There must be 50 ways to hate an Arab
Haaretz: Unfortunately, there is a broad spectrum of hostility toward Arabs throughout Israeli society. It is not limited to the ‘price-tag’ gangs. The “price-tag” vandalism against the residents of Abu […]
Bangladesh grows – on remittances, exports
Source: BD News 24 By Abdur Rahim Harmachi, Bangladesh’s economy has achieved an average growth of over 6 percent over the past five years primarily due to the healthy flow of remittance and rising exports. Both exports and remittance flow from expatriate Bangladeshis have doubled over the last five years despite […]
Advice for the PM: By Kunwar Idrees
Dawn; MR Nawaz Sharif has earned admiration for the equanimity with which he bore his torment of arbitrary dismissal, persecution in Attock Fort and years of exile even though he lived in the comfort of Jeddah palaces and London’s Mayfair after that. Back home and in power, as admiration fades […]
Syria in-depth analysis: Where the anti-Assad coalition went wrong
We don’t know what will come out of Geneva II, the US and Russian backed conference for a political solution to the Syrian crisis. But it is forcing rhetorical and […]
Striving for excellence in orphan care
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Friday 21 June 2013 JDT Islam in Marikkunnu, near Calicut, is one the renowned orphanages in South India. It extends outstanding services to orphans and […]
Standing up for the Ahmadis
Source Daily Times via Nasim Malik of Sweden Incidentally, marginalising the Ahmadis has not proved good for Pakistan. Realising their potential, Pakistan’s early leaders made good use of their services. Jinnah made Zafrullah Khan the country’s first foreign minister and later governments made him the permanent representative of Pakistan to […]
Brain Child of Dr Salam
Source: ET via Wasim Sr The summer college, which was the brainchild of Dr Abdus Salam, Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate, is organised every year since 1976 by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). “Dr Salam used to assign two different projects to the local scientists, one applied and one formal, […]
India: Tafaffuze-Khatam-e-Nabuwwat cleric wants Muslims to arm themselves, be ready for Jihad
Ahmadiyya Times Blog: The leaders of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam Hind have been wielding a severe blow to the mischief of Qadianism for the last 80 years. Source/Credit: Sahafat, New Delhi By The Urdu Daily Sahafat | May 21, 2013 English translation : New Age IslamMaulana Habib ur Rehman Sani Ludhianvi says Muslim should always keep weapons with […]
The Palestinians’ last option: A struggle for equal rights Palestinians must shed the illusion of the current peace process and at least push for equitable rights.
Ghada Karmi ALJAZEERA.COM Palestinians must dissolve the PA and demand the same rights as Israeli citizens, writes Ghada Karmi [Getty] Once upon a time, Palestine was the Arab world’s unifying […]
Muslims mark Jewish Heritage Month
Ynetnews: May was Jewish History Month in the Canadian province of Ontario, proclaimed by an act of the provincial government one year ago. The month is dedicated to celebrating the […]
Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater’s Founder
This is an old article, just to remind the readers what is happening ‘behind the scenes’. This secret army hardly gets into the News. By MARK MAZZETTI and EMILY B. HAGER Published: May 14, 2011 Correction Appended ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, a plane […]
Qatar readies new leadership, little policy change expected
By William Maclean and Sami Aboudi DUBAI (Reuters) – Qatar appeared on Monday to be preparing its population for new leadership that could see the emir and prime minister step down, a step analysts say would not herald big changes in energy, investment or foreign policies. The Gulf Arab state […]
Pervez Musharraf’s Ridiculous Return to Pakistan
BY ISAAC CHOTINER NEW REPUBLIC 24th April 2013 (This article is from April, however the question why Musharraf returned is as acute as ever). If Pervez Musharraf exists at all […]
Quaid-e-Azam’s Residency and our ‘liberals’ — Yasser Latif Hamdani
Daily Times: Mr Jinnah is the foremost symbol of Pakistan, even if Pakistan has not treated him with the respect he deserved. Balochistan is the sovereign and legal territory of the federation of Pakistan In 2000, the Taliban blew up the Buddha statues. When there was outcry all over the […]
Syria says rebels would take years to match army’s strength
June 24, 2013 – 13:31 Reuters Swissinfo BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s foreign minister said on Monday that a decision by Western and Arab countries to arm the rebels posed a danger to peace talks and would prolong the two-year conflict. Walid al-Moualem told a news conference in Damascus that the […]
Standing up for the Ahmadis
Daily Times: VIEW : Standing up for the Ahmadis — Mohammad Ahmad In our land the people have the right to differ with the Ahmadis and to consider them wrong. Persecution is, however, not their right In the context of the continued persecution of the Ahmadis in Pakistan this scribe recently […]
Government to initiate high treason case against Musharraf: Sharif
Credit: The Express Tribune By Ferya Ilyas / Reuters Published: June 24, 2013 ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to initiate a high treason case against former military dictator Pervez Musharraf for subverting the […]
Officials say Egyptian Sunni Muslims kill 4 Shiites, charging they were spreading their faith
CAIRO — Sunni Muslim villagers killed four Shiite men on Sunday, accusing them of trying to spread their version of Islam, according to Egyptian security officials. The four were beaten to death in Giza province, near the capital, Cairo, in one of the most serious sectarian incidents in Egypt in […]
Nanga Parbat assault: Tragedy in Himalayas
Credit: The Express Tribune By Shabbir Mir / Creative: Samra Aamir Published: June 24, 2013 GILGIT: Gunmen overran a mountaineering base camp and shot dead foreign trekkers who were resting during a climb up one […]
Gaza fights to save its oldest monastery
Palestinians submitted Saint Hilarion to be included on the World Heritage List of UNESCO AFPPublished: 12:56 June 23, 2013Gulf News Tel Umm Al-Amr, Palestine: A haven of peace in the […]