PR Newswire LONDON, September 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Islamic leader calls on Muslims to sort out their own affairs A Muslim world leader has issued a stark warning that the conflict in Syria could […]
by Khaled Diab, Journalist A recent poll on Al Jazeera Arabic’s website asked who was responsible for turning the Syrian revolution into a sectarian conflict: the Sunnis or the Shi’a? Around 95% of those who voted blamed the deterioration on the Shi’a. Although this result is shocking in its own […]
Countries around the globe are drawing up strategies for Syria in case the armed conflict takes a decisive turn. For more than two years, the world has stood by as the violence in Syria has intensified. Both Bashar al-Assad’s government and the opposition seem determined to fight to the death. […]
Youtube: Saleem Safi is a highly knowledgeable and reliable journalist with deep insights into the the security situation in Pakistan. This weekly programme that he hosts discussed in detail the serious dangers that the current security situation poses to Pakistan and its political leaders. Watch here:
War-scarred Bangladesh torn by new tensions DAWN.com Three years on, its first verdicts have plunged the country into one of its most turbulent chapters since independence from Pakistan four decades ago and threatens lasting damage to the world’s eighth most populous country. More than 80 people have been killed in […]
Hindu Americans Applaud Bangladesh War Crimes Verdict, Concerned by Growing Violence Washington, D.C. (March 4, 2013) — Hindu Americans across the country applauded last Thursday’s verdict by the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh, established in 2010 to investigate war crimes committed during the 1971 War of Independence from Pakistan. […]
Dawn: US Congressman Rohrabacher demands referendum in Balochistan BRUSSELS: In an effort to shed light on the key role Balochistan plays in South Asia, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization […]
Kolkata (West Bengal, India): At present the whole world is involved in religious conflict. At some places people are dissenting against their government and in some places the authorities are […]
Global Post: BERLIN, Germany — Avner Ofrath, a 26-year-old Israeli living in Berlin, speaks with a quiet confidence about what he would like the German government to do differently. “Our first demand […]
Amnesty International: After a decade of insurgency, Pakistan’s Tribal areas remain in a state of crisis. In the Tribal areas, the courts are barred from upholding the fundamental rights protections guaranteed under Pakistan’s constitution. This document summarizes the report by Amnesty International which shows that, rather than investigating and prosecuting […]
Source: The Economist. WHO and what is Tahir ul Qadri? And, more importantly, who is behind him? Those are the questions now racing through political Pakistan, with no firm answers. The religious cleric, previously a minor figure politically, has been living in Canada since 2006, where he acquired Canadian citizenship. Since he arrived […]
Express Tribune: MUMBAI: A row over an unpaid restaurant bill in a western Indian city escalated into a riot between Hindus and Muslims that left four people dead and 175 injured, police said on Monday. The unrest broke out in Dhule in Maharashtra state on Sunday, special inspector general Deven Bharti told AFP. […]
The Independent: By Robert Fisk: Never make predictions in the Middle East. My crystal ball broke long ago. But predicting the region has an honourable pedigree. “An Arab movement, newly-risen, is looming in the distance,” a French traveller to the Gulf and Baghdad wrote in 1883, “and a race hitherto […]
Russian TV: World Government stepping onto sovereign Nation-States, puppet politicians unable to cope with social challenges, chaos in the Middle East and ever increasing global crises – all this awaits us in 2013. Is it time for ‘We the People’ to wake up? More violence in the Middle East; […]
Express Tribune: UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Sunday he was “appalled by the escalating terrorist violence in Pakistan,” after 19 Shia pilgrims died in a car bomb and […]
NY Times: By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Three weeks ago, the prime minister of India appointed Syed Asif Ibrahim as the new director of India’s Intelligence Bureau, its domestic intelligence-gathering agency. Ibrahim is a Muslim. India is a predominantly Hindu country, but it is also the world’s third-largest Muslim nation. India’s greatest security […]
Express Tribune: bu Abdul Majeed: It has been 41 years today. 41 years ago, Pakistan was broken up into two parts, the former West Pakistan and Bangladesh. Apart from a distance of around 1000 miles separating the two parts of Pakistan, there was enough resentment on part of East Pakistani populace that […]
Source: boulderjewishnews.org A very unusual event occurred at the Boulder Jewish Community Center on Sunday night: a highly rational and mostly unemotional discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was held, featuring […]
The Economist Blogs: LAST Friday a big crowd filled much of Cairo’s Tahrir Square to call for strict imposition of shari’a law. The mostly cheerful protesters, many of them bearded […]
Source: NY Times op ed By Thomas Friedman ISRAELI friends have been asking me whether a re-elected President Obama will take revenge on Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu for the way he and Sheldon Adelson, his foolhardy financier, openly backed Mitt Romney. My answer to Israelis is this: You should be […]