Tag: Muslim

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has bagged the 20th spot among the top 100 businesses of the Muslim world, published in the seventh Annual Dinar Standard survey. "It is an honour for our company to be ranked amongst the top 100 companies in the Muslim world and the honour has only added to expectations of continuing with the remarkable performance in future," company's MD Irfan Qureshi said.
Dinar Standard is a specialised research, advisory and business media firm

CAIRO - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday said it will form a political party in the wake of the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak's regime, which banned but broadly tolerated the Islamist opposition group.
"The Muslim Brotherhood believes in the freedom to form parties and is therefore determined to have its own political party," Mohammed Mursi, a member of the group's political bureau, said in a statement. "All that prevented the group from achieving this demand was the law on

QUETTA - Two Chinese engineers were killed in a mine-related accident in Killa Saifullah district on Sunday. According to reports, the Chinese engineers were busy in mining of chromites in Muslim Bagh area when the mine caved, which resulted to their instant death. The dead bodies were recovered from the debris and shifted to Quetta for onward dispatch to their country. The victims are identified as Konjxing Shen and Zhohjias Isheg.

KUALA LUMPUR - The Philippine government and the nation's main Islamic separatist group agreed on Thursday to push ahead with a faltering peace process after meeting for the first time in two years. The government hailed the meeting as a success, saying it yielded agreements on substantive issues and that the two sides agreed to "fast track the peace process" with another round of talks scheduled for the next month.
The meeting in Kuala Lumpur also covered concerns over the

LAHORE - After a three-week trial and one hour of deliberations, an upstate New York jury on Monday found Muzzammil Hassan guilty of second-degree murder for beheading his wife,
according to CNN.
In February 2009, Hassan, who founded a TV network aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes, went to a police station in the Buffalo, New York, suburb of Orchard Park and told officers his wife was dead, police said. Aasiya Hassan had been decapitated, with prosecutor Paul Bonanno,

TEMANGGUNG - Indonesian Muslims burned churches and battled police on Tuesday as the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation struggled with a wave of religious violence. Two days after a Muslim lynch mob killed three members of a minority Islamic sect, crowds of furious Muslims set two churches alight and ransacked a third in the Central Java town of Temanggung, police said.
They were demanding the death penalty for Antonius Bawengan, 58, a Christian man who was sentenced to

LAHORE - The opening match of Tauseef Trophy Cricket League between Muslim Gymkhana and Wahdat Eaglets will be played on February 10 instead of February 18 at the Wahdat Colony Ground.
The league match will be played among four teams i.e Akhter Abdul Rehman Club, Mehboob Park Gym, Muslim Gym and Wahdat Eaglets. Every team will play three matches. The points system of the matches has also announced. Every match inning consist 40 overs-a-side.

CAIRO - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's embattled regime struck a landmark deal on Sunday with opposition groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, agreeing to jointly pursue democratic reform. After two weeks of mass street protests and with global pressure mounting for the regime to negotiate a peaceful transition to a more democratic rule, the government met its most powerful foes.
Government spokesman Magdi Radi said the parties agreed to form a committee of judges and

KARACHI - Khyber Muslim cut Aga Khan University down to size with a 14-7 win in the Real Soccer Futsal Cup 2011 at Galaxy Park. The event was inaugurated by former Test cricketer Shoaib Mohammad. Saddar Town's Sports Officer Asif Azeem presided over the function.
The event is being organized by the Real Soccer Academy and foremost teams are included in the draws. Talking on this occasion, Organizing Secretary Zahid Taj appreciated the Pakistan Football Federation for introducing

LAHORE - Muslim Gymkhana qualified for the league stage of 14th Tauseef Trophy Cricket Championship by beating strong P&T Gymkhana by 69 runs at Model town ground.
Fine batting by Ali Azmat , Mohsin and Yawer were the main features of the match. Wahdat Eaglets, Mehboob Park Gymkhana and Akhter abdul Rehman club have already marched to league stage.
Scores: Muslim Gymkhana 172/5 in 20 overs. Mohsin 49, Naveed Abbas 15, Umer Munawer 12 (no), Ali Azmat 74 (no). Qasim Ali 1/27,

CAIRO - An Egyptian state security court on Sunday sentenced a Muslim man to death for killing six Coptic Christians and a Muslim police officer in a drive-by shooting on Coptic Christmas Eve in January 2010.
Mohamed Ahmed Hussein, 39, known as Hamam Kamouni, had been charged with the "premeditated murder" of the Christians and the police officer and with "intimidating citizens" in Nagaa Hamady in southern Egypt after mass on the eve of Coptic Christmas.
The judge said

LAHORE - SPM Stags won their match in the 4th SPM League Cricket Tournament in the Professional Group here on Saturday. SPM Stags beat Muslim Gymkhana by 118 runs.
SPM Stags scored 248 for five wickets in 35 overs. Nadeem Javed (53 not out), Usman Liaqat (50), Mujahid Ali (44), Ayaz Tasawar (42) and Salman Ali (39) all pitched in to reach the total. Tehseen Mirza took two wickets for Muslim Gymkhana.
Muslim Gymkhana could score only 130 runs and lost all their wickets.

LAHORE: Protests organised by students of various colleges on Saturday created a massive traffic jam on roads adjacent to the New Muslim Town Morr.
Punjab College students were protesting against police torture of students and teachers at the Punjab Assembly a couple of days ago. Commuters expressed anger over the traffic jam and criticised students for protesting on roads. The protesters blocked the roads using buses, choking traffic on the Canal Bank roads irking motorists.