Source: the guardian Does it matter what name people use for God? This is the question thrown up as a result of a strange development in Pakistani etiquette. Until about 10 years ago “Khuda hafiz”, which means “God protect you”, was the phrase commonly used to say goodbye. But, in […]
Pakteahouse: by Aziz Bilal: Remembering Qadir & Qudoos It would not be inappropriate to commemorate the sacrifices that the Ahmadiyya community has offered in its commitment for peace and promoting […]
Pakteahouse; By Ayesha Noor: On March 30th, 43-year-old Master Abdul Qudoos lost the battle of his life in Rabwah, Pakistan. A relatively young man, he did not die of a heart attack, nor did he die of a fatal accident, neither […]
Pakistan is full of people who still think that they will someday launch a ‘holy war’ or let’s say “Gajwa–e-Hind” on India. They aspire of imposing their colonial rule on India, quite same as America has done in Afghanistan and Iraq. The subjects as it aspires will have a unbreakable […]
Ahmadiyya Times: India; Press Statement : New Delhi: Leaders belonging to different faiths praised Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s effort to promote Peace in society during the one day Peace Symposium held here on Saturday. […]
Dawn: By Murtaza Haider: After decades of waging the propaganda war against India for its highhanded treatment of Kashmiris, Pakistan is now the subject of a similar campaign by India […]
Credit: Pakistan Today by Wasim Saroya By:Rabia Ahmed Hundreds of people are killed in the name of religion Many moons ago in a different continent a Pakistani acquaintance asked me, very seriously, whether she should attend the wedding of her friend’s daughter. Let me explain. My acquaintance, her friend and […]
China will send 16 naval ships and two submarines to its first joint naval exercise with Russia, slated to start this weekend in the Yellow Sea, the Ministry of National Defense said on Tuesday. The drill, which Russian authorities said will involve warships cruising near Japanese waters, has rattled the […]
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: A Saudi girl won a bronze medal in the European Girl’s Mathematical Olympiad 2012 conducted at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, in the UK. Abrar Al-Sheikh of the Saihat Girls Secondary School in the Eastern Province won the bronze medal on Monday having solved four complex […]
In Amman, activists rally for freedom of Jordanians in Israeli jails Agencies | Apr 17,2012 | Jordan Times AMMAN/RAMALLAH — At least 1,200 Palestinian inmates of Israeli jails began an […]
Dawn.com I’m not particularly interested in the Oscars. Surprising really as I have recently taken to making films myself, but the Oscar winning films are often of little interest (Inception and Inglorious Bastards are rare exceptions). My ears pricked up however, when news trickled through that there had been a […]
Huff Post A beef festival organized by Dalit students at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India on April 15th erupted into violence, the BBC reports. About 100 members of the Hindu right wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarti Parishad (ABVP) protested the festival, leading to five injuries according to The Hindu report. ABVP protested the beef festival on the ground that […]
Dawn.com Since the 2001 toppling of the Taliban, which banned education for women and girls, females have returned to schools, especially in Kabul. But periodic attacks still occur against girls, teachers and their school buildings, usually in the more conservative south and east of the country, from where the Taliban […]
Source: Dawn Religious persecution of people from Ahmadiyya community is not a new development in Pakistan. Ahmadis have long been marginalised from the time when they were declared non-Muslims in the amendment introduced in 1973’s Constitution. Since then, they have been facing the wrath of many Muslims who have fundamental […]
Courtesy: S.S. Ahmad, Boise ID In the November issue of the Al-Fazl, Qadian, Hadhrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad, ra), son of the Promised Messiah (AS) wrote an article in Urdu with the heading, “The month of Ramadan has a special effect in purifying one’s self. Members of the Jama‘at should take its […]
Coutesy: http://www.timesofassam.com By- Swadesh Roy | Date- April 17, 2012 Politics of Bangladesh is now facing a new crisis. Supporters of the war criminals of Bangladesh are trying to disturb the communal harmony of the country. They are spreading rumor that some minority people have made a bad comment about […]
BBC: Israel’s Iranian Jews caught in middle An estimated 250,000 Jews of Iranian descent live in Israel – most of them in the city of Holon, just outside Tel Aviv. […]
By JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID ARAB NEWS STAFF The Ministry of Labor will issue work permits to foreigners on the basis of their performance in the professional skills tests to be conducted by authorities in due course, according to a senior government official. The workers need not submit any academic or […]
by Taylor Luck | Apr 16,2012 | JORDAN TIMES RAMTHA — An ongoing influx of thousands of Syrians into Jordan is prompting authorities to open makeshift ‘holding facilities’ for the […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Pak Tea House April 15th, 2012 | 11 Comments By Aziz Bilal: Remembering Abdul Qudoos It’s been long since I did my Pakistan Studies course […]