After 9 years of maintaining an expensive presence on Afghan soil, thousands of lives and billions wasted in aid and reconstruction efforts, not to forget bribes to warlords and drug barons, the US and its allies have come up with a real gem of an idea – trying to buy themselves a safe exit from [...]
Professor Richard Dawkins, one of the greatest living “experts” on blind watchmakers and selfish gene-centric Evolution got out his Ouija Board to channel the spirit of Charles Darwin, author of The Origin of Species and the father of Naturalism and Atheism.
STRANGELY enough, the United States has urged India to be transparent with Pakistan about their activities in Afghanistan, implying that India has a right to be there in Afghanistan. At a briefing, Pentagon spokesman said on Wednesday that during his visit to India, Secretary of Defence Robert Gates did discuss Afghanistan with Indian leadership.
India has used every excuse possible to turn it into an instrument of terror. It has used coercive diplomacy, taking full advantage of the reconstruction opportunity in Afghanistan to launch terror attacks in Pakistan. 9/11 was used as a ploy to ditch its erstwhile ally Russia and join the US camp to take up cudgels [...]
Quantum Note So travel through the lands and see what was the end of those who denied [the truth]. (Qur’an 16:36) Travel through the lands has never been so risky: as you enter the security zone of the first airport, you suddenly enter a zone of security checks, scanners, airport chaos, flight delays, and numerous [...]
Speech by Yabhg Tun Dr Mahathir Bin Mohamad At The General Conference For The Support of Al Quds THE STATE OF THE WORLD 1. I would like to welcome participants at this General Conference for the Support of Al-Quds and to thank the organizers for this opportunity to speak on the subject of “Stability and [...]
After more than six months straining to convince itself of the immense, nationwide danger of a phenomenon that involves fewer than 0.1% of France’s Muslim population, a parliamentary committee has recommended the banning of the full veil in many of France’s public places.
The major religions of the world can be divided into two broad categories—the Aryan and the Semitic, with Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism in the first and Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the second. So far as their theological aspects are concerned, there is a difference between these two kinds of religions.
AS brisk electioneering is going on in NA-55 Rawalpindi and NA-123 Lahore, people of Mansehra and Swat exercised their right to vote on Thursday to elect their representatives for one seat each of the National Assembly and the NWFP Assembly. By and large, the polling remained peaceful and the turn-out of the voters also reflected [...]
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that Pakistan has offered training to Afghanistan army and police and also offered to increase cooperation in various fields with Afghanistan.
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