By Reuters – Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian children gather in a playground during a celebration for Palestinian Child Day, in the West Bank town of Salfit on Tuesday (AP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A far-right Israeli politician has been admonished by his party and roundly condemned by […]
Epigraph: Those who believe, then disbelieve, then again believe, then disbelieve, and then increase in disbelief, Allah will never forgive them nor will He guide them to the way. (Al […]
Source:Aljazeera By Hassan Ghani Pedalling through Islamabad’s leafy streets on his bicycle, Mohammed Ayub comes across as just another ordinary working class Pakistani. What he’s chosen to do with his […]
Source: Pakistantoday.com.pk By Ayesha Khalid; who is pursuing an Mphil in Public Policy and Governance from FCC. She is a graduate of Kinnaird College, with a degree in Economics. Whether […]
Source: BBC India’s central bank has cut its key interest rate for the first time this year. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced its repo rate to 6.5% from […]
Source: Defence.Pk 24-year-old Qazi Muhammad Shoukat Ghani died during a firefight in Pakistan’s Southern province of Balochistan. Shoukat, an Ahmadiyya Muslim by faith was a resident of Rabwah and was a sepoy in the Kashmir Regiment. He was killed after his post in the Pasni area of Balochistan came under […]
Source: Tribune A group of young Lahoris are using art to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the tragic Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park attack. Organised by Rohama Malik and […]
Source: Tribune LAHORE: The Ministry of Religious Affairs on Friday gave an undertaking at Lahore High Court (LHC) that the government would amend a question, deemed offensive by the Shia community, […]
Source: China Daily China is willing to encourage enterprises with due capacity to invest in Palestine, Vice-Premier Liu Yandong said in a meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah. Also, […]
Source. The daily Beast. “I don’t know whether there are any moral saints,” wrote the philosopher Susan Wolf, in her famous 1982 article “Moral Saints.” “But if there are, I am glad that neither I nor those about whom I care most are among them.” As Wolf saw it, there […]
Source. WSJ By MARGARET COKER in London and BEN KESLING in Baghdad Updated April 1, 2016 10:08 a.m. ET Islamic State has been using a well-stocked university chemistry lab in Mosul, Iraq, for the past year to concoct a new generation of explosive devices and train militants to make them, […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY JACOB POUSHTER A senior researcher focusing on global attitudes at Pew Research Center. The bombing that took place on Easter Sunday in Lahore, Pakistan, was a devastating reminder that the scourge of terrorism is not confined to the recent headlines from the Middle East and […]
Source: Reuters Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is “making a fool” of Tibetan Buddhism with suggestions he may not reincarnate, or reincarnate as something inappropriate, and the faithful […]
Source: BBC By Julie Bensman 30 March 2016 No matter what language you speak or where you come from, sharing a meal with friends is the best way to spend […]
Source: The Guardian By Mohammed Hanif, whose novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes was longlisted for the Booker prize, shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, Commonwealth literary prize and […]
Source: Dawn WISCONSIN: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Tuesday said that amongst all the presidential hopefuls only he can solve the problem of “radical Islamic terrorism”. During an interview with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, Trump termed Pakistan “a vital problem” for the United States (US) “because they have a […]
Source. The daily Beast LONDON — At least 72 people were killed and 300 injured by the suicide blast that shook the crowded Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park in Lahore, Pakistan, on the evening of Easter Sunday. Many of the victims were children. A Taliban splinter group called Jamaat-ul-Ahrar has claimed responsibility for […]
Source. The daily Beast Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s forces battling to recapture the ancient city of Palmyra had a lot of help from above. At least one Russian Mi-28 attack helicopter—Moscow’s answer to the U.S. Army’s fearsome Apache gunship—flew top cover as Syrian tanks and infantry stormed the modern city […]
Tehran Times Political Desk TEHRAN – On Thursday, Iran reacted angrily to the passage of a resolution which renewed the mandate of Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, for another five years. The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the renewal of Shaheed’s mandate is […]
By Suzanna Goussous – Mar 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a meeting with students on Sunday at the University of Jordan also attended by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and Jordan Strategy Forum Chairman Omar Razzaz (Photo courtesy of UJ) AMMAN […]