Michael Young| The Daily Star Earlier this week, Khaled Khoja, the new head of the Syria opposition in exile, rejected a Russian proposal to attend talks in Moscow to end the Syrian conflict. Khoja was right to doubt Russian intentions, but officials in Moscow are probably thinking in very different […]
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: A video message by students of Jamia Hafsa, in which they invited Islamic State (IS) chief Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi to ‘avenge’ the 2007 military raid on Lal Masjid, has been termed as “waging war” against the state. A report by the Islamabad police, sent to the interior ministry, […]
Source: Dawn.com ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan and television journalist Reham Khan’s nikkah ceremony took place on Thursday at the politician’s residence in Bani Gala. The nikkah, which was […]
Ahmadis played a key role in founding Pakistan, but today face persecution and killings. Source: examiner.com A leader of the Pakistani Christians in the United States has condemned the killing Saturday of an Ahmadi man and called upon the government of Pakistan to annul the second amendment in the the 1973 […]
ET: LAHORE: Nearly 125 Ahmadis from 23 families are still running from pillar to post to return to homes they had vacated after an enraged mob set alight eight houses belonging to members of the Ahmadiyya community on July 27 in Gujranwala, The Express Tribune has learnt. Four people were burnt […]
Source: Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid, Lawyer, Speaker, Best-Selling Author of “EXTREMIST” Amir Liaqat is re-enacting ancient history. And as a result, innocent people are dying. A thousand years ago during the European Dark Ages, religious minorities and women lived in particular peril. Jews were publicly demonized, forced to convert to Christianity, […]
Written by Shahid Parvez Badruddin, Banglore One of the aspects of the British Rule in any country they conquered was to spread their religion Christianity. The missionary work in India was […]
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in The ink on Ahmadi murder victim Luqman Shehzad’s temporary tombstone in Rabwah hadn’t fully dried yet when this past weekend multiple groups of outsiders, facilitated by the Punjab Police, […]
Hindus upset at Australian brewery continuing with Ganesh-Lakshmi beer labels Despite apologizing and promising to re-design their bottles and packaging and removing the objectionable images from the website in 2013, Brookvale (New South Wales, Australia) based “Brookvale Union” brewery’s ginger beer is still carrying juxtaposed images of Hindu deities Ganesh […]
(Reuters) – Religious extremism could derail Myanmar’s much-vaunted reform process, the Buddhist-majority country’s first Catholic cardinal, Charles Maung Bo, said on Tuesday. Bo, who was named a cardinal by Pope Francis on Jan. 4, warned that Buddhist nationalism directed against minority Muslims could drive the latter to connect with international […]
Dawn: Nationalism and patriotism in Pakistan are contested subjects. What makes us Pakistanis and what is it that makes us love our land and nation? The answers to these questions vary widely depending on who is being asked. A large part of our national identity stems from our sense of […]
interview Conducted by Markus Dettmer and Jörg Schindler REUTERS Where does Islamic State get its money? In an interview, terrorism expert Louise Shelley says it operates like a run-of-the-mill crime syndicate in which ideology takes a back seat to money making SPIEGEL: Professor Shelley, leaving aside the victims for a […]
PNN/ Ramallah Head of the Census Department of the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, stated that the Israeli army continues to attack and abduct Palestinian children in violation of international law, kidnapping 3755 children in the last four years, including 1266 in 2014. Ferwana, also a […]
PNN/ Ramallah Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary, Amin Maqboul revealed connections between the US administration with some Arab leaders, in an attempt to pressure Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas halt heading to the ICC and signing international treaties. Maqboul told Shams News on Tuesday that the US will not succeed to achieve […]
Old diseases return as Syrian doctors warn of ‘medical disaster’ In this Dec. 18, 2013 file photo shows a Syrian girl weeping after receiving the measles vaccine from UNICEF nurses Nadine Houjairi, second right, and Genivieve Bashalani, right, at the U.N. refugee agency’s registration center in Zahleh, in Lebanon’s Bekaa […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent A new frontier in Syria’s civil war, but what does future hold for refugees in Lebanon? With Beirut restricting its borders, Robert Fisk asks if the million-plus displaced people already there have any real hope of returning home ROBERT FISK Tuesday 06 January 2015 Isis […]
Source: ET Civil society activists led by M Jibran Nasir staged a protest against Maulana Abdul Aziz. PHOTO: INP Six weeks ago, few outside the small circle of civil society activists in Pakistan would have heard of Jibran Nasir — today he is being written about in newspapers across the […]
Source:ET On January 4, a group of people gathered for a candlelight vigil at Liberty Chowk in Lahore to commemorate the death anniversary of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer. It will be recalled that Mr Taseer was murdered by his own security guard, because of his stance on the blasphemy […]
Geopolitical Weekly JANUARY 6, 2015 | 09:00 GMT Print Text Size Stratfor By Michael Nayebi-Oskoui The Middle East is one of the most volatile regions in the world — it is no stranger to upheaval. The 2009 uprisings in Iran and the brinksmanship of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government were followed by […]
344. Commandment – Kindness towards parents [17:24] Thy Lord has commanded, “Worship none but Him, and show kindness to parents. If one of them or both of them attain old age with thee, never say unto them any word expressive of disgust nor reproach them, but address them with excellent speech. [17:25] “And lower […]