© Provided by AFP Pakistan Information minister Pervez Rashid told AFP Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (pictured) Sharif would travel to Riyadh on Monday and Tehran on TuesdayPakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will lead a high-level delegation to Saudi Arabia and Iran this week to try to ease tension between the […]
“O our Lord, You have not created this without meaning and purpose. Limitless art You in Your glory…” (Qur’an, 3:190-191) IMAM KAMIL MUFTI Published — Friday 15 January 2016 What is the meaning and purpose of life?’ Throughout the ages, philosophers have considered it to be the most fundamental question. […]
Source: Arab News: JEDDAH: A 70-year-old citizen of Taif got the surprise of his life when his two wives egged him on to get married a third time, and that too to a younger woman. They not only made the suggestion but also offered help in the form of arranging […]
TOM ESSLEMONT | REUTERS Published — Sunday 17 January 2016 LONDON: A $15 billion shortfall in global humanitarian aid could be addressed by tapping into innovative sources of finance, such as smartphone apps, the football industry and wealthy Islamic donors, a United Nations panel of experts said on Sunday. Despite […]
Jan 17,2016 -JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah drew a distinction between Daesh and khawarej (outlaws of Islam), making clear that the former, called by most of the West ISIS in Syria and Iraq, “can be defeated fairly quickly”, but the latter, “what I call the third world war by […]
Reuters International JAN 16, 2016 – 09:01 ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraq is unlikely to undertake an offensive to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State this year because its armed forces are not ready for the task, the Kurdistan region’s deputy prime minister said in an interview. […]
Schroeder: Some states back terrorists ‘directly or indirectly’ By M.A. Saki and Negar Asadi TEHRAN – Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said that some countries support the terrorist groups “directly or indirectly”. Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Tehran Times in the German embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, […]
Iranian-made Fateh 110 (Conqueror) (L) and Persian Gulf (R) missiles are seen next to a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a war exhibition held by Iran’s revolutionary guard on September 23, 2011. (Reuters file photo) ARAB NEWS Published — Friday 15 January 2016 TANOUMA: Iran is […]
Source: Al Jazeera The world should be worried about an open conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia, a former adviser to the Saudi Arabian royal family has told Al Jazeera. […]
Source: Arab News By SHAHUL HAMEED Is it really good to get the correct message of Islam and so become a believer? How about those who never received the message […]
NIDHAL GUESSOUM Published — Wednesday 13 January 2016 The Muslim world’s past contributions to science and education were extraordinary. The Islamic “golden age,” during which scholarship and learning flourished across the Muslim world, lasted many centuries, and included the establishment of the world’s first universities. Today, however, Muslim-majority countries lag […]
Jan 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura must have the patience of the biblical figure Job, the tenaciousness of a limpet and the strength of Hercules if he is to succeed in bringing the proxy-warring and street-fighting parties in this Arab country […]
By Munir Varraich, Sweden It was assumed that the season for making forecasts for the year 2016 had ended on 31st December 2015. No, it continues. While all eyes were focused on the Presidential Election campaign in the US, Saudi Arabia managed to add fuel to the volatile situation in the Middle […]
By AFP – Jan 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s shura council recommended Monday an expansion of roads leading to the site of a ritual in the annual Hajj pilgrimage where more than 2,000 pilgrims died in a stampede last year. Muslim pilgrims blamed the stampede on […]
Jan 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby At the close of 2015, Zogby Research Services (ZRS) conducted face-to-face polling with 5,374 Muslim youth between the ages of 15 and 34 in eight Arab countries: Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and Palestine. We had been commissioned […]
Saudi Arabia is pressing Pakistan to side with the Kingdom in its spate with Iran. Islamabad is reluctant to do so, given its own serious sectarian tensions. In the last week, the Saudi Foreign Minister and the Defense Minister have separately visited Pakistan to explain Saudi policy toward Iran and its decision to sever […]
Editors’ Note: What does Saudi Arabia’s execution of Nimr al-Nimr say about the country’s domestic politics and foreign policy? As Ken Pollack explains, the leadership in Riyadh sees a Middle East spiraling out of control—that, combined with concerns about a general mobilization of the region’s Shiites, difficulties in controlling […]
BAE Systems courted controversy with the £10bn sale of Typhoon jets to the repressive state Mark Leftly @MLeftly 34 comments British defence exports to Saudi Arabia are set to come under parliamentary scrutiny Getty British defence exports to Saudi Arabia are set to come under parliamentary scrutiny this month with […]
Voices ‘Regrettable’ is as far as our criticism of Saudi Arabia is allowed to go We have condemned them in the lightest terms. The implication is that the good old Saudis have simply let us down – fallen from their previously high moral principles Robert Fisk @indyvoices David Cameron greets King Salman […]
Source: Huffington Post 1. We’re all poor and powerless – When Muslims line up for prayer, no one is able to distinguish between Sunni and Shia based on their dress […]