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New York mosque firebombed in ‘hate crime’ spree
Jan 3rd
NEW YORK(AFP/PFP) : New York’s mayor expressed outrage Monday after a mosque was hit by a firebomb in an arson spree that police said they were investigating as a hate crime. The Imam Al-Khoei Foundation building in the borough of Queens suffered damage to the front door from a Molotov cocktail thrown late Sunday, police said. [...]
1971 – 2011
Dec 17th
The month of December, every year, brings with it memories of 1971 and the secession of East Pakistan that established the independent nation of Bangladesh. It provides us with a chance for deep, thoughtful introspection and to learn from the mistakes of our collective past. It is, therefore, incredibly unfortunate that 40 years on we [...]
‘How could you serve breakfast to a Hindu?’
Jun 24th
http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/6598/how-could-you-serve-breakfast-to-a-hindu/
Pakistan’s media shows the way
Jun 16th
The Pakistani press is in the act of covering a rare and precious, yet fragile, moment in its nation’s history.
MF Hussain: A barefoot artist
Jun 13th
http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/6400/mf-hussain-a-barefoot-artist/
Maududi and Maryam Jameela
Jun 12th
Maryam wrote many books extolling Islam as a faith and condemning the West as a way of life.
We must have hope, what else is there?
Jun 4th
That human beings are capable of such horrific things is not surprising. After all, we live in the same world that witnessed the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide, the ethnic cleansing of Serbians, Croatians, Palestinians and Bangladeshi’s alike (to name a few). The subcontinent itself had a bloody birth punctuated by massacres of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs alike. In the last few days alone, Pakistan added to its losses, with the brutal death of journalist
Top 12 Bizarre petitions in Pakistani courts
Jun 3rd
In between trials of murder, rape and kidnapping are some rather unusual petitions filed in our courts by passionate individuals. Petitioners have attacked everything from lusty pop songs, to forgetful politicians and just plain stupidity:
Nepal”s royal massacre still a mystery 10 years on
May 31st
KATHMANDU: A decade after Nepal”s crown prince stunned the world by gunning down nine family members, mystery still surrounds the massacre that plunged the monarchy into a crisis from which it never recovered.
Many Nepalese believe they may never kno…
