Source: Huffpost With the image of Pakistan in the world today, I felt a certain elated too. After all, Pakistan is my motherland. However, I know this election wasn’t remotely based on our human rights record. It pains me to admit that Pakistan has a depressing human rights record and […]
Mohammed Al-Sulami | Published — Wednesday 18 October 2017 JEDDAH: The president of the Republic of Singapore, Halimah Yacob, has received and welcomed the secretary-general of the Muslim World League […]
İLNUR ÇEVIK @ilnurcevik Information from Irbil shows that there is a growing pessimism and an atmosphere of dejection especially among the Barzani administration people. This is only normal because they embarked on a mission impossible by insisting on holding a referendum for independence which was not only illegal but […]
Reuters International This content was published on October 18, 2017 BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Kurdish Peshmerga forces have retreated to positions they held in northern Iraq in June 2014 in response to an Iraqi army advance into the region after a Kurdish independence referendum rejected by Baghdad, a senior Iraqi commander […]
The Independent Online A member of the US-backed Iraqi security forces stands guard at a shrine destroyed by air strikes in east Mosul, Iraq, on 19 April 2017 REUTERS The Pentagon has dismissed Russian allegations that the US is only “pretending” to fight Isis in Iraq as a “ridiculous” Russian […]
Some Isis fighters have been allowed to leave, but there will apparently be no forgiveness for the foreign fighters in Raqqa – it seems they will have to fight and die Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices SDF forces are making gains in pushing the last Isis fighters out of […]
Source: Reuters By Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo swore in a former education minister as Jakarta’s governor on Monday, months after an election that opened up […]
Source: Reuters BY Scott Malone MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) – Since fleeing deadly violence in Indonesia two decades ago, Meldy and Eva Lumangkun built a life in suburban New Hampshire and […]
Source: Dawn The Taliban claimed responsibility in a tweet for the attack in the centre in Gardez, capital of Paktia province which borders Pakistan. “At first, a suicide bomber detonated a car filled with explosives near the training centre, making way for a number of attackers to start their assault,” […]
Source: Dawn ISLAMABAD: Two days after Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi distanced himself from the anti-Ahmadi tirade by retired Captain Mohammad Safdar on the floor of the National Assembly, PML-N president Nawaz Sharif has also distanced his party from it. “I declare it in categorical and unequivocal terms that all […]
Source: BBC News If you control public communication you can control the way people think and how they behave. That’s what Xi Jinping’s government is counting on. And it is […]
Source: Asia Times string of racial and religious incidents in Malaysia has brought concerns of rising Islamic conservatism to the fore, widening the divide between Muslims and non-Muslims as the government plays on identity issues ahead of what is expected to be a jarring and contentious election season. Two annual […]
Source: Asia Times On October 2, Pakistan’s National Assembly passed the Electoral Reforms Bill 2017 into law, to allow the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) disqualified prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, to be reelected as the party’s leader. In addition to being touted as undemocratic by opposition parties, resulting in the Pakistan […]
Source: Dawn SOMETHING old, something new and something definitely blue — much happened this week. You can decide which is which. But what does it all mean? Let’s start with this hostage business. It’s right out of the crisis playbook: find something you can offer the other side so that […]
Source:Pakistan Time LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Saturday said without going into depth of his stance [on Ahmadiyya community], a certain lobby [political opponents] twisted his stance in order to malign his reputation. Earlier, Sanaullah came under criticism when he made a controversial statement favouring the minority community. […]
Source: http://nation.com.pk/national/13-Oct-2017/ahmadis-should-stop-declaring-themselves-as-muslims-rana-sanaullah Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan today said that Ahmedi community should stop declaring themselves as Muslims, if they want to be treated in equal manner as other religious minority groups in Pakistan. While addressing a press conference today Sanaullah said, “I said that Ahmedis pretend to be Muslims as they […]
Source: http://punjabimania.com/noor-hospital-qadian-to-celebrate-100-years-of-service-to-humanity/ Ahmadiyya Muslim Community today announced special events to mark the centenary celebrations of the historic Noor Hospital in Qadian, Punjab. The hospital which was established in 1917 to cater to the needs of local residents, is well known for having served humanity. Tariq Ahmad, Spokesperson of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat […]
News Courtesy: Anees Ahmad Nadeem, Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Japan 37th Annual Ijtima of Ahmadiyya Auxiliary Organizations Japan held at National Chuo Youth Friendship Center Gotemba on 7th and 8th October 2017 Ahmadiyya Muslims Youth Association Japan, Ahmadiyya Muslim Kids Association Japan, Ahmadiyya Women Association Japan & Ahmadiyya Ansar (men above forty years […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY ALEKSANDRA SANDSTROM Five years ago today, Taliban gunmen tried to kill Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan in response to her advocacy of education for girls. The Taliban justified the attack […]
Source: https://www.samaa.tv/pakistan/2017/10/captain-safdar-not-issued-statements-ahmadis-pm-abbasi/ ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that son-in-law of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif Captain Safdar should not have made statements against the Ahmadi community in the National Assembly. In an interview to a private news channel, the prime minister stated that neither he nor Pakistan Muslim […]