Release of funds almost each year for repair and renovation of the same schools has served to promote corruption in the education sector, Adviser to Balochistan Chief Minister Kaiser Bengali has said.

British media have reacted  to the story of an alleged British suicide bomber thought to be behind last week’s bombing by rebels on a prison in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo, expressing shock as the man was reportedly a “normal family man.”

The report by Syria Network for Human Rights reveals that 1585 people, including 316 children, 197 women and 172 victims have been tortured to death, the proportion of women and children is 32% of the victims.

Amid the growing wave of pessimism regarding the so called ‘official story’ that has for centuries attempted to convince the world that Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus was the first person to discover the Americas, an article which claims that central Asian Muslim scholar Abu Raihan al-Biruni discovered the continent centuries before Columbus has come to […]

The United Nations says at least 7,818 civilians and 1,050 members of the security forces were killed in violent attacks across Iraq in 2013.

Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid, rector of Darululoom Zahedan and chairman of the Coordination Council of Sunni Seminaries in Sistan-Baluchistan, left Zahedan to the central and southern parts of Sistan-Baluchistan on Saturday, 23 Nov. 2013.

In an exclusive interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, Taliban spokesman Mullah Qari Yousef Ahmadi talks about the Taliban’s plans in Afghanistan following the expected pullout of US troops from the country next year.

President Hamid Karzai has criticised Nato for failing to bring stability to Afghanistan in over a decade there.

      Amina Masood Janjua, a housewife, knows very little about the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001.

Externally, “D.cappuccino” looks like another normal café. But no it’s not! It’s Cairo’s first Islamic café.