Gil Yaron, Special to The Star JERUSALEM—It’s been a while since a jubilant mood reigned in the streets of Gaza, but on Friday, many people were almost euphoric. “Everyone is happy — this is the dawn of a new era,” Muhammad Dawwas, a journalist from Gaza City, said in an […]
By REUTERS DEAUVILLE, France: The Group of Eight promised $20 billion in aid to Tunisia and Egypt on Friday and held out the prospect of billions more to foster the Arab Spring and the new democracies emerging from popular uprisings. Likening it to the fall of the Berlin Wall that […]
By ARAB NEWS MADINAH: Pakistani Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan visited Thursday the King Fahd Qur’an Complex in Madinah. Giving the minister and her accompanying delegation a detailed briefing, Hassan Ahmed Al-Ghausi, director of the complex, said the complex is the world’s largest Qur’an printing facility of […]
AMMAN (Reuters) – Israel will not gain security by holding on to territory beyond what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called its “indefensible” 1967 West Bank border, Jordan’s foreign minister said. Netanyahu said this week he was ready to withdraw from parts of the West Bank, captured in the 1967 […]
By MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: The family of a Sri Lankan maid who was murdered by a Saudi sponsor’s wife received SR40,000 as compensation for the death, the Sri Lankan Embassy told Arab News here Friday. The autopsy report of the maid, identified as 36-year-old Pospawalli Selladurai, revealed […]
Mladic’s capture signals that justice will eventually catch up with mass murderers SERBIA has finally “captured” the Serbian mass murderer Ratko Mladic. One of the three Butchers of Balkans — the other two being the late Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic — Mladic eluded international justice for 17 years although […]
By AHMED AL-HAJ The Associated Press SANAA, Yemen — A Yemeni tribal leader says 18 tribesmen have been killed in fresh fighting between forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and members of Yemen’s most powerful tribal confederation, the Hashid. May 26, 2011. Yemen’s government said 28 people were killed […]
“The inspiration of this post is the article Forgotten: Sir Zafarullah Khan posted on ATP in February 2007. I wanted to produce the same article with some more references. I must acknowledge that ATP is doing a better job of showing honest past and present of Pakistan than the main […]
Sir Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Sahib Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (6 February 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Pakistani diplomat, Pakistan’s first foreign minister, renowned international jurist and a scholar of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Community. Khan was born on February 6, 1893, in Sialkot, India, the son of Nasrullah […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Archaeologists have uncovered as many as 17 buried pyramids in Egypt with the help of NASA satellite imagery, according to a documentary to be aired by the BBC on Monday. Led by US researcher Sarah Parcak at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the team has already […]
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/997508–brampton-man-sues-government-alleging-csis-harassed-him?bn=1 A Brampton man is suing the Canadian government alleging Canada’s spy agency launched a smear campaign against him, painting him as a terrorist and pedophile because he refused to be an informant. The recently filed lawsuit comes after child pornography charges against Ayad Mejid, 48, were dropped when a […]
Illustrated work from 16th century makes it onto prestigious Unesco world list New Delhi: An illustrated Indian manuscript recounting the history of Mughal ancestor Timur has been inscribed on Unesco’s Memory of the World Register, an official has said. The Tarikh-E-Khandan-E-Timuriyah was written and created during the reign of Mughal […]
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the heads of seven key state institutions agreed to “strengthen” the state ideology Pancasila amid fears of rising radicalism among the nation’s youth. “All state institutions are committed to actively strengthening Pancasila as the nation’s ideology according to each institution’s role, position and authority,” Constitutional […]
This newspaper roundly condemned the province of Quebec’s religious studies curriculum in an editorial published May 24, “Moral relativism in the classroom.” The program, known as Ethics and Religious Culture, dares teach children that all religions are worthy of respect. The editors wrote: “Normative pluralism is moral relativism, the notion […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — I am a Muslim physician. For the past decade, I have taught a simple principle to my medical students: Never jab your patients where they hurt. Not because you don’t have the freedom to do so. But exercising your freedom recklessly would not foster trust between you […]
All talk about the “emergence” of India and China has stopped with the continuance of the ceaseless bombarding of Libyan cities by NATO. This alliance seems able to go into action only in situations where it faces very weak opposition. Against such weaklings, its soldiers, sailors and aircrew fight eagerly, […]
Senators want condolence letters for families of suicide victims By LEO SHANE III Published: May 25, 2011 Stars and Stripes’ coverage of suicide in the military WASHINGTON – A group of 11 senators is again asking the White House to send letters of condolence to families of servicemembers who commit […]
Everyone in this room a 100 years ago would have been a racist: Richard Dawkins Prof. Richard Dawkins is one of the foremost apologists for not only atheism and science but also for the Western civilization. Here is a very interesting confession about the Western civilization by Prof. […]
ISLAMABAD: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday told Pakistan that the country needed to understand that anti-Americanism and conspiracy theories will not end its problems. “Pakistan should understand that anti-Americanism and conspiracy theories will not make the problem disappear,” Clinton told a news conference following talks with […]
Not much in Netanyahu’s speech to Congress came as a surprise, but many were shocked by the thunderous applause. Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu must have felt more at home speaking to the US Congress than when he addressed the Israeli parliament: Had he made the same speech at the […]