DETROIT — This city is learning that it is expensive to go broke. Even as it wrestles with the $18 billion of debt that has overwhelmed it, Detroit has already been billed more than $19.1 million by firms hired to sort through that debt, search for ways to restructure it, […]
Epigraph: Do not the disbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were a closed-up mass, then We opened them out? And We made from water every living thing. Will they not then […]
Source: symmetry By: Kathryn Jepsen 1. Peter Higgs’ best-known paper on the new particle was initially rejected. But this was a blessing in disguise, since it led Higgs to add a […]
ET: KARACHI: Few Pakistanis know what the Higgs boson is and even fewer realise that some of the earliest theoretical groundwork that led to this discovery was laid by Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate, Dr Abdus Salam. The Higgs boson is a subatomic particle whose existence was confirmed by the European Organisation […]
ET: KARACHI: Few Pakistanis know what the Higgs boson is and even fewer realise that some of the earliest theoretical groundwork that led to this discovery was laid by Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate, Dr Abdus Salam. The Higgs boson is a subatomic particle whose existence was confirmed by the European Organisation […]
(Reuters) – A crowd of Islamic fundamentalists dug up the grave of a Hindu man in Pakistan, police said on Tuesday, in the latest sign of growing religious tension in the increasingly unstable province of Sindh. Shouting “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is greatest”, the crowd dug out the body and dragged […]
Alislam e-gazette press release: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad calls for a peaceful Jihad The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa addressed a congregation of more than 4,000 at […]
Source: Stratfor: By George Friedman In general, Stratfor deals with U.S. domestic politics only to the extent that it affects international affairs. Certainly, this topic has been argued and analyzed extensively. Nevertheless, the shutdown of the American government is a topic that must be understood from our point of view, […]
uwosh.edu: A member of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s Administrative Services team will receive a UW System award honoring women of color on Oct. 19 in Madison. Raazia Riffat, who began serving with UW Oshkosh’s Risk Management team in 2011 and, most recently, served as the University’s internal auditor, will […]
JP – A cartoonist, unlike a a violent extremist, can innocently claim, “But these are just harmless cartoons, only a lunatic would take offence, let alone seek to ban them”. But make no mistake, cartoons are a political tool since the days of Thomas Nast, and they merit our intellectual […]
Prof Dr Tom Kibble of UK delivering his lecture in Bensheim Germany By Zubair Khan Photographie: Abdullah Adeel Pictures Land of pure, its leaders as well masses have shunned and vilified Dr. Salaam. Even Pakistan history has been mitigated to denounce this great man of the Pakistani soil. However still […]
(Reuters) – India’s army said on Tuesday that Pakistani troops had helped a group of 30 to 40 insurgents stage the biggest incursion in Kashmir in years, linking it to a plan to push fighters into the region as foreign forces withdraw from neighboring Afghanistan. Army chief General Bikram Singh’s remarks […]
(Reuters) – Britain’s Peter Higgs and Belgium’s Francois Englert won the 2013 Nobel prize for physics for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson – the particle key to explaining […]
(Reuters) – Britain’s Peter Higgs and Belgium’s Francois Englert won the 2013 Nobel prize for physics for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson – the particle key to explaining […]
World Bank says allowing Palestinians to use the 61% of the West Bank under full Israeli control would boost the economy by Harriet Sherwood theguardian.com, Tuesday 8 October 2013 Israel’s […]
World Bank says allowing Palestinians to use the 61% of the West Bank under full Israeli control would boost the economy by Harriet Sherwood theguardian.com, Tuesday 8 October 2013 Israel’s […]
Source: The Nation October 08, 2013 YASMEEN AFTAB ALI Peace has eluded Afghanistan. The country has been the backyard for powers that have invaded her, plundered her and in the end abandoned her-much like one would an aged mistress! In anticipation of the withdrawal of US combat forces from Afghanistan; […]
Source: Asia Times: By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI – General Ashfaq Parvez Kiani, one of Pakistan’s most powerful men, has announced his retirement from the post of Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) on November 29. With one stroke on Sunday, General Kiani put to rest speculation in the media that […]
Source: Asia Times: By Francesco Sisci BEIJING – Who remembers Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, the Southern states that fought the Northern states lead by president Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War? Barack Obama, really and symbolically black, looks like the true vindication and completion of that […]
Source: NY Times: The basic outlines of poverty in America are sadly familiar. At last count, 46.5 million people were poor — 15 percent of the population. Women and children, especially in single-mother families, were, as always, hit hardes. More: