Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community visits Mount Fuji
Source: press@amjinternational.org Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad on his second visit to Japan During his current tour of Japan, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, […]
Prince Charles visits Muslim saint’s tomb
The Prince of Wales has paid his respects at the tomb of a Muslim saint and praised restoration work to return the Mumbai shrine to its former glory. Charles, who […]
Two Muslim girls leave nursing school over hijab ban in Prague
ČTK | 11 NOVEMBER 2013 Prague, Nov 8 (CTK) – Two Muslim girls left a nursing secondary school in Prague as they were not permitted to wear their hijabs, being the first to have ended their studies for this reason in the Czech Republic, Czech Television (CT) said Friday. CT […]
Gaza faces man-made humanitarian disaster
The Palestinian Minister of Health in Gaza, Dr Mufid Al-Mukhalalati, has warned that frequent power outages could result in a humanitarian catastrophe claiming the lives of Palestinian patients in Gaza. […]
Mass migrations are nothing new in the Middle East, but the sheer numbers involved are having a devastating effect
Polio has broken out in Syria and 20 million children are to be vaccinated BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT The Syrian tragedy grows more ferocious by the week. I was shocked to learn this weekend that at least 2,000 Afghans, the poorest of the poor from the harshest country on […]
New era in Turkey looks like old one
STORY SUMMARY By Ali Ezzatyar, Goran Sadjadi The Daily Star A new era in Turkey was seemingly born last spring when the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) declared a cease-fire and began withdrawing its guerillas from the country’s borders. In an unprecedented move, the Turkish government formally announced that steps […]
Saudi spy chief joining Israel for attack against Iran
Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan is joining Israel to set the stage for a military strike against Iran over the country’s nuclear program, an analyst says. Not reaching a nuclear deal during the recent Geneva talks reflects “the determination on the part of the Israelis and the […]
Iran rejects threats, cites red lines in nuclear talks
DUBAI/GENEVA: President Hassan Rowhani, architect of Iran’s diplomatic opening to world powers, said on Sunday it had “red lines” and would not bow to threats in an apparent bid to […]
AGFUND pledges aid for Philippine typhoon victims
RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO Published — Monday 11 November 2013 ARABNEWS Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz has announced that Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND) would donate $100,000 in relief to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the central Philippines. The donation is the first from the Gulf to one […]
“Not suicide, but a mercy killing,”
Source: Asia Times: Not suicide, but a mercy killing,” Daniel Somers wrote of his own death. It’s a statement at once piercingly sad and honest. War is an industry that makes humans its raw material, a public policy choice that ends lives and destroys the living. Ann Jones cuts past […]
Chief teray jaan-nisar, Khudkush bambaar
Source: LUBP Chief teray jaan-nisar, Khudkush bambaar (O Chief Justice, Deobandi suicide bombers of TTP-ASWJ are there to sacrifice lives for you) Reading daily Jang everyday is a habit one can’t get rid of. Not because of the news covered in it but because reading it tells one how Pakistan […]
Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif is the political face of Deobandi terrorists:
Source: LUBP On the eve of Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif’s visit to the White House last month, the New York Times published an op-ed piece, “An incomplete democracy”, by Michael Kugelman, a senior program associate for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars. The entire Pakistani media […]
Barack Hussein Obama by de facto of his Birthright Name must be a Shia Muslim
Source: Conservative Papers: It must be noted that in Traditional Shia Islamic Religion and Culture that ” All Husseins are Shia “, and Barack Hussein Obama by de facto of his Birthright Name must be a Shia Muslim, which would shed light on his Pandering and Appeasement of the Shia Iranian/ Hezbollah and […]
Clashes between police, foreign workers leave 2 dead in Saudi Arabia
Source: CNN (CNN) — Two people were killed and 68 others injured in clashes between police and foreign workers following a visa crackdown in Saudi Arabia, the official news agency reported. Police arrested 561 people Saturday in the capital of Riyadh, according to the Saudi Press Agency. More:
Turning inward
Source: The Economist: BRITAIN IN 2003: the country hugs America tight as both prepare to go to war in Iraq. Though many of its continental neighbours disapprove of that adventure, Britain is nonetheless close to “the heart of Europe”, in the confident phrase of its internationalist prime minister, Tony Blair. […]
Bee sting
Source: The Economist THE swaggering leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP or, loosely, the Pakistani Taliban) Hakimullah Mehsud, met a violent end at his lavish home in Pakistan’s remote northern tribal areas on November 1st. Just like his predecessor and clansman, Baitullah Mehsud, he died in a missile strike from an […]
The Role of Islamic Finance – IREF Summit, London: 21st November, 2013
To all participants of the IREF Summit, we are happy to announce a special focus session scheduled for the morning of the 21st of November on Insurance, its importance to real estate transactions and innovative developments for the Islamic Finance real estate markets. All too often, insurance for all levels […]