Tag: Prayers

Airborne prayers problem solved for tech-savvy Muslims

As a frequent flier and devout Muslim, businessman Abdalhamid Evans always comes up against the same challenge in the air: when to say his...

Yuvraj Singh contracts cancer Prayers pour in for ...

Celebrities from all walks of life have been logging on to their micro-blogging sites to wish cricketer Yuvraj Singh a speedy recovery. The dashing...

US firm fires 26 Muslim drivers over prayer issue

More than two dozen Somali Muslim drivers for Hertz at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are being fired after refusing to clock out for daily breaks...

Nation offers special prayers for flood victims, dengue patients

The nation offered special prayers on Wednesday throughout the country after Zuhr prayers on the appeal of President Asif Ali Zardari for the flood...

Gilani returns from Iran, offers prayers for country

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani returned to Pakistan on Wednesday after completing his visit to Iran. During his visit, he had held talks with...

Eid prayers turn into protests in Kashmir

Thousands of demonstrators on Wednesday staged noisy anti-India protests in revolt-hit Kashmir after prayers to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month of...

Zardari offers Eid prayers in Urumqi

President Asif Ali Zardari offered Eid prayers here in the capital of China’s Xinjiang province on Wednesday, where he reached Tuesday on a three-day...

Pakistani shot dead after Eid prayers in Denmark

A Pakistani was killed and two others were injured after a shooting outside a Copenhagen mosque following prayers to mark the end of the...

Our prayers are with Sonia-jee, says Amitabh

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, on behalf of the cast and crew of forthcoming film "Aarakshan", Friday wished a speedy recovery to Congress president Sonia...

KESC curse engulfs sehr, iftar and Friday prayers

Not to speak of providing relief to the masses during the holy month of Ramazan, the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) management is not...

Metal detectors be used at Friday prayers: CCPO

The security branch should increase use of metal detectors at Friday prayers in the city and ensure maintenance of peace at mosques with close...

Yemenis turn Friday prayers to political rallies

Tens of thousands of Yemenis turned Friday prayers into rallies for and against President Ali Abdullah Saleh who is recovering from injuries sustained in...

Police foil attempt to target Friday prayers

Police said they defused a bomb left in a makeshift mosque inside a hospital compound in the country’s biggest city of Karachi, fearing it...

Funeral prayers of two Tajik nationals offered

Funeral prayers of two Tajik nationals who died in Khatorabad were offered in Quetta amid cries. According to media reports, the funeral prayers of the...

Thousands protest in Syria after weekly prayers

Thousands of Syrians demonstrated after weekly prayers on Friday, activists and witnesses said, keeping up a two-month-old campaign of calls to end autocratic rule,...

Prayers, prizes for Pakistan

KARACHI - Thousands of Pakistanis are expected to take part in mass prayer sessions, asking God to guide them to victory against India in the hotly anticipated World Cup cricket semi-final on Wednesday.
On the eve of the match, around 1,200 people congregated in the Jamia Binoria madrassa in Karachi, reciting Koranic verses in its glossy-tiled mosque before loudly praying for victory in the epic encounter. "Our boys (in the cricket team) are highly talented and God-fearing, which

Pakistan prayers, prizes for win over India

KARACHI - Thousands of Pakistanis are expected to take part in mass prayer sessions, asking God to guide them to victory against India in the hotly anticipated World Cup cricket semi-final on Wednesday.
On the eve of the match, around 1,200 people congregated in the Jamia Binoria madrassa in Karachi, reciting Koranic verses in its glossy-tiled mosque before loudly praying for victory in the epic encounter.
"Our boys (in the cricket team) are highly talented and God-fearing,