By IMTIAZ GUL I wrote this article after visiting the flood-hit areas. Garhi Khuda Bux (Sind, Pakistan) - Once again, the tide of goodwill in the aftermath of the super-flood favours Pakistan. By himself flying over the affected areas and later giving a graphic description of the devastationthe UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon persuaded [...]
ICNA Relief, in collaboration with PIA, will be collecting Food Items, Medicines, New Clothes etc outside of Alfalah Islamic Center starting from Tuesday, August 24, 2010. ICNA Relief Canada is requesting brothers and sisters to participate in this great cause with their family and friends. Lots of volunteers are required for this project to collect, sort and load goods to containers. Brothers [...]
SRINAGAR: Chairman of Kaskmir All parties Hurriat Conference (APHC), Syed Ali Gilani has extended the "Quit Kashmir Movement"for 10 more days. Syed Ali Gilani said that the occupation authorities were trying to suppress the movement by preparing to hold Panchayat and Municipal elections, adding that such tactics would have dangerous consequences. The calendar includes relaxations [...]
By ABU YAHYA, Canada CLOSE to 2,000, people have died in Pakistan’s biggest natural disaster since 1929. Millions have lost their homes and run the risk of being infected by deadly water-borne diseases such as cholera. The government’s slow response has been criminally inadequate whereas the magnitude of the devastation was made worse by its [...]
“if the water was not diverted, the Shahbaz Airbase would have been inundated.” He was assigned to protect it, former Prime Minister Mir Zafar Ullah Khan Jamali saying that doing it meant demolishing the Jamali bypass and letting the town of Dera Allahyar drown. By STEPHEN LENDMAN WITH 20 million or more people affected, about [...]
By SHAMIM SIDDIQI [To turn an individual into your bosom friendship or a society, a people becoming friendly and loving to you [O Muslims!] in all respects is something quite unique to attain in the community of nations. This is what this Verse connotes and commands Muslims to do it both at individual and collective [...]
By Yousef Drummond There is the old adage that “a few rotten apples spoil the whole bunch”. I think this adage explicitly relates to the political hysteria enveloping the cable-news networks as well as local and national newspapers here in the United States that is now whipping up fears among non-Muslims that “each and every [...]
By FELICITY ARBUTHNOT … to wade through slaughter … and shut the gates of mercy on mankind. – Thomas Gray (1716-1771) THE scale of the disaster caused by the floods in Pakistan, is barely comprehensible. As Juan Cole has written, expressing near disbelief: “The submerged area of the country is as big as the United [...]
ASIF HAROON RAJA GEN MUSHARRAF enjoyed nine-year rule but Pakistan suffered. He was given a royal send off and is still enjoying life abroad but Pakistan continues to bleed because of his unpardonable sins. Had he put some steel in his back and warded off the telephonic pressure from Collin Powel, he could have saved [...]
TORONTO: In a time of heightened tension and hot debate concerning specifically the ground zero mosque in New York and generally the religion of Islam in North America, Canadian imams took the opportunity of the blessed month of Ramadan (month of fasting and reflection) to set the record straight and to tell the public what is [...]
