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June Family of ex-Saudi intelligence off icer being targeted: Report Page 34 3. Politics of Adhaan, Niqab and medical masks 4. US praises Pakistan's cooperation for peace in Afghanistan 6. Pakistan's Scorn for Science and Surrender To Religious Forces Has Put Millions In Danger 8. Pakistan's Discrimination Against Its Minorities Is Entrenched in Its Constitution 10. 14-year-old Christian girl abducted, converted to Islam and married off to her abductor in Pakistan 11. Roots of Anti Ahmadiyya Cause and role of Shorish Kashmiri 14. Zafrullah Khan, Objectives' Resolution and the Islamic Republic 15. ISIS magazine tries to instigate Indian Muslims on CAA-NRC 16. Muslim, pregnant and in jail as coronavirus sweeps through India 17. Role of Jamaat-e-Islami in radicalizing next generation of Muslims 18. UK: Amid the coronavirus, bailing out mosques is essential 20. VE Day: What is it, when is it and why do we remember? 21. One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years 23. NYC Muslims struggle to hold traditional burials 24. Pakistani doctor indicted in Minnesota on terrorism charge 25. Pakistani-American woman sentenced to 13 years by US court for funding ISIS 27. World carbon pollution falls 17pc during pandemic peak 28. Cyclone toll hits 95 as Bangladesh and India start mopping up 30. Use of charity to advance radical ideologies 32. Mosque, social center in Germany attacked 33. Annexing the West Bank Would Hurt Israel 34. Family of ex-Saudi intelligence officer being targeted: Report 35. For First-Ever Virtual Ramadan, American Muslims Are Creating Mini-Mosques At Home 37. From Iran to the US: Songs in times of war and coronavirus June, 2020 Politics of Adhaan, Niqab and medical masks For the first time Muslims in Canada, UK, the adhzaan can be played on appointed times on Germany were able to hear Muslim call to prayer iPhones or tablets. Hearing the call to prayer from loudspeakers within the confines of the outside the mosque when most people do not live mosque. Normally calling on Azaan on near the mosque so cannot hear the adhaan is loudspeakers is prohibited under city bylaws. useless. Nothing to rejoice, as it had more to do with politics Meanwhile in Quebec it is not yet mandatory to than having any feeling for Muslims during the cover the face with a mask. Bill 21 bars some month of Ramadan. public-sector employees in positions of authority Tthis permission was granted as an exception due from wearing hijabs, kippas, turbans and other to coronavirus lockdown, hence people were not religious dress at work. Some people are asking arriving at the mosques. This permission was only why it was a problem when Muslim women for Ramadan. Muslims are waiting to see public covered their face with a Niqab, it was deemed reaction over this temporary permission. If there is against secular values of the province. Majority of no strong opposition they will seek permanent people in Quebec support a ban on religious permission to use loudspeakers for Azaan. symbols in the public sector, but this has not In the UK mosques in Waltham Forest- East changed their perception of religious face London were allowed to use loudspeakers for coverings. Are these two issues connected? Azaan at sunset – iftar time and for Juma prayers. A medical mask and an optional religious face Council agreed that nine mosques could perform covering may be similar in practice, but they the Adhzaan as mosques were closed and Muslims symbolize different things. There are very strong were unable to pray at the mosque. stereotypes that people have of Muslim women Question is what is the purpose of Adhaan? It is to wearing traditional clothing, such as Burka or alert people to stop other activities and come to Niqab. pray at the mosque. But if the mosques are closed With a medical mask people feel safe and secure, then what is the need for Azaan? In that it will protect them from COVID 19. But with some countries like Dubai the Muezzin changed a face covering like niqab there is no guarantee that the wording and was heard reciting As-salatu fee it will protect from the virus. Some Muslim women bayootikum – that is offer Salat at your homes. To who wear burka in public say life in public places is be honest it is all politics, time to put hopes that now more pleasant. Holding that azaan (call to with this gesture Muslims will vote for the prayer) “may be an essential and integral part of politicians. Islam”, the Allahabad High Court Friday said its Calling people to come for prayers at the mosque recitation “through loudspeakers or other sound on loudspeakers is not mandated. There was a amplifying devices cannot be said to be an integral 3 time when Ulema in the Indian sub-continent had part of the religion.” given fatwas against calling adhzaan on loudspeakers. People can say prayers virtually or June US praises Pakistan's cooperation for peace in Afghanistan The newspaper's Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: The Trump administration's is premised on our ability to work together outgoing point person for South and Central Asia constructively to advance peace,” she Alice Wells on Wednesday praised Pakistan for underscored. “solid cooperation” for peace in Afghanistan and Recalling how the United States upped the emphasised that future of bilateral ties depended pressure on Pakistan to deliver on its counter- on Islamabad's continued support. terrorism expectations, the retiring senior “We have seen over the last year, solid cooperation diplomat said President Trump's strategy for between Amb Khalilzad and the Pakistani civilian Afghanistan and South Asia unequivocally made and military leadership to encourage the Taliban it clear to Pakistan that it needed to take “decisive to take steps to reach the negotiating table,” action” against groups, and the subsequent Ambassador Wells said during an online media suspension of security assistance demonstrated briefing in which she reviewed and reflected on Washington's “resolve”. US policies in the region during the past three “Since then we have seen constructive steps by years. Pakistan to encourage the Taliban to advance the Amb Wells, the Principal Deputy Assistant Afghan peace process. Pakistan has also taken Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian initial steps towards curtailing terrorist groups 4 Affairs at the State Department, is retiring this that threaten the region, such as arresting and month. This was possibly her last official media prosecuting the LeT leader Hafiz Saeed and engagement. beginning to dismantle terrorist financing “The advancement and improvement and the structures,” she further said. foundation for a stronger US-Pakistan partnership Amb Wells said that the US-Pakistan ties, June especially bilateral trade, expanded as Islamabad's economy's problems. 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