International Affairs

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A tour of the United States arranged by the State Department to improve ties to Pakistani legislators ended in a public relations fiasco when the members of the group refused to submit to extra airport screening in Washington, and they are now being hailed as heroes on their return home. “People should be thankful, you made them …

A software engineer, piloting the small plane in a suicide attack on the Internal Revenue Service, crashed into the office building on Thursday February 18, 2010. A major US Muslim group has decried officials’ “double standard” in refusing to label Texas suicide plane crash as an act of terrorism. “The position of many individuals and institutions seems to be that …

RENOWNED Swiss politician Daniel Streich, who rose to fame for his campaign against minarets of mosques, has embraced Islam. A member of the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) and a well-known politician, Daniel Streich was the first man who had launched a drive for imposition of ban on mosques minarets, and to lock the mosques in Switzerland. The proclamation of Streich’s …

Israel admits to organ thefts Israel has admitted that it harvested organs from the dead bodies of Palestinians and Israelis in the 1990s, without permission from their families. The admission follows the release of an interview with Jehuda Hiss, the former head of Israel’s forensic institute, in which he said that workers at the institute had harvested skin, corneas, heart …

The referendum by the nationalist Swiss People’s Party labelled minarets as symbols of rising Muslim political power that could one day transform Switzerland into an Islamic nation. Geneva: Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on minarets on Sunday, barring construction of the iconic mosque towers in a surprise vote that put Switzerland at the forefront of a European backlash …

Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with Turkish Premier Recep Tayyib Erdogan Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with Turkish Premier Recep Tayyib Erdogan and his accompanying delegation Wednesday lauded the existing deep historical bonds between the two nations of Iran and Turkey, adding that the present cordial ties between the two countries have been unprecedented …