London , PTI -- A 4-year-old Muslim girl in the UK has been banned from wearing a hijab by a Roman Catholic school under a strict uniform policy, sparking a massive row on social media. The unnamed child was told by staff at St Clare's School in Handsworth, Birmingham, that she should not wear he

Karachi: A Pakistani female lawmaker threatened to self-immolate after she was harassed by male colleagues in parliament, telling journalists the widely-publicised incident shows how laws to protect women are not being enforced. Nusrat Sahar Abbasi, an MP in Sindh province, spoke of her fury afte

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump is set to sign several executive orders, including one on building a border wall with Mexico, this week to crack down on immigrants – one of his central campaign promises – and could suspend immigration from some Muslim nations, media reports have said. Trump

WASHINGTON: Microsoft founder Bill Gates will be world’s first trillionaire in the next 25 years, according to a new research. According to research firm Oxfam International, the world would get its first trillionaire in the next 25 years, when Bill Gates becomes around 86 years old. A report

Istanbul: Seven-year-old Syrian girl Bana al-Abed, who came to international attention with her tweets giving a tragic account of the war in Aleppo, has written an open letter to new US President Donald Trump. In her letter Bana, who was evacuated from the besieged city to Turkey in December, app

Los Angeles: Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, says she believes her father was murdered. Opening up for the first time about her life with the ‘King of Pop’ in an interview to Rolling Stone, Paris said Jackson’s death was a “setup”. Dr Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jac

Pakistan on Tuesday conducted the first flight test of long range surface-to-surface ballistic missile Ababeel. It claimed that the missile has the capability to carry nuclear warheads and engage multiple targets with high precision, defeating the enemy’s hostile radars. An official statement by

Islamabad: The Pakistan Supreme Court (SC) has said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif can be summoned for recording his statements in the ongoing Panamagate case. Justice Asif Saeed Khosa made these remarks in response to a plea made by Jamaat-e-Islami counsel Advocate Taufiq Asif.Justice Khosa is

Chicago: Former US President George H W Bush has been transferred from intensive care and could be released from the hospital Friday or over the weekend, doctors said on Tuesday. His wife and former first lady Barbara Bush was discharged from the hospital, Bush physicians Amy Mynderse and Clint D

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said he will not tell the press what Barack Obama wrote in the “beautiful” letter the outgoing president left for him in the Oval Office. “I just went to the Oval Office and found this beautiful letter from President Obama,” Trump said, addressing senior

Islamabad [Pakistan]: Advisor to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, has congratulated United States President Donald Trump on assuming office. “The people and leadership of Pakistan welcome the successful transition in the U.S. and congratulate the honourable

Sydney [Australia]: A strong 7.9 magnitude earthquake off Papua New Guinea on Sunday has triggered a tsunami alert for several Pacific islands. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake, about 47km west of Arawa on the north coast of Bougainville island, and the depth was put at 154km. P

WASHINGTON: Imam Mohamed Magid, a well-known figure in Washington, who was expected to deliver the “Muslim call to prayer” at Donald Trump’s inaugural multi-faith prayer service instead recited some verses of the Holy Qur’an in front of the 45th president of the United States. The Imam did a comm

Washington: In his maiden speech, new US President Donald Trump on Friday vowed to make America great again, and said he would transfer power to the people. “Together we will determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come,” Trump said in his first speech after he was

Davos: Terming Kashmir as an “unfinished agenda” of the partition, Pakistan’s former army chief Gen (retd) Raheel Sharif on Thursday said normality will return to the region only after the long-standing dispute is resolved. Raheel, while speaking at the ‘Pakistan Breakfast’ on the sidelines of Wo

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, during his visit to the Davos World Economic Forum urged a global alliance to form to confront Russia militarily. He’s been talking about the predictions of imminent World War III since taking office. “Trump’s cabinet appointees were promising and the way

Western Australia State – Colin Barnett, an Australian politician has ruled out any attempt to ban Muslims from wearing burqa but said he would prefer “that type of clothing” wasn’t worn in Australia Senator Pauline Hanson’s renewed call for a ban on the burqa ahead of her visit to Western Aust

WASHINGTON – Ibtihaj Muhammad along with several other athletes have been given key Administration posts on Tuesday, by Barack Obama who is serving his final week in office. Ibtihaj Muhammad is the first Muslim athlete to represent the US in the Olympics in hijab. “I am proud that such experien