A state in distress CONNECT TWEET RSS FOLLOW EMAIL PRINT SHARE The Daily Star It’s relatively easy to highlight the appalling situation in Syria, where violence, displacement, fragmentation and corruption prevail. Analysts can chart the slow collapse of state institutions and wonder how the country can survive under its current […]
Denying Israel atrocities The Daily Star John Kerry offered the usual type of spirited defense of Israeli behavior Monday, when he addressed the U.N.’s Human Rights Council. The U.S. secretary […]
Associated Press By LEE KEATH and HAMZA HENDAWIAssociated Press14 hrs ago © AP Photo/Militant video, File FILE – This file image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at […]
Source: Pakistan Today By Yasmeen Aftab Ali Reminiscing was an activity of our elders, or so I thought. It seems, however, that places change, not the reminiscing. Browsing through wedding pictures of a friend’s son over on the Facebook, I saw the bride dressed in a neck to ankle heavily worked […]
Encylopaedia Britannica states about Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, also spelled as Zafrulla: Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan was a Pakistani politician, diplomat, and international jurist, known particularly for his representation of Pakistan […]
Gaza (Palestine): A ten-year-old Palestinian boy from Gaza, despite suffering from autism – a disorder of brain development, experience difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors, […]
Gaza (Palestine): A ten-year-old Palestinian boy from Gaza, despite suffering from autism – a disorder of brain development, experience difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors, […]
By Sadia Saeed, Visiting lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Boston University Modern forms of governance do not simply enumerate citizens; they produce them by rendering them into being […]
Source: Huffington Post By James D. Tabor; Author, ‘Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity’ If you ask most New Testament scholars whether Jesus was likely married the mantra is a […]
Source: Huffington Post By James D. Tabor; Author, ‘Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity’ If you ask most New Testament scholars whether Jesus was likely married the mantra is a […]
Reuters In this photo provided by the Turkish Prime Minister’s Press Office, Pro-Kurdish legislator Sirri Sureyya Onder, center right, Turkey’s deputy prime minister Yalcin Akdogan, center left, and other legislators and officials attend a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015. — AP ISTANBUL: Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times March 1, 2015 Elizabeth II (born 21 April 1926) is the Queen of 16 of the 53 member […]
393. Commandment – There shall be no sin for you in anything you mutually agree upon, after the fixing of the dowry [4:25] And forbidden to you are married women, except such as your right hands possess. This has Allah enjoined on you. And allowed to you are those beyond that, that you seek […]
The Daily Star BEIRUT: Assyrian Christians fleeing ISIS are welcome to take refuge in Lebanon because their humanitarian case in exceptional, Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said. Al-Mustaqbal reported Sunday that Machnouk, after discussing the matter with Prime Minister Tammam Salam and Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas, gave the order to […]
HARUN YAHYA Published — Saturday 28 February 2015 Last Sunday, the global media reported that Turkish tanks had rolled into Syria to carry out an operation to evacuate the tomb of Suleyman Shah from the only Turkish territory in the war-torn Syria. The region where the historical tomb was […]
The Daily Star An arson attack on a Christian seminary in Jerusalem Thursday, and a similar attack on a mosque the day before are hate crimes, committed by extremist individuals, and are representative of the systemic racism directed at Palestinians by the Israeli government and its policies. Because while the […]
daily times: The predominant narrative in Pakistan now seems to be that India and its intelligence agency RAW is responsible for all acts of terrorism, including the vicious attack on the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The federal defence minister, Punjab’s home minister and […]
ET: Dear Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, I hope this letter finds you well. I am sure you are busy; so let me cut to the chase. You know well that Pakistan’s Ahmadi community has long faced the wrath of extremist religious clerics. Despite succeeding in hijacking Jinnah’s vision, and pressurising the state […]
By Muntasir Zaman Among the various specialties of the Hanafī school of thought, one outstanding speciality is the rigorous manner in which it was developed. Imām Abū Hanīfah had a council of forty prominent scholars with whom he would consult prior to documenting a legal ruling. Often they images 1would […]
Pakistani author Rafia Zakaria laments troubled state of her native country In her book The Upstairs Wife, lawyer, writer and human rights activist Rafia Zakaria bemoans lack of rights for women in her native Pakistan. Rafia Zakaria By: Jennifer Hunter The Reader, Published on Fri Feb 27 2015 thestar.com Since […]