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By Shuriah Niazi NEW DELHI (AA): Last week’s decision by the Hindu nationalist right-wing government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the southern Indian state of Karnataka to remove the 4% quota for the Muslim minority in employment and educational institutions has been heavily condemned by political leaders and others, who described the decision […]

22nd Mar 2023

Earthquake kills 9, injures 44 in Pakistan, earthquake also jolted Afghanistan & India

By Aamir Latif and Ahmad Adil KARACHI, Pakistan/NEW DELHI (AA): A powerful earthquake jolted parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India on Tuesday evening, with at least nine confirmed dead in Pakistan so far. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the epicenter of the magnitude 6.5 tremor was in Afghanistan’s Jurm region. The National Seismic […]

18th Mar 2023

Bangladesh ‘cautiously observing situation’ over India’s move to diver joint river waters

By SM Najmus Sakib DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Bangladesh has raised eyebrows over neighboring India’s move to divert transboundary Teesta River waters for agricultural purposes, calling it “alarming” as further withdrawal of the joint waters would be disastrous for the country’s downstream agriculture lands. Bangladesh will send a letter to India’s Central Water Commission to seek […]

16th Mar 2023

Pakistan: 8 militants, 2 children killed in military operation in S Waziristan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan Army said on Thursday that eight militants were killed in a military operation in the northwestern South Waziristan tribal region, adding that two children were also killed, two soldiers were injured during the exchange of fire with the terrorists. The operation was carried out on the basis […]

10th Mar 2023

Bangladesh: 22 people died, 100 injured from blast at commercial building in Dhaka

By Md. Kamruzzaman DHAKA, Bangladesh(AA): The death from Tuesday’s powerful blast at a commercial building in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka has risen to 22. Detectives today arrested three people, including the two owners of the building in Dhaka’s Gulistan Siddik bazar area. The police officials said they were arrested as the building was built without following […]

7th Mar 2023

Bangladesh: Fire at Cox’s Bazar leaves 12,000 Rohingya refugees homeless

By Peter Kenny GENEVA (AA): A large fire that swept through a camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar has impacted around 12,000 Rohingya refugees, causing considerable damage at the world’s largest refugee camp, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Monday. Around 2,000 shelters were destroyed in Sunday’s fire while many affected refugees lost all their […]

6th Mar 2023

Pakistan: Suicide bombing kills 9 paramilitary troops in Balochistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least 9 paramilitary troops were killed and thirteen others injured in a suicide bombing in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Monday, an official said. The bombing, the latest in a string of attacks on security forces, took placed at the Kambri bridge on the Quetta-Sibi highway in Bolan […]

26th Feb 2023

Pakistan: 4 killed, 20 injured in Balochistan explosion

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least four people were killed and over 20 injured in an explosion in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, police and local media reported. The explosion occurred in a busy Rakhni market in the remote Barkhan district of southwestern Balochistan province. Police confirmed that at least four dead people and […]

18th Feb 2023

Pakistan: 7 dead as terrorists storm police HQ in Karachi

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least seven people, including three suspected militants, have been killed and nineteen others injured after heavily armed terrorists stormed the police headquarters in the port city of Karachi on Friday evening, officials and local media reported. A group of at three assailants who stormed the compound at 7.10 […]

31st Jan 2023

Pakistan: Suicide bomber at mosque in Peshawar kills 93

By Aamir Latif and Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD (AA): The death toll from Monday’s suicide bombing at a mosque inside a police headquarters in Pakistan’s northern city of Peshawar has risen to 93, with 26 more bodies retrieved from the rubble, an official said. Shafi Ullah, the deputy commissioner of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber […]

29th Jan 2023

Pakistan: 41 dead as bus plunges into ravine in Balochistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least 41 people were killed after a passenger minibus fell into a ravine in southwest Pakistan on Sunday morning, officials and local media reported. The accident occurred in Lasbela town of southwestern Balochistan province, located some 116 kilometers (72 miles) from the country’s commercial capital Karachi. The passenger […]

25th Jan 2023

US headed off Pakistan-India nuclear war in 2019, claims former US Sec of State Pompeo

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has claimed that Washington’s timely intervention was instrumental in preventing a nuclear war between archrivals Pakistan and India in 2019, reports Anadolu Agency. In his “Never Give an Inch,” published Tuesday, Washington’s former top diplomat revealed that the two neighbors were on the verge of a nuclear clash […]

24th Jan 2023

Pakistan: No member of main opposition in lower house as speaker accepts 43 more resignations

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): The speaker of Pakistan’s lower house accepted the resignations of another 43 lawmakers from the key opposition party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday, officials and local media reported. The move came just days after Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf accepted the resignations of 69 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) […]

17th Jan 2023

Bangladesh’s main opposition party demands formation of caretaker govt ahead of polls

By Md. Kamruzzaman DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Leaders and activists of Bangladesh’s main opposition party warned the government Monday that a neutral caretaker government must be formed to conduct the country’s general elections, which are due to be held in December. As part of a series of protests, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) held a grand […]

14th Jan 2023

Pakistan: 3 policemen killed by terrorists in Peshawar

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD (AA): At least three policemen, including a senior officer, were killed in an ambush on a police station in northwest Pakistan, the police said on Saturday. The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed it was responsible for the attack. The brazen attack, which is the latest in a slew of similar incidents […]

11th Jan 2023

Saudi Arabia to increase investments, deposit in Pakistan

By Gokhan Ergocun ISTANBUL, Turkey (AA): Saudi Arabia will boost its investments in Pakistan to reach $10 billion and raise its deposits in Pakistan’s central bank to $5 billion, official media reported on Tuesday. According to a statement run via the state-run Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Arabia is studying augmenting investments and deposit in […]

26th Dec 2022

Pakistan: Bomb explosion kills 6 army troops in Balochistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least six Pakistani army troops were killed and seventeen others injured in a bomb explosion in the southwestern Balochistan province on Sunday, the military said. The bombing – the second in a day – took place in the remote Kahan region of the mineral-rich province, during a […]

25th Dec 2022

Indian court orders survey of another historic mosque after Hindu group claims ownership

By Shuriah Niazi NEW DELHI (AA): A court in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday ordered the survey of the 17th century Shahi Idgah Mosque in Mathura, 57 kilometers (35 miles) north of Agra city, after a Hindu group claimed that the mosque was built on the birthplace of Lord Krishna. The local […]

23rd Dec 2022

Pakistan: 1 policeman killed, 4 injured in suicide blast in Islamabad

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least one policeman was killed and four others injured, including four police officers and two civilians, in a suicide blast in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Friday, police said. The Islamabad police tweeted police were conducting snap-checking when they signaled a suspicious vehicle to stop. “A suicide bomber […]

20th Dec 2022

Pakistan: Suicide attack in northwest Pakistan leaves 3 dead

By Aamir Latif KARAC, Pakistan (AA): At least three people including a soldier were killed Monday in a suspected suicide attack in northwest Pakistan, the military said. The latest bombing rocked Miranshah, the capital of the volatile tribal region of North Waziristan near Afghanistan’s border, the army said in a statement. Another civilian was wounded […]

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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.