The smell of fried bread, sweets and curries wafted from the community kitchen of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, in the north Indian state of Punjab, as a group of around a hundred Sikhs waited for breakfast on Thursday before traveling to Pakistan for an annual pilgrimage. After breakfast, the pilgrims sat with their suitcases and duffel bags outside the office of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, which oversees Sikh temples in the country, as they waited to board buses …
A pregnant Pakistani singer was shot dead while performing at a wedding in Southern Pakistan. Samina Sindhu, a local folk singer was shot dead Tuesday night in a village near Larkana. According to reports, Tariq Jatoi shot Sindhu after she refused to dance during her performance. “Samina declined to dance because she was pregnant,” her husband, Aashiq Ali, said. “Her refusal enraged the accused who killed her.” Sidhu was taken to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead on …
PESHAWAR: Thousands gathered on Sunday at Peshawar’s Ring Road for the gathering organised by the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM). Women, children and students have reached the venue with photographs of their ‘missing’ loved ones. PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen will soon address the crowd. A birds eye view of the PTM Rally in #Peshawar. Official sources say roughly 15 thousand people have gathered. Participants claim much more. pic.twitter.com/hV65nqzvIj — Iftikhar Firdous (@IftikharFirdous) April 8, 2018 The PTM, which shot to fame …
On April 6, Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari, a British cleric from the Deobandi movement, a hardline South Asian Islamic sect, will commence a three-day speaking tour, speaking at five mosques in New York and New Jersey, as well as at St Johns University in Queens. His most widely-advertised lecture, at the Quba Institute in New York on April 7, is titled ‘Women’s Rights in Marriage.’ The hosts call on their audience to come along and “stand up against domestic violence.” …
‘نادرا’ نے اسلام آباد کی عدالتِ عالیہ کو بتایا تھا کہ گزشتہ 16 برسوں کے دوران 10205 شہریوں نے قومی شناختی کارڈ میں مذہب کے خانے میں تبدیلی کراتے ہوئے خود کو مسلمان سے احمدی درج کروایا۔ پاکستان میں احمدی مذہب سے تعلق رکھنے والے افراد نے اسلام آباد ہائی کورٹ کی جانب سے شناختی دستاویزات میں مذہب کی تبدیلی کو عدالت کی اجازت سے مشروط کرنے پر تحفظات کا اظہار کرتے ہوئے کہا ہے کہ اس سے انہیں لاحق …
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land in an interview published on Monday in U.S. magazine The Atlantic, another public sign of ties between Riyadh and Tel Aviv appearing to grow closer. Asked if he believes the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in at least part of their ancestral homeland, Mohammed bin Salman was quoted as saying: “I believe the Palestinians and the Israelis have the right to have …
Four members of a Christian family were gunned down in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, police said, in the latest attack on the minority community. The family was traveling in a rickshaw when armed men on a motorcycle intercepted them and opened fire in Quetta city, the capital of Baluchistan province. A woman was rushed to the hospital. Her father and three cousins were killed. “It appears to have been a targeted attack,” provincial police official Moazzam Jah Ansari told Reuters. …
چناب نگر (ساجد عمران سے) گزشتہ چند ہفتوں میں شہر میں چوری اور ڈکیتی کی واردتیں کرنے والا ملزم گرفتار ۔ تفصیل کے مطابق چناب نگر بازار میں اے بی کلر لیب سے کیمرہ چوری کرنے اور گزشتہ روز کہکشاں کالونی سے گن پوائنٹ پر دوکاندار سے نقدی اور موبائل لوٹنے والا ملزم صفدر ہرل ولد افضل سکنہ چنیوٹ آج اس وقت چناب نگر بازار سے لو کل مقامی انتظامیہ کی خصوصی کاوش سے پکڑا گیا جب وہ چھینا ہوا …
22 people have been injured in a mob attack on an Ahmadiyya Mosque in Bangladesh. According to a report by the Daily Star, a group of 70-80 people from another mosque attacked the Ahmadiyya mosque following Friday prayers. Both of the Mosques are located in the Madarganj Upazila of Jamalpur district, a locality in the north of Bangladesh. Shahidul Islam, the local president of the Madarganj Upazila area, said he had donated his land for the building of an Ahmadi …
In 1980, the National Women’s History Project was founded in California for the interest of broadcasting woman’s historical achievements. They lobbied and successfully pushed Congress to designate a special month for women. Today, March is officially known as Women’s History Month, where women and men pay special attention to discuss and commemorate the world’s greatest feminine leaders. As a Muslim woman, I can testify that Islam has fully laid out the basic rights of women centuries ago. The Holy Quran …