UK retail sales see weak growth in July

From BBC News Retail sales grew only slightly last month, as cash-strapped consumers remained under pressure, figures show. Sales volumes excluding petrol rose just 0.2% in July, a slowdown on the 0.8% increase in June, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Sales of household goods, clothing and footwear all […]

A matter of interpretation

Source:  The Express Tribune Author: Khaled Ahmed A bright young scholar with a PhD from Heidelberg and currently involved in postdoctoral work at the University of London, Ali Usman Qasmi, has given us a brilliant book: Questioning the Authority of the Past: The Ahl al-Quran Movement in the Punjab (OUP […]

Pakistan frets over femme fatales

source.asiatimes on line ISLAMABAD – The tactic of the Pakistan Taliban to use veil-clad female suicide bombers to effectively strike their targets without being intercepted has set alarm bells ringing for the security agencies which are already finding it hard to nip al-Qaeda and Taliban-sponsored terrorism in the bud. A […]