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مظفر گڑھ میں ایٹمی بجلی گھر اور مقامی افراد کی پریشانیاں – بی بی سی اردو: ہم کچھ نہیں جانتے۔ بس اٹامِک اٹامِک ہو رہی ہے۔ وہاں بارود بنے گا۔ اُس کا دھواں نکلے گا۔ اِدھر اُدھر والے سب (لوگ) مر جائیں گے۔ ہمیں اِس بلا سے بچا لیں۔‘ پاکستان میں جنوبی پنجاب کے ہزارہ
Saudi crocodile tears over Gaza – by David Hearst: It is tough work being the Saudi ambassador to the UK. First, you have to stir yourself into action to deny the undeniable: The Israeli attack on Gaza comes with Saudi backing. That, in itself, is demeaning.
Qatar’s purchase of billions of US weaponry for hamas: Qatar recently cemented an enormous weapons deal with the United States. But this week, the tiny, resource-rich Gulf kingdom with outsized geopolitical ambitions — and a seemingly bottomless pocketbook — might be setting itself up for more problematic relations
Eight hundred dead Palestinians. But Israel has impunity – by Robert Fisk: Impunity is the word that comes to mind. Eight hundred dead Palestinians. Eight hundred. That’s infinitely more than twice the total dead of flight MH17 over Ukraine. And if you refer only to the “innocent” dead –
Longtime U.S. ‘Allies’ Qatar, Kuwait Prime Terror Financiers – by Ryan Mauro: David Cohen, the Treasury Department Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, has stated for the record what no other U.S. official would: Qatar and Kuwait, two supposed “allies” of the U.S., are facilitating Islamist terrorism and
Statement of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V (aba) following Gujranwala Attack: World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemns killing of 3 Ahmadi Muslims On 27 July 2014, Ahmadi Muslims in Kachi-Pump in Gujranwala were attacked by local extremists in a sectarian attack. During the attack, 3 Ahmadi Muslims,
Islamic State militants open office for potential wives: monitor: Islamic State insurgents have opened an office in northern Syria where single women and widows can register to marry fighters from the radical al Qaeda offshoot, a monitoring group said on Monday. The office in al-Bab, a town
Why can’t Iran and Israel be friends? – by Navid Hassibi: Israel supported the Islamic republic with arms during its war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters There has been much talk this month about subtle Iranian-Israeli overtures, sparking speculations in policy circles about the possibility of
Iran and Israel, once and future allies – by Saeed Ghasseminejad: For the last thirty years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has not only been constantly calling for the destruction of Israel, but has also been acting to make it happen. There is a little-known story that in 1873
One of the oldest Christian communities has been destroyed as the Salafi ISIS Caliphate spreads – by Robert Fisk: For three years, the Arab revolutions cast “Palestine” and Palestinians to the fringe of memory in the Middle East. And now the new bloodbath in Gaza has pushed to the corner of our consciousness the continuing tragedy of the
In panic, Nawaz Sharif hands over Islamabad to army in a false hope to crush Imran Khan and Tahir ul Qadri – by Ayaz Amir: Calling on the army to protect Islamabad, from dangers yet to be adequately defined, is no one-off affair. It is the latest addition to a pattern we have seen growing rather dramatically over the last three months: the
The secret report that helps Israelis to hide facts – by Patrick Cockburn: Israeli spokesmen have their work cut out explaining how they have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, compared with just three civilians killed in Israel by Hamas rocket and mortar fire. But on
The Nation’s editorial: Sunnis must distance themselves from the intolerant Salafi-Deobandi ideology of ISIS militants in Iraq: Editor’s note: We commend the Nation for specifically identifying the Takfiri Salafi Deobandi ideology as the root cause of terror and destruction. Indeed Sunnis have to fight this evil and not allow Salafi and Deobandi to misrepresent
