In Iqaluit , Nunavut, the construction is underway on the territory’s first mosque. By the end of the year the mosque will be ready to host prayers for the Muslims community in the city. The idea for the mosque began with an engineer born in Pakistan living in Toronto called Syed Asif Ali moved to work in Iqaluit where there …
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A new list made by movehub.com, a website that deal with travel and people who move abroad ranked the most and the least powerful passports in the world based on travel freedom that every passport holder enjoys. The list shows the number of countries that passport holder can travel to without a visa or the possibility to have visa on arrival . Being …
Read More »By Zi-Ann Lum- The Huffington Post Canada Sun News columnist Ezra Levant used Remembrance Day to eviscerate an Ontario school board over a memo about students’ attendance of Remembrance Day ceremonies. Levant accused the school board of allowing Muslim students to be exempt from Tuesday’s services, referring to a memo issued by the Greater Essex County District School Board in southwestern …
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The following are some interesting figures from October: November 2016: the deadline the Palestinian Authority asked the U.N. Security Council to impose on Israel to end its occupation of all Palestinian lands. $50,000 was donated to rebuild U.N. schools damaged during Israel’s summer assault on Gaza by 17-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. The young Pakistani, who has spoken …
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Zehra Mehdi-Barlas Yes, I was fortunate enough to be born in a country and into a family where it was expected for me, a girl, to get educated and have a voice. I was told that praying is good for the soul, but so is music. I was encouraged to read and learn more about the world. I was neither …
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India on Friday test-fired a cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons from the town of Balasore in the southern state of Orissa, Indian daily the Times of India reported. The missile, named Nirbhay, can reach a target over 700 kilometers away. According to the Times of India, the test-fire on Friday was the second developmental trial of the cruise …
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A US drone strike in the restive tribal region in Pakistan near the Afghani border killed at least four militants on Monday. The attack happened at 20:15 GMT in Mangrotai in Shawal district, South Waziristan – the region is considered to be a Taliban stronghold. “A U.S. drone fired two missiles targeting a center run by Uzbek rebels, killing four …
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By Rafia Zakaria It is often offered as a solution to the problem of destitute women. If every man married four of them, some have stated, then all women would have a male guardian, a protector, someone to support them. The reality of polygamy, however, is often neither this neat nor this simple. Last week, The National, a leading newspaper …
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Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, member of the opposition and Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, on Monday announced that it will renounce its parliamentary seats after a row with the government regarding alleged poll fraud. Khan claims that the general elections last year, in which his PTI party came third, were rigged, and demanded that current Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif …
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On Tuesday, Taliban gunmen attacked a Karachi airport security post, only a day after militants’ offensive at the airport. 37 people were killed in the all-night siege that ripped apart the peace process between the Taliban and the Pakistani government. Tuesday’s assault on the security post was aimed at an entry point to a nearby Airport Security Force camp, some …
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