Pakistan’s opposition parties believe that any general elections under the enforced emergency rule will be nothing short of a “farce,” hinting at boycott. “Without lifting the state of emergency and restoring the constitution, elections will be a farce and an attempt to hoodwink the international community,” Qazi Hussain Ahmad, the President of the powerful six-party religious alliance, Muttehida Majlis-e-Amal, reportedly said.

Qazi, who was placed ...

More than 3,000 Muslims gathered earlier this week in Milan’s Palalido stadium to send a message of love and fraternity to the wider society. “We sent reassurances to fellow Italians that Islam is a religion of love,” Mostafa El-Beltaguei, the director of the human resources department at Islamic Relief ‘s Italy chapter, reportedly said.

The “Call for Love” gala brought together up to 3,000 people, who prayed for peace, sang for fraternity and...

Egyptian Coptic business tycoon Naguib Sawiris was in firing line on November 10, after unveiling plans to launch two satellite channels to confront the “growing Islamisation” of Egyptian society amid Muslim threats to boycott his products, reports IslamOnline.net.

“Sawiris is sparking off a sectarian sedition on satellite channels,” Gamal Qotb, the former head of the Fatwa Department at Al-Azhar, said, adding, “His planned channels will tr...

The year 2007 has proved the deadliest for the US forces in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion. An American soldier died, on November 11, of wounds he sustained in an earlier battle with Taliban fighters, according to icasualities.org, an independent website that monitors US military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. This brought to 109 the American military toll this year.

Six soldiers were killed on November 9, in an ambush by Taliban in the biggest loss of US life in Afghanist...