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It’s morning in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan’s biggest province, and the country’s next generation is headed to school. But what children are finding when they get there is of increasing concern for those who want peace in Pakistan’s future.

For 12-year-old Fatma, school is an abandoned brickyard.

“I study at the Government Primary School in Lahore,” she explains. “I study English language, and I like it. There are no chairs. We have to sit on the ground. It’s a problem in the winter. When it rains, there is nowhere to sit.”

Parts of tiger reserves in Bellary &Shimoga to be hived off for leases. HERE’S one more reason why tigers are fast disappearing from India — minelords with limitless greed for leases and a state government that accedes to their demands.

Unmindful of the declining number of India’s national animal and one of the world’s severely endangered species, the Bellary mining cartel in Karnataka has been given the green signal by the state government to enter tiger habitats and exploit the mineralrich land for lucrative exports.

Prophet Muhammad was ‘Mercy for all mankind.’ The prophet’s birth and death anniversaries remind Muslims of the Life and Character that they are instructed to follow and emulate.

Why would anyone want to celebrate their birthday when their a year closer to death?

I BEGIN with a note on this month of ours. Writing in a somewhat mentally fatigued state a week or so ago, I mistakenly jumped the gun on announcing Rabbi al-Awwal (the third month in the Muslim calendar). We are just now into the first week of the month that holds a special significance for Muslims in all corners of the world, because it was the month in which the last divinely sent Messenger and Prophet from Almighty ALLAH – Mohammed ibn Abdullah (may ALLAH’s peace and blessings be upon him) – was born.

The serious situation which Muslim community, particularly the young Muslim generation is confronting in India, was projected years ago, by the communal forces and since then they also have started to implement their longstanding plan.

The fire which was ignited during the freedom struggle of the country, after the freedom by sprinkling the oil of the partition, the fire was further intensified to such an extent that all the methods adopted by the Muslim’s to eliminate or minimize its heat went in vain.

The gibbet of the Partition of India:

In the Beyoglu Anadolu religious school in Istanbul, gilded Korans line the shelves and on a table lies a Turkish translation of “Eclipse”, a vampire-based fantasy romance by U.S. novelist Stephanie Meyer.

No-one inside the school would have you believe this combination of Islamic and western influences demonstrates potential to serve as a ‘moderate’ educational antidote to radical Islam.

But there is fresh outside interest in schools like this, which belong to the network known as imam-hatip.

President Obama has made some terrible appointments during his first year in the White House, including now-former White House environmental adviser Van Jones, who once signed a petition accusing President George W. Bush of allowing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as a pretext for going to war. Jones also defended a radical Marxist group in San Francisco known as Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement.

The Obama administration’s refusal to acknowledge last week’s plane attack at a government facility in Texas as terrorist shows a double-standard approach to what does and does not constitute an act of terrorism, with the label seemingly being reserved exclusively to acts committed by Muslims.

“It should definitely be classified as a terror act,” Professor Michael Greenberger, Director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security (CHHS) at the University of Maryland, told.

On February 4, Nir Barakat, the mayor of Jerusalem, announced that he would accept a 2007 ruling issued by an Israeli High Court ordering the Jerusalem municipality to evacuate and seal an illegally constructed Israeli settlement building in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem.

Ahmedabad, February 17: Can you imagine a non-Muslim building a mosque in 21st century India? May sound impossible today. But, two far-sighted Jains built one of the earliest mosques in Gujarat, a state that has seen some of the worst post-independence communal riots.

Sujit Kumar who quietly died last week, was the traditional side hero of the Hindi movies who started his career with small roles.

He graduated to B class films as hero such as Ek Saal Pehle and Lal Bungalow where he was teamed up with late actress Sayeeda Khan and South Indian actress Jayanti. He was a talented actor and his histrionics were realized by the film industry.

He was then offered meaty roles in A class films prominent among them were Ramannad Sagar’s Ankhen where Dharmendra and Mala Sinha played the leading role.

New delhi,February 14:Mere mention of “Muslim reservation” raises hackles, but was deemed a necessity in the earliest days of the Republic before being scuttled by politicians who refused to recognise the social divisions in and economic problems of the community

A day after a blast ripped through the popular German Bakery in Pune killing nine people, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday said that there was no intelligence failure. He further underlined the need to monitor many soft targets.

The deafening blast also injured nearly 45 people, some of them critically.

