US vacates main Iraq base
By REUTERS BAGHDAD: The US military passed a milestone in its pending withdrawal from Iraq on Friday, vacating its vast main base near Baghdad airport that once housed the American […]
30% of Saudi student scholars in US are women
By GALAL FAKKAR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Women account for a third of the 47,000 Saudi students on the King Abdullah foreign scholarship program in the United States, according to […]
Rupee receives heavy battering against dollar: Is Pak economy unraveling?
KARACHI: The rupee’s downward rally continued in the interbank as it fell for five straight days against the dollar to close at Rs 89.40 on Friday. The greenback’s demand surged due to high import payment The rupee was traded at Rs 89.02 versus the dollar as imports’ payment of more […]
Sierra Leone: Commendation and love.
Mama Africa has rewarded Ahmadiyya more than anyone in this plannet. It has opened its bossom for the message of Imam Mehdi(a.s.). “A picture is worth a thousand words” Lets have a look at the picturous case study of Sierra Leone. This honor was bestowed to Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamat by […]
If Jesus did not die upon the cross: A study in evidence
Presented by Zia H Shah MD This is a small booklet with a very descriptive title, written by an Australian Judge, Ernest Brougham Docker, in 1920. He became a judge […]
Muslim Television Ahmadiyya on iPhone and iPad
Al Islam announces that it has jumped out of your internet browser! Al Islam is now offering applications for a variety of different devices including native iPhone apps, native Android […]
Euro doomed from start, says Jacques Delors
Daily Telegraph: The euro project was flawed from the start and the current generation of European leaders has failed to address its fundamental problems, Jacques Delors, the architect of the […]
UK: Coronation Oath threatened by council prayers ruling, High Court told
The Coronation Oath would have to be abolished as part of the “far-reaching consequences” of a legal bid to stop councillors saying prayers before meetings, the High Court has been told. Lawyers also claim that local authorities would have to end their involvement with remembrance services while chaplains would not […]
U.S. Jobless Rate Unexpectedly Declines to 8.6%
Job gains in the U.S. picked up last month and the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to the lowest level since March 2009, a decline augmented by the departure of Americans from the labor force. Payrolls climbed 120,000, after a revised 100,000 increase in October, with more than half the hiring […]
Noah’s Ark officially found in Turkish mountains
Irina Shlionskaya. Pravda.Ru 02.12.2011. In September 1960, a 27-year-old US doctor Ron Wyatt, an amateur archeologist, read an article in Life Magazine about the phenomenon. The search for Noah’s Ark became the primary objective in his life. In 1977, Wyatt started the mission to Turkey with his two sons. Having […]
Almaty Launches Kazakhstan’s First Subway Line
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev officially commissioned the first stage of the underground metro system in Almaty, the country’s largest city of 1.5 million people, on December 1. “Today is an exciting historical day for our country, when Kazakhstan’s first metro facility has been put into operation.,” Nazarbayev said […]
An Op-Ed in Examiner about Muslim Times’ news about the Pope
As our Muslim Times: A blog to Foster Universal Brotherhood continues to increase in visibility with geometric progression, other blogs are covering it. Examiner.com has an Op-Ed by Basiyr Rodney, […]
WOMAN “IMPRISONED” ON SCIENTOLOGY CRUISE SHIP FOR 12 YEARS
By Eric Pfeiffer | The Sideshow UPDATE: The Village Voice has an extended interview with Village Voice, which you can read here. For most people, an extended stay aboard a […]
Killing the Euro: Print more Euros to keep it alive?
Can the euro be saved? Not long ago we were told that the worst possible outcome was a Greek default. Now a much wider disaster seems all too likely. True, market pressure lifted a bit on Wednesday after central banks made a splashy announcement about expanded credit lines (which will, […]
Ten days of secret planning to rescue markets: Postponing the inevitable but for how long?
(Reuters) – Britain orchestrated this week’s bold move by central banks to stave off a cash crunch in global markets, helping drive a plan that began to take shape around 10 days ago. For months, central bankers have tracked with growing concern how the deleveraging among European banks, hurt by […]
Kayani’s bold move: ‘Pakistani troops will return fire if Nato attacks again: Is this the beginning of the end for Pakistan?
ISLAMABAD: In a development that pushes US-Pakistan relations further into the realm of uncertainty, the army has authorised its local commanders deployed near the Afghan border to retaliate to any […]
In Israel, women’s rights come under siege
Women are forced to board public buses from the back and stay there. Billboards with images of women are defaced. Public streets are cordoned off during religious holidays so that women cannot enter. Saudi Arabia in the misogynistic grip of sharia law? Sadly, astonishingly, infuriatingly, it is Israel under the […]
Afghan woman, jailed for being raped, wins pardon
Source: Dawn Afghanistan has pardoned a woman who was raped by a family member but then jailed for adultery, a statement from the presidential palace has said, in a case that highlights deep concerns about women’s rights in the country. It remained unclear whether the 21-year-old-woman, known as Gulnaz, would […]
Jordan: Unconfirmed rumors: 400’000 Iraqi Christians to be allowed to settle in Jordan
Source: Sorry, I cannot tell you. From the Royal Palace, but not permitting to be quoted. News leaking out of the Royal Palace in Amman through confidential sources that do not want to be named are speaking about plans to permit 400’000 Iraqi Christians to be settled in Jordan. The […]
The New Islamic Year 1433 AH
Source: GHANAWEB INTRODUCTION Even before the Gregorian calendar of 2011 officially ends on December 31, Muslims have already started a New Islamic Year as per the Islamic calendar which differs from the Gregorian on the basis of the number of days in each of its 12 months. It only so […]