The nation has heard plenty of debate over racial profiling. But there's a form of religious profiling that some young Muslim women in America say they endure whenever they voluntarily wear the hijab. The hijab, also known as the veil, is the headscarf worn by Muslim women around the globe. It's a simple piece of cloth, but it can place young Muslim women in Western countries in difficult situations.
She doesn't want your frosty public stares; the whispers behind her back; ... Read More
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The nation has heard plenty of debate over racial profiling. But there's a form of religious profiling that some young Muslim women in America say they endure whenever they voluntarily wear the hijab. The hijab, also known as the veil, is the headscarf worn by Muslim women around the globe. It's a simple piece of cloth, but it can place young Muslim women in Western countries in difficult situations.
She doesn't want your frosty public stares; the whispers behind her back; ... Read More
Posted By phw On Sunday, August 2nd 2009 In General, Independence Celebrations 2009, Star Pakistanis | Tags: beauty, car, crime, G20, gel, geo, henna, house, interview, ISI, life, love, marriage, memories, News, NIH, office, oic, Pakistan, Pakistani, pakistanihousewife, polic, sharif, sin, STR, thenews, time, tv, US, walk, war, WHO, wife, Women |
I would like to add one more beautiful and amazingly accoumplished lady of Pakistan to the list of "Beautiful, Ageless Women."
Atiqa Odho:Actress/host
I remember her playing a stunning middle class wife in PTV play "Nijjaat". She played the role impressivley. Now after so many years we see her taking interviews of the top personalities of Pakistan. Her ability to ask the right question at he right time and that too in a lively manner made the show popular at Geo tv. ... Read More
Posted By phw On Friday, October 3rd 2008 In General | Tags: car, cars, engineers, house, india, ISI, journalist, media, News, NIH, oic, Pakistan, Pakistani, pakistanihousewife, picture, polic, protest, quote, sin, STR, time, UK, US, WHO, wife |
Tata abandons cheapest car plant
BBC.co.uk
Work at the West Bengal plant was suspended in August
India's Tata group has abandoned plans to build the world's cheapest car in the eastern state of West Bengal.
Tata group chief Ratan Tata said: "We have little choice but to move out of Bengal. We cannot run a factory with police around all the time."
He was speaking after protests in a row over land acquired from local farmers.
The car, the Nano, is expected to cost about 100,000 ... Read More
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Published in The Independent, it is definitely worth reading.
‘Since you were so kind as to greet us in London at Downing Street last month, the President would like to return the favour,” announces Major-General Rashid Qureshi, President Pervez Musharraf’s PR man over the phone. Only in Pakistan could the government’s head of spin be a retired major-general. He is referring to my last encounter with the President on 28 January – when, along with a 2,000-strong, placard-waving, slogan-jeering mob, I ... Read More
Posted By phw On Saturday, February 16th 2008 In World | Tags: Cricket, health, home, humor, Islam, Kids, News, oic, Pakistani Housewife, Poetry, Politics, Recipes, religion, Tips, urdu, Women |
OIC warns of 'bigger conflict'
ISTANBUL (AFP) - The Organisation of the Islamic Conference denounced Friday the reprinting of a profane Danish cartoon of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), warning it could lead to confrontations between Muslims and Christians.
“By reprinting these cartoons we are heading towards a bigger conflict and that shows that both sides will be hostages of their radicals,” OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, a Turk, told AFP in Istanbul.
“It is not a way of improving your rights and exercising ... Read More
