Source. Dawn THE news coming out of Saudi Arabia of thousands of foreign workers — Pakistanis included — not having been paid for months and reportedly running low on food is reason for concern. As reported, over 8,500 Pakistanis employed with two Saudi firms have not received their salaries for […]
Source. CNN (CNN)Within minutes of skidding across the runway, all 282 passengers on board an Emirates flight, which exploded in flames in Dubai on Wednesday, were safely evacuated. In a life-or-death moment, what goes through the mind of an air steward? Training is key, a former Emirates crew member who […]
Aug 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB The incident was tragic by any standard, but the response appears even more tragic. When Shadi Abu Jaber, a 17-year-old Jordanian, along with another passenger died in a car accident in Amman, social media users started talking about the young man whose […]
By Laila Azzeh – Aug 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Syrian refugees carry water at the Azraq camp, some 100km east of Amman and 20km west of the town of Azraq in Zarqa Governorate, recently (Photo by Muath Freij) AMMAN — More than half of the registered Syrian refugees […]
Source: Asia Times. The missile that landed in the Sea of Japan was launched at about 7:50 a.m. Seoul time (2250 GMT Tuesday) from a region in South Hwanghae province to the southwest of North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, South Korea’s Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a […]
Source: Dawn NEW DELHI: India said on Sunday it will send a government minister to Saudi Arabia to try to bring back more than 10,000 Indian workers who are facing a “food crisis” because they are unable to afford meals after being laid off from their jobs. Low oil prices […]
August 23, 2015 “After its defeats in Anglo-Afghan wars in 1842, 1880 and 1919, Britain wanted to avenge the defeats in form of carving Pakistan out from the land of Afghanistan and India. Pakistani leadership was aware of the fact that Pashtuns would never accept Pakistan as their homeland, therefore, […]
Recent wave accounts for about one-in-ten asylum applications since 1985 BY PHILLIP CONNOR A record 1.3 million migrants applied for asylum in the 28 member states of the European Union, Norway and Switzerland in 2015 – nearly double the previous high water mark of roughly 700,000 that was set in […]
Aug 02,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMAH Like the many annual Arab summits in the last decade, the latest in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott was an unexciting event. Other than expressions of goodwill, empty promises and routine political rhetoric, the summit produced nothing that can be viewed as […]
Source: ET “We had advanced our romantic relationship but later he seemed a little callous towards me,” Zhang told Hunan TV. “One day he sent me a photo of air tickets abruptly and I thought it was a joke. He didn’t contact me later.” Zhang went on to add that she was […]
Source: Dawn IN times of tumult such as these, it takes sagacity and courage to rise above the clamour and appeal to people’s common humanity. In Europe, where the past few weeks have witnessed horrific violence, much of it perpetrated in the name of Islam, it was heartening to see […]
Source: Dawn BOTH Islamists and Islamophobes find Islam and democracy incongruent. Some cite a verse that deprecates majority views. To call Islam anti-democracy by citing a brief verse non-contextually is odd. Even in democracy, small ruling groups usually make decisions. Majority only decides who rules. The mode of this decision […]
Source.Dawn NEW YORK: Sales of pocket versions of the US Constitution have soared since the Pakistan-origin father of a fallen American soldier brandished a copy to denounce Donald Trump, igniting a major backlash against the Republican nominee. Khizr Khan, a Harvard-educated lawyer whose son died in a 2004 suicide bombing […]
Source: The Local Jordan has always captured the attention of adventurers. The ancient kingdom has been inhabited since before the Bronze Age, and helped shape the stories of Roman emperors, Lawrence of Arabia, and Moses just to name a few. More:
By AFP – Aug 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A woman feeds the pigeons next to the Ortakoy Mosque in Istanbul, on Monday (AP photo) ISTANBUL — Turkey admitted Monday there may have been some “unfair” treatment in its post-coup crackdown as it voiced anger at Germany for barring […]
By AFP – Jul 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES QALANDIYA — Israeli authorities early Tuesday destroyed 11 Palestinian homes in an area on the outskirts of Jerusalem divided from the city by Israel’s separation wall, residents and an NGO said. A convoy of Israeli army vehicles and bulldozers carried out […]
Source. Jakarta Globe Jakarta. The country’s second-biggest Muslim group, Muhammadiyah, has called for greater religious and racial tolerance in North Sumatra following the burning down and destruction on Saturday of several Buddhist houses of worship by enraged mobs in the city of Tanjung Balai. No casualties were reported in what […]
Source: Jakarta Glob Medan. Police have charged twelve people with robbery and vandalism after several Buddhist temples and monasteries were ransacked by mobs in the city of Tanjung Balai, North Sumatra, last weekend. “We’ve charged eight suspects with robbery and four with vandalism,” North Sumatra Police spokeswoman Sr. Comr. Rina […]
Source: Asia Times. BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian military helicopter was shot down in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province on Monday killing all five people on board, in the biggest officially acknowledged loss of life for Russian forces since they started operations in Syria. Men inspect the wreckage of a Russian […]
Source. Dawn Muslims in India form the largest religious minority in the country. According to the 2011 Census, they comprise 14.4 per cent of India’s total population — roughly 174 million people. To use the word ‘minority’ for them, therefore, is misleading: they are the third-largest Muslim population anywhere in […]