By Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Lebanon At rare moments in life, history takes a sharp turn for the better, and sometimes you can see and feel this happening in front of your eyes. This past week was just such a moment for the Arab world, as three different […]
Halloween is a festival celebrated around the world on 31st October. It is a day which has become commercialised, most people being unaware of its true origins. Instead, most associate Halloween with only pumpkins, scary costumes, bonfires and trick or treating. Societies go to great lengths to ensure that no one […]
A Pumpkin at the Zoo in Germany
Source/Credit: Saturday, October 29, 2011 , by Tony-Jones,PA The Queen urged world leaders to ensure women played a full part in their societies as she opened thesummit of Commonwealth countries yester-day. The monarch’s comments came at the start of the major meeting in Australia where politicians are expected to clash over […]
Source/Credit: Saturday, October 29, 2011 , by-AFP The world’s population of seven billion is set to rise to at least 10 billion by 2100, but could top 15 billion if birthrates are just slightly higher than expected, according to the UN. In a report ahead of ceremonies on Monday to mark […]
By ASSOCIATED PRESS ARAB NEWS JERUSALEM: A Palestinian official says the Palestinian president will meet with the leader of the militant Hamas movement next month to discuss uniting dueling governments in the West Bank and Gaza. The meeting will be the first between President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas’ Khaled Mashaal […]
By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN I ARAB NEWS RIYADH: US President Barack Obama congratulated Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Friday on the selection of Prince Naif as crown prince, noting the prince’s counterterrorism record. “I congratulate King Abdullah and the Saudi people on the selection of Prince Naif […]
Source/Credit: : Saturday, October 29, 2011 , by-AFP The International Criminal Court said yesterday it was in contact with slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam over his surrender, as Nato decided to end its mission in Libya. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor at the ICC, warned however, the ICC learnt that […]
By Shehzad Baloch Published: October 15, 2011 QUETTA: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Friday that efforts were underway to revive the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), claiming that religious parties had the capability to foil the nefarious designs of the United States. Maulana Fazlur Rehman, addressing a gathering at the […]
By Saroop Ijaz Published: October 15, 2011 Source/credit: The Express Tribune The former Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court, Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, has volunteered to represent Mumtaz Qadri. Ordinarily, a lawyer representing a client is an unremarkable phenomenon, even those accused of heinous crimes. The lowest of low amongst the criminals […]
Source: TOI on line. A $50 tattooed doll – a new product of a hugely successful toy brand in the US – has come under fire. Invoking writer Stieg Larrson’s best-selling Millennium trilogy’s edgy female heroine image, this limited edition toy has alarmed parents in America, who feel the tattoos […]
Source: Nasim Malik from Sweeden. A letter containing Ahmadiyya questions has been floated in Sweedish parliament. English translation. Swedish Parliament: Written question 2011/12:86 : 2011/12:86 Situation of the Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan. To the Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt ( M ) “ It is reported daily about how the religious fundamentalist forces […]
By Zofeen T. Ebrahim| DAWN.COM A month after ten Ahmadi students were expelled from two schools in the village of Dharinwala, in Faisalabad district, all have been put back to school, not in there old ones, but in two schools in Hafizabad, thanks to Khalil Ahmad, father and grandfather of […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=living/2011/09/01/my-faith-congressman-ellison.cnn September 1st, 2011 10:24 AM ET Courtesy: CNN By Chris Welch, CNN Minneapolis, Minnesota (CNN) –Prior to 2006, few people even knew that then-Minnesota state legislator Keith Ellison was a Muslim. Because of his English name, he said, no one thought to ask. But five years ago, when he ran […]
Courtesy: CNN http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=world/2011/10/28/udas-worlds-biggest-family.cnn Click here to go to the original source This is why Islam restricts the number of wives to four and allows only under specific circumstances.
KINGSTON—The defendants say it’s the site of a tragic accident, the prosecution, a crime scene marking the horrific murder of three daughters and a wife. On Thursday, in a judicial rarity, the jury got to see it for themselves. The seven women and five men of the jury in the […]
Courtesy: Saudi Crown Prince of Darkness Saudi Arabia’s tough-minded interior minister has been named the crown prince—and is next in line to the king. He’s a known commodity in Washington after years of shepherding the Saudi fight against terrorism. by Tara McKelvey | October 28, 2011 10:00 AM EDT The interior minister’s office […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Unicef (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) has asked corporate, school and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to support its latest campaign, ‘Teach Respect’. The support involves helping to promote two new public service announcements (PSAs). At an exclusive video preview of ‘Teach Respect’ PSAs for the media, Unicef Representative to Malaysia Hans Olsen […]
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: The Kingdom announced Thursday it would donate $50 million in aid for Turkey’s quake victims. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah had given orders to help “its sister nation” Turkey in its efforts to deal with the devastation of the quake, the Saudi Press […]