Al-Jahiz: A Pioneer in Theory of Evolution

Suggested reading For Darwin Day, 6 facts about the evolution debate Islam’s evolutionary legacy ڈارون سے ہزار برس قبل نظریۂ ارتقا پیش کرنے والا مسلمان مفکر کون تھا؟ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia al-Jāḥiẓ (Arabic: الجاحظ‎) (full name Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī أبو عثمان عمرو بن بحر الكناني البصري) (born in Basra, 781 – December 868/January […]

Syria: History teaches us that limited Western intervention can only Inflame and do nothing for Peace

PATRICK COCKBURN Sunday 1 September 2013 The discredited justifications that preceded the invasion of Iraq still dominate British and American perception of military intervention in Syria. In a similar way in the 1930s, popular revulsion at the lies and exaggerations of First World War propaganda meant that the first accounts […]

Republican Senate candidate Lonegan vows to fight for liberty at Bangladesh festival in Atlantic City

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan addressed hundreds of the local Bangladesh-American community Tuesday with a vow to fight to preserve liberty. The former Bogota mayor spoke at Atlantic City’s third-annual festival sponsored by the Bangladesh Association of Atlantic County at Bader Field. “I remember when Bangladesh fought for its […]

Enclave populations: The humanitarian angle

Bangladesh and India are neighbouring countries with a shared history and common cultural and linguistic ties. Although all countries in the world have some inter-state problems at one level or another, the enclave problem between Bangladesh and India is unique in its complex and unresolved nature. read more : http://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/2013/aug/24/enclave-populations-humanitarian-angle