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Kashmir Conclave: Top Opp leaders arriving in Kashmir to inv...

( India )

Srinagar:The top leaders of opposition parties in the country are “very soon” coming to Kashmir to invite political leaders, including separatists and civil society groups, for the proposed Kashmir Conclave being held in New Delhi.
CPI (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury told that the leaders of the opposition parties are meetingon Friday to discuss the leaders and the future roadmap of the conclave. Yechury told that the leaders who arriving in the Valley to extend invitations include...

Dear youth, prepare yourselves for the era of Imam Mahdi: Ay...

( Iran )

Tehran:Immense oppression that prevails throughout the world, the unjust domination, the hounding of nations around the globe; excessive bloodshed, the disregard of the most noble and the most beloved of human values, this is the treachery that the global supercilious front presents to mankind day after day. Immense immorality, exploitation and oppression naturally strikes at one – who does not have a spring of hope to cling onto – with hopelessness. This is how younger generations in...

Islam far from terrorist attacks:Saudi Cleric...

( Saudi Arabia )

Jeddah:Saudi professor stressed holy religions have never invited anyone to support terrorism stressing that any violence against lives and properties of the people are counted as a crime. A’aref al-Awni, university professor from Saudi Arabia, on the sideline of global peace conference in Al Azhar University, Egypt, slammed terrorist attacks justified under the name of religion and stressed that no religion invites people to support terrorism, reported (TNA).
 
He said,” Criminals...

Hezbollah sides with Resistance till full Liberation of Pale...

( Lebanon )

Brirut:A top official of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said the movement stands by the resistance that sticks to the goal of liberating the entire Palestine unconditionally. Hezbollah Resistance Movement’s second-in-command, Sheikh Naim Qassem, said the Lebanese group stays apart from any so-called resistance movement that makes arrangements for compromise with the Israeli regime. “We dissociate from the resistance (groups) that divide Palestine into two states. We dissociate from the resistance...

UNESCO termed Israel as Occupying Power Trying to Alter Al-Q...

( Geneva )

Geneva:UNESCO has passed a resolution that criticizes Israeli regime’s actions in occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. The resolution, which declares Israeli regime’s sovereignty over al-Quds as “null and void”, was backed by 22 countries voting in favor, a UNESCO spokesman said on Tuesday. The United States, Germany, Italy and seven other board members voted against the resolution. The resolution which also slams Israeli regime’s excavations in East al-Quds and...

Donald Trump to visit Saudi Arabia and Israel...

( US )

Washington:The White House has announced US President Donald Trump’s travel plans to Saudi Arabia, followed by Israel and the Vatican this month with the aim to “combat extremism, terrorism and violence.” Trump will take his first foreign trip late May, Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement issued on Thursday. The trip “will begin to construct a new foundation of cooperation and support with our Muslim allies to combat extremism, terrorism and violence and to embrace a more...

Indian Govt Bans 22 Social Media Sites to Calm Tensions in K...

( Jammu and Kashmir )

SRINAGAR: Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have banned 22 social media sites in an effort to calm tensions in the disputed region after videos depicting the alleged abuse of Kashmiris by Indian forces fueled protests. But the sites remained online Thursday as the local telecom company struggled to block them.
The government said Wednesday that the one-month ban was necessary for public safety because social media were being “misused by anti-national and anti-social elements.” “It’s...

Famous Indonesian Quran reciter passes away live on air...

( Indonesia )

Jakarta:Prominent Indonesian Quran reciter Sheikh Ja’far Abdulrahman has passed away while reciting verses from Islam’s most revered book during an official ceremony. Abdulrahman was reciting verses from Surah al-Mulk in the presence of Indonesia’s Minister of Social Affairs Khofifah Indar Parawansa, when he seemingly suffered a fatal cardiac arrest and could not complete the recitation. He was later taken away by medics on a stretcher. Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population....

Pakistani people, gov’t consider Iran most significant cou...

( Iran )

Tehran:Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said common beliefs and values of Tehran and Islamabad have made Islamic Republic of Iran the most important country in the eyes of the Pakistani people and government. In a meeting with the Leader of Friday prayer Qom, Head of Iran’s Seminary Schools & Vice Chancellor of Al Mustafa International University Ayatollah Ali Reza Arafi late on Friday, he added that Iran-Pakistan ties have always been brotherly and friendly and...

Increasing Domestic violence & Dowry system in Kashmir ...

( Jammu and Kashmir )

Srinagar: Expressing her grief and sorrow on killing of a young lady namely Fahmeed who was poisoned by her in law , Chairperson of Kashmir Tehreek-e-Khawateen Anjum Zamrooda Habib strongly condemned the domestic violence against women in Kashmir.According to the sources she was harassed and abused mentally and physically many a times by her in-laws. In a statement to Wilayat Times, Zamrooda Habib said that it is shocking that women are being killed for dowry which is an un-Islamic and inhuman act,...