Express Tribune: LAHORE: President Asif Zardari has notified Pakistan Ulema Council Chairman Allama Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi as a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology. The Council’s job is to consider whether any laws conflict with Islam. Ashrafi told The Express Tribune that he would support legislation which promotes interfaith harmony and goes […]
The 26th International Islamic Unity Conference has started in Iran’s capital, Tehran, with the presence of the country’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Shia and Sunni thinkers from 102 countries will be […]
Reuters | Jan 26, 2013 | 22:09 Updated: Jan 26, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES RAMALLAH — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tried to get Israel to let 150,000 Palestinians fleeing war in Syria resettle in the West Bank, but dropped the request after Israel demanded they first give up their right […]
Source: Dawn: by Raja Asghar | Interior Minister Rehman Mailk. — Photo by AP/File ISLAMABAD: Like his other colleagues who spoke in the National Assembly on Saturday, the usually tough-talking interior minister, Rehman Malik, took the role of a preacher to make a holy, though ambiguous, offer to Taliban militants: “Return to […]
The non-Muslim verdict on Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) K.S Ramakrishna Rao, an Indian Professor of Philosophy in his booklet, (“Muhammad, The Prophet of Islam”) calls him the: “Perfect model for human life.“ […]
Russian TV: Leaflets inviting people to a “Bible-burning festival” have stirred outrage in Malaysia. This coincided with a nationalist group leader urging to “seize and burn” Malay-language Bibles, prompting calls for his prosecution. The flyers, issued by a previously unknown group, promised mass Bible-burning in the Malaysian state of Penang […]
The NEWS: ISLAMABAD: As a retired Major of the Pakistan Army has accused the incumbent khaki leadership of following in the footsteps of General (R) Pervez Musharraf, who had literally launched a campaign against beards in the armed forces, military circles say the forced retirement of Major Zaheeruddin was an […]
By Editorial Board,January 22, 2013 WASHINGTON POST FOR ALL the upheaval the Arab revolutions have brought to the Middle East, and the tricky challenges they have created for the United States, it’s important to note that much of the region remains unchanged — and therefore vulnerable. While four autocratic rulers […]
The door is closing on the chances of a two-state solution and will be firmly shut by the end of Obama’s second term, King Abdullah warns. By Elad Benari, Canada […]
Source: One India New Delhi, Jan 26: India celebrated 64th Republic Day with great grandeur at Rajpath in New Delhi on Saturday, Jan 26. Google too joined the celebrations. As a mark of honour Google has doodled a Royal Bengal tiger on the India homepage. A Royal Bengal tiger in […]
DAMASCUS, 25 January 2013 (IRIN) – Humanitarian and developmental aid agencies in Syria say international sanctions against the country have made their operations harder. Last August, Italian NGO Terres des […]
Posted by Jibran Nasir Source: http://blogs.tribune.com.pk This is the story of an average Pakistani. I lose my temper at the drop of a hat and end up saying really nasty […]
1. News from Al Arabiya 2. News from Philippines 3. The voice of Russia In Russia, large-scale Mawlid an-Nabi festivities will be held in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. […]
Source. ET Akhuwat has shifted to the group lending model for the last one year. In this model, borrowers living in the same locality become each other’s guarantors, thus ensuring a high recovery rate. PHOTO: FILE KARACHI: Microfinance, as we know it, can possibly be expensive in Pakistan, as interest rates […]
Economist: The road to renewal THE sleep has been long and deep. In 2005 Harvard University produced more scientific papers than 17 Arabic-speaking countries combined. The world’s 1.6 billion Muslims […]
Dr. Jaafar Sheikh Idris ARABNEWS Friday 25 January 2013 Prior to the modern age very few people disputed the fact that the world has a creator. This fact was for […]
January 23, 2013 12:45 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star Story Summary For the past generation and a half, since the late 1970s, Israeli society has been moving steadily to the right through three main trajectories: greater reliance on military force as a primary foreign policy tool, more […]
Source: The Hindu It was the first time that His Holiness the Dalai Lama participated in the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival since its inception in 2005. And when he did, almost everybody present at the Diggi Palace, the venue of the festival, quit whatever they were doing and congregated in […]
میں سچا مسلمان کیسے بنوں؟ وسعت اللہ خان بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، کراچی ایک سنی دیوبندی گھرانے میں پیدا ہونے والا وسعت اللہ خان خود کو ایک اچھا مسلمان ثابت کرنے کے لئے کہاں تک جائے، کیا کرے ؟ شاید شیعوں کو مارنے سے میرا کام نہیں چلے […]
Indonesian Ulema in favour of female circumcision: a “human right” The practice is “recommended” and according to “tradition”, although it can not be made compulsory. For the head of the […]