Duluth News Tribune: Imran Hayee. The Quran champions religious freedom in these remarkable words, “There is no compulsion in religion.” It also promotes peaceful coexistence by pronouncing, “For you, your religion, and for me, my religion.” The Quran does not stipulate any secular punishment for apostasy and leaves the matter […]
abc NEWS: Sheila Marikar. A 13-year-old says she got raped by four men, her country wants her to die: That’s the saga of Kainat Soomro, who’s been fighting for justice in Pakistan for four years. Since Soomro’s alleged rape, she and her relatives have lived in fear that a Pakistani tribunal will […]
Source: Washington Times. By Begum Khaleda Zia ( Former President of Bangladesh) Will 2013 be a watershed in U.S.-Bangladeshi relations? My country of 150 million people, located between India and Myanmar, has been independent since 1971, when the United States was one of the first nations to recognize our right […]
RT: “It is time our leaders reformed the system so that it works in the interests of the whole of humanity rather than a global elite,” the report said. The world’s 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240 billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide […]
Source: LUBP Author: Dr. Zulfiqar Ali CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry continued harassment and abusing of NAB officials led to Kamran Faisal’s suicide. We demand thatCJ Chaudhry be prosecuted for causing unbearable stress to Kamran Faisal leading to his suicide. Right-wing pro-establishment media too contributed to Kamran Faisa’s death. Let me explain. […]
By Zubair Khan Hard work and devotion to any cause is always rewarded by Allah Almighty. Some times the Blessings are showered early while some times these are bestowed bit late. Mr. Ijaz Ahmad an extremely hard working and devotee member of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hamburg, since many years, is […]
Huff Post: Jaweed Kaleem. A new analysis from the Pew Forum shows that while the new Congress is more diverse than ever before — it includes the the nation’s first Buddhist Senator and the first Hindu in either chamber of Congress, for example — it’s still far less diverse than […]
Ex-President George H.W. Bush in intensive care From ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush is being treated in the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital after suffering “a series of setbacks,” including a stubborn fever, his spokesman said. In a brief email Wednesday, Jim McGrath, Bush’s […]
Daily Times: President Barack Obama can navigate the nation back to a course where common decency and civil dialogue are not automatically excluded from politics The looming fiscal cliff has received almost as much publicity as the Mayan prediction of the end of the world. This column has warned that […]
It seems that the hotbed of news items and endless supply of blood splattered images of innocent minority victims are coming from mostly Pakistan these days. Often times, a question is raised as to what is the sentiment of the people of Pakistan regarding this image, extremism, and human […]
Source: The Express Tribune. When Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar visited Dhaka in November to invite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid to attend the D-8 summit in Islamabad, a demand was put forward that Pakistan apologise over “crimes committed by the state in 1971.” Khar responded with the standard […]
Source: Global voices. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) is an ongoing tribunal in Bangladesh that was set up to investigate and provide justice regarding the war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. It is claimed that up to three million people were […]
…………….the Daily Express and Daily Mail regularly splash with front-pages of bile-stirring outrage over immigration and exaggerated or even invented stories about Muslims. Source: Politics.org.uk As debate rages over press […]
Op-Ed: The Arutz Sheva: By Ece Koc, Turkish TV Everyone has an opinion about the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Arabs. Some say that Palestinian Arabs started it with their […]
The Christian Science Monitor: Taha Siddiqui. The father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb has launched a political party, which plans to participate in the next presidential election slated for early 2013. Abdul Qadeer Khan has started a 100-day campaign to tour Pakistan, starting with Kahuta, home to the first nuclear facility in Pakistan, […]
The Express Tribune: Nadir Hassan. The politicisaton of religious identity can be traced back to the Objectives Resolution and, after that, the anti-Ahmadi riots of the 1950s. Groups like the Jamaat-e-Islami and others, who had opposed the creation of Pakistan, suddenly found themselves with a political niche in the new country. […]
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 […]
Pakistan is likely to remain a very important part of Obama’s foreign policy agenda in his next term Pakistan was the only country amongst 21 countries surveyed that preferred Governor Mitt Romney over President Barack Hussein Obama in the US election. It may well be a commentary on the resentment […]
Dawn: Nadeem Paracha: Today many Pakistanis are aware of Jinnah’s August 11, 1947, speech in which he clearly explains Pakistan to be a democratic Muslim majority country where religion has nothing to do with the business of the state. Well-known historians have all maintained that to Jinnah the Muslims of […]