Women are part of human body. If one part of the body suffers, the whole body suffers. There is no peace in personal life as well as in the life of a nation if any part would suffer. Democracy has brought a new light for repressed classes, but sorrowfully it has not kept its promise for a promised

India took a historic step for control and management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) when the Union Health and Family Welfare Minister of Government of India, Dr Harsh Vardhan formally launched the first-ever nationwide anti-TB drug resistance survey (2014-2015) on 6th September 2014 i

Below is final chapter of the first part of Dr. Stephen Gill,s latest novel The Chhattisgarh. It has more about the theory of detachment, more about the Vedas, the more about the mythology of 5 thousand years old Dandakarnya, the more about Kalpna and more about the central character Reghu and his r

Power vacuum looms for Afghanistan as UN delays date for result of presidential elections to mid-September despite Karzai's plans to leave office next week. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who came to power after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled the Taliban in 2001, has set Tuesday as the deadline

Christians had the largest education and health system in Pakistan at the time of partition until the civil dictator Z A Bhutto nationalized their institutions. Now you can see the incredulous hypocrisy of Pakistan’s school system especially as it affects religious minorities and worse, the girls of

According to a recent brief published by the USCIRF (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom), the overall climate for religious freedom continues to deteriorate, violence against Christians has risen substantially in recent months, and more than 120 Christians have died in the last year

The first estimates of the global burden of TB in children given by the WHO in 2012, suggested that there might be 530,000 children suffering from it. Subsequently there has been an uptake in the research in this field. A recent mathematical modelling study on the burden of childhood TB in 22 high-b

Muslims everywhere continue to protest to show solidarity with Gazans on religious grounds. Recently British foreign minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi resigned from her ministerial post, in protest of the government’s policies related to Gaza and she is being praised by her Muslim fellows especially b

The Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad continues to fight bravely against sectarian and terrorist forces that are sponsored by outside nations. After several years of a brutal conflict sponsored by Gulf and NATO powers it is clear that the destabilization of Syria is leading to the colla

NATO Powers and Gulf nations have sponsored the destabilization of Syria from the earliest period and the consequences of such a brutal and barbaric policy is clear for all to see. The Alawites are being taken to the sword in Syria; Christians are being cleansed and forcibly converted to Islam in bo

It is ironic that Hezbollah (Hizbullah) in Lebanon under His Eminence, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, is more concerned about the plight of Christians and other religious minorities, rather than the so-called democratic West. Indeed, it is abundantly clear that America, France and the United Kingdom are f

The Shia Muslim population is persecuted in nations like Bahrain, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, and in other nations throughout the mainly Muslim world. However, recent events in Egypt and Turkey are setting off alarm bells because despite being small minorities in both nations, it is

The ferocious fighting in the northeastern town Arsal on the Lebanese-Syrian border has resulted in dozens of soldiers killed from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), and forcing thousands of refugees fleeing towards Syrian border as refugees started believing that Syria is more secured than Lebanon. T

Philadelphia: August 8, 2014. (PCP) Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, President of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC have urged government of Canada to support Allama Tahir Ul Qadri on his campaign to revival of true democracy in Pakistan.
Dr. Bhatti condemns appeal of Punjab Government in a letter to revoke cit

We know that nearly one third of the 35 million people living with HIV (PLHIV) have tuberculosis (TB), and 13% of 8.6 million new TB cases every year are HIV positive. Also 1 in 5 HIV associated deaths are due to TB. Moreover PLHIV are 21-34 times more likely to develop active TB disease than person