ISLAMABAD - Ali Kahn scored all four goals as Muslim Football Club thrashed Pindi United 4-0 in their DFA Rawalpini A League soccer match played here Thursday. Ali scored the first goal in the 15th minute, second in the 27th minute, third in the 52nd minute and last in 82nd minute to ensure a ...

ISLAMABAD - Al-Muslim Football Club beat Young Muhammadan 2-0 in the DFA Rawalpindi A League match played at Municipal Stadium. Jibran Khattak opened the scoring in the seventh minute of the first half. Despite lime share of possession, poor finishing in front of the goal let down Al-Muslim FC from ...

NEW YORK - Bleeding and hunted by police, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the prime suspect in the Boston marathon bombings, who was found hiding in a boat days after the blasts, left a handwritten message describing the attack as retribution for U.S. wars in Muslim countries, CBS News reported on Thursday.The ...

karachiThe Pakistan Muslim League-Functional has given call of shutter-down strike on Thursday (today) against rigging in the elections.PML-N and nationalist groups have supported the protest call and announced to join protest demonstrations and sit-ins all over the province.Earlier on Tuesday, ...

COLOMBO : - Sri Lanka freed an opposition Muslim political leader from jail without charge after detaining him earlier in the week under a tough anti-terrorism law, his lawyer said Saturday.Azath Sally, 49, the former deputy mayor of Colombo, was arrested on Sunday and detained in police custody in ...

yangon: Two Buddhists have been arrested after Muslim shops were destroyed in northern Kachin State, police said Saturday, in a new outbreak of religious violence. Myanmar is in the grip of acute religious tension after a deadly wave of unrest in March that saw monks and Buddhist mobs attack Muslim ...

DHAKA :Bangladesh’s war crimes court Thursday indicted a Bangladesh-born British Muslim leader and aUScitizen for their alleged role in the murder of top intellectuals during the 1971 war. Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin has held positions in a host of top Islamic organisations in his adopted homeland ...

YANGON : Police in Myanmar, where mobs this week desecrated mosques and burned homes, said Thursday they would charge a Muslim woman for blasphemy after she apparently collided with a young monk on the street, sparking the unrest. Win Win Sein and another Muslim woman were detained by police in ...

washington - Large majorities in the Muslim world want the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia as the official law in their countries, but they disagree on what it includes and who should be subject to it, an extensive new survey says.Over three-quarters of Muslims in the Middle East and North ...

OIC is the second largest multilateral organization after the United Nations having 57 member states with 21 percent of the world's population. The primary goal of the OIC is to strengthen the bonds of unity and solidarity among the Muslim states. Beside, the other objectives of the OIC the charter ...

SYDNEY (VOA)  - A Pakistan-born migrant is to become the first Muslim woman to serve in an Australia parliament.Mehreen Faruqi, a prominent figure in environmental engineering, has been chosen by the New South Wales Greens to fill a vacancy in the upper house of the state legislature. She ...

RIYADH  Saudi Arabia will retain its longstanding ban on non-Muslim places of worship, Justice Minister Mohammed al-Issa said in comments reported by the Saudi media on Wednesday. As Saudi Arabia is "home to the Muslim holy places, it does not allow the establishment of non-Muslim places of ...

BAKU: ABakucourt jailed on Monday eight Muslim activists arrested last year after they clashed with police in a protest against a ban on the Islamic Hijab for schoolgirls. The activists were sentenced for five to six years in prison "for resisting and using violence against police, and disrupting ...

WASHINGTONSPECIAL CORRESPONDENTA prominent US civil rights group said Thursday that an independent review of post-9/11 interrogation and detention programmes, which concludes that "it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture" underscores the need to stop the ...

