DUBAI: Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has slammed the United States for violating Islamabad’s sovereignty in carrying carry out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a media report said Saturday. The former military strongman told the expatriate Pakistan community in Dubai that all “peace loving people” should be happy […]
We’re a bit late to this one, but Ron Kampeas of JTA has a fascinating recent piece on fears that anti-sharia initiatives brewing around the country could also threaten observance of traditional Jewish law, or halachah. You don’t hear much about halachah, or rabbinical courts known as beit din, even though both […]
A key detail in the initial narrative of the historic operation that killed the world’s most wanted man – al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden – has proven to be inconsistent, raising concerns about what really happened at the lavish gated compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. US president Barack Obama and his officials announced […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times With the election of a son of a Kenyan man to the highest office in USA we see gradual perfection of the vision expressed in the words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” […]
WHEN the Quran was revealed it was assumed that all Muslims would read it to seek guidance for their problems and hence no class of priesthood was needed. But as Islam spread far and wide and Muslims from other cultures spoke different languages, they could not do so. The Quran […]
A key detail in the initial narrative of the historic operation that killed the world’s most wanted man – al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden – has proven to be inconsistent, raising concerns about what really happened at the lavish gated compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. US president Barack Obama and […]
No one is above the law and no one is below the law! The term ‘International Law,’ may be thrown around vaguely in the media for the foreseeable future regarding the Extra-judicial killing of Osama Bin Laden. But, what is ‘International Law?’ What best fits this term is the Universal […]
(CNN) — Was the killing of Osama bin Laden legal under international law? The administration says yes, absolutely. Experts are unsure. Attorney General Eric Holder told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that the U.S. raid on bin Laden’s compound was lawful “as an act of national self-defense.” […]
BEIJING – Several important changes to China’s laws came into effect on Sunday, addressing such things as which crimes deserve the death penalty and appropriate punishments for producers of tainted food as well as bringing in harsher sentences for people who drink and drive. China’s newly revised Criminal Law has […]
The most prominent face of terror in America and beyond, Osama Bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan, U.S. officials said Sunday night. Bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda, the terrorist network behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. U.S. officials said that their forces […]
OVER the years, I have often wondered how some judges arrived at the decisions they have around the world, and not just in Pakistan. Some have been so bizarre that I suspected that factors other than the purely legal must have been at work. Now, The Economist has supplied me […]
The Chinese authorities have released a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Teng Biao after 70 days in custody. Rights group said he was freed on Friday afternoon and his wife was quoted as saying that he “is okay”. Read More
US and Chinese officials are meeting in Beijing on Wednesday for talks on human rights. The US is expected to urge China to ease a severe government crackdown on dissent, which activists say has been the most extensive in years. Read More
BRUSSELS – China’s chief negotiator to UN climate change talks said here on Tuesday that the country is drafting a special law dedicated to climate change and will explore a low carbon development path suitable to China. “We are in the process of preparing for a special law dedicated to climate […]
European countries have called for “strong measures” to halt repression in Syria, as its government steps up a campaign against peaceful protests. In a joint statement, France and Italy urged the EU and UN to put pressure on Syria to end its crackdown. The UK said it was discussing measures […]
The British government became a partner in the US programme of extraordinary rendition even after learning that it involved the torture of detainees, the Guantánamo files show. Most of the British nationals who were detained at the prison camp on Cuba were consigned there only after ministers and senior officials […]