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Since pre-history there has been a proliferation of gods and hence a need to name them. When Judaism abandoned the many in favour of the one (about 4,000 years ago), this ‘one’ god needed no name and thus it was deemed blasphemous to pronounce that name – YHVH or Yahweh or Jehovah. Since ancient/classic Hebrew has no vowel marks nikkud ...

The Wraith ‘What are you doing here, woman? Why are you here?’ ‘This is the world, I am a human being, I belong here.’ ‘What are you doing here, woman? Why is your head not covered?’ ‘My head is covered, How it was made, With grey hair and sorrow.’ ‘What are you doing here, woman? You’re not allowed out on ...

The comparison seems outrageous. And so I am sorry but it is not entirely out of place and time. The struggle led by Dr. Mehsud is no less revolutionary as far as its results are concerned than the one that was led by our (including Dr Mehsud’s) great and only “true leader”, Bacha Khan, the pride of Afghans, a century ...

A young maiden, ang’lic beauty, half my age, Sitting long hours with me Knee to knee; Hurls on pebbles to the rotting water pool; Agitates the age-old calm Of the surface of the pond; Raises ripples in the filthy, stinking flood That chase each other in lazy close sequence To the utmost marshy bounds. Hibernated frogs and toads in the ...

QUETTA PAKISTAN: Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been wounded in Pakistan in a shootout between senior members of the outlawed movement, Taliban sources said on Wednesday, while the group’s main spokesman denied it. Mansour, whose authority is disputed by rival factions, was wounded when fighting broke out over strategic issues in the house of senior leader called Mullah Abdullah ...

LOS ANGELES: At least two heavily armed attackers opened fire on a banquet at a social services centre for the disabled Wednesday, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others in a precision assault that looked “as if they were on a mission,” authorities said. The armed couple suspected of the attack were identified by authorities on ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Ministry of Interior on Tuesday said Taliban and Daesh fighters are being trained in Pakistan and then sent to Afghanistan to fight security forces. Interior Minister Noorulhaq Olomi said insurgents are recruiting the youth and are continuing their attacks on Afghanistan while giving orders from Pakistan. Speaking at an event on Tuesday which saw security forces destroy 19,000 ...

ISLAMABAD: An angry brother shot his elder sister dead because she voted in Pakistani local elections after he had forbidden her to do so, police said today. The murder occurred in the town of Taxila 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of Islamabad on Tuesday, according to officials. Danish Ali, 20, was furious because his sister Asif Noreen, a 32-year old ...

PESHAWAR: Today, Pashtun in Afghanistan and Pakistan remembering their leader Samad Khan Achakzai on his 42nd death anniversary. Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai (1907-1973), having his paternal connection to the Ahmed Shah Abdali’s top general and the conqueror of Panipath battle Barkhurdar Khan Achakzai, got his political inspiration from King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan. Among Pashtuns he is called Samad Khan Baba. ...

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the Rocks, Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow Rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing Madrigals. And I will make thee beds of Roses And a thousand ...