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SHAFAQNA –If Yemen remains synonymous with unrest and violence thanks to the military deluge Saudi Arabia has insisted on drowning the impoverished nation under since late March 2015, Terror had yet to claim its fill of blood. Terror as it were never could assert its warped religious rationale onto Yemen – not beyond a few clusters, not to the point where Terror could ever present any real existential threat to the Yemeni Republic. This was then … today is a brand new day! Today, Saudi Arabia is actively working to change that reality! Saudi Arabia I would add, absolutely needs for Terror to become Yemen’s newest existential threat to counteract that which is now threatening its own. For al...

SHAFAQNA –A suicide bomber reportedly targeted a wedding ceremony in the city of Gaziantep in southe Turkey near the border with Syria on Saturday night. The local goveor said it was carried out by “terrorist organizations.” Turkish national broadcaster NTV confirmed the news, saying a “terrorist attack” had targeted a wedding celebration. Gaziantep’teki hain saldırıda çok sayıda can kaybı ve yaralı var. Teröre, teröriste ve destekçisine lanet olsun pic.twitter.com/qzOFRxZN8o — Hasan Cücük (@HasanCucuk) August 20, 2016 Gaziantep Goveor Ali Yerlikaya has released a statement saying the blast was an attack by “terrorist organizations,” according to Turkish Haberturk news outlet. Infam...

SHAFAQNA –Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi strongly condemned terrorist blasts early this moing in two Turkish cities of Van and Elazig. “Enemies with their dirty hands have intensified their desperate efforts to create insecurity and instability in the region, especially in Islamic countries,” Ghasemi said, calling upon the watchful consciences in the inteational community, especially those in the region, to take a swift action to prevent and stop such savage slaughters. Undoubtedly, he stressed, these inhumane terrorist acts can never help terrorists reach objectives, but establish solidarity among more people in the region to fight these barbaric acts. “As we have repeate...

SHAFAQNA –Iran’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned a Monday terrorist attack that left scores of civilians dead at a hospital in Pakistan’s southweste city of Quetta. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Tuesday expressed condolences to the Pakistani govement and nation on the fatal suicide bombing that killed at least 70 people and wounded more than 100 others, mainly lawyers and joualists. He also called for concerted action by the inteational community to put an end to such barbaric killings. Qassemi attributed a wave of violence and acts of terrorism in the region to the soft approach in dealing with extremism and Takfiri ter...

SHAFAQNA –Chief Minister of Balochistan Sanaullah Zehri on Tuesday paid a visit to civil hospital and met with the victims of Quetta blast. According to details, the minister inspected the bomb site and directed the investigation officers to launch complete probe into the explosion that killed 71 people and injured more than hundred. CM Balochistan said that militants would not be left free in the country as anti-terrorism operation would be continued. He said that there is no place for state’s enemies in the country while combat operation would be ta...

SHAFAQNA –Death toll from the Quetta attack reached 72 as two more people succumbed to their wounds on Tuesday. Earlier today, 27 injured of the Quetta Attack were brought to a Pakistan Air Force base in Karachi in a C130 aircraft. They have been admitted at a private hospital at Stadium Road for further medical treatment. According to hospital sources six of the victims are in critical condition. At least 70 people were killed and as many as 112 people injured when a powerful explosion ripped through Quetta’s Civil Hospital on Monday. The explosion took place when Balochistan Bar Association President Bilal Kasi’s body was bei...

SHAFAQNA –A Muslim mixedmartial arts fighter – who trains boxing champ Amir Khan – has slammed British Islamic extremists as “uneducated monkeys” in a heated social media rant. Tam Khan has urged all Muslims living in Britain to “respect” the country’s culture and traditions – and says anyone who doesn’t should be thrown out. Tam Khan, pictured with boxing world champion Amir Khan, has told Muslims to ‘stop becoming militants and extremists’ The MMA fighter tued entrepreneur has waed that fellow Muslims must intervene “We need to fix this epidemic of inbreds from doing these despicable crimes,” hetold his 6,000 Facebook followers. “Sorry I don’t care if you think I’m being harsh. “Isla...

