Credit: Asia Times: By Kaveh L Afrasiabi CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts – In a major setback for Turkey’s self-promotion as a pivot of regional diplomacy, Tehran could rebuff Ankara’s bid to hold the next round of multilateral nuclear talks in Istanbul. As a result, unless Ankara sends Tehran some reassuring signals, it […]
AHRC.Com: The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a journalist of a US based news agency is receiving death threats from Taliban Pakistan for writing stories on […]
By RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN, ARAB NEWS STAFF The Saudi government paid SR72,000 in compensation to a stranded Sri Lankan housemaid whose Saudi sponsor had not paid her wages for the last 17 years. Kusuma Nandini, 57, who had come to Riyadh in 1994, was kept a virtual slave in the […]
by Taylor Luck | Mar 25,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Authorities confirmed on Sunday the arrest of several Syrian army defectors on suspicion of spying for the Syrian regime. According to the Public Security Department (PSD), police forces in Mafraq arrested last week 10 alleged army defectors who entered […]
A Davao native who emigrated to South Korea may soon become that country’s first foreign-born lawmaker, Korea’s Ambassador to the Philippines Hye Min Lee said on Saturday. Ambassador Lee, speaking with reporters at the sides of an airport send-off to Seoul for Vice President Jejomar Binay, said a Filipina-Korean naturalized […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune March 25, 2012 Recommended by Zubair Khan, Germany Hopes were high when Jinnah presided over the Constituent Assembly in 1947 and […]
Jerusalem Post: ‘Israel considering freezing PA tax transfers over UN move’ Jerusalem may freeze joint economic ventures with PA after UN decision to probe settlement effects of West Bank Palestinians; […]
By JEDDAH: DIANA AL-JASSEM, ARAB NEWS STAFF Published: Mar 24, 2012 23:51 Updated: Mar 24, 2012 23:51 Saudi women fail in misyar marriages due to low awareness of their rights and duties. A misyar marriage is a marriage created to fulfill the needs of both the man and woman, with […]
by Taylor Luck | Mar 24,2012 | JORDAN TIMES THE UNITED NATIONS has launched a multimillion dollar aid appeal to support Syrian refugees as the numbers of Syrians fleeing to […]
Credit: Munir Ahmad Munawar of Austria: khuda kay lye meray mulk ko in moulviyoon say bachao … Shaikh Waqas This clip is in Urdu. To watch the video in Youtube […]
The Express Tribune: Khaled Ahmed: Why do we seek unity but end up with uniformity? If you want unity, teach yourself to tolerate diversity. Today, we are returning to a […]
By BEN HARTMAN Jerusalem Post: Protesters express opposition to strike on Iran, voicing anti-Netanyahu slogans and railing against AIPAC. By Ben Hartman In the first significant antiwar- with-Iran protest held […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan DAWN.COM | DawnNews ISLAMABAD: The opposition parties in the National Assembly have decided to present a joint stance based on consensus on the recommendations […]
By JEDDAH: ARAB NE The Kingdom has an age-old tradition of extending a helping hand to the needy and less fortunate. Victims of poverty, internal strife and natural disasters in any part of the world can be assured of the help in cash and kind from Saudis. A Saudi cargo […]
By YOUSUF MUHAMMAD | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: About 1,200 young men and women will marry in a mass wedding to be held on May 16, the Welfare Society for Marriage and Family Guidance announced on Friday. It said Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, the society’s honorary chairman, would patronize the […]
Los Angeles Times: By Edmund Sanders: Rahma abu Hussein can’t help but feel they are moving up in the world. The database engineer and his wife just bought their first home, and it’s […]
Source: The New York Times NEW DELHI — As evening falls in Chuddani, a village of about 500 homes, people arrive by bicycle, motorbike, tractor and on foot with jugs that they fill with water from faucets outside a neat blue shed. Inside the building is a filtration plant […]
Israel Won’t Cooperate with UNHRC’s ‘Goldstone 2’ Diplomatic source: Israel will not cooperate with the UNHRC’s “fact-finding mission”, won’t legitimize an illegitimate body. By Elad Benari Israel announced on Thursday night that it would not be cooperating with the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) new “fact-finding mission” to investigate […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: The Horizon March 23, 2012 According to news accounts reported in Pakistan’s Urdu newspaper, Daily Express, an anti-Ahmadiyya conference held in Lahore by Khatima-e Nubuwwat Tahafuz Majlis […]
FM Lieberman says a UNHRC decision to establish a fact-finding mission to Judea and Samaria may lead to Israel severing ties with the body. Arutz Sheva: By Gavriel Queenann Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Friday he may recall the Israeli ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council and cut ties […]