ET: ISLAMABAD: Originating from Pakistan, the crippling polio virus has now made its way into Egypt after China. Following the export of the deadly virus to the Middle Eastern country, the Prime Minister’s Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell, along with its international partners the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef, on […]
Tarek Fatah, The Toronto Sun Jan 22. 2013 A decade of war is now ending,” declared President Barack Obama in his Monday inaugural address. He then looked to his right and paused. For a fleeting moment, I braced for some profound words of wisdom, but alas, was disappointed. Instead of […]
Source: Datukik Clcik HERE for details. Regrettably only in Urdu.
Source: The Economist: AS THE movers and shakers head to the Swiss mountain resort of Davos this week for the annual World Economic Forum, their credentials as global leaders look anything but resilient. Their official theme will be “resilient dynamism”, whatever that means, but what they ought to be talking […]
Source: The Economist: LIKE much that moves in Twitter-mad Saudi Arabia these days, it started with a single message. A lady in Dammam, the hub of the oil industry on the kingdom’s Gulf coast, tweeted a complaint from a local shopping mall. Agents of the Committee for the Promotion of […]
Source: TOI KABUL: Britain’s Prince Harry, who compared shooting insurgents in Afghanistan to playing video games, has probably developed a mental problem, the Taliban said on Tuesday. “There are 49 countries with their powerful military failing in the fight against the mujahideen, and now this prince comes and compares this […]
Source: Dawn.Com Visiting his young campaign staffers the morning after his re-election at his campaign headquarters in Chicago, a tearful Obama told the staffers that they had been part of the best campaign team in history. Pakistani scientist Rayid Ghani was among the leaders of his technology team. – File […]
“If people deliberate this Surah (Al-Asr), it suffices them.” — Imam Ash-Shafii The importance of holy Surah like Al-Asr lies in the fact that it delineates the perfect all-embracing system […]
Jan 22, 2013 – 20:42 The Swiss eat too much fatty food, too few vegetables and don’t move enough. These are the conclusions of the government’s sixth Swiss Nutrition Report, published on Tuesday. People aren’t adequately aware of the importance of a balanced diet, according to the report, which is […]
by Matthew Allen, swissinfo.ch Some of the world’s most influential leaders will be faced with a familiar set of unsolved problems during the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in […]
The Jakarta Globe: Five members of the Ahmadiyah community on Tuesday said they would report a judge of the Bandung District Court to the Judicial Commission for refusing to allow […]
Huff Post: Deepak Chopra. What feels like a muddle could actually be a path. Unbelief can lead to faith and faith to true knowledge. This holds true for many other things in life, only we don’t use religious terms for it. When you learn to ride a bike, or roller-skate, […]
The Inquirer: The Philippines has fined the US Navy for “unauthorized entry” after an American minesweeper went aground on Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park in the Sulu Sea. The 68-meter USS Guardian had been stuck in Tubbataha Reefs, a Unesco World Heritage Site, since Jan. 17. The Tubbataha Protected Area Management […]
Time NewsFeed: Rebecca Nelson. “Though we’ve certainly had our history of conflicts, people do generally try to get along with one another.” There’s a new voice in the controversy over anti-Muslim ads in New York City subway stations, and it sends a loud message. Talk Back to Hate aims to […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Riaz Ahmad Published: January 22, 2013 PESHAWAR: In an apparent incident of sectarian violence, a Shia doctor was gunned down in Peshawar […]
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January 22, 2013 – 13:38 The number of overall asylum applications increased in 2012, reaching the highest number since 1999. At the same time, Switzerland rejected more requests as the country tries to speed up the evaluation process. In 2012, 28,631 applications were filed, most of them from Eritrea, followed […]
AFP | Jan 21, 2013 | 22:46 Updated: Jan 21, 2013 | 22:46 THE HAGUE — Lawyers defending Muammar Qadhafi’s son Seif Al Islam at the International Criminal Court on Monday accused Libyan authorities of conducting a “Kafka-esque show trial” after he appeared in a court in his homeland for […]
Story Summary A week ago, Saudi Arabia saw something that people in the kingdom often talk about but rarely witness – a potentially important political reform. Saudi King Abdullah announced on Jan. 11 that 30 women would join the kingdom’s Shura Council, a 150-person consultative body, and that women henceforth […]
by Bassem Mroue, Daily Star, Lebanon Story Summary Already grappling with severe fuel shortages and winter temperatures that drop below freezing, Syrians now must spend hours in line every day for gasoline or a few loaves of bread at soaring prices as President Bashar Assad’s regime faces mounting difficulties in […]