By Shumaila Jaffery BBC Islamabad,16 October 2017 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mahira Khan is one of the Pakistani women judged by society Pakistan is a country of stark contrasts, and when it comes to the treatment of women, they are even clearer, writes the BBC’s Shumaila Jaffery. When […]
Source: Time BY Billy Perrigo As an enormous Atlantic storm batters Ireland, a related phenomenon is turning heads further east over in the United Kingdom. There, the sun has turned […]
Source: Time BY Casey Quackenbush 4:51 AM ET In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the hashtag #MeToo is now trending in a social media campaign to illustrate the […]
Source: BBC News Scientists have detected the warping of space generated by the collision of two dead stars, or neutron stars. They have confirmed that such mergers lead to the […]
Source: BBC News Daimler is recalling about 400,000 Mercedes-Benz cars in the UK over a potential airbag safety issue. The problem affects certain A, B, C, and E-Class models, together […]
HORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan on Friday said the Ahmadi minority community should stop declaring themselves as Muslims if they want to be treated in the same manner as other religious minority groups in Pakistan. Addressing a press conference organised to ‘clear his position’ on the issue, Rana Sanaullah […]
Source: Dawn ISLAMABAD: Two days after Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi distanced himself from the anti-Ahmadi tirade by retired Captain Mohammad Safdar on the floor of the National Assembly, PML-N president Nawaz Sharif has also distanced his party from it. “I declare it in categorical and unequivocal terms that all […]
Source: The Local Conservatives in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition were in an uproar on Saturday after one of her key allies floated the idea of a Muslim holiday in […]
Source: The Local Austria’s hard-right Freedom Party has a shot at sharing power after elections on Sunday, having narrowly lost out in a presidential vote last year. A far-right party has also had some success in Germany, in September becoming the first such party to enter the Bundestag since the […]
Source: The Local The presence of a leading member of Germany’s far-right AfD party at the Frankfurt book fair triggered protests on Saturday, with police intervening to separate rival demonstrators. Several dozen leftist protesters shouted “Nazis out” while counter-demonstrators responded with “Everyone hates Antifa” (the anti-fascist movement), DPA news agency […]
Source: BBC News We are not used to the idea of machines making ethical decisions, but the day when they will routinely do this – by themselves – is fast […]
Source: BBC News If you control public communication you can control the way people think and how they behave. That’s what Xi Jinping’s government is counting on. And it is […]
Source: The Guardian By Richard Adams Education editor Schools in Britain will no longer be able to substantially segregate boys and girls, after the court of appeal ruled that a co-educational […]
Source: The Guardian Terrorised, persecuted, stateless, homeless, and, until recently, without real international support – this is the plight of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority community being forced out of Myanmar. […]
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood The former Golders Green Hippodrome, once graced by Marlene Dietrich, is now a focus for claims of Islamophobia Golders Green Hippodrome in north London. Photograph: […]
Source: The Guardian BY Noor Gillani Allegations of abuse, humiliation and deprivation by prison staff have been made by Muslim inmates at a correction centre in Brisbane. The Islamic Council of […]
Source: The Guardian We write to express our deep concern at the actions of senior figures within the University of Manchester in relation to an event organised by the student […]
Source: Time BY Jeffrey Kluger Oct 15, 2017 William of Occam would have hated conspiracy theories. A 14th-century philosopher and Franciscan friar, William is celebrated for developing the “law of […]
Source: Asia Times string of racial and religious incidents in Malaysia has brought concerns of rising Islamic conservatism to the fore, widening the divide between Muslims and non-Muslims as the government plays on identity issues ahead of what is expected to be a jarring and contentious election season. Two annual […]
Source: Asia Times On October 2, Pakistan’s National Assembly passed the Electoral Reforms Bill 2017 into law, to allow the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) disqualified prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, to be reelected as the party’s leader. In addition to being touted as undemocratic by opposition parties, resulting in the Pakistan […]