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.
Source: The Local Customs officials on Wednesday said they had confiscated seven kilos of crystal meth – the largest haul of the drug ever found in Germany. The dangerous stimulant was stashed in a delivery of wooden carvings from Nigeria. Read More:
Source: TOI ISLAMABAD: In a day of high drama, former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf fled from the Islamabad high court on Thursday after it had ordered his arrest in a 2007 case and remained closeted in his farmhouse with police blocking access to it. The Islamabad high court dismissed […]
By Phil Stewart REUTERS WASHINGTON | Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:27pm EDT (Reuters) – The United States is dispatching Army planners to Jordan as neighboring Syria’s conflict worsens, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Wednesday, but he signaled deep misgivings about direct American military intervention in the Syrian civil […]
AFP | Apr 18, 2013 JORDAN TIMES DAMASCUS – President Bashar Assad on Wednesday threatened the crisis in Syria could spill over into Jordan, in an hour-long interview with official Al-Ikhbariya channel. “The fire will not stop at our borders; all the world knows Jordan is just as exposed (to […]
ASIF SHAHZAD | AP ARABNEWS Thursday 18 April 2013 ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf and his security team pushed past policemen and sped away from a court in […]
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has urged caution over international calls to arm Syrian rebels and reserved the right for the Jewish state to block the supply of weapons that could be turned against it. Speaking to the BBC, the Israeli prime minister said if advanced arms fell into the hands of […]
Cairo – Throughout the 2000s, several citizens challenged the Egyptian state with a court bid to issue national IDs. Back then, the new computerized IDs would only accept three answers to the religion question: Muslim, Christian, or Jewish. The plaintiffs were Bahai. A number of Islamist lawyers were also present […]
Egypt’s Jewish community has announced that it has elected the daughter of a well-known leftist and nationalist icon to protect its heritage and care for its dwindling, elderly membership. Magda […]
Are we moving from the crash to the bubble, dispensing with that pesky economic recovery thing altogether? The Federal Reserve is well into its third round of “quantitative easing,” in which it buys longer-term assets to bring down long-term lending rates. We are about five and a half years into […]
Source: Indian Express. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to maintain secularism as Bangladesh’s state policy, amid countrywide celebrations Sunday to mark the Bengali New Year, seen by right-wing Islamists as […]
Source: CNN Experts say the bombs used in the deadly attack on the Boston Marathon are typical of a solo terrorist who builds a bomb with a widely available formula. Full Story:
Source: A Times: Most analysis went as follows. The pope is sovereign of the smallest internationally recognized independent state in the world by population; the president of China heads the largest. Yet the size of the population over which the two nations hold sway is oddly similar. There are roughly […]
Source: A Times. By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON – The administration of President Barack Obama should put more emphasis on diplomacy in its quest for a satisfactory resolution of Iran’s nuclear program, according to a major new report released by The Iran Project. The report, endorsed by nearly three dozen former […]
Source: The Local Fare-dodgers, illegal parkers, shoplifters – petty criminals are regularly choosing to go to prison for a few days instead of paying small fines. Now one regional authority is planning more creative punishments to save state money. More:
Source: The Local. More than half of German 15 to 20-year-olds save regularly and almost all of those who took out a loan in 2012 paid it back without a hitch, a study released on Tuesday revealed. More:
Source: ET BY: Humdah Tahir She took the letters and burned them one by one wishing she could set the memories that haunted her to fire too… The box was placed between old grimy paperbacks. It had been there for a long time. She could tell by the layers of […]
Reuters | Apr 15, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will stay in detention despite a judge ordering his release on bail pending a retrial over charges in complicity in the murder of protesters because he still faces other charges, court officials said on Monday. […]
Source: Spiegel Philip Bethge/ DER SPIEGEL The world has been without passenger pigeons since 1914. Now, scientists want to bring them back. Geneticist Ben Novak has embarked on the project and has begun collecting passenger pigeon DNA from natural history museums. His “de-extinction” efforts are not without critics. More:
by Ian Cobain The Guardian Although government promised as much as possible would be made public, no date has yet been fixed for publication. An official report into Britain’s involvement […]
By: Geoffrey Aronson for Al-Monitor Posted on April 12. Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. What is known of the initial efforts of the Obama administration’s ideas about constructing a working diplomatic model for peace between Israel and […]