Want unity? Tolerate diversity! Pakistan can still be saved
The Express Tribune: Khaled Ahmed: Why do we seek unity but end up with uniformity? If you want unity, teach yourself to tolerate diversity. Today, we are returning to a […]
Why the World Bank has no real intentions of reducing poverty
The Global Post.com: Joel Elliott: WALTHAM, Massachusetts — It’s time for the World Bank to stop pretending significant progress is being made in reducing extreme global poverty. The self-congratulatory report it issued recently claimed it […]
Liter by Liter, Indians Get Cleaner Water
Source: The New York Times NEW DELHI — As evening falls in Chuddani, a village of about 500 homes, people arrive by bicycle, motorbike, tractor and on foot with jugs that they fill with water from faucets outside a neat blue shed. Inside the building is a filtration plant […]
Pakistan on the Brink-heading towards Anarchy: Warns Ahmed Rashid
Dawn.com: YORK: A Pakistani journalist and best-selling author cautions that Pakistan is heading towards anarchy in his new book that offers solutions for his country’s frayed ties with the United […]
Religion and Politics in America: Romney’s challenge to sway evangelical voters
Washington Post: By E.J. Dionne Jr.:vWhere evangelicals cast a minority of the ballots, Mitt Romney has won. Where evangelical voters predominated, Romney has lost, in most cases to Rick Santorum. Romney’s victory […]
A Muslim condemns persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is one of the nations in South Asia with majority Muslim population and its Islamic roots traces to peaceful sufi and other movements in South Asia, much like the […]
New Protests Test Saudi Monarchy’s Control
Credit: Stratfor: The Arabian Peninsula has not been immune to the wave of recent demonstrations in countries across the Middle East. Notably,protests have been ongoing in Saudi Arabia’s Shiite-concentrated Eastern Province for more than a year. Recently, however, unrelated demonstrations began in parts of the country where such unrest is […]
Pakistan: Organization under Ministry of Interior suspected in fake voters registration on Ahmadi ID cards
Ahmadiyya Times: By Imran Jattala: Someone at Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) – which is responsible for the registration of population and issuance of identity cards in Pakistan – may […]
Double jeopardy: The smaller the minority the bigger its problems in Pakistan
Express News: Nearly 62 per cent of Hindu and Christian women fear that a majority of Muslims would not come to their aid if they were being discriminated against. This […]
Arabs vote to discourage close family marriage
by JT | Mar 20,2012 | 23:10 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Participants at the Doha Debates Monday night took up one of the Arab world’s most sensitive social issues, arguing the rights and wrongs of marriage between blood relatives and voting overwhelmingly to discourage the practice, according to a statement […]
Hindu conversions: Families plead for meeting with their daughters
Source: Express tribune KARACHI: On Monday, Lata and Rinkle Kumari’s families wept and appealed to the government to let them meet their daughters, while 15-year-old Asha’s family demanded that the authorities should find and rescue their missing daughter. While speaking in Sindhi at a press conference at Karachi Press Club, […]
Pakistan: Punjab govt orders Ahmadiyya women magazine ‘Misbah’ banned, threatens Daily Al-Fazal
Ahmadiyya Times: By Imran Jattala: Monthly Misbah, a women’s magazine published by the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan for decades is ordered banned on the recommendation of a board of mullahs constituted by […]
Pakistan: Time to establish the Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS
The Daily Times: Aisha Sarwari: The LUMS Abdus Salam Chair, once established, will be responsible to work in the spirit of everything that embodies Dr. Salam, who was inspired by the Quran for […]
When the Muslims saved the Jews: the Paris Mosque
Si Kaddour Benghabrit Imams from their pulpits instructed Muslim congregations to refuse taking part in the injustices against Jews. In Paris, a grand mosque built in honour of the 100,000 Muslim soldiers who died fighting for France in the First World War, became a sanctuary for Jews escaping persecution less […]
When the Muslims saved the Jews
Charlotte exhibit shows how Albanians sheltered their neighbors from the Nazis By Michael J. Solender Like freshly discovered treasures on a receding shoreline at low tide, once buried stories of […]
UN body “appalled” by Israel’s racial segregation policies
Israel is criticized for violating the right to equality in a new report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). An advance version of the CERD […]
Indonesia: Mataram city governments admit denying Ahmadiyya rights as citizens
Ahmadiyya Times: REPUBLIKA: MATARAM – Deputy Mayor of Mataram H Mohan Roliskana admitted Ahmadiyah followers are not recognized as citizens. Ahmadiyah are still considered part of the West Lombok regency, West […]
In America, TV watches you: CIA to spy on people through household items
Russian TV: With a growing number of ‘smart gadgets,’ spying on homes may start to become much easier. In fact, CIA Chief David Petraeus admitted that Americans were effectively bugging […]
Government to shut down Texas women’s health program
(Reuters) – The Obama Administration on Thursday said it would begin shutting down a program that provides health care for more than 100,000 low-income women in Texas because the state […]
Human rights in Europe is getting worse says Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg
Euronews: Interview by Chris Burns: “The Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner, Thomas Hammarberg, wraps up his six year term at the end of this month and he’s going out […]