Baghdad denies refuge to PKK fighters
Iraq has denied refuge to Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters, a key element of an accord to bring an end to years of deadly conflicts between Ankara and the […]
Pakistani minorities leery of democracy – Violence by Islamic radicals on rise since 2008 elections
LAHORE, PAKISTAN – In majority Muslim Pakistan, religious minorities say democracy is killing them. Intolerance has been on the rise for the past five years under Pakistan’s democratically elected government because of the growing violence of Islamic radicals, who are then courted by political parties, say many in the country’s […]
Ahmadis stand third with over 115 thousand registered voters?
Source:ET “Christians, the second largest non-Muslim community in the country – Hindus being the largest – has over 1.2 million voters. Ahmadis stand third with over 115 thousand registered voters followed by the Sikh community with more than five thousand,” he said.Mr. Malik listed Umerkot, Tharparkar and Mirpurkhas, all three […]
Survivor rescued from rubble 16 days after Bangladesh factory collapse
By Ian Johnston and Sohel Uddin, NBC News A survivor was pulled alive from the ruins of an eight-story factory in Bangladesh on Friday, more than 16 days after it […]
The Pakistani Taliban is setting the election agenda as much as anyone
Source:The Economist. IT WAS a television image that many feared seeing in an election campaign beset by terrorist attacks. A prominent party leader, aspiring to be prime minister, was shown bloodied, unconscious and being carried from a rally. Late on May 7th Imran Khan, the charismatic leader of the Pakistan […]
Ahmadis in Pakistan face unfair election
Source: Washinggton Post. A Pakistani woman walks past posters of a parliamentary election candidate. B.K. Bangash/Associated…) On May 11th, the world’s second most populous Muslim country, Pakistan, will mark a historic election. The country’s 66-year history is marred by the presence of martial laws and never before has one elected government replaced […]
Cyber disinformation campaign
Source: Daily Star Editorial. Doctored news confuses general public. THE scale and sophistication involved in spreading propaganda around the number of casualties at Shapla Chattar during the crackdown by security forces on May 05 has reached new heights. From news reports it appears that some bloggers managed to spread the […]
Women Attacked By Ultra-Orthodox Jews, While Praying at Western Wall
Source: The Huffington Post Thousands of ultra-Orthodox jeered, spit and threw rocks at the 400 ‘Women of the Wall’ who prayed at the Western Wall today, according to the Jerusalem […]
US support war crimes trial
Source: BD News 24 Washington DC: The United States has reiterated its support to the Bangladesh government’s initiative to put to trial the crimes against humanities committed during the 1971 Liberation War. US State Department Spokesperson Patrick Ventrell extended the assurance to Bangladesh in wake of the ‘debate’ and political […]
No harm can come if it’s not Allah’s will.
Business Insider: by Michael Kelley. A couple of hours ago a woman was rescued from the Bangladesh factory that collapsed on April 24. It’s nothing short of miraculous that woman, named Reshma, was found “almost unhurt” as the death toll from the tragedy reached 1,038. It’s been 13 days since someone was rescued from the rubble. In all more than 2,500 […]
High Prevalence of Domestic Violence in China
Source: China Daily An international survey on domestic violence that interviewed more than 2,000 Chinese found that half of male respondents confessed they have physically or sexually abused their wives or girlfriends. James Lang, program coordinator of Partners for Prevention, a regional joint program by four United Nations agencies including […]
Syrian Women for Sale in Jorden Refugee Camps
[Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22473573%5D NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: These are the desperate times for which Islam has asked capable men to come forward and take responsibility of more than one families. Before the war began, Kazal was in love with her neighbour in Homs. “He was 20 years old and I dreamed […]
What Do Muslim-Western Relations Mean?
By Michael Young HUFFINGTON POST BEIRUT — It is a fact that the notion of a clash of civilisations, first popularised by the American academic Samuel Huntington, is more relevant than ever in the minds of many people. Especially when it concerns Muslim-Western relations, there is a view that Muslim […]
Minister Points to Decree as ‘Moderate’ Way to Solve Conflicts Against Ahmadiyah
By Ezra Sihite on 12:03 pm May 8, 2013 JAKARTA GLOBE A government official says people should refer to a five-year-old joint decree to find solutions to the recent spate […]
Just another day in occupied Palestine: Settlers, soldiers attack Hebron-area village
Some 40 Israeli settlers, many of them armed, invaded the Hebron-area village of Sair at 11pm Thursday night. The settlers opened fire in the village and attacked local homes in the Beit Aynoun section of Sair, shattering windows of the Jihad Ja’bari home. Rumours circulated that the settlers entered the […]
The day we include Ahmadis in the joint electorate system, we will spend the night in our graves: ECP Official
The Friday Times: There are nearly three million registered minority voters in Pakistan, according to NADRA, of which 200,000 belong to the Ahmadiyya Community. All of the minorities will cast their votes on May 11 under a joint electorate system, except the Ahmadis. There is a separate voters list for them, […]
The Future of Dar-ul-Amaan Qadian_A Revelation of The Promised Messiah (as)
Source: Tadhkirah, page 559 in PDF document, 539 in Book
Amid public uproar, Royal Jordanian forced to disavow sponsorship of Israel tourism conference
Submitted by Ali Abunimah ELECTRONICINTIFADA.NET Royal Jordanian has disavowed sponsorship of an Israeli government tourism conference to be held in occupied Jerusalem later this month amid public uproar in Jordan that the airline’s logo appeared on the “supporter” page of the conference’s official website. The Royal Jordanian logo appeared alongside […]
War crime trial: Kamaruzzaman to hang
Source: The Daily Star. DHAKA: Law enforcers take Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman to jail on Thursday. International Crimes Tribunal-2 sentenced him to death as it found him guilty of five out of seven charges of wartime offences leveled against him. Photo: Focus Bangla A Dhaka tribunal on Thursday handed death […]