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By Ahmed Kazmi for TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: A prominent Shia leader from Pakistan Allama Abbas Komeili has urged Deoband Ulema to use their influence in stopping sectarian killings in his country. He said that the religious leaders from Deobandi school of thought can help in getting the on-going sectarian killings stopped by appealing their counterparts across the border. The Pakistani Shia leader was talking to a group of journalists here on Wednesday.

By TCN News, Dammam, Saudi Arabia: India Fraternity Forum, organized public campaign ‘Seerathunnabi’ delivering message of Prophet Mohammed(pbuh) across Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. As part of the campaign the programs took place in Hafar Al Batin, Dammam, Khobar, Al-Hasa and Jubail.

By TCN News, Al Khobar (Saudi Arabia): A colorful event ‘Family Fest 2015’ (Festival for Friendship) was organized by the India Fraternity Forum (IFF) comprising diverse fun filled programmes, competitions and events for kids and ladies in addition to Galleries and displays.

By IANS, Dhaka: Gen. Mir Shawkat Ali, a Pakistan Army officer who switched sides to fight Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971, has died here at the age of 72.

By TCN News, Boston (USA): Alliance for Justice and Accountability (AJA), an umbrella coalition of progressive organizations across...

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By Ravi Nitesh, At a time, when we are witnessing difficult times for communal harmony and situation of conflict between India and Pakistan, at a time when few advocate and propagate hatred in the name of religion and nationality, there still are examples that are shining like a ray of hope.

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By TCN News, Kuwait: The Indo–Kuwait Friendship Society (IKFS), known for its activities in human rights and finding solutions for various problems of NRIs abroad,...

By IANS, Bangalore: Abu Dhabi-based Marib Holdings LLC plans to build a "space city" in Chikkaballapur district, about 90 km from here, at an investment of Rs.18,400 crore ($4 billion), the company said Sunday. The project, which received in-principle approval of the state government Saturday, includes setting up of an entertainment theme park on the lines of Disneyland in an integrated recreation, business and residential township spread over 1,600 acres of land.

“Let them arrest me, I am ready to get arrested” By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Srinagar: Syed Ali Shah Geelani, separatist leader and Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, on Thursday dismissed government’s accusation that Pakistani flags were waived during his welcome rally on Wednesday and said “Green color symbolizes Islam and not Pakistan.”

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By IANS/AKI, Rome : After hearing about the death of his former friend Muammar Gaddafi, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi used a Latin phrase to say that everything is transitory.

TCN News Aligarh: Al Shareef Mustafa Fouad Shafaee, who belongs to the family of the Prophet of Islam, Hazrat Mohammad Mustafa (Peace Be...

By Asghar Ali Engineer, Dr.Raziuddin Aquil has recently published a book entitled Sufism-Culture and Politics: Afghans and Islam in Medieval India. The first part of the book deals more with Sultanate period, especially Lodhis and Sher Shah Suri. The author feels that historians of medieval period and specially those of JNU and Aligarh school have concentrated on Mughal India and have generally neglected Sultanate period and have not done justice to rule of Shershah Suri. So he mainly deals with this period. He calls this as ‘Mughal centrism’.

Islamabad : Almost 300 children were forced to have sex in front of mobile phone cameras, said a Pakistani daily which added that...

By Akib Khan, TwoCircles.net, The streets in Kabul and whole Afghanistan are filled with posters of Presidential and provincial candidates. Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan is encouraging people to come forward and vote in elections which will be held on 5th April 2014. This election is the third presidential poll since the fall of the Taliban.

By TCN News, Doha: Qatar India Fraternity Forum helped an Indian worker come back to home, who was cheated by a known person on the pretext of offering him a job in Gulf.

By Uzair Hasan Rizvi, The annual ritual of Arbaeen – it falls on December 12 this year – has commenced. Young and old, men and women, more than 20 million of them clad in black are marching towards the city of Karbala, south-west of Baghdad in Iraq. Chants of Labbaik Ya Husain (being at the service of Husain, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed) rent the air.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Some Muslim intellectuals of West Bengal have jointly sent a letter to Bangladesh Prime Minister Shaikh Hasina urging her not to send to India a controversial Bangladesh writer – who is known for his blasphemous writings – as Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata, India because such appointment will be against the public interest and against the interest of Government of Bangladesh.

By IANS, Tehran: Iran has agreed upon building some oil reservoirs and refineries in Venezuela, Xinhua reported Monday.

By IANS, Islamabad: Renowned Pakistani singer Mehnaz Begum died Saturday after a long illness. She was 55, state-run Radio Pakistan reported.

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A book review that seeks to decipher two pilgrimages on the same path separated by a century By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net, Spirituality is what separates humans from other living beings. I have been a seeker for the last few years. I have read a number of books, visited graves of saints, made ablutions at Haridwar and toured the ghats of Banaras; I have sat in the qawwali mehfils and even seen dervishes dance.

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: Unmoved by freezing temperatures, devotees in the city flocked to offer special prayers on the occasion of...

