JEDDAH - The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Sunday urged authorities in Myanmar to allow a ministerial delegation to visit the country to discuss deadly violence against Muslims. The world's top Islamic body, in a statement following a meeting in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah, also urged ...

CAIRO (Reuters/AFP) - Leaders of Muslim nations called on Thursday for a "serious dialogue" between Syria's government and an opposition coalition on a political transition to end nearly two years of civil war, but pinned most of the blame for the bloodshed on the state.A two-day summit of the ...

It is clear that Bashar-ul Assad didn’t learn anything from Qaddafi and Mobarak’s fate. He cannot hold the civilian movement any longer. The civil war In Syria has entered into its 23rd month and has seen at least 60,000 people killed in the conflict. The verification of casualty ...

KARACHI (PR) – The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has condemned the killing of health workers engaged with the polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan. He observed that such attacks deprive children, especially those belonging to the ...

The Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Thursday condemned the attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai for speaking for girls’ rights to education.An OIC spokesperson, in a statement, stressed that the organization was a strong supporter of women’s rights and considered that ...

OIC Foreign Ministers concluded their annual coordination meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting on Saturday, adopting an 85-point joint communiqué which laid great stress on condemning the anti-Islam video that has convulsed the Muslim world, but also took a firm ...

UNITED NATIONS - Foreign Ministers of Islamic countries Saturday called for joining hands to resolve important issues such as Jammu and Kashmir, and also to improve the image of Islam.At their annual coordination meeting, the foreign ministers of 57 member states of the Organisation of Islamic ...

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Foreign Ministers annual coordination meeting in New York unanimously adopted Pakistan-sponsored Ministerial Declaration strongly was condemning the recent blasphemous film.The resolution was moved by Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar.The ...

GENEVA - The world’s largest Islamic body called on Tuesday for expressions of “Islamophobia” to be curbed by law, just as some countries restrict anti-Semitic speech or Holocaust denial.Pakistan, speaking on behalf of the 56 countries that form the Organisation of Islamic ...

JEDDAH  - The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has warned that cartoons ridiculing the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) published in France will trigger a new wave of anti-Western violence.In a statement, OIC chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu “expressed shock and dismay over” the ...

As the OIC meets, for its fourth extraordinary summit in Makkah to discuss the challenges confronting the Ummah, its platter would certainly be full. The Islamic world has been in a state of turmoil since World War I: its affairs have gone into a nosedive after the 9/11 tragedy. Country after ...

LAHORE – OIC official visits Virtual University for fostering cooperation between different Institution of Pakistan and members of OIC Ambassador Abdul Moiz Bokhari, Assistant Secretary General, OIC General Secretariat, Jeddah, Saudia Arabia visited Head Office of the Virtual University. ...

LAHORE - An OIC Trade Coordination Centre will be established at the LCCI to facilitate contacts between the Chambers of the member countries.This was stated by the LCCI President Irfan Qaiser Sheikh while addressing a Press conference here in the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry. LCCI ...

GENEVA - The OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir on Friday reaffirmed its support to the Kashmiris in their struggle for right to self-determination.The Group, during its meeting at the level of Ambassadors on the sidelines of the main session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, expressed ...

ISLAMABAD - Atomic Energy Commission Director General Dr Yousuf Zafar has appreciated the fact that despite late start, the country has achieved a substantial economic gain through biotechnology application (cotton). Using Pakistan as a model country, he urged the other OIC nations to move forward ...

FAISALABAD - The selection committee of the Islamic Development Bank has decided to confer a 'Prize for Science & Technology' award on the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.The award conferred for achieving outstanding contribution to a 'Scientific  Discipline' will encourage other ...

FAISALABAD - The Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) has ranked the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad second best Pakistani university after Agha Khan University. This was stated by Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Vice Chancellor of UAF, while addressing the Assistant Professors meeting as a ...

JEDDAH (APP) - Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Saturday called for convening the Ministerial Conference of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC). In view of the current situation and the increasing role of media, there is a need to convene OIC Ministerial ...

ISLAMABAD - The scientists, officials, and ministers of Science and Technology of OIC member countries, while rejecting the proposals for international grants, pledged on Wednesday to initiate multilateral joint research programmes on cutting edge technologies. Eminent scientists, policy makers and ...

JEDDAH (AFP) Growing Islamophobia echoes the rise of anti-Semitism in the 1930s with US leaders resisting it but Europeans abetting the trend for political gain, the head of the worlds largest Islamic group said. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari and Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), Prof Dr Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu on Tuesday took stock of issues including war against militancy. According to an official handout, the visiting Secretary General of the OIC discussed with the ...

JEDDAH (AFP) - The Organisation of the Islamic Conference Saturday accused Israeli police of sacrilege by occupying Jerusalems Al-Aqsa Mosque and called for international intervention to end Israeli aggression. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of the Jeddah-based pan-Islamic body, said in a ...

UNITED NATIONS The OIC on Thursday afternoon strongly condemned Israel for designating two shrines on Palestinian territory as Israeli national heritage sites, calling the move aggressive, provocative and irresponsible. In a statement issued after a meeting of its ambassadors at UN headquarters in ...

A conservative American newspaper has criticized President Barack Obama's choice for U.S. ambassador to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), suggesting that he is a voice of radical Islam. Rashad Hussain, an American of Indian origin who is Deputy Associate Counsel at the White House, ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama named an Indian-American as new Special Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in a bid to forge closer ties with the Muslim world. The appointment of Rashad Hussain, who currently serves as White House Deputy Associate Counsel, was announced by ...

GENEVA (AFP) - The Organisation of Islamic Conference urged Swiss authorities Thursday to annul a vote banning the construction of minarets, saying it could fuel similar moves across Europe. Envoys from the 56-nation member states made the demand to the Swiss ambassador to the United Nations in ...

ISLAMABAD Much to the surprise of many OIC member countries that instead of President Asif Ali Zardari, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan represented Pakistan in the Commerce Economic Summit of Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in Istanbul on November 9. The ...

KARACHI - The Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), an affiliated institution of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) based in Karachi, is undertaking initiatives to address issues related to poverty alleviation and capacity building of 57 OIC member countries, said Attiya ...

KARACHI- The 6th and final meeting of the OIC task force on SMEs commenced in Bangkok, Thailand on 15th August, 2008. State Minister for Tourism, Thailand Somsak Kiatsuranondha inaugurated the conference. President, Thai Islamic Trade & Industrial Association (TITIA) Anirut Smuthkochorn, ...

JEDDAH (AFP) - Islamic countries urged the UN Security Council on Monday to stall any move by the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir. Ministers from member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference "urged the UN Security ...