Ill-wind blows for a ‘neutral’ Afghanistan

By M K Bhadrakumar Maybe there is an air about the brooding Hindu Kush mountains that lends inscrutability to politics and history. It touched Tuesday’s Kabul international conference on Afghanistan, where the subtext was of far greater interest than the open agenda. In fact, when it comes to the Afghan problem, it is almost inevitably the case that the surreal takes precedence over the real. Thus it was surreal that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is still not quite done, after failing to win in Afghanistan, with its first “real” war in its six decades of history as a military … Continue reading Ill-wind blows for a ‘neutral’ Afghanistan

Haraam-E-Zada Mullah Fazlullah wants to kill more innocents

New video shows Mullah Fazlullah dawn.com Fazlullah, who has a Pakistani government bounty on his head, remains at large. — File photo Provinces Swat ATC declares Fazlullah “wanted terrorist” Swat ATC declares Fazlullah “wanted terrorist” PESHAWAR: A newly released video of what appeared to be fugitive radical cleric Mullah Fazlullah shows him firing gunshots and addressing a group of suicide bombers. Fazlullah mounted a violent two-year campaign to enforce Islamic sharia law in the northwestern district of Swat, opposing education for girls and beheading opponents until the government ordered in thousands of troops. The 40-minute video, a copy of which … Continue reading Haraam-E-Zada Mullah Fazlullah wants to kill more innocents

Freed! blasphemy accused after 14 years – accusing Mullah unharmed

LHC frees blasphemy accused after 14 years Staff Report LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on Thursday quashed a blasphemy case against a mentally retarded woman, Zaibunnisa, and ordered her release from the Punjab Institute of Mental Health. A case of desecration of the holy Quran was registered with Sahala police on October 26, 1996, against unidentified people. Later, police nominated Zaibunnisa as the accused, and arrested her. The CJ observed that advocate Aftab Ahmed Bajwa brought the matter to the court’s notice otherwise she would have perished in jail. The complainant in the case, … Continue reading Freed! blasphemy accused after 14 years – accusing Mullah unharmed

The Resonance Project

Rise to the Equation! The Resonance Project Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the unification of all sciences and philosophies emerging from a complete and applied view of the physics underlying the wheelworks of nature. The Resonance Project Foundation’s accomplished team of scientists study the principles of Unified Field Theory and its applications in a sustainable research environment. Our researchers and emissaries share the knowledge and implications of our findings through educational outreach programs, scientific publications, layman’s papers and multimedia presentations. We are living at a critical time in history. The work done in our interdisciplinary research park … Continue reading The Resonance Project

At least 100 ‘Earth-like’ planets discovered in past few weeks

More than 100 ‘Earth-like’ planets discovered in past few weeks By Niall Firth More than 100 planets that are a similar size to Earth have been discovered in just the past few weeks, it has been announced. The discovery was made by the space telescope Kepler which has been scanning the skies for planets that are orbiting stars since it was launched in January last year. The breakthrough raises the tantalising prospect that we may not be alone in the Universe. Scientists now believe that there are likely to be around 100 million planets in the Milky Way that harbour … Continue reading At least 100 ‘Earth-like’ planets discovered in past few weeks

Tea with Miliband

Tea with Mr Miliband Dunking biscuits with the electorate is all well and good, but any future Labour leader needs some serious policies too Rupa Huq guardian.co.uk, Thursday 22 July 2010 10.00 BST Article history “There might be a knock at the door from the police,” the voice on the phone warned me. Crikey, I hadn’t expected that one. But then when you allow your front room to be the venue for a campaign visit from David Miliband with BBC cameras, furry broom mics and Laura Kuenssberg in tow, you can’t expect normality. The possible police involvement (which never materialised) … Continue reading Tea with Miliband

Scientology’s problem with Twitter

As support for local councillor John Dixon shows, Scientologists may have a harder time silencing critics online than elsewhere Martin Robbins guardian.co.uk, Thursday 22 July 2010 10.30 BST Article history Last year, Cardiff councillor John Dixon was wandering the streets of London in search of a wedding ring when he happened upon a group of Scientologists. Surprised, he tweeted the following: “I didn’t know the Scientologists had a church on Tottenham Court Road. Just hurried past in case the stupid rubs off.” It’s a fairly mundane sentiment you might think, but unfortunately members of an organisation that the French and … Continue reading Scientology’s problem with Twitter

Who owns Jews?

The Kafka legacy: who owns Jewish heritage? A decision to publish unseen Kafka papers is welcome, but not the notion that European Jewry’s cultural assets belong to Israel Antony Lerman guardian.co.uk, Thursday 22 July 2010 13.00 BST Article history A Tel Aviv court has ruled the papers of Franz Kafka belonging to the Hoffe sisters must be published. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis It’s excellent news that a judge in the Tel Aviv family court has ruled that a detailed list of all the items in safe deposit boxes in Tel Aviv and Zurich containing the papers of Franz Kafka must be published. … Continue reading Who owns Jews?

The worst poster boys for Islam?

by Nadeem F. Paracha on 07 22nd, 2010  I received a number of emails on my last blog, Reform Now. Most of the people who wrote to me asked whether I could comment more on the list of reforms that I suggested in the second part of the blog. Well, here is a sincere attempt. I would like to acknowledge eminent scholars and authors such as Javed Ahmed Ghamidi, Ziauddin Sardar, Muhammad Akhund, Ali Shariati, Irshad Manji, Dr. Fazalur Rehman, Musa Al-Sadr, and Abdullah Chakralawi, whose published work helped me construct this modest attempt. _____________________________ While formulating Islamic laws, a … Continue reading The worst poster boys for Islam?