Reuters | 06-Nov-2013 08:34 AM Dubai: Saudi authorities rounded up thousands of illegal foreign workers at the start of a nationwide crackdown ultimately aimed at creating more jobs for locals, media reported on Tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of workers have already left the kingdom following a grace period of seven […]
Dawn: DHAKA: Bangladesh has overtaken India on the prosperity index for the first time this year on the back of its successful development policies. “At present, the grand South Asian leader might learn a trick or two from its more nimble regional compatriot,” said the 2013 Legatum Prosperity Index, an […]
Source: Jihad Watch. “Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed…” (Qur’an 9:111) Since martyrs in Islam are those who “fight in the way of Allah” and “kill and are […]
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top Syria envoy says diplomats have failed to agree on a date for a new Syria peace conference this year. Lakhdar Brahimi said at a news conference in Geneva that diplomats “are still striving to see if we can have the conference before the end […]
By:Omer Zaheer Meer PAKISTAN TODAY Not any longer Other than ‘Can Pakistan survive sans aid?’, the other most common question or myth about the Pakistan-US relations is the supposed indispensability of the US’s military assistance for the former. Having taken care of the first question in this space earlier, this […]
Source: NY Times: GENEVA — Iran, Israel and Arab states took part in a secret meeting about prospects for an international conference on banning nuclear weapons in the Middle East, diplomats said on Tuesday, a rare such gathering of regional adversaries. More:
By M Ilyas Khan BBC News, Islamabad When Pakistan’s former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, ended his four-year exile and returned to the country to participate in May’s elections, he took […]
Beirut (AFP) – The Syrian regime will not attend a proposed Geneva peace conference if the aim is for President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power, the country’s information minister said Monday. “We will not go to Geneva to hand over power as desired by (Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud) […]
Columns, Chris Hedges TRUTHDIG Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and racism of apartheid South Africa. Its democracy—which was always exclusively for Jews—has been hijacked […]
ET: LAHORE: Fearing a reprisal following the killing of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud in a drone strike on Friday, the local UN office has issued an alert to its employees, The Express Tribune has learnt. “Imminent security threat at Centaurus Mall, Islamabad, for two (02) weeks. Huge security threat of […]
The bill would allocate time slots and specific locations in which Jews might pray in the Aqsa Mosque compound. World Bulletin / News Desk: The Knesset (Israel’s parliament) is set […]
Source: http://www.onlinenews.com.pk Dhaka: A UK Muslim leader and a US citizen have been sentenced to death over crimes committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence, Bangali media reported on Sunday. UK-Bangladeshi Muslim community leader Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khanwas were being tried in absentia by a special tribunal in Bangladesh. They […]
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COMMENT : A rose by another name — Yasser Latif Hamdani It is a well known fact of Islamic history that the Holy Prophet (PBUH) freed non-Muslim prisoners after numerous battles on the condition that they would first educate Muslims After making fools of themselves on TV by abusing a world […]
Source: Dawn.Com BAHAWALPUR: In his first public speech since a US drone strike killed Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday warned that peace could not be achieved “by unleashing senseless force.” The killing of Mehsud on Friday, as government representatives prepared to meet members of […]
Source: Jihad Watch vis Wasim Sr. “Islamophobia is the biggest threat to peace in the world today.” — U.S. “academic” Kevin Barrett in Iran’s state-run PressTV “Punjab, Christians hunted for blasphemy: fireworks wrapped in Koran pages,” by Jibran Khan for Asia News, November 2 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Islamabad (AsiaNews) – Two […]
Associated Press The UN’s expert on human rights in the Palestinian territories said that if renewed peace talks fail, the General Assembly should seek an opinion from the International Court […]
Asian Human Rights Commission — The Government of Pakistan must act now to stop religious hate mongering in the country and apply sanctions to the liberty of Mullahs bent upon destroying the little that is left of law and order in the country. Mr. Bashir Ahmad Kiyani (70), was murdered […]