Credit. Dawn.Com via Wasim Sroya It’s a horrible time to be a Christian, Hindu, an Ahmadi or any other minority group in Pakistan. For starters, let’s recount a few reported incidents of persecution carried out to “safeguard Islam” these past few days: minarets destroyed at Ahmadi mosques, mentally unstable man […]
Rabwah.net: by Dure Adan: 1400 years ago in the city of Medina, the political ruler of the time whose name was Muhammad ordered a census. My guess is that it […]
Asia Times Online: By Pepe Escobar Was Prince Bandar “Bush”, 63, son of Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz (perennial Saudi Defense Minister,1963-2001), semi-perennial ambassador to Washington (1983-2005), and secretive jihad financier, killed by […]
Philippine News: Philippine flood:Death toll mounts to 51 Manila: The death toll from over a week of floods in the Philippines rose to 51 as rain continued to pour, causing dams to overflow and forcing more people to flee their homes, officials said on Monday. The number of deaths, previously […]
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Ynetnews: Op-ed: Any Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement will endure only if it accommodates legitimate historical claims The nation state is a relatively recent phenomenon in the Middle East – and with […]
Credit: Credit: IPS via Wasim Sroya KARACHI, Aug 6 2012 (IPS) – As millions around the world enter the third week of the Ramadan fast, the fraternity that typically unites Muslims during the holy month does not extend to Pakistan’s Ahmadi community, which is facing worse persecution than ever before. […]
Credit: TOI NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expressed shock over the shooting at a gurdwara in the US and hoped authorities there will ensure “conditions” that such violent […]
Credit: Jakarta Globe: The minister of communication and information technology criticized on Monday a proposal to classify TV shows as either halal or haram. “There’s no such thing as a halal or haram TV program,” said Tifatul Sembiring. “TV programs should be assessed as to whether they have educational values […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Monday 6 August 2012 DAMASCUS: Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab has defected to the opposition, a monitoring group said on Monday, as state media announced the […]
Credit: ET Certain mufta-loving khaandans enjoy eating munchies, sipping tea in pretense of looking at prospective girls for son. PHOTO: FILE 1- Bahar ka rishta Forget sharafat and tameez, this family’s biggest accomplishment is that their son is in amreeka! The son is missing, “because he’s in Amreeka… na!!!” As […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: August 6, 2012 Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Monday took notice of the press conference held by Senator […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Monday 6 August 2012 The expansion project for the mataf (the circumambulation area around the Kaaba) will triple its capacity, according to a senior official of the […]
RAMALLAH — A key meeting of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) ministers which was to have taken place in the West Bank on Sunday was cancelled after Israel denied several of them […]
Washington Post: By David Ignatius, Monday, August 6, 7:43 AM By appointing Prince Bandar bin Sultan as its new intelligence chief, Saudi Arabia has installed what looks like a war cabinet at a time of rising […]
COMMENT: The partition of Punjab — II — Yasser Latif Hamdani Is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan today not a theocratic state? Does it not discriminate against Christians, Hindus and other […]
Philippine News: A ban on Muslim students wearing the hijab at a Catholic-run school in the Philippines, has sparked complaints and controversy. Pilar College in Zamboanga has defended its decision to ban Muslim students from wearing thehijab. Many of the schools 3,000 pupils are Muslim.Ciibroadcasting reported the college president, Sister Maria Nina Balbas, defied the complaints the […]
Iranian experts have completed the feasibility studies of Iran’s national plan to build 150-passenger airplanes and the project has entered the designing and manufacturing phase, an Iranian official says. In […]
Violence erupts at anti-Islam protest in Sweden The Associated Press Published: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 – 6:25 am Last Modified: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 – 8:56 am STOCKHOLM — Swedish activists clashed with police amid a hail of bottles and fireworks in downtown Stockholm on Saturday as they tried to break […]
http://tribune.com.pk/story/417246/water-world-dr-attaur-rehman-senses-a-scam-behind-man-touting-water-kit/ KARACHI: Sindh Senior Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ayaz Soomro is the latest to jump on the infamous ‘water kit’ bandwagon, having called the man touting the ‘invention’ a national hero. “Agha Waqar’s invention of a water kit has proved and recognised Sindhi people on world level,” Soomro told […]