Islamic Law
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Taliban codify strict morality laws: Women ordered to cover faces, men required to grow beards
World | Aug 24, 2024, 11:21 AM ISTThe 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
Chennai | May 25, 2024, 06:52 PM ISTAs 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 | Feb 23, 2024, 04:10 PM ISTThe 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 | Sep 25, 2023, 04:46 PM ISTMufti 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 | Nov 02, 2021, 07:20 AM ISTThe 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 | Sep 13, 2019, 09:17 PM ISTTensions 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 | Jan 22, 2019, 08:50 PM ISTThe 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 | Nov 08, 2016, 07:29 AM ISTWhen 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 | Nov 05, 2015, 10:33 AM ISTNew 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 | Jan 08, 2016, 11:17 AM ISTNew 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 | Jan 21, 2015, 10:01 PM ISTIslamabad: 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
National | Oct 21, 2010, 12:32 PM ISTAs 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