Nigerian soldiers kill 25 anti-Israel Shia protesters on Quds Day: A protester is gunned down by Nigerian military forces during a rally marking International Quds Day in Zaria, Nigeria, on July 25, 2014 Twenty-five demonstrators, including the sons of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria,
Top Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – by Jeremy R. Hammond: Myth #1 – Jews and Arabs have always been in conflict in the region. Although Arabs were a majority in Palestine prior to the creation of the state of Israel, there had always been a Jewish population, as
اب ’سنی‘ بھی اسلامک اسٹیٹ کے نشانے پر: شدت پسند تنظیم اسلامک اسٹیٹ آئی ایس نے صوبہ دیالہ میں سنیوں کے پانچ گروپوں کو 48 گھنٹے تک کا وقت دیا ہے۔ اس دوران ان گروپوں کو یا تو اسلامک اسٹیٹ میں شامل ہونے کے بارے میں فیصلہ
نواب خيربخش مری – بلوچوں کو ‘پسمانده’ اور ‘ناخوانده’ رکهنے والے عظيم ترقی پسند قوم پرست رہنما – از خان زمان کاکڑ: نواب خيربخش مری چهياسی سال کی عمر ميں انتقال کرگئے اور کوئٹہ ميں بلوچ شہداء کے نيوکاہان قبرستان ميں ہزاروں بلوچ سوگواران، مرد و خواتين کی موجودگی ميں آزاد بلوچستان کے پرچم ميں سپردخاک کردئيے گئے. بلوچوں کے اس
The end of Christianity in the Middle East could mean the demise of Arab secularism – by William Dalrymple: An Iraqi security officer guards the Church of the Virgin Mary in the northern town of Bartala, near Mosul, in 2012. Photograph: Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images The past decade has been catastrophic for the Arab world’s beleaguered 12
Why Is Israel Losing a War It’s Winning? – by Jeffrey Goldberg: An Israeli officer in a Hamas tunnel (Jack Guez/Reuters) Things change, of course—the only constant in the Middle East is sudden and dramatic change—but as I write it seems as if Israel is losing the war
Sick ISIS Salafi video emerges showing 50 beheaded Syrian Christian, Shia and Sunni Sufi soldiers being impaled on poles and held aloft in Raqqa city: Deobandi/Wahabi militants have reportedly beheaded dozens of soldiers at a Syrian army base and mounted their heads on poles. Salafoi/Deobandi Extremists from the group Islamic State, previously known as ISIS, seized the base in the northern province of
Pakistan: Violent mob sets fire to Ahmadi homes in Gujranwala under police watch: While the local police watched, Ahmadi houses are set on fire by a Islamist mob in People’s Colony of Gujranwala town in the central Punjab, a Province of Pakistan. The incident stated in the late evening on Sunday, July
While Imran marches to Islamabad, PML-N is deeply anxious about the army – by Cyril Almeida: STOP the press. It’s official. The PML-N is committing political suicide. Nawaz and co are back — the original, unreconstructed Nawaz and co — and they’re dying to get kicked out. You can even start cueing the jokes
Kurdistan Tribune: Doctors Confirm ISIS Use of Chemical Weapon in Kobanê, Syria: Local doctors and officials have confirmed that the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS) used some sorts of chemical weapon that instantly killed Kurdish fighters during clashes in Kobanê of Rojava northeast Syria. Kobanê Canton Health Minister
The last Jews of Baghdad: Just SEVEN remain (and they fear for their lives after being named by WikiLeaks): WikiLeaks published diplomatic cables from Baghdad which named the individuals of the small Jewish community. And now the American Embassy is trying to locate any Jewish diplomats who could help the exposed individuals take part in
Fleeing Iraqi Christians find safe haven at the Shrine of Imam Ali: Editor’s Note: The Western media and their Secular Sectarian sycophants deliberately obfuscated the rise of ISIS as a “Shia-Sunni” proxy war. No mention of Saudi Arabia, US and France who facilitated ISIS in Syria to overthrow the
Meet this young Saudi doctor who joined ISIS and killed 30 people in a suicide attack!: A Saudi Salafi doctor joined ISIS as a suicide bomber and killed 30 people in an attack on a checkpoint south of Kirkuk. It is not clear how Faisal bin Shaman al-Aanzi died or was killed. According to
