JERUSALEM — An Israeli soldier implicated in the killing of two Gaza women carrying a white flag faces a 45-day jail term under a plea bargain approved by a military court on Sunday, local media said. The sniper, identified by Israeli media as “staff sergeant S,” was charged with manslaughter […]
A journalist working with Syria’s state-run SANA news agency has been killed in his residence just outside the capital Damascus. No further details are available at this moment. There have been several attacks on pro-regime media over the course of Syria’s 17-month-old conflict which, according to the UN, has claimed […]
Karachi, Pakistan. As millions around the world enter the third week of the Ramadan fast, the fraternity that typically unites Muslims during the holy month does not extend to Pakistan’s […]
JERUSALEM: The Israeli army on Sunday began testing a nationwide SMS system for warning the public of an imminent missile attack as chatter over a possible strike on Iran dominated the Israeli press headlines. With front page stories in two papers suggesting Tehran had made progress towards the manufacture and […]
Zahra Hosseinian | Reuters ARABNEWS Sunday 12 August 2012 DUBAI: Two powerful earthquakes killed 220 people and injured around 1,500 in northwest Iran where rescue workers frantically combed the rubble of dozens of villages throughout the night and into Sunday as medical staff desperately tried to save lives. Thousands huddled […]
Dr. Abdul Haq Azozi ARABNEWS Sunday 12 August 2012 King Abdullah, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, has called for an emergency summit of the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Makkah on the 26th and 27th of Ramadan to address the concerns and imminent problems […]
DAMMAM: SIRAJ WAHAB ARABNEWS Sunday 12 August 2012 The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is one of the key issues to be discussed at the Islamic solidarity summit convened by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah in Makkah on Aug. 14-15. With just two days to […]
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Secular Pakistan: Jinnah, Lincoln and Nehru The Express Tribune from 2012 by Sonia Malik: Speakers […]
Express Tribune: LAHORE: It was not a usual day for Muhammad Muhsen Ali, working at his brother’s Tandoor, when he secured the first position in BA (Bachelor in Arts) 2012 examinations on Saturday breaking all previous records in Punjab. Ali, a private student hailing from Hafizabad district, is the eldest son […]
RT: Two strong quakes have shaken Iran’s northwest, leaving 180 people dead and more than 1,300 injured, Iranian officials say. The quakes have also disrupted communications, complicating rescue efforts. The quakes, measuring 6.4 and 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck near the towns of Tabriz and Ahar in the East […]
Source: UN News Center 7 August 2012 – The United Nations refugee agency today urged Bangladeshi authorities to ensure that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can continue to provide assistance to unregistered people who have fled the violence in neighbouring Myanmar’s Rakhine state, after reports emerged of Government authorities banning them […]
Credit: ET Lightning appeared to ‘electrify’ mosque after hitting a rooftop microphone being run on power from a car battery. PHOTO: FILE DHAKA: At least 13 Muslim worshippers were killed and 15 hurt when lightning struck a mosque in a remote village in northeast Bangladesh as they held special Ramazan prayers, […]
Credit: Hindustan Times Via Wasim Sroya. The Pakistani Hindu team arrives in Attari after being detained by Islamabad for seven hours at the Wagah border. HT photo In the backdrop of a 14-year-old Hindu girl’s abduction in Pakistan’s Jacobabad city in Sindh province three days ago, a controversy erupted when […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Indian as well as Western scholars have now accepted the period between 3200 and 3100 BC as the period in which Lord […]
Source: Deccan Herald Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has formed a three-member committee of parliamentarians to meet Hindus in Sindh province and reassure them of their security after Hindu families decided to flee their homes. Zardari has taken serious notice of reports of the sense of insecurity among Hindu families […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Rabia Mehmood Published: August 9, 2012 ‘The condemned’ is an endeavor to capture the persecution faced by the minority Ahmadiyya community […]
by Hani Hazaimeh | Aug 09, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Riad Hijab, former Syrian prime minister who defected to the opposition three days ago, is currently safe and […]
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Friday 10 August 2012 Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, head of the Presidency for Two Holy Mosques, has called on all pilgrims and worshippers to uphold the sanctity of the two holy mosques. He reminded women worshippers at the mosque that it is better for them to stay […]
ABDULATEEF AL-MULHIM ARABNEWS.COM Saturday 11 August 2012 When oil was discovered in Bahrain in 1932, this was the year Saudi Arabia was founded by King Abdul Aziz. Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938. After this discovery, the Arabian Gulf region gained strategic importance. And when World War II […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star For months now, speculation by analysts, diplomats, scholars and journalists about the nature of the post-Bashar Assad transition in Syria has been as dynamic as the events on the ground. But with one big difference: Most analyses of events on the ground rely […]