By Shveta Pathak, Staff ReporterPublished: 21:00 September 4, 2013 The UAE has recorded the highest divorce rate in the region. In Dubai alone, 1,129 divorces took place last year – more than three per day. The figure is even more alarming for Emiratis, who make up less than one-fifth of […]
npr: by Deborah Amos – “We saw just a couple of weeks ago, the formation of a new front of Syrian rebels, called the Syrian Islamic Army,” Grause says, “and the Saudis seem to be the driving force behind that.” The Saudis continue to support the Free Syrian Army, the […]
Khabar South Asia: Many local residents say religious intolerance is hurting the province, and that targeting minorities is no way to defend Islam. Many Muslims in West Java are expressing […]
The unprecedented Saudi refusal to take up its Security Council seat is not just about Syria but a response to the Iranian threat by ROBERT FISK THE INDEPENDENT WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2013 The Muslim world’s historic – and deeply tragic – chasm between Sunni and Shia Islam is having worldwide […]
JERUSALEM: Israel’s security service and the military say Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian man in the West Bank believed responsible for a Tel Aviv bus bombing last year. The […]
Source: BBC Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif is due to meet President Barack Obama in the White House seeking an end to drone strikes and the formation of a new post-Afghanistan war relationship. But correspondents say that few breakthroughs are expected on contentious issues on their agenda. The US is unlikely […]
Mufti Mahmud – Declaration of Ahmadis as Non-Muslim (2 of 3) The Parliament of Pakistan unanimously accepted a Bill and Constitutional Amendment declaring Ahmadis as non-Muslims, in 1974. This is […]
Huff Post: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Around 150 clerics and religious scholars have rallied outside the Saudi king’s palace, protesting against women seeking the right to drive. The senior religious leaders said the United States was behind a campaign calling for women to drive on […]
Source: LUBP Perhaps this is the anguish the families feel doing their best to “survive” after ASWJ,LEJ and the Taliban have left them in a colorless world.Perhaps after reading this, we can empathize with such survivors.It is based on what I have been made to witness from childhood through adolescence […]
Source: Dawn.Com BEIJING: China and India signed a confidence-building accord Wednesday, to cooperate on border defence following a standoff between armed forces of the two Asian giants in the disputed Himalayan territory earlier this year. The agreement followed a meeting in Beijing between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and visiting Indian […]
Bashy Quraishy is a Danish-Pakistani author and consultant regarding minority rights. He was born in India, but grew up in Pakistan. He has studied Engineering in Germany and USA, and later studied International Marketing in London. He is a member of a number of Commissions, Committees and Boards involved with Human […]
Bashy Quraishy is a Danish-Pakistani author and consultant regarding minority rights. He was born in India, but grew up in Pakistan. He has studied Engineering in Germany and USA, and later studied International Marketing in London. He is a member of a number of Commissions, Committees and Boards involved with Human […]
The Express Tribune: by Ayehsa Ijaz Khan – Contrary to many of my peers, I never felt as hopeless or dejected about Pakistan’s future as I did during the past election. Some were hopeful because they saw in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) ‘a new political force’ that would take on […]
The idea of being a refugee in your own land is alien to most of us that live in Europe. Yet that is the reality faced by hundreds of thousands […]
Ahlul Bayt News Agency: Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage stated that members of Likud party led by the Deputy Knesset Speaker Moshe Feiglin have proposed a bill to divide […]
Husband made her sleep with him and first wife in same bed By Bassam Za’za’, Legal and Court Correspondent Published: 20:04 October 22, 2013 Gulf News Dubai: A second wife was granted a divorce because her husband made her have sex with him and his first wife. The Asian woman, […]
By Obaid Ullah Khan Tackling terrorism, and dealing with terrorists are two separate issues. On the latter our leadership is obscuring the matter, thus delaying the immediate actions. If the terrorists are not controlled, this could result in grave consequences. But if this object is somehow achieved (which is in fact not possible […]
Soruce: Arab News: KUWAIT CITY: Gulf countries and Egypt have applauded the Kingdom’s decision to reject a UN Security Council seat in protest at the world body’s failure to act on issues like Syria and Palestine. Saudi Arabia turned down a coveted two-year term on the council on Friday in […]
Source: Washington Post By Richard S. Ehrlich| Religion News Service,October 03, 2013 RNS () — A court in Muslim-majority Bangladesh sentenced an Islamist member of Parliament to death for genocide and other crimes against Hindus during the country’s 1971 war for independence. Salahuddin Chowdhury is the first opposition party member […]
Time: The Sultan of Brunei announced on Tuesday the gradual introduction of harsh Islamic punishments, such as death by stoning for adulterers, severing of limbs for theft and flogging for […]