by Robert Fisk, The Independent We were driving down the main road from Homs – fast, of course, as the Syrian war now requires – when, just outside the Damascus suburb of Harasta, a government soldier asked for a ride into town. I have always stopped for hitch-hiking soldiers, especially […]
Brahimi: New Geneva talks unlikely for now United Nations Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi talks to the media after briefing a Security Council meeting on Syria, in this March 13, 2014 photo, at UN headquarters in New York. (AFP) Reuters Published — Tuesday 25 March 2014 Last […]
Over 1.5m single women, and counting JEDDAH: Afshan Aziz Published — Tuesday 25 March 2014 Last update 25 March 2014 1:36 am | | A A LATEST STORIES IN FEATURED Crown Prince says world betrayed Syrian opposition Jakarta seeks clemency for maid on death row KSA women seek parity […]
Source: ET RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s top clerics have declared an Islam-inspired cartoon series, which earned praise from US President Barack Obama, a “work of the devil” that Muslims should not watch. The television version of superhero comic book “The 99″ is being aired by Saudi-owned satellite channel MBC3, based in Dubai […]
ET: DHAKA: Bangladesh war crimes investigators moved on Tuesday to outlaw the country’s largest Islamic party, accusing it of genocide and other atrocities during the 1971 struggle for independence. Government investigators handed a report detailing war crimes allegations against to prosecutors, in the latest move against the party which has banned […]
Source: China Daily By JACK FREIFELDER As scholars and academics continue efforts to encourage the study of China, Pace University, in New York City’s Lower Manhattan, is trying an alternative tack to promote its students’ interests in the world’s second-largest economy — by subsidizing a chance to study abroad. The […]
Source: alislam.org Presented below is the first part of a conversation between a non-Muslim visitor and Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, the Promised Messiah (as), which took place in Qadian […]
The New York Times said the operation to infiltrate Huawei was codenamed “Shotgiant” Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories Snowden in new US surveillance claim Selling Snowden Should we fear the growth of Huawei? China has demanded a clear explanation from the United States following reports that […]
Source: NY Times The prime minister of Malaysia announced in Kuala Lumpur that there was no longer any doubt that the missing Malaysian Airlines jetliner, Flight 370, crashed in the Indian Ocean. Prime Minister Najib Razak said the conclusion was based on new analysis of data from an automated satellite […]
During the closing stages of the independence movement, the ulema were used by Congress to bring down the Muslim League and its leadership. There are a few points that are never considered when the Lahore Resolution is discussed. Foremost is the fact that there is no reference to Islam or a […]
Source: The Washington Post KABUL — To the white-bearded Afghan machinists, it felt like the Cold War era had suddenly returned. After 25 years of working in a sprawling Soviet-built factory […]
Huff Post — While Saudi Arabia is well-known for its “religious police” that enforce government-approved religious moral codes, from gender-segregation and the ban of alcohol to rules against women driving, a Pew Research Center analysishas found that similar religious police exist in nearly one-in-ten countries. Pew’s findings on religious police, part […]
ET: If you can’t win the game, change the rules. This has been the cornerstone of the political ideology of religious groups from Egypt to Pakistan. It all started from Syed Qutb in Egypt and his mentor Maulana Maududi in Pakistan. Qutb, upon his return from the United States, became increasingly disturbed […]
Newsweek Pak: As Pakistan faces off its darkest moment of terrorist challenge, citizens are asking how long they will have to wait for a consistent policy response from the state and government. The drumbeat and din are growing; the pressure to act is also upped by gunship helicopters and Air […]
Source: Salon.com Seventy years ago, my father – 2nd Lt. Eric Fletcher Waters – died in Italy fighting the Nazis. He was a committed pacifist, and a conscientious objector at the start […]
Women’s Worlds Congress International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women – a brief The first Women’s Worlds Congress was held at Haifa University in December of 1981. It was the first world-wide […]
Source: ET CCPO denies report, says policemen were suspended for absenting from duty. PHOTO: FILE LAHORE: Three police officials deployed at Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Jaati Umra residence in Raiwind were […]
Source: The Conservative: For most Indians the word Wahhabi means Saudi Arabian fundamentalism. When told that Wahhabism has deep roots in the Indian sub-continent, the first response is usually denial often followed by claims that Indian Wahhabism was a British invention. Those who think that way would do well to […]
By Ro Waseem One of the biggest misconceptions about Islam is that it permits child marriage, and is therefore looked down upon as medieval, oppressive and illogical by non-Muslims. Shockingly, instead of viewing this as a downright tarnation and disgrace to Islam, Muslims in complete ignorance of the Quran actually […]
By Saeed Qureshi Barring providential intervention, apparently Pakistan’s former strong man and president Musharraf is in deep waters. Justice Faisal Arab the head of the special court seems to be poised to send Musharraf either to gallows or long imprisonment for high treason charge. Musharraf’s decision to return to Pakistan […]