By:Omer Zaheer Meer PAKISTAN TODAY Not any longer Other than ‘Can Pakistan survive sans aid?’, the other most common question or myth about the Pakistan-US relations is the supposed indispensability of the US’s military assistance for the former. Having taken care of the first question in this space earlier, this […]
Bringing Communities Closer in Calgary By Atiya Chaudhary On Friday, October, 18th 2013, women auxiliary of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, had the opportunity to display a Book Exhibition at […]
Mahatma Gandhi: The second most important person of the twentieth century according to Time magazine and man of the year in 1931 A Collection of Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad with Foreword by Mahatma Gandhi Epigraph: And We (Allah) have sent thee (Muhammad) not but as a mercy for all […]
FORTUNE — “Manufacturing has an image problem,” says Paul Gerbino, head of industrial-supply trade publishers ThomasNet News. “People think of it as dirty, dark, and low-paying.” That stereotype is one reason why companies that make tangible products are struggling to find candidates for about 237,000 job openings. To put that […]
Source: NY Times: GENEVA — Iran, Israel and Arab states took part in a secret meeting about prospects for an international conference on banning nuclear weapons in the Middle East, diplomats said on Tuesday, a rare such gathering of regional adversaries. More:
Maori King, Tuheitia Paki, greets Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad Photo: Stiff.co.nz / Fairfax Media
CBN: Public prayer goes before the U.S. Supreme Court again next Wednesday. The case involves the small town of Greece, N.Y., which still holds prayer before its public meetings. Prayer […]
The Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace be on him, was the greatest pioneer of religious freedom and tolerance. When we say it, we literally mean it, for it would take […]
thetelegraphandargus.co.uk: Worshippers at Keighley’s Ahmadiyya Muslim mosque were urged to pray for all those affected by war as Remembrance Day approaches. Around 30 people attended the sermon, at Baitul Haleem mosque, on […]
Mail Online: by Michael Zennie — President Barack Obama bragged to his aides that he’s ‘really good at killing people,’ according to explosive claims in a new book about the 2012 presidential campaign. The revelation comes at a time when Obama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, has […]
A professor at CCNY for a physiological psych class told his class about bananas. He said the expression ‘going bananas’ is from the effects of bananas on the brain. Read […]
By M Ilyas Khan BBC News, Islamabad When Pakistan’s former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, ended his four-year exile and returned to the country to participate in May’s elections, he took […]
Beirut (AFP) – The Syrian regime will not attend a proposed Geneva peace conference if the aim is for President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power, the country’s information minister said Monday. “We will not go to Geneva to hand over power as desired by (Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud) […]
Columns, Chris Hedges TRUTHDIG Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and racism of apartheid South Africa. Its democracy—which was always exclusively for Jews—has been hijacked […]
It was one of the most moving images of Kenya’s Westgate Mall terror attack — a little girl running in terror across an empty corridor to the outstretched arm of […]
Huff Post: by Seth Adam Smith — Having been married only a year and a half, I’ve recently come to the conclusion that marriage isn’t for me. Now before you start making assumptions, keep reading. I met my wife in high school when we were 15 years old. We were […]
ET: LAHORE: Fearing a reprisal following the killing of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud in a drone strike on Friday, the local UN office has issued an alert to its employees, The Express Tribune has learnt. “Imminent security threat at Centaurus Mall, Islamabad, for two (02) weeks. Huge security threat of […]
Epigraph: And We (Allah) have sent thee (Muhammad) not but as a mercy for all peoples. (Al Quran 21:108) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (pronounced [ˈmoːɦənd̪aːs ˈkərəmtʃənd̪ ˈɡaːnd̪ʱi] ( listen); 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) […]