Govt not serious about Communal Violence Bill: Muslim outfits

Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 20:57

Prominent Muslim organisations criticised Centre for not showing full willingness for the passage of the bill to prevent communal violence in the recently-concluded Winter session of the Parliament.

Sectarian clashes kill at least 40 in Yemen

Last Updated: Friday, December 13, 2013, 04:51

Ultraconservative Sunni Muslim militants and rebels belonging to a branch of Shiite Islam battled each other in northern Yemen.

Bangladeshi ministers escape bomb attacks

Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 20:20

Bangladeshi minister had a narrow escape when assailants hurled crude bombs at his vehicle on Monday while another`s house was attacked amid widespread political violence ahead of general elections.

Ehsaan Noorani off to Mecca

Last Updated: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 16:02

Singer-musician Ehsaan Noorani has embarked on a religious journey to Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.

Gaddafi`s son demands trial in Zintan, not Tripoli

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 11:55

Saif al-Islam, the second son of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has demanded he be tried in the western city of Zintan rather than capital Tripoli.

JUI pledges support to Imran`s NATO supplies blockade call

Last Updated: Monday, November 4, 2013, 11:05

The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief stressed that there is a need to assess the situation following the killing of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud in drone attack carried out by the CIA.

US `an Islamic country`

Last Updated: Saturday, November 2, 2013, 16:36

A member of the US Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council has posted a controversial tweet defining America as an "Islamic country".

Pakistani men convicted of spying seek leniency

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 22:56

Two Pakistani men convicted of spying have petitioned a court to include the time they spent in detention in their prison term.

Ban vs NZ, 1st ODI: Mushfiqur, Naeem lift Bangladesh to 265

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 19:59

Mushfiqur Rahim and Naeem Islam hit half-centuries as Bangladesh piled up 265 all out in their first one-day international against New Zealand in Dhaka on Tuesday.

Putin says outside forces using radical Islam to `weaken Russia`

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 10:06

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accused foreign "forces" of using radical Islam to sow discord in Russia, after a Muslim suicide bomber killed six on a bus in southern Russia.

Syria crisis: Clerics allow starving Syrians to eat cats, dogs

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 00:23

The religious clerics in the war-torn country’s capital, Damascus, have issued a ruling (fatwa) on the occasion of Eid al-Adha permitting the Syrians to eat cats, dogs and donkeys which is otherwise considered unfit for human consumption in Islam.

Malala Yousafzai talks peace as Taliban vows to attack her again

Last Updated: Monday, October 7, 2013, 18:54

Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai who was a year back shot at on her school bus after angering the Taliban with her brave and outspoken pleas for girls to be educated, on Monday while describing those horrific moments during an interview said that discussions with the Taliban were needed to achieve peace.