NA calls for naming QAU physics dept after Khazini DAWN.COM A ReporterMay 04, 2018,Facebook Count30 Twitter Share 0 ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly passed a resolution on Thursday calling for the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) physics department to be named after Abu al-Fath Abd-al Rehman Mansour-al-Khazini. The resolution was signed by […]
Reuters Staff BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party wants to amend the constitution in order to ensure that the European Union cannot force the country to resettle migrants, the […]
International pressure won’t soften Hungarian hearts. The only thing that can is evidence that aging countries need foreigners. by Leonid Bershidsky 13 April 2018, Keep out. Photographer: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty […]
Source: Dawn By Nadir Guramani The National Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution to change the name of the National Centre for Physics at the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) from the […]
by Johan Elverskog: In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also […]
Akbar Ahmed’s new book deals with how migration is reshaping the continent, and whether leaders can cope. The minaret of a mosque in Creteil near Paris, France Gonzalo Fuentes / […]
By Phillip Connor and Jens Manuel Krogstad Syrian refugee Baraa Haj Khalaf receives a kiss from her mother, Fattoum Haj Khalaf, in February 2017 shortly after the family had arrived […]
2 May 2018 The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US President George W Bush is running for parliament. Muntader al-Zaidi is standing in next week’s elections as […]
Syria has been at war for seven long, deadly years. President Bashar al-Assad’s government is fighting both rebel groups and the jihadists of Islamic State. The northern city of Raqqa has been a key battleground for many factions in the conflict. This is the story of how one peaceful […]
Real Madrid vs Liverpool Salah, Mane and Can all practicing Muslims José Luis Hernández Adapted by Chris Winterburn By the time May 26 arrives, Ramadan will have been underway for […]
Once the Syrian war is over, Qatar could become an empire once more If Qatar was to rescue Syria when the war there is over, it would have power. And a power – with a Mediterranean coastline – that even Saudi Arabia doesn’t have Robert Fisk @indyvoices Bashar al-Assad held […]
Paleontologists recently determined that a skeleton discovered during a landscaping project belonged to a horse from the Pleistocene Era. NYTimes 03/05/2018An illustration of Haringtonhippus francisci, an extinct horse species that was found in North America during the last ice age. Rick Hunter, a Utah paleontologist, said the horse, whose skeleton […]
Sharp rise in aggressive brain cancer is linked to mobile phones with cases more than doubling over two decades Source: MSN and Daily Mail By Laura Forsyth Cases of glioblastoma […]
Source: The New York Times By MARIA ABI-HABIB COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — It was time to reclaim the holiday. To put the Buddha back into Vesak, so to speak. But as […]
Source: The New York Times By EMMANUEL AKINWOTU and AURELIEN BREEDEN Suicide bombers attacked a market and a mosque on Tuesday in Mubi, Nigeria, killing at least 27 people. CreditEPA, via Shutterstock ABUJA, Nigeria […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan CAIRO — Islamic State suicide bombers targeted the offices of Libya’s electoral commission in Tripoli on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people in one of the most brazen assaults on the Libyan capital in years. The attackers, strapped with explosive belts, entered the building and […]
Source: The New York Times By MARGARET COKER and FALIH HASSAN Relatives and neighbors of 21 people killed in a brazen Islamic State attack in Tarmiya, Iraq, gathered for a funeral service on […]
Source: The New York Times By RORY SMITH LIVERPOOL, England — Mohamed Salah’s routine is familiar now. As the Liverpool Football Club stadium erupts joyously around him, celebrating yet another of […]
Source: Associated Press By TOM ODULA NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Every school day, Abdirizack Hussein Bashir rises at dawn for an eight-kilometer (five-mile) trek through a dangerous forest where he […]
Source: Reuters BANGUI (Reuters) – At least 15 people including a priest were killed and scores wounded in Central African Republic’s capital Bangui on Tuesday when unidentified gunmen attacked a […]