Arab marriage racket involving minor girls busted, 8 sheikhs held

In a major breakthrough, the South Zone police here have arrested 20 culprits including five Omani and three Qatar nationals, three Qazis including a chief Qazi from Mumbai, five brokers and four hotel owners in connection with child marriages to Arab ...

The police have busted a racket of 'contract marriage' of local women and minor girls with men from the Middle East and Gulf countries. The police have arrested 20 persons, including eight foreign nationals, in this connection, a senior official said today.

Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed's Jammat-ud-Dawah will foray into Pakistan's political scene by contesting the 2018 general elections, a senior member of the outfit said, a day after its candidate finished third in a crucial bypoll. Last month, Jamaat-ud-Dawah, a front for the Lashkar-e-Tayiba terror group that carried out the deadly 2008 Mumbai attack, announced that it was launching the Milli Muslim League. Sheikh Yaqoob, a JuD-backed candidate who ...

STATE TIMES NEWS SRINAGAR: The government on Monday transferred seven KAS officers. According to an order issued by the General Administration Department, Qazi Sarwar, KAS, Chief Executive Officer, Tourism Development Authority, Sonamarg, has been transferred ...

Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Jamaat-ud Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed has challenged the order of Pakistans Punjab government to extend his detention for 60 more days. The Punjab Home Department issued an order on July 28 under which the detention of Saeed ...

The Supreme Court’s majority judgment declaring Triple Talaq in one sitting (talaq-e-biddat) as “unconstitutional” has come as a setback for the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board and has put it on the defensive. “Had the board taken ...

Mumbai : Mosques in the Indian technology hub of Hyderabad are joining a growing campaign to stop schoolgirls being sold as brides to elderly Arab men, authorities said on Monday, amid an outcry about a new spate of cases. India launched an investigation last ...

[Pakistan], August 20 (ANI): Differences have emerged in Nawaz Sharif's extended family as the founder of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has refrained his nephew Hamza Shahbaz to participate in the campaigning process of NA-120 by-elections, from where ...

It was the year 1962. Abdul Gaffar Ansari, now 64 years old, was then a young boy serving as an assistant to his father, a tailor in Delhi's Sadar Bazar. That year, they received an order that would forever change the course of their simple business. The ...