Source: Tehelka CAMPAIGNING IS on in full swing for the Gujarat assembly elections this month. Both the BJP and chief minister Narendra Modi are predicting a third term for him. Modi’s media managers are selling him as the man of ‘development in the state’, and big industrial houses are pitching […]
Source Dawn urdu بر صغیر میں مختلف مذاہب اور فرقوں میں مکالمے اور بحث کی روایت بہت پرانی ہے۔ بلکہ یوں کہئے کہ بہت پرانی تھی۔ آج یہ تصور کرنا بھیمشکل لگتا ہے لیکن پاکستان میں ایک وقت وہ بھی تھا کہ جب ایک فرقے کے عالم دوسرے فرقے پر […]
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(CNN) — Rescue crews in the Philippines worked Wednesday to overcome washed-out roads, downed power lines and poor communications as they tried to reach what’s left of remote villages to search for hundreds of people missing after a powerful typhoon. Tens of thousands of people were left homeless after Typhoon […]
I have visited Yarmouk, the battle scene between Jordan and the Syrian (Israeli occupied) Golan heights, where the Muslim army under the command of Khalid ibn al-Walid had defeated the […]
By Anthony Harrington When you are the world’s fourth most populous country, with over 238 million citizens, it makes sense to think in terms of lifting your game and moving […]
Blog By Ahmad Shoaib ہ منتخب ہوا۔ اس موقع پر پاکستان کے اقوام متحدہ میں مستقل نمائندہ نے میڈیا سے بات چیت کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ پاکستان نے ہمیشہ اپنے ملک میں انسانی حقوق کی اقدار کو بلند کیا ہے اور انسانی حقوق پاکستان کے قانون اور نظریہ کا حصہ […]
Source: LUBP: Bigots of ISI flocking together Takfiri Tahir Ashrafi’s Bigotry against Ahmadi Muslims In his lame attempt to backtrack on his earlier allegations against Hamid Mir, Maulana Tahir Ashrafi has not only referred to outright lies but also engaged in a disgusting act of bigotry against Pakistan’s Ahmadi muslim […]
Source: ET A tombstone desecrated by unidentified men at the graveyard. PHOTO: RABIA MEHMOOD/FILE Dead or alive, the Ahmadi community of Pakistan has not been spared from discrimination and hate crimes in our country for decades. Another atrocity against the community occurred in Model Town, Lahore on December 3, in […]
ISLAMABAD: The Express TRIBUNE In order to meet international obligations, the Ministry of Human Rights is to appoint ‘human rights defenders’ at the union council level (the smallest administrative unit) […]
Source: Dawn.com MYRIAD problems afflicting Muslims today are of our own making. The combined GDP of a billion plus Muslims living in some 56 sovereign Muslim states is less than that of Japan. Barring a few countries like Malaysia and Turkey, most Muslim states are underdeveloped. Pakistan has seven million […]
By Al Arabiya The UAE has set aside $410 million to cover defaulted debts owed by Emiratis, state news agency (WAM) reported Monday. The measure came after UAE’s President Sheikh […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Wednesday 5 December 2012 The Al-Birr Charity Society in Jeddah adopted a total of 537 children who were previously street beggars and sent them to a shelter […]
ARAB NEWS BRUSSELS: Western powers warned Damascus yesterday there would be an immediate reaction to any use of chemical weapons. “The possible use of chemical weapons would be completely unacceptable to the whole international community and I would expect an immediate reaction from the international community,” NATO head Anders Fogh […]
Source: Smartplanet The incredibly speedy construction of prefabricated towers so popular in China has officially made its way over to India. Today (December 1), the country welcomed a 10-story building that was put up in just 48-hours. Aptly named “Instacon,” the newly finished tower sits in the town of Mohali, […]
Newstatesman by Samira Shackle: By any standards, the last few days have been bleak for Pakistan’s persecuted minority communities. It started on Saturday, when a century-old Hindu temple in Karachi’s busy Soldier Bazaar area was demolished with the help of police. The Shri Rama Pir Mandir (temple) was razed to […]
Express Tribune: Ushah Kazi. Close your eyes and think of your childhood. What stories did you hear? Which fairytale was your favourite? Which princess did you want to be like? It doesn’t matter because they were all lies. The creepy origins of the stories that we associate with our childhood, […]
Mid Day: Sushant Singh. Last Saturday, Shri Rama Pir Mandir, a century-old Hindu temple in Soldier Bazaar in Karachi, along with surrounding houses of the Hindus, was destroyed by the authorities. Although the Sindh High Court is hearing a petition on the matter, Karachi police denied the existence of […]
Source: boulderjewishnews.org A very unusual event occurred at the Boulder Jewish Community Center on Sunday night: a highly rational and mostly unemotional discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was held, featuring […]