India’s Hindu nationalist leader says Muslims should be “steralised”
The leader of an Indian Hindu nationalist party made a public statement saying Muslims and Christians should be sterilised in order to check their...
China forces Muslim shopkeepers to sell alcohol and cigarettes
Chinese authorities are forcing Muslim shopkeepers and restaurant owners in the Xinjiang region to sell alcohol and cigarettes to weaken Islam's influence amongst local...
Pakistani model Ayyan Ali in court for being caught with $500k on route to...
Pakistan's top model, Ayyan Ali, appeared in court earlier this week after she was caught with $500,000 on her way to Dubai.
Since her arrest,...
Taliban confirm Mullah Omar’s death and announce new leader
The Taliban have appointed their new leader after they confirmed the death of Mullah Omar yesterday.
The Afghan government reported the death of Mullah Omar...
Bangladesh to deploy Israeli phone wiretapping system
The Israeli-American security firm Verint Systems is set to win a mass public surveillance contract in Bangladesh.
The Dhaka-based newspaper The Daily Star reported last week...
Ex Pakistani ISI chief Hamid Gul dies
The former chief of Pakistan's powerful military intelligence, Hamid Gul, has died at the age of 79.
General Gul led the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) from 1987...
Indian Muslim farmer beaten to death, suspected of slaughtering cow
Indian police have arrested eight people and were searching for two more yesterday after villagers beat a Muslim farmer to death and severely injured...
Muslim professor in Delhi will take people out for pork lunch to show tolerance
A Muslim professor from Delhi wants to take people out for a pork-eating lunch to make a point about religious tolerance, after a Muslim...
Bangladesh High Court passes law stopping women being forced to wear burqa
The High Court of Bangladesh has ruled that women cannot be forced to wear the burqa or the niqab.
This follows a similar but more...
Secular publisher hacked to death in Bangladesh
A Bangladeshi publisher of secular books has been hacked to death in Dhaka on Saturday.
Faisal Arefin Dipon, 43, was killed at his office in...
