Source: TOI KARACHI: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has secretly married a former BBC anchor Reham Khan in a hush hush wedding, according to media reports. The 62-year-old Imran is believed to have tied the knot last weekend with Pakistani news anchor Reham, 41, who is a divorcee and mother-of-three. She lived in Britain […]
339. Commandment – The food of the People of the Book is lawful for you, and your food is lawful for them [5:6] This day all good things have been made lawful for you. And the food of the People of the Book is lawful for you, and your food […]
Source: OnIslam.net Seems that 2014 was a fruitful year from a scientific point of view for Muslim scientists and Muslim countries. This is a summary review of some of the […]
dailyrecord.co.uk: A GROUP of Glasgow Muslims started off the new year with a community clean-up. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth took to the streets of the west end this […]
Ghana web: President John Dramani Mahama has commended the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission of Ghana for the great role it is playing in ensuring peace and tranquility in Ghana and the world at large.President Mahama made the remark when a high-powered Ahmadi Muslim delegation led by the newly appointed Ameer and […]
Source: Dawn. THE past few days have seen criticism against content aired on a recent episode of Geo’s Subah-i-Pakistan programme — hosted by Amir Liaquat — in which clerics invited on the show made several unpalatable accusations against the country’s already stigmatised and persecuted Ahmadi community. Following a show cause […]
Source: ET Those intent on bombing Pakistan back to the Stone Age — the Taliban — must have rubbed their hands with glee at the government response to the slaughter at the Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16. And that response was? Form a committee. Moreover, don’t just form one […]
Source: The Local The imam of the Kocatepe mosque spoke to the Andadolu press agency about the incident, condemning the vandalism as an “unacceptable” act. The head of the Turkish-Islamist Union in Vienna (ATIB), Fatih Karadaş, condemned the attack saying that “this is not an attack against Muslims but the […]
Source: The Local Photo: DPA The chancellor mentioned demographics, the rapid ageing of the German population, as one of the key national challenges and called immigration “a gain for all of us”. Touching on the case of a Kurdish refugee who has settled in Germany, she said that it is […]
Epigraph: Indeed, you have in the Prophet of Allah an excellent model, for him who fears Allah and the Last Day and who remembers Allah much. (Al Quran 33:22) Written […]
By Nadeem F. Paracha is a cultural critic and senior columnist for Dawn Newspaper and Dawn.com He tweets @NadeemfParacha To most Pakistanis and to those who have been associated with various […]
Posted: 04/09/2014 10:37 BST Updated: 04/11/2014 10:59 GMT HUFFINGTON POST Four million people are discriminated against in a land of 180 million. The Second Amendment of the constitution is devoted to enshrining the legal basis to do so. Thesecond; a religious ruling as constitutional law. It reads: 1- Short title and commencement. […]
Vast 5,000 year-old underground city discovered in Turkey’s Cappadocia region The city may be the biggest in the world, officials say JON STONE Wednesday 31 December 2014 PRINT A A A A 5,000 year-old underground city thought to be the largest in the world has been discovered in central Turkey. The subterranean […]
Obama Envoy John Allen: No ‘Short-Term Solutions’ for Stopping Islamic State Interview Conducted By Matthias Gebauer and Holger Stark AP/dpa Islamic State fighters parade in Mosul, Iraq in June: “When you can defeat the idea, then you have destroyed the organization” says Obama’s envoy tasked to help stop the terrorist group’s menace. In an interview, […]
“Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time” is one of the most beautiful books to come out in 2014.Filled with “mesmerizing black-and-white photographs of the world’s most majestic ancient trees,” San Francisco photographer Beth Moon‘s masterpiece makes me want to follow in her footsteps and see these beauties for myself in real […]
Huff Post: by Dan Arel — The search for the truth is not easy and can mean being critical of many beliefs. I encourage others to be critical of all religion, but I believe criticism should be based on statements of fact, not biased misinformation, much like the information I […]
Huff Post — Celebrations of light, redemption, rebirth and honoring of the gods and goddesses. In 2014, people from faith traditions around the world gathered for religious festivals and holidays, lifting up the spirit of the divine in many different ways. These photographs capture moments from a broad array of […]
Epigraph: So go on reminding; surely, reminding is profitable. (Al Quran 87:10) By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor Happy and a prosperous new year to all our readers, from the […]
In a nondescript grey box of a building on an industrial estate in Sheffield, a medical revolution is in progress. “Things have been done the same way for hundreds of years. We want to change it. We think it could change the world,” says Ash Kovind, the man in charge. […]
Islamic State forces in Iraq and Syria have proclaimed the end of the Sykes-Picot Agreement that carved up the region at the end of the First World War. But who is really destroying it, asks Jeremy Salt in Ankara The Sykes-Picot Agreement was the post-First World War agreement by which Britain and […]