Man claiming to be ’11th caliph’ in Khanewal held over blasphemy charges
Source: The Express Tribune Police in Khanewal on Monday arrested a man claiming to be a pir (faith healer) and put him behind bars on the charges of blasphemy. The arrest […]
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Zubair Khan
" Holder of three bachelor (honours) degrees in administration, management and strategic studies. Possess more than 40 years of experience on various managerial and adminstrative posts of private and public organizations. Contributes to Urdu and English periodicals regularly. Currently engaged as in charge Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Croatia
Satan is attacking the Catholic Church
Source: CT The devil is alive and well and working overtime to undermine the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis says. In fact, the pope is so convinced that Satan is to blame for the sexual abuse crisis and deep divisions racking the Church that he has asked Catholics around the […]
Western countries must give Asia Bibi asylum, say Christian campaigners
Source: CT ReutersBibi’s daughters pose with an image of their mother while standing outside their residence in Sheikhupura located in Pakistan’s Punjab Province. Christians campaigning for the release of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman on death row for blasphemy, are calling upon Western countries to offer her asylum. The […]
Khashoggi and bin Laden’s paths diverged
Source: CNN I first came to know Khashoggi when I was reporting on Osama bin Laden. As young men, Khashoggi and bin Laden knew each other well because Khashoggi was the first journalist from a major Arab news organization to profile bin Laden when he was fighting the Soviets in […]
Amazon scheme supports Islamic extremists
Source: The Times. Haitham al-Haddad is particularly admired by young, politically active Muslims Amazon has agreed to fund a hardline British charity whose leading ideologue supports child marriage, female genital mutilation and stoning people to death for adultery. Under its charitable programme, the internet giant will make donations to the […]
Muslim girl tied to tree, brutally beaten up for eloping with Hindu man
Source: ET The Hindu man called the victim’s father and informed him of his daughter’s whereabouts. PHOTO COURTESY: TWITTER/@Neha_Social An 18-year-old Muslim girl was tied to a tree and brutally beaten up for eloping with a Hindu man from the Indian state of Bihar on Saturday. According to NDTV, She […]
“Yes, what can I do? God loves him more.”‘
Source: CT The church where more than 80 Indonesian children were studying the Bible has moved about two kilometres from where it stood on Friday last week, before disaster struck. ReutersPoliceman investigate the ruins of the church at Jono Oge village, Sigi, where more than 80 children may have died. […]
Human sexuality: What does the science say?
Source: CT What science can tell us about human sexuality is the subject of an important day conference being held in London on December 8, 2018. This event is likely to be of interest to anyone who would like to hear some of the country’s leading experts explain what the […]
God a ‘product of human weakness’
Source: CT A letter by Albert Einstein has sold for £49,000 A letter by Albert Einstein, in which he calls God the “product of human weakness” and the Bible a collection of “primitive legends,” is to be sold for between $1 million and $1.5 million. The letter, dated to January […]
Ahmadiyya Mosques in Germany remained open the whole day for Public
By Zubair Khan For many years 03rd October is celebrated as the day of German unification. More than two decades ago both parts of Germany got unified this day. AMJ […]
Ahmadiyya Charity Walk in Bensheim Germany
By: Zubair Khan Pictures: Mobashar Khan Auxiliary Organisation Majlis Ansarullah comprising male members belonging to Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat above 40 years of age is extremely active in organising charity walks through out Germany. With these events it promotes healthy activities in the society. Along with integration such events also facilitate […]
Islam, Europe and the magic of fashion
Source: Dawn It’s a truth universally acknowledged: Europe has a difficult relationship with Islam, immigration and refugees. Populists, nationalists, racists dominate the political landscape, toppling traditional political parties from their pedestals, striking fear into the hearts of liberal and progressives. It’s all downhill. The far right is setting the agenda. […]
Imran has managed to fool even the educated middle class.
Source:Dawn Pakistan has mostly seen traditional populism where politicians rail against non-identity-based elites. Bhutto was partly a populist, for he mixed serious socialist ideology with populist gimmicks. Benazir and Nawaz often used populist themes to fool the people. But Imran is Pakistan’s first purely populist leader. No leader since Bhutto […]
India’s top court says adultery no longer criminal offence
Source. Dawn Adultery is no longer a crime, India’s top court ruled on Thursday, declaring a colonial-era law that punished the offence with jail time unconstitutional and discriminatory against women. The more than century-old law prescribed that any man who slept with a married woman without her husband’s permission had […]
A deadly storm is coming in Syria
Source: CNN In a Salisbury restaurant — not far from the where the nerve agent Novichok had been used by what Britain suspects were Russian operatives — I had dinner where a man I at first took to be a bouncer turned out to be a magician. Several times during […]
Dr Abdus Salam’s biopic is a happy film… if you don’t have a conscience
Source: Dawn It wasn’t planned to be this way, but the coincidence is almost too perfect: the biopic Salam – The First ****** Nobel Prize Winner played at the DC South Asian Film Festival (DCSAFF) on the day that the newly-elected government of Pakistan asked distinguished economist Atif Mian to […]
Compassion is at the core of every religion, but we don’t hear about it: Karen Armstrong
Source: Dawn Compassion requires you to dethrone yourself from the centre of your world and put others in your place. This was the point that eminent historian and author Karen Armstrong focused on and kept coming back to in her lecture titled ‘The need for compassion in a fractured world’ […]
Swiss region of St Gallen votes to ban ‘burqa’ in public places
Source: Aljazeera.com The Swiss region of St Gallen has voted in favour of a “burqa ban”, prohibiting all face-covering garments in public spaces, a decision that a local Islamic organisation has termed “Islamophobic”. In a referendum on Sunday in the northeastern canton of St Gallen, nearly 67 percent of voters approved […]
An Other Way to Introduce Ahmadiyya Islam.
By: Zubair Khan. Pictures: Mobashar Khan. On 20.09.2018 in Ahmadiyya Basheer Mosque Bensheim was a special day. Entirely a different approach was opted to introduce the Ahmadiyya Community. Main guests came from a local school which takes care of children with special needs. Executive Board, teachers and parents included the […]
Upholding minorities’ rights is the responsibility of an Islamic republic: Fawad Chaudhry
Source: Dawn Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday asserted that it is the responsibility of an Islamic republic to uphold the rights of its minorities. Chaudhry’s statement comes a day after he defended the appointment of leading international academic Atif Mian to the government’s Economic Advisory Council amidst a […]