Source:RT Residents of Pakistani town of Chenab Nagar have asked the Government to open an investigation after a local police officer harassed and detained a young Ahmadi child. Children of local Ahmadiyya Youth Association were holding banners to raise public awareness about traffic rules and road safety when officer Asif charged […]
Muddassar Ahmed | Published — Tuesday 21 March 2017 Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 has set out an inspiring future for the Kingdom at a time of global economic volatility. But to fulfill this, a critical step will be to revitalize the holy city of Makkah. Vision 2030 recognizes this. Envisaging […]
MPs listen to demonstrators, pledge to examine and follow up on matter By Rana Husseini – Mar 22,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Protesters stage a sit-in in front of Parliament on Tuesday calling on the government to grant full citizenship rights to children of Jordanian women married to foreigners (Photo by […]
Source: Reuters By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An Indian court has declared the sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers living entities, giving them the same legal rights as […]
Source: Independent UK By Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden Ayatollah Khamenei claims West makes women an ‘object of gratification’ Iran’s Supreme Leader has claimed gender equality is a “Zionist plot” aiming to corrupt […]
Low-lying, small islands of the Pacific are disproportionately at risk of losing land as sea level climbs Image Credit: AP Coral bleached white by heat stress in New Caledonia, an […]
Source: Associated Press By KATHY GANNON Mar. 18, 2017 8:32 AM EDT 6 photos FILE – In this file photo taken on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, civil society activists rally […]
Source: Time BY Nikhil Kumar Ever since 2014, when Narendra Modi became India’s Prime Minister, political pundits have been debating his priorities. He leads the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has […]
Source: Associated Press By ESTHER HTUSAN SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — Hundreds of hard-line Buddhists in a Myanmar state wracked by religious violence protested Sunday against the government’s plan to give […]
Source: Times of Israel The Titan Airways flight was en route from Stansted London to Rzeszow in Poland when the cabin lost pressure and the plane sent out a mayday call, landing safely Sunday morning at Schipol Airport in the Dutch capital, according to British media. The passengers were seen in […]
Reuters International MAR 19, 2017 – India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yogi Adityanath (C) is offered sweets after he was elected as Chief Minister of India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, during the party lawmakers’ meeting in Lucknow, India March 18, 2017. REUTERS/Pawan Kumar (reuters_tickers) By Douglas […]
In a land where retired murderers still abound, commemorating the dead of a civil war has countless problems Robert Fisk Mukhtara, Lebanon @indyvoices Walid Jumblatt looked a worried man yesterday. He seemed a trifle frail. He was, after all, commemorating the brutal murder 40 years ago of his Druze father […]
By AFP – Mar 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A general view taken on Saturday shows Israel’s Iron Dome Defence System, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, deployed in the occupied Golan Heights near the border with Syria (AFP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli Defence […]
His essentials include plenty of limousines and far too many golden escalators Tom Murray, Business Insider King Salman descends on one of his golden escalators from a plane AFP Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud, who has an estimated net worth of over $17 billion (£13.8 billion), is […]
Source: BBC US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has told China’s President Xi Jinping that President Donald Trump looks forward to visiting his country, and to enhancing understanding between the […]
Associated Press | Published — Thursday 16 March 2017 Pakistan says it has asked Facebook to help investigate “blasphemous content.” (File photo: Reuters) ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said Thursday it has asked Facebook and Twitter to help it identify Pakistanis suspected of blasphemy so that it can prosecute them or pursue their […]
Source: BBC The BBC has apologised after a tweet from the Asian Network account asked, “What is the right punishment for blasphemy?”. The tweet provoked criticism that the BBC appeared […]
Reuters International MAR 18, 2017 Pope Francis arrives during the penitential celebration in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican March 17, 2017. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi(reuters_tickers) VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis […]
Source: Dawn ASK people around you to identify the three greatest threats facing Pakistan. Ordinary people, chatterbox anchors, mullahs, generals and politicians will name everything from corruption, bad governance and religious terrorism, to Indian and American conspiracies, and general moral decay. But few, if any, waste sleep worrying about the […]