A man from the minority Ahmadi community has been barred from burying his wife in a graveyard in Pakistan’s Punjab province by a group of Muslims. The wife of Iqbal Ranhja, a resident of Faisalabad district, died yesterday. When Ranhja and members of the Ahmadi community took the body for […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Recruiter Muslim Nazari thought the 28-year-old applying for the sales manager position seemed too good to be true with his impressive resume and impeccable interview scores. Just to be certain, Muslim scanned his Facebook profile and found incriminating pictures of the once-promising job candidate using recreational drugs at […]
Press Trust of India / Business Standard The annual convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which saw representatives from various religions take part, concluded at Qadian here today. Bringing forth the commonalities among religions, the representatives of Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, and Christianity spoke on the need for peace in the society […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A panel of Israeli Cabinet ministers endorsed proposed legislation on Sunday to annex an area of the occupied West Bank likely to be the eastern border of a future Palestinian state. The move, pushed by far-right members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, could weigh on […]
MAKKAH: AHMAD WAHAJ AL-SIDDIQUI Published — Monday 30 December 2013 The Makkah Municipality has deployed all its resources to welcome Umrah visitors to the Grand Mosque and offer them the […]
Daily Times: Hindus and Muslims had maintained largely separate existences despite living side by side. That they did not inter-dine or intermarry was not Jinnah’s doing nor was the Hindu pani and Muslim pani, and the Hindu and Muslim gymkhanas Jinnah’s idea In his article ‘Jinnah, Bhutto and the […]
Russia Today; Israeli ministers have approved a bill to annex Jordan Valley settlements to the Jewish state, threatening US-brokered peace talks with Palestine. Ministers opposing the proposed legislation plan to appeal the decision and demand a revote. Eight ministers on the Committee for Legislation voted in favor of the bill, […]
Huff Post: by Pervez Ahmed — “No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. […]
NAZARETH, ISRAEL — Dozens of Israeli soldiers respectfully rose from their seats as the Israeli national anthem began playing. The tinny recording of “Hatikva,” an ode to the Jewish yearning for the Land of Israel, wrapped up a ceremony, held in Hebrew, during which speakers thanked the troops and handed […]
Crown Prince Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, has cleared the way for the possible execution of a prince convicted of murdering a Saudi citizen. This follows the refusal by the victim’s father to pardon the killer. “Shariah shall be applied to all without exception,” said Prince Salman in […]
Epigraph: Did He not find thee (Muhammad) an orphan and give thee shelter? And He found thee wandering in search for Him and guided thee unto Himself. And He found […]
Source BBC via Wasim Sr: پاکستان کے صوبہ پنجاب میں ضلع ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھ کے شہر گوجرہ کے قریب ایک گاؤں کتھووالی میں 19 دسمبر کو ایک ڈیڑھ برس کی بچی کی لاش کو مقامی افراد نے دفن کرنے سے روک دیا۔ اس بچی کا تعلق جماعت احمدیہ سے تھا […]
By Frederic Grare, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Frederic Grare is senior associate and director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The views expressed are his own. This is the latest in the ’14 in 2014′ series, looking at what the year ahead holds […]
Source: Dawn. The authorities at the Saudi Hospital where they finally found him said they had found his body in a rubbish heap near an industrial area in Arafat. The young Pakistani men who had been looking everywhere for him since his disappearance a day or so ago did not […]
Source: Dawn Finally, Delhi is going to have a government by the Aam Aadmi Party with outside support of the Congress. But the government formation has turned out to be primarily an exercise by the three protagonists — the AAP, the BJP and the Congress — in calling one another’s […]
PNN The United Nations says nearly one million people are expected to need food aid in the besieged Gaza Strip next year. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) currently provides food for around 813,000 Palestinian refugees, Robert Turner, the UNRWA Gaza director of operations, said on Wednesday. The […]
Palestine News Network PNN An Israeli senior official slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and said that he is driving Israel into international boycott and isolation and that he is not really willing to move forward with the peace talks. Yediot Ahranot quoted the official’s statements as saying, “He [Netanyahu] […]
STORY SUMMARY December 28, 2013 12:16 AM By Michael Gerson The Daily Star In some parts of the world, Herod’s massacre of the innocents is a living tradition. Majority rule will bring the harsh imposition of the majority faith. Democracy promotion – as embraced by the National Democratic Institute or […]
ISLAMABAD: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of Pakistan’s slain premier Benazir Bhutto, said Friday his two sisters would follow him into politics, in a speech on the sixth anniversary of his mother’s death. The 25-year-old scion of the Bhutto dynasty has been the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman since his […]
The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to forward this statement regarding persons who chose to join the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam and the treatment they received thereafter. It is extremely perturbing that we have to bring to the notice of the world’s community the plight of two innocent, loyal citizens […]