Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of PM Raja Pervez Ashraf and 15 others over corruption allegations, raising fears of a political crisis just months ahead of an election. […]
India has put on hold a plan to issue visas to Pakistani senior citizens on arrival, amid fresh tension between the two countries. Home Secretary RK Singh told the BBC […]
Source: BBC Every year, a project called V-Star Change the World brings schoolchildren to a Buddhist temple in Thailand for a day of meditation. Organisers claim that one million children attended the most recent event at the Phra Dhammakaya temple near Bangkok. The temple has attracted controversy in the past, […]
BAGHDAD — Iraq has begun setting free hundreds of inmates, officials said Monday, offering a concession to Sunni protesters demonstrating against the country’s Shiite-led government. Protesters from Iraq’s Sunni minority […]
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RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARABNEWS Tuesday 15 January 2013 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah appointed Prince Faisal bin Salman as governor of Madinah yesterday. Prince Faisal, who […]
By SM Fasiullah for TwoCirlce.net, Hyderabad: Cooperation among Muslim businessmen is needed for success and prosperity, opined Dr Rahmathullah, HoD of Business Studies department at Mumbai University, in Spring of Islam conference today. “Cooperation is in the human nature. Various organs cooperate with each other for the body to work […]
Source: Onislam.net OnIslam & News Agencies Sunday, 13 January 2013 00:00 Kashmir is divided into two parts and ruled by India and Pakistan, which have fought two of their three wars since the 1947 independence NEW DELHI – The killing of two Indian troops in clashes with Pakistan on disputed […]
Editor’s Note: Here is a bit of a dispassionate analysis of the facts. I have gathered this material from Indian News Papers so that the facts may not be called biased. This just shows how tricky it is to rely on media reports and launch into tirade. The actual facts […]
Lutf’s Blog: Lutful Islam. Majority of the Shia Muslims dying in Pakistan at the hands of takfiri terrorists, and most of those protesting against this ongoing genocide don’t know or remember 1974. It was the first year of official takfir in Pakistan. An elected parliament which consisted for some […]
Ynetnews, Israel: Political cartoonists across the Arab world have never spared criticism for Israel, but the armed conflict in the Gaza Strip this past November has spurred them to step […]
AMMAN — The Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project is feasible, according to a World Bank study, but it will have manageable social and environmental effects. The World Bank has […]
Source: Express Tribune By Kamal Siddiqi Published: January 13, 2013 One does not know what is more shameful. The consistent manner in which members of the Shia Hazara community […]
Daily Times: Yasser Latif Hamdani: Jinnah, unlike the nation he founded, was not xenophobic. Nor was he an irreconcilable fanatic that our official state mythology wants to portray him as Truth be told, the MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s much anticipated drone attack landed on the xenophobia and narrow-mindedness of Pakistanis. […]
Nehru was draftsman of partition’: Kanchan Gupta | New Delhi There are now no more points left to score; all have already been scored, no great issues of partition left to resolve, except one: An ability to understand what, after all, did this partition achieve?” Jaswant Singh asks in the closing […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party ( pronunciation (help·info); translation: Indian People’s Party; abbreviated BJP) is one of the two major parties in the Indian political system, the other being the Indian National Congress. […]
DAMMAM: SIRAJ WAHAB ARABNEWS Saturday 12 January 2013 .Legendary Indian actor Muhammad Yousuf Khan — who attained world fame with his screen name Dilip Kumar — and his actress wife Saira Bano have been so touched and spiritually exhilarated by their journey to Makkah that they have extended their stay […]
Source: http://www.genocidebangladesh.org Following is a timeline produced from historical records and recently declassified US documents during the Nixon administration. Full timeline can be viewed online at this LINK Click on the live links for in-depth contents 1930-47: Development of the Two Nations Theory which led to the Partition of the Indiansub-continent on the […]
Information about suicides in the IDF was first published by an anonymous Israeli blogger who was subsequently investigated by Israel Police and the Military Police. By Gili Cohen | Dec.27, 2012 | HAARETZ ISRAEL In the last 10 years, 237 soldiers killed themselves, according to official statistics released by the […]