By TCN News, Kuwait: Long serving community advisor of KKMCC and K I C Dr Ghalib Al-Mashoor was re-elected as the president of the Indo-Kuwait Friendship Society (IKFS) for a second time for the 2015--2017 term. Dr Ghalib Al-Mashoor, founding chairman of IKFS, who served as president since inception, will have as his first vice president Advocate Sayid Mohamed Nizar will be the first vice president while A K S Abdul Nazar was re-elected as the general secretary of the IKFS at the elections of office-bearers held at the Play Club pavilion in Salmiya last Friday, a release from IKFS said here.

By M Reyaz, twoCircles.net, New Delhi: A very popular Pashto proverb says, “Khpal watan pa har cha Kashmir we (One’s motherland is dearer to everybody like Kashmir.” Kashmir and Afghanistan has natural connections, though now divided by man-made-boundaries.

By Luqman for TwoCircles.net We hastily walked across the street adjoining the sprawling Yuanshen Stadium.It was nearing dusk fall. Destiny had it that I should be back to this place where I had been exactly two years ago. It was on a day of Eid, that I first had been to the Pudong Masjid, and had left with no distant thought in mind of ever returning again. As the un-alterable fact is, we set out plans for ourselves, and Almighty God guides us through a firmly charted plan – at times strikingly in contrast with our own…

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Aligarh: The announcement of this year’s Nobel prizes in Physics and Chemistry has brought smiles to the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University...

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, नई दिल्ली: आज जब समूची दुनिया पेरिस में ISIS का निशाना बने 150 मासूम लोगों की मौत पर दुखी हो रही है,...

By Sheikh Khurshid Alam, The decriminalization of Section 377 by the Delhi High Court in the Naz Foundation case had drawn mixed reactions in 2010...

By Aslam Chandio, TwoCircles.net, Islamabad: The Pakistan’s Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) and the UN Refugee Agency have launched the Pakistan Portfolio of projects under the Solutions Strategy for Afghan Refugees (SSAR) seeking USD 367 million from the donor community for the future implementation of these projects across Pakistan.

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London : Thousands of British Muslims gathered Sunday outside the gates of Downing Street (the headquarters of the British Government and the official residence)...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: A day before the third anniversary of hanging of Mohammad Afzal Guru, who was convicted and hanged...

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By IANS, Dhaka : Lt. Gen. Abdul Mubin is tipped to be the new chief of the Bangladesh Army, replacing General Moin U. Ahmed, a media report said. The appointment of Gen. Mubin, who is now principal staff officer (PSO) of the Armed Forces Division, is yet to be formally announced. Son of an army officer, Gen. Mubin was commissioned in November 1977 as an infantry officer from the third short course of Bangladesh Military Academy, The Daily Star said Friday, quoting sources in the Prime Minister's Office. Mubin is not the seniormost among the army top brass.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Bengali-speaking Muslims elsewhere out of West Bengal are generally treated as ‘Bangladeshis’ by the state authorities. There are approximately 1000 Bengali families living in Delhi’s Rohini area (Shahabad dairy, Shahabad, Daulatpura, Rithala, Sector 26, Prakash Vihar). They have been invariably discriminated in the name of Bangladeshi. Nowadays the authorities are trying to dislocate them as they want to make Delhi clean before the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Aaghaz-e-Dosti, a joint Indo-Pak friendship forum launched the2015 'Calendar for Peace & Love' on Sunday at the national capital. Aaghaz-e-Dosti is aa joint Indo-Pak friendship initiative of India-based Mission Bhartiyam and Pakistan-based The Catalyst – TC. For last three consecutive years, they launch a calendar in India and Pakistan, titled as 'Calendar for Peace & Love'.

Jeddah –(IINA)February 26– The Secretary General of the Organization Islamic Conference (OIC) Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has appointed Dr. Abdul Salam Daud Al Abadi, as secretary of the Jeddah-based International Islamic Fiqh Academy, an affiliate of OIC. He has been the vice president of the Academy since 2006. The OIC General Secretariat congratulated Dr.

In the third of the five personal stories of half widows, Raqib Hameed Naik narrates the story of Rafiqa Mushtaq. ...

By TCN News, Bengaluru: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar of the Art of Living Foundation will be visiting Iraq as part of the its sister concern International Association for Human Values (IAHV) aid distribution programme at Kurdish capital Erbil.

By DPA, Dhaka : Cyclone Rashmi killed at least 11 people in Bangladesh when it hit the country's south-western region, media reports said Tuesday. The tropical cyclone with wind speeds up to 80 km per hour ripped through nine coastal districts, an official at the disaster management ministry said. District administrations in the coastal areas confirmed at least 11 deaths and reported some fishermen missing in the Bay of Bengal.

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By TCN News, New Delhi: In solidarity with victims of Peshawar school attack, a blood donation drive was organized by Aaghaz-e-Dosti, Aman ki Asha and Gandhi Global Family at Indian Red Cross Society headquarters at the national capital on Saturday.

By IANS, Mumbai: Religious scholars and political experts from several Muslim and Arab countries Sunday endorsed India's fight against terrorism as they participated in a seminar held at the Taj hotel, the scene of last year's brutal terror attacks. "The world has seen terrorism in various forms at different places, which emanated from various quarters. Terrorism has to be dealt with in the most strictest manner. It has no place in Islam and the world," Mohammed Shahumi, advisor to Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, told the audience that terrorism cannot be tolerated.

