Source: TOI WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington has offered to resign after reports that his boss, President Asif Ali Zardari, asked Washington for help to stave off a military takeover. A Pakistani businessman alleged in a column in the Financial Times last month that a senior Pakistani diplomat asked for […]
Source: Asia Times: Iran has reacted sharply to a joint United States and Saudi Arabia bid for a United Nations resolution accusing it violating diplomatic treaties and calling on Tehran to cooperate in ongoing investigations into shaky allegations of a terror plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington. American […]
Source: Asia Times: Opposition to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria has been firming since the beginning of the Arab Spring earlier this year. The government’s efforts to wait out and use force to end the opposition have failed thus far. Public opposition remains strong, almost mythic, even […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times “If there had been in the heavens and the earth other gods besides Allah, then surely both would have gone to ruin. Glorified then be Allah, the Lord of the Throne, far above what they attribute to Him.” […]
(WOMENSENEWS)–I have personal reasons for caring about what happens next in Tunisia. I was born in 1985 in France to Tunisian parents. That meant I grew up in an adopted country where women’s legal rights were even more firmly established than in my parent’s homeland. I didn’t face restrictions, so […]
If it ever comes to Pakistan launching an atomic warhead, the final say would be with the all-powerful army leader, even though in theory the prime minister’s finger should be on the trigger. All indications are that the White House, despairing at the fragile government in Islamabad and reassured that […]
By FATIMA SIDIYA | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has approved the restoration of two historic mosques in Jeddah, Prince Sultan bin Salman, president of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities, said on Wednesday. He said Al-Shafi and Al-Mimar mosques would be refurbished […]
I think this is a good idea especially on the weekends. But who knows, may be kids will find a way to bypass this also. But it could also be good idea for dads who do spend a lot of time in front of televisions and they could compete with […]
By GWYNNE DYER ARABNEWS For most of its 66-year history, the Arab League was a powerless organization, dominated by regimes that made sure it never criticized their lies and crimes. But suddenly, this year, it woke up and changed sides. Last March the Arab League suspended Libya’s membership because of […]
By Taylor Luck AMMAN – As Arab and Turkish foreign ministers gathered in Rabat on Wednesday to discuss the Syrian crisis, the meeting posed diplomatic crossroads for Jordan, according to analysts. Amman is weighing a host of domestic concerns and international commitments as it stakes out its official position on […]
I recently was a presenter at a 5th grade Science Fair alongside professional astronomers, engineers, and physicists. My high school science teachers would have never predicted this. I struggled to pass my science classes and it wasn’t until I studied fitness as an adult that I became interested in biology. […]
(A Shiah point of view): The Supreme Leader’s View of Unity Between the Shia and the Sunni. Source: Facebook Sayed Mustafa Masawi Today, one of the main goals of the arrogant powers and the US is to foment discord. And the best way to do so is to foment discord […]
Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz alleged in an Oct. 10 op-ed in the Financial Times that on May 10, in the wake of Osama bin Laden‘s killing in Abbottabad, Zardari had offered to replace Pakistan’s powerful military and intelligence leadership and cut ties with militant groups. Ijaz said he was directed […]
A journey by train from Northern part of India to East india turns little less than a journey while it approaches the eastern states namely Bihar, Chattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal. The abundance of landmines and threat from the Communist terrorists who call themselves as “Naxal” or “Mao-vadi” […]
پاکستان کی قومی اسمبلی نے ونی یا سوارہ، خواتین کی صلح کے بدلے جبری یا قرآن سے شادی اور انہیں املاک میں حقِ وراثت سے محروم رکھنے کے خلاف بل منظور کر لیا ہے۔ بی بی سی کی عنبر شمسی نے مشہور فلم ساز اور سماجی کارکن سمر من اللہ […]
Source/Credit::Wednesday, November 16, 2011 , by-Simon-Busuttil_MEP Ennahda, the moderately Islamic party, won the first free election held last month in Tunisia, scoring some 40 per cent of all votes. It will lead the first freely-elected coalition government since the Arab Spring started. …we have had a penchant for missing the […]
The headquarters of MI6 in London. Source/Credit:TheTimes:Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 16:38 , by-AFP British intelligence agencies helped disrupt a plan to kill Western representatives in Libya and attack the country’s interim leaders, Foreign Secretary William Hague said today. In a rare speech on Britain’s secret intelligence efforts, Hague also confirmed […]
BEIJING – There are vulnerabilities in the financial sector, though the financial system is sound overall, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a report released on Tuesday, as it called for further reforms. In its first formal evaluation of China’s financial system, the Washington-based lender said China needs to […]
Chinese people are paying for the country’s heavy pollution with their health, the head of the UN Environment Programme says. Achim Steiner said hundreds of thousands of people were affected by premature death and respiratory illnesses because of poor air quality. Read More…
http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/VideoPlayerMain.swf My view and concern: European economies shrinking and Asia expanding. Is it by accident and chance or design?