Germans should stop reducing Africa to migration
Source: CNN There are really only two narratives that the public hears about Africa. One is a story of suffering — that is, the Africa that is hungry, poor and […]
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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
Humanity First cum Ahmadiyya project in Kosovo
By Zubair Khan On, 18th April 2018, by the mercy and blessings of Allah the Almighty, a computer lab was inaugurated in the Gymnasium High School Naim Frasheri” in Shtime. It is 26 km from Pristine, the capitol of Kosovo. Computers for the lab were donated by Humanity First Germany. […]
Ahmadiyya Town visited by Counselor from German Embassy in Pakistan
Source: RT On Monday the German Embassy in Pakistan shared details about their counselor’s visit to the town of Rabwah, home to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan. The visit was lead by the press and cultural counselor of the German Embassy. During the tour, the counselor paid a visit […]
Coercing the media
Source: Dawn AN unannounced censorship seems to have been imposed on the media. The restrictions have certainly not been imposed by the federal government or any regulatory body. Still, the media houses are compelled to follow a diktat. Opinion pieces violating ‘guidelines’ have reportedly been withdrawn by the management of […]
‘Confused’ UN envoy Nikki Haley hits back at White House
Source: BBC US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has fired back after a White House aide accused her of “momentary confusion” over new sanctions against Russia. “With all due […]
Pompeo returned empty-handed
Source: CNN The news of Pompeo’s meeting with Kim, which occurred over Easter weekend (sometime over the end of March and the beginning of April) also raised eyebrows that unlike Clapper, Pompeo went to North Korea and didn’t come back with Americans being held captive by the isolated regime. “It’s […]
Fifty shades of Trump: fire and fury at home and abroad
Source: AT Last week was a most unusual one for US President Donald Trump’s administration. There was no high-level firing: The only dismissal of any note was that of the White House aide in charge of homeland security, who was forced out at the behest of John Bolton, who had […]
Syria, Iran and ‘chaos in international relations’
Source: Asia Times Even in the context of a post-truth geopolitical environment run amok, Russian President Vladimir Putin telling his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani over the phone that any further Western strikes against Syria may “lead to chaos in international relations” should at least be seen for what it is; […]
Muslim Ahmadiyya Medical Organisation (MAMO) Germany held its National Meeting
By Zubair K Khan On 14.04.2018 the Muslim Ahmadiyya Medical Organisation (MAMO) held its 4th National Meeting in the Tahir Hall of MKAD building Ewane Khidmat of Baitus Sabuh Frankfurt Germany.. National Head of AMJ Germany chaired the meeting. […]
Protests after two Christians are shot dead outside church in Quetta, Pakistan
Source: Christiantoday.com Christian protest is under way in Quetta after the terrorist killing of two Christians yesterday near a church by four unidentified gunmen in the city in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.Local police said that a group of Christians had come out of the church when the four gunmen appeared on […]
US destroyers, subs, jets could answer Trump’s Syria strike call
Source: CNN Two US Navy destroyers armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles are in position and ready to be called into action, among other assets including jets and submarines should President […]
MNAs deplore online drive against Hindu faith
Source: Dawn ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Wednesday directed the interior ministry to crack down on any individual or group involved in posting blasphemous material about the […]
Al-Qaeda heir Hamza bin Laden tells Saudis to rise up against its ‘criminal tyrant’ leader over the Crown Prince’s close relationship with Trump
Source: Daily Mail The son of Osama bin Laden has attacked Saudi Arabia‘s relationship with America in a new video as the Kingdom’s powerful Crown Prince tours the US. Hamza bin Laden, who jihadis have hailed as the ‘heir’ to the leadership of al-Qaeda, also urged ‘our dear people in […]
Jeremy Corbyn was right to be cautious about blaming Moscow for the Skripal poisoni
Source: Independent Over the past month, Theresa May has received widespread praise for her handling of the ever stranger Skripals affair. Her response can even be said to have revived her fortunes as prime minister and Conservative Party leader, at a time when she was under fire for taking too […]
Ministers accused of ‘playing politics’ over Salisbury
Source: Poloticshome.com That was contradicted by the boss of the laboratory, who said it was not their role to identify where the substance came from. Jeremy Corbyn said the row had left Mr Johnson with “egg on his face”, prompting the Foreign Secretary to accuse the Labour leader of “siding with the Russian […]
History counts
Source: Dawn OLD men are trapped between a crowded cemetery ahead and a graveyard behind, populated by memories. By the time a man has reached the age of 90, determination has deteriorated into disappointment, reflection deconstructed into regret. A recent lament by a nonagenarian makes unusually poignant reading: “The whole […]
Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan ‘paid woman for silence’
Source: Dawn The prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, detained in France over rape allegations, paid a woman to stay silent about their relationship in 2015, the Belgian judiciary said. Ramadan, 55, paid the Belgian-Moroccan woman 27,000 euros to stop posting details about their affair online, Luc Hennart, president of the […]
By blaming 1979 for Saudi Arabia’s problems, MBS is peddling revisionist history
Source: Dawn IN an interview with the news programme 60 Minutes, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman said of Saudi Arabia before 1979, “We were living a very normal life like the rest of the Gulf countries. Women were driving cars, there were movie theatres in Saudi Arabia, women worked everywhere. […]
What South Asian religious traditions have in common with Zoroastrianism
Source: Dawn I have been to Sargodha many times. In fact multiple times in a year, throughout my childhood. This is where my family comes from — both maternal and paternal. Despite all my trips, however, I have never visited the shrine of Naghyana in a village called Dharema, about […]
Russia calls UN security council meeting over nerve agent attack
Source: CNN Russia’s UN ambassador has requested the United Nations Security Council convene a special meeting for Thursday afternoon amid an ongoing diplomatic feud with the UK that began in an English country town and has spread to include London’s allies around the world. A month after former Russian double […]