Source; CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — The Thai military has taken control of the government in a coup, the country’s military chief announced in a national address Thursday. Military officials also imposed a curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. local time (11 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET), authorities said […]
Source: ET According to the call data, available with The Express Tribune, the majority of women crank callers often started the conversation with phrases like “I love you”, “I like your voice and would like to befriend you” or “Can you extinguish the fire that burns in my heart?”“Women crank […]
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land […]
Global Post: HENIN-BEAUMONT, France — This former coal-mining town of 26,000 languishing in the economic badlands along the border with Belgium is about as far as you can get from […]
ET: LAHORE: The situation for Ahmadis deteriorated over the past year as seven Ahmadis were killed and 16 faced murder attacks, an annual report issued by the Jamaat Ahmadiyya on Wednesday stated. The report was issued ahead of the fourth anniversary of attacks on two Ahmadi places of worship in […]
Source: BBC.Com جماعت احمدیہ پاکستان نے کہا ہے کہ پاکستان میں احمدیوں کے خلاف نفرت و تشدد میں اضافہ ہوا ہے جبکہ قانون نافذ کرنے والے ادارے احمدی مخالف گروہوں کے ہاتھوں میں مسلسل کھیل رہے ہیں۔ تنظیم نے اپنی سالانہ رپورٹ میں کہا ہے کہ پاکستان میں 2013 کے […]
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in […]
Waseem Altaf The fact that Hamid Mir received six bullets on his body is no more an issue. That Hayatullah, Musa Khankhel and Saleem Shahzad were brutally murdered was […]
France24. The “Lift the Skirt” initiative, an idea put together by students, saw pupils at 27 schools in the region around Nantes invited to attend school wearing skirts as part […]
Epigraph: Then whoso does an atom’s weight of good will see it, and whoso does an atom’s weight of evil will also see it. (Al Quran 99:8-9) By Zia H […]
The Huffington Post | by Yasmine Hafiz Ahead of Pope Francis’ arrival in the Holy Land on May 24, over 450 American rabbis have signed a letter of welcome as he […]
By Saeed Qureshi Imran Khan and his unruly and impulsive political cohorts should not demonstrate indecent haste in dislodging the incumbent elected PMLN government thus opening a corridor for the army to take over power. He should understand that by doing so he would inflict a deadly blow to democracy […]
Telegraph: Traditional university lectures are being consigned to history because students are accessing professors’ notes online without turning up in person, research suggests. Undergraduates are skipping almost 10 per cent of teaching time – more than an hour every week – despite a sharp rise in tuition fees, it emerged. […]
Telegraph. Prince Charles’ comparison of Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler risks an ‘international scandal’ a Russian newspaper warns. Nick Clegg has defended the Prince of Wales over his comparison of Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, saying the heir to the throne is ‘entitled to his views’ despite warnings from a […]
Source: gmablog.org | Usman Khan Respect and tolerance are attributes charged with the potential to unite people and to establish meaningful peace; yet minorities in Muslim majority countries, particularly Christians, are all […]
Tarek Fatah, The Toronto Sun “We Muslims are caught in a conundrum. If the Arab general bin Qasim is our hero for enslaving non-Muslim women in India in the eighth century, how could Boko Haram be judged wrong for doing exactly the same in Nigeria today?” May 20, 2014 Muslims […]
Epigraph: And most of them follow nothing but conjecture. Surely, conjecture avails nothing against truth. Indeed, Allah is well aware of what they do. And this Qur’an is not such […]
Source: PolicyMic By Laila Alawa: Laila Alawa is a Muslim feminist, writer and cultural critic who has been published at The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Patheos, The Islamic Monthly, and serves […]
By Zubair Khan MUCH of Serbia, Bosnia and eastern Croatia are under water. Flood maps marking the affected areas make it look as though a vast inland sea has suddenly appeared across the region. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated. In Serbia some 300,000 do not have access […]
Source: BBC China has banned the use of Microsoft’s latest operating system on government computers. Beijing issued the restriction as part of a decree about the use of energy-saving products. […]