By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Jama’at) Sri Lanka organized its first annual “Peace Symposium 2012” on 3rd November 2012, at the Taj Samudra Hotel, Colombo. In this symposium Professor Kshanika Hirimburegama, Vice-Chancellor, University of Colombo, Ven. Galagama Dhammaransi Thero, […]
Petra | Nov 04, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Latin Patriarch of Jordan, Palestine, Cyprus, Syria and Israel Fouad Twal on Sunday commended His Majesty King Abdullah’s support for Palestinians and the holy sites in Jerusalem. During a visit to Madaba Governorate, Twal highlighted the situation in Palestine, which […]
Source: Open Faizabad saw a brazen attack on Muslims on 24 October. From what led to this carnage, it is clear that it was not spontaneous but orchestrated COMMUNALISM CALCULATED ATTACK: Chowk area of Faizabad where shops of Muslims were targeted by arsonists on 24 October (Photos: RAUL IRANI) The […]
Written by Ram Puniyani Pakistan has been facing innumerable troubles, not entirely due to its own faults. The whole politics of oil, the designs of Empire and the subservience of Mullah-Military complex to the US designs have brought in lot of misery in the region. Currently one is painfully witnessing […]
Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani Apparently, ‘secular’ is some sort of a bad word and anyone using this word in connection with Quaid-e-Azam is automatically a traitor Our Urdu press, conspiratorial, nationalist and rightwing, is full of nazriati (ideological) warriors. This article is a rebuttal of two of the most popular standard-bearers […]
Business Insider: Over the past few weeks, there’s been a growing buzz about central banks playing a greater role in explicitly serving as funders of government. The idea that people (journalists and Wall Streeters, mostly) have been talking about is the notion that central banks could buy government debt (as […]
Philippine News: An inflow of capital has pushed up the peso that threatens asset price bubbles Reforms pushed through by President Benigno Aquino have put the Philippines back on the map for international investors but authorities are struggling to control an inflow of capital that has pushed up the currency […]
Humanist: by Beena Sarwar. Those calling for a global blasphemy law should heed the lessons from Pakistan In Pakistan a democratically elected but weak government struggles to hold on to power against tremendous odds. If, despite the challenges, it completes its tenure and makes it to the next election it […]
In this age of information and its explosion, you will be taken for a ride, if you do not keep abreast with the latest, the best and most accurate information. You will be taken for a ride not only by the ordinary con artists but also by journalists, politicians and even the so called religious scholars. Try the […]
The Israel Today: Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat last week said it was time for Israel to finally implement true religious freedom and allow Jews to pray atop the Temple Mount. […]
Kerala, India: ‘Divya Smrithi’ – A Public Meeting on World Religious Figures was conducted as part of Kozhikode Zonal Conference 2012 in Kerala, India on Saturday the 3rd of November. By the grace of God, the event was a grand success. It highlighted the noble characters of world religious leaders: Prophet […]
Why is he equal to Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and Archimedes? I do not say it but George Sarton says it! George Sarton (1884–1956) was a Belgian chemist and historian who […]
Dawn: Mohammad Amir Rana: As many as 239 religious organisations operated in Pakistan at the national and provincial level in 2002; presently reduced to 232. They pursue multiple agendas, such […]
Dawn: by Zofeen Ibrahim: Two years ago on May 28, eighty-six members of the Ahmadiyya community were massacred in their places of worship in Lahore, during the Friday congregation. Since […]
ARABNEWS by Tanya Cariina Hsu who is a British political analyst specializing in US-Saudi foreign policy Sunday 4 November 2012 DURING a recent dinner conversation in London I was asked, as is predictably guaranteed, about Saudi Arabia, the abaya and hijab. “A mark of oppression and ignorance,” bemoaned a professor […]
AGENCIES – ARABNEWS Sunday 4 November 2012 LAHORE: A Pakistani court yesterday refused bail to the head teacher of a school caught in a blasphemy row. Asim Farooqi, 77, was […]
Source: Pakistan Observer Yangon—Rohingya groups from across the world have signed a statement calling for a Global Day of Action on November 8 in support of human rights for the Rohingya people of Burma. “We call upon all organisations and individuals who support human rights for the Rohingya to unite […]
Source: The Jakarta Post Repentant: Nasir Abas, a former member of the al-Qaeda-linked Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) terror network, speaks during a discussion on terrorism in Jimbaran, Bali, on Monday. The discussion was part of the commemoration of the second Bali bombing, which claimed 23 lives on Oct. 1, 2005.(JP/Anggara Mahendra) […]
Source: Radiance Weekly India may be closer to allowing Islamic banking than ever before with the central bank and the finance ministry discussing ways in which rules need to be changed to allow the interest-free practice that’s compatible with Shariah law. Demands by Muslim groups over the past few decades […]
Source: Indian Express Lucknow’s Hindu-Muslim father-son duo, Aiku Lal Sandil and Akbar, will be honoured at Delhi’s Phoolwalon ki Sair, which celebrates communal harmony, on Saturday. Akbar, a Muslim by birth, was adopted by Aiku Lal, a Hindu, in 2003 when Akbar landed in Lucknow after he got separated from […]