WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told lawmakers a limited military strike to deter Syria from using chemical weapons would likely cost tens of millions of dollars, but if past experience is a guide, the number could be substantially higher than that. It is not uncommon for U.S. forces to open an assault […]
Salon.com: According to Russia state news agency Interfax, the Russian navy has sent a missile cruiser to the Mediterranean in what military sources have called “routine” operations overseeing interests in […]
“The rural poor welcomed me with open arms” B. Sandman; Shoaib Sultan Khan: “I never felt that I was in an alien country” “Both India and Pakistan can benefit immensely from each other’s experience in reducing poverty” – Shoaib Sultan Khan The poverty reduction model launched by Shoaib Sultan Khan, […]
The News: Blasphemy charge against Ajmal Niazi LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Akmal Khan on Thursday directed the SHO concerned to record the statement of petitioner against columnist Ajmal […]
MEDAN: Anti-Miss World demonstrators from Indonesia’s conservative Islamic organisation Hizbut Tahrir present their version of Miss World, Miss Universe and Miss Indonesia wearing long dresses and headscarves fully covering the body during a rally on Thursday. afp
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Rabia Ahmed Published: September 2, 2013 Pakistan’s fertility rate is likely to drop if women […]
Source: BBC World leaders meeting for the final day of the G20 summit in Russia remain divided over military action in Syria. Italian PM Enrico Letta said the splits in […]
Source: Asia Times: Suppose we gave a war … and only a People’s Republic of China maritime surveillance vessel showed up? That is the first of many conundrums facing the US military as it considers the megaboondoggle known as ”Air-Sea Battle”. More:
Source: Dawn.Com TOBA TEK SINGH: Some eight months ago, happily married Nagina Akram had not even imagined one day she would be running a tyre shop at a bus stand as a young man, Usman Akram. Usman was born as a girl to a family living in Ghaziabad. His father […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — “Let Allah sort it out.” That is Sarah Palin’s succinct argument against U.S. intervention into Syria. And I have to be honest: I’m impressed with Palin on this one. Not with her horribly callous recommendation, made via Facebook late last week, but because she appears to […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — As they contemplate military action against Syria, one of many considerations members of Congress and Obama administration officials have to weigh is how a U.S. strike against the regime of Bashar al-Assad might effect the already complicated, even poisonous, state of Sunni-Shia relations in the region. […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Not many years ago, a Russian President held a late-night meeting with his special representative and asked him to fly at once to meet with an Arab dictator – to give him a personal warning on an impending American attack. If the Arab autocrat would […]
Source: CNN (CNN) – Pope Francis on Thursday wrote to the G-20 leaders, saying that military intervention in Syria would be “futile” and urging them to seek a diplomatic solution instead. “To the leaders present, to each and every one,” Francis wrote in a public letter, “I make a heartfelt […]
Source: CNN.Com Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday the United States — which, in addition to being one of his country’s chief adversaries, has led the push to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government over chemical weapons — has no right to make “humanitarian claims (given) their track record” in […]
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), has warned against the rise of Islamophobia, which seeks to defame Islam and Muslims. JEDDAH: HABIB SHAIKH ARABNEWS In a statement to the fifth International Conference on Islamic Civilization in Zanzibar, Tanzania, on Tuesday, he said, “I firmly believe that […]
AMMAN — Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour on Thursday asserted that the Kingdom supports a peaceful political solution in Syria. In statements to the press on Thursday regarding comments he made in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) three days ago, Ensour stressed that Jordan will not take part […]
Source: ET “Just to gossip with him a bit we said, ‘Aren’t you going to live in the papal palace?’ and he told us ironically, ‘There? So they can rob me? No!’,” Poli was quoted as saying in a speech to the faithful on Saturday. The comments were reported by […]
Source: The Local German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Thursday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) should examine the use of chemical weapons in Syria. More:
Source: The Local The Christian sect, which has bases in countries around the world, and says it has several thousand members, regards both Old and New Testaments as God’s direct word. They do not send their children to public schools, choosing to educate them within the community. Parents are taught […]
In the Muslim Times we have a category, ‘Separation of Mosque-Church and State,’ which is under ‘Law and Religion,’ tab in the menu below the picture of the Mosque of Medina in the header. This should give you a readily accessible catalog of all the posts that we have made […]