World Bank says allowing Palestinians to use the 61% of the West Bank under full Israeli control would boost the economy by Harriet Sherwood theguardian.com, Tuesday 8 October 2013 Israel’s […]
World Bank says allowing Palestinians to use the 61% of the West Bank under full Israeli control would boost the economy by Harriet Sherwood theguardian.com, Tuesday 8 October 2013 Israel’s […]
Source: The Nation October 08, 2013 YASMEEN AFTAB ALI Peace has eluded Afghanistan. The country has been the backyard for powers that have invaded her, plundered her and in the end abandoned her-much like one would an aged mistress! In anticipation of the withdrawal of US combat forces from Afghanistan; […]
Source: Asia Times: By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI – General Ashfaq Parvez Kiani, one of Pakistan’s most powerful men, has announced his retirement from the post of Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) on November 29. With one stroke on Sunday, General Kiani put to rest speculation in the media that […]
Source: Asia Times: By Francesco Sisci BEIJING – Who remembers Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, the Southern states that fought the Northern states lead by president Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War? Barack Obama, really and symbolically black, looks like the true vindication and completion of that […]
AWARAN: “There is only one namazi in this whole village,” our friend pointed out when we reached a village of over 2,500 people near Awaran town. One can see madrassas next to mosques in every village but it seems like people are less inclined towards religion. Apart from the conflict between […]
by Mariam Ghani My parents have a house in Dar ul-Aman, a neighborhood on the western outskirts of Kabul that was once a separate city, when Kabul was much smaller […]
Forty years after its Liberation War, Bangladesh Government has honoured former Defence Minister V K Krishna Menon posthumously at a ceremony attended by the Bangladesh President and Prime Minister in Dhaka, thus formally recognising his contribution to their war of Independence. Menon’s grand niece Radha Anand Menon and her […]
By David Loyn BBC News, Kabul The race to succeed Afghan President Hamid Karzai in next April’s election looked wide open as nominations closed on Sunday night. Twenty-two people have […]
A couple of days after she fled Syria for Turkey, a colleague sent me a message. “Dear Nuri, this is a court that the extremists established in my city, Lattakia, in the [Syrian] village of Kansabba. This Islamic court issues the law according to the extremists’ religion. It started today. […]
HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Sunday demanded Palestinians remove 10 solar panels from their rooftops in the Yatta region south of Hebron, a local group said. The coordinator of […]
Source of the video: TheAmanTv On 5th October 2013, the Missionary-in-Charge of the Malaysian Jamaat, Maulana Ainul Yaqeen received an invitation from the Canadian High Commissioner to Malaysia, Her Excellency […]
VIEW : Sakina awaits Tomahawk in Damascus By Tehsin Haider Zaidi Arab countries are so excited to applaud the destruction of Damascus that according to Senator John Kerry they have offered to pay the cost of military intervention I visited Sakina only once during my trip to Damascus in 2004. […]
Source: alislam.org Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad conveys peaceful teachings of Islam and says that true Muslims can integrate in the West On 4th October 2013, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
A topical film covering the ground-breaking global Muslim-Christian inter-faith initiative, ‘A Common Word’ will premiere during this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas on Monday, 28 October. Professor David Ford OBE, […]
The Hindu: Israel’s population registry lists a slew of “nationalities” and ethnicities, among them Jew, Arab, Druze and more. But one word is conspicuously absent from the list: Israeli. Residents […]
Nusa Dua, Indonesia – Asia-Pacific leaders convened on Monday for a summit in Indonesia aimed at advancing trade and investment liberalisation amid a regional economic slowdown. ……… The leaders from […]
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Ex-detainees on Saturday said that the Israeli forces arrested 10,000 Palestinian since the outbreak of second Intifada in September […]
Source: ET LAHORE: “Peaceful coexistence can be ensured by providing equal opportunities to all members of the society,” Leads University Vice Chancellor Munawar Sultana Mirza said on Sunday. She was addressing a day-long forum arranged by Hindu Sudhar Sabha at the Leads University campus in collaboration with Global Human Rights Defence […]
Source: Dhaka Tribune: By Julfikar Ali Manik , Muktasree Chakma Sathi Politics A son of Jamaat-e-Islami founder Syed Abul A’la Maudoodi believes that the religion-based party should not be allowed […]