Source: Dawn The writer is an attorney teaching constitutional law and political philosophy. A HUSBAND and wife in Pakistan can never be alone again. In between them sit the clerics of Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology (CII). However small the space may be, the mullah in the middle would like […]
Source: TOI WASHINGTON: As the US presidential election draws closer, political commentators have begun to speculate upon likely scenarios with the passage of each day — and the newest theory is very interesting. A recent comment by political analyst Douglas E. Schoen, writing in The Wall Street Journal, says there was […]
Source: TOI At a length of 57 kilometres (34.5 miles) the GBT will overtake Japan’s 53.9-kilometre Seikan tunnel as the longest rail tunnel in the world. The 50.5-kilometre Channel Tunnel that links England and France will be bumped into third place. More:
Source. Dawn If you are a conscientious Pakistani, or if you don’t live under a rock, it is hard to ever forget or ignore the kind of infuriating discrimination and shameful persecution that members of the Ahmadiyya community suffer in our country. You console yourself by thinking, “at least I […]
By contributors | Jun. 1, 2016 | By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – We have it on highest authority: the recent killing of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistanmarks “an important milestone.” So the president of the United […]
By Felix Corley, Forum 18 “If we pray according to the calendar we believe is correct, they’ll arrest us,” one Muslim tells Forum 18 about the Shia-oriented unified calendar the state imposes on all Muslims. Azerbaijan’s Georgian Orthodox – after nearly a year – should soon have a resident priest […]
Source: BBC Police in Greece and the Czech Republic have arrested more than 20 people suspected of forging travel documents for migrants trying to enter Europe. European police agency Europol […]
Source: BBC At least 2,234 Indians have contracted the deadly HIV virus while receiving blood transfusions in hospitals in the past 17 months alone. The information was revealed by the […]
Source: The Guardian The judge prevented Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s defense team from learning he had permitted the Obama administration to destroy the evidence, according to a scathing court document. Photograph: […]
Source: New China ROME, May 30 (Xinhua) — Around 13,000 migrants have been rescued and more than 700 are feared to have died at sea in the southern Mediterranean over […]
Source: CNN By Angela Dewan, for CNN London (CNN)Angelina Jolie lashed out at U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday for his controversial remarks against Muslims, comments that have prompted waves of anger in Islamic communities When asked for her thoughts about Trump’s attitude toward Muslims, Jolie closed her eyes […]
Source: Science Daily Date:May 31, 2016 Source:University College London Summary:A region of the brain that responds to bad experiences has the opposite reaction to expectations of aversive events in people […]
Source: Huffington Post By Priscilla Frank Arts Writer, The Huffington Post “Our mother, when she dies, means expenses of burial or cremation,” Mahatma Gandhi taught. “Mother cow is as useful dead […]
Source: RNS By Naomi Howell, University of Exeter A small piece of bone thought to belong to St. Thomas Becket is, after centuries of exile in Hungary, returning to Canterbury […]
Source: Time By Daniel Arkin/NBC News But Snowden still must be punished for leaking documents, the former Attorney General said Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says fugitive leaker Edward Snowden […]
Source: Huffington Post By Magdalena Mis Thomson Reuters Foundation LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The number of Afghans internally displaced by conflict has “dramatically” doubled to 1.2 million in just three years, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, warning that a lack of basic services was putting people on the brink […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein May 29 The pre-war Pastor Matthew Williams had gone to seminary, was ordained and thought he understood why people suffer. “God allows suffering […]
Source: The Washington Post By JESS BIDGOOD SCITUATE, Mass. — For almost 12 years, the parishioners of St. Frances X. Cabrini have prayed, eaten meals, watched the Super Bowl and […]
Source: The Washington Post By Barton Swaim Barton Swaim is author of “The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics” and a contributing columnist for The Post. A recent report on […]
KSA continues military support for moderate Syrians ARAB NEWS | Published — Wednesday 1 June 2016 Previous Rebel fighters from the First Regiment, part of the Free Syrian Army, fire a Grad rocket from Aleppo’s Al-Haidariya neighbourhood, towards forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad stationed in Talet al-Sheikh Youssef, […]