1001 Inventions exhibition takes visitors through the works of scientists and scholars during the Golden Age of Muslim Civilization, while Arabick Roots reveals the influence of this science on the […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By AFP Published: October 17, 2012 ISLAMABAD: Monsoon floods in Pakistan have killed 455 people over the past five weeks and affected more […]
Story Summary Daily Star, Lebanon Palestine has once again faced vocal rejection of its statehood bid, this time in a statement from the United States declaring that such a move would set back the peace process. The delay in recognizing Palestine instead means the country is steadily losing more land […]
The beginning of the publication of this book, in Urdu in 1880, started the renaissance of Islam Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya has been called the Magnum opus of the Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani, […]
MD RASOOLDEEN ARABNEWS RIYADH: The Ministry Health Ministry advised pregnant mothers and patients suffering from chronic ailments to postpone the Haj pilgrimage for a subsequent occasion. Dr. Nasreen Sherbini, health adviser on epidemic diseases, offered the advice yesterday to prospective local Haj pilgrims through the ministry’s phone-in-service conducted by its […]
Osama Al Sharif ARABNEWS TWENTY months after the eruption of peaceful protests against the regime of President Bashar Assad, the situation today spells a different reality. More than 30,000 people have perished so far in drawn-out bloody confrontations between armed dissidents, representing various groups with different political and ideological affiliations, […]
ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Arafat Day, when millions of Muslim pilgrims will stand in prayer on the mount of Arafat near Makkah at the peak of the annual pilgrimage, will […]
Examiner.com: Malala Yousafzai, a teenager from the Swat Valley in Pakistan was shot in the head last week by the Taliban because of her unflinching quest for education despite all odds. The attack on the unarmed, 14 year old girl has alarmed the whole world. It has sent shock waves in Pakistan and […]
Dawn.com: by Kaiser Bengali. TWO events in recent weeks have shaken the country and — fortunately, for a change — led to intense soul-searching. The first event was the response to the anti-Islam film in the US and the second the shooting of 14-year old schoolgirl and anti-Taliban blogger Malala […]
Source: Fars News Agency TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran announced on Saturday that it plans to award Nobel-like science and technology prizes to selected Muslim scientists. Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology […]
Source: Live Mint Central bank asked to examine the possibility of making interest-free model part of India’s Rs.75 trillion banking system Reserve Bank of India governor D. Subbarao said last week that the apex bank was holding talks with the government on how existing laws can be restructured or amended […]
Source: Jakarta Globe: Kuala Lumpur. An Indonesian migrant worker from East Nusa Tenggara was shot dead by an employer who mistook the man for a pig-tailed macaque stealing fruit from his mango tree. According to Antara news agency, 39-year-old Kaniseus Leu from Lembata island died after his 71-year-old employer shot […]
Source: Asiatimes: Pakistanis are asking how the Taliban, even though long known for their atrocities, could shoot a young girl for pursuing education declared as her right by the Prophet Muhammad – and be allowed to do so by authorities aware of her vulnerability. But the Taliban’s rise has been […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit:Dawn.com KARACHI: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has offered a $1 million bounty for Ehsanullah Eshan, the central spokesman for the […]
New York Times: Many Pakistanis have united to condemn the Taliban for shooting Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old schoolgirl. According to a Taliban spokesman, the girl was targeted because she “was promoting Western culture […]
Source: CNN Author: The Muslim cleric accused of framing a young Christian girl in a blasphemy case in Pakistan was granted bail Thursday, his lawyer told CNN. Bail was granted after several witnesses who initially accused the cleric of tampering with evidence to frame the girl recanted their statements. The […]
My childhood ignorance of differing Shia and Sunni prayer customs once caused humiliation where today it might risk death Nushin Arbabzadah GUARDIAN CO UK In the Kabul of the 1980s, […]
Source: LUBP Mrs Rabia Imran, daughter of the so called Khadim-e-Aala (in fact Sarparast-e-Aala of PML-N goons and LeJ terrorists) Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, gets an innocent man beaten up by Elite Police in Lahore. His only crime? He refused to serve her during the shop’s off-hours. The bakery worker […]
Source: Reuters.com (Reuters) – Afghanistanhas banned all Pakistani newspapers over what security officials say is anti-government propaganda aimed at Kabul, an interior ministry spokesman said on Saturday, in a move likely to worsen already tense cross-border ties. Pakistani newspapers are usually filled with statements that the Afghan government does not […]