Rafiq A. Tschannen is a Swiss national. He converted to Islam and joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at the age of 16 after reading the German translation of the Holy Qur'an. He worked in 15 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, first as Finance Director in the private industry and later as Chief Executive Officer of NGOs and International Governmental Organizations. He is now devoting his time to The Muslim Times as Editor for Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Switzerland and as Associate Chief Editor.
HONG KONG (CNNMoney) Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso defended his country’s fight against deflation this week, saying that the yen’s decline is an unintended consequence of policies designed to boost growth. Japan is using a combination of monetary policy and government spending in an effort to beat 15 years of […]
TheMuslimTimes Editor for Pakistan Credit: Dawn.com From the Newspaper | Azfar ul-Ashfaque | 14 hours ago KARACHI: In what is being described as a major […]
Source: The Daily Beast The attacks has nothing to do with immigration reform, but partisans are rushing to exploit them anyway. Howard Kurtz examines the false arguments. More:
Source:Phonix via Irfan Khan of Germany. Today on 21.04.2013, at 17.00 houtrs Phönix will broadcast “Roland Berger” awards ceremony in the field of Human Rights. Dr Asma Jahangir of Pakistan has been honoured to get the award for her noble work in the field of “Women Rights in Pakistan” Congratulations to […]
Source: TOI SAO PAULO: The six-day old drama around Nicolas Maudro’s election as Venezuela’s president took a nasty turn on Friday, when he was pushed from the microphone as he delivered his inaugural address. As Maduro was delivering his speech after taking oath as Venezuela’s new president, a man rushed […]
Source:TOI BEIJING: Busy shoppers in Guangzhou city of South China were surprised on Wednesday to see a lesbian couple seeking their blessings as they held their wedding. The couple said they were inspired by this week’s China visit of Iceland Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, a self-proclaimed lesbian who is engaged […]
Source: TOI This is a story of a woman who defied all odds and gave birth to a child. In a foreign country, five-month pregnant Shaheen Ahmad went desperately knocking on doors of different hospitals even as she was losing precious water from her womb. She was told that at […]
Agence France Presse ARABNEWS Sunday 21 April 2013 ISTANBUL: The main international backers of Syria’s opposition gather in Istanbul with the opposition hoping Western and Arab countries will step up […]
Associated Press ARABNEWS Sunday 21 April 2013 ISTANBUL: Families of the victims of an Israeli raid on an aid flotilla yesterday spoke out against compensation talks between Turkey and Israel, […]
Arab News Monday 22 April 2013 While the whole world deplores and condemns this wanton and senseless act of terror in Boston, which claimed 3 innocent lives and injured over […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 21 April 2013 The development and expansion projects in Makkah have not wiped out the holy city’s identity and history, said Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal […]
Source: NY Times: WASHINGTON — With one suspect dead and the other captured and lying grievously wounded in a hospital, the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings turned on Saturday to questions about the men’s motives, and to the significance of an overseas trip one of them took last year. […]
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Source: NBC News via Wasim Sr. A chicken vendor in Kabul, Afghanistan expresses sympathy for Bostonians after the marathon attack.By Ron Mott, Correspondent, NBC News KABUL – After more than three decades of war, you would think Afghans would be desensitized to violent attacks like the Boston Marathon explosion. A Boston-based […]
Source: Reuter via Wasim Sr. (Reuters) – When Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi greets supporters on the Pakistan election trail, he opens his pitch with the kind of promises to the poor that any other politician might make. But behind the reassuring rhetoric lies what his opponents believe is a dangerous agenda […]
Source: The Daily Star The United States has identified forced disappearances, discrimination against marginalised groups, and poor working conditions and labour rights are the significant human rights problems in Bangladesh. In its annual human rights report, the State Department criticised a host of human rights problems in Bangladesh, particularly arbitrary […]
Chidanand RajghattaChidanand Rajghatta, TNN THE TIMES OF INDIA WASHINGTON: Cornered in a boat after gun battles with police had left him injured and bloodied, the teenage brother of a radicalized Chechen who was killed in firefight with Boston police was captured alive on Friday. The finale, which ended the four-day […]
Slain Chechen terror suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was married to middle class college student Katherine Russell, 24. The couple have a three-year-old daughter called Zahara Tamerlan spent every weekend with Katherine’s […]
April 19, 2013 The University of Lausanne has carried out a new kind of experiment aimed at better understanding ants’ behaviour. Barcodes glued on each individual enable researchers to monitor […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 20 April 2013 Saudi student Abdulrahman Al-Harbi, who was injured in the second explosion at the Boston Marathon bombings, said US authorities’ questioning at the hospital […]