Source: ghanaweb.com The acting Ameer and Missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana, Alhaji Maulvi Muhammad Yusuf Yawson, has urged Muslims to respect and protect the lives and properties of non-Muslims. He explained that they should consider as sacred and inviolable the honour, lives and properties of fellow […]
Source: carrollcountytimes.com Dr. Faheem Younus, president of the Baltimore Chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, said he has acted as a voice for moderate Muslims on national outlets including a regular […]
The Jerusalem Post: 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry to be awarded to Jewish-American scientists Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, Arieh Warshel for work on multiscale models for complex systems; Levitt, Warshel […]
In Indonesia a new breed of politician is on the rise. The Wall Street Journal: Fifteen years after the overthrow of strongman Suharto, and less than a year before the […]
Epigraph: Thou sees not, in the creation of the All-merciful any imperfection. Return thy gaze, seest thou any fissure. Then Return thy gaze, again and again. Thy gaze, Comes back to thee dazzled, aweary.’ (Al Quran 67:4-5) Dr. Abdus Salam and Nobel Prize of 2013 Epigraph: Thou sees not, in the […]
Source: ET: We may be moving steadily closer to a system where it becomes possible to pick up electoral fraud, using sophisticated electronic technology now available. Following the moving of an electoral tribunal by a PTI candidate, Muhammad Zubair Khan, who according to announced results had lost by a huge […]
By Syed Raza Hassan and Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD | Wed Oct 9, 2013 (Reuters) – Former military dictator Pervez Musharraf could leave Pakistan as soon as Thursday after a decision […]
(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will nominate Fed number two Janet Yellen on Wednesday to run the world’s most influential central bank, providing some relief to markets that would expect her to tread carefully in winding down economic stimulus. The nomination will put Yellen on course to be the […]
Decades of conflict have produced many ‘half-widows’ whose husbands have disappeared but are not declared deceased. Decked by thick deodar forests, terraced corn fields, apple orchards and jagged mountains, the […]
Decades of conflict have produced many ‘half-widows’ whose husbands have disappeared but are not declared deceased. Decked by thick deodar forests, terraced corn fields, apple orchards and jagged mountains, the […]
Dawn.com: by Majid Sheikh – Away it went in ignominy, on hundreds of wheelbarrows to be dumped in a dirty, humid and putrid discarded horse stable. I am talking about one of the world’s finest, and surely the second largest collection of rare books, manuscripts and document dealing with the […]
New mosque hopes to ‘promote love for all’ Plan to open in 2015 By Jason Warick, The Starphoenix October 7, 2013 Lal Khan Malik, president of the Ahmaddiya Muslim Community of Canada speaks as the Saskatoon congregation of the organization holds a ceremony to mark the groundbreaking for a new […]
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 […]
Indianexpress: By Khaled Ahmad: After the Taliban killed a major-general and blew up 80 Christians in Peshawar, Pakistan is busy rationalising the situation in favour of “peace talks” with them. As if wheedling himself into their good books, a judge in Peshawar questioned: “Why is modern banking still allowed in […]
Source: China Daily BEIJING — China has replaced five members of its central bank’s monetary policy committee, according to a circular released on Wednesday by the State Council, China’s Cabinet. Chaired by People’s Bank of China (PBOC) governor Zhou Xiaochuan, the committee welcomes five new members: Xiao Jie, deputy secretary-general of […]
Source: The Economist: The way to determine whether the government is impermissibly “endorsing” religion, the courts later decided, is not to canvass actual citizens but to imagine how a reasonable observer would look upon a creche, a ten commandments display, a cross or a Jesus statue. Over the past generation, as the endorsement test has […]
Source: The Economist: THE first major response to the terrorist attack on the Westgate shopping mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, came two weeks to the day after the shooting began on September 21st. US Navy Seals (pictured above on a training exercise) led a failed morning raid on a house in […]
Source: The Economist: WHEN the United Nations was created after the second world war, it was “an era of secular international relations and few if any anticipated that religion would ever again be an important international actor.” However, as Professor Jeffrey Haynes of London Metropolitan University goes on to show […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent This is the story of how the Syrian war reached out 5,000 miles across the globe and destroyed at least 29 Lebanese lives in the Indian Ocean. It is a story of tragic irony; the destitute Lebanese families who wanted to live in Australia and […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent This is the story of how the Syrian war reached out 5,000 miles across the globe and destroyed at least 29 Lebanese lives in the Indian Ocean. It is a story of tragic irony; the destitute Lebanese families who wanted to live in Australia and […]