Singapore teen blogger who criticised government wins asylum in US
Source: The Guardian Amos Yee left the city state with the intention of staying in US after being jailed for several weeks in 2015 and 2016 A teenage blogger from […]
Why is Pakistan’s Musharraf on TV?
By M Ilyas KhanBBC News, Islamabad 21 March 2017 Image captionMr Musharraf has his own show – but what do Pakistanis make of it? Pakistan’s controversial former military ruler, Pervez […]
Husain Haqqani given special powers so he could renew visa for 36 known CIA agents, new leaked documents reveal
Pakistan by Hamza Rao | Published on March 25, 2017 🔗 ISLAMABAD – A new letter that harks back to 2010 has revealed that the former Ambassador to US Husain Haqqani was given exclusive powers to renew visas for 36 CIA agents despite instructions from Foreign Ministry to not review the visas […]
Pakistan allows Raheel Sharif to lead Saudi-led military alliance
by Sarfraz Ali | Published on March 25, 2017 🔗 ISLAMABAD – Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that Pakistan government has formally permitted ex-army chief Gen Raheel Sharif (r) to lead Saudi military alliance to fight militancy. The minster on Saturday revealed this during an interview with Geo TV […]
Tanks, suicide bombs and bayonets: On the front line in the battles around Damascus
Endgames: inside Syria and Iraq In the first in a series of exclusive dispatches from the crucible of war, Robert Fisk reports from Syria’s capital, where regime soldiers are fighting hand to hand with opposition fighters Robert Fisk Damascus @indyvoices Opposition forces members clash with Assad regime forces in Jobar and […]
Jewish Center Bomb Threat Suspect Is Arrested in Israel
By ISABEL KERSHNER, ADAM GOLDMAN, ALAN BLINDER and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA MARCH 23, 2017 The teenager accused of making bomb threats against Jewish community centers hid his face before the start of a court hearing in Israel. His name has not been released. CreditBaz Ratner/Reuters JERUSALEM — A monthslong wave of […]
Pakistan seeks Facebook meeting, threatens action over blasphemy
Source: Reuters By Saad Sayeed | ISLAMABAD Pakistan will punish social media companies that fail to take action against online blasphemy, the interior minister said on Wednesday, adding that he […]
Indonesia police fire tear gas on Muslims protesting church
Source: Associated Press By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and ALI KOTARUMALOS BEKASI, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police fired tear gas on Friday to disperse hard-line Muslims protesting against the construction of a […]
Kufr fatwa issued against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for speaking at Holi festival
Source: Daily Pakistan By Hamza Rao | Published on March 21, 2017 ISLAMABAD – A religious scholar has issued a fatwa against Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif for ‘blaspheming’ against Islam […]
U.N. launches probe of crimes against Rohingya in Myanmar
Reuters International MAR 24, 2017 – A Rohingya refugee girl peeks through a hole made in a plastic wall dividing the shelters at Balu Kali Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, February 28, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer (reuters_tickers) GENEVA (Reuters) – The top United Nations human rights body agreed on Friday to […]
Why India can’t defeat Pakistan or China in a war
By John Cheeran Published: March 23, 2017 Narendra Modi. PHOTO: REUTERS To provoke a somnolent establishment into action, your message has to be blunt. There cannot be a more blunt warning to India’s political leadership and defence establishment than what Pravin Sawhney and Ghazala Wahab have delivered in their admirable […]
‘Mosul parents sedate children, fearing discovery by Daesh’
By Thomson Reuters Foundation – Mar 23,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqi civilians flee the city of Mosul as Iraqi forces advance in their massive operation to retake Iraq’s second city from Daesh extremists on Wednesday (AFP photo) LONDON — Terrified Iraqi families fleeing fierce fighting in Mosul are drugging […]
Modern insurance system has its roots in medieval Anatolia
EKREM BUĞRA EKINCI@EkremBEkinci ISTANBUL A painting portraying a market place in former Ottoman capital Bursa. During the Seljuk and Ottoman period, trade was an important part of daily life and […]
भारत: अहमदीय मुस्लिम समुदाय का स्थापना दिवस कादियान में मनाया गया
Source: Ahmadiyya Press & Media, Qaidan
India: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Organizes Peace Symposium In Kolkata
Source: http://www.enigmatixweb.com/ahmadiyya-muslim-jamaat-organizes-peace-symposium-kolkata/ Enigmatix Web Desk, Kolkata, March 21, 2017 : The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at conducted its Annual Peace Symposium on 18th February 2017 in Kolkata. The theme of this year was “World Peace – The Critical Need of the Time”. The audience comprised of diverse background viz. religious leaders, social activists, […]
India meat crackdown leaves butchers concerned
Source: BBC Several slaughterhouses and meat shops have been shut in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comprehensively won state assembly […]
46 Assam mullahs issue fatwa against singer Nahid Afrin
Source:TOI Forty-six Muslim clerics in Assam have issued a fatwa against up-and-coming singer Nahid Afrin, who was the first runner-up in the 2015 season of a musical reality TV show, asking her to stop performing in public. More:
Islamic State 2.0: As the caliphate crumbles, ISIS evolves
Source:CNN (CNN)ISIS is on the back foot. Nearly three years since the group’s elusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a self-styled Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, ISIS is reeling from losses across its so-called “caliphate.” It is fast losing its grip on Mosul, its biggest hub in Iraq, and […]
Why I disagree with the censorship of social media and the imposition of hijab
Source: Dawn Pakistani representatives seem to be getting their ankle-length trousers into quite a few unseemly knots these days over unprecedented ‘slights’ against our battle-hardened culture.Under attack (as it usually is from unseen forces and a stunted perception of the public profile), lawmakers look ready to redeem our social experiment […]
Dutch photographer captures love and friendship on streets of Islamabad
Source: ET Sometimes accidents give us more perspective than reading or travelling. That is exactly what happened with Jeroen Swolfs, a Dutch photographer who got drunk and fell on a pavement in Amsterdam almost a decade ago. As he stared at the pavement and streets around him, he felt a […]