By Akhtar Pathan KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — For decades, the global memory of World War II’s greatest horrors has reflected a distinct geographical and cultural imbalance in the West. While the Holocaust has become deeply institutionalized in Western classrooms, museums, public commemorations and media, the atomic obliteration of Hiroshima and...
TEHRAN, Iran (MNTV) — Iran has welcomed a new defence agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye, with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi calling for greater solidarity among Muslim-majority countries amid continuing tensions across West Asia. Araghchi praised Iran’s armed forces in a post on X and linked their military capabiliti...
By MNTV Staff Writer ISLAMABAD (MNTV) — When Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement on Friday, the headline commitment sounded absolute: an armed attack against any one of the three would be treated as an attack against all. The symbolism — struck in Islam’s holiest city, blessed by the OIC […...
By Mushfiq Ahmed KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — For Southeast Asia’s 240 million Muslims, the economic integration of ASEAN — the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the region’s main political and economic bloc — is producing concrete gains in halal industries, small business, and cross-border trade. As the bloc deepens its single...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim woman has accused organizers of a food festival in India’s financial capital of Mumbai of religious discrimination after she says she was told to remove her hijab or leave the venue, despite operating a vegetarian food stall that complied with the event’s dietary requirements. According to The Obs...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Hindu theatre artist says he was brutally assaulted by Hindu extremists who believed he was Muslim, describing the attack as another example of how religious profiling and anti-Muslim hatred can make perceived religious identity a trigger for violence in India. Subhankar Dassharma, a theatre artist from the eastern ...
RIYADH/ANKARA/ISLAMABAD (MNTV) — Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan bring together three distinct military capabilities under their new defense partnership. Riyadh provides the largest financial resources, Ankara contributing an increasingly advanced domestic defense industry, and Islamabad offering the group’s only nuclear deterrent and...
ISLAMABAD (MNTV) — A day after Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan signed a mutual-defense pact treating an attack on any one of them as an attack on all, governments and analysts worldwide were still measuring what it means — with reactions splitting along the region’s existing fault lines. The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, signed Fri...
MNTV (MNTV) — One month after China’s Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress took effect, rights advocates say it is already being used against Uyghurs and other minorities — the opposite of the cohesion Beijing says it will foster, according to an analysis in The Diplomat. The law embeds what advocates describe as a […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (MNTV) — Malaysia has been named one of the world’s four leading net exporters of AI hardware, alongside South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, in the International Monetary Fund’s July World Economic Outlook update. Malaysia accounts for roughly 13 percent of global semiconductor “back-end” manufactu...
