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Teachers 'beat and abuse' Muslim children in British Koran classes Happy and confident children being taught the Koran at the Jamia Chistia mosque in Rochdale, one of 1,600 madrassas that exist in Britain Richard Kerbaj Muslim children are being beaten and abused regularly by teachers at...

India releases details of nine dead Mumbai gunmen Randeep Ramesh in Delhi guardian.co.uk, Tuesday December 9 2008 15.04 GMT Article history Five of the eight militants killed inthe recent attacks in Mumbai Photograph: Reuters Police in Mumbai today released the identities and home...

Facing the truth By Irfan Husain Even in my remote bit of paradise, news of distant disasters filters through: above the steady sound of waves breaking on the sandy beach in Sri Lanka, I was informed by several news channels about the sickening attacks on Mumbai. My Internet connection...

Hidden Travels of the Atomic Bomb December 9, 2008 By WILLIAM J. BROAD In 1945, after the atomic destruction of two Japanese cities, J. Robert Oppenheimer expressed foreboding about the spread of nuclear arms. “They are not too hard to make,” he told his colleagues on the Manhattan...

Deleted: As some feel it was flaming. Sorry to bother.

More Than 160 US, NATO Vehicles Burned in Pakistan By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 6:24 a.m. ET PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Militants blasted their way into two transport terminals in Pakistan on Sunday and torched more than 160 vehicles destined for U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan, in the...

Millions of Chinese graduates out of work By Tania Branigan Friday, 05 Dec, 2008 | 08:44 AM PST | BEIJING: Su Yinyin’s family were thrilled when she won a place at university. As impoverished farmers, they knew it promised a comfortable middle-class life and a giant step up the...

Calling All Pakistanis By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN On Feb. 6, 2006, three Pakistanis died in Peshawar and Lahore during violent street protests against Danish cartoons that had satirized the Prophet Muhammad. More such mass protests followed weeks later. When Pakistanis and other Muslims are...

US wants four ex-ISI officials declared terrorists Thursday, December 04, 2008 By Ansar Abbasi ISLAMABAD: The US has given four names of former ISI officials, including Lt-Gen (retd) Hameed Gul, to the UN Security Council to put them on the list of international terrorists...

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November 23, 2008 MEMO FROM ISLAMABAD Ringed by Foes, Pakistanis Fear the U.S., Too By JANE PERLEZ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A redrawn map of South Asia has been making the rounds among Pakistani elites. It shows their country truncated, reduced to an elongated sliver of land with the big bulk...

Bomb explosions rock Lahore, 3 injured November 23, 2008 | 00:11 IST At least 3 persons were injured when three bombs went off near a stadium and an arts complex in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore late Saturday night. The first two blasts occurred shortly after 10.30 pm outside...

Clinton Decides to Accept Post at State Dept., Confidants Say By PETER BAKER WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton has decided to give up her Senate seat and accept the position of secretary of state, making her the public face around the world for the administration of the man who beat her...

BNP drops Bangladesh poll boycott By Mark Dummett BBC News, Dhaka Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has announced that her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will take part in next month's elections. She says her party will not boycott the 18 December vote as long as it is...

China-Pak N-cooperation needs NSG approval: US 21 Nov 2008, 1727 hrs IST, PTI WASHINGTON: The US has asked China to halt its plan to construct two more nuclear reactors in Pakistan and indicated that any new Sino-Pak cooperation in the atomic field would require "consensus" approval from...

Looks like somali pirates are having a good time

From Life magazine Air India Flight Attendants, India, 1946 Air India flight attendant Monica Gilbert (C) showing flight report to Sikh passenger during trip fr. Dehli to Bombay. Karachi, Pakistan, 1947 Teacher addressing Pakistani male students in freshman English class where...

An article on Xinjiang region history

Looks like PCB is going bankrupt.

Another attempt by china to copy things.