Professor Dr. Qais Aslam ([email protected]) Everyone agrees that Pakistan’s Economy is on life-support and is waiting for IMF to bail it out and there is a fear of the country to default. The Minister of Defense of the PDM government Khawaja Asif has said that the economy is bankrupt or “we are residents of a bankrupt country”, the… Read More »
I noticed a funny thing a few weeks ago. Many articles on the Internet now include an estimate of the amount of time it takes to read the article: a 2-minute read, a 5-minute read, and the maximum I have seen is a 7-minute read. I thought it strange that this information should accompany articles in many major… Read More »
The Indo-Pakistani war of 1965, also known as the second India–Pakistan war, was an armed conflict between Pakistan and India that took place from August 1965 to September 1965. The conflict began following Pakistan’s Operation Gibraltar,which was designed to infiltrate forces into Jammu and Kashmir to precipitate an insurgency against Indian rule. The seventeen-week war caused thousands of casualties on both sides and witnessed the largest engagement… Read More »
Fraudsters target consumers in all sorts of ways, the most common being imposter scams. Examples include romance scams, bogus crisis phone calls from a “grandchild” or text messages that seem to be from Social Security or law enforcement. Fraud is when someone uses deception for personal or financial gain. By far, the most common type of fraud is… Read More »
Mothers and daughters go through so much–yet when was the last time a mother and daughter sat down collectively to write a book together about it all? Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass, both gifted professional writers, prove to be ideal collaborators as they examine their decades of motherhood, daughterhood, and the wonderful, if sometimes fraught,… Read More »
THE guardianship of the Kaaba is still inherited by the sons of Shaybah and their successors — a tradition that has been instituted by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) after the conquest of Makkah the eighth year after Hijrah. Following the Muslim victory, the Prophet entrusted the key of the city to Uthman Bin Abi Talha… Read More »
Last week, as my family and I patiently dug ourselves out of mounds and mounds of snow during Snowmageddon 2016, I kept thinking of how white the world was around us. Everywhere we turned, there was snow – and not the dirty, been-on-the-road-too-long-kind, but rather the fluffy-want-to-make-an-igloo-and-snowman-kind of snow. But there was one thing that stood out for… Read More »
Ibn Al Qayyam quoted Imam Shafi’ee who said: Four matters bring strength to the body, eating meat, smelling perfume, taking baths even without the intercourse & wearing Kittan (Linen). Four matters weaken the body, sexual intercourse, depression, drinking water repeatedly while the stomach is empty & consuming sour foods in excess. Four matters strengthen the sight / vision,… Read More »
Abu Ayyub Al-Ansari relates that Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) says: “Whoever fasts the month of Ramadan and then follows it with six days of fasting in the month of Shawwal, it will be as if he had fasted the year through.” (Sahih Muslim, 1163) The month of Shawwal is singled out for the observance of extra… Read More »
Good afternoon everybody. As you will gather from that [title] we’ve all seen the film, but do we really know the true story behind the Great Escape? Hopefully today you’ll be better informed when you leave here about what actually happened, rather than the Hollywood version of what happened. Exactly 65 years ago today, at about 10:15, on… Read More »