Source: Express Tribune. The court has released a short order and will release a detailed order later. PHOTO: AFP/FILE ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday declared the Memogate case to be maintainable and formed a commission to probe into the scandal. Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Esa will head […]
Source: Express Tribune: PM confirms the visit, no comment on trip’s purpose. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States are working quietly to bring some normalcy to their troubled relationship following last month’s Nato airstrikes in Mohmand Agency. As part of some behind the scenes efforts, Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt […]
By NADIA AL-FAWAZ | ARAB NEWS ABHA: Entering malls and shopping centers have become a real challenge for young Saudi men, who have innovated many ways and means to force […]
By ARAB NEWS MANAMA: The Bahraini authorities announced on Thursday that five police officers would face trial next month over the death by torture of two detainees linked to anti-regime protests earlier this year. Nawaf Abdullah Hamza the Public Prosecution was quoted by the state news agency BNA that after […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency has said a nuclear Iran might not pose an “existential threat” to Israel, in remarks reported Thursday by Haaretz newspaper. “Does Iran pose a threat to Israel? Absolutely,” the daily quoted Mossad chief Tamir Pardo as telling a group of […]
WASHINGTON — US officials suspect that Yemen fed them false intelligence for a 2010 strike against Al Qaeda suspects that killed a local leader locked in a dispute with the president’s family, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The disclosure of such an incident would complicate relations between the two […]
ISLAMABAD: Lal Masjid’s firebrand clerics on Thursday accepted a government offer of 20 kanals of land in Sector H-11/4 for rebuilding Jamia Hafsa, averting a feared clash reminiscent of the bloody standoff between the two sides in July 2007 that saw the seminary for girls razed to ground. This alternate […]
The western suburbs police have formed 18 special squads to deal with eve-teasers on the night of December 31. Every team consists of one officer, two men constables and one woman constable. These squads will be deployed in civilian clothes at places frequented by large crowds, such as Juhu chowpatty, […]
AKARTA: A joint Iran and Indonesia conference on the rights of the Muslim women was largely seen as a popular step in the right direction by officials in both countries, […]
Abdullah Al-Shihri and Aya Batrawy, The Associated Press, Riyadh, Saudi The change signifies a step forward in easing the kingdom’s restrictions against women, but it falls far short of what some Saudi reformers are calling for. Shura Council member Fahad al-Anzi was quoted in the state-run al-Watan newspaper on Wednesday […]
By Aron Heller, Huffingto Post BEIT SHEMESH, Israel — A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel’s latest religious war. Naama Margolese is a ponytailed, bespectacled second-grader who is afraid of walking to her religious Jewish girls school for fear of ultra-Orthodox extremists who […]
Ministerial committee to advance status of women decided recently that Religious Services Ministry should amend burial society licenses so that women may accompany dead to graves, eulogize them at funerals. […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Asad Kharal Published: December 28, 2011 LAHORE: Senior commander of the banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Dr Arshad, accused of killing four intelligence […]
I can think of about four million Palestinians who can sympathise with Naama Margolese, the eight-year-old Israeli girl, whose routine humiliation by ultra-Orthodox Israelis on her way to school has “shocked” the nation, uniting the majority of Jewish Israelis in anger at the growing power of harshly conservative Jewish movements […]
By ALI BLUWI | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Support for science and scientists, both financially and morally, is rooted in Qur’an and Sunnah, said professor Saleh bin Mohammed Al-Hassan in his paper: “The Salafist Vision on Backing Science and Scientists.” Al-Hassan was one of the academics who presented their papers on […]
AMMAN — Jordan is set to send its team of monitors to Syria as Amman reiterated on Wednesday its calls for an end to the ongoing violence in its northern neighbour. According to Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications Rakan Majali, the team, consisting of 12 members, is […]
Express Tribune: The year opened with the assassination of then Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer by his own security guard Mumtaz Qadri in Islamabad on January 4. Taseer was killed for speaking against the blasphemy law and raising a voice in favour of Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death […]
قادیان میں جماعت احمدیہ کے ١٢٠ ویں سالانہ اجلاس سے مختلف پیشوایان مذاہب کا خطاب Read more: Editor’s note: Sorry English translation is not available, try Google translator or some other software. This news is about various speakers from different religions, emphasizing that all religions teach mutual love among humanity, […]
Source: The New York Times NEW DELHI — After a day of high political theater, India’s Parliament moved closer on Tuesday to […]