The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Dawn.com Ijaz rejected the claim of James Jones of his ignorance over the presentation of the memo by the Hussain Haqqani to the Admiral Mike Mullen. – File Photo KARACHI: American businessman Mansoor Ijaz said on Saturday that former US national security adviser […]
Thirty-three women in Chile have shut themselves in a mine after a government jobs programme that helped the victims of last February’s earthquake ended. The women, in an echo of the story of the 33 trapped and then rescued miners, went into a former coal mine 500km (300 miles) south […]
Vietnam has made remarkable progress toward gender equality but important gender differences still remain, according to the latest World Bank report. The “Vietnam Country Gender Assessment” analyzed and evaluated gender issues in Vietnam in three aspects: Poverty and Well Being, Employment and Livelihoods and Political Participation.
Sahar Al-Shamrani, By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Sahar Al-Shamrani from the Eastern Province is preparing to be the first Saudi woman to travel to the South Pole, Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper reported Monday. […]
The article is not worth reading. Therefore I am just copying one of the comments: MUKHTAR N. SHEIKH, Dec 16, 2011 10:04 Queer, isn’t it? After all the deaths (4,500 […]
By DIANA AL-JASSEM | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Advanced technology has made it difficult for parents to know what their children are watching on Television and the Internet. However, experts say parents must keep monitoring what their children look at to prevent them from dangers that might emerge as a result […]
A new discovery from a chemist at the University of Texas at Austin may allow photovoltaic solar cells to double their efficiency, thus providing loads more electrical power from regular sunlight. Also it’s way cheap. Chemistry professor Xiaoyang Zhu and his team discovered that an organic plastic semiconductor could double the number of […]
Author: Atif Munawar Mir This article was published in originally in November 2010 Alislam-eGazette: Universal Brotherhood. Introduction What is it about Islam that frightens the western world? Has Islamophobia risen […]
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Source: Huffington Post Author:Fahad Faruqui Jalaluddin Rumi is famed as much in the west as in east for the tradition of whirling and an assortment of devotional poetry. His death anniversary on Dec. 17 is known as Wedding Night, or Seb-i Arus in Turkish. Like every year, dervishes and devoted fans across […]
The Bible is not a comprehensive book. It does not even contain some of the very basic words in Christianity. For example on a quick research on a Bible website, […]
Women are having fewer children and at an older age than a generation ago, new statistics show. Women born in the 1960s have had fewer children than a generation ago to women born in the 1930s, new data has revealed. Figures from the Office of National Statistics show that women […]
By Tom Chivers in Telegraph There are no atheists in foxholes, goes the old saw. Well, it’s not true, as Christopher Hitchens – a man of principle to the last […]
Seven of Africa’s top women scientists have been honoured with the Kwame Nkrumah Science Awards for 2011 for outstanding achievements and valuable scientific discoveries at ceremonies to mark the founding […]
One Less Gold Mullah Nasruddin was dreaming that someone had counted nine gold pieces into his hand, but Mullah Nasruddin insisted that he would not accept less than ten pieces. […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission has brought civil actions against six former top executives at the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, saying that the executives did not adequately disclose their firms’ exposure to risky mortgages in the run-up to the financial crisis. The case is one of the […]
The Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community In the 19th century, Islam as a religion and Muslims as a nation were helpless. Muslim empires were crumbling all over the world. In the subcontinent of India, the Mughal Empire was brought down by the British. Islam was being attacked by all […]
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed […]
Source: TOI on Line. ISLAMABAD: The US must respect Pakistan’s “red lines” and give a guarantee that there will be no transgression of the country’s borders in order to regain Islamabad’s cooperation in the war on terrorism, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said today. Gilani made the remarks during a […]