‘Thanks to Allah’
Source: Dawn Author: Murtaza Razvi ‘Thanks to Allah’, as our cricketers would say, Just 40.1 per cent of the 5-16 age group [schoolchildren in Pakistan] could do two-digit subtraction sums (with […]
PVV anti-Pole website is an ‘open call to intolerance’: Brussels
A website set up by the anti-immigration PVV to report problems with central and eastern Europeans in the Netherlands is an ‘open call to intolerance’, Europe’s justice commissioner Viviane Reding said on Friday evening. ‘The PVV website completely goes against European principles,’ Reding is quoted as saying by the Volkskrant. ‘In […]
Arab Spring image wins World Press Photo
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 […]
Afghan private security handover looking messy
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 […]
Breaking the law to provide sanctuary
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 […]
Support to Palestinians earns Crown Prince UN donor award
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 […]
George Carey: time to say that Christians have rights too
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 […]
Free hotel stay up for grab to end matrimonial rows
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 […]
OIC rights commission and the challenges ahead
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 […]
Difa-e-Pakistan Part 1/2: Jihadis itch for resurgence
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 […]
The Lahore Bar Association (LBA) bans Shezan drinks from court complexes
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 […]
’زیرِحراست بریگیڈیئر پر فردِ جرم عائد‘
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 who passed Russia missile secrets on to CIA jailed
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 […]
UK: Abu Qatada let loose on our streets
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 […]
UK: Hear our prayer
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 […]
Prophethood in Islam: Khatam-e-Nabuwat and Islamic Sufis
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 […]
Move to reduce, stop flights will cost tourism industry billions of ringgit
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 […]
PM calls on Malaysians to be resilient in character
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 […]
Jews, Palestinians plant trees together in West Bank on Tu B’Shvat
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 […]
Men more corrupt than women: Megawati
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 […]