Righting the Wrongs of Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan

Huffington Post: News broke Tuesday that a Pakistani high court dismissed blasphemy charges against Rimsha Masih, a young Christian girl, finding the accusation that she burned pages of the Quran to be “legally unsound.” The decision comes after months of religious tension and protests following the girl’s August arrest and detention […]

The open wound

Daily Times: D Asghar. Our problem is that most of us Muslims see the issue of the Palestine-Israel conflict as a purely religious issue. We often ignore that this is a territorial conflict When I came to the US, and went for the Friday prayers, I use to cringe at […]

Tribute to Abdus Salam on Rawal TV

Prof John Moffat (80), professor emeritus University  of Toronto, is a former student of Dr  Abdus Salam. He did his Ph.D under Dr.  Salam in 1959 in Cambridge.  He has written a book Einstein Wrote Back: My Life in Physics.  There is a chapter on Dr. Abdus Salam in the book, where he is described as […]

Netanyahu wins a Pyrrhic victory

Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar On the face of it, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scored a perfect hit by launching the assault on Gaza. The score sheet for the weeklong operation codenamed “Operation Pillar of Defense” may seem to stand at 10 out of 10. More: