Colombo: Muslims in Sri Lanka link will face another ban for being in the minority as the Minister of Public Safety of Sri Lanka said that the government would ban wearing the burqa and over a thousand Islamic schools will be shut down. According to reports, the Minister of Public Safety, Sarath ...

ISLAMABAD - Four ISIS terrorists arrested wearing women Burqa while trying to escape military operation. The Afghan forces arrested four ISIS Khurasan militants who had disguised as women and were attempting to escape the operations in Nangarhar province. According to a statement released by ...

*ISLAMABAD - **Pakistani female minister Dr Sania Nishtar wears 'Burqa' and secretly raids BISP centres to assess facilities * *Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan and B.I.S.P chairperson Sania Nishtar goes undercover to overlook operations at various Benazir Income Support ...

*DUBAI - A man was arrested wearing a woman’s abaya, niqab and gloves in the UAE before he could enter the Dubai Metro station.* He was also fined 2,000 dirhams, reported the Khaleej Times link-- . The man, who is a sales manager, said he had donned the disguise to spy on his wife. He had ...

A video has surfaced showing a Muslim woman being forced by female police officers to remove her burqa in the Indian city of Ballia at Uttar Pradesh CM Aditya Nath Yogi’s rally on Tuesday.In the video, three female police officers can bee seen talking to the woman after which she takes off ...

VIENNA: New Austrian legislation came into force Friday that will ban the full-face Islamic veil in public places from October 1.The outlawing of the burqa or other clothing concealing the face follows similar moves in other countries in the European Union, starting with France in 2011.In Austria, ...

Muslim women should soon do away with ‘burqa’ themselves but the change should come from within the community than on government’s dictation, Said Saeeda Warsi the Muslim member of the British Cabinet.“I want British Muslims to lead that charge … but I don’t want it to be done with a ...

BERLIN (APP) - German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere came out Friday in favour of a partial burqa ban amid a fierce national debate on integration."We agree that we reject the burqa, we agree that we want to introduce a legal requirement to show one's face in places where it is necessary for ...

GENEVA: Wearing a burqa in public could fetch a fine of 6,500 pounds in the Swiss region of Ticino. The region’s parliament on October 24 approved the law, which will ban full-face veils, worn by women in many Muslim countries, in the wake of heightened terrorist alerts across Europe, Swiss ...