By IANS, New Delhi: Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik's brother-in-law Imran Zafar Malik Tuesday claimed that Shoaib's "nikah" (marriage) to Ayesha Siddiqui was never registered legally, was invalid and "an act of stupidity". "Their marriage was not registered. The legal process was never completed... it is not valid. She (Ayesha) had pressurised us for sending nikah papers. They were sent for her satisfaction," he told reporters here.

By IANS, Islamabad : A court here has admitted a plea for filing charges against former Pakistani prime minister Shaukat Aziz for allegedly conniving to send a woman to jail after she accused him of corruption while he was the country's finance minister. A single bench of judge Muhammad Munir Peracha passed the order after issuing notice on a plea filed by Zahida Malik, the former secretary general of an educational trust, who alleged that Aziz had demanded kickbacks of 30 percent on $130 million of a total proposed investment of $260 million by a Hong Kong-based company in 2002.

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By Ras H Siddiqui for TwoCircles.net, Sacramento (USA): A ‘Peace Vigil’ was held by the American Muslim Voice (AMV) Foundation (Sacramento Chapter) and assisted by the local CAIR and COSVIO organizations to express a unified outrage against the recent terror strike in Paris at the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

By M Ghazali Khan Tens of thousands of demonstrators converging from all around into central London marched to Downing Street, the precinct where the British...

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By Anis Ansari, Vacationing in the Bahamas, who would have thought that there are Muslims living in nice neighborhoods with a beautiful mosque. There are more than 300 Muslims in Nassau, Bahamas who are organized and have five daily prayers. Islam has come to the Bahamas more than 40 years ago via United States. History

By TCN News New Delhi: Eminent Urdu critic and writer Shamsur Rahman Faruqi has been honoured by the Pakistani government by giving its third most highest civilian award “Sitara-i-Imtiaz.” Faruqi edited Urdu literary magazine “Shabkhoon” which was published regularly for forty years before ceasing publication in 2005. In 2009 he was awarded “Padma Shri” by the Indian government for his work in the field of literature. Link: http://www.shamsurrahmanfaruqi.com/

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By Tayyab Baloch, TwoCircles.net, Gilgit-Baltistan/Islamabad: A 40-year old local trader Muhammad Ali Rocky was extremely tired but he still had to cover a long distance...

By TCN News, हैदराबाद: अमरीका स्थित संस्था इन्डियन मुस्लिम रिलीफ़ और चैरिटीज़ (आईएमआरसी/ IMRC) हर माह-ए-रमज़ान के दौरान एक विशेष कार्यक्रम चलाती है, जिसके...

The Muslimah Network is a website dedicated to stories and commentary on Muslim women from an Islamic perspective. Started by the UAE-based writer/graphic designer...

By Abdul Kalam Azad Assam: This is election time in Assam and political parties are not leaving any stone unturned to get as much...

In the last of the five personal stories of half widows, Raqib Hameed Naik narrates the story of Shabnum Wani. Bemina (Srinagar): On ...

By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net, Kolkata: The Turkish Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (TICCI) inaugurated their Kolkata office on March 3 with an aim...

By IRNA, London : The BBC has issued an apology for distorting the name of the Persian Gulf in one of its travel programmes, insisting it was a “genuine mistake” for calling the waterway the ‘Arabian Gulf.’ The apology comes after prominent geographer and geopolitician, Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, protested to the state-funded corporation, the BBC, saying that producers were once again engaged in the “old game of tampering with historical names of geographical places for reasons of dubious nature.”

By IANS, Karachi : Bare shoulders, exposed navels and a lot of skin show ruled the ramp at the Pakistan fashion week that begun here Wednesday defying the Taliban's preference for the burqa. The fashion week began with an opulent opening ceremony against a backdrop of militant violence and security issues, reports telegraph.co.uk. Karachi's top designers sent models down catwalks with bare shoulders and exposed navels in an unusual display of skin in a country where most women cover up.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Kozhikode: An Indo-Arab Foundation will be opened soon at Kozhikode to enhance the relations between India and Arab countries, said the League of Arab States Mission Indian ambassador Masim Al-Masoudi here on Monday.

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By IANS, Ipoh (Malaysia) : Tracing his roots to Karaikal in south India, a retired teacher is planning an association of 1,700 of his relations across the globe, taking his inspiration from the Scottish and Chinese clans. The idea is to meet and savour the ties that have been lost over decades and help out the needy, says A. Thanabalan, whose ancestors came to Malaysia over a century ago. He is in good company. The 700 descendants of Haji Abdul Jamak Majok who gathered in Kuala Lumpur Saturday found that they still have 1,500 members of extended family to bond with.

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat, Senegal remains one of the most peaceful nations in the African continent. With a massive 95% Muslim population Senegal was a...

By TCN News Bihar: Following a sharp dip in temperature, Indian Muslim Relief & Charities (IMRC) , a US-based relief organisation,...