Source: Scroll.in The transformation of Gwadar port on the Pakistan coast as a base for Chinese Navy ships was long expected, but when media reports actually appeared on Friday to that effect, it was startling news. The reports quoted Pakistani officials saying that China proposes to deploy its naval ships […]
Source: Indian Express. Lt Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa. When reports first began to surface that Qamar Bajwa was in the running for the top post, he was subjected to a […]
Source: Times of Israel Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim sect in Israel, Muhammad Sharif Odeh, expresses dismay at comments made by Anat Berko on Channel 10 news last night, which the Likud MK wondered aloud why the Kbabir neighborhood in Haifa was spared the fires that swept parts of the […]
Source: Time By Feliz Solomon Burmese authorities are carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country’s western Arakan state, a senior U.N. official said, as the military continues to sweep the area for what it has labeled Islamic militants. The BBC reports that John […]
Source: CNN Rohingya refugees from Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine state are flooding across the border into Bangladesh. They’re fleeing violence that has plagued the state for weeks. Some refugees told CNN they suffered rape, torture, or saw their homes burned down and family members executed. “If (the military) finds any boys […]
Source: Dawn Tabled last year by a PML-F lawmaker, Nand Kumar Goklani as a private bill, the Criminal Law (Protection of Minorities) Act, 2015 stipulates a sentence of between five years and life imprisonment for those found guilty of forcible conversion, along with a fine to be paid to the […]
Source: Dawn THERE is a recurring theme running through Muslim mythology in the subcontinent that places the Mughal era at the pinnacle of India’s rich and varied past.Travellers to India in the 16th and 17th centuries returned with tales of dazzling riches. Indeed, compared to the display of wealth by […]
Source: Dawn They can’t do it at home. Most of the Muslim world is a mess. Muslim majority nations are either ruled by nasty autocrats, military strongmen or flawed and fragile democrats. In many places, to speak up is to find yourself dead or in prison. If you are lucky, […]
Source: ET A guessing game on the replacement of army chief General Raheel Sharif is likely to end within the next 24 hours, as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is all set to approve the crucial appointment after returning from his Turkmenistan trip. Apart from filling the post of army chief, […]
Source: http://reliefweb.int/report/india/students-under-siege-schools-burn-india-s-troubled-kashmir Students under siege as schools burn in India’s troubled Kashmir By Stella Paul KULGAM, Kashmir, India, Nov 23 2016 (IPS) – In the fading light of a November afternoon, 12-year-old Mariya Sareer bends over a textbook, trying to read as much as she can before it gets dark. It’s […]
Source:Times of Israel Following an unfortunate and irresponsible tweet by Minister Naftali Bennett — “the only ones capable of setting the land on fire are people to whom it doesn’t belong” — fearful Israelis cranked up their hatred to a level that will soon extinguish every remaining shred of sanity here. Indeed, the […]
Source: CNN China has blamed Uyghur separatists for a number of attacks in recent years, including one on a coalmine in September 2015, in which 50 people were killed. But exiled groups and human rights activists say the government’s repressive religious policies and economic marginalization are provoking the unrest. “Chinese […]
Source: Dawn Tailpiece: the Asian Human Rights Commission in Hong Kong wrote a letter to the president of Pakistan about the hanging of two men who were subsequently acquitted by the Supreme Court. The director-general (C-II) at the president’s secretariat (Public) forwarded the letter “for appropriate action” to the secretary […]
Source: Dawn Punjab is one province which has stayed with the tradition. It is one unit in the federation that has not got any break from rule by Gen Zia’s associates. Even when the unit was ruled by the PPP or its allies the chief minister, the man at the […]
Source:Daily Mail UK HAIFA, Israel (AP) — A wildfire roared through parts of Israel’s third-largest city on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes as the country’s leaders raised the possibility that Arab assailants had intentionally set the blaze. Spreading quickly due to dry, windy weather, […]
Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1238698/forgotten-legend-abdus-salams-death-anniversary-passes-without-mention/ By Rana Tanveer, Published: November 22, 2016 LAHORE: The 20th death anniversary of Pakistan’s first Nobel prize winner Dr Abdus Salam passed away without any significant mentions on Monday. The only event in his memory is scheduled at his alma mater, the Government College University (GCU) Lahore, and that too two […]
Source: TOI Saudi Arabia and Iran are waging a struggle for dominance+ that has turned much of the Middle East into their battlefield. Rather than fighting directly, they wield and in that way worsen the region’s direst problems: dictatorship, militia violence and religious extremism. The history of their rivalry tracks […]
Aljazeera.com: by Liz Gooch, Mary Ann Jolley — Thousands of girls and women in India are sold into marriage and often face a lifetime of abuse and hardship. Live submit The first time Muklesha was sold, she was just 12 years old. Her buyer was a man in his 70s. […]
AFP by Joe Dyke © Provided by AFP The minaret of a mosque and the Dome of the Rock are seen in a Palestinian neighbourhood in east Jerusalem’s Old CityIt is 4:30 am and Mufeed Shawana is rushing to Al-Aqsa Mosque, as the first Muslim call to prayer of the […]
Source: BBC The Chinese government will rejoice to hear Donald Trump promise that the US will quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on his first day in the White House. For […]