Asia

Militarisation of the subcontinent

ET: Militarisation of the subcontinent continues unabated — and this trend has been further fed by India’s latest increase in its defence spending. The Indian government has announced a 10 per cent increase in its military budget — pushing spending in this sector to a whopping 36 billion dollars. This increase […]

Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law Receives Harsh Criticism As Stories Of Abuse Surface

Religious News Service  | by  Naveed Ahmad Posted: 02/19/2014 2:32 pm EST Updated: 02/19/2014 2:59 pm EST ISLAMABAD (RNS) Mohammad Asghar, a 69-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, faces a death sentence in Pakistan for claiming to be the Prophet Muhammad in letters written to officials and police in 2010. The retired British national of Pakistani descent is […]

Israel: Bill legally distinguishing between Christian and Muslim Arabs advances

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON 02/20/2014 02:38 MK Levin: ‘For 60 years the state treated all minorities as one homogeneous group, and it was a mistake.’ Women walking in the mixed Arab-Jewish city Lod Photo: REUTERS Coalition chairman Yariv Levin’s proposal to legally differentiate between Christian and Muslim Arabs passed its second and third readings […]

مصلح موعود۔۔۔ایک ماہِ تمام

ارشاد عرشیؔ ملک arshimalik50@hotmail.com تھی خبر جس کی صحائف میں تو وہ محمود تھا تو وہی مصلح مقدس تھا وہی موعود تھا جس قدر خبریں مسیحؑ کی آمدِ ثانی کی تھیں ان سبھی خبروں میں تیرا تذکرہ موجود تھا سب حدیثوں کی کُتب میں ذکرہے تیرا لکھا اس سے ثابت […]

Israeli government: International Criminal Court threat ‘potentially very significant’

Middle East Monitor: A senior legal official at Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has warned that “the challenge of the International Criminal Court”, should the Palestinians join, “is potentially a very significant one”. Speaking yesterday at the annual meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, MFA deputy legal […]