Source: BDNews24. Islami Bank has sought assistance from the Bangladesh Bank as it has plunged into a massive crisis in the wake of calls by activists of the Shahbagh movement to severe relations with any institution having links with war criminals. The call by the activists drew huge response with […]
Courtesy: DAWN.com Bangladeshi students and pro-government supporters gather during a rally demanding death to Islamic political party leaders who are on trial for alleged war crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. Eight top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, the country’s largest Islamic party, are […]
The Daily Times: Yasser Latif Hamdani: The state may enable Muslims to live according to Islamic ideals according to their own interpretation but the state has no business forcing Muslims to live according to Islamic ideals of any interpretation A secular Pakistan is not a question of idealism. It is […]
Dawn: Z.A. Bhutto wanted to take the people out of the gloom that had developed after the Indian nuclear test. He was sure he would be able to raise the morale of the people. However, at times various problems at the national level forced him to change his priorities. This […]
Source: ET LAHORE: “China will be the economic salvation of Afghanistan. The Chinese have bought mineral rights in Afghanistan and plan to build a railway there. India has also invested hugely in Afghanistan. Pakistan can also benefit, but it cannot do this alone. It can partner with India and China to […]
Source: ET Speaking at an interfaith conference in Islamabad, President Asif Ali Zardari called on clerics and religious scholars to take the lead in preventing the misuse of blasphemy laws, conveniently forgetting that it is the government that has the primary responsibility to protect minorities. He said this even as […]
Haaretz: As Jews, we must infuse all our earthly actions – from eating to sexual relations – with spirituality, not just on Purim, but throughout the year. The commandment to […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Courtesy of Dawn.com Amar Sindu | 8 hours ago Today is February 24. Last year, on the same date, Rinkle was picked up from her […]
LUBP: Pakistan Must Learn from its Ahmadi Muslims. It was most heartening to see the support of the Ahmadiyah Muslim community and human rights activists during the recent protests and campaigns […]
Dawn: DHAKA: Bangladesh police fired live rounds on Sunday in clashes with Islamists demanding the execution of bloggers they accuse of blasphemy, killing at least three protesters and injuring dozens. Eighteen of the injured suffered bullet wounds in the unrest at Singair in the central district of Manikganj, as the […]
By Matthew Green KARACHI (Reuters) – When Aurangzeb Farooqi survived an attempt on his life that left six of his bodyguards dead and a six-inch bullet wound in his thigh, […]
signatures were collected during a one-day campaign organised in cooperation with Drs. And More coalition, to reach the highest number of potential donors in the world at the time, noting […]
by Hani Hazaimeh | Feb 23, 2013 | 22:55 MAFRAQ — While hundreds of Syrians fleeing the violence in their country arrive at the Zaatari Refugee Camp daily, some camp residents want to return to their homeland for various reasons. Several Syrians interviewed by The Jordan Times last week complained […]
The Jakarta Globe: A 75-year-old man in Aceh has filed a controversial lawsuit against local religious officials alleging that the noise from a nearby mosque’s six loudspeakers has negatively impacted […]
The Jakarta Globe: Just days before a provincial election, West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan has signed a deal with the hardline Islamic Defenders Front in which he has reportedly agreed […]
Nadeem F. Paracha DAWN.COM Between the 1950s and early 1970s, a powerful ideology in the Muslim world galvanised itself from the minds and fringes of modern Islamic intellectualism and made its way into the mainstream political arena. But this ideology did not have a single originator. Its roots can be […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 23 February 2013 The Ministry of Culture and Information will block 1,400 unlicensed news websites, according to the ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for Internal Media, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Aqeel. Speaking at a symposium on the future of new media held by the commerce chamber in Al-Kharj, Al-Aqeel said […]
Source: The Times of India, by Bruce Lawrence. HYDERABAD: Eminent scholar Bruce Lawrencesaid that the word ‘fundamentalism’ does not fit Islam and Hinduism as both religions were not fundamentalist in nature and that the verses of the Quran have been taken out of context by radical groups to further their agenda. […]
by SARAH GOODYEAR Imran Aukhil describes himself as “a Muslim and a committed urbanist.” Those things, he says, should be complementary rather than contradictory. And yet Aukhil, who tweets as […]
by Majid RafizadehFulbright teaching scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars HUFFINGTON POST The upheavals in Syria have generally been interpreted from a culturalist or structuralist perspective. Some attribute the emergence of the democratic uprisings to historic long-term tensions between different ethnic groups which include Alaawite, Syrian Turkmen, Armenians, Druze, […]