Mecca, also spelled Makkah, is a city in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arabia. 70 km inland from Jeddah, in a narrow valley 277 m above sea level, 340 kilometres south of Medina, its population in 2012 was 2 million, although visitors more than triple this number every year during the Ḥajj, held in the twelfth Muslim lunar month of Dhūl-Ḥijjah. Read More
Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) founder and leader Altaf Hussain said that the youth of Pakistan has been misled by the imperialist Punjabi establishment of Pakistan by distorting the entire history of the country. ...
Saudi Arabia has announced that it will hold a "very limited" Hajj this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, with people already living in the kingdom allowed to take part in the pilgrimage that begins in late July, Al Jazeera reported. ...
The 'Imams' belonging to the Uighur Muslim community from Xinjiang province of northwest China have become most vulnerable to persecution owing to Beijing's crackdown on the minority Muslims. ...
The Chinese government is targeting minority Muslims in Xinjiang which is taking a toll on the community's religious staff, according to families of the Uyghur victims, who said that their imams are the most vulnerable to persecution. ...
Palestine has slammed Israel for issuing deportation orders for Palestinian worshippers from the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the third-holiest ... ...
