ET: DHAKA: At least 22 people were killed as Bangladeshi police fought pitch battles with tens of thousands of hardline protesters in the capital Dhaka, police and medical officials said Monday. Dhaka police spokesman Masudur Rahman said police used sound grenades, water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse at […]
May 3, 2013 – 13:10 There is a ‘window of opportunity’ for Israel and the Palestinians to get back to the negotiating table, said Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter after […]
May 6, 2013 – swissinfo.ch The United Nations has gathered testimony that suggests that rebels have used the nerve gas sarin in the Syrian conflict, Swiss prosecutor Carla Del Ponte […]
NITICentral: Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi community on Sunday announced that it would boycott the general elections on May 11 to protest discrimination against its members. “No Ahmadi will vote on May 11 to register his or her protest on the discrimination against Ahmadis,” said Saleemuddin, the spokesman for the Jamaat Ahmadiya […]
Source: The Daily Times COMMENT : The anatomy of a press release — By Yasser Latif Hamdani Jinnah was repeatedly pressured on the Ahmadi issue; he repeatedly shot it down publicly […]
By Saeed Qureshi In his press conference on April 30 President Obama reaffirmed his resolve to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp by repatriating the left over detainees to their respective countries or to other destinations. The President’s press conference was in response to the grave situation propped up following […]
“Ahmadis are Muslims, If They Say They are Muslims and No One, Not Even the Sovereign Legislature, has the Right to Say Otherwise.” – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, 05 May 1944. […]
The Jakarta Globe An Ahmadiyah community in Tasikmalaya, West Java, was left in shambles on Sunday after hundreds of Islamic hard-line group members destroyed homes in their village. Asep Taufik […]
Sugata Mitra (born 12 February 1952) is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England. He is best known for his “Hole in the […]
From twitter: JFK on why Syrian opposition should fear Israel’s intervention ” JFK : Ride the tiger’s back, end up in his belly “ MJ Rosenberg @MJayRosenberg JFK on why Syrian opposition should fear Israel’s intervention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBYr1s9ZX3E … …
Source: Forbes By Tim Worstall I know, I’m sorry, I keep writing about Bangladesh at the moment. But the list of silly responses to the recent disaster and tragedy seems to keep growing. Now we’ve news that the European Union itself might restrict access to the European market for […]
Source: AFP DHAKA — At least 100,000 hardline Islamists demanding a new blasphemy law blocked major highways on Sunday cutting off the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka from the rest of the country, police said. Chanting “Allahu Akbar!” (“God is the greatest!”), activists from Hefajat-e-Islam marched down at least six highways, […]
Collected and Written by Zia H Shah MD Most of the Muslims know about the Catholic and Protestant Christians, but, fail to recognize the Orthodox Church, her precise beliefs and […]
Reuters / JORDAN TIMES BEIJING — China will host Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week for separate bilateral talks as it tries to shore up its role in a region where its diplomatic influence is limited. China, Iran’s top oil customer and a permanent […]
Petra | May 04, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — HRH Prince Hassan, president of the Arab Thought Forum, on Friday called for the release of Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim and Greek Orthodox Archbishop Paul Yazigi. In a statement, Prince Hassan said, “I call for the release and safe […]
Jordan and Turkey to also play role in US-brokered plan to contain, rather than thwart, Iran, London’s Sunday Times reports by Times of Israel staff Israel is working on joining […]
Food rationing for refugees planned as $650m pledged to UN remains undelivered Millions of Syrian refugees face food rationing and cutbacks to critical medical programmes because oil-rich Gulf states have […]
SOURCE: THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan during his political gatherings in Buner, Charssada, Nowshera, Mardan and Swabi has promised to set up an Islamic welfare state […]
Story Summary Hezbollah stands ready to defend Syria against U.S. and Israeli designs to control the Arab state and views its involvement in the crisis in Lebanon’s neighbor as “political […]