As foreign reports claim that Pakistan is among the least secure countries for women, local NGO Aurat Foundation reports that violence against women decreased by 6.41% in 2010 compared to figures from 2009. The NGO’s report, titled Violence Against Women in Pakistan 2010, revealed the ‘surprising’ fact that 8,000 cases […]
Barelvi scholars have condemned both Osama bin Laden and the United States as “killers of thousands of Muslims”, while demanding the release of the “heroic” Mumtaz Hussan Qadri, the self-confessed killer of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer. Speaking at the annual degree awarding ceremony at Aiwan-i-Iqbal for 40 religious scholars on Saturday night, Idara Sirat-i-Mustaqeem head Dr […]
Inspectors unearthing priceless treasures from a south Indian temple have had to halt their search because they cannot open the final vault. Five vaults full of precious stones, gold and silver have already been opened in Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala state. Historians say assessing the treasure’s value will be […]
More than 1,100 people have been shot dead in political violence in the Pakistani city of Karachi since the start of the year, campaigners say. The Human Right Commission of Pakistan criticised city officials for failing to stop the targeted killings. Much of the violence is associated with battles between […]
By SULTAN AL-TAMIMI | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Kingdom’s bilateral dialogue with Iran will continue, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said at a joint press conference with his British counterpart William Hague in Jeddah on Tuesday. “I met with Iran’s former Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Tehran and the next […]
By Rana Husseini AMMAN – The founder of a group of women married to foreigners who are demanding citizenship rights for their children on Tuesday said they will not give up their plans to establish a society. “We are not going to give up and will apply 100 times if […]
By Muath Freij AMMAN – The lack of Muslim schools in the capital during the 1940s led a group of traders to establish the Islamic Scientific College (ISC). It all began 65 years ago when a group of merchants from Syria and Nablus decided to form the Islamic Culture Society, […]
By Hani Hazaimeh AMMAN – His Majesty King Abdullah’s visit to Saudi Arabia was successful as the Saudis expressed their understanding of the economic challenges facing Jordan and pledged support for the Kingdom in the face of these challenges, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Judeh said on Tuesday. In an […]
WASHINGTON — NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory logged its one millionth science observation during a search for water in an exoplanet’s atmosphere 1,000 light-years away. “For 21 years Hubble has been the premier […]
Israel’s threat to deny visitor’s entry to Palestine is as disturbing as it is shocking. Our protest will be a civil society tsunami Palestinians have globally touted an array of rights that Israel systematically denies. There is the right of return, the right of freedom of movement, the right to […]
Report on implementation of 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women says Israel lacks gender equality in matters of marriage and family relationships. By Gili Cohen There is no meaningful equality in Israel between men and women when it comes to matters relating to marriage […]
The US takes pride in its separation of church and state, but the current political scene is ‘strangely’ religious. Lately, there would seem to be a whole lot more people who have a direct channel to the Big Guy Upstairs than one could have humanly thought possible. It is oft-said […]
Police in Australia’s New South Wales state have been given more powers to remove burkas and other face coverings to identify crime suspects. Anyone who refuses to show their face could now be jailed for up to a year or face a heavy fine. The move follows the recent case of […]
PARIS (Reuters) – Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn inched closer on Tuesday to having U.S. sex assault charges against him dropped although a complaint of assault in France could pose a further hurdle to any political comeback. The New York Post cited an unnamed senior investigator as saying prosecutors would […]
By IBRAHIM NAFFEE | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: A financial expert has warned of the possibility of foreign workers withdrawing their funds from Saudi banks over concerns about future job prospects in the Kingdom under the Nitaqat system. Fearing their inability to continue working in the Kingdom, many of the estimated […]
By Maram Mazen Khartoum Stanbic IBTC Bank, a unit of JSE-listed Standard Bank, has won approval from Nigeria’s central bank to provide Islamic banking services in Africa’s most populous nation. A preliminary licence was awarded to Stanbic last week for a sharia-compliant banking window, the first one given to a commercial bank in the country, Central Bank […]
A court in the Netherlands has ruled the Dutch state was responsible for the deaths of three Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia. The Dutch were in charge of the UN “safe area” in July 1995 when Bosnian Serb forces overran it and killed 8,000 Bosnian Muslim […]
By RFI The dramatic reversal in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case in New York has astonished the French, and amid reports that the charges against him might be dropped this week, conspiracy theories about the dramatic sequence of events in New York have resurfaced. Socialist councillor Michele Sabban hinted that the management […]
AFP – A small French pleasure craft with eight protesters on board left Greek waters overnight and set off for Gaza in an attempt to break an Israeli naval blockade, organisers said Tuesday. The “Dignite al Karama” is so far the only boat in a planned flotilla organised by pro-Palestinian […]