New Delhi, India – AFP Bulldozers have knocked down a centuries-old mosque in India’s capital, a member of the building’s managing committee said Thursday, during a demolition drive to remove “illegal” structures from a forest reserve. The demolition comes at a sensitive time in India with nationalist activists em...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) expressed “grave worry” Tuesday at the opening of a Hindu temple on top of the demolished Babri Mosque in the Indian city of Ayodhya. “In line with the OIC position expressed by the Council of Foreign Ministers in its previous sessions, the General S...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the Ram temple built at the site of the demolished 16th-century Babri Mosque in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya. Modi arrived in Ayodhya to participate in the consecration ceremony called “Pran Pratishtha,” also attended by 8,000 guests, including senior offic...
Ayodhya, India — AFP While for many Hindus in India, the opening of a grand new temple this month was a long-held ambition that materialized, for India’s over 200 million Muslims like Mohammed Shahid, the day will evoke only blood-soaked memories. The shrine in Ayodhya has been built on the ground where an ancient mosque […]
