Tag: Islamic

Af-Pak impasse

Access to education for girls, protection of women’s rights, and an ethnically inclusive government are nowhere in sight in Afghanistan.

September 2, 2022

Voice of the cleric

Women were not allowed to attend, unlike in present-day Iran and also unlike the last Loya Jirga that was held under the previous US-led government.

July 7, 2022

Israel in flux

The larger-than-life personality of Mr Netanyahu and an attempt to put on the backburner the fundamental question of Israeli-Palestinian relations.

July 6, 2022

Kabul to remove all photos of women from billboards

Owners of beauty salons in Kabul criticized the decision of the Islamic Emirate

December 22, 2021

20 years later

It is time to reflect on the gains that accrued in terms of ensuring global security and what needs to be done to protect them, as well as the mistakes made by the US-led West’s intervention in Afghanistan

September 10, 2021

New govt to uphold Islamic rules and Sharia law: Akhundzada

"The Islamic Emirate will take serious and effective steps towards protecting human rights, the rights of minorities as well as the rights of the underprivileged groups within the framework of the demands of the sacred religion of Islam," reads the statement.

September 8, 2021

Two accuse prominent Islamic scholar of sexual attack

Two French women have accused Swiss-born renowned Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of sexually assaulting them a few years back, a media report said. This comes amid the ongoing outpouring by women reporting episodes of sexual harassment and naming their aggressors. French activist and author Henda Ayari filed a police complaint a week back accusing Ramadan,...

October 30, 2017

‘Kashmiri stone-pelters part of pan-Islamic movement’

Kashmiri stone pelters are part of "global terrorism" and a larger "pan-Islamic intifada fundamentalist movement", a frontal organisation of displaced Kashmiri Pandits said here today. Ashwani Chrungoo, president, Panun Kashmir told reporters that while stone pelting was not new in Kashmir (its origin dating back to 1931), stone pelters in contemporary times are part of...

April 29, 2017

Islamic scholars told to remove misgivings about Islam in world

Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has impressed upon Islamic scholars to spread the "true message and picture of Islam in the world" so that the misgivings or misperceptions about Muslims are removed. Interacting with a group of Islamic scholars from Malaysia, who called on her at Srinagar on Wednesday, the chief minister said the greatest responsibility of...

March 22, 2017