Credit: ET Certain mufta-loving khaandans enjoy eating munchies, sipping tea in pretense of looking at prospective girls for son. PHOTO: FILE 1- Bahar ka rishta Forget sharafat and tameez, this family’s biggest accomplishment is that their son is in amreeka! The son is missing, “because he’s in Amreeka… na!!!” As […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: August 6, 2012 Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Monday took notice of the press conference held by Senator […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Monday 6 August 2012 The expansion project for the mataf (the circumambulation area around the Kaaba) will triple its capacity, according to a senior official of the […]
RAMALLAH — A key meeting of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) ministers which was to have taken place in the West Bank on Sunday was cancelled after Israel denied several of them […]
Washington Post: By David Ignatius, Monday, August 6, 7:43 AM By appointing Prince Bandar bin Sultan as its new intelligence chief, Saudi Arabia has installed what looks like a war cabinet at a time of rising […]
COMMENT: The partition of Punjab — II — Yasser Latif Hamdani Is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan today not a theocratic state? Does it not discriminate against Christians, Hindus and other […]
Philippine News: A ban on Muslim students wearing the hijab at a Catholic-run school in the Philippines, has sparked complaints and controversy. Pilar College in Zamboanga has defended its decision to ban Muslim students from wearing thehijab. Many of the schools 3,000 pupils are Muslim.Ciibroadcasting reported the college president, Sister Maria Nina Balbas, defied the complaints the […]
Iranian experts have completed the feasibility studies of Iran’s national plan to build 150-passenger airplanes and the project has entered the designing and manufacturing phase, an Iranian official says. In […]
Violence erupts at anti-Islam protest in Sweden The Associated Press Published: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 – 6:25 am Last Modified: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 – 8:56 am STOCKHOLM — Swedish activists clashed with police amid a hail of bottles and fireworks in downtown Stockholm on Saturday as they tried to break […]
http://tribune.com.pk/story/417246/water-world-dr-attaur-rehman-senses-a-scam-behind-man-touting-water-kit/ KARACHI: Sindh Senior Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ayaz Soomro is the latest to jump on the infamous ‘water kit’ bandwagon, having called the man touting the ‘invention’ a national hero. “Agha Waqar’s invention of a water kit has proved and recognised Sindhi people on world level,” Soomro told […]
Around 320,000 worshipers headed to Al-Aqsa mosque to take part in prayers on the third Friday of Ramadan, the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage said. Thousands of Palestinians traveled […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 5 August 2012 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah yesterday sent an invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend the emergency Islamic summit […]
TAIF: MOHAMMAD MURAD ARABNEWS Sunday 5 August 2012 Due to the nice weather, even though it rains sometimes, people of Taif and nearby cities are flocking to open areas to […]
RAFJA/MADINAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 5 August 2012 A Saudi philanthropist has donated SR 17 million to save a Saudi man from execution. The unidentified donor contributed to a campaign to pay off the diya (blood money) to help save Sameh Al-Rowaily, who was sentenced to death for killing a Yemeni […]
by Laila Azzeh JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Jordan’s young women made a strong showing in the General Secondary Education Certificate Examination (Tawjihi) summer session, with girls dominating the lists of […]
AJLOUN — Hundreds of Christian worshipers converged on Saint Elias Church in Ajloun, 70km northwest of Amman, on Friday to perform pilgrimage. The pilgrims attended a religious mass and prayed […]
The Express Tribune: Khaled Ahmed When Muslims fly into rage and become destructive, it is never supposed to be original behaviour. We announce that our extremeaction has been caused by the injustice and violence of someone else. Therefore, our extremism is not original; therefore, we are not to blame for […]
Source: NY Times. By Reuteres The government told three international aid agencies on Thursday not to help thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have been fleeing into Bangladesh to escape violence in neighboring Myanmar. The announcement, directed at the aid agencies Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Muslim Aid and Action […]
The Times of India: Strawberry extract added to skin cell cultures acts as a protector against ultraviolet radiation as well as increasing its viability and reducing damage to DNA, a […]
Source: Bangkok Post Forty-eight Iranian pilgrims were kidnapped from a bus in the Syrian capital on Saturday, their embassy’s consular chief in Damascus told Iran’s state television. “Armed terrorist groups […]