Sanctions against Iran: ‘Hara-kiri’ by the Europeans?
Russian TV: Iran has halted oil sales to Greece in response to the EU sanctions coming into force in July. The country’s Press-TV reports Tehran also cut supplies to Spain […]
ATA-Pk, AHRC for judicial inquiry into Ahmadi teacher’s murder: Will this happen?
Dailytimes: LAHORE: The Anti-torture Alliance Pakistan (ATA-Pk) and the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Tuesday condemned the torturous murder of a schoolteacher by the Chenab Nagar Police a few […]
Meditation Beats Dance for Harmonizing Body and Mind Posted on March 1, 2011
Science.org The body is a dancer’s instrument, but is it attuned to the mind? A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that professional ballet and modern dancers are not as emotionally in sync with their bodies as are people who regularly practice meditation. UC Berkeley researchers tracked […]
Is Religion the Cause of Most Wars?
Huff Post There are many common misconceptions about religion that are often taken as unquestioned facts, such as the idea that religious people are inherently anti-science, that a literal reading of holy texts is the “true” religious stance, that faith is incompatible with reason, and that all religions claim to […]
Muslims as Ordinary People: What’s the Angle?
Huff Post When I was growing up in London in the 60s, 70s and 80s, my perception of Muslims was that we were really boring people — we just prayed a lot, didn’t drink, didn’t go to parties (well, we didn’t get invited to the really good parties), and we weren’t […]
Conflicting Assessments – New Report Finds Breivik Sane Ahead of Trial
Source: Spiegel International By Gerald Traufetter in Oslo Contrary to an initial assessment, right-wing extremist Anders Breivik is not criminally insane, a new report found on Tuesday. Now both reports will […]
Killing of Bangladeshi Labor Organizer Signals an Escalation in Violence
Courtesy: NY Times By JULFIKAR ALI MANIK and VIKAS BAJAJ DHAKA, Bangladesh — A labor activist who was arrested two years ago for his role in protests against low wages in Bangladesh’s garment industry was found murdered outside this city last week, labor rights advocates and the police said on […]
FM spokesman: Chinese delegation to attend Iran nuclear talks
BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) — A Chinese delegation led by Assistant Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu will attend nuclear talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany on April 14, it has been announced. Read More…
Bo’s Wife Probed over Death of British Citizen
Chinese police have set up a team to reinvestigate the case that British citizen Neil Heywood was found dead in Chongqing on Nov. 15, 2011, which was alleged by Wang Lijun who entered, without authorization, the U.S. general consulate in Chengdu on Feb. 6 and stayed there, Xinhua learned from […]
China land rights lawyer Ni Yulan and husband jailed
Disabled Chinese lawyer Ni Yulan and her husband Dong Jiqin have been jailed a year after they were detained. Ms Ni was sentenced to two years and eight months, while her husband was handed a two-year term. Read More…
Are your beliefs that hollow? From Major Mahmud (1948) to Master Qudoos (2012)
Pakistan Today: By:Waqqas Mir: The year is 1948. Major Mahmud, an Ahmadi, is murdered in a manner described by the 1954 Justice Munir Report as “singularly brutal.” He is an army […]
World Muslim leader salutes faith and bravery of martyred Abdul Qudoos Ahmad
Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad said that a conspiracy to defame the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat was behind martyrdom During the Friday Sermon delivered from the Baitul Futuh Mosque in London on 6 th April 2012, the worldwide Head and Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad spoke in detail about the brutal torture inflicted by […]
British scientist fathered 600 children?Science without Morality or Religion
Express Tribune: LONDON: A British scientist may have fathered up to 600 children at a controversial London fertility clinic which he set up in the 1940s with his wife. The claim […]
Pakistan En route to secularism? Will there be a backlash against violent Sectarianism?
Dawn.com: Syed Muhammad Haider; What Pakistan did Jinnah want?’ is a question still being debated some 65 years on since the partition. Did he intend to establish a secular Pakistan (a […]
Learning to Respect Religion: Atheists Rethink
Op Ed: New York Times: Nicholas D. Kristof; A FEW years ago, God seemed caught in a devil of a fight. Atheists were firing thunderbolts suggesting that “religion poisons everything,” as […]
Indonesia to OK UN Deal to Protect Migrant Workers
The Jakarta Globe: Indonesian migrant workers are a step closer to securing legal recognition of their right to protection after the House of Representatives agreed in principle to ratify an international convention on the issue later this week. At a hearing between House Commission IX and officials from the Foreign […]
Israeli historian: Israel needs borders for its own good
The Daily News: by Ben Lynfield JERUSALEM: With international attention distracted by Iran and Syria, Israel’s fateful entanglement in the West Bank hardly gets a mention in the news these days. Over the years, much has been written about the now 45-year-old Occupation’s deleterious effect on Palestinians. But in a […]
Israeli Arabs are the 0.5 percent
Netanyahu says Israel’s Arab citizens are the only ‘truly free’ Arabs in the Middle East, yet he considers even us a burden. Haaretz: By Oudeh Basharat: As it turns out, last summer’s social protests were actually aimed at the Arabs and the ultra-Orthodox. They only seemed to be against big […]
Siachen day 4: Search operation continues despite weather conditions
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: April 10, 2012 Search and rescue operations in Giari continue on the fourth day despite unfavourable weather conditions that have […]
Swiss team to assist at Pakistan avalanche site
A team from the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit has been flown to Pakistan to assist in rescue efforts following an avalanche in a Himalayan region that buried 135 people. The […]