Asia

Fiji can learn from India

FIJI has a lot to learn from India in terms of maintaining and sustaining a viable sugar industry. These were the words of Sugar permanent secretary Lieutenant Colonel Manasa Vaniqi on his return from the International Sugar Organisation meeting that was held there. Lt-Col Vaniqi said despite having 15 million […]

Patterns of intolerance

Dawn.com A PERSISTENT failure to deal with the canker of intolerance — one of the greatest threats to the Pakistani people’s mental health and their material well-being — is making the affliction day by day more unmanageable. A young non-Muslim woman has been living in Lahore for quite some time. […]

Aid workers kidnapped in Afghanistan

swissinfo.ch and agencies Five aid workers with the Swiss-based humanitarian group Medair – two foreign female doctors and three male Afghan colleagues – have been kidnapped in a remote part of north-eastern Afghanistan, a government spokesman has confirmed. The five Medair workers were reportedly visiting a clinic and bringing food […]

مہدی مرے، رسولِ خدا کا سلام لو

رسول اﷲ صلی اﷲ علیہ وسلم کا فرمان ہے کہ جب تم مہدی کا زمانہ پاؤ تو اُسے میرا سلام کہنا الحدیث ارشاد عرشی ملک arshimalik50@hotmail.com پیارے امام، شوقِ لقا کا سلام لو مہدی مرے رسول خدا کا سلام لو ہم سے گنہگاروں کو بھی اذنِ عام ہے مہدی کی […]

Iran wants all countries to give up WMD

Source: China Daily TEHERAN – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran has never been after producing or using weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), the official IRNA news agency reported. In a message to a ceremony held in Iran’s western city of Boroujerd “to commemorate 8,000 martyears of chemical […]

China calls for universal healthcare

Source: China Daily GENEVA – Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu said here on Monday that the international community is obliged to collaborate towards common goals to achieve universal coverage of necessary health services and to overcome present difficulties together. Chen made the remarks at the general discussion of the 65th […]

Official Hypocrisy in Indonesia

Editorial : Lying for the country The Jakarta Post The trouble with Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa is that he has probably spent too much of time traveling abroad to really understand what’s going on in his own country. On Monday he said the government has done enough to protect the […]