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By Sardar Hussain PESHAWAR, (AA): As many as 29 people, including an army captain, were killed in a Friday attack on a heavily guarded Pakistan Air Force base. Confirming the death toll, DG ISPR (Inter Services Public Relations) said Taliban gunmen stormed the base on the outskirts of Peshawar city. According to the DG ISPR, a […]

14th Sep 2015

Pakistan: Blast kills 10 in Multan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA & Dawn): At least ten people have been killed and 50 others injured in a powerful blast in an auto rickshaw in Pakistan’s northeastern Multan city on Sunday, police said. “We are investigating the nature of the blast,” Multan police chief Azhar Akram told reporters. According to details, the […]

12th Sep 2015

India: Explosion kills 40, injures 35 in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh

The blast site on Petlavad Road, near Setjia Restaurant in Jhabua district, Madhya Pradesh. PTI: At least 40 people were killed and 35 others injured when explosives kept inside a building went off at Petlwad town in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday, police said. Earlier, police had said that the explosion was caused […]

11th Sep 2015

Bangladesh: Student protesters force capital standstill

By Mainul Islam Khan DHAKA, (AA): Bangladesh’s already heaving capital was brought to a standstill on Thursday as thousands of students from private universities protested a move to charge them extra taxes. The students were angered by a government move to charge students of private universities Value Added Tax (VAT) on top of their […]

11th Sep 2015

Jammu & Kashmir: Anger as Indian court enforce ban of beef in Kashmir

By Ahmad Adil SRINAGAR, Indian held Kashmir (AA): Muslim leaders in Indian-held Kashmir have been angered by an Indian court’s orders to enforce a strict ban on the sale of beef in the Muslim-majority region. The Indian High Court asked police on Wednesday to enforce the rules in response to a petition on cow […]

9th Sep 2015

Pakistan: Urdu on way to becoming Pakistan’s official language

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): Urdu is on its way to becoming Pakistan’s official language, replacing “colonial” English, after a Supreme Court order was issued Tuesday. Three judges passed the judgment following a petition by a local lawyer. “In the governance of the federation and the provinces there is hardly any necessity for the […]

29th Aug 2015

Jammu & Kashmir: Eleven killed in India-Pakistan border shelling

By Zahid Rafiq and Aamir Latif SRINAGAR, J&K, India, (AA): Cross-border firing killed at least eleven people on the India-Pakistan frontier Friday. Both sides claimed the other initiated the firing. Pakistan said eight civilians were killed and 46 injured by “unprovoked” small arms fire and shelling near northeastern Sialkot district. Women and children were among […]

28th Aug 2015

Pakistan: Police kill wife, 2 children of ‘militant’

KARACHI, (AA): Police killed the wife and two children of a suspected militant in an alleged exchange of fire in northeastern Pakistan’s Punjab province on Thursday, police and local media said. Pakistani police claimed that the critically injured suspected militant, Habibur Rehman, worked for Al Qaeda. Rehman was being treated at a local hospital, police […]

27th Aug 2015

India: Nine dead in protests in Indian PM’s home state

By Mubasshir Mushtaq MUMBAI, (AA): At least nine people have died in India’s western state of Gujarat which witnessed incidents of violence and rioting in many districts on Wednesday as a protest to demand government jobs turned violent, Indian media reported. Indian Express newspaper reported that nine people, including a police official, had died […]

21st Aug 2015

Pakistan: 11 killed in clashes in South Waziristan

By Aamir Latif Karachi, (AA): Ten suspected Taliban and a soldier have been killed in a clash in restless South Waziristan tribal area, a former headquarters of Pakistani Taliban, raising the total number of militant casualties in the region to 53 on Thursday, officials said. A security official who wished not to be quoted told […]

21st Aug 2015

India asks Pakistan not to meet Kashmiri leaders

By Zahid Rafiq SRINAGAR, Indian-held Kashmir (AA): India has asked Pakistan to call off talks with leaders from Indian-held Kashmir as tensions between the two countries build ahead of bilateral security talks Sunday. In a series of tweets Friday, India’s foreign ministry said it was opposed to the move despite Pakistan claiming it has always consulted with […]

16th Aug 2015

Pakistan: Punjab Home Minister among 10 dead in suicide bombing

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): A suicide bomb blast killed 10 people and left dozens trapped under rubble at the office of a senior official in Pakistan’s northeastern Punjab province on Sunday, police said. Punjab Home Minister Col. Shuja Khanzada was among the fatalities. Rescuers are looking up to 25 people under the debris of […]

13th Aug 2015

Pakistan child abuse scandal exposes lack of protection

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): Outrage over a scandal involving the abuse of hundreds of children has propelled Pakistani child rights activists to push for new child protection laws. The small northeastern town of Hussein Khanwala, not far from the Punjabi provincial capital Lahore, has allegedly seen more than 200 children abused by a gang over […]

10th Aug 2015

India: Temple stampede kills 11 in eastern India

By Mubasshir Mushtaq MUMBAI, (AA): 11 Hindu pilgrims were killed and 50 others injured on Monday morning at a stampede outside a famous temple in eastern India. The stampede happened in Jharkhand state’s Baidyanath temple as pilgrims scrambled for priority after the temple gate opened at 4.30 a.m. (11 p.m. GMT), the Times of India reported. State police officials […]

7th Aug 2015

Pakistan: US drone strike kills four in North Waziristan after 2 month break

KARACHI, (AA): At least four suspected militants were killed in an alleged U.S. drone strike in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region on Thursday, a Pakistani army official said. A senior army official said that two missiles fired from a U.S. drone hit a compound in Dattakhel town near the Afghan border, killing four suspected militants. This […]

5th Aug 2015

India: Double train accident kills 27 in Madhya Pradesh

By Mubasshir Mushtaq MUMBAI, (AA): At least 27 people were killed as two passenger trains derailed in central India on Tuesday night. India’s railway ministry said within minutes of one train derailing as it crossed flooded tracks in Madhya Pradesh state, another derailed on the adjoining track to the initial accident. According to Railway Minister […]

30th Jul 2015

Nepal: Monsoon rains trigger landslides killing 17

By Deepak Adhikari KATHMANDU, (AA): Landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains buried houses in Nepal’s mountainous midwestern region, killing 17 people, police said on Thursday. The landslides struck the villages of Chapakot and Lumle, near popular tourist town Pokhara after midnight Thursday, crushing families relying on subsistence farming, Mahesh Godar, a local police officer said. […]

28th Jul 2015

India’s ex-president ‘missile man’ Kalam passes away

MUMBAI, (AA): Former Indian president and reputed scientist APJ Abdul Kalam passed away on Monday evening in the northeastern city of Shillong after suffering a heart attack. Kalam, a popular and inspirational figure for Indian students, was delivering a speech at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Meghalaya state, when he suddenly collapsed. The 83-year-old […]

25th Jul 2015

Pakistan: Floods kill 30 in Chitral valley

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): Raging floods have killed 30 people in northwest Pakistan in the last six days as weather experts have issued a fresh warning for severe rains on Sunday, officials and local media said on Saturday. Rescue workers found 11 bodies in the suburbs of the touristy Chitral valley, which lies on the Afghan […]

19th Jul 2015

Bangladesh: Bus collision kills 15

By Mainul Islam Khan DHAKA, (AA):A collision between two buses killed at least 15 people, including the drivers, Sunday morning, in northern Bangladesh, officials said. The crash occurred west of Bangabandhu bridge –Bangladesh’s biggest bridge on the Jamuna river which runs north to south across the country. One of the buses was traveling to capital Dhaka and […]

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Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims. It was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.