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The ambulance is more Muslim than you By Abdul Sattar Edhi

That was the answer Abdul Sattar Edhi gave to a question when once asked ‘why must you pick up Christians and Hindus in your ambulance?’ By any stretch of imagination, Abdul Sattar Edhi is an enigma to most people. None of us truly understand him. I often think that Edhi walks a [...]

JOINT DECREE AGAINST SUICIDE BOMBERS

LAHORE, Sept 3: At least 50 religious scholars belonging to the Barelvi school of thought on Friday issued a joint fatwa (religious decree) declaring that both suicide bombers and their handlers deserved hell. The decree by the scholars associated with the Barelvi groups in the Sunni Ittehad Council, a conglomerate of 20 parties, has come in [...]

STOP BLAMING, START DOING

Grade-5: 3rd August: Oops only 11 days left for the Independence Day. It’s going to be so much fun; skits, dance, songs, speeches, parade, and so much more. Better get up and start getting ready this time I’m definitely going to take part in one of the programs. Thought Mehak as she finally decided to get out [...]

Pak Army relief operation continues in KP

PESHAWAR: The flood began to recede after wreaking havoc in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa amid the ongoing relief operation by the armed forces of Pakistan in areas affected by floods, Geo News reported Monday. However, thousands of people are still in wait for relief in several areas. Pak armed forces continue their operation in Dera Ismail Khan’s affected, where [...]

Flood-hit people decry insufficient relief

PESHAWAR: Flood-affected people staying at temporary shelters in various schools here on Sunday asked the provincial government to provide them proper relief and compensate them for the losses. According to official estimates 2.5 million people have been affected by the natural calamity termed the worst in the history of the province. The uprooted people have been [...]

US commitment in Iraq is shifting

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will set a course Monday for the nation’s changing mission in Iraq as the military prepares to end its combat operations there. In a speech at the national convention of the Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta, Obama was to address the progress being made to meet his deadline of drawing down [...]

America has Iran attack plan

WASHINGTON: The top US military officer says he has a plan to attack Iran if needed to prevent it from getting nuclear weapons, but is “extremely concerned” about the possible repercussions of such a strike. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said military action against Iran could have “unintended consequences that are [...]

Target killing is new US focus in Afghanistan: NYT

The Obama administration is starting to count more heavily on hunting down insurgents and less on winning over civilians in a change of tactics aimed at hastening a political settlement with the Taliban, The New York Times reported on Sunday. The new strategy of targeted killing of militants has turned out to work well, the paper [...]

REVENGE OF T20 SEMI FINAL

Pakistan clinched 2 match series 2-0 and took the revenge of T20 semi final. If Pakistan are a confidence team, their Twenty20 efforts over the past two days augur well for next week’s first Test. A day after Pakistan ended their 12-match losing stretch against Australia across all formats, Mohammad Aamer helped them begin their own [...]

EDGBASTON TURNS GREEN FOR PAKISTAN

BIRMINGHAM: Beaten Australia Twenty20 captain Michael Clarke said there was nothing ‘neutral’ about the support Pakistan had received from a capacity Edgbaston crowd here on Monday. Australia lost the first of two Twenty20 internationals against Pakistan – the second is at Edgbaston on Tuesday – by 23 runs amidst a din of horns and chants from [...]