DAMMAM — A Saudi man in his 30s was shot in his head in a hit-and-run operation. Eastern Province Police spokesman Col. Ziyad Al-Reqaiti said a speeding mini bus crashed into the car the man was driving. He tried to escape but someone in the mini bus shot him in the head. The police were able to identify and arrest some of the people in the
Driver shot in hit-and-run
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Liquor haul on causeway
Customs officers at King Fahd Causeway foiled three separate attempts to smuggle a total of 380 bottles of liquor into the Kingdom. In the first attempt, the smuggler carefully hid 138 bottles inside his car. In two subsequent attempts, 242 liquor bottles were seized from two other travelers. All three men were taken into custody. — Courtesy photo
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Two Saudis jailed for fighting in Syria
JEDDAH — Two Saudi men were sentenced to prison and banned from travel after being convicted of involvement in terrorist activities abroad. Jeddah Penal Court found the men guilty of traveling to Syria, making contacts with a terrorist group, taking part in training and fighting alongside members of the group. The court sentenced one of the
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Markazi Jamiyat event
Haji Abdul Rouf Patron-in-Chief (sitting 3rd left) Markazi Jamiyat Saudi Arabia gave an Iftar reception to visiting Hafiz Dr. Abdul Kareem (sitting 4th left) Nazim-e-Aala of Markazi Jamiyat Pakistan, member National Assembly and chairman Standing Committee of religious affairs. The event was held at his residence in Jeddah recently. Several members of the Jamiyat
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Flimban party in Trident
Mohammed Abdul Razzak Flimban, sponsor of Ain kaaf Seen Alif, and owner of Al Thaqafah IT Solutions and Marine Logistics services group of companies, held an Iftar party at Trident Hotel recently. Abdulkarim, operation manager of Marine Logistics services, Shoukath Khan, regional manager of Al Thaqafah IT Solutions and Mohamed Danish, operation supervisor of Ain k
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Dawat Group’s Sahoor
Dawat Group hosted a Sahoor party at Naigra restaurant. Syed Zia ul Rahman, Mohammed Rafeeq, Mirza Majeed Baig and many dignitaries from Hyderabadi community attended. — SG photo by Mir Mohsin Ali
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IBF’s Ahmad hosts Iftar
An Iftar was hosted by Owais Ahmad, president, Indian Business Forum (IBF), at his residence and many associations’ head and members from the business fraternity attended. Dr. Nafees Ahmed, member of Muslim Personal Law Board Shoura and general secretary of the Association of Minority Institutions, Uttar Pradesh, was a guest from India. He gave a Power Point
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Majlis-e-Ilm-o-Adab hosts Iftar for Indian social activist
Muhammad Mujahid Syed Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – “Only secularism can save the Indian social mosaic. Secularism has been a real binding force of Indian society. Wise people cannot ignore this fact. Most of the Indian people believe in peaceful coexistence and they are strivin
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Gulbarga NRIs host Iftar program
JEDDAH — Gulbarga Charitable and Welfare Trust (GCWT) Jeddah Chapter organized an Iftar Party at the residence of Mirza Azam Baig. Members of the trust from Gulbarga and different parts of the country participated. Syed Nasir Khursheed, vice president of the trust, highlighted the aims and objectives of the trust. Saleem Khali
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Ramadan blessings are countless, says Pakistani scholar
Waqar Naseem Wamiq RIYADH — “Ramadan unites people together in various forms and its blessings are countless,” stated visiting scholar from Pakistan Prof. Ghulam Sarwar Qureshi recently here. He made this statement during in an interactive session that followed an
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Warehouse bottling fake Zamzam shut
Badea Abu Al-Naja Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — Municipal officials on Monday shut down a warehouse where fake Zamzam water was being bottled and sold. Mamdouh Iraqi, director of Makkah Municipality, said they seized 1,150 bottles of fake Zamzam from the facility.
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Lawsuit against an electric pole
Fahd Jleid Al-Jazirah IT seems that the residents of Al-Muqaitie District in the Dhiba region of Tabuk are on their way to joining the Guinness World Records, not as the most exquisite neighborhood in the world but as the first district that has filed a lawsuit against an electric pole. The residents cla
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Woman jailed for cheating expat out of SR300,000
Adnan Al-Shabrawi
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — A court here sentenced a Saudi woman to prison and ordered her to return SR300,000 she had taken from a Yemeni national promising to obtain him the Saudi nationality.
The Yemeni man’s lawyer, Khalid Al-Yafie, sa
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Woman expects twins, gives birth to triplets
Badea Abu Al-Najah Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — A woman in her 30s gave birth to triplets through cesarean delivery at Hira Hospital in Makkah. Obstetrician Dr. Amani Hariri said the woman was expecting twins but instead she gave birth to two boys and a girl.
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Itikaf in Grand Mosque better organized
Badea Abu Al-Naja
Saudi Gazette
MAKKAH — The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques is regulating Itikaf (an Islamic practice to retreat for a number of days in a mosque in order to focus on supplication away from the distractions of life) in the Grand Mosqu
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Center takes 22 blind men on Umrah trip
Renad Ghanem Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The neighborhood centers in Jeddah organized a special trip for the blind to Makkah for Umrah in cooperation with a volunteer group at World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY). Twenty-two people participated in the trip. Th
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ADA approves recreation projects
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — Prince Faisal Bin Bandar, chairman of Riyadh Development Authority (ADA), said a joint meeting of the authority and the Supreme Executive Committee of Projects and Planning discussed several development projects in the city, including the Silay Valley and
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Amnesty for Yemenis extended till Aug. 15
RIYADH — Saudi authorities extended the deadline for correcting the legal status of Yemeni nationals residing in the Kingdom illegally to Aug. 15 (Shawwal 30), the Saudi Press Agency reported Thursday. The two-month amnesty, ordered by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman on May 10 covering all Yemeni nationals residing il
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Tunnel from Grand Mosque to Jarwal open
MAKKAH — The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques has opened the tunnel linking the courtyard of King Abdullah Expansion of the Grand Mosque with Jarwal District. Sultan Al-Qurashi, director of the projects department, said the tunnel is 1,000 meters long and 16 meters wide. A 9.4-meter-wide path in the
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Huge rush of meditators in Prophet’s Mosque
MADINAH — More than 15,000 worshippers turned out to perform “itikaf” (meditative seclusion) at the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah on Wednesday, the second day in the last and the holiest third of Ramadan. The number of people who started itikaf on Tuesday was 12,500, according to sources in the Agency for Itikaf und
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