The Sri Lankan authorities have imposed a curfew on two southern towns to quell clashes between a hardline Buddhist group and Muslims. The latest violence began after a Buddhist rally in Aluthgama. READ MORE…
Khushwant Singh: The final homecoming By Tariq Masood / Creative: Sama Aamir Published: June 15, 2014 Share this article Print this page Email Khushwant Singh’s final posthumous journey to his beloved birthplace Hadali, Pakistan. DESIGN: SAMRA AAMIR It was in the “winter of 1987”, as Khushwant Singh, the acclaimed Indian […]
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According to military analyst Alon David who was interviewed by Channel 10 on Friday, Netanyahu has exhibited a great ability to take bold decisions in unusual circumstances. For instance, he ordered the implementation of many operations in a number of countries, including Egypt, Syria, Sudan and Iran. David’s comments came […]
Disturbing stuff: Blasphemy case sought against Justice Islam Bhatti Published in The Express Tribune, June 14th, 2014. The court sought comments from the SHO by June 16. LAHORE: An additional district and […]
PNN/Hebron The Israeli Occupation Forces arrested this Saturday 12 citizens of the city of Hebron, in southern West Bank. According to Palestinian security sources and local news agencies, the Israeli army raided Hebron and arrested the two brothers Shadi and Alaa Zakaria Abu Zina, Ammar Abu Eisha and his wife […]
June 14, 2014 12:10 AM By David Ignatius The Daily Star Story Summary The stunning gains this week by Iraq’s Sunni insurgents carry a crucial political message: Nouri al-Maliki, the Shiite prime minister of Iraq, is a polarizing sectarian politician who has lost the confidence of his army and nation. […]
June 14, 2014 12:10 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star Story Summary The startling developments in northern Iraq, where the militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) has taken control of Mosul and other cities, highlights several troubling trends that have been evident across […]
DIAA HADID | AP ARABNEWS.COM KIRKUK, Iraq: After a decades-long dispute between Arabs and Kurds over the oil-rich northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, it took just an hour and a […]
Indian Express: On May 27, this appeared on the front page of the Pakistani daily, Dawn: “Gunmen shot dead a doctor from the minority Ahmadi community in Chenab Nagar town in Punjab. Mehdi Ali, a 50-year-old heart surgeon from the United States, was attacked as he visited a cemetery in […]
As the Muslim militant group ISIS advances in Iraq and Syria, its chances of establishing a strict Islamic theocracy will be weakened by its inherent flaws. By the Monitor’s Editorial BoardJune 11, 2014 4:42 PM Iraq’s second largest city fell to a powerful militant group Tuesday, a stunning development that could […]
As the Muslim militant group ISIS advances in Iraq and Syria, its chances of establishing a strict Islamic theocracy will be weakened by its inherent flaws. By the Monitor’s Editorial BoardJune 11, 2014 4:42 PM Iraq’s second largest city fell to a powerful militant group Tuesday, a stunning development that could […]
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]
Huff Post:by Harris Zafar — For years, Pakistan has consistently renewed its international image as a country of grave concern, with not only its inability to halt the progress of terrorist and militant groups within the country but also its inability to provide basic needs of its own population. Far […]
Huff Post:by Harris Zafar — For years, Pakistan has consistently renewed its international image as a country of grave concern, with not only its inability to halt the progress of terrorist and militant groups within the country but also its inability to provide basic needs of its own population. Far […]
Source: BBC Iran is ready to assist the Iraqi government in its battle against extremist Sunni Islamists, President Hassan Rouhani has said. But he denied Iran had sent troops into […]
Source: BBC Iran is ready to assist the Iraqi government in its battle against extremist Sunni Islamists, President Hassan Rouhani has said. But he denied Iran had sent troops into […]
Testing of the first line of the multibillion-riyal high-speed Haramain railway system will start in six months, according to local media on Friday. The testing will take place on the line between Madinah and King Abdullah Economic City in Rabigh. Khalid Al-Suwaiket, president of the Saudi Railways Organization (SRO), said: […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent So after the grotesquerie of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 suicide killers of 9/11, meet Saudi Arabia’s latest monstrous contribution to world history: the Islamist Sunni caliphate of Iraq and the Levant, conquerors of Mosul and Tikrit – and […]
Sykes-Picot is dead,” Walid Jumblatt roared at me last night – and he may well be right. The Lebanese Druze leader – who fought in a 15-year civil war that […]