Source: Dawn.Com KARACHI: A 50-year-old homeopathic doctor, belonging to the Ahmadi community, was shot dead in his clinic in the Abul Hasan Isphani area of the metropolis on Monday evening. It is the second such attack in the same vicinity within a month, police and a community spokesman said. “Dr […]
Source: Religion News Service By Ruma Paul/REUTERS DHAKA (Reuters) Police in Bangladesh on Sunday (June 19) shot dead an Islamist militant wanted for the killings of several liberal bloggers and gay rights activists, a senior official said. The militant, identified as Sharif, one of the leaders of the banned group Ansar Ullah […]
Source: BBC By Bryan Lufkin 20 June 2016 CHINA SPENDS MORE ON INFRASTRUCTURE each year than North America and Western Europe combined. That’s according to a new study published last […]
Source: ET A deranged, 29-year-old American man born in New York, to Afghan parents, killed 49 young men and women at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. During the killing spree, Omar Saddique Mateen calmly called 911, the emergency line, to declare that he had acted in support of the Islamic […]
Source: Reuters ISLAMABAD | BY ASAD HASHIM Pakistani police arrested a man under the majority-Muslim country’s strict blasphemy laws on Monday for selling shoes with a sacred Hindu symbol, police and Hindu leaders said. The shopkeeper, Jahanzaib Khaskhili, was arrested in the southern town of Tando Adam and the shoes, […]
Source: Dawn.Com It is always baffling, isn’t it, to see the yawning difference in our responses in South Asia to a gathering communal threat, for instance, as opposed to the catastrophic prospect of nuclear annihilation? Only recently, Pakistan toggled between public outcry and terrified whispers when teeming mourners showed up […]
Source: Dawn.Com KARACHI: Police sources suspect that Advocate Awais Ali Shah, kidnapped son of Sindh High Court’s chief justice, will be used as a ‘bargaining chip’ to ensure release of some captured militants. “So far it is kidnapping, and my professional assessment is that it is not for ransom,” Sindh […]
Source. Watsapp. In Karachi Ch Khaleeq Ahmad age 50 embraced Shahadat today. Innahlillahe Wainnah elehe rajeoon. Details awaited.
Flare-up of Afghanistan-Pakistan border tensions signals a shift of dynamics in their historically thorny relationship. A woman coming from Afghanistan enters the information centre at the border post in Torkham, Pakistan [Reuters] by Helena Malikyar @HelenaMalikyar Helena Malikyar is an Afghan political analyst and historian. Julian Huxley once wrote that […]
Israel deliberately denies Palestinians control over their water sources and sets the ground for water domination. Camilla Corradin Since Israel took over the West Bank in 1967, Israel has remained in near full control over Palestinian water resources in the West Bank [Ibrahim Khatib/Getty Images] Occupied West Bank – As […]
OPINION Catch up world, India has changed By Prateek Khare, swissnex India, Bengaluru JUN 15, 2016 – 11:01 Stereotypes of India as a backward country are still prevalent, according to Prateek Khare whose job involves promoting the country as a destination for Swiss start-ups. In this article he explains what […]
Jun 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh Every day, the new tactics of Daesh prove more efficient in achieving two major goals — conducting terrorist attacks and piling pressure on the security apparatuses of many countries. Since the declaration of “the caliphate”, security challenges around the world have taken […]
Jun 18,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL In the 2002, the Arab world made a peace offer to Israel the Arab countries thought it could not refuse: normalisation of relations between the Arab region and Israel in exchange for a complete Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem, and […]
By Suzanna Goussous – Jun 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Family Kitchen volunteers deliver food to areas around the Kingdom, such as Madaba, Um Al Rassas, Salt, Hitteen camp and Zarqa (Photo courtesy of Family Kitchen) AMMAN — Aiming to promote Ramadan values, a group of 120 volunteers is collecting […]
Source. Dawn.Com Ahmedis have been fair game, for abuse, torture and even murder, for a long time in Pakistan. It is not just that the state of Pakistan has declared them non-Muslims. People of this community also continue to face institutionalised and state-level discrimination, and there is almost an incessant […]
Epigraph: Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? (Matthew 7:3) Source: Huffington Post […]
Source.Dawn.Com Remember everything your parents, grandparents, maulvi sahab and Islamiyat teacher taught you about Ramazan? Now try and forget it please because there seems to be no room for those teachings anymore in this country. Tune in to one of our many local Ramazan transmissions on television and learn everything […]
By Life&Style Published: June 18, 2016 As the ineffable media policing continues. PHOTO: FASHIONCENTRAL Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) surprised the Pakistani audience yesterday by banning actor Hamza Ali Abbasi’s Ramazan transmission. The ban was imposed over violation of the media regulator’s code of conduct as Pemra found Hamza […]
By Saqib Gul | ثاقب گل @SaqibGul01 The moment Hamza Ali Abbasi announced to conduct a program for Ahmadis he has been subject to fury from Muslims. Such a reaction is […]