The International Islamic Fiqh Academy on Thursday urged Muslims worldwide to grant Zakat money to the victims of the floods in Pakistan. The academy, affiliated with the Organization of Islamic Conference, said in a statement that clerics issued an edict allowing a Muslim to allocate Zakat aid for Muslims outside his country, namely the victims [...]
Will there be a major war between China and India? That’s the 64,000 rupee question addressed by the highly respected British magazine “The Economist” in a major article in their 21 August issue. The “Economist” warns that the long contested border between the two giant Asian rivals risks sparking future clashes or even a full-scale [...]
Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary and Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan are among the top fifty influential Muslims of the World says an annual survey of Royal Institute of Strategic Islamic Studies, Jordan. Some twenty-four Pakistanis have made it to the top 500 influential Muslims in the 2010 [...]
Pakistan – The Nation of the Dead! It is obvious that that is something terribly wrong with the people of Pakistan because there is so much hatred that mobs can just kill anyone and flee off. The law is there and so are the respective authorities but the many years of slavery have killed our [...]
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s visit to Rome to mark the second anniversary of a friendship treaty with former coloniser Italy stumbled into controversy on Monday after he said Europe should convert to Islam. Kadhafi made the comments on Sunday during a lecture to a group of 500 young women hired and paid by an agency [...]
The Lords Cricket Test match fixing scandal has entered its final and dramatic phase, with the Scotland Yard’s investigation team failing to find any concrete evidence of match fixing. Responsible and reliable sources of Scotland Yard had informed on Tuesday that despite ‘the video and other proofs’ as provided by the British tabloid, no credibility [...]
Secretary Defense Lt Gen (retd) Syed Athar Ali Khan told the National Assembly Standing Committee and Defense and Defense production that the army is answerable to the parliament and we are bound to answer question raised by the parliamentarians. The committee meeting chaired by Chairman Javed Ashraf Qazi was attended by Maulana Mohd Khan Sherani, [...]
Chairman Bahria Town, Malik Riaz Hussain announced the donation of 75% of all his assets for the relief and rehabilitation of flood victims. In an exclusive interview with CNN, Malik Riaz Hussain announced unprecedented amount of US$ 2 Billion to the cause of helping the flood victims and elaborated the severity of the calamity damaging [...]
INSPIRED by the front-page special editorial penned down by the Editor-in-Chief, which appeared in this paper on August 30, a group of public spirited citizens on Monday formally launched a public campaign to rid Pakistan of the debilitating foreign debt currently amounting to over 53 billion dollars. Speaking on behalf of progressive parties, students, intellectuals, [...]
WITH condemnation and demands from all over the country and abroad for swift action against Pakistani cricketers, alleged to have been part of the no-ball conspiracy at Lords, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Sports demanded on Monday the removal of PCB Chairman and the team management otherwise all the members of the [...]
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