Tag: Islam

CJ is presidential material

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary has arisen to join the ranks of Muslim heroes like Hazrat Umer-i-Farooq (RA) and Imam Khamenei of Iran who...

Army detains Gul’s brother in clinic raid

Commandos raided Umar Gul’s house and arrested his brother Meraj on charges of harbouring his uncle Haji Daly, who belongs to banned Laskar-e-Islam. Two persons,...

Atomic weapons against Islam, Nejad insists

Islam forbids atomic weapons and other arms of mass destruction, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted on Wednesday ahead of his country’s nuclear talks with...

US military course taught officers ‘Islam is the enemy’

A course for US military officers has been teaching that America’s enemy is Islam in general, and suggesting that the US might ultimately have...

Clinton ‘hurt’ by charges of anti-Islam US bias

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday she was deeply hurt by charges that the United States was biased against Muslims, staunchly defending...

IIUI two-day conference from 6th

The Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue (IRD) of the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) is going to organize a conference in collaboration...

The rot within

Looking inside All military coups in the country have been bloodless, more or less. All coups staged by the army chief have been successful and,...

All’s well that ends well

Or, at least, that’s what appears to be I heard giggling and knew that my friend Maverick the monkey was back. He looked healthier and...

‘People missing spiritual stability’

The Islahi Jamat and Aalmi Tanzeem-ul-Arifeen (IJATA) of the Shrine of Hazrat Sultan Bahoo (RA) organised the annual Melad-e-Mustafa (PBUH) Conference at the Convention...

Islam a progressive religion, says Iftikhar Hussain

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information and Culture Mian Iftikhar Hussain on Wednesday said Islam was a progressive religion and it had spread like a...

Sufism spread Islam in subcontinent

The Department of Arabic at Punjab University in collaboration with Punjab Ministry of Religious Affairs and Auqaf organised a two-day Syed Hajver Tasawwaf Seminar. The...

More than a headdress

The rich and the covered I’m all for a decent burial, but only after I die. So while tempted to don the hijab in defiant...

Chained to terrorism

Fighting off terrorism is not possible without some serious steps being taken by the government. One of the root causes that have plagued the...

‘Islam is religion of peace’

Renowned Religious scholar Allama Muhammad Anwar Qureshi has said that Islam is a religion of peace and coexistence and teaches the Muslims to forge...

Leasing in Islam

The baseline rule in shari'a is that only those assets that have an inherent usufruct can be leased with the condition that the leased...

Mufti Azam urges unity in Hajj sermon

Mufti Azam Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah delivered hajj sermon in Masjid-e-Nimra at Mount Arafat, urging Muslims to forge unity. More than 2.5...

Israel restricts access to Al-Aqsa mosque

Israel limited access to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Friday for fear of violence on the Muslim Sabbath, which leads directly into Yom Kippur,...