Source. The Daily Beast At least 80 people were killed and another 231 wounded Saturday after an explosion tore through a protest in Kabul by minority Shiite Hazaras, Reuters reported. “Opportunist terrorists” took advantage of the protest to kill and wound “a number of our countrymen, including security and defense […]
Source: Religion News Service MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) An Indian Muslim women’s rights organization is training women to be qazis, or judges, a role traditionally reserved for men, amid growing […]
Source: Huffington Post ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s ruling party plans to pass long-delayed legislation against “honor killings” within weeks in the wake of the high-profile murder of an outspoken social […]
Source: BBC There has been outrage in India after a student was allegedly gang-raped by five men who had also raped her three years ago. Police are yet to make […]
aljazeera.com: by Chandana Banerji — For the abandoned babies rescued from death on the streets of Jalandhar, Unique Home provides shelter and a family For the past 23 years, Prakash Kaur Bibi has rescued baby girls abandoned at birth by their biological parents [Photo courtesy of Unique Home for […]
Source: BBC All 300,000 mosques in Bangladesh have been asked give a sermon against terrorism and extremism in their Friday prayers this week. The sermon, written by the state-run Islamic […]
Source: youtube.com/TrueIslam Answered by Hazrat Mira Tahir Ahmad (ra), fourth Caliph of the Promised Messiah (as) A video made by Abdul shafi Bharwana, Officially Incharge of Social Media Wing, Sierra Leone; Missionary in Sierra Leone; Lecturer in Jamia Ahmadiyya, Sierra Leone; Vice President, Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya, Sierra Leone; Editor African Crescent, Sierra Leone; […]
Source. thehindu.com Even as some Islamic organisations in Tamil Nadu have protested the Central government’s remarks on controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik and have defended his right to preach, the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Chennai allege that they have been facing discrimination from some of the organisations. Noor Muhammad.M, president […]
Source. Media Library As our anchors and TV channels commit national and logical suicide by referring to Ahmadi Mosques as “marakaz” and “Ibadgahs”, we must remind ourselves of the views of Quaid-e-Azam Mahomed Ali Jinnah who relied heavily on the Jamaat Ahmadiyya and its brilliant son Ch. Zafrulla Khan (whose […]
Source: The Daily Beast We were sitting on the cliffs as darkness fell, obscuring our view of the niches across from us where the giant Buddhas had for centuries smiled upon the fertile valley. It had only been a few years before that they were blasted away by the Taliban. The […]
Source: Dawn DHAKA: Bangladesh on Friday moved to regulate weekly sermons in hundreds of thousands of mosques as part of a stepped-up campaign to combat extremism, officials said.The move comes […]
Source: ET Indian preacher Dr Zakir Naik has come under a lot of scrutiny after it emerged that the terrorists who carried out the terrorist attack in Dhaka on July 1st may have been radicalisedby his preaching. Zakir Naik’s Peace TV Bangla has been banned by the Bangladeshi government as […]
Source: Zee News New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday initiated probe into the funding received by controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik’s organisation in the past few years. According to media […]
By Zubair Khan Following indicators lead to some thing fishy fishy in power corridors of Pakistan. 1. Posters and bill boards comprising pictures of current COAS with the request to take over appeared in major cities of Pakistan. Move on Party enacted these posters cum bill boards. Contact phone numbers also […]
Source. The Daily Beast ISTANBUL — Moving in for the kill, the Syrian regime and its Russian and Iranian backers have taken control of the last supply route into rebel-held Aleppo in a combined air and ground campaign that has left well over 100 dead. It was a major setback for […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Imtiaz Gul If we ever needed a damning indictment of ugly geo-politically motivated military interventions, Sir John Chilcot delivered it on July 6 — The […]
Source: ET For the vast majority in Pakistan, the third gender is an unknown. Hijras/eunuchs, transsexuals, transvestites and hermaphrodites continue to live on the social periphery, confined within their own communities and excluded from ordinary civic and social life. Our interaction with them is limited to a curious glance from […]
Source: BBC Bangladesh has said it intends to ban the Islamic television channel, Peace TV, in the wake of the deadly attack on a cafe in the capital, Dhaka. The […]
Source. The Express Tribune US National Security Council condoles Edhi’s demise The United States National Security Council (NSC) expressed condolences on the demise of prominent Pakistani philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi. […]
AFP | Dawn.com Celebrated humanitarian and Edhi Foundation Chairman Abdul Sattar Edhi passed away at the age of 92 in Karachi on Friday night, it has been learnt. Speaking outside […]