Pakistan police is arresting a political activist to stop the nationwide protest against the government. It is evident that politicians have not learnt any lesson from past and heading towards a disaster once again.

According the American Religious Identification Survey 2008 released by Trinity College reveals that the U. S. population continues to show signs of becoming less religious, with one out of every five Americans failing to indicate a religious identity in 2008.
The main highlights of the study are:

Baptists, who constitute the largest non-Catholic Christian tradition, have increased their numbers by two million since 2001, but continue to decline as a proportion of the population.

Mormons have increased in numbers enough to hold their own proportionally, at 1.4 percent of the population.
The Muslim proportion …

Major Sebastian Morley, former commander of Special Air Service troops in Afghanistan spoke for the first time after he resigned in protest in late 2008 over the use of lightly armoured Land Rovers in war zones. He said:
The operations that we are conducting are so worthless. We hold tiny areas of ground in Helmand and we are kidding ourselves if we think our influence goes beyond 500 metres (yards) of our security bases.  It’s just crazy to think we hold that ground or have any influence on what goes on beyond the …

More than 100,000 young women were killed in fires in India in a single year, and many of those deaths were tied to domestic abuse. Young Indian women are more than three times as likely to be killed by fire as their male compatriots, according to an article published on the Web site of the British medical journal, The Lancet. The victims largely fell within a 15 to 34-year age group.
Domestic abuse is a serious problem in India. Women are sometimes killed in disputes over dowries; often in such disputes …

Intelligence and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officers have arrested Touhidul Alam following a raid in the capital. He is the prime accused in the events at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters last week according to RAB spokesman M. Kamruzzaman.
The government of Bangladesh  deployed soldiers across the country to hunt for border guards who fled after a bloody mutiny left at least 148 people dead or missing.  Home Minister Shahara Khatun said the soldiers will remain in the field “as long as necessary’’ as they help police and local authorities search for …

Muslims in the United States have a much more positive outlook on life