Teaching Indonesia’s children by Adhityani Putri, Indonesian children may soon no longer be taught English in primary school. Musliar Kasim, the deputy education and culture minister, reasoned that teaching English […]
Source: TOI: TEHRAN: Iran on Sunday denied a New York Times report that it was engaged in direct bilateral talks with the United States over its disputed nuclear programme. “We are not involved in such a thing right now,” foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi told reporters when asked about the […]
Mohamed El-Hebeishy ARABNEWS Wednesday 17 October 2012 Perched on both sides of the Kura River is Tbilisi, the Georgian capital. Today, the country is predominantly Christian. Once upon a time, as the center of the Emirate of Tbilisi, Muslims ruled here. Though Georgia first came under Muslim rule in 645, […]
Reuters | Oct 20, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES VATICAN CITY — Olive trees in the Jerusalem garden revered by Christians as the place where Jesus Christ prayed before he was […]
JEDDAH: ARABNEWS Shoppers in Jeddah say ihram-clothing prices have risen and they differ from one shop to another. “Every year there seems to be an ihram “fashion trend” as I […]
Our two competing hatreds: Khalid Ahmad Express Tribune: We have learned to hate America which tried very hard to teach us to hate the Taliban. The Taliban communicate with us — not by asking us to ‘do more’ — but by killing us and telling us we are not good Muslims. The […]
Source: CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan’s highest court began criminal proceedings against former army and intelligence chiefs over allegations of bribery that involved senior politicians in the country’s 1990 general elections. The petition, filed in the Supreme Court in 1996 by former Air Force Marshall Asghar Khan, alleges that […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk / APP Published: October 20, 2012 LAHORE: As many as 44,200 Pakistanis sang the national anthem together at the National Hockey Stadium, […]
By Al Arabiya with agencies As Israel stops another pro-Palestinian ship carrying humanitarian cargo for Gaza on Saturday, Qatari and Palestinian officials said that their Gulf state will start to channel goods and materials to rebuild Israeli-blockaded Gaza via neighboring Egypt. Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Mursi and the Hamas premier […]
Source: TOI BEIJING: A man in China took his wheelchair-bound mother to the holiday destination of her dream by undertaking an arduous 3,500 km journey on foot in 100 days. Fan Meng, 26, took his mother Kou Minjun all the way from Beijing to Xishuangbanna prefecture, in Yunnan province. The […]
Source: ET Bridging the gap amongst individuals, states by common understanding and sharing of knowledge about law, peace and religion and exploring the factors that can help in achieving the objective of global peace, says Justice Chaudhry. PHOTO: ONLINE/ FILE LAHORE: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said Saturday that religious fragmentation, […]
JERUSALEM | Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:29am EDT (Reuters) – The Israeli navy seized an international pro-Palestinian activist ship in the Mediterranean sea on Saturday to prevent it breaching its […]
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Headlines | Sat, October 20 2012, 11:52 AM President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono underlined the importance of the roles played by leaders and religious figures in solving various conflicts taking place across the country. “As the head of state, I invite and urge leaders and religious […]
LAHORE: The secretary general of a village level Ahmadi community was gunned down in Ghatialian, Sialkot on Thursday night. DPO Sialkot, Afzal Kausar told The Express Tribune that Riaz Ahmed […]
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 20 October 2012 Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal will inaugurate today the 13th Makkah Conference of the Muslim World League (MWL) under the aegis of Custodian […]
RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN Saturday 20 October 2012 As hundreds of thousands of Haj pilgrims arrive in the holy city of Makkah for the annual pilgrimage, the Ministry of Health advised […]
Bloomberg: Pakistan’s government is squandering its “Malala moment”: the chance to harness public outrage over the Taliban’s shooting of 14-year-old education activist Malala Yousufzai and take the fight to the terrorists who […]
Saudi Nightmares by Robert D. Kaplan and Kamran Bokhari May 15, 2012 | 1613 GMT The Saudi royals live with an all-consuming fear — that of an American understanding with Iran. The Saudis know that the American estrangement from Iran is unnatural and cannot go on forever. It has already […]
Editors note: Title changed Source: Express Tribune Brigadier (retd) Mehboob Qadir, who was Director General (SPAFO) of Pakistan Armed Forces deputationists to the Saudi Armed Forces from 1998 to 2002, noted in a recent article: “Pakistanis together with expatriates from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Philippines, Indonesia, etc, are called ‘miskeen’ […]
The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) has urged the central government and the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) provincial administration to begin the resolution of humanitarian issues faced […]