Halal Controversy in Indonesia
Less Than 1% of Bakso in Indonesia is Halal Certified since obtaining the certificalte is not mandatory The Jakarta Globe: From more than 50,000 bakso vendors in Indonesia, less than […]
Picture of the Day: Saint Isaac’s Cathedral in St Petersburg, Russia
We visited the Cathedral in July, it has one of the most beautiful interiors, among the various Cathedrals:
Teen dies of Gaza war wounds
GAZA CITY (Ma’an News Agency) — A Palestinian teenager died on Wednesday from wounds sustained during Israel’s recent military assault on the Gaza Strip. Ahmad bin Saed 19, died in […]
Education reform: Zardari signs free education bill into law
Source: Tribune Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari signed ‘The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill 2012’ into law on Wednesday. The bill, which sought to ensure all children between five to 16 years of age are provided free education, was signed in a special ceremony held at the Chief […]
Pakistani Origin (Ahmadi Muslim) Peer made Lord-in-Waiting to the Queen
LONDON: A Pakistani origin House of Lords member has been made Lord in Waiting to the Queen Elizabeth II at her majesty The Queen’s household. by Murtaza Ali Shah, THE […]
Times of India on Ahmadiyya Muslim Convention in Qadian, India
Source: Times of India Three day 121st Annual Convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamat to begin on December 29 AMRITSAR: Ahmadiyya’s from across the world including Pakistanwould converge at Qadian in Gurdaspur district to participate in the three day 121st Annual Convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamat, India beginning on December 29th. […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Holland to build a mosque in Almere
Almere Poort is becoming more useful. On Tuesday the 11th of December, The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community signed a purchase agreement with the municipality for the construction of a mosque at the Cascade Park. The park also has other offices, public facilities and housing. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, who is building a mosque, […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Shimoga hosted a successful “Blood Donation Drive”
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Shimoga (Karnatak, India) Partnered With Rotary International Shimoga & hosted a successful “Blood Donation Drive” on 16th Dec 2012 at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Masjid Premises, Shimoga […]
China launches Turkish satellite
Source: China Daily A Turkish Earth observation satellite was successfully sent into space from Northwest China early Wednesday morning, marking the completion of this year’s space launches. China sends the […]
Time Person of the Year 2012 Runner-Up: Malala Yousafzai, the Fighter
Time: Ayesha Mir didn’t go to school on Tuesday, Nov. 27, the day after a security guard found a shrapnel-packed bomb under her family’s car. The 17-year-old Pakistani girl assumed, as did most people who learned about the bomb, that it was intended for her father, the television news presenter Hamid […]
A New Inquisition: The Vatican targets US nuns
Global Post: VATICAN CITY — Sister Pat Farrell and three other nuns crossed St. Peter’s Square through the fabled white columns, paused for a security check and entered the rust-colored […]
Woman reports ‘stalker’ pigeon to police
A woman in the western German town of Darmstadt finally reported a pigeon to her local police force, after the over-friendly bird kept “stalking” her by hanging round her house. More:
US drastically expanding military presence in the Philippines
Russian TV: The US will significantly increase its military presence in the Philippines – an announcement that has angered China, whose Communist Party chief urged his military to prepare for a struggle and whose state-run media have criticized the agreement. The US announced in 2011 that it would increase joint […]
U.N. Suspends Immunization Work in Pakistan
NY Times: By DECLAN WALSH The shootings followed a day of violence on Tuesday in the port city of Karachi in which four female health workers were killed. The attacks Wednesday brought the […]
Provident God of the Abrahamic Faiths: Plain Water will Tell you the Story
Epigraph: Do not the disbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were a closed-up mass, then We opened them out? And We made from water every living thing. Will they not then […]
Egypt: The Next India or the Next Pakistan?
NY Times: By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Three weeks ago, the prime minister of India appointed Syed Asif Ibrahim as the new director of India’s Intelligence Bureau, its domestic intelligence-gathering agency. Ibrahim is a Muslim. India is a predominantly Hindu country, but it is also the world’s third-largest Muslim nation. India’s greatest security […]
Syrian rebels cut off Bashar al-Assad’s escape route
An eerie silence hangs over what was once a busy highway that cuts through the mountains and makes for Latakia city By Ruth Sherlock, Latakia province The Telegraph Abu Yassin, […]
Abbas to Ban: Bring Syria’s Palestinian Refugees Home
RAMALLAH, December 19, 2012 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday called on United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to help the Palestinian refugees in Syria, who are suffering from the bloody conflict there, to return to live in the Palestinian Territory. Abbas stressed the Palestinian position of non-interference in internal […]
More Polio Vaccinators Attacked
AFP / NEWSWEEK PAKISTAN Gunmen opened fire on polio vaccinators in three separate attacks in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, seriously wounding one, officials said, following the earlier killings of six […]
International Halal body to be set up
RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARABNEWS Wednesday 19 December 2012 Abdullah bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Turki, secretary-general of the Makkah-based Muslim World League (MWL), will chair the maiden meeting of the general […]