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  Taliban codify strict morality laws: Women ordered to cover faces, men required to grow beards

  World | August 24, 2024 11:21 IST

  The Taliban have officially implemented a strict morality law in Afghanistan, mandating women to cover their faces and men to grow beards. This law, based on a 2022 decree by the Taliban's supreme leader, will be enforced by the Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue.

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  Tamil Nadu Police arrests six Hizb-ut-Tahrir operatives for campaign against elections

  May 25, 2024 18:52 IST

  As the Lok Sabha elections are ensuing in the country, the Chennai Police (cyber crime) arrests six operatives of Hizb-ut-Tahrir for anti-national activities and running a propaganda against elections, democracy and rule of law.

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  Afghanistan: Thousands witness Taliban carry out double execution in football stadium

  World | February 23, 2024 16:10 IST

  The Taliban regularly carried out public executions, floggings and stonings when they were in power from 1996 to 2001. The UN on Thursday said it was strongly opposed to the death penalty, saying it was inconsistent with the fundamental right to life.

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  Pakistan court summons Imran as cleric claims Islamic laws weren't followed during marriage

  World | September 25, 2023 16:46 IST

  Mufti Saeed, the cleric who solemnised the couple's Islamic marriage in 2018, said in April that the wedding occurred during the iddat period of Bushra Bibi

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  Taliban pledge to support freedom of expression based under Islamic regulations

  World | November 02, 2021 7:20 IST

  The Islamic Emirate would not allow anyone to silence the freedom of expression, the Taliban have said. 

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  Imran Khan govt facing heat after law minister's comment on possible takeover of Karachi's administration

  World | September 13, 2019 21:17 IST

  Tensions had already been brewing between the federal government and Sindh over the formation of a 'strategic committee' for the mismanaged metropolis by the prime minister, with the province, ruled by Opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), feeling that Islamabad was encroaching on its turf.

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  Child born of 'irregular' marriage b/w Hindu woman, Muslim man legitimate, stands to inherit father's property: SC

  India | January 22, 2019 20:50 IST

  The court said that high court relied on principles of Islamic law to conclude that such rules do not treat the marriage of a Muslim with a Hindu woman as void, and confers legitimacy upon children born out of such wedlock.

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  A Twice-Divorced Saudi Mother Of 6 Reinterprets Islamic Law

  World | November 08, 2016 7:29 IST

  When Souad al-Shammary posted a series of tweets about the thick beards worn by Saudi clerics, she never imagined she would land in jail. She put up images of several men with beards: An Orthodox

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  Talaq delivered through Skype, WhatsApp and others means valid: AIMPLB

  India | November 05, 2015 10:33 IST

  New Delhi: All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has strongly disapproved the Supreme Court's observation in which it called for examining the Islamic law to do away with discriminations against Muslim women.Speaking to India

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  15 staggering facts about Saudi Arabia

  World | January 08, 2016 11:17 IST

  New Delhi: The legal system of Saudi Arabia is based on Sharia, Islamic law derived from the Quran, and thus discrimination against women here still continues.The Saudi law solely adheres to Holy Quran -- which

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  Female judges in Pakistan must wear veil, says clerics council

  World | January 21, 2015 22:01 IST

  Islamabad: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) on Wednesday proposed that  female judges in Pakistan should mandatorily cover or observe niqab (face veil) while in court.Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani who chaired the CII meeting, said 

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  Ban Burqa, Demands Shiv Sena

  Politics | October 21, 2010 12:32 IST

  As the hysteria against  Islamic veil (burqa) sweeps Europe, Shiv Sena jumped on to the bandwagon on Tuesday after it was reported that a burqa-clad woman stole a baby from a civic hospital, reports MidDay.Shiv