Source: Radio Free Europe: For decades, school textbooks used across Pakistan have preached falsehoods, hatred, and religious intolerance, helping foster the sectarian violence and militancy that plagues the country today. In the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, a breeding ground for extremist groups like the Taliban, education officials took steps in […]
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar For the first time through the two-year old Syrian conflict, the United States has mentioned the holy cow – “boots on the ground”. The Secretary of State John Kerry has pleaded that the US Congress should approve the use of American ground troops […]
Source: ET. LAHORE: On the allegations of the imam of a local mosque, a first information report (FIR) was registered against a school principal here under blasphemy law by Nishtar Town police late Monday night. Police told that Qazi Iftikhar Ahmad Raza, along with three other clerics as witnesses, filed […]
Source: The News via Wasim Sr. WASHINGTON: While US intelligence agencies spend billions monitoring enemies like Al-Qaeda and Iran, they pay just as much as attention to ally Pakistan, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The United States has intensified surveillance of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, is concerned about biological and chemical […]
Russia Today: The UK government’s decision to authorize the export to Syria last year of two chemicals capable of being used to make a nerve agent embodies London’s hypocrisy in […]
(CNN) — The Pledge of Allegiance is recited in classrooms across the country every morning — and because of the words “under God,” it is heard in courtrooms across the country seemingly just as often these days. Every attempt to eliminate the mention of God has thus far failed, but the […]
Dawn: Reports based on communication intercepts from 2010 to 2012 and other intelligence in classified documents available with the Washington Post indicate that officials in Pakistan’s security apparatus weren’t only targeting suspected insurgents when it came to extra-judicial action and that there was in deed a plot in the works […]
Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Source/Credit: SAAPK / AMJ/ Ahamdiyya Times By Imran Jattala | September 4, 2013 Third victim in 15 days, another Ahmadi man is shot dead in Orangi Town area of Karachi in Sindh province of Pakistan. On his way to work, Ijaz Ahmad was passing […]
September 4, 2013 – 07:51 Switzerland has again been named the most competitive country in the world in an annual survey released on Wednesday by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum. […]
AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah called on Christian leaders on Tuesday to help bring an end to sectarian strife in the Middle East threatening both Arab Muslims and Christians […]
Following is the official translation of remarks by His Majesty King Abdullah at a meeting with participants in “The Challenges Facing Arab Christians” Conference on Tuesday: In the Name of […]
STOCKHOLM: Sweden on Tuesday became the first European Union country to announce it will give asylum to all Syrian refugees who apply. “All Syrian asylum seekers who apply for asylum in Sweden will get it,” Annie Hoernblad, the spokeswoman for Sweden’s migration agency, told AFP. “The agency made this decision […]
GENEVA: ARAB NEWS Published — Wednesday 4 September 2013 Around $103 billion in financial aid has been provided by Saudi Arabia to 95 developing countries over the past 30 years. […]
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Teacher Tanya Khan touched lives far beyond the classroom The Toronto Star, September 3, 2013 By Tanya Khan was a popular teacher at Louis-Honore Frechette Public School in Thornhill. She died in August of complications from a brain aneurysm. Tanya Khan was a popular teacher at Louis-Honore Frechette Public School […]
American inconsistency on the use of chemical weapons makes it difficult to convince a bunch of teenagers — much less Congress — that we must act By Faheem Younus Source: The […]
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Source: The Economist: In the past some 50 cars were stolen here each year. Now it’s 350.” It’s not surprising that car-stealing gangs flock to Frankfurt: crossing the border takes just a few minutes. Polish gangs stealing German cars is nothing new. What’s new is the rapid increase of such […]
Source: business-standard.com Pakistani police have arrested a woman under the controversial blasphemy laws for declaring herself a ‘Prophet’. According to police, Salma Fatima, wife of Tanvir, who lived in the vicinity […]