Mansour backtracks on ElBaradei choice as premier
• Ultraconservative group objects to ElBaradei appointment • Death toll in violence since June 30 hits 75 • Mursi supporters plan bigger protests HAMZA HENDAWI | AP ARABNEWS Saturday 6 […]
SR 62 bn Makkah metro project launch in 2014
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS STAFF Sunday 7 July 2013 The SR 62 billion new Makkah public transport system, including a metro with four lines and 88 stations […]
At least 1 killed, 60 reported missing as runaway Canada oil train explosion forces town evacuation
Russia Today: Four tanker cars of petroleum exploded in the east Canadian province of Quebec after a train derailed, destroying some buildings nearby and leaving at least one dead. A security zone has been imposed with about 2,000 evacuated from their homes. The blast and heavy fire occurred shortly after […]
Morsi’s ouster in Egypt sends chill through political Islam
Global Post: ISTANBUL, Turkey — The toppling of an elected Muslim Brotherhood president in Egypt, and a subsequent crackdown on its leaders and ranks by the armed forces, is sending a shiver through […]
Massacre Of Muslims In Myanmar Ignored
Huff Post: by Todd Pitman. MEIKHTILA, Myanmar — Their bones are scattered in blackened patches of earth across a hillside overlooking the wrecked Islamic boarding school they once called home. Smashed fragments of skulls rest atop the dirt. A shattered jaw cradles half a set of teeth. And among the […]
Canada-Ahmadiyya Muslim Convention draws Thousands
He (Allah) it is Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad), with guidance and the Religion of truth, that He may make it prevail over all other religions. And sufficient is […]
Will Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood survive?
Source: CNN (CNN) — In a stunning reversal of fortunes, Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsy was deposed by a military coup just one year after being sworn in as president. The Egyptian protesters who took to the streets by the millions over the past several days to demand Morsy’s resignation were jubilant […]
Plane Crashes on Landing in San Francisco
Source: NY Times: A Boeing 777 operated by the Korean airline Asiana crashed Saturday afternoon while landing at San Francisco International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said. More:
Islam, Egypt and political theory
Source: The Economist ON the face of things, this week’s events in Egypt have validated a theory about Islam and society that seemed contrarian when it was first floated. In 1992 a French analyst of the Muslim world, Olivier Roy, published a book entitled “L’échec de l’Islam politique“—translated into English […]
Lahore bomb blast kills three, injures 40
Source: ET LAHORE: A powerful bomb went off at took place at the food street in the old Anarkali area of Lahore, killing at least three people and injuring 40 others, Express News reported. According to Express News correspondent Nauman Shaikh, the explosion took place at the ground floor of a three storied restaurant. “Civil […]
ElBaradei to become Egyptian new prime minister
Source: TOI CAIRO: Liberal opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been chosen as Egypt’s new prime minister, the Tamarod campaign behind the protests that toppled Islamist president Mohamed Morsi said on Saturday after talks with the country’s interim president. A military source confirmed to AFP that the former UN nuclear watchdog chief was to […]
Sulemani-topi-aur-Farishteh
Source: Dawn.Com via Wasim Sr Click HERE for details. Sorry only for Urdu readers.
China, Pakistan ink transport pact
Source: China Daily By LI XIAOKUN and ZHANG YUNBI (China Daily) Huge project to boost business ties between the two nations China and Pakistan signed an agreement on Friday on the blueprint for a huge transport project linking northwestern China to the Arabian Sea. Observers said the project, named the […]
Nawaz Sharif urges Chinese investment in Power Sector
Source: Dawn.com BEIJING/SHANGHAI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday held meetings with delegations of China’s top business executives and discussed with them energy, development and infrastructure projects in Pakistan. The prime minister met the delegations on board a high speed train while traveling from Beijing to Shanghai, where he visited […]
Introducing the Holy Prophet Muhammad, to non-Muslim audience at Annual Convention, USA, 2013
Speech by Maulana Naseem Mahdi (National Vice President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community) at Annual Convention, USA, on June 29, 2013
36 dead, over 1,000 injured in clashes between Egyptian protesters – National Ambulance Service
Mohammed Sultan, deputy head of Egypt’s national ambulance service said that 36 people were killed on Friday during violent clashes between supporters and opponents of deposed President Morsi. 1,138 more […]
Coptic priest shot dead in Egypt attack
Source: TOI CAIRO: Gunmen shot dead a Coptic Christian priest in Egypt’s lawless Northern Sinai on Saturday in what could be the first sectarian attack since the military overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, security sources said. The shooting in the coastal city of El Arish was one of several attacks believed […]
Islamist gunmen kill 42 in school attack in Nigeria
Source: TOI KANO (Nigeria): Gunmen believed to be Islamists from Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgent group killed 42 people, mostly students, in an overnight attack on a secondary school in restive Yobe state, a medical worker and residents said Saturday. “We received 42 dead bodies of students and other staff of Government Secondary School […]
Minister calls for third Temple to be built
The Times of Israel: Potentially explosive statement by Jewish Home’s Uri Ariel breaks taboo against damaging status quo on Temple Mount Government minister from a nationalist religious party called Thursday […]