Russian Today: he re-creation of a historical alliance between Israel and Turkey against a “common enemy” would be seen as “bad news” across the Arab world, political analyst Chris Bambery […]
ET: LONDON: With the strengthening of democracy in Pakistan, calls for building an interest-free economic system are increasingly gaining traction. As the debate on public sector borrowing intensifies in the wake of the recent budget and the government’s successful conclusion of a US$5.3 billion facility from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), […]
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar Hi, my name is Mostafa and I’ll be your moderate insurgent today. I’m addressing you all because we badly need your help. We could have started a Facebook page, like We Need Your Weapons or something, or ask the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights […]
Source: Dawn: ISLAMABAD: Suleman spent years targeting members of the Shia community in his home country of Pakistan as a member of sectarian terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ). Now he is on his way to a new sectarian battleground, Syria, where he plans to join rebels battling President Bashar Assad’s regime. […]
Courtesy: Saleem ud Din, Nazir Umoor-e-Aama & Spokesperson of Jama’at Ahmadiyya Pakistan Where was Qadeer khan at that time? Any body knows ? pic.twitter.com/vVU3ecwxrx — Saleem ud Din (@SaleemudDinAA) July 15, […]
The term the Great Game referred to the strategic rivalry between the British and Russian empires in Central Asia. Today’s great game is the battle for economic survival in a world of low growth. As economic nationalism reasserts itself, reducing free trade in goods and service and free movement of […]
By Dr. Jürgen Todenhöfer The U.S. slaughtered the wrong pig. (google translate from German being used, please excuse the grammar). Six times I visited Syria in the last two years, […]
When historians look back at Muslim rule in India, their perspective greatly shapes the way they present historical characters. Some people are seen as great and enlightened leaders, while others […]
The Huffington Post | Yasmine Hafiz The Masjid Al-Haram is an iconic image for millions of Muslims who dream of making the once-in-a-lifetime Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, but its silhouette […]
By Charlene Gubash, Producer, NBC News CAIRO – Just last month, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood had a lock on Egypt’s presidency and parliament. Now, after mass protests backed by the country’s military swept President Mohammed Morsi from power, the organization venerated throughout the Muslim world for its discipline, ministry to […]
Epigraph: And when My servants ask you about Me, say: I am near. I answer the prayer of the supplicant when he prays to Me. So they should lend an […]
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar It looks increasingly that solving the Egyptian puzzle is going to take us all to Syria. How far the army’s coup in Egypt resets the geopolitics of the Middle East, or, conversely, whether the coup itself forms the commencement of a region-wide tectonic […]
Source: Asia Times: By Sameer Patil Al Jazeera TV’s leak on July 8 of a classified report on the US military raid in Abbottabad, which killed Osama bin Laden, has triggered a controversy in Pakistan. The report holds former President Pervez Musharraf – who was also the former army General […]
Source: Daily Star MIXING RELIGION WITH POLITICS An otherwise little known group Hefazat-e-Islam has become instrumental in winning election, especially at a time when everyone has thought that secularism in Bangladesh taking a strong foothold. Political use of religion–especially Islam–is back, and it seems to have all the ingredients to […]
Source: Daily Star Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam has been handed 90-year jail for his role in the murder and genocide of the independence-seeking people of the land who were fighting occupation Pakistani army in 1971. All the five charges, which include murder and torture of unarmed people, conspiracy, planning, […]
Source: Asia Times: By Hossein Askari: Professor of Business and International Affairs at the George Washington University. The global media almost never questions the religious credentials of politicians and rulers around […]
Source: Huffington Post JERUSALEM, July 15 (Reuters) – Israel criticised on Monday the extension of Poland’s ban on kosher meat production, saying it damaged efforts to rehabilitate Jewish life in […]
linktv: In a roundtable discussion, host Ray Suarez interviews author Reza Aslan (No god But God; How to Win a Cosmic War) and Dalia Mogahed, Executive Director of the Gallup […]
Business Insider: by Olga Khazan. It’s hard not to get jealous when I talk to my extended family. My cousin’s husband gets 36 vacation days per year, not including holidays. If he wants, he can leave his job for a brief hiatus and come back to a guaranteed position months […]
Stateman.com: By Brad Stutzman Austin Community Newspapers Staff Spectators who lined the July 4 route through downtown were treated to a wide variety of sights and sounds, among the approximately 110 entrants in Round Rock Sertoma Club’s annual Independence Day parade. They saw soldiers in uniform, combat veterans on motorcycles and […]