Forbidden truth: Ahmadis in the social fabric of Pakistan
Commentary / Insight “The forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo — that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply […]
Playing politics with the dead
Mar 11,2018 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Israel has now extended its oppression of the Palestinians to their dead, when the Israeli Knesset adopted a draconian legislation that won 48 votes […]
Zamzam renovation work to be completed next month
Saudi Gazette report MAKKAH – Prince Abdullah Bin Bandar, acting emir of Makkah, on Monday inspected the ongoing renovation work of the Zamzam well in Makkah. About 90 percent of […]
Another controversial decision
The judgement itself is in violation of Article 5, since it gives the impression of bias and partiality against a specific community Yasser Latif Hamdani@theRealYLH March 12, 2018 The second Amendment to the Pakistani Constitution of 1973 was the last nail in the coffin of Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Pakistan. The […]
Why Ahmadi Muslims are doomed in Pakistan
Source: Daily O By Mehr Tarar, a former op-ed editor of Daily Times, Pakistan, and a freelance columnist. There are no sounds of a Sunday mass, bells of a temple, […]
Islam in Russia
By 2020, Muslims are expected to account for one-fifth of the population. 7 Mar 2018 Grand Mufti of Russia Sheikh Rawil Gaynetdin speaks during an interview in Moscow, Russia on […]
The better half
Mar 11,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Ali Kassay When my better half and I came to sign our marriage certificate, I wanted to include in it a clause giving her equal right of divorce, which women do not have in Sharia courts. I was almost universally declared a certifiable lunatic […]
UAE says will have rail link with Saudi Arabia by the end of December 2021
By Reuters – Mar 12,2018 – JORDAN TIMES DUBAI – The United Arab Emirates will have a rail link with Saudi Arabia by the end of December 2021, a senior […]
Malika I: Khayzuran & Zubayda
By: Tom Verde From Indonesia to Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan to Nigeria, Senegal to Turkey, it is not particularly rare in our own times for women in Muslim-majority countries to be […]
Lost tablet of Seljuk Sultan Kayqubad I found in Turkey’s Antalya
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL The lost tablet of Seljuk Sultan Kayqubad I found in Turkey’s Antalya province (AA Photo) Related Articles Feature 13th century complex offers a glimpse of Seljuk […]
Chinese official warns against creeping Islamisation
Reuters International This content was published on March 10, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Men talk on a street in China’s Linxia, Gansu province, home to a large population of ethnic […]
Senior UAE official says Turkey-Arab relations ‘not in best state’
Reuters International This content was published on March 10, 2018 Minister of State for Foreign Affairs for the United Arab Emirates, Anwar Gargash, speaks at an event at Chatham […]
Sri Lankan police ask who promoted violence against Muslims
Reuters International This content was published on March 9, 2018 Sri Lanka’s Special Task Force and Police officers stand guard near a burnt house after a clash between two communities […]
Private Turkish jet carrying bride and friends from bachelorette party in Dubai crashes in Iran
DAILY SABAH WITH WIRES ISTANBUL A private plane carrying the daughter of the owner of one of Turkey’s leading companies and 10 others onboard traveling to Istanbul from a […]
Wedding celebration bullet kills guest in Saudi Arabia
ARAB NEWS | Published — Sunday 11 March 2018 Wedding celebratory fire kills guest. (Shutterstock) DUBAI: A guest was killed at a Saudi wedding after a bullet fire in celebration […]
Divorced Saudi mothers win new rights to child custody
RUBA OBAID | Published — Sunday 11 March 2018 JEDDAH: Divorced women are no longer required to file a lawsuit to gain custody of their children, provided there are no disputes between the parents. Mothers may now simply submit a request to the relevant court, without the need for […]
America shuts the schoolhouse door on refugees
Mar 10,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – GORDON BROWN LONDON — No international institution has done as much for children’s schooling on the ground for as long as the United Nations […]
A new order for the Indo-Pacific
Mar 10,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Brahma Chellaney SYDNEY — Security dynamics are changing rapidly in the Indo-Pacific. The region is home not only to the world’s fastest-growing economies, but […]
Jordan, Saudi Arabia in talks over $500b NEOM project
By Mohammad Ghazal – Mar 10,2018 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Discussions are under way between Jordan and Saudi Arabia to identify projects that will be implemented in Aqaba, […]
Debt lands hundreds in jail as Gaza economy tanks
By AFP – Mar 10,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinians, who are unable to pay off their debts, sit in a cell in a Hamas jail in Gaza City on February 20 (AFP photo) GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Sameh Al Madhoun’s eyes fill with tears as he recalls his fall […]