tribune.com.pk By AFP / Web Desk Published: December 1, 2015 BERLIN: A German court Tuesday sentenced a Pakistan-born couple to life in jail for the “honour killing” of their 19-year-old daughter, who had had sex before marriage. The 52-year-old father was found guilty of strangling the teenager to death, and the 41-year-old mother was […]
PARIS, FRANCE: Police shut a mosque east of Paris and arrested the owner of a revolver found in related raids on Wednesday as part of a crackdown called after the November 13 attacks on the capital, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. He told journalists that authorities had closed another two mosques […]
Southern India hit by floods after heaviest rainfall in more than a century Rescue operation in place as floods shut factories, paralyse air travel and force thousands to flee homes in Tamil Nadu. theguardian.com A family is rescued from a flooded residential area following heavy rains in Chennai. Photograph: Xinhua/Landov/Barcroft […]
Europe’s oldest person celebrates 116th birthday in Italy Emma Morano, the second oldest person in the world, puts longevity down to leaving a violent husband and eating three eggs a day – two of them raw http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/30/europes-oldest-person-emma-morano-116th-birthday-italy Emma Morano looks at an old portrait of herself at her apartment in […]
To dispel myths about Hijab, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMJ) has launched a nationwide campaign titled “Je Suis Hijabi”, or “I Am Hijabi”. It is to remove the misconceptions that […]
Reliable sources indicate Ahmadiyya Muslim Missionary of Srai Alamgir near Jhelum was overpowered by few anti Ahmadiyya fanatics and were wounded by blades on his whole body. Details still emerging.
By Adrija Bose Huff Post: NEW DELHI–In a sharp attack, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor blamed the government for the ‘rising intolerance in the country’ on Tuesday. Addressing the Lok Sabha, […]
Source: The New York Times CHARLESTON, S.C. — The man she had married professed to be deeply religious. But after more than seven years with Robert L. Dear Jr., Barbara […]
Source: BBC Scientists say they have fine tuned a gene editing method to make it safer and more accurate – vital if it is to be used in humans to […]
Source: BBC Electronic toy and educational material seller Vtech has confirmed that about five million customers were affected in the data theft reported on Friday. They are from all over […]
thedailybeast.com: They slam Obama because he won’t say ‘radical Islam.’ But why won’t the Republicans acknowledge radical white terrorists? “I want surveillance of certain mosques,” bellowed Donald Trump to his followers at a campaign rally in Birmingham, Alabama, over the weekend. Ted Cruz recently declared that it would be “lunacy” […]
Source. ET LAHORE: The complainant in the FIR, registered against the factory’s security in-charge for allegedly torching some pages of the Holy Quran at the Pakistan Chip Board Factory in Jhelum on November 20, says he had not witnessed the torching incident but had filed the complaint on the statement of […]
middleeasteye.net: He offered rare praise for his former nemesis Angela Merkel for her decision to allow hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria’s war to come to Germany, but said that “Europe has lost its capacity to respond rationally to common problems” over the refugee crisis. Merkel had done more than […]
Source: BBC Pakistan has hanged four men linked to last December’s massacre at an army school which killed more than 150 people, mostly children. The men were sentenced to death […]
Source: BBC Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan say they will give away 99% of their shares in the company to good causes as they announce the birth […]
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, Ever Merciful “You are the best people raised for the good of mankind; you enjoin what is good and forbid evil and believe in […]
Huff Post: Recently, a bloodthirsty mob torched an Ahmadi owned factory in the Pakistani city of Jhelum. In contrast to Canada, where communities galvanize against hate, there were no rallies in defence of Ahmadi neighbours, and social media was ablaze with their “heresies” instead of condemnation of persecution. However, outside […]
Source: Pew Research Center Americans Especially Likely to Embrace Individual Liberties BY RICHARD WIKE AND KATIE SIMMONS Although many observers have documented a global decline in democratic rights in recent […]
Source: BBC Live Reporting By Pippa Stephens, Elaine Okyere, Harry Low, Josephine McDermott, Sarah Buckley, Neil Arun, Lesley Sixsmith and Jasmine Coleman All times stated are UK Thank you and […]
The pope took his message of peace to the Central African Republic, where thousands have died in clashes that have split the country along religious lines. Source: huffingtonpost.com Pope Francis ventured into one of the world’s most dangerous neighborhoods on Monday to implore Christians and Muslims to end a spiral of […]