A portrait of a veiled woman cradling a wounded relative in her arms, taken in Yemen by Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda for The New York Times, has won this year’s top World Press Photo prize. The photograph, taken on 15 October, captured a moment in the conflict in Yemen when demonstrators […]
By HEIDI VOGT | AP ARABNEWS Published: Feb 10, 2012 10:39 Updated: Feb 10, 2012 18:14 KABUL, Afghanistan: The push by Afghanistan’s president to nationalize legions of private security guards before the end of March is encouraging corruption and jeopardizing multibillion-dollar aid projects, according to companies trying to make the […]
by Luigi Jorio, swissinfo.ch The number of asylum seekers who “disappear” before their cases are processed is growing. Some are given shelter by concerned citizens, who risk prosecution to help. It is a double flight for those who have left their own country and made it to Switzerland, only to […]
By ARAB NEWS NEW YORK: UN-Habitat has named Crown Prince Naif, deputy premier and minister of interior, as the winner of its newly instituted Outstanding Donor Award for his crucial […]
The Daily Telegraph: George Carey was not regarded as an outspoken Archbishop of Canterbury by the standards of both his predecessor and his successor. While Robert Runcie and Rowan Williams generated and still generate headlines and ruffle politicians’ feathers, George Carey was largely overshadowed during his 11 years as head […]
By ARAB NEWS BURAIDAH: The Usra (family) society in Buraidah has initiated a new method of ending rifts between married couples. It invites them to spend a night at its […]
By EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU ARABNEWS With the approach of the first official session of the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) in Jakarta, Indonesia on Feb. 20, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is embarking on a path replete with challenges, not the least of which is promoting and protecting human […]
Express Tribune: In December, Kashmiri hardliners, sectarianism-fanning extremists and Taliban-sympathisers were seen holding hands together on stage in Lahore under a banner decorated with images of arms, ammunition and a […]
Barred: Lawyers ban drink on court complex The Express Tribune: By Rana Yasif The Lahore Bar Association (LBA) has banned Shezan drinks from subordinate court complexes and vowed tough action […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: BBC urdu.com آصف فاروقی بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، اسلام آباد آخری وقت اشاعت: ہفتہ 11 فروری 2012 , 03:15 GMT 08:15 PST […]
Space engineer Vladimir Nesterets, who passed secret missile data from Russia on to the CIA, has been jailed for 13 years. Nesterets confessed he was paid to pass information about […]
By Michael Burleigh, and Tom Whitehead of Daily Telegraph His family has cost the taxpayer more than £500,000 in benefits, while his sermons are required reading for terrorists. But next […]
Councils must appeal against the ban on prayers before meetings. English council meetings are not particularly spiritual affairs, but the ruling by the High Court that they have no right […]
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Most non-Ahmadi Muslims think […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The move by to reduce or discontinue flights to international and regional destinations will cost the country’s tourism industry billions of ringgit in revenue, said Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen. She said this move would lead to a drop in tourist arrivals and thus, cause […]
SEREMBAN: called on Malaysians to be resilient in character and open minded. Using the tree as an anaology, Najib said their character must be as strong of the roots so that the tree is “unshakeable”. He said this trait could be shown through taking pride in one’s heritage, culture and […]
Tu B’Shvat a Holiday in Transition; Once a Celebration of Israel, It’s Now ‘Green’ Jewish Holiday School children from the Efrat settlement and residents of the neighboring Palestinian village of […]
The Jakarta Post: Megawati Soekarnoputri, Indonesia’s first woman president and chief patron of the Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), claims that men have more of a tendency to engage in […]
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iR15ECTQK6m1Wg3sjCFHJ6VllJVw?docId=CNG.e84246ecc808f1ab609f9d56334e67f5.341 ISLAMABAD — US missiles on Thursday killed the most senior Pakistani in Al-Qaeda, one of the Americans’ main targets in the country and wanted for attacks that killed scores of people, officials said. Badar Mansoor, who reputedly sent fighters to Afghanistan and ran a training camp in North Waziristan, […]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/saudi-writer-detained-after-tweets-about-muhammad/2012/02/09/gIQApsgW2Q_story.html Saudi writer Hamza Kashgari faces charge of blasphemy after tweets about Muhammad By David Keyes, Published: February 9 David Keyes is executive director of the New York-based organization Advancing Human Rights and co-founder of CyberDissidents.org. His e-mail address is david.keyes@advancinghumanrights.org. Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari was detained in Malaysia on […]