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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

All political careers end in failure?

Source: Dawn A BRITISH politician, Enoch Powell, once remarked that all political careers end in failure. Richard Nixon may have reached the White House but later, as he looked back on his life, his reputation lay in ruins. Margaret Thatcher may have vanquished all her opponents but eventually they forced […]

A mental problem called Islamophobia

Source: Arabnews.Com Islamophobia is now highly visible among European populations concerned about terrorist responses from groups claiming jihadi links. However, it is also evident among those same populations in relation to the refugee flow from the Middle East. In addition, Islamophobia is highly evident among sectors of the US population […]

The transactional nature of religion

Source: ET Next year will mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, when one man’s protest changed Christianity in Europe. I was reminded of that by two stories published recently in India on the same day. On May 25, in Andhra Pradesh, it was reported that theincome of temples […]

Ahmadi man murdered outside his house

Source. The Nation. Chenab Nagar: Dawood Ahmad S/O Haji Ghulam Muhiyuddin, 55, was shot dead in Gulzar Hijri, Karachi last night by unidentified assailants due to religious hatred. He was waiting for his friend outside his house when two unidentified men came on a motorbike, the man sitting behind disembarked […]

Virginity testing in Indonesia

Source. The Economist. WHEN Sri Rumiati joined the police, she had to take a virginity test. It was uncomfortable and humiliating, she recalls. Not to mention unscientific and irrelevant to police work. Ms Rumiati, who is now a commissioner, has campaigned to have such tests for female recruits abolished. Officially […]