Muslim Issues

Our Ajmi Muslims due to lack of Quranic knowledge and understanding suffer from deviations, Shirk, Bidah, falsehood, grudge, enmity, extremism, sectarianism, Maslak and Fiqah differences, bad behaviours, sins and evils, un Islamic customs and practices, exploitation of Islam by vested interests, groups and parties, misguidance by Taghoots, Pirs, Faqirs, Aamils, Babas etc. Our Aalims/Moulvis particulalry Masjid Imams hardly  project Quran and Allah's directives in all walk …

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 9, 2011 (IPS) – The world's nuclear powers – both declared and undeclared – have come primarily from Asia: China, India, Pakistan and possibly North Korea. The Middle East was dominated by a single nuclear power – Israel, which has refused to publicly declare its status.  But that domination has been threatened by Iran, which the Western …

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 6, 2011 (IPS) – The rising tide of anti-migrant sentiment worldwide is caused primarily by the biased, polarised and negative debate on migration, according to a new study released here. In its latest World Migration Report released Tuesday, the Geneva- based International Organization for Migration (IOM) said people in destination countries tend to significantly overestimate the size of the …

I felt quite uneasy when our man in Tehran, Dominick Chilcott, said the attack on the British Embassy was state-supported.  What doesn't he understand about people power? Surely he should have learned a lesson from the Arab Spring that when angry people rebel it's impossible to stop them.  To say the Iranian police stood by and did nothing when our …

CLOUDS of smoke billowed above the city of Isfahan – evidence that the latest strike against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program had hit its target.  The second blast in as many weeks at an atomic or missile facility has sparked Iranian denials and claims of accidents, but a new phase in efforts to destroy its nuclear ambitions is said to …

ISLAMABAD – Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Thursday suspended command and chain system to counter any aggression on borders. Reliable sources said General Kayani suspended the command and chain system in order to enable the senior officers on the posts to take appropriate action if Pakistani forces come under attack.  The Chief of the Army Staff …