" 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
Source: Asia Times. President Tayyip Erdogan and many Turks have been frustrated by U.S. and European criticism of a government crackdown in the wake of the attempted putsch in Turkey, a country vital to the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State and to stopping illegal migration to Europe. They have accused […]
Source: CNN (CNN)Pope Francis has created a commission to study the historical role of female deacons in the Catholic Church, the Vatican’s press office said. The commission was initially promised by the Pope after a meeting with a group of nuns on May 12. “In the course of a dialogue […]
Source: CNN Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton emerges from her party’s convention in Philadelphia with a restored lead over Donald Trump, having earned a 7-point convention bounce, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll. In a two-way head-to-head matchup, Clinton tops Trump 52% to 43%, and in a four-way matchup including third party […]
Source: The Daily Beast America is no longer a country “by the people, for the people,” but a plutocracy. The new doc ‘Meet the Donors’ exposes our broken political system and the uber-rich pulling the strings. “I think there’s the belief that somehow the whole system in Washington is not […]
Source: The Daily Beast The lying started at 7:27 a.m. and did not stop until after dark. Even for Donald Trump, Monday, Aug. 1, was a banner day for bullshit. With 100 days until Election Day, the Republican presidential nominee decisively rejected suggestions that he make some attempt to appear statesmanlike in […]
Source. Jakarta Globe Jakarta. The country’s second-biggest Muslim group, Muhammadiyah, has called for greater religious and racial tolerance in North Sumatra following the burning down and destruction on Saturday of several Buddhist houses of worship by enraged mobs in the city of Tanjung Balai. No casualties were reported in what […]
Source: Jakarta Glob Medan. Police have charged twelve people with robbery and vandalism after several Buddhist temples and monasteries were ransacked by mobs in the city of Tanjung Balai, North Sumatra, last weekend. “We’ve charged eight suspects with robbery and four with vandalism,” North Sumatra Police spokeswoman Sr. Comr. Rina […]
Source: Asia Times. BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian military helicopter was shot down in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province on Monday killing all five people on board, in the biggest officially acknowledged loss of life for Russian forces since they started operations in Syria. Men inspect the wreckage of a Russian […]
Source. The daily Beast You don’t hear national security leaders speak of ISIS like an enemy to be beaten. They talk about the terror group like a chronic illness in the global body politic. ASPEN, Colorado — Officially, the Obama administration is still committed to defeating ISIS. But at the […]
Source. Dawn Muslims in India form the largest religious minority in the country. According to the 2011 Census, they comprise 14.4 per cent of India’s total population — roughly 174 million people. To use the word ‘minority’ for them, therefore, is misleading: they are the third-largest Muslim population anywhere in […]
Source: Dawn TWO young Pakistani men have caught Europe’s eye in recent weeks. The first is 35-year-old Mohamad Usman, who has been charged by French authorities for conspiring with the terrorists who carried out the attacks in Paris in November. He was meant to participate in that carnage but was […]
Source: Dawn Police data in the United Kingdom shows a sharp increase in hate crimes in Britain’s most ‘Eurosceptic’ areas following the Brexit vote earlier this year,The Independent reported. In areas where voters opted to ‘Leave’ the European Union, data shows consistent doubling and tripling of hate crime which surpasses […]
Source: Rabwah Times. An interesting video at this LINK
Source. NBC News. ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis said he doesn’t like singling out violence carried out by Muslims because people of all religions are guilty of deadly crimes. He told reporters the situation was like “a mixed fruit salad” and that there were “violent people in all […]
Source: “Look at this whole Muslim community that attended Mass,” she said. “I find this very heartwarming; I am confident. I say to myself that this assassination won’t be lost, that it will maybe relaunch us better than politics can do; maybe we will react in a better way.” Many of […]
Source. Dawn ANYONE who can see beyond the obvious would be able to scan the invisible manufacturer’s seal embossed on the chassis of the lorry that killed too many in Nice on a day they were celebrating a great milestone in the history of human freedom. Looking closely, one could […]
Source. Dawn Editorial RARELY has a politician adhered so unwaveringly to principles when his or her political survival itself is possibly at stake. But Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has […]
Source. Dawn The following article is the concluding piece in our coup trilogy — Men on horseback (July 21, 2016, Dawn.com); Future coups (July 24, 2016, Dawn Magazine). This piece brings the trilogy to a full circle by investigating an enigmatic coup plot in a country which, during the Cold […]
Source. Dawn LOS ANGELES: A 42-year-old skydiver with more than 18,000 jumps made history Saturday when he became the first person to leap without a parachute and land in a net instead. “Aikins’ leap represents the culmination of a 26-year career that will set a personal and world record for […]
By Zubair K Khan In last few weeks, while analysing reactions of the inhabitants of various European cities, the public unease was never far from the surface. Callers to various electronic and print media houses said they were apprehensive of visiting popular festivals, shopping centres and malls . A shaken […]