Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, a Pakistani American Muslim, led a team of U.S. surgeons that implanted a genetically modified pig heart into a human being. It was a medical first that could help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations. About 110,000 Americans are waiting for an organ transplant, and more than 6,000 patients die each […]
President Joe Biden took a major political gamble Tuesday, calling for an end to the Senate’s supermajority rule. The aim is to allow Democrats to override Republican opposition to voting rights reforms, that Biden called crucial to saving U.S. democracy. Biden called the Capitol riot by supporters of Donald Trump last year an “attempted...
The United States set a record Tuesday for the number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus, shattering a previous high set in January 2021. Nationwide over 145,000 people were hospitalized with the virus, according to the US Health and Human Services Department. Cases have been spiking across the country as the omicron variant has led ...
Hashir Faruqi, a British Muslim intellectual, passed away in London on January 11.The 92-year-old journalist was born in January 1930. He was a student leader of the Pakistan movement and migrated to the country after its establishment in 1947. Faruqi founded the influential English-language Muslim news magazine Impact International in London ...
Ahmed Guessoum, Imam of the Cannes mosque in France, denounces the planned closure of the mosque on the French Riviera. This was after France’s interior minister ordered its doors to be shut because of anti-Semitic remarks made there. Imam Guessoum says that the person being accused today is the former director who does not live [&helli...
The International Jurists Union expressed “great” concern Sunday over the human rights situation in Tunisia since late July. Necati Ceylan JAI HAAN, the union’s general secretary, called on Tunisian authorities to respect their international obligations. The organization cited a Dec. 31 incident in which security agents in civilian cloth...
Pakistan has finalized a $63 million education package for Afghan students and plans to establish a university campus in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, a senior official said on Monday. The Ministry of Education and Professional Training package “includes 3,000 scholarships, free training with stipends for 5,000 Afghan nationals. It also...
In August 2021, Afghan taxi driver Hamid Safi found a two-month old boy alone in Kabul airport, amid the chaos of the US troop withdrawal. He and his wife took the baby in and cared for him, as a social media campaign to find the family was under way. Now, seven-month-old Sohail Ahmadi has been […]
Dr. Saleyha Ahsan, who lost her father last year to COVID-19, called for the resignation of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. This was after he held a party and made jokes about it, in violation of the Covid-19 bans in the country. The Mirror newspaper reported that several parties with 40 to 50 people were […]
Three Supreme Court justices in India are launching an investigation into threats by some Hindu extremists against the Muslim minority in the northern state of Uttarakhand. The announcement came after Anjana Prakash, a retired Supreme Court justice, filed a petition. The incendiary remarks were reportedly made at a Hindu Religious Parliament l...
