Source: The Conservative Papers: Al-Qaeda linked terrorists in Syria have beheaded all 24 Syrian passengers traveling from Tartus to Ras al-Ain in northeast of Syria, among them a mother and a 40-days old infant. Gunmen from the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and Levant stopped the bus on the road […]
Author posits religion is essential building block of society The National Post: Among more militant atheist circles, the argument is often made that religion is a human invention serving only […]
Source: The Economist: Recent years have been less glorious for the job of secretary of state, although it remains the top position in the Holy See’s administration, or curia, and is sometimes equated with “prime minister” of the Vatican. Its outgoing holder, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, seems to have allowed secretive […]
Source: Dawn:Com In the past couple of weeks, speculation has been rife over the appointment of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) and rumours say that this time around the decision-making will be extremely judicious for which the screening process is already […]
Source: Dawn:Com Haroon Tariq. — Photo by Dawn ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani student, Haroon Tariq, has broken the current world record by securing a total of 47 As in his International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) O Level and A Level exams from the University of Cambridge International […]
Source: NY Times: BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democratic challenger, Peer Steinbrück, returned to the campaign trail on Monday, with neither triumphant after their sole television debate, a mostly decorous 90-minute exchange that restored Mr. Steinbrück as a credible candidate but yielded a rhetorical draw.Perhaps reflecting the flickering interest […]
Source: Stratfor: By George Friedman Last week began with certainty that an attack on Syria was inevitable and even imminent. It ended with the coalition supporting the attack somewhere between falling apart and not coming together, and with U.S. President Barack Obama making it clear that an attack was inevitable, […]
Jewishpress.com: Our photojournalism provider Flash90 says this image is of “Ultra orthodox men who wear covers on their faces to avoid seeing woman as they make their way to Uman […]
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) has sent the Cabinet Secretary (Cabinet Secretary) Dipo Alam to discuss the issue of Ahmadiyah in Bekasi. The discussion was a follow-up of a letter […]
RT: Many US servicemen are against the looming strike on Syria, Republican Congressman Justin Amash said on Twitter, in an attempt to counter the idea that the country might be […]
Saguenay mosque vandalized, splattered with red fluid The Toronto Star, September 3, 2013 CHICOUTIMI, QUE.—Police in Quebec’s Saguenay region have been called in after a local mosque was vandalized over the weekend — splattered with what could possibly be pig blood. Representatives of the area’s small Muslim community say they […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Rasul Bakhsh Rais Published: September 2, 2013 Peace within states is as important as it is between and among states. Let […]
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal the depth of mistrust between America and Pakistan, revealing how the US spied on Islamabad’s nuclear assets and compiled dossiers of extrajudicial killings. The revelations, published by The Washington Post on Tuesday, appear to show how billions of dollars from the so-called “black budget” […]
Two missiles detected in the Mediterranean by Russian radar on Tuesday were launched as part of an Israeli air defence drill, officials in Tel Aviv have said. Israeli defence ministry sources said the two rockets were launched as test targets for the country’s missile defence systems. The exercise was carried […]
Thousands of pupils are being packed “like sardines” into extra classes at primary schools which are struggling under a huge influx of children. Councils have been forced to implement a raft of emergency measures due to the crises caused by a baby boom, rising immigration and the fact that families […]
U.S. fed intelligence to Iraq about whereabouts of Iranian forces Iraq deployed mustard gas and sarin in 1988 on the back of the information U.S. administration supported Iraq during the eight-year conflict Up to 20,000 Iranian troops were killed by mustard gas and nerve agents from Iraqi forces during the […]
سلطان سلیمان کا دل نک تھورپ بی بی سی نیوز، زیگیٹوار ہنگری کے محققین کی ایک ٹیم رواں ماہ ترکی کے عثمانیہ دور کے سب سے مشہور سلطان سلیمان کے دل کی تلاش کے بارے میں ایک رپورٹ شائع کرے گی۔ لیکن تقریباً ساڑھے چار سو سال پرانی اس تاریخی […]
The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaeda, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.No other nation draws as much scrutiny across so many categories of national security concern. Secret […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times There are about 750 verses in Quran urging Muslims to make use of reason to understand nature and […]