Source: Zeenews.com via Wasim Sr. Islamabad: Pakistan is working on a new security policy document which, among other measures, will seek to disband militant outfits which were involved in terror attacks in neighbouring countries, including India, a media report said on Saturday. The national security policy is being thrashed jointly […]
MADINAH: YUSUF MUHAMMAD ARABNEWS Friday 12 July 2013 Umrah pilgrims visiting here say it is a privilege and absolute joy to break their fast in the Prophet’s Mosque. Abd Al-Jaleel […]
Source: Hindustan Times: Edward Snowden possesses data that could prove far more “damaging” to the US government but the fugitive leaker has chosen not to release them, said a journalist who first broke the story.Glenn Greenwald told Argentina’s La Nacion paper that Snowden, who is currently stranded in Moscow, had […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS/AL-EQTISADIAH Sunday 14 July 2013 The authorities in Makkah have banned pilgrims from using wheelchairs on the mataf (the circumambulating area around the Kaaba) during peak hours. Lt. […]
Source: Hindustan Times: Bhikkhu Wirathu, 46, is one of the most talked about figures in Myanmar. The Buddhist monk is the leader of the 969 movement, which is opposed to what they say, is the spread of Islam in the predominantly-Buddhict Burma, and is intended to safeguard Buddhism. But many […]
Source: TOI The 163-year old telegram service in the country – the harbinger of good and bad news for generations of Indians – is dead.Once the fastest means of communication for millions of people, the humble telegram was today buried without any requiem but for the promise of preserving the last telegram as a […]
Source: ET The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an outlawed umbrella of militant groups blamed for most violence in Pakistan, has set up a special cell in Syria to coordinate the ongoing ‘jihad’ against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, reports the BBC Urdu. “The cell has been established with the help of the […]
Source: ET While a frenzied debate is raging over the Abbottabad Commission report released by Al Jazeera, the report is actually an earlier draft that had been prepared by the commission through a bizarre internal arrangement under which several versions were to be produced by the members in the hope of […]
MindBodyGreen. Dr. Stephen Cowan. After 25 years practicing pediatrics, and caring for thousands of children, I’ve noticed some patterns that offer me a deeper vision of health. Here are some of those invaluable lessons: 1. Growth and development are not a race. These days we’re in such a rush to […]
Russia Today; US cities are gearing up for everything from civil disturbances to full-scale riots following the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, 17, out of apparent self-defense. People are expressing themselves on the streets from Los Angeles to New York following the ‘not guilty’ decision handed down […]
Times of India: NEW DELHI: In what is certain to escalate the already vicious fight between the CBI and theIB over the IshratJahan “fake encounter case”, a former home ministry officer has alleged that a member of the CBI-SIT team had accused incumbent governments of “orchestrating” the terror attack on Parliament and the […]
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Daily Times: VIEW : Challenging Pakistan’s blasphemy laws takes courage — Nasir Saeed Shahbaz Bhatti knew death was a risk that came with the role of being the minorities’ minister but […]
theviewpointonline.net: For why should the Muslims have to issue any such statement? Do they own these terrorists? Are they citizens of Pakistan? In the streets of Mumbai , the terror attacks claimed both Hindu and Muslim lives. More Muslims have been killed by terrorists in Kashmir’ Noted Indian journalist Seema […]
New York Times: by Samuel G. Freedman. LYNNWOOD, Wash. — Clad in proper Pacific Northwest flannel, toting a flask of “rocket fuel” coffee typical of Starbucks’ home turf, Steven Greenebaum rolled his Prius into a middle school parking lot one Sunday morning last month. Then he set about transforming its […]
NY Times: I might as well tell you upfront that this column is a book report. Since 2007, when it was published, academics have been raving to me about Charles Taylor’s “A Secular Age.” Courses, conferences and symposia have been organized around it, but it is almost invisible outside the […]
Huff Post: by Yasmine Hafiz. Researchers at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga report that atheists are just as heterogenous of a group as people of faith, in a study done by doctoral student Christoper F. Silver and project manager Thomas J. Coleman III. Many previous religious surveys placed people without […]
Illteracy and prejudice knows not boundaries.
Please go here to sign the petition Dear United Nations, I demand Pakistan repeal its discriminatory blasphemy laws and voter disenfranchisement laws. These laws stifle free thought and free discussion, encourage violence and oppression, and promote conditions favorable to extremists and terrorism. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is among […]
Epigraph: “And We (Allah) made the son of Mary and his mother a Sign, and gave them refuge on an elevated land of green valleys and springs of running water.” (Al […]