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Sami yousaf
Sami Yusuf was born in the month of July 1980. He was born into a musical family of Azeri origin and thus music played an integral part in his life. Sami’s initial training came from his father, who is an internationally renowned composer, poet, and a multitalented musician.Sami grew up in London and learnt to…
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Pakistan textile traders end strike
Commodity traders in Pakistan were slightly relieved Monday after All Pakistan Textile Mills Association called off spinning industry’s strike to protest against 15% regulatory duty on the export of yarn. Strike was called off after APTMA leadership met with Prime Minister of Pakistan Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani. Declaring the end of strike, APTMA Chairman Ejaz…
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Faithful killers, fatal worship by Malik Rashid
Friday prayer congregations at two Ahmadiyya mosques were attacked by grenades, gun-fire and suicide-bombers in Lahore. More than 90 individuals lost their lives and over 100 suffered wounds. Taliban of Punjab claimed responsibility. Journalists reporting the hour long brutality might have been surprised to know that Ahmadiyya worship places cannot be referred as ‘mosques’, according…
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Every hero is a villain! Love and hate for historic characters
“F*** Gandhi. Long Live Bhagat Singh”, says an Internet headline. ‘Bhagat Singh was nothing but a terrorist’, contends another group of Indians. Freedom-lovers insist, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was a ‘traitor, a British tout’. There are those who maintain that fighters of the war of independence in 1857 were ‘in gratuitous, unfaithful, disloyal, brutes that…
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Aafia Siddiqui Says She Is Not Anti-Semetic
As the high profile trial of Dr.Aafia Siddqui began in New York the courtroom was filled beyond capacity with a growing number of supporters, journalist, and legal observers. It was so crowded that 2 overflow rooms had to be established. Also sitting amongst the crowd in support of Siddiqui was one of the most famous…
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No Exculpatory Evidence Against Aafia Siddiqui
Two FBI experts who testified last week in high profile trial of Dr.Aafia Siddqui in New York conceded that there were no finger prints on the M4 rifle, and it is not certain that the rifle was even fired. Aafia Siddiqui is accused of snatching the Chief Warrant Officer’s M4 Assault Rifle and firing it…