Source: Asiatimes: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar carefully crafted an opening speech boasting about the achievements of the Pakistan Peoples Party-led government since 2008. The speech made repeated mention of the catch-words “democracy” and “women’s rights”. Even drone strikes – or their purported illegality rather – surprisingly received a paragraph […]
Agence France Presse ARABNEWS DAMASCUS: A defiant President Bashar Assad rejected on Thursday calls he seek a safe exit, vowing he would “live in Syria and die in Syria,” as […]
By ANNE BARNARD THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria’s rebel fighters — who have long staked claim to the moral high ground for battling dictatorship — are losing crucial support from a public increasingly disgusted by the actions of some rebels, including poorly planned missions, senseless destruction, criminal […]
Saudi Gazette. While unfortunately there are still too many reservations about the outcome of the Syrian National Council’s Doha summit this week, the situation on the ground in Syria itself is apparently becoming clearer — the Free Syrian Army is going on the offensive in Damascus. In a stunning display […]
A Saudi Student named Hashem performed Prostration infront of thousands of foreign students to thank God after winning third place in Physics (intel Aesf 2012, competition) which was held in […]
The Jakarta Post: At least 200 members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) staged a demonstration in Bandung, West Java on Thursday, demanding that the administration immediately implement a total […]
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The Ahmadiyya community in Australia is holding a Peace Symposium this weekend and it says it wants to reach the broader community with its message of peace and tolerance. Australia’s Ahmadiyya community holds Peace Symposium (Credit: ABC) The Ahmadiyya faith is a branch of Islam but the community has recently […]
Agence France Presse ARABNEWS DAMASCUS: A defiant President Bashar Assad rejected on Thursday calls he seek a safe exit, vowing he would “live in Syria and die in Syria,” as fighting raged in Damascus. “I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the […]
P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS JEDDAH: Muslim community leaders were unanimous in their opinion: Barack Obama’s re-election as president of the United States would promote global peace and strengthen America’s relations with the Islamic world. Leaders and participants at the Islamic Development Bank community development workshop shared their thoughts about the […]
Dawn.com: Khuda Bux Abro. I want a Pakistan where peace reigns supreme. A Pakistan where children can play in the streets to their hearts’ content and their parents need not fear that their children will be kidnapped. The streets are not blocked with barriers; neither are there impediments on […]
Dawn.com: The 15-year-old is receiving specialist treatment in the English city of Birmingham after gunmen shot her on Oct 9 for standing up against the Taliban and openly advocating education for women. The attack has drawn widespread international condemnation and Yousufzai has become a powerful symbol of resistance to the […]
جماعت احمدیہ جاپان کے مرکز احمدیہ سنٹر ناگویا میں عید الاضحی کا اجتماع منعقد ہوا۔اس موقع پرنیشنل صدر ومبلغ انچارج۔جاپان انیس احمد ندیم نے احباب جماعت کو حضرت ابراھیم اور حضرت اسماعیل کے اسوہ کے مطابق قربانی کی سنت کو جاری رکھنے کی تحریک کی،نیز یہ کہ قربانیوں سے ہی ہمارے […]
Source: The Blitz While Bangladesh Election Commission has already served notice on Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami asking it to make some changes in its party’s charter which do not conform to […]
Source: LUBP As darkness hastily falls on the heart of Madura Island, uniquely shaped traditional wooden houses and hamlets begin to throw long shadows in an eastward direction. Traffic, which during the day is extremely light by Indonesian standards, is now ceasing entirely. Just a few noisy scooters remain on […]
Source: Friday Times: In Pakistan a mosque is not the house of God, but the house of a sectarian God. Although Muslim sects across the world have their own separate mosques for the reasons of Imamat, procedure and methodology of prayers, no one is ever stopped from entering a place […]
Dawn: by Vaqar Ahmad: If I were a rational person I would not be writing this blog. In the past I have lamented the proliferation of garbage, lauded junkies and […]
By Asma Afsaruddin* LE SOIR/Worldcrunch -Essay- As someone who writes and lectures about women and gender in Islam, I am often asked if women had any role in the making […]
Patrick Markey | Reuters ARABNEWS IN the northeast corner of Syria a power struggle is developing over the promise of oil riches in the remote Kurdish region, threatening to drag […]
JEDDAH: FADIA JIFFRY ARABNEWS Road safety experts rated Saudi roads as among the world’s most dangerous at a recent conference in Abu Dhabi highlighting road safety in GCC countries. On average 19 road fatalities occur every day in the Kingdom. Zeina Nazer, secretary-general of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Arabia, said […]