Russian TV: The standoff between Washington and Islamabad was the longest and most expensive exhibition of overwhelming arrogance by the White House to date. On the eve of the Independence Day, after an interminable string of near misses, the seven-month gridlock between the two countries was finally broken. With the […]
Editor’s comment: Police in Pakistan showing complete disregard for religious freedoms. Source: The Express Tribune LAHORE: Six minarets of an Ahmadi place of worship, Baitul Hamd, were demolished by the Kharian […]
Credit: ET Policemen seal off an area, that was attacked by gunmen, outside a police hostel in Lahore on July 11, 2012. PHOTO: AFP LAHORE: Gunmen shot dead nine Pakistani police and prison staff as they slept in Lahore on Thursday, the second attack on security forces in the country’s political […]
Source: Kincardine News – While the essence of Scottish culture was echoing through Kincardine this past weekend, I was saturating myself in knowledge gained as a guest of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMC) at Mississauga’s International Centre and their Mosque in Maple, Ont. I was one of over 1,000 guests […]
Source: The Telegraph The Pope has taken a German satirical magazine to court over a front cover that pictured the pontiff with a yellow stain down the front of his […]
Russia said on Wednesday it would fulfil a contract to deliver air defence systems to Syria and had no plans to impose an arms embargo on its Soviet-era ally despite […]
A top member of Libya’s liberal coalition, which claims to have swept 70 percent of seats reserved for parties in the next congress, on Wednesday rejected political Islam and called for a civil state. “The National Forces Alliance is against the injection of religion into political battles,” Faisal Krekshi, secretary […]
PARIS (AFP) ― The mausolea of Timbuktu, known as the “city of 333 saints,” are shrines in the Sufi brand of Islam dominant in Mali but a heresy to the […]
By EMILY ANNE EPSTEIN Source: MailOnline A Muslim employee of UPS in Orlando, Florida, says that his coworkers and managers routinely humiliated and harassed him while the company did little […]
Bosnians on Wednesday buried 520 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, with the two alleged masterminds of the slaughter finally on trial for genocide. About 30,000 people were gathered at […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Thousands of Shi’ite Muslims turned out for the funeral of a man killed during protests triggered by the arrest of a prominent Shi’ite Muslim cleric in Saudi […]
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS | Wed Jul 11, 2012 REUTERS (Reuters) – When the Muslim holy month of Ramadan arrives next week, fasting will definitely begin on Friday […]
Source: NY Times. Syria‘s ambassador to Iraq was reported to have defected on Wednesday, which if confirmed would be the second prominent defection from President Bashar al-Assad‘s government in less than a week. More:
Source: Asiatimes: A coalition of prominent jihadi organizations has descended on Islamabad to protest the reopening of NATO supply lines to Afghanistan, with 50,000 supporters refusing to leave a sit-in at Parliament House unless last week’s decision is revoked. Enjoying the full backing of intelligence agencies, the Defense of Pakistan […]
Credit:Spiegel-Germany An Analysis by Thomas Darnstädt and Dietmar Hipp DPA The judges of the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court gave an important signal at Tuesday’s marathon hearing on the ESM bailout fund and fiscal pact. The judges want to help the government get the controversial EU projects […]
Credit: Spiegel-Germany By Jan Puhl DPA Twenty years ago, the Catholic Church played a major role in the fall of communism in Poland. Today, with the country changing rapidly, the church’s influence is quickly waning. Once considered the most Catholic country in Europe, the faithful are vanishing. More:
LAHORE: Six minarets of an Ahmadi place of worship, Baitul Hamd, were demolished by the Kharian city police Tuesday night. The demolition took place on the application of Saqib Shakeel Ghazi, Syed Iftikhar Kazmi and others from the Barelvi religious organisation called Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Islam. It had been filed to the Kharian police […]
Source: NY Times. Fueled by an accelerating move to cloud computing, and by a boom in associated telecommunications services, worldwide information technology spending is increasing somewhat faster than expected, according to industry analysts at Gartner. Over all, people will spend $3.6 trillion on information technology in 2012, the research firm […]
Source : NY Times. Some of the weather extremes bedeviling people around the world have become far more likely because of human-induced global warming, researchers reported on Tuesday. Yet they ruled it out as a cause of last year’s devastating floods in Thailand, one of the most striking weather events […]
Source: Zeenews India Islamabad: The Pakistan government on Wednesday gave in-principle approval to a move to increase seats for non-Muslims in the national and provincial assemblies in proportion to their population. The decision was made by the federal cabinet during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, an […]