SHAFAQNA –A halal supermarket in a Paris suburb has been told by local authorities it must start selling alcohol and pork or else it will be shut down. Good Price discount mini-market in Colombes has been told by the local housing authority, from which it rents its premises, that it has not followed the conditions on the lease that stipulate that the shop must act as a “general food store.” The authority argues that all members of the local community are not being served properly if there are no alcohol or pork products in the Good Price store, which is run as a franchise and which last year replaced another small supermarket. “The mayor of Colombes, Nicole Goueta, went there herself and as...

SHAFAQNA- Islam, Dialogue and Civil SocietybySayyid Mohammad Khatami (c) Mohammad Khatami, 2000 Published by:The Foundation for the Revival of Islamic Heritage, Karachi, PakistanIn Co-Operation withThe Cultural Centre of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Karachi Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA –Syria is demanding the UN take action after it says French war planes killed more than 120 civilians during airstrikes on Tuesday near the Turkish-Syrian border. The deaths came just a day after US air assaults killed a further 20 people in Manbij. The Syrian Foreign Ministry sent letters to the UN secretary general and to the president of the UN Security Council, which at present is Japan. Damascus wants the organization to look into atrocities committed by France, which is a member of the US-led inteational coalition, after it targeted the village of Toukhan Al-Kubra, located near the Turkish-Syrian border and the city of Manbij. “The French unjust aggression claimed the lives ...

SHAFAQNA –The Saudi Arabia-led coalition has unlawfully hit civilian economic structures in Yemen which may amount to war crimes, says Human Rights Watch. The attacks killed 130 people and 171 more were hurt, according to the latest HRW report. The group urges Saudi Arabia to agree to independent inteational inquiry into the attacks and says the country should be suspended from membership on the UN Human Rights Council. The 59-page report titled ‘Bombing Businesses: Saudi Coalition Airstrikes on Yemen’s Civilian Economic Structures’ studies in detail 17 airstrikes on 13 civilian economic sites: factories, warehouses, a farm and two power facilities. These facilities employed some 2,500 peopl...

SHAFAQNA – If not for the presence of a British joualist in Lille – northe French city – the world might have missed a grand European … or should I say Weste display of sickening malice and depraved arrogance. A news report in The Independent read this Thursday: “England fans have been accused of making a seven-year-old boy drink “a whole beer in exchange for some coins” in the Frenchtown of Lille ahead of Thursday’s Euro 2016 match against Wales. The incident was witnessed by Michael Stothard, the Paris correspondent for the Financial Times, who claimed that a group of England fans would only give the young boy some money if he downed a beer in front of them. Mr Stothard posted a picture o...

FSA/8d29000/8d296008d29616a.tif SHAFAQNA –In September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, marking the begiing of World War II. As part of Germany’s nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union, easte Poland was occupied and aexed by the USSR.Approximately 1.25 million Poles were deported to various parts of the Soviet Union, including half a million “socially dangerous” Poles who were packed into trains and shipped to labor camps in Kazakhstan and Siberia. Thousands died of exhaustion, disease and malnutrition.When Germany reneged on its pact and invaded the Soviet Union less than two years later, the Soviets were compelled to side with the Allies. An agreement was signed to reestablish the Pol...

SHAFAQNA –Beyond the paradox of celebrating a bygone Islamic civilisation at the height of Islamophobia in the United States. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has just opened a magnificent exhibition of Islamic art of the Seljuqid period. That sentence would or should probably cause a double-take for right at the artistic and intellectual heartland of this beleaguered empire, Americans are celebrating one of the highest summits of Islamic civilisation at a time when US Muslims are subject to one of the ugliest phases of Islamophobia in their recent history. Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs (April 27 to July 24, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Iris and B Gerald Cantor Exh...

