UK: Dangerous Trend:Terrorism attracts youth

Teen charged with terrorism offences
By Michael Holden
LONDON (Reuters) – Police charged a teenager with terrorism offences and possession of an explosive substance on Tuesday after saying officers had found bomb-making equipment at his home.
Andrew Ibrahim, 19, was arrested on April 17 at his house in Bristol. Shortly afterwards bomb disposal experts carried out three small [...]

Pakistan: Tug of war between PML(N) and PPP begins. Musharraf waits in the wings

Tug of war between PML(N) and PPP begins. Musharraf waits in the wings
Election Rhetorics apart now that a coalition government has been formed some peace has descended in the Political arena.
However pulls and pushes are slowly commencing to surface between the PPP and PML(N).
Considering the past history of illtreatment meted out to both the gladiators, [...]

Saudi Arabia: Commission for PVPV cries foul

Media Deliberately Trying to Malign Us, Says Commission Chief
Badea Abu Al-Naja, Arab News
MAKKAH, 30 April 2008 — Western media is deliberately trying to malign the commission for unknown reasons, said the national head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in a wide ranging interview with Arab News.
“Or [...]

Ministers and Ethical conduct : TR Baalu brazens it out

Using ministerial office for personal aggrandizement and nepotism are standard features of any politician.
TR Balu a minister in the central government, belonging to the DMK party from Tamil Nadu is no exception and has flatly refused to accept that he has committed any wrong in pressurising the Petroleum Ministry through the PMO.
Baalu issue rocks LS; [...]

Islam misunderstood

Islam misunderstood
 S M Murshed
 
       The public at large has grave misconceptions about Islam. These were initiated by the western media and then repeated ad lib till they assumed the character of axiomatic truth, which then became a part of one’s vocabulary. The principal myth propagated is that Islam exhorts its followers to jehad [...]

Pakistan: Will Musharraf be impeached?

‘Musharraf may be impeached if MPs want’

 

     Islamabad: Contending that all policy matters should be decided in parliament, Pakistan National Assembly’s newly-elected first woman speaker, Fehmida Mirza, has said President Pervez Musharraf may be impeached by a two-thirds majority if MPs favour such a move. 
  
        “If parliamentarians want to impeach Musharraf, they may do [...]

Pakistan:AQ Khan appeals for release from confinement

      For Pakistanis AQ Khan is a Hero. 
       Will the new regime continue to keep him under house arrest against popular demand? Of course sentiments apart he is not the ‘Man of the Moment’ at present as the former Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry who has been released and brought back to Islamabad.

AQ Khan [...]

1984: Anti Sikh Riots : Prosecution can investigate case against police officers

1984: Anti Sikh Riots : Psrosecution can investigate case against police officers
       “It is clarified that the prosecution is at liberty to investigate the case and may file separate chargesheet against such police officers,” Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar said, while disposing of an application seeking to implead some police officers as accused.  
         Public [...]