Credit: Asia Times By Sudha Ramachandran BANGALORE – An avalanche near the Siachen Glacier, which buried around 140 Pakistani soldiers and civilian contractors a fortnight ago, has triggered debate in India and Pakistan over the huge costs of keeping troops in a stand-off at its icy heights. Pakistan’s army chief […]
By David Ignatius The Daily Star, Lebanon The nuclear talks with Iran have just begun, but already the smart money in Tehran is betting on a deal. That piece of intelligence comes from the Tehran stock index, which on the day after the talks opened posted its largest daily rise […]
By Michael Young The Daily Star, Lebanon Which devotee of the anti-globalization left, enlivened by anti-Americanism, could resist a frisson of pleasure when watching Julian Assange interview Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, […]
By DAMMAM: ARAB NEWS The Justice Ministry will soon make an announcement to establish the age of consent for Saudi women to marry, local daily Al-Madinah reported yesterday quoting an official source at the ministry. Director of the Department of Marriage at the ministry Muhammad Al-Babtain said a decision on […]
By LIBREVILLE, GABON: ARAB NEWS The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) yesterday announced its plan to establish a satellite channel and promote investment in the media to fight Islamophobia […]
Source: The New York Times KAZIKOT VILLAGE, India — In this village not far from the Pakistani border, the wheat harvest is only days away. Water buffaloes are resting in the shade. Farmers are preparing their fields. And drug addicts like Pargat Singh are crouched in the shadows, injecting […]
Source: MSNBC India test-fired a nuclear-capable, long-range missile capable of reaching deep inside China and Europe Thursday, television stations showed, putting the emerging Asian power into an elite club of nations with intercontinental nuclear defense capabilities. A scientist at the launch site said the launch was successful, minutes after television […]
The Israel National News: The Israeli volunteer organization Eye from Zion is providing free cataract surgery to thousands of patients in Ethiopia, according to a press release issue by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday. When the delegation of volunteers first arrived in Ethiopia in February, they were […]
The Jakarta Globe: AN eight-year-old Indonesian boy who smoked more than a pack a day from age four has kicked the habit, a child-welfare commission said today. The boy, Ilham, […]
Lankaweb An objection that is raised is that why Ahmadi Muslims do not go for Hajj? Instead they go to their holy place in Qadian (the birth-place of their Founder Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Punjab, India)? Hajj is a pillar of Islam which they disrespect and they show more love for […]
Source: huffingtonpost by Nake M. Kamrany, Jessica Stauffer and Faiyaz Azim Posted: 04/18/2012 6:03 pm Bangladesh is poised to follow China and India’s recent growth pattern of rising per capita income as the recent distribution of economic growth has shifted in favor of low and middle income countries. […]
Dawn: KARACHI: Murtaza Razvi, a senior assistant editor and head of magazines at Dawn, was murdered in the early hours of Thursday, in Karachi. According to police, Razvi’s body was found […]
Credit: TOI Unsure of just how unwanted girls are in India? Here’s appalling evidence – angry with his wife, a 30-year-old youth in Haryana’s Jhajjar district turned on his three little daughters. The father apparently first tried to hang the children – all between two to seven years – from […]
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page When asked about her Hijab By Journalists and how it is not proportionate with her […]
Rights group Amnesty International demanded on Wednesday that Indonesian authorities drop blasphemy charges against Tajul Muluk, a local Shiite leader displaced from his village in East Java’s Madura Island, who is […]
Sitting on the floor in a cramped room, they had to share the holy book with others. It, however, didn’t weaken their enthusiasm to learn. These children live with their families in a red-light area of Kebon Kacang in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta. Aini Kanita Sari, 10, was one of […]
Hidayat: Religion Can Solve Jakarta’s Problems While other gubernatorial candidates have been busy touting fixes for Jakarta’s transportation and urban planning woes, Hidayat Nur Wahid sees an opportunity to address the city’s underlying social problems through religion. The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) legislator’s vision is to improve interfaith relations by, […]
BBC: An Israeli army officer filmed hitting a pro-Palestinian protester in the face with his rifle has been dismissed from his post, the military says. A video showing Lt Col Shalom Eisner striking the young Danish activist was shown on the internet and Israeli TV. An army statement said Lt […]
By ARAB NEWS PARIS: Culture and Information Minister Abdul Aziz Khoja and UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova opened a three-day Saudi cultural event at the UN educational body’s headquarters here […]
Jordan Times AMMAN — HRH Prince Ghazi, Chief Adviser to the King for Religious and Cultural Affairs and the King’s Personal Envoy, along with Grand Mufti of Egypt Sheikh Ali […]