ARABNEWS More than 900 contestants participated in the annual camel race at the start of the National Heritage and Culture Festival in Janadriyah near Riyadh yesterday. The festival’s official opening […]
JEDDAH: Fouzia Khan arabnews Thursday 4 April 2013 The Ministry of Labor’s surprise checks of shops, institutions and businesses have wreaked havoc on the lives of many expatriates. Expat workers told Arab News of the closures of their employers’ grocery shops, beauty parlors, salons, cafeterias, electric and plumbing stores and […]
Express Tribune:In 1961, Dr Abdus Salam and late Pakistan Air Force (PAF) commodore WJM Turowicz were busy laying down the foundations of Pakistan’s space agency called Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Corporation (SUPARCO). Little did they know that 52 years later, the nation’s space agency would be lagging woefully behind times, renting foreign […]
Here’s a report of a nice program conducted by the Khuddams of Bangalore Jamaat as part of the Platinum Jubilee of Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya. The city of Chitradurga also known as […]
A new minister was walking with an older, more seasoned minister in the garden one day. Feeling a bit insecure about what God had for him to do, he was asking the older preacher for some advice. The older preacher walked up to a rosebush and handed the young preacher […]
Source:Pakistan Today.Com via Nasim Malik of Sweden LAHORE – In a renewed attack on minorities, a violent Muslim mob attacked a Christian locality in Gujranwala on Wednesday, damaging shops, houses and vehicles belonging to the local Christians following a clash between the youths of the two communities last night, Pakistan Today has […]
Source: Asia Times: By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI – The Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) has called off an April 4 rally that was intended to kick-start its election campaign after the Pakistani Taliban threatened to attack its public meetings. The PPP had scheduled the rally for April 4, the anniversary of […]
(Reuters) – Nearly 100 percent of young Pakistanis are pessimistic about the future and believe their country is headed in the wrong direction, a survey released on Wednesday found. A British Council study, entitled “Next Generation Goes to The Ballot Box”, also showed that only one in five young adults […]
Source: Jerusalem Post.com By ANAND KUMAR (The writer is associate fellow in the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi.) n the ongoing war crime trials in Bangladesh 10 top leaders of the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami and two leaders of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are being […]
Source: www.kids.niehs.nih.gov Follow the movement of the rotating pink dot in the picture below, and your eyes will only see the pink dots… Seen? Beautiful pink dots, aren’t they? Trick #1: Change focus: Concentrate […]
Source: Asia Times: By Matthew J Walton Recent violence in Myanmar between Buddhists and Muslims in the central town of Meikhtila (also spelt Meiktila) and areas beyond, which has left a reported 43 people dead, as many as 12,000 displaced, and more than 1,000 homes and building destroyed, has raised […]
Source: ET Both empires and states fail or collapse. Examples include the Roman, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Mughal and British empires. From the recent past, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Sudan are the best examples. Professor Norman Davies, in his book Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations […]
Persecution of ahmadies:A Brief on Ahmadis and Elections in Pakistan Ahmadis remain deprived of voting in national elections at all levels ELECTORAL SYSTEM is basic to any election. In Pakistan, it has a history. Since the inception of Pakistan in 1947 to the time of General Zia-ul-Haq, all the national elections […]
Culture and Belief: The urgent call is initiated. The Asian Human Rights Commission (Commission Asian Human Rights) reported on its website that Ahmadi family was brutally tortured by fundamentalists with their accomplices. The mullahs (fundamentalists) were accompanied by a sixty people from various terrorist organizations in Pakistan and invaded the house of the president of the […]
ALBERT AJI | ASSOCIATED PRESS ARABNEWS Tuesday 2 April 2013 DAMASCUS: A historic Jewish synagogue in Damascus has been damaged and looted as clashes have consumed the surrounding neighborhood, a […]
Source: NPR via Wasim Srroya Enlarge image Pakistani men who worked for the Taliban attend a class at Mishal, an army-run rehabilitation center in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, on July 5, 2011. This and similar centers are trying to re-educate men taken in by the Taliban, who ruled Swat before the […]
A fire at a Muslim school in the Burmese city of Rangoon has killed 13 children, officials say. Police blamed an electrical fault for the blaze. Most of the children […]
LAHORE: Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi has directed that the ban on wall-chalking should be implemented strictly and posters and banners creating hatred and provocation removed immediately throughout the province. He expressed these views while presiding over a meeting regarding security and law and order at Chief Minister’s Secretariat […]
All praise belongs to Allah(swt)! Ahmadiyya Muslim Community celebrated platinum jubilee of establishment of it’s youth wing Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya(MKA) on 31st March 2013. Event comprised of sports competitions and competitions of religious nature.