BAHAWALPUROur Staff ReporterIt is high time for the Muslims Ummah in general and Pakistani nation in particular to review the policies and divert energies towards reviving the glory of Islam as it were the Muslims who ruled the world for centuries and set ever-last exemplary system of good ...

MultanStressing the need for adopting practical measures to block drone attacks, Jamaat-e-Islami Punjab Ameer Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar said on Tuesday that the drone hits were a naked aggression against security, solidarity and sovereignty of Pakistan. “Now mere statements don’t work. The ...

The former British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a pointing remark in his article in the DailyMail when he wrote, “There is a problem within Islam - from the adherents of an ideology which is a strain within Islam.” Mr Blair missed the mark about where the problem lies. It’s not ...

LASHIO, MYANMAR - Hundreds of Muslim families sheltered in a heavily guarded Buddhist monastery on Thursday after two days of violence in the northern Myanmar city of Lashio left Muslim properties in ruins and raised alarm over a widening religious conflict.About 1,200 Muslims were taken to Mansu ...

YANGON Myanmar on Tuesday sentenced seven Muslims to prison terms ranging from two to 28 years in connection with religious violence in March that left dozens of people dead, a justice official said.The defendants, who were spared the death penalty, were accused of the murder of a Buddhist monk in ...

WASHINGTONThe United States on Monday denounced what it called a rising tide of both anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish sentiment around the world as it urged all nations to ensure freedom of religion.In a wide-ranging annual report on religious freedom, the State Department voiced alarm at growing ...

JAKARTA: US rock band Aerosmith has cancelled a concert scheduled this week in Jakarta on safety concerns, a concert promoter said Sunday, following threats to bomb the Myanmar embassy in the Indonesian capital."We received the official confirmation yesterday from the Aerosmith management ...

  JARED FERRIE Three Muslim men peered over a bamboo fence built recently to fortify their village in centralMyanmar. They gazed across dry rice paddies towards a nearby Buddhist community, looking for rising dust, a sign of an approaching mob. It was a false alarm. But a day earlier, on ...

  washington   Muslims in theUShave views on religion that are different, in many ways, from the views of Muslims in other nations, according to a new global survey of Muslims. Here are some of the contrasts contained in a poll released this week by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public ...

Jared FerrieIn Myanmar's central heartlands, justice and security is elusive for thousands of Muslims who lost their homes in a deadly rampage by Buddhist mobs in March.Many are detained in prison-like camps, unable to return to neighbourhoods and businesses razed in four days of violence in ...

LONDON  - Eleven British Muslims were jailed on Friday for planning an Al-Qaeda-backed plot to carry out a string of bombings that they hoped would rival 9/11 and the 2005 London attacks.The conspiracy involved at least six of the plotters travelling to Pakistan for terror training, with the ...

LONDON  - Three British Muslims including a convert to Islam were jailed on Thursday for planning acts of terror. White Muslim convert Richard Dart, 30, a former security guard for the BBC, was sentenced to six years imprisonment at England’s Old Bailey central criminal court in London. ...

For long the world community, Islamic organizations and human rights bodies have been watching the worst example of state terrorism unleashed against the innocent Rohingyan Muslims. Not one step has been taken to stop the ruthless killing of hundreds of Muslims and burning of their mosques, houses ...

LAHORE - Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has said that 1.5 billion Muslims are not contributing to creation of new knowledge and the reason behind the downfall of the nation was its distance from the Holy Quran. He was addressing a seminar organised by PU Department of ...

Himaya Quasem  In a narrow, damp alley at the heart of this bustling tourist hotspot sits a row of tin-roofed shacks. Hidden from view, they house Rohingya Muslims who have fled sectarian bloodshed in neighbouring Myanmar.Described by the United Nations as one of the most persecuted minorities ...

Didier LaurasAfter generations as part of one of Asia’s most ethnically diverse societies, Myanmar’s Muslims fear they are becoming “scapegoats” of its reform process following a wave of religious violence.At least 43 people died in Buddhist-Muslim clashes which broke out ...

LAHORE : Jamatud Dawa chief Hafiz M Saeed has said that America and Europe are misleading the world about the Muslims and try to defame the Ummah by spreading negative propaganda. Addressing a concluding session of two-day medial conference organised by Medical Mission at Aiwan-e-Iqbal on Sunday, ...

TARIQ A AL MAEENAThe undercurrent of racial tensions sweeping through Sri Lanka is gaining momentum. Unchecked and unrestrained by a government appearing to give in to their divisive demands, the terrorist Buddhist group, the Bodu Bala Sena (Buddhist Power Force), is threatening to turn the island ...

YANGON  - A Muslim businessman, his wife and an employee have been sentenced to prison after an altercation at their gold shop led to anti-Muslim riots in which at least 43 people were killed in Myanmar last month.Shop owner Tun Tun Oo, his wife Myint Myint Aye and an employee, Nyi Nyi, were ...

TOKYO - Members of Myanmar's Muslim minority Rohingya community said Thursday they have been barred from a gathering to welcome democracy hero Aung San Suu Kyi when she visits Japan. Suu Kyi is expected from Saturday in her first visit to the country for nearly three decades, after time spent as a ...

RAWALPINDI – The Muslims can overcome their worldly problems and make themselves eligible for forgiveness on the Day of Judgment only by following the teachings of Quran and Sunnah in true letter and spirit and by enlightening their hearts and minds with the affection with the Holy Prophet ...

DJIBOUTI  - The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) called Saturday for the international community to protect Muslims in Myanmar’s unrest-hit Rakhine state from genocide as US President Barack Obama readied for a landmark trip to the country.“We expect the United States to ...

SITTWE - Barbed wire and armed troops guard the Muslim quarter of a violence-wracked city in western Myanmar, a virtual prison for the families that have inhabited its narrow streets for generations.The security forces outside the ghetto in the Rakhine state capital Sittwe are not there to stop its ...

KARACHI – Agricultural and food experts have underlined the importance of the Halal food in term of its quality and human health safety, and said that non-Muslim world is also inclining towards the use of Halal foods all over the world as the concept of Halal food becomes symbol of safety and ...

LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Monday that Muslims from Casablanca to Kuala Lumpur have proved through strongly protests against the anti-Islam movie that they would not tolerate blasphemy against the Holy Prophet (PBUH).Addressing the participants of the ...

As a Muslim, it pains me tremendously to see death and destruction all over the Muslim world as a result of violent protests against the recent anti-Islam film. I am saddened for two reasons: a) My faith is being attacked; and b) Muslims are being used as chess pieces in the larger ...

 SADIQABAD - The representatives of many religious organisations and political parties held a meeting to devise future strategy and condemn the anti-Islam film produced in the US. The participants unanimously adopted a resolution and decided to go on a shutdown across Sadiqabad on ...

LAHORE – Religious learning and research were indispensable to counter the impact of Western civilisation on our socio-cultural values, Al-Azhar University College of Shariah Dean Dr Mohayyuddin Afifi said on Thursday while addressing a seminar on the ‘Challenges to Ummah and Their ...

NILOFAR SUHRAWARDYA decade on from the Gujarat riots, an overwhelming majority of victims still await justice in India,” is the heading carried by public statement issued by Amnesty International, earlier this year. The statement also noted that in 10 years, investigation and trial processes ...

NEW YORK - Pakistan's former Ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani believes that the outrage sweeping across the Muslim world over the crude video insulting Islam and Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) was the result of manipulation by Islamists and not a 'spontaneous' response."The mob ...