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The Jihad in Islam...
Syed Karar Hashmi
(Srinagar)Islam is universal in outlook and speaks for humanity as a whole.It has no chosen race or people, nor does it give preferences to anyone except in terms of virtue and uprightness of character.
Whoever sees an evil let him change it with force, if he cannot then with his tongue and he cannot let him with his heart and this is undoubtedly, the weakest faith. Islam according to Prof.Toynbee is the religion which does not recognize the geographical barriers or the bars of colour, sects, caste etc.
Ayatollah Khomeini’s Kashmir connection...
Syed Ali Safvi
( Kashmir )
After living in exile in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf for more than a decade, Ayatollah Rohullah Khomeini was expelled from Iraq by Saddam Hussain in October 1978 at the request of Iran’s tyrant ruler Reza Shah Pahlavi, according to ‘Saddam Hussain, A Political Biography’. During this time, Kashmir’s noted religious cleric Ayatollah Aga Syed Yusuf dispatched a letter to Ayatollah Khomeini, asking him to visit Kashmir. Khomeini’s reply came as a pleasant surprise and...
Special attention to presence of women in mosques is the mai...
( Iran )
Tehran:The president of the Center of Supervision on Mosques Affairs emphasised on paying special attention to role of women and preparing required facilities for them in mosques. Referring the annual slogan and strategy of Tehran’s mosques in current year, the president of the Center of Supervision on Mosques Affairs emphasised on the significant role of women in mosques. ” Some parts of mosques activities are focused on preparing the houses of God to welcome Ramadan holy month. Attention...
Iran offers Pakistan to join Chabahar Port deal...
( Pakistan )
Islamabad:A day after Pakistan said it was considering linking Gwadar with Chabahar harbour, Iran said the former could join the agreement.
On Monday, India, Iran and Afghanistan signed a three-way transit accord as New Delhi and Tehran inked an agreement worth $500 million to develop the Chabahar port.
“[The] Chabahar agreement is not limited to three countries. Doors are always open for Pakistan and other regional nations to join the deal,” said Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan Mehdi Honardost.
The...
Turkey Arming Al Nusra terrorists in Syria Russia...
( Russia )
Moscow:Russia’s Defense Ministry says the Turkish government continues to supply al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front terrorists fighting in Syria with weapons in a bid to undermine the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed Takfiri militants. “The flow of heavy-duty trucks with weapons and ammunition, which cross the Turkish-Syrian border every day, does not stop from Turkey,” Sergei Rudskoy, the head of Russia’s General Staff’s main operations command, said at a...
Let Muslims lead fight on terror:Ayatollah Khamenei in a Mee...
( Iran )
Tehran:Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in a meeting on Monday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, referred to the very long and historical background of cultural, economic and national communications between Iran and India, saying there are extensive grounds for cooperation between the two countries. Ayatollah Khamenei added:”The Islamic Republic of Iran welcomes expansion of relations with India, which is one of the emerging and progressive economies in...
Three policemen shot dead by Militants in Kashmir...
( Kashmir )
Militants on Monday carried out two strikes within as many hours in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, killing three policemen, including an officer, and decamping with service rifle of one of the slain cops. In the first strike, militants shot dead two policemen in Zadibal area of Srinagar at around 10:45 AM. Militants on Monday carried out two strikes within as many hours in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, killing three policemen, including an officer, and decamping with service. The...
Blasts kill at least 120 in western Syria...
( Syria )
Damascus:Seven bomb explosions have rocked the coastal cities of Tartous and Jableh in western Syria, leaving at least 121 people dead, a London-based monitor says. In Jableh, the attacks took the lives of at least 73 people and left scores of others injured on Monday morning, the Syrian Observatory for Human rights said. At least 48 people were killed in Tartous and many others injured in almost simultaneous bombings. According to the report, one of the explosions occurred near a hospital...
Some regional governments betraying Muslims:Imam Khamanei in...
( Iran )
Tehran:Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in a meeting on Wednesday with participants in the 33rd round of International Quran Competitions, referred to faith in God and ex-communication with diabolism as the main and real fundamental of authority and might. Stressing that the United States is the “Great Devil” and “Great Satan”, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said: “Today, the most important task [assigned] to scholars, intellectuals and elites is...
ISIS executes 25 people in Iraq’s Mosul using nitric acid...
( Iraq )
Baghdad:The Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has tortured and executed 25 people by nitric acid in Iraq’s embattled northern city of Mosul in Nineveh Province. The Arabic-language al-Sumaria news website quoted an informed source as saying that the terrorists killed the people for cooperating with and spying for the Iraqi security forces. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Daesh terrorists tied the people with rope and put them in a large basin containing nitric acid. The source...