Sharia Law

Afghan government employees must attend mosque five times a day or face punishment, Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada said Thursday in his latest edict enforcing an austere interpretation of Islam.

Targeting the Congress, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said that the soul of Aurangzeb has possessed the party and that its leaders have been in a state of mourning since the January 22 Pran Pratishtha ceremony of Lord Ram.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday made serious allegations against the Congress and said the grand old party has in its election manifesto expressed its intention to implement the 'Sharia law' in the country.

Several countries have banned homosexuality, with many of them having the death penalty for same-sex relations.

Rights groups have cancelled a Southeast Asian LGBT event in Indonesia after receiving security threats, the organisers said, the latest sign of increasing pressure on the community from religious conservatives in the country.

The Shiv Sena (UBT) today said that "mere opposition to Sharia" cannot be the basis for the Uniform Civil Code, asserting that Uniform Civil Code also means having equality in law and justice for all.

Mufti Mohammad Saeed, the cleric who solemnised the couple's Islamic marriage in 2018, said it took place during the iddat period of Bushra Bibi.

Kneeling in front of a turbanned judge in a tiny room at the Ghazni Court of Appeal in eastern Afghanistan, an old man sentenced to death for murder pleads for his life.

Under Iran's sharia or Islamic law, women are obliged to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes.

The Taliban will deal with the international community in line with sharia law, Haibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the hardline Islamist group said.

A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking to declare 'Talaq-e-Hasan' and all other forms of "unilateral extra-judicial talaq" as void and unconstitutional, claiming they are arbitrary, irrational, and violated fundamental rights.

US Department of State spokesperson Ned Price strongly reacted to the recent statement of the Taliban over implementing the Sharia laws, which includes amputation and execution of criminals.

A day after she said Taliban can set an example for the world if they follow the real Sharia law, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti said her remarks concerning Sharia have been "deliberately distorted".

The Taliban, which has taken over the reins of Afghanistan, must follow true Sharia (Islamic law), which guarantees rights of all, including women, Jammu and Kashmir's Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti said on Wednesday.

The Taliban drew from its inner high echelons to fill top posts in Afghanistan's new government on Tuesday, including an associate of the Islamist militant group's founder as premier and a wanted man on a U.S. terrorism list as interior minister.

Afghan government employees must attend mosque five times a day or face punishment, Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada said Thursday in his latest edict enforcing an austere interpretation of Islam.

Targeting the Congress, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said that the soul of Aurangzeb has possessed the party and that its leaders have been in a state of mourning since the January 22 Pran Pratishtha ceremony of Lord Ram.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday made serious allegations against the Congress and said the grand old party has in its election manifesto expressed its intention to implement the 'Sharia law' in the country.

Several countries have banned homosexuality, with many of them having the death penalty for same-sex relations.

Rights groups have cancelled a Southeast Asian LGBT event in Indonesia after receiving security threats, the organisers said, the latest sign of increasing pressure on the community from religious conservatives in the country.

The Shiv Sena (UBT) today said that "mere opposition to Sharia" cannot be the basis for the Uniform Civil Code, asserting that Uniform Civil Code also means having equality in law and justice for all.

Mufti Mohammad Saeed, the cleric who solemnised the couple's Islamic marriage in 2018, said it took place during the iddat period of Bushra Bibi.

Kneeling in front of a turbanned judge in a tiny room at the Ghazni Court of Appeal in eastern Afghanistan, an old man sentenced to death for murder pleads for his life.

Under Iran's sharia or Islamic law, women are obliged to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes.

The Taliban will deal with the international community in line with sharia law, Haibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the hardline Islamist group said.

A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking to declare 'Talaq-e-Hasan' and all other forms of "unilateral extra-judicial talaq" as void and unconstitutional, claiming they are arbitrary, irrational, and violated fundamental rights.

US Department of State spokesperson Ned Price strongly reacted to the recent statement of the Taliban over implementing the Sharia laws, which includes amputation and execution of criminals.

A day after she said Taliban can set an example for the world if they follow the real Sharia law, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti said her remarks concerning Sharia have been "deliberately distorted".

The Taliban, which has taken over the reins of Afghanistan, must follow true Sharia (Islamic law), which guarantees rights of all, including women, Jammu and Kashmir's Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti said on Wednesday.

The Taliban drew from its inner high echelons to fill top posts in Afghanistan's new government on Tuesday, including an associate of the Islamist militant group's founder as premier and a wanted man on a U.S. terrorism list as interior minister.