The Iranians and their Hizbullah ally are sending warning signals about how they might fight a future war with the United States and Israel. The signals aren’t subtle—Tehran intends to retaliate for any attack on its nuclear facilities with blows against America’s allies in the region, hitting their most sensitive […]
Ruth Pollard Middle East Correspondent THE terrified men lie huddled in a group on the dusty floor of an abandoned building as armed opposition fighters kick and stamp on their bodies. Amid the chaos, the prisoners protest their innocence, but their cries go unheeded. Their captors – apparently fighters from […]
Source: Times of India BEIJING: China today rolled out a red carpet to “Missile man” and ex-President APJ Abdul Kalam on his first visit to the country, proposing a joint […]
Source: Rediff The statement by West Bengal [ Images ] Director General of police Naparajit Mukherjee, regarding a nexus between Naxals and the Inter-Services Intelligence is something that needs to be taken seriously, says Vicky Nanjappa. There has been much talk about this since the last three years, and investigations […]
Source: Asianews A brutal murder has schocked the Indian Christian community in the UAE: Dr. Rajan Daniel, 58, urologist at the Ahalia Hospital in Abu Dhabi, was killed with eight stab wounds by Mohamed Abdul Jamil, 46, a Pakistani national. A native of Kerala, the Christian doctor died on the […]
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir high court has held that a Muslim man’s power to divorce (Talaq) his wife is not “unrestricted or unqualified”. Justice Hasnain Masoodi in his 23-page judgment extensively went into details of the Shariah law and Quranic injunctions to hold that a “husband cannot have unrestricted […]
MADINAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 3 November 2012 The number of illegal pilgrims squatting in the plaza of the Prophet’s Mosque is causing problems of nightmare proportions and is beyond control […]
Express Tribune: LADDAH: The outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan has decided to `deal’ with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and rid the people of Karachi of its `suppression’. TTP spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan called reporters and read out a statement on Friday, saying the Taliban had decided to rid the people of Karachi of […]
The Huffington Post. The buzz among foreign investors in Southeast Asia today is much about Myanmar and Cambodia, among the last frontier markets remaining in this part of the world. […]
by Muath Freij JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — With the slogan “Bread for everyone”, a young Jordanian has launched a campaign to help underprivileged families get the staple for free. Launched […]
Source: Yahoo Finance and CNBC By Ansuya Harjani | CNBC – 1 hour 9 minutes ago The average age of employees at India’s top software services exporter — Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), one of the country’s largest private sector employers — is 28. Students attend class at the Bansal Classes in Kota, […]
Express Tribune: KARACHI: During a recent Supreme Court hearing in Karachi that was examining the progress made on its 2011 verdict on violence in the city, a police officer attempted to […]
LONDON: ARAB NEWS Friday 2 November 2012 Israel has for the first time admitted assassinating the deputy of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Abu Jihad, in a raid on the movement’s […]
New plans for Saudi Arabia: Bulldozing historic holy sites Express Tribune: The current controversy of the potential Saudi demolition of Riyad-al-Jannah and the graves of Islamic caliphs Hazrat Abu Bakr (RA) and Hazrat Omar […]
By Ali Khan Mahmudabad theguardian.com, Thursday 1 November 2012 Jump to comments (291) Pakistan and Indonesia’s blasphemy laws have no basis in the Qur’an The Guardian: It is ironic that the […]
Source: BBC An inquiry comprising clerics and local politicians has been formed in Pakistan to investigate the destruction by a mob of a leading school in Lahore. Hundreds of protesters […]
Source: The Telegraph Burma has acknowledged the persecution of its stateless Rohingya Muslim minority and is considering giving citizenship to thousands of members of the group as a first step to finding a solution to the conflict with local Rakhine Buddhists. The government’s search for a ‘win-win’ solution to the […]
Source: Washingtonpost YANGON, Myanmar — The authorities have ordered people in strife-torn western Myanmar to surrender guns, swords and other weapons to the police within three days or face legal action. The announcement in the state-run Myanma Ahlin daily on Thursday said that some groups of people in the state […]
Ahmadiyya Times: Lutf Blog: By Lutful Islam : In order to understand the motives behind Bhutto government’s decision to declare Ahmadis non-Muslims, we also need to understand the sequence of events leading […]