ISLAMABAD – Pakistan is the largest refugee-hosting country in the world with currently hosting some 1.6 million registered refugees. The data released by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on the World Refugees Day say that the Afghanistan remains the world’s leading source of refugees. According to figures, around […]
Epigraph: And worldly life is nothing but a sport and a pastime. And surely the abode of the Hereafter is better for those who are righteous. Will you not then […]
Source: LONDON, June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ Ahmadiyya Muslims pledge loyalty to Queen and country As the British Government considers steps to stem radicalisation, one of Britain’s oldest established Muslim communities drives […]
IAEA: The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics stems the brain drain of physicists from developing nations at a time of new scientific challenges. In the early 1960s, both […]
theguardian: by Linda Sarsour — I am Muslim and I am American. Speaking out against the Islamophobia industry is how I practice my patriotism. Spreading hate against Muslims is, apparently, a quite lucrative business in the United States. Saba Ahmed’s experience demonstrates that there is a systematic demonization of Muslims […]
theguardian: by Linda Sarsour — I am Muslim and I am American. Speaking out against the Islamophobia industry is how I practice my patriotism. Spreading hate against Muslims is, apparently, a quite lucrative business in the United States. Saba Ahmed’s experience demonstrates that there is a systematic demonization of Muslims […]
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]
President Barack Obama said Thursday that the United States is prepared to take “targeted and precise” military action against Islamist militants in Iraq, but he pledged that American forces “will not be returning to combat.” He said the United States is prepared to send as many as 300 American military […]
President Barack Obama said Thursday that the United States is prepared to take “targeted and precise” military action against Islamist militants in Iraq, but he pledged that American forces “will not be returning to combat.” He said the United States is prepared to send as many as 300 American military […]
His popularity – or notoriety as some would say – endures because he is still criticising politicians, business leaders and other powerful figures for not acting in the public’s best interest. At the heart of Chomsky’s work is examining the ways elites use their power to control millions of people, […]
swissinfo.ch June 18, 2014 – 12:46 The number of foreigners living in Switzerland has risen by 3.3% over the past year and about 24% of Switzerland’s eight million people do […]
The Saudi-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, which represents more than 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, affirmed Thursday a commitment to unity in combatting “sectarian” policies. OIC members will stand “united in combatting sectarian, confessional, and exclusion policies that have led to sedition in some countries and threatened their security and stability,” […]
The Saudi-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, which represents more than 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, affirmed Thursday a commitment to unity in combatting “sectarian” policies. OIC members will stand “united in combatting sectarian, confessional, and exclusion policies that have led to sedition in some countries and threatened their security and stability,” […]
Urdu magazine editor Shoaib Adil gets life threats June 19, 2014 LAHORE: The editor of progressive Urdu monthly magazine Naya Zamana, Lahore, Mohammad Shoaib Adil, has reportedly been receiving life threats from religious militants for publishing the autobiography of a retired Lahore High Court judge, Muhammad Islam Bhatti, […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I was very happy to see the rescue of the 33 miners in Chile, in October […]
Huffington Post Posted: 06/14/2014 12:09 pm EDT Updated: 06/14/2014 12:59 pm EDT Print Article VATICAN CITY (AP) — He recently renewed his Argentine passport and remains an official card-carrying member of his favorite Buenos Aires football club. But Pope Francis has pledged absolute neutrality for the World Cup. Francis recalled […]
Source: Stratfor: The June 15 edition of the Jordan Times reported that Amman had beefed up security along its border with Iraq amid fears that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is inching toward the kingdom. Quoting unnamed Islamist sources, the report added that the jihadist group had […]
Felipe VI has called for “a new Spain that we will build together” after being proclaimed the country’s head of state in a ceremony in parliament. Spain’s new king Spanish […]
Felipe VI has called for “a new Spain that we will build together” after being proclaimed the country’s head of state in a ceremony in parliament. Spain’s new king Spanish […]
Now we will have the bizarre spectacle of the US joining Iran in strengthening the Al Maliki regime against the ISIS threat, while trying to bring down Iran’s Syrian ally, President Bashar Al Assad, a goal Washington shares with ISIS Razi Azmi June 19, 2014 The pharaoh is having the […]