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China, Pakistan ink transport pact
Source: China Daily By LI XIAOKUN and ZHANG YUNBI (China Daily) Huge project to boost business ties between the two nations China and Pakistan signed an agreement on Friday on the blueprint for a huge transport project linking northwestern China to the Arabian Sea. Observers said the project, named the […]
Nawaz Sharif urges Chinese investment in Power Sector
Source: Dawn.com BEIJING/SHANGHAI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday held meetings with delegations of China’s top business executives and discussed with them energy, development and infrastructure projects in Pakistan. The prime minister met the delegations on board a high speed train while traveling from Beijing to Shanghai, where he visited […]
Introducing the Holy Prophet Muhammad, to non-Muslim audience at Annual Convention, USA, 2013
Speech by Maulana Naseem Mahdi (National Vice President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community) at Annual Convention, USA, on June 29, 2013
36 dead, over 1,000 injured in clashes between Egyptian protesters – National Ambulance Service
Mohammed Sultan, deputy head of Egypt’s national ambulance service said that 36 people were killed on Friday during violent clashes between supporters and opponents of deposed President Morsi. 1,138 more […]
Coptic priest shot dead in Egypt attack
Source: TOI CAIRO: Gunmen shot dead a Coptic Christian priest in Egypt’s lawless Northern Sinai on Saturday in what could be the first sectarian attack since the military overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, security sources said. The shooting in the coastal city of El Arish was one of several attacks believed […]
Islamist gunmen kill 42 in school attack in Nigeria
Source: TOI KANO (Nigeria): Gunmen believed to be Islamists from Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgent group killed 42 people, mostly students, in an overnight attack on a secondary school in restive Yobe state, a medical worker and residents said Saturday. “We received 42 dead bodies of students and other staff of Government Secondary School […]
Minister calls for third Temple to be built
The Times of Israel: Potentially explosive statement by Jewish Home’s Uri Ariel breaks taboo against damaging status quo on Temple Mount Government minister from a nationalist religious party called Thursday […]
Who’s the Most ‘Racist’?
What a new poll does and doesn’t tell us. The Wall Street Journal: When Rasmussen Reports asked some of its polling subjects to conduct an odd exercise in racial stereotyping, […]
The Real Reason You Learn A Lesson Better When You Teach It
Business Insider: by Annie Murphy Paul. Our minds often work best in interaction with other people’s minds, and there are particular kinds of relationships that are especially good at evoking our intelligence. Learning, and thinking, are deeply social activities. This is not the traditional view (Rodin’s iconic sculpture, “The Thinker,” […]
Self Control Predicts Success Even More Than IQ
businessinsider.com: From Charles Duhigg’s excellent book The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business: Dozens of studies show that willpower is the single most important keystone habit for individual success… Students who exerted high levels of willpower were more likely to earn higher grades in their […]
Egypt Back to Square One!
July 3, 2013 By Saeed Qureshi Egyptian army has removed President Muhammad Morsi of Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and has taken over power for the interim period. President Morsi assumed office on June 30, 2012 and has been deposed from his office today (July 3, 2013). The decision to […]
One-third of British children consider suicide by age 16 – report
Russia Today: Up to one-third of children in the UK have either attempted or considered taking their own lives, according to a new report which sheds light on the ‘shocking […]
Indonesia: Minority groups and Islamic humanitarianism
Jakarta Post: Indonesian Muslims have been witnessing two contrasting phenomena about humanitarian issues that Islam ironically promotes and upholds. First, we have seen the proliferation of humanitarian NGOs working on relief and humanitarian actions in disaster affected areas. A number of faith-based NGOs were founded by various Muslim groups and […]
Muslim fast a ritual of self-restraint
Muslims accept fasting as a personal form of worship. During Ramadan, they strive to be closer to God similar to the Christian concept of ‘being born again.’ While they are fasting, Muslims read the entire Quran. Muslims accept fasting as a personal form of worship. During Ramadan, they strive to […]
Dumped Australian PM opens up on sexism
Source: TOI SYDNEY: Australia’s first female premier Julia Gillard has opened up for the first time on thesexism that plagued her leadership and her famous misogyny speech in her final interviewbefore being ousted. Gillard, an unmarried, atheist lawyer, was dumped as Australia’s prime minister by herruling Labor party last month, almost three years to the day since she toppled Kevin […]
Islamist protests hit cities across Egypt, 30 dead
Source: TOI CAIRO: Enraged Islamists pushed back on Friday against the toppling of PresidentMohammed Morsi, as tens of thousands of his supporters took to the streets vowing to win his reinstatement and clashed with their opponents in violence that killed 30 and drove the divided nation toward an increasingly dangerous showdown. In a […]
In Israel, doctors quietly treat injured Syrians
Source: Conservative Papers. Israel, which has never been reticent about publicizing its rescue missions when disaster strikes in far-flung corners of the globe, is being unusually discreet about its aid to victims of the fighting in neighboring Syria. Israeli flag For the past four months, doctors in the Jewish […]
Pope Propels John Paul II and John XXIII to Sainthood
Source: NY Times: By RACHEL DONADIO VATICAN CITY — Showing more of his sprightly personality and his priorities, Pope Francis sped two of his predecessors toward sainthood on Friday: John Paul II, who guided the Roman Catholic Church during the end of the cold war, and John XXIII, who assembled the […]