SHAFAQNA –A three-day program is scheduled to be organized in Quetta, Pakistan to celebrate the birth aiversary of Imam Ali (AS). Shia Muslims all over the Islamic country are getting ready to celebrate the auspicious occasion on the 13th of Rajab month. The ceremonies in Quetta will start on April 20. They will be attended by poets and eulogists from Pakistan and other countries. The Central Razaviya Mosque, Punjabis Husseiniya and Golestan Hall will host the ceremonies after the evening prayers for three nights. Quran recitation, eulogy recitation and poetry reading in Persian and Urdu will be among the programs of the sessions. Shia Muslims in Pakistan are estimated to make up some 20 pe...

SHAFAQNA –Human Rights Watch has called on Turkey to stop firing on Syrian civilians fleeing fighting and allow them to cross the Turkish border. The UN Refugee Agency asked Ankara to provide data on possible refugee deaths in shelling on the Syrian border. “As civilians flee ISIS fighters, Turkey is responding with live ammunition instead of compassion,” Gerry Simpson, senior refugee researcher at HRW, said in a statement. “The whole world is talking about fighting ISIS, and yet those most at risk of becoming victims of its horrific abuses are trapped on the wrong side of a concrete wall,” he added. A new wave of refugees has fled northe Syria for the Turkish border after Islamic State (IS,...

SHAFAQNA –TheMichigan chapter of an American Islamic civil rights group raised some $150,000 Sunday toward its efforts to safeguard the rights of Muslims in the state. The fundraising comes as Muslims face increased scrutiny and terrorism backlash, said CAIR-MI executive director Dawud Walid. At the same time, the group touted its successes in making Michigan more friendly toward Muslims. “Since the presidential campaign season began, there has been a sharp increase in Islamophobia in the public discourse,” Walid said to the crowd gathered for the 16th aual fundraising dier. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s comments on suspending the federal govement’s resettlement of Syrian refugees in Michigan...

SHAFAQNA-Tech giant Google collaborated with Al-Jazeera to develop an interactive online tool to encourage defections during the Syrian civil war, according to emails in WikiLeaks’ archive of Hillary Clinton’s emails. “Please keep close hold, but my team is plaing to launch a tool on Sunday that will publicly track and map the defections in Syria and which parts of the govement they are coming from,” wrote Jared Cohen, the founder and director of Google Ideas, of the proposed online tool in a July 25, 2012 email sent to Jacob J. Sullivan, deputy secretary of state under Clinton. “Our logic behind this is that while many people are tracking the atrocities, nobody is visually representing and...

SHAFAQNA –65 people were killedand 314injured in a blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, in Iqbal Town area of Lahore. The sound of theblast washeard around 6:30 pm today, with rescue teams dispatched to the site.These include 23 ambulances and rescue vehicles. According to reports the blast took place a few metres away from the children’s swings.The authorities escorted people out of the park, which is one of the busiest recreational spotsin the area. The blast occurred near Gate Number 1of the park. Eyewitnesses claim it was a suicide attack. “The park had a lot of rush due to Sunday holiday and Easter,” an eyewitness said. Security persoel have surrounded the area and launched a search operatio...

SHAFAQNA – The Prophet of Islam (PBUH) always used to eat with his guests and if there was no guest, invited Imam Ali (AS) to eat together. The Prophet (PBUH) considered friendly and generous reception of guests as a sign of belief and emphasized on looking after guests. It is narrated from the Prophet (PBUH) who said: whoever believes in God and the Day of Judgment must take care of his/her guests [1]. It is reported that when Imam Ali (AS) did not have guests for a few days, he used to feel sad. One day when Imam Ali (AS) was sad, someone asked Imam (AS) about the reason, and he replied: Because it is now seven days since a guest came to us [2]. [1] Kafi, Vol. 6, page 285, Hadith 1.[2] M...