Beaconhouse School System humiliates Bahria University in a football exhibition match Beaconhouse School System played host to the Bahria University Islamabad’s football team this Friday, November 04, 2011. The match was played in the football ground of the H/8 campus, or Margalla campus as it is more commonly known, of the Beaconhouse School System. Beaconhouse […]
Bahria University Islamabad set to face Beaconhouse School System H/8 campus in a football match Bahria University Islamabad campus will be facing Beaconhouse School System H/8 campus Islamabad on Friday, November 3, 2011. The match is reported to be an exhibition match and will be taking at the H/8 campus of the Beaconhouse School System, […]
Nov 3 2011 | Posted in
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Ritual of Slaughter – Part 1 According to Muslims belief, it is obligatory to slaughter animals in the name of God. It is considered part of Islamic law that it is obligatory for a Muslim to perform the practice if his financial condition allows him to do so. However, the religious scholars need to review […]
Nov 1 2011 | Posted in
Opinion,
Pakistan |
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Ritual of Slaughter Slaughtering of humans and animals to please God can be traced back in ancient times. Three thousand years BC, infants and virgin girls were slaughtered and thrown into River Nile to please ‘God of Floods’ so that The Nile did not flood out to destroy their crop. Prophet Ibrahim (AS) on becoming prophet […]
Oct 31 2011 | Posted in
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Decline in the female population causes the ‘wife sharing’ dilemma in India – International Asia’s third largest growing economy, India, isn’t growing too well as far as humanity and morals are concerned. India is pretty much the only country in the world that has a male population more than it’s female population. Whether it is […]
Oct 27 2011 | Posted in
World |
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Jinnah’s Pakistna and the Shariah onslaught – Part 2 The long Afghan war (1979 -1991) is a recent example wherein the Islamic concept of Jihad was invoked in this part of the world to defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. The post 1991 decade saw Afghan tribes and Mujahedeen created by Pakistan and USA engaged in […]
Oct 26 2011 | Posted in
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The Lahore Resolution (23 March 1940) stipulated that Muslim-majority areas “in the north-western and eastern zones of India should be grouped to constitute independent states.” The word “Pakistan” was not used in the resolution, which envisaged the establishment of two or more states. Nevertheless, six years later, a Muslim League convention in Delhi on April […]
Oct 25 2011 | Posted in
Pakistan |
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The haunted Koh-e-Chiltan in Quetta – beauty with a legend Our motherland has been bestowed with my beautiful locations. The Almighty has blessed us with a country that has mesmerizing geographic and topographic features. Not only are the Northern Areas gifted with splendid mountainous scenery, the south western province of Balochistan also boasts of such […]
Oct 22 2011 | Posted in
Pakistan |
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Urdu the Beautiful The beautiful language, once known to be spoken by the cultured elite of the society, rose to popularity during the Delhi Sultanate in the 13th century. After the Ghurids and the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughals also established Urdu as an official language. Many consider Urdu as a mixture of other languages being spoken […]
Oct 18 2011 | Posted in
Editorial,
Pakistan |
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Bulleh Shah’s Verses: the Message of Love and Peace A Sufi poet who dwelled in Pakistan from 1680 to 1758, Bulleh Shah is one of the most revered people in the Sub-continent. According to the history books, Bulleh Shah’s real name was Abdullah Shah. Bulleh was a nickname and it is said that he himself […]
Oct 17 2011 | Posted in
Pakistan,
Society |
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