Shariah-compliant: Jubilee looks to delve in Islamic insurance
DUBAI: Karachi-based Jubilee General Insurance Company will seek shareholder approval to offer Islamic insurance (takaful), becoming the latest firm to enter the sector after conventional firms were...
View ArticleIslamic banking: ‘Share expected to increase in Gulf’
DUBAI: Islamic banks are set to boost their market share in the energy-rich Gulf states to nearly 30% in the next five years, ratings agency Standard and Poor’s said on Monday. “We think Islamic...
View ArticleTTP spokesperson, five other leaders declare allegiance to Islamic State
ISLAMABAD: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid and five other senior TTP leaders have declared allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Shahidullah Shahid announced...
View ArticleGame of Thrones begins filming at historic Islamic fort in Spain
The Game of Thrones crew has begun shooting parts of the fifth season of the popular HBO series at the Alcázar Palace in the southern Spanish city of Seville. Local authorities are delighted by this...
View ArticleShariah compliance: ‘Adamjee Life to enter Islamic insurance market next year’
KARACHI: Adamjee Life is going to enter the Islamic insurance market by March next year, company CEO Fredrik de Beer told The Express Tribune in a recent interview. “We will complete the business...
View ArticleIslamic banking: SBP to purchase, sell Ijara Sukuk via OMOs
KARACHI: In order to facilitate Islamic banking industry in their liquidity management and effective transmission of monetary policy, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has decided that it may outright...
View ArticleIslamic State ‘training pilots’
Iraqi pilots who joined Islamic State are training its members in Syria to fly three captured fighter jets, a UK-based activist group says.
View ArticleIslamic banking: SBP revises initial paid-up capital to Rs6 billion
KARACHI: In order to encourage conventional banks to upscale their Islamic banking operations by establishing Islamic banking subsidiaries, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has revised the initial...
View ArticleRules and regulations: ‘No non-Muslim can teach Islamic studies’
LAHORE: Justice Abid Aziz Shaikh of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday directed the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) to submit an undertaking that no non-Muslim would be recruited as lecturer...
View ArticleIslamic State militants now world’s richest: experts
WASHINGTON: The Islamic State has become the world’s wealthiest terror group, earning tens of millions of dollars a month from illegal oil sales and ransoms, officials said Thursday. “We have no...
View ArticleNo non-Muslim to teach Islamic studies
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) issued a direction to the Punjab Public Service Commission last week regarding recruitment of lecturers for Islamic studies. Justice Abid Aziz Sheikh of the LHC...
View ArticleIslamic varsity fiasco: Three officials suspended
The administration of Islamic International University Islamabad on Monday suspended three varsity officials for as many months amid fresh protests by members of Islami Jamiat-e-Talba (IJT) against...
View ArticleIslamic State fears grow in Pakistan and Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD: The Islamic State organisation is starting to attract the attention of radicals in Pakistan and Afghanistan, long a cradle for militancy, unnerving authorities who fear a potential violent...
View ArticleThe Islamic State movement and Pakistan
The emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) movement, or the Daaish movement, took Iraq and the rest of the world by surprise. This organisation represents an extreme and hardline...
View ArticleAcid attacks in Iran sharpen row over Islamic dress and vigilantism
BEIRUT: It is a question all Iranians are asking: who is stalking the streets of Isfahan, throwing acid into women’s faces? The attacks – there have been at least four in the busy city in central Iran...
View ArticleIslamic banking: SBP to purchase, sell Ijara Sukuk via OMOs
KARACHI: In order to facilitate Islamic banking industry in their liquidity management and effective transmission of monetary policy, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has decided that it may outright...
View ArticleIslamic State ‘training pilots’
Iraqi pilots who joined Islamic State are training its members in Syria to fly three captured fighter jets, a UK-based activist group says.
View ArticleIslamic banking: SBP revises initial paid-up capital to Rs6 billion
KARACHI: In order to encourage conventional banks to upscale their Islamic banking operations by establishing Islamic banking subsidiaries, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has revised the initial...
View ArticleRules and regulations: ‘No non-Muslim can teach Islamic studies’
LAHORE: Justice Abid Aziz Shaikh of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday directed the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) to submit an undertaking that no non-Muslim would be recruited as lecturer...
View ArticleIslamic Arts Museum Malaysia: In differences, we grow
Southeast Asia’s biggest and one of the world’s most representative collections of Islamic arts stands atop a hillock on Jalan Lembah Perdana in Kuala Lumpur. Founded in 1998, this museum, known...
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