Death toll from Karachi blasts reaches 33: Sagheer

KARACHI: Death toll from twin- bombings in Karachi on Friday, has reached 33, outmoded wellbeing minister thought Saturday.

Dr. Sagheer Ahmed, Health Minister of Sindh province of which Karachi is the investment, thought with the aim of several other injured died of wounds in hospitals.

He thought with the aim of a tote up of 167 nation were injured and 89 are still being treated in government and secretive hospitals.

Co-op to make juice from apples that inspired Newton

The rare apples were purchased from the Brogdale Horticultural Trust. The Trust is in the process of moving its National Fruit Collection to Reading University, and decided to sell three identical collections of its rarer apples in a bid to ensure their survival.

The Co-operative bought one of the three collections 18 months ago, and went to grow and harvest the apples on its own fruit farm in Tillington, Herefordshire.

THE GUY WHO KNEW THE OPPORTUNITY:

Congress president Maulana Abul Kalam Azad gave the following interview to journalist Shorish Kashmiri for a Lahore based Urdu magazine, Chattan, in April 1946. It was a time when the Cabinet Mission was holding its proceedings in Delhi and Simla. Azad made some startling predictions during the course of the interview, saying that religious conflict would tear apart Pakistan and its eastern half would carve out its own future.

My huge, fat Pakistani blessing.

If past Thanksgivings are any indication, we should be past the turkey coma by now.

But we’re probably still nursing an Eid hangover.

This year, sacrifice and consumption collided for Muslim Americans. The blackest shopping day coincided with Eid ul-Adha, one of two major Islamic holidays.

following the Kerry-Lugar-Berman Bill

The ongoing militant attacks against Pakistan’s civilians, law enforcement and military signal the need not only for increased security in the country but also for addressing the underlying problems that lead to extremism, such as poverty, illiteracy, joblessness and lack of education.

It is these problems that the Kerry-Lugar-Berman Bill was meant to help alleviate, in cooperation with the Pakistani government, by giving Pakistan $7.5 billion in non-military aid over the next five years.

settle the “infidels” question in Islam.

Despite the substantial number of scholarly works and news stories to the contrary, many people still have the unfortunate misconception that Muslims cannot tolerate, coexist, or cooperate with followers of other religions. This is partly because Muslim extremists themselves often (mis)use Qur’anic verses to justify acts of violence against non-Muslims.

Simply put, these interpretations are wrong. In fact, many verses in the Qur’an call for friendship, fair treatment and cooperation with non-Muslims but are ignored by those wishing to create division in order to fan the flames, so to speak.

(Pakistan’s Journey from a Nation to a Nation-State) HAS PAKISTAN COME?

Colonel Jaffery narrating the migrations of 1947 writes, “A mutilated old man reached Pakistan on a train and asked him, has Pakistan come? When told it had, he closed his eyes and died’. His destination: The Dreamland of Pakistan.

In an emotional and controversial address to his constituency, the President of Pakistan, Mr. Asif Ali Zardari referred to the country as Sindhu Desh. In his fiery and reactive speech, this was perhaps the only silver lining. Deliberately or otherwise, he had touched a very sensitive issue of nationhood.

Clinton offers U.S. aid to help boost Muslim ties

MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered aid on Tuesday to boost ties with the Muslim world and urged Israel, the Palestinians and Arab countries to move beyond recrimination in the search for peace.

“We are determined and persistent in the pursuit of that goal,” she said in a speech at a development forum in Morocco attended by Arab ministers.