Source: Asia Times: Dark-horse candidate According to Hussain, there is little chance of Lieutenant-General Raheel Sharif being appointed, because he is not seen as a strong enough commander. Tariq Khan, on the other hand, could be considered a dark-horse candidate. Over the course of his 36-year military career he has […]
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar The double suicide bombing targeting the Iranian embassy in Beirut – with at least 23 people killed and 170 wounded – was a de facto terror attack happening on 11/19. Numerology-wise, naturally 9/11 comes to mind; and so the case of the Washington-declared war […]
WASHINGTON — A few months of scrambled economic data have not altered the Federal Reserve’s basic view that the American economy is gaining strength, nor its intention to start pulling back soon from its stimulus campaign, the Fed’s chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, said Tuesday evening. Mr. Bernanke, in a speech with […]
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Source: Jihad Watch Mario Joseph was born in an ordinary Muslim Indian family. His father prepared him—the third among six brothers—as a spiritual leader: thus, aged 10, Mario entered a Koranic school, and when he returned from it at the age of 18, he became an Imam-khatib in a local […]
Riyadh reported to give Jerusalem okay to use Saudi airspace and to cooperate on other tactical support, according to Sunday Times israel is working on coordinating plans for a possible military strike with Saudi Arabia, with Riyadh prepared to provide tactical support to Jerusalem, a British newspaper reported early Sunday. […]
By Bernardo Vizcaino and Mirna Sleiman DUBAI (Reuters) – From cosmetics to accommodation, travel to toothpaste, complying with religious principles is becoming big business in the Muslim world, and Dubai, […]
by Babar Sattar, DAWN GETTING mad at Munawar Hasan for attempting to subvert the resolve of our soldiers to fight the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan by challenging the moral legitimacy of their mission is one thing. Learning lessons from the Jamaat-i-Islami’s hostile response to Hakeemullah’s death and taking corrective action is quite […]
Wednesday, November 20 at 7:30pm ET: Israel and Palestine. Misinterpretations of holy scriptures. These are two of the overarching issues Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali believe drive a wedge between Jewish and Muslim communities. The authors of ‘Sons of Abraham’ join us to talk about what unites and […]
By Michael Kugleman Thursday, November 14, 2013 Hope. It’s certainly not the first word that comes to mind when contemplating present-day Pakistan. This is, after all, a nation convulsed by […]
By Ansar Raza Missionary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at, Canada Syed Suleman Nadvi, an eminent non-Ahmadi Muslim scholar was the editor of a monthly magazine “Al-Ma`araf.” In its May 1932 issue an article titled: اسلامی دنیا کے اخبار و رسائل Islami Dunya key Akhbar-o-Rasa`el” (Newspapers and Magazines of Islamic world), was published written by […]
Source: Huffington Post Our early ancestors may have been cleverer than we once thought. An international team of researchers said last week they had found evidence that sophisticated weapons once thought to be unique to early humans were in use tens of thousands of years before Homo sapiens first walked […]
By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent KABUL – While many Americans have been led to believe the war in Afghanistan will soon be over, a draft of a […]
By AIDA CERKEZ Associated Press November 19, 2013 – 11:38 am EST SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A Bosnian court on Tuesday released 10 Bosnian Serb war crimes convicts, including six jailed […]
(Reuters) – The Obama administration said on Tuesday that budget negotiators in Congress would probably fail to strike a far-reaching deal unless Republicans agree to raise revenues and overhaul the tax code. A 29-member congressional committee is trying to set spending levels for the fiscal year that began last month, […]
President François Hollande of France Muhammad Sharif Odeh: Leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the Holy Land Source of the lead post, Abdul Ghany Jahangeer Khan: Central French Desk, United Kingdom Letter by Sharif Odeh to President François Hollande about Hijab or Veil Source: Abdul Ghany Jahangeer Khan: Central French Desk, United Kingdom […]
By Jehan Al-Shatti KUWAIT NEWS AGENCY KUWAIT, Nov 19 (KUNA) — Arab and Muslim women have the strength and determination to break boundaries within sports, said the Vice President of […]
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2013 Stratfor By Reva Bhalla Morocco rarely figures into international news headlines these days, something of a virtue in this restive part of the world. The term Maghreb, which translates as “land of the setting sun,” eventually came to denote a stretch of land starting in the […]
By Barton Gellman and Ellen Nakashima, Published: August 31 washington Post U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Washington Post. That […]