Pakistani war crime! Depriving Iran of Pakistani mangoes!!!
Note by the editor: This is my headline. See last paragraph of the article. Mango Mania By HUMA YUSUF KARACHI — Summers in the city — and across much of […]
FIJISUN – Dubai – 25 Filipinos embrace Islam after lecture and other updates
25 Filipinos embrace Islam after lecture Ahmed Shaaban / 3 August 2012 DUBAI – As was the case in the last ten sessions of the Ramadan Forum, the Philippines night has proved to be the most eventful this year also with tens of people converting to Islam. Prominent Filipino […]
Monks Gone Wild: When Buddhism Derails in Myanmar
Huff Post: Andrew Lam For a country steeped in Buddhism, Myanmar is accruing terrible karmic debts. Alarming news and images of attacks and killings by the Buddhist majority in Rakhine Province against a Muslim minority there have been slowly trickling out onto the Internet and the wider world. Pictures of […]
Catholic Church ‘show of force’
Inquirer News: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) leads tens of thousands in a prayer-rally at the Edsa Shrine in Mandaluyong City on Saturday to show Congress that most Filipinos oppose a bill that would curb the country’s population growth. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Senators Vicente […]
SC declares contempt law null and void
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: August 3, 2012 ISLAMABAD: The Supreme of Court of Pakistan declared the contempt law, recently passed by the parliament, […]
An all-out war against not only Iran, but also Shi’ites all around
Credit: Asia Times. t took Reuters quite a while to be allowed to report that US President Barack Obama had approved an intelligence finding [1] letting the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) loose in its support for the weaponized “rebels” fighting for regime change in Syria. By now even fishermen in […]
Indonesian Protection of Religious Freedom Deteriorating: US
Source: Jakarta Globe n Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, government protection of religious freedom has been deteriorating, the United States says. While the Indonesian government generally respects the freedom of the country’s six officially recognized religions, it has failed to overturn local regulations violating religious freedom, the US […]
‘Muslim brethren’ Bangladesh tells international charities to stop giving aid to Myanmar Rohingya Muslims!
(Reuters) – Bangladesh told three international aid agencies on Thursday not to help thousands of Rohingyas Muslims who have been fleeing into Bangladesh to escape violence in neighbouring Myanmar. France’s Médecins Sans Frontières, British-based Muslim Aid and Action Against Hunger were told about the ban by Joynul Bari, commissioner of […]
How A Last-Minute Decision Led To The Nuking Of Nagasaki
Businessinsider.com: Days after Hiroshima, a deadlier atomic bomb was bound for an armaments factory in Kokura – until bad weather forced a change of plan. In an extract from his new […]
Myanmar (Burmese) Muslim Association’s Statement on Communal Riots
Statement on Communal Riots in Rakhine State, Myanmar 1. The news wrote in the Myanmar government’s newspapers on 5th June 2012, “Kalar Muslims”(Kalar is derogatory term for Muslim) deliberately assaulted cruelly on Rakhine women,” had started the instigation by cooking up the simple criminal case into a racial and religious […]
The Water Car Fraud Pakistan
The water car fraud By Pervez Hoodbhoy The Express Tribune, August 3, 2012 The writer received his bachelor degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics, as well as masters and Ph.D degrees, from MIT Agha Waqar Ahmad deserves a medal from the people of Pakistan for his great service to the […]
As Burmese Rohingya bleed, Rohingya immigrants in Karachi find no help no help from Pakistani ‘Muslim brethren’!
As the world rallies in favour of non-violence and mobilises against unjust oppression, a small community in Pakistan’s largest city struggles to raise its voice: these are Karachi’s Rohingya Muslims – a small band of immigrants who managed to escape from the Burmese oppression when the time was right. Today, […]
Burmese Muslims find refuge in Hyderabad
Source: The Pioneer The echoes of ethnic violence in Myanmar have reached Hyderabad as dozens of people fleeing the violence have reached Hyderabad to take refuge. About 30 families of Rohingyas, as the Burmese Muslims are called, have taken shelter in the old city areas of Balapur, Shaheen Nagar and […]
Acquisition of houses for Haram expansion approved
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Friday 3 August 2012 Government approval has been given for the expropriation of 2,000 properties in Makkah for the expansion project of the Grand Mosque’s northern courtyards. […]
For Damascene refugees, Jordan flight an unfamiliar journey to a familiar land
RAMTHA — Despite having travelled the 200-kilometre route separating Damascus and Amman thousands of times, Abu Mohammed said the journey this time could not have been less familiar. Military blockades, […]
Science for the ummah – A Satire Piece
Source: Dawn Author: Nadeem F. Paracha Recently an enterprising Pakistani engineer claimed to have invented a car that is powered by water. Excited by the news, Pakistan’s, nay, the whole […]
The water car-technology or fraud?
The Express Tribune: Pervez Hoodbhoy Agha Waqar Ahmad deserves a medal from the people of Pakistan for his great service to the nation. In a few short days, he has exposed just how far Pakistan has fallen into the pit of ignorance and self-delusion. No practical joker could have demonstrated […]
Kofi Annan resigns as Syria envoy
Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general, conceded the failure of diplomacy to resolve Syria’s conflict when he announced his resignation as international peace envoy today. Mr Annan, […]
Bangladesh to assert more power over Grameen Bank
Source: CBS/AP DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh has decided to expand the power of the government-appointed chairman at pioneering micro lender Grameen Bank. Government spokesman Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan says amending the law will allow the chairman to appoint the managing director of the bank. That authority is now held by the […]