Speaking at a press conference in Pune, the Home Minister said that the terrorists have hit a “soft target” like the German Bakery which is frequented by foreigners and Indians alike.

When we first began corresponding with Khalid Awan in 2007, we had no idea why he was serving time in U.S federal prison.We soon discovered Awan was one of the first of thousands of Muslims taken prisoner in the post-9/11 U.S \”terror War\”. As the story began unfolding in our letters, we began to realize that this honest, humble and sincere man was not only innocent, but the ongoing injustice being done to him provides critical insight into the mindless, mean-spirited, bureaucratic-yes-men idiocy fueling the illegal U.S.

President Abdullah Gül departed on Sunday for a six-day state visit to India which will make him the first Turkish president to visit the South Asian country in 15 years.

Speaking at a press conference held in İstanbul ahead of his departure, Gül underlined that India has the second largest population in the world and the third largest economy in regard to its gross national income.

One year after Israel’s ferocious assault, Dr. Mustafa El-Hawi, a professor at Al-Aqsa University, traveled by bus to attend a protest against the continuing Israeli siege of Gaza. As the bus passed by still-devastated areas of Beit Hanoun, in the northeast of the 25-mile-long coastal strip, the U.S.- and British-educated El-Hawi reflected on those terrifying days.

It all started with MNS shouldering marathi manoos issue the old paper tiger Bal thakeray who was hibernating for the last 10 years jumped into the bandwagon of marathi pride from retirement.

Though his faith is largely absent from the public eye, religion is believed to be playing a major role in US President Barack Obama’s life.

“[He is] a prayerful guy,” one senior official told. Although Obama has rarely showed up at church events and has not yet chosen a church in Washington, aides insist religion plays a significant role in his life.

They say he often prays in private.

Every morning, Obama receives daily devotionals, short religious services, through his BlackBerry.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was so close to India’s peace icon Mahatma Gandhi as both shared vision and struggle, but unlike his friend, the Pashtun champion of non-violent struggle against the British rule has been almost forgotten by his people.

“He was a 6’5 giant of the human spirit, that is what attracted me to him,” Canadian filmmaker Teri McLuhan told.

She recently tried to dust off the history of the man, nicknamed “Frontier Gandhi”, and his role in India’s independence.

By Jyotirmaya Sharma: THE shadow- boxing between the BJP and the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra is nothing but a finely choreographed charade in order to mislead the voters in Bihar and UP. There is little substance in the RSS saying that all Indians have the freedom to live anywhere they want.

It is as obvious as saying that all Indian citizens are Indians. It is true that the RSS has always been skeptical of regional and linguistic diversity, and has over the years argued for a strong Indian unitary state woven together by one language and one single national consciousness.

MUSIC maestro A.R. Rahman’s dream run continues on the global front. The ‘Mozart of Madras’ scaled a new high on Monday by winning two trophies at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards for his music in last year’s Oscar-winning film, Slumdog Millionaire.

Rahman won the best compilation soundtrack album (for a motion picture, TV or other visual media) for Slumdog Millionaire. His song Jai ho, from the same film, got a trophy in the best song (written for motion picture, TV or other visual media) category.

A Malaysian company launched, the world’s first high-tech machine to help Muslims make their pre-prayer ablution rite without excessively wasting water in line with their faith teachings.

“The (Automatic Wudu’ Washer) AWW will revolutionize the wudu’ in all Islamic countries making wudu’ cleaner, faster and above all saving millions of liters of water,” the company, Inventors AACE Technologies, said on its website.

The ornate, green-colored machine is fully computerized according to its inventors.

It comes with automatic sensors and basins to curb water usage during the rite.

I have lived in Melbourne for over seven years and there is no doubt that the situation has changed for Indians here. Denying racism in Australia is like denying casteism and dowry in India. But there is more to this issue then just blaming the Australian government.

I would like to define the term which has been used again and again, “Indian students”. Who are these students and how are so many of them here all of a sudden? When we talk of overseas students, what comes to mind are students of engineering, bio-physics, medicine, MBA, PhD or some research work.

Kolkata, January 28: Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance has quietly gave a 97% return on its lesser-known pure stock pension plan or Shariah fund in just eight months of its inception.

The pure stock pension plan, which is a niche fund, saw a return of 97% as against a 72% return by the Nifty Index, as on December 31, 2009.