Pakistani education following the West blindly in Urdu

[Asadullah Syed]

Urdu Section Pakistani education following the West blindly By Kashif Hafeez Siddiqu, Daily Ummat, Karachi   More...

Islam and Politics Gilgit-Baltistan: Pakistan’s game-plan While it is important to recognise the political rights of people of Gilgit-Baltistan, the step taken by Pakistan has serious implications for the peace process in Jammu and Kashmir. The logic of the ongoing peace process has been a ‘notional unity’ of the state through the concept of irrelevance of borders. The autonomy of Gilgit-Baltistan may start a trend in the reverse direction and may just justify the division of the state. -- Rekha Chowdhary More...

Islamic World News A Christian priest reads Quran entire Ramadan Islamic Banking discussed with Reserve Bank of India Kerala: CPM wants Sharia law in banking Baroness Warsi accused of ‘stealing’ the husband of a vulnerable Pakistani How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill Iraqi gays US denies role in General Zia's plane crash U.S. to Expand Review of Detainees in Afghan Prison Post 9/11, Americans say Muslims face most discrimination Deobandi Madrasa suspects held in Islamabad Pakistani forces fire rockets at India, BSF retaliates LeT behind Pak rocket fire into India? Hate groups use teen to defame Islamic centre Book on legendary Indian singer Tansen published in Poland India to blame for Pak youth taking to terror: Musharraf To nail their lies, India plans ads in Pak media Intelligence inputs cannot be taken as evidence: Indian Home Minister Pakistan reiterates invitation to Indian foreign secretary Shelling in Somalia kills 15, mostly ex-soldiers UK troubled by anti-Islam rallies, counter protests US Aims to Focus on Nuclear Issue in Iran Talks Window on Pak Press: Pak rakes up Kashmir, dares India to debate Mumbai Vatican Invites Muslims to Fight Poverty Together Moments of terror as Emirates flight disappears from radar Taliban and the army Afghanistan's parallels to Vietnam Compiled by Syed Asadullah More...

Current affairs Sikh separatism raising its head again Some disgruntled Akali leaders are encouraging separatists to destabilise the Congress government in New Delhi. The Sikh separatists call themselves Khalistanis, Khalistan being their chosen name for the Sikh-dominated Punjab. It is not clear what case they were making for separation before 1984, the year Indira Gandhi was assassinated. They were certainly not a persecuted minority. As far as this writer can gather, the modern Khalistani separatist case seems to rest upon the historic events of June and October 1984 when a Sikh separatist leader, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, led hundreds of his followers, armed to the teeth, into the Golden Temple in Amritsar and occupied it in defiance of the temple's elected management committee and the law of the land. -- Tom Deegan (with inputs from Sat-Bhambra) More...

Current affairs 9/11 Mind Swell - Scientific evidence refutes the official story Who should we blame for the failure of the 9/11 truth movement to fix the historical record and, better yet, identify those in the government who turned 9/11 into an excuse for going to war, getting them indicted, prosecuted, and punished for their murderous acts? It is too easy to blame the mainstream media and political establishment for refusing to demand and pursue a truly comprehensive and credible independent scientific and engineering investigation.  President Obama with his tenacious belief in looking forward, not backward, exemplifies a national mindset to avoid the painful search for truth and justice that could produce still more public disillusionment with government and feed the belief that American democracy is weak at best, and delusional at worst. -- Joel S. Hirschhorn More...

Urdu Section Hazrat Ali's world-view How shameful that while Ameerul Momenin Hazrat Ali (A.S.) sought to protect the human rights of his assassin from his bed of martyrdom, and told his family to try to practice forgiveness as it was closer to taqwa, today’s Jihadi Muslims kills their own Muslim brothers in mosques. Do these Muslims deserve to be called Muslims? What sort of Islam is this: the Islam propagated by the Prophet (pbuh) or that of ibn-e-Maljam, the murderer of Hazrat Ali? Asks Ali Zaheer Naqvi.   1 Comments More...

Islamic Personalities Dr Zakir Naik: One Man, One Mission Following the 9/11 attacks on the United States when the world turned upside down for Muslims around the world, Dr Naik stepped up his battle of hearts and minds by travelling around the world and offering lectures, talks and interviews, to distinguish the original faith of peace from the hateful death cult championed by extremists like Osama bin Laden. He has delivered at least 1200 public talks in the US, Canada, Europe, Middle East and Asia since 9/11, not to mention countless others held in India.  Over the past few years, this one individual has done more to promote Islam and its view of a just world than numerous Muslim organisations with millions of followers and countries with infinite resources at their disposal have ever managed to. -- Dr Zakir Naik 6 Comments More...

Books and Documents SURVIVAL: Individual and Collective by Allama Ghulam Ahmad Parwez Chapter 10: Islam A Challenge to Religion The Quran emphatically asserts that death is not the final end but a gateway to a different kind of life: We mete out death among you.... that we may transfigure you and make you what you know not. And verily you know the first creation. Why then do we not reflect? (56: 61-63)  The real self, not being a part of the body is not subject to physical laws. It is dependent on the body for functioning in the physical world, but it may continue to exist after the destruction of the body, its instrument: And they say, what! When we have become bones and dust shall we indeed be raised up a new creation. Say thou: Be ye stones or iron or a substance still more improbable in your hearts (to be restored to life). But they will say: Who shall bring us back? Say thou: He who brought you into being for the first time (17: 49-51). -- Allama Ghulam Ahmad Parwez More..