NABEEL ANWAR DHAKKU CHAKWAL: Dulmial resident Malik Zahid Hameed was shocked when he received a transfer order stating that he was being transferred to a primary school in Lari Shah Nawaz on Jan 6. Mr Hameed, 47, is a primary school teacher who taught at a school in his hometown […]
Jonathan Power | Published — Wednesday 8 February 2017 What does US President Donald Trump think about NATO? Twice during his election campaign he rubbished it publically, saying it was “obsolete.” Yet this month, when he met UK Prime Minister Therese May, he told her he supported NATO 100 percent. […]
MELIH ALTINOK @melihaltinok U.S. President Donald Trump speaking at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Jan. 21, 2017. CIA Director Pompeo’s visit to Ankara is likely to aid Trump’s efforts in […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP LONDON AFP Photo British Foreign minister Boris Johnson, who was born in New York, has renounced his U.S. citizenship, a United States Treasury Department document said on Wednesday. Alexander Boris Johnson figured in the Treasury list of people who had given up their U.S. citizenship […]
By AFP – Feb 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A picture taken on Sunday from the West Bank city of Hebron shows a general view of the nearby Israeli settlement of Givat Harsina (AFP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli and Palestinian rights groups petitioned the supreme court on Wednesday […]
Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich – The New Yorker Steve Huffman, the thirty-three-year-old co-founder and C.E.O. of Reddit, which is valued at six hundred million dollars, was nearsighted until November, 2015, when he arranged to have laser eye surgery. He underwent the procedure not for the sake of convenience or […]
Feb 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen During his presidential election campaign, Donald Trump proclaimed long and loudly that he sees Iran as Washington’s regional enemy. He pledged to “tear up” the agreement providing for the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, reached in […]
Reuters International FEB 8, 2017 By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Egypt has eased restrictions at a tightly-controlled border with the Gaza trip in a sign of improved relations with the Palestinian territory’s Islamist rulers. Truckloads of goods ranging from steel to fish have rolled into the enclave in […]
Roy Greenslade And why it’s also wrong to refer to ‘Muslims’ as if they are a single entity Tuesday 24 November 2015 There is an insistent call for Muslims to condemn Isis. (I’ll come back to that groupist description in a moment). The Sun’s leading article a week ago (17 […]
SIX KILLED FEB 8, 2017 ICRC President Peter Maurer condemned the attack in Afghanistan (Keystone) Swiss Foreign Minister, Didier Burkhalter, has condemned an attack on humanitarian workers in Afghanistan that left six International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) staff dead on Wednesday. Burkhalter expressed condolences to the families of the […]
Saddam Hussain of Iraq no doubt was not a holy man. On the other hand, his last words, when being executed, were: [Saddam] There is no God but Allah and I testify that Muhammad is the messenger of God. There is no God but Allah and I testify that Muhammad… […]
Posted on 07 February 2017 Singaporeans know she will be the one. Singaporeans from all walks of life, who can see the future without even having to see it, are lining up to take turns to congratulate Halimah Yacob. This after they know that Halimah Yacob will be the […]
Source: BBC By Maddy Savage Business reporter, Gothenburg Sweden has been experimenting with six-hour days, with workers getting the chance to work fewer hours on full pay, but now the […]
Gary Younge Gun deaths – intentional, accidental and self-inflicted – dwarf those related to terror. The talk is of secure borders but within the US many live in a state of fear ‘An American is at least twice as likely to be shot dead by a toddler than killed by […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood, Helen Pidd, Steven Morris, Henry McDonald and Dani Garavelli Sunday 5 February 2017 19.18 GMTLast modified on Monday 6 February 2017 09.03 GMT Jeremy Corbyn has challenged […]
Source: The Guardian By Christopher Knaus The average age of alleged victims was 10.5 for girls and just over 11.5 for boys In one order 40% of religious brothers are believed […]
Source: The Guardian By Sarah Malik Monday 6 February 2017 02.41 GMTLast modified on Monday 6 February 2017 02.43 GMT A Melbourne street-art mural featuring a Muslim feminist protest paste-up by prominent artist […]
Source: The Guardian By Dwyer Gunn On a frigid Saturday night in January, Ingrid Latorre, a 33-year-old woman with dark eyes and long dark hair, kept a careful eye on her […]
Source: CNN By Meera Senthilingam, CNN CNN)Jobs that involve heavy lifting on a regular basis could reduce a woman’s fertility, particularly among overweight and obese women, a new study shows. […]
Source: The Washington Post By Shibley Telhami President Trump is expected to announce a ban on Muslim immigrants into the United States. However, polls conducted in the last year show […]