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Perhaps, Islamic banks can teach its western counterparts some basic principles very much linked to common sense which could enhance their financial stability three years after the credit crisis.

“I will give my life but I won’t bow to terrorists.” The lion of Karachi police and Pakistan’s toughest cop, as termed by ‘Reuters’, SSP CID, Chaudhry Aslam at last ran out of luck. This valiant, dutiful officer embraced martyrdom in a powerful bomb blast — the responsibility of which has been claimed by the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Mohamand Agency — …

Many of the long-held tenets of the energy sector are being rewritten. Major importers are becoming exporters, while countries long-defined as major energy exporters are also becoming leading centres of global demand growth.

The report was not acceptable to Muslims and both the Muslim members of the Committee, Syed Ali Imam and Shoaib Qureshi, refused to sign it. Syed Ali Imam could not attend the meetings of the Committee due to bad health. Introduction The wave of communal harmony between the Muslims and the Hindus in India, created in the early 1920’s by …

According to the Islamic Shariah, an Islamic State cannot impose any taxes upon its Muslim citizens, besides Zakat. As far as the non-Muslims living in an Islamic state are concerned, they become citizens of an Islamic state through an agreement between them and the Islamic state. Taxes upon these non-Muslims shall be governed by the agreement that was mutually agreed …

Islamic teachings consider “Indebtedness” as a detestable phenomenon, which should not be resorted to except in cases of extreme necessity. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) even refused to offer the funeral prayer for a person who died before paying back his loan. Islamic principles require that the Muslims should avoid incurring foreign debts, even if they face some hardships. But our …

1. Antimatter, 2. Californium 252, 3. Painite, 4. Diamonds, 5. Tritium, 6. Taaffeite, 7. Plutonium, 8. LSD 1. Antimatter Cost: $100 trillion per gram Antimatter could possibly fuel spaceships to the planets, and maybe the stars, in the years to come. 2. Californium 252 Cost: $27 million per gram The Californium isotope is used in devices that find layers of …

Meliorating the Ties, Pride of Pakistan , Simply the Geniuses, 63 Not out FOREVER!, Whither Democracy?, Opening New Vistas, The King Reigns Supreme, Our Darkest Hour, Capital Punishment Redux, Back To Square One?   Meliorating the Ties Nov 19: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif went on an official visit to the US. During the visit, he …

For feedback and suggestions, please write to us at: editor@jworldtimes.com adeelniaz78@gmail.com THE PESHAWAR MASSACRE December has been the cruellest month for Pakistan. It dismembered Pakistan in 1971, deprived us of a great, enlightened political leader Benazir Bhutto in 2007, and now it has traumatized us again with the worst-ever tragedy. Words fail to express the grief on this barbarism and …

With threats at her heels, Benazir had always faced opposition from Islamic extremist groups for her liberalism and support for the US’ War on Terror. Well aware she was of the fate that might await her, Ms Bhutto explicitly brushed it off, in spite of insistences from authorities. Rawalpindi’s famous Liaquat Bagh was clad with crimson, green and black, on …