Credit: Dawn.com Syed Ali Shah QUETTA: A team from Crimes Branch Quetta reached Islamabad on Wednesday to arrest former president Pervez Musharraf in the Akbar Bugti murder case. Sources in Crimes Branch Quetta investigating the case told Dawn.com that a police team comprising senior officials had reached the federal […]
Dubai: The Ministry of Education has announced its next step towards improving the teaching of Arabic language in schools through modernising its curriculum and teaching methodology, during a seminar held on Wednesday. The ministry’s new strategy will focus on developing reading and writing Arabic as well as modernising the Arabic […]
Computerworld – Depending on whom you ask, National Security Agency (NSA) contract employee Edward Snowden is either a hero or a traitor for leaking details about top-secret U.S. surveillance programs to the media. Snowden on Sunday identified himself as the person who had provided The Guardian and other newspapers with details of a top-secret phone […]
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Successful women may be more likely to develop breast cancer – and stress at work, including prejudice, discrimination, and resistance, could be to blame. Women in professional jobs had a near 70 per cent higher risk of breast cancer than other women, according to new research. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/professional-women-more-susceptible-to-breast-cancer-8651359.html
Source: BBC Google, Facebook and Microsoft have asked the US government to allow them to disclose the security requests they receive for handing over user data. The move comes after […]
Peter Scowen, The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Apr. 24 2013, 1:12 PM EDT, Last updated Wednesday, Apr. 24 2013, 1:25 PM EDT President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have further limited their two daughters’ narrow range of options for expressing garden-variety teen rebellion by telling them that, if […]
Source: ET KARACHI: A member of the Ahmedi community was shot dead while his son and another companion were injured in a targeted attack in Soldier Bazaar on Tuesday evening. The victims were identified as Hamid Sami, 45, his son, Osama, 18, and a companion, Salman Zaman, 48. They were shot […]
Source: Asia Times: By Jacob Zenn JAKARTA – Driven by strong exports and buoyant domestic markets, Indonesia is projected to be among the world’s top 10 economies by 2025. While the future looks bright for Southeast Asia’s largest economy, a growing tide of religious intolerance threatens to undermine those gains. […]
Source: The Huffington Post By John Shelby Spong: Retired American Bishop of the Episcopal Church Almost any poll of regular church goers will reveal that their favorite book in the New […]
Jun 9, 2013 Osmanabad: The second Salana Ijtema (annual gathering) of Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya (Youth Wing of Ahmadiyya Muslim Movement), Mumbai zone had to be terminated soon after inauguration, as […]
Source: The Local: “Salafism is a particularly rapidly growing and extremely worrying group within the extremist Islamist movement,” Hans-Georg Maassen, head of domestic intelligence, told a news conference as he presented his agency’s 2012 annual report on Tuesday. Radical Islamists in Germany numbered 42,550 in 2012, according to surveillance services, […]
Failure of MPs to agree new law on citizen ID numbers leaves newborns without access to medical care and passports. About 5,000 Bosnians have protested against a legal void which […]
Source: ET JORDAN: With no end in sight to Syria’s conflict, some refugees in Jordan are offering their daughters for early marriage in the hope of securing them protection as they face growing economic pressure. Syrian refugee Abu Mohammad says he reluctantly opted to marry off his teenage daughter to a […]
theguardian: by Alex Andreou. When I changed my appearance for an acting job I experienced the ugly shadow of discrimination cast on ‘Muslim-looking’ people She came on the No 1 bus around the New Kent Road with her toddler already having quite a tantrum. She dragged him on by his […]
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by Renat Kuenzi, swissinfo.ch June 11, 2013 – 21:23 Which way Turkish society and politics should develop is an issue not only in Turkey itself, but also among Turkish citizens living in Switzerland. The recent protests that began in Istanbul are absorbing the attention of many Turks here. Political scientist […]
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: The numbers speak for themselves, and they tell a sorry tale indeed. “All targets set for the current fiscal year have been missed”, said finance minister Ishaq Dar while unveiling the Economic Survey of Pakistan 2012-13. It read like an economic indictment of the outgoing government, with the […]
STORY SUMMARY Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has warned that Syria will be “destroyed” if an international conference expected to be held in Geneva next month fails to resolve the two-year-old crisis between President Bashar Assad and rebels. While calling on world countries to respect the U.N. Charter and […]