امریکہ،ایساف کا اظہارِ افسوس، تحقیقات کا وعدہ
مہمند ایجنسی میں ایساف کی جانب سے پاکستانی چوکیوں کو نشانہ بنائے جانے پر پاکستان کے شدید احتجاج پر امریکی سفیر نے اس واقعے پر افسوس کا اظہار کرتے ہوئے […]
Pakistan blocks Afghanistan NATO supplies after check post attack
By Owais Jafri / Umer Farooq Published: November 26, 2011 PESHAWAR: Pakistani authorities on Saturday blocked the NATO supply route to Afghanistan after an attack on a border check postkilled at least 24 Pakistani soldiers. […]
24 soldiers killed in NATO attack on Pakistan check post
By Iftikhar Firdous / Reuters Published: November 26, 2011 Courtesy: Xpress Tribune PESHAWAR: An early Saturday morning attack by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) helicopters killed at least 24 security personnel and injured 12 […]
Alcohol: moderate use a gateway to alcoholism
Muslims realize that all the detrimental consequences related to alcoholism are a proof that alcohol is the reason for numerous problems. The non-Muslims especially the Westerners have a convenient rationalization. […]
Attacker sentenced for pulling off woman’s niqab in Mississauga
Source / Courtesy: Mississauga.com and the Star In the Star it was reported by: Kate Allen Staff Reporter Inas Kadri was shopping at a Mississauga mall with her two small […]
Dispelling Myths about the Holy Quran
In west sometimes, the Holy Quran is associated with violence, intolerance and totalitarianism. Here is a website, which aims to dispel such myths. Hopefully, this website will grow with time […]
China’s largest Muslim community to popularize preschool education in 10 years
YINCHUAN, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) — China’s largest Muslim community, the northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, plans to popularize preschool education to 95 percent of children by 2020. Read More…
Around 1.3 million young Chinese to compete for central government posts
BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) — An estimated 1.3 million young Chinese will compete for 18,000 civil servant posts in central government departments and their local branches on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday afternoon, exams of extra skills will be held for applicants competing for posts with foreign language requirements and […]
Rice from 5 Fukushima farms shows high radiation levels
TOKYO — Fukushima prefectural government officials said Friday night that rice from five locations in Onami town showed radioactive contamination above the government-set safety limit. Read more
Libya’s ex-oil minister criticizes new leaders
By VANESSA GERA | AP TRIPOLI: A senior official in Libya’s outgoing transitional government has sharply criticized the country’s new leadership as an unrepresentative “elite” supported by outside powers. Former oil and finance minister Ali Tarhouni also suggested in a press conference late Thursday that at least one of those […]
Palestinian factions open a ‘new page’ in relations
By KARIN LAUB | AP ARABNEWS CAIRO: Rival Palestinian leaders on Thursday held their first detailed talks on reconciliation since the Islamic militant Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip more than four years ago, declaring they made progress toward sharing power but failing to resolve key issues. Western-backed Palestinian […]
Contestants from 53 countries to participate in Qur’an contest
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Under the aegis of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowment, Call and Guidance will organize next month the […]
World changing, civil society advancing
By ALI BLUWI ARABNEWS Arab citizens are fed up with the West’s ideology as well as double standards Many pundits and analysts ponder the reasons that made the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 the breaking point in the Middle East. This transformative period led to instability, particularly […]
Exercise can make it easier to eat healthy
The tendency towards a healthy diet and the right amount of physical exercise are interlinked and often go hand in hand, a new study has suggested. According to researchers from Harvard University, an increase in physical activity is linked to an improvement in diet quality. 10 steps to successful weight […]
15 Facts About McDonald’s That Will Blow Your Mind
In 1992 when Rutgers professor Benjamin Barber coined the term “McWorld,” there were 12,700 McDonald’s worldwide. Today there are over 33,000. The relentless spread of McDonald’s over the past 61 years is an incredible business success story. In some markets the burger chain is just getting started, with plans to open 200 stores […]
Dr. Abdus Salam: Nobel Laureate in Physics
Promoted post: From Our Expanding Universe to the Extra-Dimensions Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In his achievements, Dr. Salam saw a certain special Providence of God. Let me quote from the transcript of one of his interviews. The questi0ns asked by Lewis […]
Margaret Thatcher knew that capitalism must deliver for the masses
Propping up failure – in the euro and elsewhere – is hardly the recipe for renewed prosperity. Friends of Lady Thatcher tend to deplore The Iron Lady, the new film about her starring Meryl Streep. They do so because they are upset at the portrayal of a still living person […]
FBI art crimes chief ‘ordered theft of Monet and Sisley paintings from French gallery’
Seven people go on trial on Monday for the multi-million pound theft of a Monet, Sisley and two Breughels in Nice but their leader claims the FBI’s art crimes chief “ordered” the heist.The men face maximum sentences of 30 years in prison for armed robbery at the end of the […]
Study pinpoints “upheaval” in Jewish community
source: swissinfo (this study dates back to September 2010). by Jessica Dacey, swissinfo.ch The most significant study of Judaism in Switzerland in 50 years has revealed a community in a state of major flux. Many Jews no longer identify themselves with the rules of traditional orthodox communities and instead are […]
Illuminating Jewish culture and history
by Isobel Leybold-Johnson in Zurich, swissinfo.ch When a private collection of beautiful Hebrew manuscripts belonging to Swiss businessman René Braginsky first came to light it caused a sensation. Some of […]