Why all the shock and horror?

News that Lauren Booth (Tony Blair's sister-in law) has converted to Islam provoked a storm of negative comments. Here she explains how it came about – and why it's time to stop patronising Muslim women

I'm now a Muslim By Lauren Booth

It is five years since my first visit to Palestine. And when I arrived in the region, to work alongside charities in Gaza and the West Bank, I took with me the swagger of condescension that all white middle-class women (secretly or outwardly) hold towards poor Muslim women, women I presumed would More
My Tryst with ‘Marxists’

It was absolutely alien to the society we lived in

Nostalgia By Z.G.M

I am a man of humble origin but born and brought up in a great city- the city of saints. That is how best, I can call my part of city that has been abode of great saints- aborigines and from far of lands in Arabia, Persia and Central Asia. For its skyline dominated by scores of towering minarets, More
Breathing in turmoil

Women in Kashmir relocate their role amidst daily predicaments

Freeze FRAME By Syeda Afshana

Hermione Granger, Harry Potter’s daring and dedicated companion in his battle against evil is not simply an average 11 year old girl. She is a bright student at Hogwarts School, besides a modern manifestation of an ancient archetype, embodied by Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and war. Harry Potter More
Sowing money

Entrepreneurship is answer to unemployment

WHATS UP BY SAJAD BAZAZ

A few days back I received an email seeking information about recently announced “introduction of seed capital fund scheme”. The sender had identified himself as an unemployed agriculture post graduate. Despite having expertise in his field of profession and having enthusiasm to start his own agri More
  • Kashmir

SPCB tightens noose around hospitals

‘Dispose bio-medical waste scientifically or face action’

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Nov 6: After busting the racket of unscientific disposal of bio-medical waste, the Jammu and Kashmir State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) on Saturday issued notices to the major Government and More


  • Srinagar City

Fished out from Dal, driver safe

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Nov 6: A speeding Maruti car on Saturday morning skid off the plush Boulevard and plunged into Dal lake when its driver lost control on the cab. He was rescued by the timely action of cops from More



  • Jammu

JKPM hosts seminar

Jammu: Tributes were paid to Muslims of Jammu who were massacred by fanatics in 1947 at a seminar here on Saturday.   The seminar organized by Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement (JKPM) and attended More


  • PaK

Pakistani rulers have become yes-men of India: Jamaat-e-Islami

TARIQ NAQASH

Muzaffarabad, Nov 6: Top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and representatives of other political parties Saturday asked India to read the writing on the wall and fulfill its commitment of providing right of More


  • Business

Obama gets $10bn deal, 54,000 US jobs

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Mumbai, Nov 6: US President Barack Obama today announced that "several landmark" deals worth USD 10 billion (nearly Rs 44,000 crore) have been reached between the two countries for creating about 50,000 More


  • News

NRKS REMEMBER JAMMU MARTYRS

NISAR THOKER

Islamabad, Nov 6: While urging the US president Barack Obama to fulfill his promise with regard to the settlement of the Kashmir issue, No Resident Kashmiris (NRKs) at a seminar hosted by Pak chapter of More


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