Dawn: The concert and ceremony, to be hosted by Queen Latifah, will honour India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s very own and youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Peace prize, Malala Yousafzai, for the work they have done to promote children’s rights, particularly education. Each year the Nobel Peace Prize Concert gathers […]
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has […]
300. Commandment – do not envy men for what Allah has given them out of His bounty [4:55] Or do they envy men for what Allah has given them out of His bounty? If that is so, surely, We gave the Book and Wisdom to the children of Abraham also […]
301. Commandment to consult them in matters of administration [3:160] And it is by the great mercy of Allah that thou art kind towards them, and if thou hadst been rough and hard-hearted, they would surely have dispersed from around thee. So pardon them and ask forgiveness for them, and […]
Only Allah Knows Who Dilip Kumar Is And What All He Can Do By Raza Rumi 21 Nov 2014 Forays into analysis give resonance to Dilip Kumar’s recollections that are occasionally derailed by Saira Banu’s looming shadow, writes Raza Rumi in this review of the […]
Punishment against those involved in vigilantism and mob behaviour against minorities has to be in place. Today, if minorities are being targeted, tomorrow there will be targeting based on political beliefs or financial status “I went to the west and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I went back to the East […]
Saturday, 22 November 2014 Hisham Melhem Let’s begin with some basic truths. The Palestinian and Israeli peoples are condemned to live together; even though the fundamental question was, is and will continue to be, the nature of the cohabitation. To be sure, there are Palestinians and Israelis who believe that […]
Messynessychic.com It was Iraq’s ‘Garden of Eden’; unique wetlands in southern Iraq where a people known as the Ma’dan, or ‘Arabs of the marsh’, lived in a Mesopotamian Venice, characterised by beautifully elaborate floating houses made entirely of reeds harvested from the open water. These little-known architectural wonders are known as a […]
Summary by Rami G. Khouri The escalating cycle of tensions in recent weeks, Israeli settlements expansion, murderous attacks by both Israelis and Palestinians, and reprisal demolitions of Palestinian homes may well escalate into something much more vicious and terrible. In the past three months or so, 11 Israelis have been […]
Today is the 18th death anniversary of Dr. Abdus Salam. The only Pakistani to receive 36 honorary PhD degrees from different universities of the world, died today on 21st November 1996. Two of the most renowned name of Pakistan Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Dr Abdus Salam passed away in November. […]
ABU TARIQ HIJAZI Published — Friday 21 November 2014 He was born in Madinah (then Yathrib) in a Jewish family. He was a rich person and a good scholar of […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, grand mufti and chairman of the Standing Committee for Scientific Research and Ifta, said the cyber war waged by anti-Islamic websites are promoting […]
299. Commandment – covet not that whereby Allah has made some of you excel others [4:33] And covet not that whereby Allah has made some of you excel others. Men shall have a share of that which they have earned, and women a share of that which they have earned. […]
Source: Princeton University Press Read 25 page introduction of the book online. Author: John M. Owen IV How should the Western world today respond to the challenges of political Islam? Taking an original […]
Source: Dawn LONDON: A new global study by London-based Institute for Economics and Peace has ranked Pakistan third on the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) list. The report said Iraq was the country hit hardest by terrorism, with 2,492 attacks that killed more than 6,300 people. It was followed by Afghanistan […]
Source: CNN A police spokesperson told CNN that all recruits, not only female, were subject to thorough medical tests that included examination of genitalia. “Overall, the medical and physical examination has two main objectives. The first one is to make sure that the candidates’ health and physical condition will not […]
Source:MalaysianDigest.com HERE are some facts that sound like lies but are totally true… 1. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas. Bananas… they’re closer to us than we thought. 2. Cosmic rays from outer space frequently cause glitches in your electronics. Your cars and phones are not safe. More:
The secular country of 240 million people has seen a rise in attacks over the last decade against Christians, Shia Muslims and members of Ahmadiyah, a small Islamic sect. Deputy Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama will be sworn in despite protests over his appointment. Source: ewn.co.za JAKARTA – Jakarta’s first Christian governor in nearly […]
SourcE: huffingtonpost.com Sri Sri Ravi Shakar said: “This is the one of the worst genocides of the 21st century. Yazidis are an ancient community on the verge of extinction. Several members […]
By Paul Brandeis Raushenbush In the area around Gush Etzion, a series of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Shaul David Judelman on Tuesday joined Palestinian friends to write a […]