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 […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 11 August 2012 A new plan of operation for effectively managing crowds during the Haj and Umrah seasons will divide the areas close to the Haram […]
By Dave Clark (AFP) – WASHINGTON — The United States warned Friday that Syria’s allies Iran and Hezbollah could be planning attacks in Europe, as Washington boosted sanctions against the […]
By JEREMY SHARON. JPost “Whether we are Jews, Christians or Muslims, we all need to take responsibility for the poor among us.” Rabbis, kadis and priests were all in attendance […]
Source: Asia Time: While the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is “liberating Aleppo by destroying it” – to paraphrase the words of a general in an earlier civil war, in the former Yugoslavia – even his closest foreign ally, Iran, is preparing for his end at the top. “Syrian […]
Credit: TOI. LAHORE: Pakistan PM Raja Pervez Ashraf has been advised by his aides not to appear in the supreme court in response to a notice summoning him for failing to act on its orders to revive graft cases against the president. The ruling PPP believes that Ashraf ‘s appearance […]
Express Tribune: ‘The condemned’ is an endeavor to capture the persecution faced by the minority Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan – from their eyes. The short documentary is a collection of […]
JERUSALEM — It’s the latest prescription for extreme ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who shun contact with the opposite sex: Glasses that blur their vision, so they don’t have to see women […]
Source: Pakistan Today ISLAMABAD – Minister Incharge for National Harmony Dr. Paul Bhatti has said that arrangements have been finalized to mark Minorities’ Day officially here on Thursday (August 9). He said three to four hundred people of different faiths including parliamentarians, diplomats, religious leaders and general public would participate in the […]
Haaretz: Circumcising boys violates their right to decide over their own body, says children’s watchdog Dr. Anne Lindboe. Norway’s ombudsman for children’s rights has proposed that Jews and Muslims replace male circumcision with a symbolic, nonsurgical ritual. Dr. Anne Lindboe told the newspaper Vart Land last month that circumcising boys […]
MK proposes setting aside time for Jews to pray on Temple Mount, allowing religious freedom without security risk. MK Aryeh Eldad (Ichud Leumi) believes he has found a way for […]