Pictures of the Day: USA Federal Debt
Ten thousand dollars followed by a million dollars pile: One Hundred Million Dollars Pile One Trillion Dollars 16 Trillion Dollars, US Debt Ceiling for now $122 Trillion – US unfunded […]
Elusive FinSpy Spyware Pops Up in 10 Countries
Source: NY Times. It is one of the more elusive commercial cyberespionage tools available. It is marketed as a way for governments to spy on criminals. And for over a year, virus hunters unsuccessfully tried to track it down. Now it is popping up across the globe, from Qatar to […]
Palestinian children ‘abused’ in Israeli jail
Source: AlJazeera Ramallah, occupied Palestinian territories – A dirty mattress fills up a space barely two metres long and one metre wide. A suffocating stench emanating from the toilet hovers over the windowless room, and a light turned on 24/7 means sleep is a distant dream. This is the infamous […]
Islam – Pakistan is for Islam, General
‘Pakistan is for Islam’ By: The Nation Monitoring | August 14, 2012 | 14 ABBOTTABAD – Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Monday said Pakistan came into being in the name of Islam and no power could dare eliminate Islam from the country, reported a private TV channel. Addressing a special […]
10 Pakistanis you’ll meet before you turn 65
Credit: ET Smile and (tsunami) wave – The politician. DESIGN: AMNA IQBAL & ESSA MALIK KARACHI: 1- Holier than thou – the dars aunty Much like the scorned mullah, the dars Aunty’s default settings are programmed in a manner that will surely drown you in self-loathing. She will seize every opportunity […]
Investors Prepare for Euro Collapse
Credit: Speigel: Banks, companies and investors are preparing themselves for a collapse of the euro. Cross-border bank lending is falling, asset managers are shunning Europe and money is flowing into German real estate and bonds. The euro remains stable against the dollar because America has debt problems too. But unlike […]
Joint Israeli-Iranian jewellery exhibit in Geneva
Geneva – Tensions between Iran and Israel have been making the news for several months. But while politics have often proved intractable, cultural efforts have shown that individual Iranians and […]
Incarcerated Inside Israel Palestinians Tortured And Isolated
Palestine, (Pal Telegraph) – Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation, and denial of access to appropriate health care, such is […]
The Israeli Crisis
Credit: Stratfor: Crises are normally short, sharp and intense affairs. Israel’s predicament has developed on a different time frame, is more diffuse than most crises and has not reached a decisive and intense moment. But it is still a crisis. It is not a crisis solely about Iran, although the […]
Pakistan needs to be strict with terrorists: Kayani
Credit: TOI ISLAMABAD: Pakistan needs stricter laws to deal with terrorism, army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said in comments published on Tuesday. Addressing a parade at the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul town, Gen Kayani underlined that the entire world had framed new laws to punish terrorists. Geo TV […]
Are Shias Muslims: The Pew Forum Poll?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Many Sunni Muslims have continued to harbor prejudices from medieval times, against Shia Muslims that are completely counterproductive in this day and age of […]
Let Sikh policemen wear turban, beard: New York official
Credit: TOI NEW YORK: In the wake of the tragic Wisconsin gurdwara shooting, a senior New York City official has asked Mayor Michael Bloomberg to allow Sikh police officers to serve without forsaking their turbans and beards. More:
Tea Party hijacks Romney and the presidential race
Credit: Asia Times: Mitt Romney, the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party ticket, has picked Paul Ryan, a seven-term congressman from Wisconsin, to be his running mate in this year’s US presidential election. It resulted in waves of elation among the Tea Party and conservative Republicans, as it pushed Romney […]
Palestinian inmate has son after sneaking sperm to wife
NABLUS, Palestinian Territories — A baby boy was born by Caesarian section on Monday, the product of a successful smuggling attempt by a Palestinian prisoner who managed to sneak out […]
A Brotherhood coup in Egypt
Credit:Asoa Times: Egypt’s ostensibly inexperienced president Mohammed Morsi accomplished nothing short of a coup d’etat on Sunday when he replaced the men who were widely seen as Egypt’s rulers – Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi and Lieutenant general Sami Anan, among others – and shredded the latest constitutional amendment issued […]
With all due respect to the leaders of the Muslim world, sedition is not unavoidable destiny
ABDUL RAHMAN BIN HAMAD AL-SAEED ARABNEWS Tuesday 14 August 2012 First and foremost, we should thank Almighty Allah for enabling you to gather around His Sacred House during these blessed […]
Islamic body agrees to suspend Syria: OIC source
JEDDAH: Foreign ministers at a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) agreed on Monday to suspend Syria from the international body, an OIC source said, further isolating President […]
Three killed in shooting near Texas university
Credit: TOI The incident came in the wake of two recent mass shootings — one at a crowded cinema in Colorado and another at a gurdwara in Wisconsin. HOUSTON: A man gunned down two people, including a constable, near a Texas university and was himself killed in the shooting incident, […]
On this Independence Day
Credit: ET via Wasim Sroya This Independence Day can only be celebrated with sincere effort to highlight the flaws that Pakistan has succumbed to. PHOTO: FILE A peaceful demonstration named ‘Stop Persecution of Religious Minorities in Pakistan’ took place at the Lahore Press Club in connection with Minority Day on […]
Saudi women encouraged to pursue education
Riyadh: Saudi women are being encouraged to pursue world-class educations, with new schools opening for gifted girls and a greater emphasis on attending university. In 1965, the country’s female literacy rate was 5 per cent. Today, 60 per cent of the college students in Saudi Arabia are women, and […]