Saturday marks twelve years since the first detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay prison on January 11, 2002. On the anniversary US human rights activists marched to the White House demanding the facility’s closure. This time, the annual Day of Action to shut Guantanamo down comes as quite a number of […]
By Pamela Constable, Published: January 11 E-mail the writer AKORA KHATTAK, Pakistan — In the tribal badlands of Pakistan’s northwest, where Pakistani soldiers and American drones target Taliban insurgents, a parallel war is being waged over a crippling virus that endures in only three places in the world. Last year, […]
Source: AT NEW DELHI: Allama Dr Muhammed Tahir-ul-Qadri’s visit to India Saturday met with a set back as New Delhi refused him a visa for reasons known better to Intelligence Bureau (IB), Geo News reported.Canada-based Pakistani scholar Qadri, who is the chief of Minhaj-ul-Quran International (MQI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek, […]
Allama Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri denied Indian visa http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-133848-Allama-Dr-Tahir-ul-Qadri-denied-Indian-visa January 12, 2014 – Updated 240 PKT From Web Edition 758 337 139 0 NEW DELHI: Allama Dr Muhammed Tahir-ul-Qadri’s visit to India Saturday met with a set back as New Delhi refused him a visa for reasons known better to Intelligence Bureau […]
This is a BBC presentation, Yusuf Azad and Rashida Khatoon dual in this singing competition in Urdu about the qualities of man and woman. You must listen to this in its entirety to truly enjoy it.
Epigraph: Say ye: ‘We believe in Allah and what has been revealed to us, and what was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob and his children, and what was given to Moses and Jesus, and what was given to all other Prophets from their Lord. We make […]
Russia today: As world leaders send their condolences to Israel following the death of former PM Ariel Sharon, there are no tears shed among those who suffered most from his […]
Youtube: Published on Jan 11, 2014 Religious persecution in Pakistan of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community First broadcast: Friday 10 January 2014 on BBC Asia Network on the Nihal Show. Questions asked […]
By Suresh Shah At last, the day you were so dreading has dawned! The Class 12 exams start today. Your performance in the exams will play a crucial role in shaping the rest of your life, or so you are made to believe. If you get good marks, you can […]
Published on Dec 29, 2013 http://usawatchdog.com/2014-middle-ea… Gerald Celente, Publisher of The Trends Journal, predicts, “Absent the war card, I think we will see a financial crisis before the end of the second quarter of 2014.” Celente sums up what he sees in 2014 as “a year of extremes.” Join Greg Hunter as […]
By Abdul Shafi Bharwana, Editor African Crescent The article was published in “African Crescent” as an Editorial for November 2013 issue “These days, I am in inner Sierra Leone and […]
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and all his family and companions. The commands mentioned in the Qur’an and sunnah to follow the laws of Allah and His Messenger, and the prohibitions on introducing innovations into the religion […]
Source NY Times: By KENNEDY ODEDE I am 29 years old — on the threshold of a new decade of life. All my close friends from childhood, save for two, were robbed of this experience. Some took risks to feed their families; for stealing bread or charcoal, they were shot by […]
When we celebrate Milad, we gather, in order to send salutations (Esal-e-Swaab) to the Prophet [May Allah bless him and grant Him peace], give charity to the poor (Sadaqah Khairat) and remember wilaadah(Birth) and virtues of the Prophet [May Allah bless him and grant Him peace]. The Ahl as-Sunnah does […]
An elderly lady was well-known for her Iman and for her confidence in talking about it. She would stand in front of her house and say Alhamdulilah “Allah be praised” to all those who passed by. Next door to her lived an atheist who would get so angry at her […]
Several hundred people marching with music and banners filled the streets of Zurich on Saturday in a peaceful demonstration against the Swiss federal reception centres for asylum seekers. “Asylum is not a crime”, “Human rights instead of asylum” and “No camps anywhere” were among the slogans displayed on banners carried […]
He was respected in his eight years of near-death, with no sacrilegious cartoons to damage his reputation; and he will, be assured, receive the funeral of a hero and a peacemaker. Thus do we remake history by Robert Fisk, The Independent, UK Any other Middle Eastern leader who survived eight […]
STORY SUMMARY January 10, 2014 12:23 AM By Rodger Shanahan The Daily Star Read more: http://dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Commentary/2014/Jan-10/243615-why-are-shiites-fighting-in-syria.ashx#ixzz2qAWWUtBM (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb) The Syrian civil war is not a rallying call for the region’s Shiite communities in the same way that it is for foreign Sunni jihadists. The […]
NASSER ABU BAKR & ADEL ZAANOUN | AFP ARABNEWS RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: Palestinians on Saturday hailed the death of former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon, describing him as a “ criminal” but regretting that he is now permanently beyond the reach of the law. Human Rights Watch (HRW) also lamented the […]
ET: ISLAMABAD: The historic trial of former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf has thrown up a number of puzzling constitutional questions – particularly given that this case is the first of its sort in Pakistan. Among the questions are the arguments being posed by Musharraf’s legal team – and not only […]