Asia

KSA to fund $ 100 m Kabul Islamic center

KABUL: ARAB NEWS Tuesday 30 October 2012 Saudi Arabia will build a massive Islamic center complete with a university and a mosque in Afghanistan, an Afghan minister said yesterday, describing the project as “grand and unique.” Estimated to cost up to $100 million, the center on a hilltop in central […]

Ahmadis barred from offering Eid prayer

The Nation: ISLAMABAD – The Ahmadiya community residing in Rawalpindi city continues to bear the brunt of dangerous religious frenzy. Around 1500-1600 worshippers belonging to Ahmadi community – who were supposed to congregate at the worship place of the community located at E-Block of Satellite Town to observe Eidul Azha prayers – […]

Op-Ed: Pakistan’s High Stakes Review

Source/Credit:  Ahmadiyya Times By Amjad Mahmood Khan | October 29, 2012 On October 30, Pakistan will take the proverbial human rights “hot seat” in Geneva at the United Nations Human Rights Council’s second ever Universal Periodic Review (UPR).  This unique process mandates that all 193 U.N. Member States submit to an […]

The man who reinvented banks

Source: Herald Scotland By Steven Vass Professor Muhammad Yunus paces into the room with the quiet dignity befitting his status. This is the father of micro-finance, the founder of the Grameen Bank, which lends money to severely poor people to start businesses. Originated in his native Bangladesh in the 1970s, it […]