NEW DELHI - Indian government is forcing Muslim Imams to publicly condemn *Qurbani* (sacrifice) on Eidul Azha. A video circulating on the social media showed an Indian policeman forcing a local Imam to announce that “*Qurbani* is a punishable offence”. Indian Govt forcing Imams to announce ...

*ISLAMABAD Austria said Friday it could expel up to 60 Turkish-funded imams and their families and shut down seven mosques as part of a crackdown on “political Islam”, triggering fury in Ankara.* “The circle of people possibly affected by these measures – the pool that we’re talking ...

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak presided over a meeting of the provincial cabinet that approved the grant of monthly stipend to Paish Imams of Mosques of all categories proposed in the summary. At the moment, the relevant forum received 20,699 documents of Paish Imams ...

MOSCOW: Saudi Arabia has dismissed several thousand imams from mosques for spreading extremism, Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir told Russian journalists in Moscow on Sunday, reported Arab News.“We will not let anyone spread the ideology of hatred, to finance that kind of ideology or ...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government in accordance with the directives of Chief Minister (CM) Pervez Khattak is engaged in the collection of data of all the mosques for the appointment of its “Khateeb” as official employees of the government.The CM floated the idea during a cabinet ...

German police on Wednesday raided the apartments of four imams suspected of conducting espionage on behalf of the Turkish government against followers of US-based cleric Fetullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of organizing a failed coup last July.The raids, in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and ...

ISLAMABAD: (APP) Indian police in occupied Kashmir is keeping a close watch on the religious scholars across the Kashmir Valley after they were jointly requested by top Hurriyet leadership to raise Kashmir and Palestine disputes in their Friday congregations on coming Jumat-ul-Waida.Reports said ...