Pakistan imploding under sectarian violence
Dawn: By Murtaza Haider: After decades of waging the propaganda war against India for its highhanded treatment of Kashmiris, Pakistan is now the subject of a similar campaign by India […]
A blessing or a bane?
Credit: Pakistan Today by Wasim Saroya By:Rabia Ahmed Hundreds of people are killed in the name of religion Many moons ago in a different continent a Pakistani acquaintance asked me, very seriously, whether she should attend the wedding of her friend’s daughter. Let me explain. My acquaintance, her friend and […]
Lady Bird
Credit: Spiegel Germany Spanish King Juan Carlos’ recent elephant hunting mishap in Botswana resulted in perhaps the most damaging political photo since US presidential candidate Michael Dukakis was photographed in a tank in 1988. The image depicts the king, a patron of the nature conservancy group WWF, holding a rifle […]
China, EU launch people-to-people dialogue
Brussels — China and the European Union Wednesday took their co-operation to a new level with the launch of a “people-to-people” dialogue covering education, culture, youth, research and multilingualism. Read More…
China, Russia Prepare for Naval Exercises
China will send 16 naval ships and two submarines to its first joint naval exercise with Russia, slated to start this weekend in the Yellow Sea, the Ministry of National Defense said on Tuesday. The drill, which Russian authorities said will involve warships cruising near Japanese waters, has rattled the […]
China’s Three Gorges Dam may displace another 100,000
Another 100,000 people may be moved from the area around China’s massive Three Gorges Dam because of landslides and bank collapses, state media say. Read More…
Switzerland: Bid to force sex-ed off school curriculum
Source: swissinfo.ch Following controversy over the degree and content of sexual education in primary schools, a cross-party committee has launched a people’s initiative on the issue. The campaign, under the […]
Saudi girl wins bronze medal in Math Olympiad
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: A Saudi girl won a bronze medal in the European Girl’s Mathematical Olympiad 2012 conducted at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, in the UK. Abrar Al-Sheikh of the Saihat Girls Secondary School in the Eastern Province won the bronze medal on Monday having solved four complex […]
Palestinian prisoners begin mass hunger strike
In Amman, activists rally for freedom of Jordanians in Israeli jails Agencies | Apr 17,2012 | Jordan Times AMMAN/RAMALLAH — At least 1,200 Palestinian inmates of Israeli jails began an […]
Annual Jewish pilgrimage an achievement — Tunisia
AP | Apr 17,2012 | Jordan Times TUNIS — The annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Tunisian island of Djerba should be maintained as a symbol of the North African nation’s […]
An address by Dr. Ifthikar Ahmad Ayaz at Ahmadiyya Peace Symposium – Malta.
Lankaweb (Given below is the gist of the speech delivered by Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad Ayaz, O.B.E. at: Peace Symposium organized by Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Malta recently.) Dr. Ifthikhar Ahmad Ayaz, OBE 1.(Officer of the Excellent Order of the British Empire) 2. Consul General of Tuvalu Island in the United Kingdom 3. […]
Ahmadiyya Youth holding largest Blood Donor Clinic in Canada
Source: The York Region – If you want to donate blood, you will have a chance at one of the largest single blood donation clinics in Canada, right here in […]
Kodak Picture of the Day
Taken in Silver Springs State Park in Silver Springs, Florida. The color of the water is due to the limestone. This is an unedited photo. It is a magical site to behold.
Acid attacks and Pakistani schizophrenia
Dawn.com I’m not particularly interested in the Oscars. Surprising really as I have recently taken to making films myself, but the Oscar winning films are often of little interest (Inception and Inglorious Bastards are rare exceptions). My ears pricked up however, when news trickled through that there had been a […]
British Library St. Cuthbert Gospel: Manuscript Copy Of The Gospel Of John Sold for $14.3 Million
Huff Post LONDON — The British Library has paid 9 million pounds (US$14.3 million) to acquire the St. Cuthbert Gospel, a remarkably well-preserved survivor of seventh-century Britain described by the library as the oldest European book to survive fully intact. The palm-sized book, a manuscript copy of the Gospel of […]
The Key To Inner Peace
Huff Post This afternoon the Dalai Lama addressed the public at the Stand Sheriff stadium at the University of Hawaii. Introduced by Pierre Omidyer, who organized this event with his wife Pam, His Holiness talked about the spirit of Aloha that points the way towards making peace. It symbolizes the qualities […]
Osmania University Beef Festival Leads To Violence
Huff Post A beef festival organized by Dalit students at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India on April 15th erupted into violence, the BBC reports. About 100 members of the Hindu right wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarti Parishad (ABVP) protested the festival, leading to five injuries according to The Hindu report. ABVP protested the beef festival on the ground that […]
Mrs. Chirac goes to dance with Sarkozy
France24. One of the highlights of incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy’s mega campaign rally in Villepinte on March 11 was a surprise appearance by one of France’s most famous first ladies –Bernadette Chirac. Minutes before Sarkozy delivered his keynote speech that day, Mrs. Chirac’s petite frame appeared on the massive stage that […]
Former right-wing president Chirac ‘backs Hollande’
France24. Former conservative French President Jacques Chirac and a number of his family members will vote for Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande in the forthcoming presidential election, according to media reports Tuesday. According to daily newspaper Le Parisien, Chirac’s daughter Claude, her husband Frederic Salat-Baroux and her former husband Thierry […]
Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in anti-education attack
Dawn.com Since the 2001 toppling of the Taliban, which banned education for women and girls, females have returned to schools, especially in Kabul. But periodic attacks still occur against girls, teachers and their school buildings, usually in the more conservative south and east of the country, from where the Taliban […]