"2013 has been a year of tremendous progress. I am optimistic that paediatric TB will no longer be 'the neglected of the neglected'. With help of UNITAID and US Agency for International Development (USAID) we are embarking on significant changes in this direction” said Dr Melvin Spigelman, President

According to the recently released WHO Global TB Report 2013, 450,000 people fell ill with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and 170,000 died from the disease in 2012 alone. China, India and the Russian Federation have the highest burden of MDR-TB followed by 24 other countries. Although the number o

The complex transition in Egypt is being hindered by militants within the Muslim Brotherhood, terrorist groups in the Sinai region, other Islamist groups which are sympathetic towards the Muslim Brotherhood, increasing sectarianism aimed at persecuting the Christian community and increasing hostilit

The government of Syria is looking more secure in recent times compared with any other period since Gulf and NATO led nations supported sectarian forces and various terrorist groups against this country. Of course, daily terrorism in Syria and brutal Takfiri and al-Qaeda led affiliate forces are sti

This is Part III of my essay on Obama’s War with Assad. In Part II I asserted that the Russian president Vladimir Putin, having learned what happened in Libya and having experienced his own battle with Chechen insurgents, in the last minute he became the savior of President Obama’s credibility. Ther

Doing journalism in the country like Pakistan, which is dominated by Muslim religious extremist, is not easy, especially when you write about religious minorities. Pakistan is perhaps ranked the third most dangerous country for reporting. The country also has one of the highest numbers of journalist

Globally around 300 million people suffer from asthma, yet for many of them living in low- and middle-income countries access to quality-assured, affordable asthma essential medicines still remains a distant dream. This was revealed in a study conducted by Dr Zaheer Babar from the School of Pharmacy

North Korea is a real Frankenstein state of permanent control and terror. The ‘Prince-in-Power’ already has enough nuclear material to destroy Seoul and the South using some primitive, dirty bomb-style devices. It is still unclear whether the bombs he claims to have assembled are actual atomic bombs

India has certainly come a long way forward in its response to providing access to standard WHO recommended anti-TB treatment through Directly Observed Treatment Short course (DOTS) to more than 14.2 million (1.42 crores) people across the country. Yet TB continues to remain one of the key public he

Pastor Paul Ciniraj of Paul Ciniraj Ministries in India, describes the tragic cycle of prostitution that Dalit (depressed community) girls, as young as 10-years-old, are forced into by their own families in Rajasthan State.
The girls are mostly aged between 12 and 15, though some are as young as 1

The so-called dispute vis-à-vis Jammu and Kashmir has two aspects to be analyzed historically and scientifically. Firstly, the external factor which involves Pakistan and China both though Bangladesh as a splinter off Pakistan is also a shareholder in the so-called dispute. Secondly, the internal in

The al Shabab’s target shooting of non-Muslim shoppers in the Nairobi Mall adds an expressly religious dimension to the most heinous phenomenon of terrorism. It renders the global Muslim community a tacit and unsolicited ally of the terror outfits and is designed to globalize Islamophobia, fuel anti

Terrorists and sectarians aided and assisted by feudal Sunni monarchs in the Gulf have targeted a predominantly Christian and Druze part of Damascus. If this carnage was happening in any other nation then America, France, Turkey and the United Kingdom would be quick to condemn terrorism. However, th

In June this year four Shia Muslims were brutally murdered after Salafists and other radical Sunni elements incited hatred towards this minority religious community in Egypt. Images of the brutal attack quickly emerged on social media whereby the disturbing scenes show a Shia Muslim being terrorized

Mulla Ali Qari was a famous Islamic scholar and jurisprudent. He was born in Herat, now in Afghanistan, and died in Makkah in 1606. He was the author of a number of books. One of these is titled Mirqat ul-Masabih, which is a commentary on a Hadith collection titled Mishkat ul-Masabih. In the chapter