Source: ET For the last few years, Rohingya Muslims have found themselves in the awkward place where some of the world’s stateless peoples have lived and subsisted — largely unnoticed and unassisted by the international community. Wedged uncomfortably between the borders of their native Myanmar and Bangladesh — their first […]
Reuters International AUGUST 11, 2017 A crane is used to cover the statue of Guan Yu, a Chinese deity, with a cloth in Tuban, west of Indonesia’s second-biggest […]
Reuters International AUGUST 11, 2017 By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – The wife of ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will contest a special election for the […]
Source: Reuters NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – India’s top judge was urged on Thursday to scrap a civil law that permits Muslim men to divorce their wives by simply […]
Source: Yahoo News BY ASHOK SHARMA NEW DELHI (AP) — A top retiring Indian official on Thursday embarrassed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government by saying Muslims were feeling insecure […]
Source: TOI ISLAMABAD: In a dramatic power struggle within the family of former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the wife of his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif took to Twitter on Thursday to attack him saying he was heeding to “the most mediocre advisers a leader could have chosen”. Tehmina Durrani‘s […]
Source: ABNA The Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh passed the ruling on the 66-year-old clergyman on Thursday, Arabic-language and independent Yemenat news website reported. Sheikh Radhi’s relatives strongly condemned the court ruling, describing it as the application of the death penalty against the Shia cleric since he is already suffering […]
Source: CNN A 24-year-old woman is under police investigation in Fuzhou, China after she attempted to mail her newborn baby to an orphanage wrapped in plastic bags.The baby is currently in a stable condition at a hospital in the southeastern city. Fuzhou police said in a statement Thursday the mother, […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Talat Masood, who is a retired lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army and a former federal secretary. He has also served as chairman of the […]
Source: Dawn When I first saw Dr Ruth Pfau sitting under an old banyan tree in Manghopir, it reminded me of a childhood story told by my great grandmother, Babi. Babi in her youth was the prettiest girl in her hometown of Banaras, and so was taken away by djins. She […]
Source: Dawn HUQUQ Allah (rights of God) and huquq-ul Ibad (rights of His servants) are the foremost obligations of Muslims. The first means to fulfil the obligations towards God and the second to do so for human beings. The Holy Quran enjoins returning evil with good. Being kind to others […]
MELIH ALTINOK@melihaltinok A man watches a television news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump at a railway station in Seoul, Aug. 9, 2017. A possible nuclear war following the tension between Washington and Pyongyang is a dangerous threat for every country Having had […]
Source: The Local German media reported on Wednesday that the government will for now end controversial mass deportations of Afghan asylum seekers, and only deport people in certain cases. The Interior Ministry and Foreign Ministry have agreed that refugees from Afghanistan will only be deported on an exceptional basis, according […]
Source: The Local Germany on Wednesday urged North Korea and the United States to show “restraint” after apocalyptic threats from President Donald Trump and Pyongyang in their mounting war of words. “We are watching the increasing rhetorical escalation regarding the Korean Peninsula with the greatest concern,” foreign ministry spokesman Martin Schäfer told […]
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 8, 2017 FILE PHOTO: Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab Province and brother of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, gestures after appearing before a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in Islamabad, Pakistan June 17, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Mubasher Bukhari […]
KOTA KINABALU, Aug 8 — The Sabah state fatwa council has today banned 16 “deviant teachings”, which not only included hardliners Hizbut Tahrir and the minority Shiites and Ahmadis, but also “liberalism” and “pluralism”. Assistant minister in the Chief Minister’s Department Datuk Mohd Ariffin Arif said the 16 teachings were […]
Source: Reuters By Malini Menon NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and China will have to resolve their prolonged military standoff in a remote Himalayan region through talks, the Dalai Lama […]
Source: Malaymail Online KOTA KINABALU, Aug 8 — The Sabah state fatwa council has today banned 16 “deviant teachings”, which not only included hardliners Hizbut Tahrir and the minority Shiites […]
Source: Reuters BY Asif Shahzad (Reuters) – A Pakistani charity that the United States accuses of being a front for anti-India militant group that staged the 2008 Mumbai attacks has […]
Source: The Mail Israeli and American archaeologists say they have likely uncovered Julias near the banks of the Sea of Galilee, also known as Lake Tiberias. First century Roman historian Flavius Josephus wrote that Julias was built around 30 AD on the ruins of Bethsaida, where the Gospel of John says Peter was born. Christians […]