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Man mag von Angela Merkel`s Politik halten, was man möchte. Aber die europäische Vision, die sie mit ihrer Willkommenskultur verband, sollte nun nicht an nationalen Alleingängen scheitern. Die Mitgliedsstaaten der Europäische Union sind schnell dabei, wenn es gilt, von Brüssel Gelder zu requirieren, aber wenn es um die Solidarität und gemeinsames Handeln geht, steht die Bundeskanzlerin schnell alleine da. Beharrlicher ...

Book Review: Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghan frontier, by Aisha Ahmad & Roger Boase, London: Saqi Books, 2003, 368pp. Book contents include Preface, List of Plates, Folkloristic Analysis, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index of Tale Types & Folk Motifs.  Commentary by Angelina Merisi The long-standing indigenous tradition of storytelling, folktales, fables and verse narratives  has constituted a means of  didactic communication, underpinning ...

KABUL: US Army General John W. “Mick” Nicholson on Wednesday took command of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, warning Taliban militants to renounce insurgency. The change of command ceremony took place at the NATO’s Resolute Support Mission headquarters in Kabul where Gen. Nicholson replaced outgoing US and NATO forces commander Gen. John Campbell. Top military and civil leaders ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah promised that the government will not comprise on women’s rights as efforts are underway to revive peace talks with the anti-government armed militant groups. In his speech during an event to mark the International Women’s Day, Abdullah said as the government is preparing for peace there will not be any compromise on women’s ...

In early days of Islam Madrassa was considered a source of both Islamic and secular knowledge. In the early madrassa system clerics did not teach lonely those subjects which were related to Islam like Tafseer (Interpretation of Holy Quran), Hadith (thousands of sayings of Prophet Muhammad), Fiqh (Islamic Law), but also taught subjects like English, astronomy, architecture, physics, literature, and ...

Teachers are the most important school-based determinant of students’ academic success. However,teachers in Pakistan perform multiple duties in his lifetime apart from teaching. There are two types of non-teaching duties:govt imposed, and arbitrary. The first include polio drives, exams and centralized marking,elections,census,relief activities in disasters ,inspections of schools with executives ,etc.The second comprise side  business ventures, teachers unions, school  administrative ...

Student politics is a distinctive feature of Pakistani universities and colleges. Ostensibly, student politics in Pakistan is embraced to prepare a young cadre of political leadership that may in a better way confront future political challenges. As a result, since the inception of Pakistan there have emerged two opposing polls of political unions: The leftist like Awami League Student Union, ...

The beheading of a child by an Uzbek woman in Russia sent shockwaves globally after reports along with the disturbing footage of the woman appeared in the media showing her carrying the severed head of the child. Soon after her arrest by Russian police, the woman appeared in Moscow court, making a distressing comment to media on the way to ...

Secretary of State John Kerry, Pakistan Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz, center, and others, participate in the US-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue meeting at the State Department in Washington. ─ AP WASHINGTON: US and Pakistani officials are still deliberating on the contents of a joint statement that was supposed to be issued after the sixth meeting of their strategic dialogue on Monday ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal has said the Afghan Taliban support and want peace, expressing optimisms that the group will likely participate in peace negotiations with the Afghan government in the near future. Citing persistent issues the Afghan peace process is facing, Zakhilwal said “I am confident we will soon be talking to the Taliban and ...