Source: Friday Times: The recent attack on Peshawar airport by TTP terrorists has raised several important questions regarding national security, civil-military relations and media perceptions. Unfortunately, the fact is that on a core concern of national security – the army chief has admitted that the existential threat to Pakistan is […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Epigraph: “Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long.” “The history of the world is none […]
Source: ET More than 200 villagers overpowered six police men and beat up the man, before burning him. The time has come to consider the nature of our society and what is happening to it. We appear to have descended into a frenzy of madness and wonder if anyone can […]
Interfaith America News Meeting of the Bay Area interfaith giants By H. Koya(PhD), chair Interfaith America (L-R. Fiji Sun Editor Dr. H. Koya chair Interfaith America, Iftekhar Hai president UMA Interfaith and Imam Mubashir Ahmad missionary Ahmadiyya Muslim Community) SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO (Sat. Dec 22,2012) – After months of […]
And the Man in rightly-characterized “black” dress is Farhat Hashmi. More Drones to annihilate the Whole Wazirastan TTP claims Peshawar blast responsibility PESHAWAR: A banned outfit Tehreek e Taliban […]
Ahmadiyah faces possible ban from Indonesia (an older video)
Source: TOI ABUJA: Suicide car bombers today attacked the offices of a Nigerian subsidiary of Indian telecom major Bharti Airtel in the volatile city of Kano besides that of South African firm MTN, killing at least four.Survivor Bayo Osho said they were at work in the Airtel building located near […]
London Mayor Boris Johnson has captured attention in Switzerland with an idea to team up the Swiss and the British in a new political union outside the European Union. Johnson […]
Source: Dawn.Com Khyber Senior Minister and and senior leader of the Awami National Party (ANP), Bashir Ahmed Bilour was killed in the suicide attack.—File Photo PESHAWAR: Senior provincial minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour was among eight people killed Saturday after a Pakistani Taliban bomber blew himself up near a meeting of […]
By LIZZIE SIMON Ten years ago, the five adult children of Jerry and Peg Sussingham decided to chip in for a room at the Waldorf-Astoria so that their parents could […]
Source: Dawn.com TWO slogans in Pakistan’s two largest cities — both emphasising the leader. In Lahore the stage is being prepared for the return of Allama Dr Tahirul Qadri. In Karachi, wall chalkings of the MQM’s earlier slogan, ‘Manzil nahin rehnuma chahiye’ (leader not destination) have cropped up once again. […]
Global Post: Patrick Winn. Is “Merry Christmas” forbidden in Muslim-majority Indonesia? Another Christmas season, another year of hand wringing for Muslim-majority Indonesia‘s arbiters of piety. As the Jakarta Globe reports, Indonesia’s top Islamic rule-making body (the Indonesia Ulema Council) is again warning Muslims toforego all Christmas “rituals”. In other words, don’t […]
Huff Post: Neale Donald Walsch. How has it come to pass that we have created a society to begin with in which depiction of rampant and vivid violence in all of our “entertainments” has been deemed perfectly acceptable? Most of the commentary in the world’s media about the horrible Connecticut […]
The Telegraph: “In the fight for the family, the very notion of being – of what being human really means – is being called into question,” the Pope said in […]
Buried Christian Empire Casts New Light on Early Islam By Matthias Schulz Paul Yule The “crowned man” relief found in Zafar, Yemen is seen as evidence that there was a Christian empire in the region before Islam took hold. Archeologists are studying the ruins of a buried Christian empire in […]
Anti-Islam Law Denied The Muslim Observer, News Report, Posted: Dec 21, 2012 LANSING, Mich. — Last week, Muslims nationwide were urged to take action against HB 4769, better known as the Anti-Islam Legislation. State Legislator Dave Agema, a Republican from Michigan, was the state representative behind this bill, and actively pushing for […]
Dawn: by Anwar Iqbal: “It’s so good, it made me cry,” said Jasmine, the Muslim woman who runs a bar in northern Virginia. “May God bless all these people!” We were at the Tavern for our Saturday night gup-shupafter a long day. Since some of us do odd jobs – from […]
Express Tribune: DADU: In an appalling incident of mob justice, a man was lynched for allegedly desecrating the Holy Quran in a village in Dadu district of Sindh on Friday. More alarming is the fact that the unidentified man was burnt to death right in front of the police inside the […]
You tube: Excellent and eloquent defence of Ahmadiyya Muslim role, rights and creation of Pakistan Watch in Youtube:
Source: ET WASHINGTON: As President Barack Obama announced his nomination of Senator John Kerry as the next Secretary of State, Pakistan welcomed the prospect of working with a friendly face. “We welcome news of the nomination of Senator John F Kerry as the next US Secretary of State. Senator Kerry is […]