KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – Muslims in Uganda have protested against discrimination and exclusion from government positions by getting their MPs to write to the nation’s president. Fifty Muslim MPs in the Uganda Muslims Parliamentary Caucus (UMPC) wrote to the President Yoweri Museveni through Speaker Annet Among, in order to complain about t...
LONDON (AA) – Mohammed Hanif, a British-Pakistani writer, has announced his withdrawal from a conference in Germany after Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian writer and poet, was disinvited. The conference is being organized by the Goethe Institute and is titled Beyond the Lone Offender – Dynamics of the Global Right. It will take place in H...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A Bangladeshi lawyer reportedly posted a derogatory social media comment about the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) on Wednesday. The Facebook post went viral on social media amid outrage in the South Asian Muslim-majority nation against insulting comments about the prophet from two officials of India’s ruling B...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Pakistan’s newly-appointed foreign minister on his first official visit to Tehran on Tuesday held wide-ranging talks with his Iranian counterpart to discuss bilateral and regional issues. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s two-day visit to Iran is the first by a top-ranked Pakistani official since the formation of a new g...
PARIS (AA) – As France began the withdrawal of its forces from Mali, the French military announced the arrest of a senior Daesh leader on Wednesday. Oumeya Ould Albakaye, a senior leader of the Daesh was captured during an operation between June 11-12 involving air and ground units of the Barkhane force, according to a […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The general secretary of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) spoke by phone on Sunday June 12 with Pakistan’s foreign minister on the rising tide of Islamophobia in India, particularly the recent insulting remarks made by two spokespersons for India’s ruling party against Islam’s Prophet Muhammad ...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Two Yemeni soldiers were killed and four others injured by Houthi shelling, according to the army on Sunday. A military statement said it documented 91 Houthi violations of a UN-brokered truce in the provinces of al-Hudaydah, Taiz, Ad-Dali, Hajjah and Marib. “These violations resulted in the death of two army soldiers...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel placed early warning radar systems in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain to detect “missile threats” from Iran, according to local media on Friday. The radar systems worked just a few months ago when Iran tried to attack Israel with drones above Iraqi airspace, Israeli Channel 12 reported. The ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – Germany and Pakistan on Tuesday agreed to work together to avert a looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Addressing a joint press conference in the capital Islamabad after a delegation level meeting, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari were of the view ...
Kuwait City, Kuwait – (AFP): Anger in the Middle East spread Monday over comments made by an official of India’s ruling party about the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him), with various countries summoning New Delhi’s envoy and a Kuwaiti supermarket removing Indian products. The United Arab Emirates became the latest country...