Tag: Religious

The first day of Eidul Fitr is being celebrated across Pakistan with religious fervour on Wednesday. Millions of Muslims offered Eid prayers in mosques and...

Shab-e-Qadr, which holds special importance for Muslims across the globe, was observed with religious fervour in Karachi.People stayed up all night for extended prayers...

The Anjuman Talba-e-Islam (ATI) held a protest against Tehmina Durrani for writing a book against pirs titled Blasphemy. Protesters chanted slogans against the writer and...

Police in Bangladesh fired rubber bullets and tear gas on Sunday at thousands of Islamic activists demonstrating for the restoration of a religious pledge...

It is the 1960s and a man locally known as Saleem, gets up as usual from his ‘bed’ in Nasir Bagh, and begins to...

Iqbal’s ‘Preface’ to his ‘Lectures on the reconstruction of religious thought in Islam’ is a very compact statement, the point of which is not...

Bahraini police clashed with Shia marchers in a religious festival late on Sunday, less than a week after the Gulf kingdom repealed an emergency...

The Ministry of Religious Affairs has allocated quota to the 700 Hajj Group Organisers (HGOs) in the country and details about the number of...

KARACHI - How the social, cultural and religious situations and manipulations affect one's mindset and direct us to become who we are is a very interesting process, says artist Amber Hammad. "My work is about these catalysts and their outcomes. What we call a global village has absorbed more things from certain western cultures or countries, instead of flow of energy moving both ways," Hammad explains. Certain generations of certain places have been affected strangely to have formed a

KARACHI - All religious parties have expressed their reservations about the house count in Karachi, demanding that process should be held in a transparent manner.
In a meeting with Sindh Census Commissioner Noor Mohammad Leghari, Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi Division Amir Mohammad Hassan Mehanti - while leading a delegation of religious parties - expressed dissatisfaction

LAHORE - Condemning the five-weeks long doctors' strike, eight religious parties on Saturday asked the Punjab government to take punitive steps against doctors.
In a joint meeting held at the Data Darbar, leaders of the Aalmi Tanzeem-e-Ahle Sunnat, Sunni Ulema Pakistan, Pakistan Muslim Front, Tehreek-e-Namoos-e-Risalat, Mashaikh Ahle Sunnat Pakistan, Anjuman Aashqan-e-Rasool, Markazi Milad Committee and Aalmi Jamaat-e-Ahle Sunnat demanded the immediate removal of doctors from

PARIS - The leaders of France's six main religions warned the government on Wednesday against a planned debate on Islam they say could stigmatise Muslims and fuel prejudice as the country nears national elections next year.
Weighing in on an issue that is tearing apart President Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling UMP party, the Conference of French Religious Leaders said the discussion about respect for France's secular system could only spread confusion at a turbulent time.
The UMP

LAHORE - The Jamaat e Islami (JI) and Tehreek-e Hurmat-e-Rasool(THR) took out separate rallies in the city on Wednesday to condemn the desecration of the Holy Quran by an American pastor. The JI organized its rally at Wahdat Road Park where hundreds of men, women and children turned up to condemn the sacrilegious act. The participants of the rally marched from Wahdat Road Park up to Muslim Town Mor. They were carrying placards condemning the devilish pastor's blasphemous act. Holding

LAHORE - The Jamaat-e-Ahle Sunnat Pakistan (JAP) will hold countrywide protests on Friday, March 25, to protest against the desecration of the Holy Quran in Florida, US. JAP Secretary General Riaz Shah called an emergency meeting of more than 500 clerics who will issue decrees which will be announced outside the Lahore Press Club on March 25. He said that JAP will also hold protests against Quran's desecration in the US.

LAHORE - Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), a banned religious outfit, offered condolences over the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and has offered to help the Japanese government in rehabilitation of victims. In a letter written to the Japanese prime minister, JUD Ameer Hafiz Saeed reiterated that JUD was a welfare organization and had enough experience to tackle floods and calamities.
He wrote, "We showed this skill inside and outside our country. With such an experienced background, we

ISLAMABAD - The federal government has appointed the renowned religious scholar Professor Mufti Munib ur Rehman as a member of the Religious Board for Modarabas (Islamic financial institutions) with immediate effect. His appointment has been made in pursuance of Section 9 of the 1980 Modaraba Companies and Modaraba (Floatation and Control) Ordinance. This position was left vacant after Imran Ahsan Nyazee's resignation. Mufti Munib will serve in the remaining term.
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LAHORE - Several civil society activists including Salmaan Taseer's son and daughter gathered outside Lahore Press Club on Thursday to protest against Bhatti's assassination. The protest was held by different groups at separate spots but they later converged into one and walked till The Mall.
The Christian community held a prayer led by Bishop Victor Pal which was attended by several Christians including Christian Democratic Alliance. At the protest the Centre for Human Rights