Source: ET Altaf Hussain highlighted that Jinnah had included Hindus and Ahmadis in the cabinet – the country’s first foreign minister was Sir Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, who was an Ahmadi, and the law minister was Joginder Nath Mandal. PHOTO: COURTESY MQM KARACHI: Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was a liberal-minded Muslim who […]
Source: ET “There can be peace”, stated the notorious Afghan warlord sitting cross-legged across the carpet from me in the air-conditioned cool of his palatial Kabul home. “Yes, there can be but … not until we have killed all of the enemies first”. He is serious — more serious than […]
By David Amitai The Daily Star Every week for the past five months, a group of Arab and Jewish women from neighboring towns near Haifa, Israel, have come together to cook. Each week, they meet in a different woman’s home, discovering their commonalities and differences by sharing recipes, culinary traditions […]
ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS Friday 7 September 2012 JEDDAH: THERE are a few rulers in the world who have left indelible impressions in history. Caliph Umar bin Abdul Aziz tops […]
Source: ET LAHORE: “Discrimination begins from the point when children are offered [to study] ethics [rather than compulsory Islamic studies] instead of a subject that relates to their faiths,” Peter Jacob, the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) executive director, says. More:
Reuters | Sep 11, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES DUBAI — The United Arab Emirates has arrested eight Emirati Islamists, including a state prosecutor and a former judge, rights activists said on Tuesday, widening a crackdown on dissidents over alleged threats to state security. Thanks to cradle-to-grave welfare systems, the UAE […]
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Wednesday 12 September 2012 Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs Prince Mansour bin Miteb will inspect the Mashair Railway project on Sunday, Al-Madinah reported yesterday. It was […]
TAIF: ARAB NEWS Wednesday 12 September 2012 Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal yesterday urged Saudi youth to confront the anti-Islam smear campaign by leading an exemplary life, following the teachings of the Qur’an and Sunnah. “You are a good example to the whole world in adhering to the eternal values, […]
Source: Campus Watch Speaking to an overflow crowd at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, noted Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan criticized extreme Islamists known as Salafis, saying that the Arab world needs to develop political systems that reject both theocracies and dictatorships. But he added that Arab countries should […]
Source: Ummat News Referred to by: Imran Jattala of Ahmadiyya Times (who are spoken about in the article)
Source: Gulf News. Guwahati: Illegal migration from Bangladesh has been the dominant theme of Assam politics since independence. However, over the years, successive federal governments or state governments have done little to curb this. Immigration from Bangladesh or erstwhile East Pakistan has a colonial history. People were brought in as […]
AFP Tuesday, Sep 11, 2012 JAKARTA – Indonesia is stepping up efforts to combat religious radicalism, officials said Tuesday after a spate of terror-related incidents, but analysts accused the government […]
Source: ET How can you make complete use of the Holy Quran when you can’t touch it at certain times of the month when you’re ‘unclean’? PHOTO: REUTERS If you […]
Source: Times of India NEW DELHI: India has finally reacted to the violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state by handing over $ 200,000 to the state administration for the riot-affected people. Government sources here said that the money, which was handed over to Rakhine chief minister U Hla Maung Tin by […]
Source: Firstpost New Delhi: India today announced a $10 million contribution to Palestine and pledged its support to Palestine’s bid for full and equal membership of the UN. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas held comprehensive talks on host of bilateral issues and exchanged views […]
Credit: ET The writer is professor of political science at LUMS Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the father of our nation, must be turning in his grave if angels were to carry the news and pictures of today’s Pakistan to him — targeted killings of Shias, persecution of Christians and public conversion […]
Source: ET Chief justice says matter is sub-judice, which is why he cannot meet delegation. PHOTO: PID/FILE Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Tuesday refused to meet the UN delegation investigating the issue of enforced disappearances, saying that the matter is sub-judice, Express News reported. The team arrived in Pakistan […]
ARAB NEWS Tuesday 11 September 2012 JEDDAH: More than 12.5 million workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are foreigners, accounting for 31 percent of the 40 million GCC […]
SAMABULA (SUVA)- FIJI – I was blown away when I saw manuscript of the first Fijian translation nicely typed and kept at the Ahmadiyya Islamic library here when I volunteered at the library in late 70s. During my breaks and holidays from Police Department, I used work with the then Amir and Missionary in Charge Maulana […]
By Jana El Hassan, Wassim Mroueh The Daily Star BEIRUT: Many Shiite and Sunni clerics, including Salafist leaders, are welcoming Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming visit to Lebanon, and expressing hope […]