Source: Gulf news: Dubai: A male passenger was ejected from a Saudi flight on Tuesday after he made improper remarks to a stewardess onboard. Saudi Arabian Airlines flight SV 1055 was set to take off from Riyadh to head to Jeddah when a disturbance in the cabin forced the delay […]
Source: Asia Times: The British Raj worked for 10 years to create Pakistan. In 1930, the British began to polarize irreconcilable enmities between Hindus and Muslim. Britain used agents working among Ismaeli Shi’ites and the Ahmadyya sect to pioneer the creation of an artificial country – by yoking together independent […]
Source: BBC The White House is urging Congress to reject an attempt to stop the National Security Agency (NSA) collecting Americans’ phone records.With a key vote coming up, President Barack Obama’s spokesman said curbs on the NSA would “hastily dismantle” a vital counter-terrorism tool.NSA chief Gen Keith Alexander spent Tuesday […]
Source: Dawn.com By Tahir Mehdi I am not referring to sectarian differences within Islam as these are much more than two. Sects are not unique to our religion. All religions have these. The followers of one sect are not a completely homologous group either, as they may differ on other counts […]
Source: TOI: MANILA: Afghanistan’s first woman governor and a Myanmar civil society organiser, who both helped families displaced by conflict in their home nations, are among five winners of Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize this year. The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation on Wednesday singled out Afghanistan’s Habiba Sarabi, a […]
Source: TOI SOFIA ( BULGARIA): Bulgarian police on Wednesday broke up a blockade of parliament and escorted out more than 100 lawmakers and ministers who had been trapped inside the besieged building for more than eight hours by anti-government protesters seeking to oust the left-leaning government. Police in riot gear […]
Source: TOI RIO DE JANEIRO: Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics packed the beach of Copacabana on Tuesday for the start of a weeklong religious event in Rio de Janeiro that includes gatherings with Pope Francis. Rain clouds cleared in time and pilgrims from around the world waved flags, sang […]
Source: TOI WASHINGTON: As if politics in Washington and the United States isn’t divisive enough, Hindus and Muslims from the subcontinent have brought their decades-old partisan feud to America. A tactically leaked letter by 65 Indian lawmakers, many of them Muslims, to US President Barack Obama, pressing him not to […]
Source: The Local. German police were left speechless at the weekend when they stopped a group of inventive revellers cruising around town in a unique swimming-pool-car of their own creation – sloshing water onto the pavement at every turn. More:
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweden Click HERE for interesting Video. (From minute 20 onwards)
Though the number of Americans who believe that human beings evolved without God’s influence has increased since 2004, the percentage may still prove surprising to some. According to a YouGov poll, only 21% of Americans believe that human beings evolved without the involvement of God, and 25% of those […]
July 23, 2013 – 20:08 After the attack on its Jalalabad office in May, the Swiss-run International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has reduced the scope of its activities […]
JEDDAH: RIMA AL-MUKHTAR Tuesday 23 July 2013 For the fourth year running, the Young Initiative Group (YIG) has been carrying out a Ramadan initiative that revolves around distributing iftar meals to the less fortunate across Jeddah. Young Initiative Group (YIG) is a Jeddah-based volunteer group that has been implementing Ramadan […]
The world’s most elite military special forces met up at a military compound in Jordan to compete in what organizers call “the Olympics of counterterrorism.” Contributing editor to Rolling Stone Magazine Josh Eells was there for the competition, which consisted of 32 teams from 17 countries and the Palestinian territories. […]
Time: Before the last two centuries, royal babies were the dominant players of human history. Their births were auspicious occasions, attended by astrologers and mendicants, court intrigues and elaborate sacrifices […]
todaycatholicnews: By Zoey Di Mauro WASHINGTON (CNS) — Panelists at a religious freedom session on Pakistan called for reform of the nation’s laws, calling the situation for minorities dire. In June alone, 47 religious minorities were killed in Pakistan, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. The victims […]
2 6th April, 1984 –Blackout History of Pakistan, from the very outset, has been blemished by grisly incidents including infamous resolutions, unwanted wars and silly coup d’états. The country is not which our ancestors dreamt of. Extremism turned out to be an undefeatable monster which devoured almost everything leaving the state […]
Huff Post: What is this country coming to? Anyone who pays attention to religion in America can see monumental changes and conflicts affecting the present and looming in the future. And anyone with a smidgen of historical awareness knows that religion has always been at the core of American society. […]
Source: BBC New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has admitted sending explicit messages to a woman, two years after he left Congress over a similar affair. An unnamed woman told […]
Author: Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian,The Promised Messiah on: Righteousness, Thinking ill of Others, Arrogance & Universal Compassion Source: Essence of Islam Volume II (Excerpts from the Writings of the […]