Pakistani Militant, Price on Head, Lives in Open
By DECLAN WALSH NEW YORK TIMES LAHORE, Pakistan — Ten million dollars does not seem to buy much in this bustling Pakistani city. That is the sum the United States […]
Electronic data scheme for Haj pilgrims soon
MAKKAH: IRFAN MOHAMMED Thursday 7 February 2013 The Haj Ministry is planning to introduce an electronic data system soon for foreign pilgrims as part of its efforts to boost their security and welfare, says Haj Minister Bandar bin Mohammed Al-Hajjar. He said the ministry had initially planned to introduce the […]
Ahmadiyya Jalsa Salana Bangladesh Venue Attacked!
News source: http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=268131 Six Tents Torched at Ahmadiyya Event Venue A group of religious bigots torched six tents of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat at Mouchak in Gazipur’s Kaliakoir upazila last evening. They set up the tents to accommodate the members and hold the functions, said Ahmad Tabshir Chowdhury, an executive committee […]
Accused of blasphemy
Express Tribune: Editorial. Misuse of the law has become increasingly widespread, resulting in suffering for the hundreds in jail on blasphemy charges. Minority groups, including the Ahmadis, are especially vulnerable The number of persons victimised under the blasphemy law continues to grow. Recently, four employees of a printing press in […]
Female Genital Mutilation: Many Pakistani women’s painful secret
Express Tribune: Farahnaz Zahidi Moazzam. Today, as the world observes the “International Zero Tolerance Day to FGM/C”, many remain blissfully unaware that this custom, often referred to as female circumcision, is also practiced in Pakistan. In Pakistan, female circumcision is practiced by a few communities along the Iran-Balochistan border, and a few isolated […]
Bangladesh: Breaking News – 1000-strong Islamist extremists attack Ahmadiyya site, set it ablaze
Ahmadiyya TImes Blog: Breaking News | 1000-strong mob of Islamist extremists attack Ahmadiyya convention site, set it ablaze By Imran Jattala for Ahmadiyya Times February 6, 2013 – An out of control mob made up from various Islamist extremist factions descended on the Ahmadiyya Muslim Annual Convention site in Dhaka, […]
New Heights of Anti Ahmadiyya Campaign: The Extremist version of Jihad of Pen against Qadianis
Source: Twitter- by Luqman Ahmad: Being distributed in Sargodha. Touching new heights of paranoia.
Shia hero not needed in a Sunni play: As Daggers are Drawn-Muslim Unity only a Dream!!
Dawn: For once, I agree with Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand mufti of Al-Azhar in Egypt, who told the visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad not to interfere in the matters concerning Sunni Arabs. The Iranian President is on a three-day visit to Egypt, where he is attending the 12th annual summit […]
Thousands join Shahbagh sit-in
Source: The Daily Star By Sushmita S Preetha Forty-two years after the Liberation War, sentiments of liberation were rekindled as thousands yesterday refused to leave the street and go home until their demand for capital punishment for war criminals were met. The spontaneous agitation began on Tuesday afternoon shortly after a […]
Obama’s verbal battle picked from Indonesia
The Obama from Java The Guardian: Like a lot of people in the autumn of 2012, I watched the TV debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It was the […]
The Indian women pushed into hysterectomies
Source: BBC By Jill McGivering Thousands of Indian women are having their wombs removed in operations that campaigners say are unnecessary and only performed to make money for unscrupulous private doctors. Sunita is uncertain of her exact age but thinks she’s about 25 years old. I met her in a […]
Syrian Businesses Take Refuge in Jordan As War Ravages Aleppo
The Media Line Staff Amman, Jordan (Adam Nicky The Media Lin – Street noises mix with a call to prayer coming from the King Hussein Mosque in downtown Amman, the city’s commercial center, while on a nearby street corner, Issam, a Syrian businessman, calmly answers a steady flow of phone […]
All Religious Reformers Day Conference at 37th International Kolkata Book Fair, India
Kolkata (West Bengal, India): At present the whole world is involved in religious conflict. At some places people are dissenting against their government and in some places the authorities are […]
Chinese Premier Wen wishes Islamic summit a success
Source: China Daily CAIRO – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao sent a congratulatory message to the 12th session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation conference upon its opening on Wednesday in Cairo, Egypt. […]
Suicide attack against Syria intel building in Palmyra: NGO
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Wednesday 6 February 2013 BEIRUT: A suicide bomber on Wednesday attacked a military intelligence headquarters in the south-central Syria city of Palmyra, killing and wounding an unknown number of people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “A powerful explosion rocked Palmyra this morning and according […]
Abbas hopes Obama visit will usher new US policy: spokesman
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Wednesday 6 February 2013 RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: The Palestinian presidency hopes US President Barack Obama’s forthcoming visit will mark the beginning of a new US policy in […]
Invitations for the Zonal Conference & Peace Symposium Chennai, India
Assalamualaikum Warehmatullah-e-Wabarakatahu, I cordially invite you to the Zonal Conference and Peace Symposium to be Held at Chennai on the 10th of February. Guest speakers from various religions are attending […]
Government of Pakistan to get the interior minister mentally checked!
Source ET A file photo of interior minister Rehman Malik. PHOTO: PID / FILE KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) minority MPA Saleem Khurshid Khokhar moved an adjournment motion in the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday against interior minister Rehman Malik, who reportedly declared non-Muslims as terrorists. Khokhar said that Malik had […]
CIA operating drone base in Saudi Arabia, US media reveal
Source: BBC The US Central Intelligence Agency has been operating a secret airbase for unmanned drones in Saudi Arabia for the past two years. The facility was established to hunt for members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based in Yemen. A drone flown from there was used […]