CNN: by Monica Sarkar — The gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi in December 2012 marked a sharp turning point for the debate on women’s rights in India. The protests that exploded nationwide following the incident brought the issue forcefully to the political […]
Dawn: It could have been just another ordinary patient arriving at an eye clinic for treatment. Abdul Rauf, a 20-something resident of Badami Bagh Lahore, took his father to Dr. Ali Haider’s clinic. A delay at the clinic ticked him off to such an extent that he planned to kill Dr Ali […]
Source: ET FBI agent Joel Cox. KARACHI: Even after hours of arrest, investigators failed to decode information from the devices belonging to a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent arrested at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Express News reported on Thursday. FBI agent Joel Cox was travelling from Karachi to Islamabad […]
Source: The Jakarta Globe Jakarta. Indonesia is not a Muslim country and any efforts to turn it into one must be resisted, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday as […]
Source: pakteahouse.net | Obaidullah Khan If you are living in a wooden cottage and see someone setting the very next wooden cottage on fire, what would you do? If you sit quietly and […]
Source: NY Times: BANGKOK — A Thai court on Wednesday ordered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra removed from office, a highly divisive move and a victory for the powerful antigovernment movement that has sought to overthrow the government in Bangkok for the last six months. The Constitutional Court ruled that Ms. […]
theguardian: by Nesrine Malik — Just as Muslims need to expand tolerance for non-belief into the public sphere by challenging the structures that define this space, westerners energised by the ex-Muslim’s fate need to see that there is more than one model of not believing in God. Saudi Arabia recently declared […]
Huff Post: by Heather Mcllvaine— “Clergy are not open to reform experiences which are pro-women,” wrote Solanki. “Muslim women in Pakistan enjoy more legal protection than Indian Muslim women.” MUMBAI, India (RNS) Khatoon Shaikh had no formal education, never worked outside the home and lived in the kind of neighborhood […]
The Friday Times: When two unbridled forces clash, the debate around it will naturally degenerate. Hamid Mir was targeted and seriously injured. It is a miracle he survived. There is also no doubt that he is one of the most well informed and courageous journalists in Pakistan. He suspects that […]
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STORY SUMMARY The Syrian border is just a few miles north of the processing station for refugees in Rabah al-Sarhan. Syrian rebel commanders had invited me to travel with them inside their country through a crossing point near there, but the Jordanian government emphatically said no. So this account is […]
JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned the attacks on Muslims in which 32 were killed, including women and children, in the Indian state of Assam. OIC Secretary-General […]
Source: firstpost.com RAHIM YAR KHAN Pakistan (Reuters) – The mob arrived at around midnight, brandishing clubs. They smashed statues, looted gold artifacts and then set the Hindu temple in Pakistan ablaze. […]
113. To Observe Prayer is a great Virtue [2:178] It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East or the West, but truly righteous is he who believes in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Book and the Prophets, and spends his money […]
Huff Post: by Brianna Sacks — MUMBAI, INDIA– The bell rings, and nearly 700 Muslim students pour fromAnjuman-I-Islam school’s worn, stone buildings onto a dusty quad. Their plain, blue-and-white, government-sponsored uniforms mask the reality that 97 percent of these secondary school students come from ghettos, slums and illiterate families. Despite the […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan to set up polio vaccination points at airports Pakistan will set up mandatory polio immunisation points at its international airports in response to recommendations by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the health ministry said Tuesday. The WHO had warned on May 5 that the crippling disease has re-emerged as […]
Source The daily Times via Nasim Malik Death brings no respite either. In 2012, the tombstones of more than 100 graves were razed by 12 to 15 armed men. The graveyard belonged to the Ahmedi community and the verdict given by the terrorists was that the use of verses of […]
Story Summary Just as Leen Arbid entered the front gate of the Damascus Opera House, a potent symbol of the Assad family’s decadeslong authoritarian rule over Syria, she heard a deafening bang. Mortar attacks have become daily occurrence in the Syrian capital of some 2million, often killing more people than […]
Blurring the line between reality and fiction, a former member of a terrorist group has made a movie slamming those in the Kingdom who recruit young Saudis to fight abroad. […]