Global sukuk supply is expected to accelerate in 2021 following a resilient 2020 as issuers seek to address the elevated debt and to meet large budget needs caused by COVID-19, according to Fitch Ratings.
The reconciliation deal signed between GCC (...)
Earlier this week the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) issued a report stating that Egypt had the highest coronavirus death rates in the region, followed by Iran, Iraq and Pakistan. The report (...)
As of 6 January, Egypt has been among the countries with the highest reported number of coronavirus-related deaths in the Eastern Mediterranean region, after Iran, Iraq and Pakistan, the World Health Organisation's Regional Office for the Eastern (...)
Egypt's Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) introduced an initiative that aims to merge informal economic activities into the formal economy through using digital payment instruments.
The Digital Financial Inclusion for 2021 Initiative targets (...)
Pakistan on Saturday arrested a man accused of being a leader of an Islamist militant group blamed by the United States and India for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a counter-terrorism official said.
The arrest is in relation to terrorism financing, the (...)
Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an attack on Sunday that killed 11 miners from Pakistan's minority Shia Hazaras in Baluchistan province.
The attack took place early on Sunday morning in the Mach area of Bolan district around 100 kms (...)
تساهم الأشجار في تنقية الهواء من الملوثات والتخفيف من ظاهرة الاحتباس الحراري، لأنها تساهم في امتصاص غاز ثاني أكسيد الكربون الضار خلال التمثيل الغذائي.
وتتسبب الحرائق وعمليات التجريف التي تتعرض لها الغابات حول العالم في تراجع المساحات الخضراء بصورة (...)
Arifullah Khan had just administered another polio vaccine when the gunfire blasted from the nearby hills.
“It happened so suddenly. There was so much gunfire it felt like an explosion,” he said, recalling details of the attack five years ago in (...)
India's government detained at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists to forestall political unrest after an alliance of Kashmir's regional political parties won a local election, leaders and a police official said on Saturday.
The (...)
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed on Thursday boosting bilateral relations between Egypt and Pakistan in a telephone call with his Pakistan counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi in order to face joint challenges, Egyptian Foreign Ministry (...)
A coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was found to be safe and triggered immune responses in early and mid-stage trials, researchers said on Tuesday.
A late-stage trial of the ZF2001 vaccine, which CAS is (...)
The United Arab Emirates' top diplomat has publicly acknowledged a so-far unexplained ban on visitors from Pakistan, which travel agents say also targets tourists and laborers from a dozen Muslim-majority countries amid the pandemic and the UAE's (...)
In October, Indonesian diplomats and Muslim clerics stepped off a plane in China. While the diplomats were there to finalize deals to ensure millions of doses reached Indonesian citizens, the clerics had a much different concern: Whether the (...)
A Taliban team, led by the co-founder of the insurgent movement, arrived Wednesday in Islamabad for talks with Pakistani government leaders amid growing calls for a reduction in violence in Afghanistan.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and his delegation (...)
Kuwait will resume flights to Egypt after a nearly four-month hiatus, Kuwaiti Civil Aviation Spokesman Saad Al-Otaibi told Reuters on Saturday.
Al-Otaibi said his country had informed state-run EgyptAir that Kuwait Airways and Jazeera Airways would (...)
The leaders of Iran and Afghanistan on Thursday inaugurated the first railway link between the two countries, expressing hope it would enhance trade links across the region.
The 140-kilometer (90-mile) line running from eastern Iran into western (...)
Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country's 1.4 billion people.
Developers are (...)
People from different parts of the world were cheering when Trump lost the US presidential election, content for the victory of Joe Biden. But is it something to be happy about? Especially for Muslims inside and even outside the US, and particularly (...)
The United Arab Emirates has stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 countries, including Iran, Syria and Somalia, according to a document issued by a state-owned business park.
The document, which was sent to companies operating in the park and (...)
Amid defiance of the directive to wear masks and avoid large public gatherings, Pakistan reported 59 more deaths and 2,665 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday.
The country's tally reached 374,173 confirmed cases. Among those being treated for the virus, (...)
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in Kabul on Thursday to meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, at a time when peace negotiations between the Afghan government and Taliban representatives have stalled and violence is rising.
This will (...)
An Afghan man pleaded not guilty on Monday in Manhattan federal court to six counts related to the 2008 kidnapping of a U.S. journalist and two Afghan nationals in Afghanistan.
Haji Najibullah faces charges including kidnapping, hostage taking, (...)
The United States and Israel worked together to track and kill a senior al-Qaeda operative in Iran earlier this year, a bold intelligence operation by the two allied nations that came as the Trump administration was ramping up pressure on (...)
Al Qaeda's second-in-command, accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United States, the New York Times reported on Friday, (...)
Waking up to the news of Kamala Harris' election as U.S. vice president, overjoyed people in her Indian grandfather's hometown set off firecrackers and offered prayers on Sunday.
Groups gathered at street corners in Thulasendrapuram, a tiny village (...)
