ahmadiyyas in Pakistan

Source: Asia Times. Although over 2 million Ahmadiyyas living in Pakistan follow the teachings of Quran, they are regarded as non-Muslims after a constitutional amendment passed 40 years ago during General Zia-ul Haq’s military regime. Today they are the most discriminated among minorities in Pakistan where police, clerics and courts […]

Where Obama faltered in the Afghan war

Source: Asia Times. Obama understood that a military attack on Iran – although he had ‘all options on the table’ – would have been a historic blunder. Obama was lucky in Iraq, since the Iraqi parliament demanded an end to the occupation. In Libya, he made the mistake of allowing the […]

Orlando, Islam and the West

Source: ET A deranged, 29-year-old American man born in New York, to Afghan parents, killed 49 young men and women at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. During the killing spree, Omar Saddique Mateen calmly called 911, the emergency line, to declare that he had acted in support of the Islamic […]

An elite club of suicide bombers

Source: Dawn.Com It is always baffling, isn’t it, to see the yawning difference in our responses in South Asia to a gathering communal threat, for instance, as opposed to the catastrophic prospect of nuclear annihilation? Only recently, Pakistan toggled between public outcry and terrified whispers when teeming mourners showed up […]

Ivanka to Dad: It’s Me or Lewandowski

Source. The Daily Beast Carlo Allegri/Reuters Ivanka Trump told her father he had to get rid of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski or else she would no longer help his campaign, CNN’s Dana Bash reports. Lewandowski was fired after a Monday morning meeting with Donald Trump, his children, and several staffers. […]

How Ahmadiyya propagates Peace

By Zubair Khan On 14.06.2016, in the premises of  library Savica, part of greater city Zagreb Croatia, it was Ms Tina Hrubi who delivered the lecture on Media and Peace. The event sponsored by Ahmadiyya attracted 22 participants along with City Zagreb TV Jabuka. Ms Tina who just completed her […]

Croatia President Backs Early Elections

Source. Balkan Insight Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic announcing her decision after consultations. Photo: BETAPHOTO/HINA/Lana SLIVAR DOMINIC/MO After consultations with MPs, Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic confirmed that Croatia will go into early elections, most likely in September. After MPs axed Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic and the government fell, 82 […]

Different path

Source. Dawn.Com Ahmedis have been fair game, for abuse, torture and even murder, for a long time in Pakistan. It is not just that the state of Pakistan has declared them non-Muslims. People of this community also continue to face institutionalised and state-level discrimination, and there is almost an incessant […]

Orlando: the trials of identity

Source. ET Tornados can wreak plenty of havoc though they can be predicted. But what do you do when deadly weather patterns become wholly unpredictable. One moment you’re lying on a beach, next moment you’re running for your life. This seems more like the case now with religion-inspired terrorism. Calm […]

Greed and desire: The new face of Ramazan?

Source.Dawn.Com Remember everything your parents, grandparents, maulvi sahab and Islamiyat teacher taught you about Ramazan? Now try and forget it please because there seems to be no room for those teachings anymore in this country. Tune in to one of our many local Ramazan transmissions on television and learn everything […]

“Muslim Sounding Names”

Source.MVSLIM.COM Multiple sources have now confirmed that Omar Mateen, the shooter of the Orlando massacre, was himself gay. He often visited Pulse, the popular gay nightclub that he committed the massacre in. Eyewitness reports suggest that Mateen would get so drunk at the bar that bouncers would have to kick […]

Orlando shooting & US media narrative

Source: ET Omar Mateen was still killing and holding on to hostages inside the gay nightclub in Orlanda. Outside, the US media, the Republican presidential presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio were screaming full throttle, trying to connect the incident with the Islamic State (IS). Interestingly, nobody […]