The Diplomat: While South Asian human rights discourse, including both Indian and Pakistani, is obsessed by the issue of Palestine, a cause that has little real relevance to the region, numerous violent incidents closer to home get scant attention, such as the violence in Xinjiang, China, just over the border […]
Indian express: Barely 14 months after convincingly winning a general election, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government is being asked to resign amid threats of street protests. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and Canada-based Sunni cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri plan separate marches on Islamabad on August 14, Pakistan’s Independence Day. Several politicians and parties known […]
They Made Them Do It…. BY ROBERT BONOMO Let’s do a thought experiment and imagine that the Arabs had gotten the better of the Israelis in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War […]
Source: FMT By Dr. I. Lourdesamy The MH17 tragedy brought out the common humanity in all of us as people of all races, religions and nationalities stood united in sorrow […]
Qadian 7th August (Ch.Maqbool Ahmad): Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat preacher Mr. Akil Ahmad Saharnpuri met the President of India Mr. Parnab Mukharji in New Delhi at his office. He introduced him […]
Source: The Daily Best: Reuters Militants from the so-called Islamic State have taken over the largest Christian town in Iraq, Qaraqosh, and sent tens of thousands fleeing as a result. The militants took it overnight after Kurdish troops withdrew because they are stretched too thin. Qaraqosh, which is nearly […]
Watch the video in CNN Ishmael’s Oranges by Claire Hajaj Book review by Amy Norman “Why does history only ever repeat its sorrows and not its joys?,” asks Claire Hajaj […]
By Web Desk Published: August 6, 2014 Source: Tribune Express Saudi Arabia has imposed a new law banning Saudi men from marrying women from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chad and Burma, Morocco World News reported. The law also imposes restrictive rules on men marrying Moroccan women. Quoting Saudi daily Makkah newspaper, the […]
MANUEL MOGATO | REUTERS Published — Wednesday 6 August 2014 MANILA: A historic peace settlement in the southern Philippines is at risk of breaking down as Muslim rebels accuse the […]
197. An example of those who spend in the way of Allah [2:262] The similitude of those who spend their wealth for the cause of Allah is like the similitude of a grain of corn which grows seven ears, in each ear a hundred grains. And Allah multiplies it further […]
Source: On Faith By Qasim Rashid and Dr. Nasim Rehmatullah After slaughtering nearly two thousand Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu rebuked the United States “not to ever second guess [him] again […]
BBC Urdu: قاصد کی عمر ابھی ایک سال بھی نہیں مگر وہ اپنے والد کی گود میں آنکھیں بند کیے دنیا مافیہا سے بے خبر لیٹا ہوا تکلیف سے ہولے ہولے کراہ رہا تھا یا شاید اسے سانس لینے میں تکلیف ہو رہی تھی۔ قاصد کے سر کے اگلے حصے […]
Source: BBC Indirect talks between Israeli and Palestinian representatives are taking place in the Egyptian capital Cairo. They come after a four-week conflict in Gaza that has claimed more than […]
http://pshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js?sid=281&width=470&height=275&playList=518356480 Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi has dramatically quit the government, citing the UK’s “morally indefensible” position on the conflict in Gaza. In her resignation letter to the prime minister, David Cameron, Warsi wrote that Britain’s […]
Ch.Maqbool Ahmad | ahmadmaqbool@hotmail.com Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat organized Eid Milan Party in Sara-e-Tahir, Qadian – thousands of Hindu, Christians and Sikhs attend. Qadian, 3rd August: Eid Milan Party was organized here […]
By Katrin Elger spiegel.de Cheikhmous Ali pushes a box of ballpoint pens across the table towards his friend and countryman Ahmad. The stout Syrian laughs aloud as he tucks one […]
There was a time when our politicians and media had one principal fear when covering Middle East wars: that no one should ever call them anti-Semitic. So corrosive, so vicious […]
After all the warnings and all the clichés about a war that would “spill” over Syria’s border, the savage fighters of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Sunni Muslim “caliphate” have at last […]
Kalyan, India: For more than a decade, as alienated young Muslim men from all over the world left home to fight on the side of Islamists in distant conflicts, it has been a truism that they were not coming from India, a country whose participatory politics and preoccupation with nearby […]
Israel has announced the withdrawal of all of its troops to “defensive positions” outside the Gaza Strip. The move came moments before the latest truce – brokered by Egyptian mediators late on Monday – came into force at 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT). READ MORE…