Britain has forgotten its debt to the Christians of Iraq – by Kate Maltby: An armed man outside a cathedral in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Photo: AP) “Nineveh city was a city of sin. The jazzin’ and a-jivin’ made a terrible din.” So starts Michael Hurd’s Jonah-Man Jazz, the Sixties incarnation of a long
My brother, the suicide bomber: why British men go to Syria – by Randeep Ramesh: The bomber The last time Abdul Waheed Majeed spoke to his family, it was on a crackling telephone line from Syria at the end of January. He had arrived six months earlier on an aid convoy organised
ISIS’s Salafi Jihadists seize Syria army base, behead soldiers: Editor’s Note: This contradicts the theories of “liberals” who often theorize that Assad regime and ISIS are hand in hand and the real heros of Syria are the “moderate opposition” of Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Speaking of the “moderate opposition”,
HRW: ISIS Salafi militants are abducting, killing, expelling minorities in Iraq: The Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) is killing, kidnapping, and threatening religious and ethnic minorities in and around the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Since capturing Mosul on June 10, 2014, the armed Sunni extremist group
Sunni and Shia Muslims join Christians in declaring ‘I am Iraqi, I am Christian’, condemn Salafi ISIS’s violence against minorities: Hundreds rallied (link is external) in Baghdad on Sunday to show solidarity with Christians who are being threatened by the Islamic State (IS) group in northern Iraq. Thousands of Christians in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city are being forced by
Purged by ISIS, Iraq’s Christians appeal to world for help: Iraqi Christians are begging for help from the civilized world after Mosul, the northern city where they have lived and worshiped for 2,000 years, was purged of non-Muslims by ISIS, the jihadist terror group that claims to have
Pakistan’s Shia Under Attack – by Phelim Kine: The group of around 300 Shia Hazara pilgrims who had been visiting religious shrines in neighboring Iran never knew what hit them. Within minutes after they arrived at the Pakistani border town of Taftan on June 9, the heavily armed gunmen
Do Shias have a future in Pakistan? – by Soha Jafri: So far in Pakistan more than 10,000 Shias have been killed (in direct attacks only). PHOTO: AFP How this could be possible? I shook my head in disbelief. “Ibn-e-Raza has been shot dead!” the voice reiterated itself. How someone
افغانستان: دیوبندی طالبان کے ہاتھوں شیعہ ہزارہ برادری کے 15 افراد کا قتل: افغانستان کے وسطی صوبہ غور میں حملہ آوروں نے دو منی بسوں کو روک کر 15 افراد کو ہلاک کردیا ہے۔ صوبہ غور پولیس کے سربراہ کے مطابق جمعرات اور جمعے کی درمیانی رات کو مسلح افراد نے دو
Iraqi Turkmens ‘left for dead’ in desert: Hürriyet Photo, Selçuk Şamiloğlu A humanitarian tragedy is unfolding in Iraq as Turkmens who fled the advance of the feared Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are now succumbing to the region’s scorching summer sun
Bahrain’s Shia Muslims Tense as Politicians and Preachers Pledge Allegiance to ISIS: Photo from the profile of Turky Albinali, a Bahraini scholar who joined ISIS @turky_albinali For Bahrain’s majority Shia Muslim population, five recent events in their small island country ruled by Sunni Muslim al-Khalifa monarchs have them on edge. These events involved powerful
Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza – Debunked: Israel has killed almost 800 Palestinians in the past twenty-one days in the Gaza Strip alone; its onslaught continues. The UN estimates that more than 74 percent of those killed are civilians. That is to be expected in a
Greed and desire: The new face of Ramazan? – by Shyema Sajjad: Remember everything your parents, grandparents, maulvi sahab and Islamiyat teacher taught you about Ramazan? Now try and forget it please because there seems to be no room for those teachings anymore in this country. Tune in to
اہل فلسطین ہزاروں فلسطینیوں کے قاتل جرنیل ضیاء الحق سے نفرت کرتے ہیں – از حامد میر: Source : http://jang.com.pk/jang/jul2014-daily/21-07-2014/col3.htm