COUNTDOWN FOR IFTAR TIMES AROUND THE WORLD
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Saudi Arabia reshuffles Cabinet with eye on culture
By AFP – Jun 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES J Saudi families arrive outside a stadium to attend an event in the capital Riyadh (AFP photo) RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi […]
Madmen in authority
Jun 02,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Harold James PRINCETON — In The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes famously worried that, “Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”. Yet, even without […]
Mass appeal: why China’s unofficial Catholic churches are a hit with foreign believers
Source: South China Morning Post BY Louise Moon At 10am on a Sunday morning, more than 100 foreigners wait outside one of the embassies in Beijing’s eastern Chaoyang district. One […]
Pakistani Hazaras face a constant threat of targeted violence. Many say the security response has been ghettoizing and ineffective.
Source: PRI By Sabrina Toppa When Jalila Haider, a Hazara lawyer and human rights activist, returned to her hometown Quetta in southwestern Pakistan last month, her mother thrust a video in […]
Malaysian Buddhists celebrate Vesak
Source: Religion News Service By Alexandra Radu KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (RNS) — Celebrated across the Buddhist world each spring, the holiday Vesak commemorates the three most important events of Gautama Buddha’s […]
India’s Hindu nationalist party suffers defeat at polls
Source: Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s opposition parties inflicted a humiliating defeat on the governing Hindu nationalist party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in more than a dozen […]
Will Ahmadi persecution ever end?
Source: Daily Mail In 1974, the Pakistani government initiated what has gone down in the books of history as one of the most oppressive and unjust acts targeted towards a […]
Tony Blair should be prosecuted over Iraq
May 31,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power President Barack Obama was not a war criminal despite US involvement in wars in Iraq, Somalia, and Afghanistan and against Daesh. His […]
Syria’s new housing law is a veiled attempt to displace tens of thousands of refugees – but even that won’t help the regime win the war
There are painful parallels here to the plight of the 1947-48 Palestinians refugees and their families, who are deprived of their homes under Israel’s 1950 Absentee Property law Robert Fisk […]
Gaza protests: All the latest updates
Gaza protests: All the latest updates Palestinians mark 70 years since the ethnic cleansing of their homeland during the creation of Israel. more on Gaza For more than two months, […]
The Gulf crisis: How it all started
For a long time, the GCC was effective in resolving regional disputes and ensuring balance of power. by Rory Miller Four Arab countries – Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and […]
Pakistan: Italian girl Sana Cheema honor killing
ASI, PFSA official held for bribe in Sana Cheema case GUJRANWALA: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) arrested on Thursday a police assistant sub-inspector (ASI) and a Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA) […]
Book Review: Love in the Holy Quran by His Royal Highness Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal
By HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad (Author) Source: Amazon The author treats in a simple and accessible style with reader-friendly and teaching-friendly features, not only the love of God and […]
‘There Was No Crash’ Flight Investigator Claims Murder-Suicide on MH370
Canadian accident investigator Larry Vance claims to have solved the mystery of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. In an interview, he explains why he believes the plane’s […]
Ex-Israeli spy chief: Netanyahu planned Iran strike in 2011
Tamir Pardo served as head of the Israeli intelligence agency from 2011 to 2016. (AP) AP May 31, 2018 Netanyahu said Israel will not allow Iran to arm itself […]
Saudi law making sexual harassment a crime to take effect within days
Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki and other officials field questions during a press conference on Thursday on the newly approved law against sexual harassment. (SPA) NOOR NUGALI June […]
Bangladeshi plan to relocate Rohingya to remote island ‘unrealistic’: UN
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA DHAKA AFP Photo A Bangladeshi plan to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees from crowded mainland camps to an island in the Bay of Bengal was deemed […]
Tolerance and terror: Islam in Indonesia’s Reformasi era
By Max Walden | 29th May 2018 | @maxwalden_ A Muslim man reads the Koran as he waits for iftar, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Istiqlal Mosque […]
Pakistan’s Ahmadi Inquisition
Source: The Daily Times By Busharat Elahi Jamil This dark episode of Spanish history is repeating itself in Pakistan In the 15th Century, the Catholic Monarch Ferdinand II and Isabella […]