Asia

Myanmar rejects Muslim crackdown concerns

YANGON: Myanmar on Monday told a UN rights envoy it rejected accusations of abuse by security forces in the wake of communal unrest, after the United Nations raised fears of a crackdown on Muslims. In a press conference attended by UN Special Rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana, Myanmar’s foreign minister said […]

Why Pakistan abandoned its Nobel laureate

Credit:NDTV via Wasim Sroya Jhang: The two-room bungalow, the birth place of Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate, today stands empty, testament to the indifference, bigotry and prejudice surrounding the country’s greatest scientist. Professor Abdus Salam, the child prodigy born to a humble family on the sun-blasted plains of Punjab who won […]

Israel: Moderate Islam

A lot of people out of doors Israel do not know the point that 25% connected with Israel’s inhabitants, are generally connected with Persia history, as well as amongst options Alfredia, Islamic, as well as Druze. Lots of people over and above this particular area are not aware of your […]

Iraqi official says Kurds in secret weapons deal

Monday 30 July 2012 ARABNEWS BAGHDAD: A high-ranking Iraqi official yesterday said security agencies have uncovered a secret weapons deal between the autonomous Kurdistan region and an unnamed foreign country. “Iraqi security agencies (discovered) a secret weapons deal between the president of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, Massud Barzani, and a […]