Story Summary Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah issued a royal decree on Monday that punishes citizens who fight in conflicts outside the kingdom, with prison sentences ranging from three to 20 years in jail. Many young Saudi men appear to have been encouraged to join the fight in Syria by […]
Abbas, in an interview published by the paper on Sunday, shifted from his insistence on a three-year time frame for Israel’s withdrawal from occupied territories under any future peace […]
In a statement issued at the fourth session of the OIC’s Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC), on Sunday here, Madani said that current international human rights laws are based on Western values. He said the OIC was looking particularly at limitations on freedom of expression, gender equality, applying […]
By Qasim Rashid (RNS) Sentenced for professing his atheism, Alexander Aan was recently released after 18 months in an Indonesian prison. Masood Ahmad has already served over two months in a Pakistani prison for reading the Quran as an Ahmadi Muslim. Pastor Saeed Abedini languishes in an Iranian prison for preaching […]
Source: NY Times via Wasim Sr LONDON — A joke has been circulating among Pakistanis on Twitter: “How to negotiate with the Taliban: Blast. Condemn. Blast. Condemn. Blast. Condemn. #Fail.” It mocks the government’s swiftness at denouncing terrorist attacks while doing too little to stop them. In 2013 alone, the […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comment: The title has been changed by the Muslim Times. Source: Pakistan Today By Humayun Gauhar The Taliban will extract a huge dowry from the government without giving anything in return When almost everyone was expecting Nawaz Sharif to announce a military operation against the Taliban, […]
by Fida M. Hassnain (Author) , Suzanne Olsson (Author) An amazing first-hand journey to Kashmir-a look into the evidence that Jesus survived crucifixion-proof that he lived and died in Kashmir and is buried in the famous tomb known as Roza Bal. Meet the family who claim that Yuzu Asaph, Jesus, is their ancestral grandfather. Learn […]
The shopping boom has begun in Jeddah, the gateway to the Two Holy Mosques, with the arrival of thousands of Umrah pilgrims in the city. Thanks to the electronic system […]
February 03, 2014 12:15 AM By David Ignatius The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY Hoping to understand the current Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in human terms, I made a visit last week to a Palestinian farmer named Hammadeh Kashkeesh, whom I first met 32 years ago. First, try to imagine the landscape, and […]
http://odysseuslahori.blogspot.co.uk: If we did not know that the lives of minorities are under immense threat in Pakistan, Haroon Khalid’s A White Trail, gobsmacks, nay, sucker punches us with the reality. The language is unpretentious; there is no mincing of words, no melodrama, no harangue or pontification. There is page after page of […]
By Richard Wike, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Richard Wike is Director of Global Attitudes Research at the Pew Research Center. You can follow him @RichardWike. The views expressed are his own. The recent news from Fallujah and elsewhere in the Middle East and Africa must be pretty encouraging for al Qaeda […]
World War I may have ended in 1918, but the violence it triggered in the Middle East still hasn’t come to an end. Arbitrary borders drawn by self-interested imperial powers […]
MOENJODARO, Pakistan: Hundreds of people swarmed the ancient ruined city of Saturday to attend an inaugural festival commemorating Pakistan’s cultural heritage, days after experts warned the event endangered the UNESCO […]
BEIRUT: Al-Qaeda fighters killed the leader of a rival Islamic brigade in a twin car bombing near Syria’s northern city of Aleppo, an attack likely to further exacerbate rebel infighting […]
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and […]
This picture is haunting and it’s been floating around the internet with the sentence: The last sentence a 3-year-old Syrian said before he died: “I’m gonna tell God everything” And […]
STORY SUMMARY Israeli soldiers shot and wounded 10 Palestinians near the West Bank town of Ramallah Friday during a protest over the killing of a teenager, Palestinian medics and security […]
WikiLeaks: Saudi-Financed Madrassas More Widespread in Pakistan Than Thought Islamabad’s inaction on extremism is a recurring theme in many of the WikiLeaked cables emanating from the U.S. embassy in Pakistan. By Michael Busch, May 26, 2011. Share Print We’re honored to have Michael Busch dissecting the latest WikiLeaks document dump for Focal […]
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Myanmar joined the Myanmar National Book Fair from 25th to 28th January 2014. More than one thousand individuals accepted pamphlets, purchased books and glanced through the Jama’at’s presentation. Courtesy: Muhammad Zafir, Myanmar.
BY Peter Popham in THE INDEPENDENT His call has gone down very well far beyond the family stronghold The Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani Taliban are two very different things. The Afghan Taliban, who have stubbornly resisted the worst that the US and Britain could throw at them for the […]