Photo Essay: A Glimpse Into the Ahmadis’ Jalsa in Punjab’s Qadian
By Usman Ahmad on 18/01/2018 Tens of thousands of Ahmadi Muslims come together every year in the small town of Qadian in Gurdaspur for the community’s annual convention or Jalsa. […]
Amendment declaring Ahmadis as non-Muslim proposed in AJK
February 2, 2018 BY APP MUZAFFARABAD: An amendment has been tabled in legislative Assembly in Interim Constitution 1974 of Azad Jammu and Kashmir to declare Ahmadi community as non-Muslim […]
Israel begins telling African migrants to leave
By AFP – Feb 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel began warning thousands of African migrants on Sunday that they must leave by the end of March, officials […]
Dental Care in Islamic Medical Science: Muhammad al-Aqkirmani (d. 1760) and his Risalah fi hukm al-Siwak
By: Mykhaylo Yakubovych Most of the oldest Muslim treatises on Siwak remain in a manuscript form. However, similar works on this issue have also appeared in later periods… Figure 1. Article Image Banner Dental care in Islamic history Figure 2. An illustration of Salvadora persica (Source) Among the corpus […]
Introduction to Turkish Motifs in Ottoman Times
By: Sairah Yassir-Deane On 13 and 14 January 2018 Ashfia Ashrif, Manchester based Artist and Student of Traditional Arts, delivered a two day course named “Introduction to Turkish Motifs in Ottoman Times” at FSTC House. Figure 1. Image collage from the weekend course ©Sairah On 13 and 14 January 2018 […]
Myanmar exodus : Switzerland to provide extra CHF12 million for displaced Rohingya
This content was published on February 5, 2018 Billboards in Dhaka welcome the Swiss president who is on a four-day state visit to Bangladesh (Keystone) President Alain Berset has announced […]
Battle over bodies rages quietly in Iraq’s Mosul long after Islamic State defeat
. Reuters International This content was published on February 5, 2018 Local residents carry bodies taken from the rubble in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq January 17, 2018. Picture […]
Coping with the complex security challenges
Feb 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The vacuum left by the recent fall of Daesh is being filled by new terror groups, who are forming and developing networks through existing criminal groups in order to raise money and transport weapons. This has led to an increase in […]
Syria Christians hold first prayer in years in ravaged Deir Ezzor church
Residents slowly trickle back to the city after recapture from Daesh By AFP – Feb 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Ignatius Aphrem II, gives a sermon […]
China accuses US of ‘Cold War mentality’ over nuclear policy
Source: BBC News China has urged the US to drop its “Cold War mentality” after Washington said it planned to diversify its nuclear armoury with smaller bombs. “The country that […]
‘Russian pilot killed after Syria rebels down plane’
By AFP – Feb 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES This photo taken on Saturday shows smoke billows from the site of a downed Sukhoi-25 fighter jet in the Syrian city of […]
global training: Switzerland pledges extra funds for education in developing world
This content was published on February 3, 2018 4:06 PMFeb 3, 2018 – 16:06 Knowledge is power: a classroom in the Philippines. (Keystone) Switzerland has announced it is stepping […]
Separatist push deepens fault lines in war-hit Yemen
By AFP – Feb 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES DUBAI — An independence push by southern separatists, who have seized the Yemeni government’s de facto capital, has laid bare deepening fault […]
Vatican, Eager for China Ties, Asks ‘Underground’ Bishops to Step Aside
Source: The New York Times BEIJING — In a move that has upset many in the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican asked two “underground” bishops in China to surrender their […]
$7.3b Jordan Response Plan endorsed
JRP seeks to compensate Kingdom for burdens ensuing from regional crises By Rana Husseini – Feb 02,2018 -JORDAN TIMES Scene from Zaatari refugee camp, some 80km northeast of Amman (Photo […]
Egypt’s election and continued Arab degradation
Feb 01,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri For most of the past two centuries, Egypt has been the epicentre, litmus test, proving ground, and mother of cultural and […]
From a luxury ‘prison,’ an exclusive interview with Saudi Prince Alwaleed
Reuters International This content was published on February 2, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal sits for an interview with Reuters in the office of the […]
On the front line in Syria, a confusing conversation with a doctor who may be an official of the YPG
Dr Heddo – trained as a doctor at the Aleppo medical school, he confided – wouldn’t exactly confirm he was an official of the YPG although he certainly sounded like it. […]
Morality push may outlaw sex outside marriage in Indonesia
Source: Associated Press By STEPHEN WRIGHT JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Riding a tsunami of moral conservatism and anti-gay prejudice, Indonesia’s Islamic political parties appear on the cusp of a major […]
Time has come to consider values of secularism
Source: JORDAN TIMES By Kamal Naffa, who is former professor of philosophy at California State University, Fullerton The time has come to consider the values and practices of secularism as […]