Source: ET There is something that rings alarm bells in the announcement by the commissioner for law in the tribal areas, Sahibzada Muhammad Anees, that a new trial was to be ordered for Dr Shakil Afridi, the man sentenced to a 33-year jail term in May 2012 for helping the […]
Source: NY Times: United Nations weapons inspectors left Syria for Lebanon on Saturday as the Obama administration made an aggressive and coordinated push to justify a military intervention on the grounds that American credibility was at stake. The inspection team left after spending the past four days in Syria, an […]
Source: NY Times WASHINGTON — Jabbing his finger at the lectern, his voice forceful, his words brimming with indignation, John Kerry laid out the case like the prosecutor he once was, making a closing argument to a skeptical jury. Again and again, some 24 times in all, he used the […]
Source: Mr Abid Khan Press Desk London. PRESS RELEASE The 47th Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat UK began today at the vast Oaklands Farm site in Alton known as ‘Hadeeqatul Mahdi’. The three-day international event has attracted global interest with around 30,000 delegates attending from dozens […]
By Shaun Waterman -The Washington Times Monday, May 6, 2013 Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday. Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. […]
Before the stupidest Western war in the history of the modern world begins – I am, of course, referring to the attack on Syria that we all yet have to swallow – it might be as well to say that the cruise missiles which we confidently expect to sweep onto […]
The Vatican’s official daily has criticized Western powers for escalating their war rhetoric against Syria despite an ongoing UN investigation into a recent alleged chemical attack near Damascus. “The tones […]
A breakdown of US intelligence’s multi-billion dollar “black budget” has been revealed in files disclosed by leaker Edward Snowden to the Washington Post. The CIA’s budget is the most expensive, $14.7bn (£9.5bn) out of a $52.6bn in total for 16 intelligence agencies, according to the files. Two of those agencies […]
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com ‘The Leadership of Muhammad’ is a new book by British management scholar John Adair that mines the life of the Prophet Muhammad to highlight his extraordinary qualities as a leader. Over […]
The adage: “Actions speak louder than words” was well embodied in the Islamic history, namely the spread of Islam in many non-Muslim countries, like parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, […]
Source: mta.tv/jalsaconnect Given that we don’t have massive Rabwah Jalsas anymore, I wondered how they would have been and what preparations would have been made for them. To find some […]
Source: mta.tv/jalsaconnect Are you frustrated by an Alarm clock? Pressing the snooze button too often? Sleeping in? It happens to all of us, you set your alarm for Tahajjud excited to […]
Source: mta.tv/jalsaconnect Our focus can turn now to the most important preparation; our spiritual one. Here are 10 ways to prepare, spiritually: 5 daily prayers (Essential) – This goes without saying. In […]
Source: Asia Times: By Ramzy Baroud How many Egyptians have been killed since the January 2011 revolt? Various sources suggest all sorts of numbers. It is as if the life of the ordinary Egyptian doesn’t matter on its own, only within a larger context to prove a political point. The […]
Source: Asia Times. By M K Bhadrakumar President Barack Obama is setting a new precedent in America’s history as an imperialist power. He is all but apologizing before he orders a military attack against a sovereign country with which the United States is not at war and which has not […]
Source: NY Times: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani judicial official on Thursday overturned the convictionof a Pakistani doctor who helped the C.I.A. while it was searching for Osama bin Laden, and ordered a retrial. The official, Sahibzada Muhammad Anis, who presided over an appellate court hearing the case, ruled that […]
Source:NY Times. WASHINGTON — President Obama is prepared to move ahead with a limited military strike on Syria, administration officials said Thursday, despite a stinging rejection of such action by America’s stalwart ally Britain and mounting questions from Congress. More:
Source: NY Times. Prime Minister David Cameron said that Britain would not participate militarily in any strike against Syria after he lost a parliamentary vote on Thursday on an anodyne motion urging an international response by 13 votes. It was a stunning defeat for a government that had seemed days […]
Epigraph: He (Allah) is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and the Hidden, and He knows all things full well. (Al Quran 57:4) Eyes cannot reach Him (Allah) but […]
It is a sad fact that there has been so much misunderstanding and suspicion between the Jewish and Muslim communities all these years. In fact, there are several common factors […]