MUSCAT: The Majlis Al Shura yesterday approved the recommendations of the Majlis Al Shura Health and Social Committee’s report on the Marriage Support Fund. The Majlis decided to present the report to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said. The approval came after expanded and detailed discussions by members of the […]
By Nayla Razzouk Iraqi Airways will appeal a court order to freeze its bank accounts in Jordan following a lawsuit by Kuwait Airways Corp., Karim al-Nuri, a spokesman for the Iraqi Minister of Transport, said. “We are preparing to appeal the Jordanian court order,” he said in a phone interview […]
Promoted posts: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy and After Monotheism, the Two Most Seminal Verses of the Quran By ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: The number of holy water distribution outlets at the King Abdullah Zamzam Water Purification Project in Kudai will be increased to 42. The increase is part […]
DOHA (Reuters) – The Palestinian leader said on Saturday there were “no shared foundations” for peace talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and seeking UN recognition of Palestinian statehood was his only option. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, addressing an Arab League meeting in Doha, expressed concern that taking the […]
By Suleiman Khalili Reuters AMMAN – The young man was dangling upside down, white, foaming saliva dripping from his mouth. His groans sounded more bestial than human. It was one of many fleeting images of human degradation I witnessed during four days as an unwilling guest of Syrian intelligence, when […]
by Abdelhafidh Abdeleli, swissinfo.ch The protests and subsequent government crackdown are dividing opinion among Syrians watching events unfold from Switzerland. While some Syrians feel the protests are a consequence of the Arab Spring sweeping through North Africa, others say wider diplomatic forces are at work. Although all the Syrians who […]
Gil Yaron, Special to The Star JERUSALEM—It’s been a while since a jubilant mood reigned in the streets of Gaza, but on Friday, many people were almost euphoric. “Everyone is happy — this is the dawn of a new era,” Muhammad Dawwas, a journalist from Gaza City, said in an […]
By REUTERS DEAUVILLE, France: The Group of Eight promised $20 billion in aid to Tunisia and Egypt on Friday and held out the prospect of billions more to foster the Arab Spring and the new democracies emerging from popular uprisings. Likening it to the fall of the Berlin Wall that […]
By ARAB NEWS MADINAH: Pakistani Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan visited Thursday the King Fahd Qur’an Complex in Madinah. Giving the minister and her accompanying delegation a detailed briefing, Hassan Ahmed Al-Ghausi, director of the complex, said the complex is the world’s largest Qur’an printing facility of […]
AMMAN (Reuters) – Israel will not gain security by holding on to territory beyond what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called its “indefensible” 1967 West Bank border, Jordan’s foreign minister said. Netanyahu said this week he was ready to withdraw from parts of the West Bank, captured in the 1967 […]
By MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: The family of a Sri Lankan maid who was murdered by a Saudi sponsor’s wife received SR40,000 as compensation for the death, the Sri Lankan Embassy told Arab News here Friday. The autopsy report of the maid, identified as 36-year-old Pospawalli Selladurai, revealed […]
By AHMED AL-HAJ The Associated Press SANAA, Yemen — A Yemeni tribal leader says 18 tribesmen have been killed in fresh fighting between forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and members of Yemen’s most powerful tribal confederation, the Hashid. May 26, 2011. Yemen’s government said 28 people were killed […]
“The inspiration of this post is the article Forgotten: Sir Zafarullah Khan posted on ATP in February 2007. I wanted to produce the same article with some more references. I must acknowledge that ATP is doing a better job of showing honest past and present of Pakistan than the main […]
Sir Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Sahib Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (6 February 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Pakistani diplomat, Pakistan’s first foreign minister, renowned international jurist and a scholar of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Community. Khan was born on February 6, 1893, in Sialkot, India, the son of Nasrullah […]
Illustrated work from 16th century makes it onto prestigious Unesco world list New Delhi: An illustrated Indian manuscript recounting the history of Mughal ancestor Timur has been inscribed on Unesco’s Memory of the World Register, an official has said. The Tarikh-E-Khandan-E-Timuriyah was written and created during the reign of Mughal […]
Ramallah – PNN – While it seems that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded in winning the hearts of US Congress members in his speech earlier this week, the Palestinian leadership came back to throw the ball into the Israeli and US courts by announcing yesterday that US President Barack Obama’s remarks […]
By ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: People in the Grand Mosque will have a rare celestial treat on Saturday when they see the sun straight above them. It is a rare phenomenon that helps worshippers worldwide to set the exact direction of the holy city. The phenomenon is the first this year […]
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Outraged over the maltreatment of one of its female representatives by members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia), the German Tourism Commission abruptly bowed out Wednesday of the Riyadh International Exhibition for Travel. Regional director for sales and marketing […]
SANAA (AFP) – Security forces in the Yemeni capital battled heavily armed supporters of the country’s most powerful tribal leader on Thursday as President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered the tribesman’s arrest. The leader, Sheikh Sadiq Al Ahmar, in turn accused Saleh of dragging Yemen into civil war, speaking after hours […]
By Omar Obeidat AMMAN – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and former finance ministers on Thursday warned that the government should not continue with its subsidy regimes, stressing the need to direct support to the most vulnerable groups of the society. Following a lecture delivered by Paul Cashin, adviser at […]