AFP | Aug 21, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES NEW YORK – US authorities on Monday announced the seizure of $150 million allegedly linked to a scheme by the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah to launder proceeds from drug trafficking and other crimes. The money came from a US bank account used […]
Source: The Daily Star. The news that Bangladesh tops the list among 197 nations surveyed under “Natural Hazards Risk Atlas 2011”, a report by respected British risk consultancy firm Maplecroft is disturbing to say the least. The report states that we fall in the “extreme risk” category as Bangladesh suffers […]
Credit: ET Iran has the highest ratio of female to male undergraduates in the world. PHOTO: REUTERS Female students in Iran have been barred from more than 70 university degree courses, popular British daily The Telegraph reported on Monday. The new policy introduced by the Islamic Republic of Iran, resulted in […]
Asian Human Rights Commission: Editors Note: Please take action by going to website and clicking the appeal PAKISTAN: A mentally retarded minor is arrested on the charges of blasphemy; her […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Azam Khan / Qaiser Zulfiqar Published: August 20, 2012 ISLAMABAD: Amid reports of many Christian families fleeing the town near the federal capital […]
Credit: LUBP In the last few decades, Pakistani Muslims, particularly Sunni Muslims, have been experiencing a phenomenon which has been described by Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy as Saudi-ization of Pakistan. Many Sunni Barelvis and moderate Deobandis and Ahl-e-Hadith have been undergoing a subtle transformation to more puritanical and intolerant Wahhabi-Salafi ideology […]
Credit: CNN. A man from India’s northeast living in Bangalore shows his mobile phone displaying a threatening text message on August 16. (CNN) — India is looking to Pakistan for answers after online threats and text messages sparked mass panic among migrant workers and students who hail from the country’s […]
The Jakarta Post: The spirit of Idul Fitri encourages Muslims to renew their relationships with relatives. They are enthusiastic about visiting parents, siblings, friends and neighbors. Idul Fitri is believed to be a day when God Allah will erase all sins, as long as Muslims express repentance and ask for […]
The Jakarta Globe: It was a solemn Idul Fitri for the 33 Ahmadiyah families who spent the holiday living at the Haj Transito dormitory in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara. The […]
Source: Jagran Qadian, Gurdaspur Today, the holy festival of eid is being celebrated across India with great fervor and religiosity. Literal meaning of Eid stands for ‘Happiniess’. Muslims celebrate Eid twice every year. One to which we refer as ‘Sewaiya wali Eid’ and the second one is known as Eid […]
Rohtak, Haryana The festival of Eid was celebrated in the city with great enthusiasm. Muslim brothers and members of other social organizations greeted each other by rubbing shoulders with each other. The process of distribution of eidi ensued. Muslim brothers offered their prayers at Lal Mosque, Noorani Mosque and Sheesha […]
Source: Zeenews India Bhubaneswar: It was a day of peace and brotherhood Monday as Hindus in many parts of Odisha joined in Eid celebrations across the state. Hindu families visited the houses of their Muslim friends and greeted them on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. Large congregations of Muslims were seen […]
Source: China Daily During holy month, faithful gave 3 million yuan to nursing homes Muslims in China celebrated the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting, on Sunday. Thousands of […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Monday 20 August 2012 Around six million foreign pilgrims have traveled through the Haj Terminal of King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah during this year to perform […]
Express Tribune: LAHORE: Members of an Islamic organisation removed Quranic texts and religious words from the shop of an Ahmadi family in Kot Abdul Malik, Sheikhupura, on August 14 with the help of local police. Factory Area Police had gone to Qamar Zia’s mobile shop with members of an Islamic organisation, Almi […]
Fair CEC, unfair polls byKunwar Idrees The appointment of Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim as Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) has raised widespread hope that the next elections will be fair. The chief contenders […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Qaiser Zulfiqar Published: August 19, 2012 ISLAMABAD: An 11-year-old Christian girl, suffering from Down’s Syndrome, was arrested on […]
(Reuters) – Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s drive to restore order to Yemen after last year’s uprising against his predecessor risks being bogged down in a prolonged war with al Qaeda unless he moves […]
Credit. Jakarta Globe Beirut. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad performed Eid prayers in a Damascus mosque on Sunday, state television showed, in his first appearance in public since a July bombing in the Syrian capital that killed four top security officials. Assad, who is battling a 17-month-old uprising, was accompanied by […]