Philip Weiss on September 27, 2014 In The Nation, Barbara Crossette interviews Lakhdar Brahimi, 80, the Algerian who served as a leading diplomat for the United Nations over a couple […]
Polygamy: Religion Has Been Twisted To Fit the Needs and Whims of Men Inside Polygamy: Reader Response By Rafia Zakaria, 04 October, 2014 If the comments and letters are evidence, Pakistani men have discarded the second portion of the relevant clause on polygamy, the one that […]
Jews, Muslims, And Christians All Have Holidays On Saturday, October 4th It’s a match made in heaven! The world’s three Abrahamic faiths are bridging their great divide in a pretty […]
BY RAMI G. KHOURI, THE DAILY STAR, LEBANON SUMMARY One of the most significant common factors that has characterized the Arab world in recent years has been the birth and spread of non-state actors – organizations, parties, militias – that have assumed the role of traditional governments in many countries. […]
Russia is vital in dealing with regional challenges in the Middle East and without Russia, the region “would be a lot worse off” King Abdullah II of Jordan underlined as he sat down for a one-on-one with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s Kremlin, on Thursday. King Abdullah attended the meeting […]
Allah the Almighty preferred some months to others, some days to others and some nights to others and selected specific times in the year to be seasons of worship and […]
MINA: Pilgrims stoned the devil on Saturday in the last major ritual of this year’s Haj in Makkah, and Muslims around the world began celebrating Eid Al-Adha, the feast of […]
255. Commandment to say the right word [33:71] O ye who believe! fear Allah, and say the right word. [33:72] He will bless your works for you and forgive you your sins. And whoso obeys Allah and His Messenger, shall surely attain a mighty success. [4:10] And let those fear […]
A seminal book on the Hindu temples of Pakistan should be read by all Pakistanis. Kataas Raj Journalist Reema Abbasi and photographer Madiha Aijaz have done a remarkable job of travelling across the length of Pakistan and documenting the state of Hindu temples. The regions that comprise Pakistan are central […]
Epigraph: So go on reminding; surely, reminding is profitable. (Al Quran 87:10) By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor Happy Eid Mubarak and Hajj to all our Muslim readers, from the whole […]
Venue: Khanpur Milki, Tarapur , Munger (Bihar) Date: 28-09-14 Report by: Muhammad Furquan Ali Alhamdullillah! By the grace of the almighty Allah, Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Bhagalpur Zila has conducted a […]
On Saturday, pilgrims set off for Muzdalifah, where they gather pebbles for the stoning of the devil AFPPublished: 16:41 October 3, 2014 Gulf News “I am now a newborn baby and I don’t have any sin,” Nigerian pilgrim Taofik Odunewu said, standing at the foot of Mount Mercy on the […]
Most of the Pakistanis are from the Ahmadiyya Islamic sect. The Ahmadi consider themselves Muslims, but a 1984 Pakistani law declared them non-Muslims and many Pakistanis consider them heretics. Source: reuters.com COLOMBO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Sri Lanka has asked the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, for help to resettle scores of mainly […]
Source: thejakartapost.com | news.asiaone.com Attacks against Ahmadis, the displacement of Shia followers and discrimination against [adherents of] local belief [systems] are problems that require an immediate response. Intolerance in the country had reached […]
Why did Qadri and Imran Fail? D. Suba ChandranAlmost after a month of intense politicking in Islamabad and the multiple calls to Azadi and Inquilab with few thousand men and women, why have Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri failed to achieve their primary objectives?It appears very clear, that there is […]
RT: “A scarf is simply part of my outfit,” she told reporters. “It’s an ordinary fashion item for an ordinary woman.” A red scarf-wearing member of Japan’s upper house has […]
Daily Times: MAKKAH: Anxious to safeguard Hajj pilgrimage from the threat of Ebola, Saudi authorities are screening pilgrims arriving from West Africa and have deployed mobile laboratories to test any suspected cases quickly.The kingdom expects nearly 3 million pilgrims in Makkah this year, including 1.4 million from abroad. The health […]
Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum| The Daily Star The global financial crisis taught the world how profoundly interdependent our economies have become. In today’s crisis of extremism, we must recognize that […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR Published — Friday 3 October 2014 Saudi authorities are planning to introduce a barcode system for Mina tents to help stranded pilgrims identify their tents with the assistance of Google maps. “A technology has been already developed for this purpose,” said Mohammed Al-Ruwaished, head of the […]
MINA: HANI HAZAIMEH & SIRAJ WAHAB Published — Friday 3 October 2014 In scenes of devotion seen nowhere else on the planet, over two million pilgrims, wrapped in seamless white […]