Written for Muslims Times by Abdul Alim: In the hyper righteous hype before the current elections, the chorus of political experts, anchor analysts and pseudo liberal moralists kept exhorting the nation to go to vote and prove that the nation stands united against Taliban. Well the nation went to vote in […]
Source: http://swlondoner.co.uk The Muslim Association is an international organisation which was founded in the small Indian town of Qadian in 1889. They hold exhibitions and talks all over the world to tell […]
Source: http://blog.tehelka.com During a match in the 1989 India-Pakistan cricket series, K Srikanth started protesting after he was declared out leg-before-the-wicket. Imran Khan, a tiger in the making, gave him a […]
Source: www.dailybulletin.com BEVERLY HILLS — On the same day that Pakistan parliamentary elections were taking place, the leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community delivered a message of peace, unity and separation […]
Sheikh M. Salih Al-Munajjid ARABNEWS Friday 10 May 2013 AND Allah has made for you in your homes an abode…” (Al-Nahl 16:80) The home is a blessing. Here, Ibn Katheer […]
AMMAN — Hundreds of Jordanians participated in protests across the country on Friday against Israel’s arrest of the top cleric in Jerusalem, calling for the “liberation” of Al Aqsa Mosque. […]
by Taylor Luck, JORDAN TIMES AMMAN/MAFRAQ — Brief clashes erupted between Jordanian and Syrian border forces on Friday, security sources claim, as hundreds of Syrians fled to Jordan. The brief […]
Source: ET and electronic Media. According to the projected election results based on incoming data, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will emerge victorious with 103 seats, followed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) with 32 seats. The PPP is expected to take around 25 seats. More:
Source: NY Times. Yet the birth of Pakistan was not auspicious for minorities. The original claim of Pakistan — religious equality — was the first claim proved false. Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, though he became the first foreign minister, was hounded by religious conservatives, who branded him an apostate because of […]
By Katharine Houreld and Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD | Sat May 11, 2013 2:41pm EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/11/us-pakistan-election-idUSBRE9490V620130511 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif, seeking to become prime minister for a third time, appeared far ahead of his rivals in Saturday’s election, according to a partial count of votes cast. The election, in which […]
Source: Ahmadiyya Press Desk London The Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered an historic Friday Sermon on 10 May 2013 from the Baitul Hameed Mosque in Chino, California, as his first visit to the West Coast of the United States continued.During […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan credit:Nation He happens to be the first army chief who actually went to a polling station to vote rather than have a ballot delivered […]
MOSCOW – After marathon meetings with Secretary of State John Kerry here this week, the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, hinted that Moscow might finally pressure President Bashir al-Assad of […]
Biblical tradition holds that northern Iraq is the land of Cain and Abel. Across post-war Iraq, the ancient parable of fratricide seems to be playing out in a contemporary context: Muslim brothers killing Muslim brothers in spates of violence between the Sunni and Shia sects rippling out in waves across […]
Has the Western world lost God? Author Mary Eberstadt thinks so and she takes a fresh approach to the question in her book, How the West Really Lost God. It’s long […]
Source: NY Times By Manan Ahmed Asif, an assistant professor of history at Columbia, is the author of “Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination.” JUST after the […]
Police kept more than 2,000 protesting ultra-Orthodox men away from a women’s service at the Western Wall. JERUSALEM — A women’s prayer service at Israel’s holy Western Wall Friday was […]
Since Imran Khan revealed his feelings about a minority Muslim group in Pakistan, some young voters’ opinions of him have soured. KARACHI, Pakistan — For the last two years, former cricketing superstar Imran Khan has been trumpeting talk of change to Pakistan’s public. Standing in front of beloved national monuments […]
The US is to return more than a dozen illegally smuggled dinosaur skeletons to Mongolia. The announcement follows the handing over to Mongolian officials on Monday of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus […]
Smithsonian.com To be honest, I’ve never associated motherhood with science. I assume this has everything to do with the fact that I’m one of eight kids, and while I’m sure we were a study in chaos theory, my mother didn’t have much time to nail the concept and work it […]