Drones at Issue as U.S. Rebuilds Ties to Pakistan
NewYork Times; By DECLAN WALSH: Making up is never easy. But as Pakistan and the United States try to restart their troubled relationship after a year of spectacular crises, the difference […]
Pakistan: Time to establish the Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS
The Daily Times: Aisha Sarwari: The LUMS Abdus Salam Chair, once established, will be responsible to work in the spirit of everything that embodies Dr. Salam, who was inspired by the Quran for […]
What do you call a giant polar bear?
Nothing, you just run away.
Ta’a Marboota: Simplicity, femininity and elegance
By RIMA AL-MUKHTAR, RIMA.ALMUKHTAR@ARABNEWS.COM No matter the season, for women living in KSA, abayas are always in fashion. Rawan Azhar entered the lucrative world of abaya fashion to give women […]
Swiss open embassy in “rising” power Qatar
by Rachid Khechana in Doha, swissinfo.ch Switzerland is preparing to open an embassy in Qatar, a country it sees as an increasingly important player in the region. Ambassador Martin Aeschbacher tells swissinfo.ch that the small Gulf kingdom “is on the rise” economically. Aeschbacher says relations with Gulf states are growing […]
SRO chief says Haramain rail project progressing well
By SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS STAFF DAMMAM: The Haramain High Speed Rail project, which will link Makkah, Jeddah, Rabigh and Madinah, is progressing well, the Saudi Railway Organization’s president […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community India arranges free eye-checkup camp
Source: Jagran Sun, 18 Mar 2012 Qadian, Punjab: Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Bharat recently organized a free eye checkup and treatment camp at Noor hospital in Qadian. Regional chief of the majlis stated that eye specialist Dr.SH Randhawa did eye checkup for 600 patients, out of which 50 will be given surgery. Ahmadiyya […]
Breathe For Life
Adult humans normally breathe at the rate of one breath every six to eight seconds and inhale an average of sixteen thousand quarts of air each day. If nothing is done to restrict breathing, it will happen naturally and fully. But people continually inhibit natural breathing in many ways—poor posture, […]
Cool School – Where Peace Rules
December 1, 2008 — Human development scientists and computer game developers designed a video game that teaches kids how to resolve conflicts peacefully amongst themselves. Inanimate objects, such as pencils and erasers, come to life to lead players through a series of common scenarios in which arguments are about to occur. […]
THE FUTURE: Rich People Will Eat Food, Everyone Else Will Eat Pink Slime
A Future Of Pink Slime And Peak Water Just saying the words, “Pink Slime” gives me the creeps. I’m not pleased to learn that I’ve been dining on this swill for the past sixty years. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has made an interesting response to the public outcry about […]
Muslims observe Lent with Christians in Kaduna
AZA MSUE Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in 19 Northern states and Abuja yesterday commended the peace dialogue between Christian and Muslim youth leaders who jointly observed lent during the […]
When the Muslims saved the Jews: the Paris Mosque
Si Kaddour Benghabrit Imams from their pulpits instructed Muslim congregations to refuse taking part in the injustices against Jews. In Paris, a grand mosque built in honour of the 100,000 Muslim soldiers who died fighting for France in the First World War, became a sanctuary for Jews escaping persecution less […]
Forget the Money, Follow the Sacredness
Source: The New York Times Author: Jonathan Haidt In the film version of “All the President’s Men,” when Robert Redford, playing the journalist Bob Woodward, is struggling to unravel the […]
Sebastian Castellio: Tolerance of the Ottoman Empire an example for Europe
In the second half of the 16th century, the advocates for tolerance gain momentum. An important figure was Sebastian Castellio, who lived in Geneva and Basel. He became well renowned for his reproach of John Calvin, who had Michael Servet executed for the denial of the Trinity. In Castellio’s writings, […]
The Ottoman Empire in discussions on tolerance in 16th century France
Letter of Suleyman II to Francis I of France regarding the protection of Christians in his states, September 1528. Read more on the Franco-Ottoman alliance. Meanwhile in France, king Francis I had become disenchanted […]
Picture of the Day: Slavery in Mauritania, Africa
Source: CNN Moulkheir Mint Yarba returned from a day of tending her master’s goats out on the Sahara Desert to find something unimaginable: Her baby girl, barely old enough to […]
Pakistan: Our internal censors: Narrow interpretation of Sir Zafarullah Khan Role as a Foreign Minister
Express Tribune: By Ajmal Kamal: Before coming to the last — and the most masterful — deletion from Saadat Hasan Manto’s Urdu short story Naya Qanoon at the hands of the great men […]
Swiss played “crucial” role in Evian talks
by Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch Fifty years ago French and Algerian representatives signed a series of peace accords in the French town of Evian, ending Algeria’s brutal eight-year war of independence. By offering its good offices under a policy of active neutrality, which helped resolve the conflict, historian Marc Perrenoud tells […]
Deconstructing the myth
By PRINCE KHALED AL-FAISAL, ARABNEWS Recent research study on Arab opinion clearly debunks the false and fabricated allegations against Saudi Arabia IN early March, the Doha-based Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) published a report entitled “Measurement of Arab Public Opinion Project.” ACRPS is an independent research institute […]