Muezzins issuing high-decibel calls to prayer have long been part of Saudi identity, but a crackdown on mosque loudspeakers is among contentious reforms seeking to shake off the kingdom\’s austere image, an AFP report in dawn.com says. Saudi Arabia, home to the holiest Muslim sites, has long been associated with a strain of Islam known
CHITRAL: If the annual Shandur festival is not held this year too, the hotel industry of Chitral will face further blow. In a statement, Chitral Hotel and Restaurant Association general secretary Mir Jamsheduddin expressed resentment over the decision of the government not to hold the annual festival 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. He said
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Col (r) Ikram Ullah Khan As the completion of US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan is drawing closer, the security situation in Afghanistan is gradually going from bad to worse with every passing day. The fast dwindling peace prospects in Afghanistan after the recalcitrant Taliban and the Afghan government refused to sit together to negotiate a
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PESHAWAR: On the direction of the chief justice, Peshawar High Court (PHC) Mingora bench will hear cases of litigants of Chitral through video link. This will give a huge relief to people of Chitral as litigants, lawyers and witnesses would not need to go to Mingora during hearing of their cases. This was stated by
Pervez Hoodbhoy Implementation of the PTI’s Single National Curriculum has started in Islamabad’s schools and for students the human body is to become a dark mystery, darker than ever before. Religious scholars appointed as members of the SNC Committee are supervising the content of schoolbooks in all subjects including science. In the name of Islamic morality
