ET: ISLAMABAD: Originating from Pakistan, the crippling polio virus has now made its way into Egypt after China. Following the export of the deadly virus to the Middle Eastern country, the Prime Minister’s Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell, along with its international partners the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef, on […]
Russian TV: Communication technology is leading to a radical reorganization of UK society, says a major study. Traditional communities will become “less cohesive”, as virtual ones form in their place, […]
Source: The Independent The European Court of Human Rights gets a regular kicking in the British press, often unfairly. So it’s good to see that the judges in Strasbourg have […]
Main Source: Alislam.org Islam focuses on securing peace in every sphere of human activity. It encourages all to promote education, respect and tolerance, improve social and interfaith harmony, support charitable […]
Express Tribune: LONDON: Malala Yousafzai has been awarded the “2012 Tipperary International Peace Award” for her courage to raise her voice for female education. The other nominees for the award included US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President of Indian National Congress Sonia Gandhi, former Kenyan journalist John Githongo and the […]
Science News How Some Medieval Cultures Adapted to Rise of Islam Jan. 2, 2013 — Medieval Afghanistan, Iran and the one-time Soviet Central Asian states were frontiers in flux as the Islamic Caliphate spread beyond the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh through 10th centuries. As such, different groups, such as the new Arab […]
The Independent: By Robert Fisk: Never make predictions in the Middle East. My crystal ball broke long ago. But predicting the region has an honourable pedigree. “An Arab movement, newly-risen, is looming in the distance,” a French traveller to the Gulf and Baghdad wrote in 1883, “and a race hitherto […]
Global Post: From Malala Yousafzai to Aung Sang Suu Kyi to Hillary Clinton, 2012 was a dramatic year for women. Women made major steps forward in politics and in business. […]
Russian TV: A French satire magazine has published a special issue containing cartoons on the life of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed. Similar images, which are deemed blasphemous by Muslims, have sparked […]
Express Tribune: ISLAMABAD: In what appears to be a paradigm shift in its decades-old policy, Pakistan Army has described homegrown militancy as the “biggest threat” to national security. According to the new Army Doctrine, ongoing activities of Taliban militants in the restive tribal regions and unabated terrorist attacks on government installations […]
The Review of Religions; by Fazal Ahmad: China is a huge nation of over one billion people in a country that spans most of Asia, over 3000 miles from West to East; in fact it is probably better to think of China as a continent in its own right. Being […]
Express Tribune: UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Sunday he was “appalled by the escalating terrorist violence in Pakistan,” after 19 Shia pilgrims died in a car bomb and […]
Ed. Note: Addition to the heading by Editor Express Tribune: Anwar Mooraj: Whenever we are heading for the New Year, I get this irresistible urge to exhume and disinter the […]
Yahoonews: Qadian (Punjab), Dec.29 (ANI): The world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at has sent out a message of “Love for All, Hatred for None”, to the world. Addressing the inaugural session of the three-day annual convention being held in Qadian in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district here, Maulana Inam Ghouri, the chief secretary of […]
The Brookings Institute: Conclusions by Stephen P. Cohen At the most abstract level of analysis, the interplay between the contested ideas of Pakistan and the integrity of the Pakistani state will be determinative. When a state is unable to protect its citizens and to collect the taxes required for the […]
Businessinsider.com: by Laura Templer: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders gathered in Colorado on Monday to launch an official counter movement against the recent trend of plastering extreme Islamaphobic ads — calling Muslims “savages” and showing pictures of the burning World Trade towers — on buses and subway stations. The religious coalition created […]
Express Tribune: Terrorism after Bilour’s death by Khaled Ahmad and comments by Abdul Alim The Taliban have killed Bashir Bilour, one of the top leaders of the ANP in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. In the aftermath, ANP leaders have said some bitter things about how Pakistan interprets terrorism in the country. They insist that it […]
Express Tribune: TEL AVIV: Fifty members of an Indian community believed to be descendants of one of the lost tribes of Israel arrived on Monday in the Jewish state, completing their immigration. Linking up with family members who have already settled in Israel, they are among the first wave of the […]
Youtube: Video from last year but contains extremely shocking revelations by Farooq Maududi, son of Maulana Maududi. He paints a pathetic picture of his death, betrayal by his closest friends […]
Paktimes.au: The Secretary-General of the United Nations recently appointed nine new members to his Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters to replace nine current ones whose terms will end on 31 December. Pervez Hoodbhoy from Pakistan was also nominated as a member of UN Secretary-General Advisory Board. Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, is […]