Millions flock to Muslim gathering in Bangladesh
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Pakistan Times Foreign Correspondent. TONGI (Bangladesh): A three-day mass gathering of Muslims, considered the largest annual Islamic event after the Hajj, began Friday in Bangladesh.
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Thousands of opposition supporters marched through the Bangladeshi capital Monday to protest a weekend grenade attack on a political rally that killed 19 people and wounded hundreds.
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Tongi, Dec. 5 (PTI): Some four million pilgrims, including Bangladesh&#39;s President Iajuddin Ahmed, and Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, participated today in a mass prayer at the end of the world&#39;s second largest annual Islamic meet near here.
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ABBOTABAD, PAKISTAN -- Tens of thousands of demonstrators joined the biggest rally yet against the president's suspension of Pakistan's chief justice, giving the jurist a joyous reception yesterday before he spoke to supporters in an opposition stronghold. Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry's convoy defied a new two-month ban on gatherings of more than five people. But police did not stop the judge's ...
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MILWAUKEE - An estimated 5,000 Muslims gathered for communal prayers at the Midwest Airlines Center to begin celebration of the Eid al-Fitr, which marked the end of the religion&#39;s holy month of Ramadan.
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Hundreds of civil rights leaders and others crowded Martin Luther King Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church on Monday to the celebrate the man and his legacy.
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DHAKA: Nearly two million Muslims from around the world ended their three-day annual prayer for global peace and harmony outside the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Sunday.
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Thousands of activists rallied in Bangladesh's capital Wednesday, demanding authorities update a disputed list of voters and reform the country's election commission ahead of next month's balloting.
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By PARVEEN AHMED Associated Press Writer DHAKA, Bangladesh . About 10,000 riot police and paramilitary troops patrolled the streets of the capital Sunday and stores and schools were closed across the country
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Thousands of mourners have attended funeral prayers for two of the victims of Sunday&#39;s blast at a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
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COLOGNE - More than 20,000 people, most of them Muslim, have demonstrated in Germany against terrorism and for world peace. The crowd held aloft a sea of Turkish, German and European Union flags during speeches in downtown Cologne at the end of a march.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied in a Gaza Strip soccer stadium Friday in a massive show of support for the ruling Hamas group and its beleaguered government.
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Most of the world&#39;s 1.2 billion Muslims began Ramadan on Thursday, a holy month of dawn-to-dusk fasting, festivities -- and abstinence.
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Thousands of Islamists demonstrated across Pakistan after Friday prayers against the death of a cleric in detention over suspected links to Al Qaeda and against raids on seminaries.
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Thousands of Bob Marley fans and  Rastafarians gathered in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on  Tuesday for the start of weeks of festivities to mark the 60th  anniversary of the reggae icon's birthday.
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More than 100,000 Turks took to the streets on Saturday to protest against government plans to lift an Islamic headscarf ban at universities and to defend the country's strong secular tradition.
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Tens and thousands of Bangladesh opposition supporters have packed the centre of the capital Dhaka to demand that next month's elections be delayed because of allegations of vote rigging.