The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Owais Jafri Published: January 1, 2012 MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf vice chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the decision of forming an […]
Indonesian Muslims welcome 2012 with a mass prayer event for the Nation and fireworks on New Year’s Eve in the area of the National Monument (Monas) in Jakarta.
RISHON LEZION, Israel — For years, many Israelis got a little jittery as New Year’s Eve approached. Their neighbors, some of the nearly 1 million Soviet citizens who flocked to […]
Source / Courtesy: China Daily RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia confirmed on Friday that it has signed a deal to buy 84 new US fighter jets to maximize its […]
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Aakanksha Gupta, a 16-year-old Indian girl who studies in Class 11 in Pathways School, Noida, wrote the letter as part of an essay-writing competition to French president Nicolas Sarkozy, criticising the burqa ban in his country. It was sent to the French premier, who decided to meet her to discuss the issue in detail. The contest required […]
A couple of years ago, a Hollywood movie based on a Mayan prediction was released, entitled 2012. The movie obviously was pure science fiction based on a fantastical future. The year 2012 however is finally here. Is the world going to end? Of course not. What I mean to say […]
By MUSHTAK PARKER | ARAB NEWS Islamic finance and business education has flourished over the last decade or so in line with the growth of the industry. Universities, business schools, colleges and professional bodies — both in the Muslim countries and in other countries especially Europe, Singapore and the US […]
By ROGER HARRISON | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: A first-time visitor to a Wednesday Open Skies riding class for disabled children murmured, “It must be done for love, ‘cause it’s not […]
Have we become a nation of idlers? That’s what official statistics seem to indicate. According to a report by the Central Statistics and Information Department (CSID), there are about 11.8 million Saudis of working age, but only 3.8 million are actually working. That leaves eight million Saudi citizens, or two […]
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ALGIERS — Algeria’s leaders are out of touch with their people who are growing increasingly angry about unemployment, red tape and poor housing, said a senior official carrying out a presidential review of the country’s economic and social woes. “Demands for radical changes are huge. People want to see a […]
Over at The Atlantic, Anu Partanen, a Finnish journalist based in New York City, has an interesting article that asks what exactly the US can learn from Finland’s unorthodox yet remarkably successful education system. Partanen, currently writing a book about what, more broadly, the US can learn from Scandinavia, points […]
The Daily Telegraph: The head of one of Britain’s “Big Five” banks warned that any break-up of the single currency would have dire consequences for the global economy because it would be difficult to judge how the contagion would unravel. “Obviously we close 2011 with a huge amount of focus […]
Source: The New York Times HYDERABAD, India — For more than two decades, M. A. Hakeem has arguably done the job […]
Author: Atif Munawar Mir Popular New Year resolutions such as losing weight, taking a trip, finding a better job, and giving up a bad habit are worth our time and […]
‘The Anti Ahmadiyyah law has become an instrument for the government to legitimize its actions.’—– Jamaah Ahmadiyah a political scapegoat. Written by: IPCS (Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies) ……… […]
Australia is one of the first country to welcome New Year across the globe. This year, Sydney has outdone itself in the fireworks display. 6.5 million dollars were spend on about 15 minutes of one of the world’s best display of fireworks. 1.5 million people gathered to see this large […]
Source: Australian Government. Muslims in Australia have a long and varied history that is thought to pre-date European settlement. Some of Australia’s earliest visitors were Muslim, from the east Indonesian archipelago. They made contact with mainland Australia as early as the 16th and 17th centuries. Early Muslim visitors—the Macassar traders […]
http://pix04.revsci.net/H07707/b3/0/3/0806180/673570768.js?D=DM_LOC%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.themuslimtimes.org%252Fwp-admin%252Fpost-new.php%26DM_CAT%3DNYTimesglobal%2520%253E%2520General%26DM_EOM%3D1&C=H07707%2CH07707http://pix04.revsci.net/H07707/b3/0/3/0806180/363508993.js?D=DM_LOC%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.themuslimtimes.org%252Fwp-admin%252Fpost-new.php%26DM_CAT%3DNYTimesglobal%2520%253E%2520General%26DM_EOM%3D1&C=H07707It seems that anxious investors in these troubled economic times are seeking safety in crowds. The prices of stocks, bonds and a host of other financial assets, which in normal conditions more often than not move in a diversity of unpredictable directions, are increasingly surging up or down in lockstep. […]