Source: Pakistan Today BY SYED M MURTAZA Pakistan’s social media crack-down is officially aimed at weeding out blasphemy and shutting down accounts promoting terrorism, but civil rights activists say it […]
Source: Huffington Post The novel by an up-and-coming writer tells the story of an Indian-American family in California. Sarah Jessica Parker has chosen a novel by an emerging Desi writer […]
Source: Time BY Edith M. Lederer / AP Jul 07, 2017 (UNITED NATIONS) — More than 120 countries approved the first-ever treaty to ban nuclear weapons Friday at a U.N. […]
Source: BBC News “Back in the 1940s people were sleeping on average just a little bit over eight hours a night, and now in the modern age we’re down to […]
Source: BBC News So-called Islamic State (IS) defences in the Iraqi city of Mosul are collapsing fast and troops expect to take full control in the next few hours, state […]
Source: BBC News Tomasz Frymorgen If you are young and unemployed, you’re more than twice as likely to report having poor mental health, a new UCL study has shown. In a […]
Source: NPR Growing up in New England as a first-generation Pakistani-American, Haroon Moghul was taught that practicing his Islamic faith would make life his better. What he didn’t anticipate was […]
Dawn.com July 08, 2017 An Imam has been jailed for 13 years reportedly for indecent and sexual assaults in Cardiff, the Guardian reported on Friday. Mohammad Haji Saddique, an Imam at a […]
Source: The Cable Mirza Ghulam Aḥmad, who lived in British India in the 19th century and founded the Ahmadiyya movement, which has millions of present-day adherents. Abu Isa. This eighth-century self-proclaimed Jewish prophet led a rebellion against the caliph of Persia and was killed shortly thereafter. His followers believed he […]
ART & CULTURE TUNGGUL WIRAJUDAA MEDIA PRACTITIONER FOR OVER 10 YEARS IN BOTH TV AND PRINT. Jakarta | Fri, July 7, 2017 | A female visitor marveling at one of T. Sutanto’s works. (JP/Tunggul Wirajuda) The figure sat atop the horse, both man and beast resplendent in their rich […]
Delegates attend the official dinner at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017.REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld By Paul Carrel and Noah Barkin | HAMBURG World leaders meeting for a summit in Germany have agreed every aspect of a joint statement apart from the section on […]
KILIÇ BUĞRA KANAT@KilicKanat The Trump administration seems to be taking some initiatives now that the deadline has passed in the Gulf crisis Articles COLUMNSThe future of Qatar crisis remains vague COLUMNSAre Gulf states on the same side as the US in the Qatar rift? COLUMNSUrgent need for active […]
Reuters International JULY 7, 2017 ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish authorities have seized or appointed an administrator to 965 companies with total annual sales of some 21.9 billion lira (£4.7 billion) in the year since an attempted coup in July 2016, Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said […]
Reuters International JULY 7, 2017 UNHCR High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi gestures during a news conference at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha (reuters_tickers) By Donna Airoldi BANGKOK (Reuters) – The head of the U.N. refugee agency urged Myanmar on Friday to grant citizenship […]
Sir John Chilcot’s new comments on Tony Blair relying on ‘belief rather than fact’ has chilling parallels with our present day political dilemma James Moore @JimMooreJourno In a wide ranging interview with the BBC, Sir John Chilcot said Tony Blair was “not straight with the nation” and relied on belief rather than fact […]
‘We don’t have a policy in Syria,’ one former US State Department official told me. ‘Everybody in the Middle East knows that whatever is said by the Pentagon, State Department or National Security Council lacks authority because whatever assurances they give may be contradicted within the hour by a presidential tweet or […]
BY TAREK FATAH, TORONTO SUN FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, JULY 04, 2017 04:55 PM EDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY, JULY 04, 2017 08:04 PM EDThttp://www.torontosun.com/2017/07/04/canada-rewards-terrorists-israel-punishes-them?token=366f0b8d9ffe3ff7aec4e27c63875998&utm_source=addThis&utm_medium=addthis_button_gmail&utm_campaign=Canada+rewards+terrorists%3B+Israel+punishes+them+%7C+FATAH+%7C+Columnists+%7C+Opinion+%7C#.WVwjHLUcFJ4.gmail Two news stories concerning terrorism should make Canadians realize that not only are we being governed under the doctrine of ‘sock and awe’, but that our values have turned upside down in […]
Gov’t downplays accusations of hampering opposition’s participation in Astana talks By Mohammad Ghazal – Jul 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian girl carries a large jug of water on her back while on her way home, in the Kallaseh district of the northern city of Aleppo, on Wednesday (AFP […]
Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/real-enemy-nigeria-injustice-corruption-not-tribe-ahmadiyya/ By Wahab Abdulah If you think ethnic or tribal differences is the cog in the wheel of Nigeria as a nation, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria has a different view of this. In its Eid-el-Fitr message to Muslims in Nigeria made available to Vanguard, the leader of the Jama’at, […]