Source: ET Out of the blue there comes news of hope. In a survey conducted by the till-now-unknown New Economics Foundation, we are told that Pakistan ranked 16th among 151 countries of the world on the Happy Planet Index (HPI) 2012, beating India and the United States, which ranked 32nd […]
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His Highness Dr Shaikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, opened an exhibition of Islamic art at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) on […]
Punjabnewsline.com: QADIAN (GURDASPUR): Tension prevailed in the area after a person posing himself as Tahir Ahmed insulted Sikh gurus in a facebook post. The person claimed that he allegedly belonged to […]
Daily Times: Towards Hotel Mohenjodaro — Yasser Latif Hamdani Will Pakistan then be willing to consider Ahmedis and other communities in Pakistan worthy of a certain amount of dignity? The miscreants who attacked a Hindu temple in Karachi to prove their religious bona fides have been charged under Section 295-A […]
Russian TV: Washington will become the next American city to display a notorious anti-Jihad public advert, after a district judge declined a local Metro injunction asking for it to be […]
STORY SUMMARY Reports that a Hezbollah member, Ali Hussein Nassif, was killed in Syria last week, along with other party members, should not surprise us. As Hezbollah’s role in Syria becomes clearer, and as the party continues to contribute to the Assad regime’s viciousness, its vulnerabilities will increase. However, the […]
DOHA: ARAB NEWS Monday 8 October 2012 Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jasim Al-Thani urged the Free Syrian Army (FSA) yesterday not to kill Iranians seized two months ago near Damascus, after the captors threatened to start killing their 48 prisoners. Al-Baraa brigade said on Thursday it would start […]
IYADH: ARAB NEWS Monday 8 October 2012 The Shoura Council passed a bill stipulating Saudization of all operation and maintenance works in the public utilities sector at a regular meeting in Riyadh yesterday. “The bill stipulates that no worker other than a Saudi should be employed in operation and maintenance […]
Inquirer.net: Kabataan party-list Rep. Raymond Palatino, one of the complainants against newly enacted Republic Act No. 10075 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, on Sunday said President Benigno Aquino could be impeached for enforcing the controversial law. Palatino said the President’s insistence on the retention of the libel provisions […]
Huff Post: by Sophia Khan. I wept this morning, the tears of a half-Pakistani American whose human brethren around the globe are once more catching fire and burning each other down. Caught between two worlds, I have always found myself speaking on behalf of a group I felt ill-equipped to […]
The Express Tribune: NEW YORK: Many artists claim to put their blood, sweat and tears into their work, but Vincent Castiglia means it: he paints with his own blood. The New York painter has a new exhibit, “Resurrection,” in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood that opened on Thursday and is due to run […]
RT: After months of standoff with activists defending secular values in the society, the Russian Orthodox Church is taking the offensive, officially allowing priests to take part in politics. The Church’s supreme body, the Holy Synod, passed a decision that allows the clergy to take part in polls “in extraordinary occasions […]
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An Islamist suspected of a grenade attack on a Jewish market was shot and killed by police in Strasbourg and 11 others detained in what prosecutors called a “vast anti-terrorist […]
Turkish artillery fired into Syrian territory yesterday for a fifth consecutive day, responding swiftly after the border town of Akcakale was once again struck by a mortar round. Turkish artillery […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times First of all, let me applaud our great country, USA, it gives us freedoms, for an […]
By: M. Imran Hayee Source: Duluth News Tribune Let me begin with a history lesson. About 1,400 years ago, Prophet Muhammad was sitting in his Mosque with his companions. A […]
The memories remain, of course. The man who lost his family in an earlier massacre, only to watch the young men of Chatila lined up after the new killings and […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent The Tehran “bazaaris” – the men who have shouted for an end to Iranian subsidies to the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad – have to be taken seriously. They were the rich boys of the souk who supported the Islamic revolution against the Shah, the […]