Unity, Security, Solidarity: religious leaders meet French president after Normandy church attack
After the latest disgusting and cowardly attack by Daesh Terrorists, religious leaders in France called for unity and solidarity after meeting with President Francois Hollande. It comes in the wake of an attack on a Normandy church, where two Islamist militants killed a Roman Catholic priest. Representatives of various Christian denominations as well as Jewish, […]
The evil of honor killings
The evil of honor killing is has been on increase in our society and we have failed to nip this evil in the bud. This has taken numerous innocent lives and on July 15, 2016 Qandeel Baloch, a social media celebrity was killed by her brother. That she just went against the self-engineered discourses of […]
Terrorist madness
AS I sat down to write this yesterday morning, there was breaking news of a mass killing at a residential facility for the disabled not far from Tokyo. The perpetrator was apparently a 26-year-old former employee of the care home who subsequently handed himself over to the police after murdering 19 people and injuring dozens […]
Mosque in Priest Attack Town Opened on Church’s Land
The mosque in the French town where two radical Islamists slit the throat of a Catholic priest was opened on land donated by his church, it was revealed on Thursday. The gesture, made in 2000, is a symbol of the strong ties between the two communities at a high level. However, after the attack, which […]
70,000 terrorists held; 441 executed
Around seventy thousands terrorists have been arrested and four hundred and forty one executions took place ever since the launching of National Action Plan (NAP) to counter terrorism. National Coordinator National Counter-Terrorism Authority (NACTA) Ihsan Ghani said this while giving to briefing media-persons about progress of NAP here on Monday. He elaborated on twenty points […]
Why Japan’s Mass Killings Didn’t Make U.S. Headline News?
At least 19 people have been killed and another 26 injured some of them seriously at a residential care centre for the disabled in Japan. The attack happened in the early hours of Tuesday morning in the town of Sagamihara 40 km south west of Tokyo. 26 year old charged in one of the most […]
Demo held against honour killings
Sindhi Nari Sangat Sindh protested against growing religious extremism, honour killings (Karo-Kari), forced religious conversion of Sindhi Hindu girls, violence against women in Sindh, Pakistan under call given by Sindhi Sangat Sindh chairman Mansoor Khaskheli.Protest rallies were held in Hyderabad, Jamshoro and Tando Mohammad Khan and activists of Sindhi Nari Sangat Sindh chanted slogans against […]
Shooting deaths of police up 78 percent this year; ‘troubling’ to memorial fund
The number of U.S. law enforcement officers shot dead on the job is up 78 percent this year compared with the same period last year, according to preliminary data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. In the wake of targeted attacks on police officers this summer in Dallas and in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, […]
Why Bill’s Love Letter to Hillary Was Sly and Effective
Decades later, it’s hard to remember how battered Bill Clinton was after the 1992 primaries. He had secured the nomination but his candidacy was marred by his efforts to avoid serving in Vietnam and allegations, later confirmed, of extramarital affairs. It looked like he was heading for a joyless convention in New York. But events […]
Syria’s war: 50 killed in ISIL attack in Qamishli
A car bomb has exploded in a predominantly Kurdish town in northern Syria, killing at least 50 people and wounding dozens. Syrian state TV said the car blew up on the western edge of the town of Qamishli, near the Turkish border on Wednesday. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known […]