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Ayesha Gulalai, who leads the Gulalai splinter of the PTI, said she launched the ‘Ababeel’ in the election to help create a Madina-style welfare state. She spoke to the media in Islamabad after submitting her nomination papers for NA-53. A video of her media talk emerged on Twitter. Ayesha Gulalai’s important media talk in Islamabad…

  MADINA MUNAWWARAH: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Monday called for an accord among the Islamic countries to eliminate the menace of terrorism, that was affecting the world peace. “With a financial cost of around US$ 120 billion and thousands of precious human lives, Pakistan has suffered a lot due to this scourge,” the…

TEHRAN: With Iranians blocked from this month’s Hajj pilgrimage, their supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a furious rebuke to rival Saudi Arabia, saying the Muslim world should challenge its management of Islam’s holiest sites. “Saudi rulers… who have blocked the proud and faithful Iranian pilgrims’ path to the Beloved’s House, are disgraced and misguided…

ISLAMABAD: Director Hajj Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah on Monday said around one lac and three thousand Pakistani pilgrims have reached Makkah, Madina and Jeddah for performing the holy rituals of Hajj. Talking to PTV, he said that pilgrims would be provided best facilities for residence, food and treatments throughout the journey. He said many buildings…

LAHORE/KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines’ first pre-Hajj flight carrying 328 intending pilgrims departed from Islamabad for Madina Munawara, Saudi Arabia on Thursday morning. The pilgrims were seen off by Minister of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Sardar Muhammad Yousaf. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister congratulating the intending pilgrims said that all possible arrangements have been…

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and anti-terror tsar sought on Tuesday to reassure Saudis of the country’s security after suicide attacks targeting the holy city of Medina, the U.S. consulate in Jeddah and Shi’ites in the city of Qatif. At least four people were killed in the attacks on Monday. No group has claimed responsibility…

TEHRAN, IRAN: Iran on Tuesday condemned three suicide bombings that rocked its regional rival Saudi Arabia, one of them targeting Islam’s second holiest place, the Prophet’s mosque in Madina. “There are no more red lines left for terrorists to cross. Sunnis, Shiites will both remain victims unless we stand united as one,” Foreign Minister Mohammad…

QATIF/MEDINA: Two back to back suicide blasts struck mosques in Saudi cities of Qatif and Medina on Monday, killing five people, four of them were security officials. In the first attack, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Monday, without causing any other injuries, residents told AFP. “Suicide bomber…

MADINA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif Saturday paid respect at Roza-e-Rasool (Peace be Upon Him) as he arrived in the Holy City of Madina for short stay on his way back to Pakistan. Special Assistant to PM Tariq Fatemi also accompanied the prime minister. They offered Nawafil in…

MADINA: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Friday arrived here in the Holy city of Madina to pay respect at Roza-e-Rasool (Peace Be Upon Him), for a short stay on his way back to Pakistan. On his arrival at Madina Airport, the Prime Minister was received by Deputy Governor of Madina, Abdul Mohsin al Muneef. Chief…

MAKKAH: Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from around the world on Tuesday began moving from the holy city of Makkah to nearby Mina for the start of the Hajj, the world’s largest annual gathering of Muslims. Saudi authorities have made elaborate arrangements for the pilgrims in Mina, where thousands of tents have been set up…

MAKKAH: Imran Khan, Chairman PTI, along with his wife Reham Khan would travel to Madina on Thursday after performing Umra overnight. Samaa reported that the couple, who is on a private visit to Saudi Arabia after their marriage earlier this month, performed Umra last night. Both would travel to Makkah today to offers prayers at…

Staff ReportKARACHI: Special prayers were held across the country and in abroad for the recovery of 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai who is gradually improving after being shot by Taliban militants, SAMAA reports.Reports said prayers for the Pakistani children rights activists were held in the Masjid Ul-Haraam, Makkah, and Masjid-e-Nabvi at Madina Munawara.In Pakistan, Christians held special…

Staff ReportLAHORE: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan has said today that those who are doing politics on the name of Islam, they are bad naming Pakistan but his party will make it a welfare state like Madina, SAMAA reported on Thursday. Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf arranged All Pakistan Ulema and Mashaikh Conference in Lahore this day. The…

Staff Report MADINA: Four Pakistani Haj pilgrims, including three women, were killed and ten others wounded on Saturday after the bus they were traveling in crashed in Madina. The bus was going to Jeddah from Madina. The victims were identified as Iqbal Bibi, Dil Khoban, Khastan Bibi and Muhammad Rehman. The injured were shifted to…

Staff Report KARACHI: The worst terrorist attack in the history of Karachi on Thursday devastated Al-Madina locality, leaving approximately 400 people homeless who continue to sit and sleep on the rubble of their demolished houses for the last 48 hours. Speaking to SAMAA, they said that about 60 to 89 houses had been demolished in…

Staff Report ISLAMABAD: The government of Saudi Arabia has said pilgrims cannot visit cities other than Mecca and Madina while in the kingdom for Hajj or Umra. The Saudi Interior ministry warned that anyone who provides transport to any other than the designated cities will be fined 100,000 riyals and imprisoned for two years. Any…