ISLAMABAD – Non-Muslim voters comprise more than 10,000 votes in 98 seats of the National Assembly, given a small margin of victory in past general elections, these votes could play a decisive role in favor of any candidate. However, no attention is being paid by candidates to woo the ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - A Sri Lankan court Tuesday freed three Buddhist monks and 14 others suspected of torching a Muslim-owned clothing store in an attack that scaled up the country’s religious tensions. In the latest in a wave of attacks targeting minority Muslims, an angry mob of hardline ...

A fire blamed on an electrical fault killed 13 teenage boys at a Muslim school in Myanmar's main city Tuesday, police and witnesses said, raising fears of a further eruption of tensions after a wave of religious unrest.Police and soldiers flanked the scorched blue mosque and religious school in ...

LAHORE – Former Balochistan governor Sardar Gul Jogezai Wednesday said only unity among Muslims could enable us to achieve the goal of Pakistan.While addressing students of the Fauji Foundation Vocational Institute, who were on a study tour of the Aiwan-i-Karkunan-i-Tehreek-i-Pakistan in ...

LAHORE - The country is passing through a critical phase and unification of all the Muslim Leagues is vital for countering the challenges facing the motherland, says PML-F chief, Pir of Pagara, Pir Sibghatullah Rashdi. He expressed these views during a meeting with Nawa-i-Waqt Group Editor-in-Chief ...

A court in India’s Andhra Pradesh state has remanded a prominent Muslim legislator in custody for two weeks over alleged anti-Hindu speeches. Akbaruddin Owaisi of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul party was arrested late on Tuesday, the BBC reported. Some of the comments were recorded in December and ...

 Reyhana PatelA recent report published by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Race and Community revealed that Muslim women are encountering discrimination at work from the application stage, through interviews, at recruitment agencies, and in the workplace itself. Some individuals were even ...

Myriam Francois-CerrahBaroness Warsi may have opted for shalwar khameez for her first meeting of the cabinet in May 2010, but for many Muslim women, the struggle is to downplay ethnic or religious difference in order to find acceptance - and employment. A recent parliamentary report found that ...

America has just spent $6 billion dollars on the most expensive election in US history to re-elect the man that will give them more of the same. Despite the rhetoric of ‘change, or ‘moving forward’, nothing has really changed. Obama through his victory speech tried his best to ...

Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz ibne Abdullah al-Sheikh, in his Haj sermon to two million odd pilgrims delivered at Masjid-e-Nimra at Arafat, forcefully and absolutely rebutted violence as having any place in Islam. In a clear message to those whose appropriation of the name of the religion has bought ...

MOUNT ARAFAT - Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz ibne Abdullah al-Sheikh has said that Islam as a religion shuns aggression and called upon the believers to follow Islam in its true sense to overcome the challenges they are facing.In his Haj Sermon at Masjid-e-Namra in Maidan-e-Arafat on Thursday, the Grand ...

BAHAWALPUR - A seminar titled "Sanctity of Holy Prophet Hazarat Muhammad (SAW) and the responsibilities of Ulema/Scholars" was held at Abbasia Campus of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur. The event was arranged by the Faculty of Islamic Learning to develop awareness about the teachings of ...

BERLIN  - A German court on Friday refused to allow a Muslim student to skip swimming lessons after she said she was uncomfortable being so close to bare-chested boys.The 12-year-old, originally from Morocco but going to school in the southern German city of Frankfurt, had refused to take part ...

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Muslim foreign ministers called for laws against incitement to "religious hatred" as they condemned an American-made film mocking Islam that sparked deadly protests. Ministers from the 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation said that freedom of expression had to be ...

UNITED NATIONS  - Muslim leaders demanded international action to stop religious insults in a challenge to US President Barack Obama’s defence of freedom of expression at the UN General Assembly.Obama made a strong condemnation of ‘violence and intolerance’ in his speech at ...

ISLAMABAD - An All Parties Conference (APC) of different religious schools of thought, held here at a local hotel unanimously, has resolved that US President Barak Obama’s statement in the UN General Assembly session regarding ‘anti-Islam’ movie clearly refutes US ...