Express Tribune: LONDON: Malala Yousafzai has been awarded the “2012 Tipperary International Peace Award” for her courage to raise her voice for female education. The other nominees for the award included US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President of Indian National Congress Sonia Gandhi, former Kenyan journalist John Githongo and the […]
The Jakarta Globe: In a symbolic gesture of camaraderie, the Jakarta administration announced on Thursday that it plans to form a sister city partnership with Jerusalem in the near future. […]
Youtube: Time to remember Salman Taseer, a brave man who stood boldy against the extremist elements paid for it with his life. May Allah rest his soul in peace. Watch:
Center for Research and Security Studies: The overall level of violence declined by almost 15 percent during 2012[1] across Pakistan.[2]Meanwhile, ethno-political violence in Karachi (Sindh), religio-political terrorism in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and nationalist-separatistviolence in Balochistan continued unabated. The deadly wave of target killings in Karachi, presumably triggered by the rivalry between Muttahida […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Friday 4 January 2013 Works on mataf (circumambulation area around the Kabaa) expansion is being stepped up, Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper reported. The second floor of the eastern side […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABPRESS Friday 4 January 2013 Childhood toys lost in a war-torn field have inspired an odd-looking invention like a giant dandelion seed head which its young Dutch […]
Source and written by Yasmeen Ali Honourable Justice (Retd.) Mr. Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan Your Honor, As a concerned Pakistani citizen,also a lawyer by profession I feel, our ballot paper do not allow the masses to exercise the right to vote in its true spirit.We see […]
Daily Times: Ayesha Asghar. The survivor is a Bheel, not just Hindu but also a scheduled caste one. The rape of children from scheduled castes is, unfortunately, very common in Sindh The survivor is a student of Grade I, in the district of Umerkot in Sindh. She is much younger […]
Haaretz: About two weeks ago, a young ultra-Orthodox man was arrested after he was caught using a hammer to smash centuries-old painted wall tiles. An attempt to harm the fragile […]
Ancient manuscripts indicate Jewish community once thrived in Afghanistan CBS News: A trove of ancient manuscripts in Hebrew characters rescued from caves in a Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan is […]
Source: ET KOLKATA: Team green sealed their victory by winning their second match by 85 runs in the One-Day International (ODI) series against India in Kolkata, their first win against India in a bilateral series since April 2005. Pakistan earlier intensified its bowling attack and sent five batsmen back to the […]
PNN Wednesday night 2nd January, clashes between settlers and Palestinians continued for a second day as around 20 settlers entered the Palestinian village of Jalud, south of Nablus. Palestinian official […]
ARAB NEWS Thursday 3 January 2013 AMMAN: More than 60,000 people have died in the Syrian uprising and civil war, the UN said yesterday, dramatically raising the death toll in […]
A large-scale study currently underway across Malaysia uncovers proof that polygamy harms everyone involved: from emotionally scarred children, to wives who think they’d be better off as single-parent households, and […]
Source: ET Taliban commander’s deputy Ratta Khan also killed in South Waziristan. PHOTO: AFP/FILE ISLAMABAD: A US drone strike killed Taliban commander Maulvi Nazir Wazir, also known as Mullah Nazir, his deputy and eight others in Wana, intelligence sources and tribal leaders said Thursday. Nazir from the Wazir tribe, was killed on Wednesday […]
Source: Munir Ahmad Munawwar of Austria Click HERE to watch weeping TQ and playing with sentiments of Muslims.
Source: Deeba Chaudhry, Calgary Ahmadiyya Muslim Examiner The 121st Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in India concluded in Qadian, which attracted over 18,000 people from around […]
Youtube: Debate Ansar Raza (Ahmadi Muslim) Vs Mujtaba Bhatti (Non-Ahmadi) – Dec 31, 2012 Watch in Youtube:
The Independent: By Robert Fisk: Never make predictions in the Middle East. My crystal ball broke long ago. But predicting the region has an honourable pedigree. “An Arab movement, newly-risen, is looming in the distance,” a French traveller to the Gulf and Baghdad wrote in 1883, “and a race hitherto […]
Express Tribune: ISLAMABAD: In what appears to be a paradigm shift in its decades-old policy, Pakistan Army has described homegrown militancy as the “biggest threat” to national security. According to the new Army Doctrine, ongoing activities of Taliban militants in the restive tribal regions and unabated terrorist attacks on government installations […]