Terrific Atimes article, on the Islamic solution for Pakistan… —- Ideas before bullets By Asim Salahuddin http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KE01Df02.html The current crisis of militancy gripping Pakistan is the most serious threat to the integrity of the state since the loss of East Pakistan in the war of 1971 that led to the creation of Bangladesh. Pakistan today [...]

What a dumb question to ask! This question and similar ones are usually thrown into the political and media circles to re-visit the exhausted subject of integration. Ever since 9/11 and more particularly after 7/7, the debate about being British and its ramifications have started to become more imposing and trying to shape a dominant  public [...]

  Last week BBC Panorama aired a documentary made by Richard Watson, the BBC appointed expert on terrorism and extremist groups. It was the prelude to what is to come in the strategy of dealing with difficult Muslims that are obstinate in not fully integrating with British Values. What was the stimulus for such a program? [...]

New and exciting kinds of funny happened on Monday. Within one country, we can find two different legal systems. Laws that would lead to the violent and brutal killing of people. Shock! Horror! What is the world coming to?! Ahh… Now it makes sense. It is in a place where people have more guns than [...]

“Uncontrolled population growth threatens to undermine efforts to save the planet,” writes Dr John Feeney who is an environmental writer based in Boulder, Colorado, US. He further goes on to say the environmental movement should stop running scared of the controversial topic of population growth. Similar outbursts have been made recently by a UK government [...]

The prime minister of Turkey returned home yesterday from the world economic forum to a hero’s welcome.  His “marvelous” feat was the act of walking out of the summit after a heated exchange with Shimon Peres regarding the Israeli aggression against Gaza. Erdogan has also made some fiery statements regarding Gaza and is slowly being [...]