Rare Interview of Prof. Abdus Salam 1989
Professor Abdus Salam interviewed on PTV in 1989 by Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy. Talks about his theory predicting Higgs particle http://eacpe.org/portfolio/a-rare-clip-prof-abdus-salam-interviewed-on-ptv-in-1989/
Canada wildfire forces mass evacuation in Fort McMurray
Source: BBC The entire population of the Canadian city of Fort McMurray has been forced to evacuate because of a huge wildfire. Some 80,000 people were told to leave as […]
London Mayor’s Race Exposes Ugly Faultlines in British Politics
Source: Time By Dan Stewart Londoners go to the polls Thursday to elect a new mayor, in a bitterly fought election that has laid bare tensions and divisions within British party politics. Polls show Labour’s Sadiq Khan, a former government minister,poised to defeat Conservative Party candidate Zac Goldsmith, the environmentalist scion […]
What an 8-Year-Old Girl in Flint Wants from President Obama
Source: Time By Maya Rhodan Amariyanna Copeny is only 8-years-old but she already knows the power of the pen. When she and her family were on their way to Washington to […]
Why You Might Not Need Your Antibiotics
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin Many Americans are prescribed unnecessary antibiotics About 30% of antibiotics that are prescribed in doctor’s offices, clinics and emergency rooms are unnecessary, according to a new […]
McDonald’s Is Testing Garlic Fries
Source: Time By Olivia B. Waxman McDonald’s is testing garlic fries at four restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, the fast-food chain confirmed to TIME. Here’s a description of the […]
Unicef: 75m children in desperate need of education support
Source: BBC Some 75 million school-age children in crisis areas around the world are in desperate need of educational support, according to a new report by Unicef. One in four […]
The political divide on views toward Muslims and Islam
Source: Pew Research Center BY MICHAEL LIPKA How much does politics factor into Americans’ perceptions of Muslims and Islam? A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2014 shows that people who identify as Republicans or say they lean toward the Republican Party have more negative views of Muslims […]
Video: The Art and Science of Polling
Moderator Mollyann Brodie, Senior Vice President, Public Opinion and Survey Research, Kaiser Family Foundation; President, American Association of Public Opinion Research Speakers Jon Cohen, Chief Research Officer, SurveyMonkey Michael Dimock, […]
The unapologetic syndrome of truth
Source: The Nation The PPP Chairperson’s origination of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir election campaign on Saturday in Kotli, was discolored by the prejudice of the country’s former Prime Minister for probably the most persecuted religious community in Pakistan. The remarks eulogized the PPP government of its founder Shaheed Zulfikar […]
I used to have a car like that …
Once upon a time an American farmer came to visit Switzerland. He went into the country side and met a Swiss farmer. He was a bit amused at the small size of the Swiss farms. So he said to the Swiss farmer: ” Back home in the United States I […]
UN Palestinian agency turns to Gulf countries to avoid funding crisis
By AFP – May 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this April 16, photo, Palestinian children fill plastic gallons with drinking water from a vendor in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip. Poor sewage has damaged Gaza’s limited freshwater supplies, decimated fishing zones, and after years of neglect, is […]
Messy situation in Syria
May 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMAH If the Geneva talks on Syria are collapsing or are about to, the reason should not be simply found to the raging fighting in Aleppo and the atrocities committed there as a result of the intensive Syrian forces aerial bombardment of […]
The spirit of Mandela in Palestine
May 03,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD I had mixed feelings when I learned that Palestine erected a statue of Nelson Mandela, the iconic South African anti-apartheid leader. On one hand, […]
Keeping Iraq from disintegrating
May 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF Iraq’s political system is on the verge of collapse and the events of the past few days raised serious questions about the viability of the state amid the popular backlash that has crippled the government and divided lawmakers. Leading the rebellion […]
Self-mutilating sectarianism: Pakistan’s murderous anti-Ahmadiyya takfir has reached the UK
Source: The Nation Just over a month ago, on March 24th, the British media reported that a Muslim man was stabbed to death in a particularly savage attack in Glasgow shortly after he wished Christians a happy Easter on his Facebook profile. British Muslims took to social media to express their outrage and […]
Religious education is a matter for parents, not schools
Telegraph UK: Parents should be prohibited from withdrawing their children from religious education classes, so the headteachers union has just resolved. Sounds reasonable? Not to me it doesn’t, because every child has a right to be peculiar. “The Bible and Shakespeare, which are to be found, we’re told, on every […]
What’s That You’re Wearing? A Guide to Muslim Veils
NY Times: They are banned in France, mandated in Saudi Arabia and a fashion statement in Indonesia. Veils for Muslim women come in all sizes, shapes and colors — and with […]
Pakistan’s multiple woes
Source: ET The impediments that Pakistan is facing in the procurement of a meagreeight F-16 fighter aircraft are a sad reflection of the current state of Pakistan-US relations. For Pakistan, in the 1980s, the F-16 symbolised its strong alliance with the US and the West. It fed the Pakistan military’s […]
Wave of the future in USA: Interfaith Studies in colleges
Epigraph Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]