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Nawaz Sharif reaches Karachi on 2-day visit
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Feb 1 (ANI): Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday reached Karachi for a two-day visit.
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Pakistani lawmaker seen 'groping' girl in viral video
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Feb. 01 (ANI): Just days after multiple child abuse reports surfaced in Pakistan, a video of a ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker "groping" a young girl in Karachi has caused huge uproar on social media.
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Woman files petition against nikah halala, polygamy
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Jan 31 (ANI): A triple talaq victim from Mumbai's Nalasopara has filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court, seeking abolition of the practice of triple talaq, nikah halala and polygamy in the Muslim community.
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BJP calls fatwa barring women from watching football 'ridiculous'
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 31 (ANI): Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday called Darul Uloom Deoband's fatwa, forbidding Muslim women from watching men's football, as "ridiculous".
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Women watching soccer 'un-Islamic': Darul Uloom Deoband
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 30 (ANI): The Darul Uloom Deoband on Tuesday ordered that Muslim women should not watch men playing soccer as it violates the tenets of Islam.
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Indian Muslims should demand separate country: Kashmir Dy Mufti
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Srinagar(Jammu and Kashmir) [India], January 30 (ANI): Kashmir Deputy Mufti Azam Nasir-Ul-Islam on Tuesday sparked a row by saying that Muslims in India should get a separate country as they are bound to live in pathetic conditions.
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SC asks Centre to file affidavit in Haj subsidy matter
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 30 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Central government to file an affidavit in the Haj subsidy matter while seeking the reason for withdrawing the concession.
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Owaisi demands monthly allowance for triple talaq victims
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Sangareddy (Telangana) [India], Jan. 30 (ANI): All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday criticised triple talaq bill, which is expected to be discussed during the ongoing budget session.
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Shop burnt in violence-hit Kasganj, probe launched
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Kasganj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan. 30 (ANI): A Muslim shopkeeper's store was burnt down in communal violence-hit Kasganj city on Monday.
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Budget session 2018: 28 bills in LS, 39 listed for RS
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 28 (ANI): As the Budget session of the Parliament begins on Monday, the Muslim Women's (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017 related to triple talaq, the Codes of Wages Bill, 2017, Rights of Children to Free and Compulsory Education, 2017 are among the importa
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In a first, Muslim woman leads Friday prayers in Kerala mosque
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Malappuram (Kerala) [India], Jan. 28 (ANI): Jamida, the 34-year-old state secretary of the Quran Sunnath Society, has become the first female imam in India's history to lead the Juma prayers.
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They do not need our help: Owaisi on Oppn's meeting
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Jan. 27 (ANI): All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi said on Friday that the opposition parties have not invited him for the January 29 meeting as they were an elitist lot, who would not require the support of poor people like t
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