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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, Russia agree new Syria truce plan

Source: Dawn GENEVA: The United States and Russia reached a deal on a new Syrian ceasefire Friday, which, if it holds, could see the first joint military effort by the two powers against religious extremists. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the truce […]

Imam Killed Outside Mosque

Source:Beliefnet As a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, we are saddened by the unfortunate and untimely deaths of the victims of  recent hate crimes. We pray for them and their families and hope that justice is served. Over the past few weeks we have seen an increase in hate […]

‘smooth divorce’

Source: Arab News: LONDON: Britain and the European Union must work together to make their divorce smooth and forge a new “strong relationship,” Prime Minister Theresa May told European Council President Donald Tusk on Thursday. At their first one-to-one meeting since May became prime minister after Britain voted to leave […]

U.S. Hostage Rescue Attempt Failed

Source: The Daily Beast U.S. special operations forces mounted an unsuccessful attempt to rescue two kidnapped American University of Afghanistan professors last month, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday afternoon. “In August, at the recommendation of Secretary Carter, President Obama authorized U.S. forces to conduct a mission in Afghanistan, aimed at recovering […]

Australia’s shame

Source: Dawn MANY of the far-right political parties in Europe that are riding a wave of misguided anti-refugee sentiment are inclined to view Australia as a role model. They look across the sea and fawn upon a nation whose navy turns back rickety vessels overflowing with desperate asylum-seekers. They see […]

Children of equal gods

Source: Dawn Black Skin, White Masks is characterised by its eclectic but sharply focused reading and quotations, its neologisms and Creole inflections, and its anger. It details the collective mental illness imposed by racism. Fanon lambasts European psychoanalysis’s obsession with the Oedipus complex. He observes that for non-white subjects, trauma […]

Pakistani Flag hoisted in Zagreb

By Zubair Khan An email came. Sender was President International Women Club Zagreb. The club, somehow, came to know that we (husband and wife) originally belonged to Pakistan and it invited us to represent Pakistan in the International Christmas Bazar, an annual event organised regularly for many decades in prestigious […]