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PARIS: Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan, a professor of Islamic studies, was ordered to remain in custody in France on Friday and notified that he was the target of a full investigation into rape accusations, a source with the prosecutor’s…

CAIRO: The head of Egypt’s Al-Azhar university, one of the world’s leading Islamic seats of learning, has been replaced after labelling a controversial Muslim reformer an apostate, the institution said. The development came as Al-Azhar…

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser has said prominent religious scholar Maulana Tariq Jameel will address the provincial assembly.

BOSTON: Karachi-born Nasser Hussain, professor of law, jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst College, USA, passed away in the early hours of Nov 9 after an prolonged illness, at the residence of his brother Omar Hussain in the Boston…