Source: Open Faizabad saw a brazen attack on Muslims on 24 October. From what led to this carnage, it is clear that it was not spontaneous but orchestrated COMMUNALISM CALCULATED ATTACK: Chowk area of Faizabad where shops of Muslims were targeted by arsonists on 24 October (Photos: RAUL IRANI) The […]
Written by Ram Puniyani Pakistan has been facing innumerable troubles, not entirely due to its own faults. The whole politics of oil, the designs of Empire and the subservience of Mullah-Military complex to the US designs have brought in lot of misery in the region. Currently one is painfully witnessing […]
Twitter.com: One of the first to be on the scene, Humanity First USA, serves the hungry victims of Sandy. Please remember them in Prayers See Source: #HumanityFirst volunteers cooking and […]
Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani Apparently, ‘secular’ is some sort of a bad word and anyone using this word in connection with Quaid-e-Azam is automatically a traitor Our Urdu press, conspiratorial, nationalist and rightwing, is full of nazriati (ideological) warriors. This article is a rebuttal of two of the most popular standard-bearers […]
File Photo Two years ago on May 28, eighty-six members of the Ahmadiyya community were massacred in their places of worship in Lahore, during the Friday congregation. Since then, an all-out war seems to have been declared against them with the oppressors becoming more vitriolic and aggressive. “Since the extremists […]
Spider Webs on Trees During 2011 Floods in Sindh
Business Insider: Over the past few weeks, there’s been a growing buzz about central banks playing a greater role in explicitly serving as funders of government. The idea that people (journalists and Wall Streeters, mostly) have been talking about is the notion that central banks could buy government debt (as […]
Philippine News: An inflow of capital has pushed up the peso that threatens asset price bubbles Reforms pushed through by President Benigno Aquino have put the Philippines back on the map for international investors but authorities are struggling to control an inflow of capital that has pushed up the currency […]
Humanist: by Beena Sarwar. Those calling for a global blasphemy law should heed the lessons from Pakistan In Pakistan a democratically elected but weak government struggles to hold on to power against tremendous odds. If, despite the challenges, it completes its tenure and makes it to the next election it […]
In this age of information and its explosion, you will be taken for a ride, if you do not keep abreast with the latest, the best and most accurate information. You will be taken for a ride not only by the ordinary con artists but also by journalists, politicians and even the so called religious scholars. Try the […]
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/world/asia/gays-in-pakistan-move-cautiously-to-gain-acceptance.html?ref=todayspaper LAHORE, Pakistan — The group meets irregularly in a simple building among a row of shops here that close in the evening. Drapes cover the windows. Sometimes members watch movies or read poetry. Occasionally, they give a party, dance and drink and let off steam. Related Times Topic: Homosexuality […]
Dr. Dirks is a Sunni Muslim, his views about crucifixion are in keeping with his identity, but, rest of his scholarship, can be very helpful to Ahmadi Muslims studying Christianity. In the book, The Cross and The Crescent, Dr. Dirks, a former ordained minister (deacon) in the United Methodist Church, […]
The Israel Today: Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat last week said it was time for Israel to finally implement true religious freedom and allow Jews to pray atop the Temple Mount. […]
By Abdallah Bawazir The rising tide of radical Islamism has sparked growing unrest on the idyllic islands of Zanzibar. Daniel Howden reports from Stone Town. Workmen are raising the walls around the Assemblies of God Church on the outskirts of Zanzibar’s Stone Town. Sweating in the heat and humidity, they […]
Kerala, India: ‘Divya Smrithi’ – A Public Meeting on World Religious Figures was conducted as part of Kozhikode Zonal Conference 2012 in Kerala, India on Saturday the 3rd of November. By the grace of God, the event was a grand success. It highlighted the noble characters of world religious leaders: Prophet […]
(Here is a great Travel writing piece by Anton Denise as he vacationed in Fiji) Fiji: Fish swim past the see side by: Anthony Dennis From: escape The infinity edge swimming pool at Likuliku. Picture: Anthony Dennis I’VE just had a close shave with a school of Bleeker’s parrotfish. Or was it Schlegel’s parrotfish? […]
Why is he equal to Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and Archimedes? I do not say it but George Sarton says it! George Sarton (1884–1956) was a Belgian chemist and historian who […]
by Julia Slater in Poschiavo, swissinfo.ch “A bejewelled crescent at the heart of a continent” is how a booklet issued by the eight-nation Alpine Convention describes the Alps. Beautiful, certainly […]
SOASCIS, IKIM To Hold Joint Seminar On Islamic Ummah Credit: The BorneoPost . ovember 4, 2012, Sunday BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: The Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Centre for Islamic Studies (SOASCIS), UBD will be collaborating with the Institute of Islamic Understanding of Malaysia (IKIM) to hold a joint seminar on November 8, […]
EGYPT’S ancient Coptic Christian church chose a new pope in an elaborate Sunday ceremony meant to invoke the will of God, in which a blindfolded boy drew the name of […]