Ali Dayan Hasan on deteriorating human rights situation in Pakistan
Express Tribune: Conditions continue to deteriorate in Pakistan. Watch HRW interview video here:
The Muslim Warfare: Always to Create Peace
October 22, 2012 The Muslim Outlook – by Shahid Pervaiz This is as much an “Undeniable Material Fact” as the staunch of Physical Laws that the Wars fought by The […]
Jordan foils Qaeda plot, arrests 11 militants: State TV
Source: ET Pictures of Ahmad Mohammad Abd Alhadi Abu Taha, Mahmoud Younes Ibrahim Mana’a, Ala’a Aldin Mohammad Ragheb Derbas and Fawzi Abd Aljabar Housain Housain, four of 11 suspects detained by security forces, are seen in this handout released by Jordan’s official Petra news agency on October 21, 2012. PHOTO: […]
Prince Ahmed: Leave politics at home (during Haj)
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Monday 22 October 2012 Interior Minister Prince Ahmed has warned pilgrims against politicizing the Haj pilgrimage, saying those involved in such activities would be driven away. “We reject politicizing Haj and so do the pilgrims. Whoever tries to use Haj for other purposes will be kept away. […]
Jamia Salafia Deobandia LUMS fires Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy
Source: LUBP It is disturbing but hardly surprising to learn that LUMS administration has refused to renew the employment contract of Pakistan’s eminent scholar Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy. Apparently the decision to fire him has to do with the content of his course Science and Religion. In the last few years, […]
Syrian Haj Pilgrims get special treatment
RIYADH: Ali Bluwi ARABNEWS Monday 22 October 2012 Under the direction of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, the Saudi government is giving preferential treatment to Syrian refugees […]
Country’s religious woes
Source: Daily Times via Wasim Sroya: What is needed is a paradigm realignment of the country; unless Pakistan is declared a secular state there will not be any tangible development on the human rights front. According to the Minority Rights Group International, Pakistan had the world’s highest increase of threats […]
Breakthrough in world’s oldest undeciphered writing
By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Experts working on proto-Elamite hope they are on the point of ‘a breakthrough’ The world’s oldest undeciphered writing system, which has so far […]
The 1974 NA proceedings on the Ahmadi issue. A must read article:
Source: Dailytimes via Wasim Sroya: The argument of both Ahmadi delegations was simple and straightforward: whatever the personal views of a sect within Islam, the state had to remain neutral and respect each sect’s interpretation. In other words, if a person professes to be a Muslim, the matter becomes one […]
English and Indonesian Children
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 […]
Iran denies report on secret nuclear talks with US
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 […]
Tracing Islamic heritage in Tbilisi
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, […]
Olive trees of Gethsemane among oldest in world — study
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 […]
Haj ‘ihram’ prices soar; China leads in production
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 […]
How much Hatred is needed to Become a Nation?
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 […]
Pakistan’s highest court begins proceedings against ex chiefs
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 […]
Pakistan sets world record for singing national anthem simultaneously
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, […]
Qatar to channel goods via Egypt to rebuild Gaza: officials
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 […]
Man takes disabled mother on 3,500 km dream walk
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 […]
‘Religious fragmentation based on misinterpretation leads to extremism’
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, […]