By Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, May 26, 2023Former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya yesterday (25) urged the government to conduct a thorough investigation into Muslim National Alliance (MNA) MP Ali Sabri Raheem’s abortive attempt to smuggle in gold at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) as it couldn’t be considered just a mere violation of the Customs law. Jayasuriya said so in a statement issued in his capacity as the Chairman of the National Movement for Social…
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by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 22, 2023Amid the spread of measles virus in several local units of Banke, health authorities have sought help from religious leaders, especially Muslim preachers (Maulanas), in the ongoing immunisation drive. Officials hope that vaccine coverage will be increased with the help of preachers, as people of certain religious groups trust them more than health officials. “We have been taking help from religious leaders, especially Maulanas, in the…
By Imran Danish, TOLOnews, Jan 10, 2023 at 8:55 PMA delegation of Muslim clerics, which has visited Afghanistan, on Tuesday called for ensuring the right to education for every Muslim and emphasized the need for girls’ access to education in Afghanistan. The head of the delegation, Sheikh Mohammad Saghir, said they have discussed education for women and girls in their meetings with the officials of the caretaker government. He said the Islamic Emirate assured that…
report in ToloNews, Jan 6, 2023 at 10.16 pmThe acting interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, stressed the need for unity among Muslim nations as he met with religious scholars from Egypt, Sudan, and Palestine in Kabul on Friday. Abdul Nafay Takor, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said that in this meeting, Haqqani asked the clerics to convey the voice of the Afghan people to the world. “Khalifa Sahib welcomed the scholars and underlined the…
by Syed Ali Mujtaba in The Island, Dec 25, 2022President Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced his intent to resolve the long-standing North-East Tamil national question. This perhaps he is doing at the behest of India. However, he has ignored the problem of problems of the North East Muslims which are indivisibly intertwined in any solution to the Tamil problem. Muslims are a minority within the Tamil minority. Any attempt to ignore the Muslim problem would belie…