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 […]
Source: Abpnews.com Interfaith Alliance head Welton Gaddy separates reason from rhetoric in radio show. By Bob Allen A Baptist minister and interfaith leader says it is time for Americans to get over their fear of Islam and get on with the assimilation of Muslims into their neighborhoods. “As a society […]
Source: thenews.com Heera Lal, 55, lives in the courtyard of the oldest Sikh temple of Karachi. Yet he prays to a lone effigy of Sain Baba that he has at his house. So do the three generations of his family that live with him. Opposite the Preedy police station […]
Source: Groundreport.com Interfaith Diaglogue of Myanmar held praying ceremony for The Rakhine and The Kachin to gain peace n tranquility on July 7,2012 at Y.M.C.A Yangon, Myanmar. General Secratary, Dr.Tha Nyan shared talks about it. Prayers are Father Joseph Maung Win of St.Anthony Church,Yangon, Dr.Mi Mi Khin of Islamic Association,Yangon,U […]
Source: Deutsche Welle Hindi Pakistan has forgotten its only nobel laureate on religious grounds. Abdus Salam contributed towards providing framework for Higgs Bones ‘God particle’. Abdus Salam is an evidence of three decades of increasing religious fundamentalism in Pakistan. He died in 1996. For his advanced work on physics and […]
GENEVA—Fifty-four migrants trying to reach Italy died of thirst when their inflatable boat ruptured in the Mediterranean, according to testimony from the sole survivor, the UN refugee agency said. The […]
By Dr Amtul Qudoos Farhat, United Medicine Group, Canada HISTORY: • Ancient Chinese are reported to have used bitter almonds for cancers 2000 years ago. Bitter almonds contain significant amount of B17. • Use of Amygdalin (Laetrile/Vitamin B17/Nitriloside) in the treatment of human cancer dates back to 1843. • […]
Students create a tool that turns cigarette smoke into oxygen Ainur Rohmah, The Jakarta Post, Bright ideas might come anytime, anywhere. After taking a closer look at some smoking rooms provided in public areas in Central Java’s Semarang, Hermawan Maulana, 16, and Zihrama Afdi, 17, high school students of SMA […]
Jakarta Post: Supreme Court chief Mahfud MD is telling the vesting German chancellor that the Indonesian Constitution gives people the freedom to be atheist or communists. Mahfud was answering Chancellor […]
cybegeek.blogspot.co.uk: by Naeem Ahmed : It was 1984 and I was 7 years old. That day was strange my dad brought a box home and it was filled with kalima badges […]
The first ever ‘Sir Zafarulla Khan Distinguished Public Service Award’ presented by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. The three-day 36th Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in […]
Ahmadiyya Times: By Imran Jattala: The government sponsored hate and persecution of the Ahmadiyya community continue to cascade unabated, it was learned as the news of a purposefully inflicted damage to […]
Dawn: A non-profit organization that monitors the United Nations published a report Tuesday criticizing the UN’s growing use of private military and security companies. The Global Policy Forum said […]
Source: Pew Research Center More than a year after the first stirrings of the Arab Spring, there continues to be a strong desire for democracy in Arab and other predominantly […]