Ottomans were the first to reach the Moon – says Turkish President: Istanbul| Ottomans were the first to walk on the surface of the moon, not Neil Armstrong, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, yesterday, during an iftar (fast-breaking) dinner hosted by the Turkish Green Crescent. Mr. Erdoğan claimed that Muslim explorers reached the Moon more than 300
Sunrise over Iran – Khurram Husain: THE luck just doesn’t run out in Pakistan. Just as one door closes, another opens. For almost a decade now, rulers in Pakistan have tried to overcome domestic opposition to broadening our ties with India and failed. For almost
Is LUBP sectarian or its detractors? – by Ali Abbas Taj: At times, LUBP, Pakistan’s oldest and most popular liberal blog, is alleged by the Deobandi hate clerics and their commercial liberal elitist comrades as being a sectarian or hatemongering blog. Nothing could be further from truth. In the last eight
پانچ کتابوں کا مصنف موچی – از رضوان صفدر: فیصل آباد کی تحصیل جڑانوالہ کے نواحی قصبے روڈالا کے مین بازار میں سڑک کنارے بیٹھا منور شکیل پچھلی 3 دہائیوں سے دیہاتیوں کے پھٹے پُرانے جوتے مرمت کرنے میں مصروف ہے۔ لیکن حالیہ برسوں میں منور کی عارضی
Shia Hazara predicament – Roohullah Gulzari: A couple of years ago, I showed works of art by my friend Ramzan Ali Hazara, a graduate of the National College of Arts, to another friend from university. He looked at them and was quite amazed at
Jim Pivonka’s comment on the historic Iran-US nuclear deal: Here I post comments by two Pakistani observers of different background and experience, re the nuclear agreement with Iran and its meaning for the future, from their point of view. Probably more interesting that anything you will see
Abraham Lincoln and Raheel Sharif – Nadeem Zaidi: Had a man like Lincoln been Raheel Sharif’s Commander-in-Chief the disaster being presided over in the name of Afghan Govt-Taliban talks would never have been allowed to happen. This is a re-run of the 1990s Peshawar Process which briefly
دیوبندی حضرات کی خدمت میں عرض ہے – از یاور حبیب: طارق جمیل صاحب اور جنید جمشید کے حوالے سے شدید تنقید دیکھ کر دیوبندی مولوی اور تبلیغی جماعت کے عام خواتین و حضرات بھی کافی “پریشانی” کا شکار ہیں اورسوشل میڈیا وغیرہ پر جگہ جگہ اپنے “معصومانہ” شکوے پیش
Daily Times’ editorial on Shia killings in Quetta: Four unidentified gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on people standing in line outside a passport office in Quetta. Two civilians, believed to be Hazara Shias, and a police constable were killed during the attack and eyewitnesses say that