- In a special report, Friday Times journalist Amna Usman described how “surrogacy in Pakistan is deeply stigmatised despite medical benefits, raising ethical, religious and legal debates over lineage, dignity and regulated compassion.”
- In Iran, “the Islamic Republic is strategically leveraging pre-Islamic Iranian nationalism and symbols like the Shapur I statue to consolidate power amid a secular shift and economic crisis.”
- In India, “a significant majority of Muslim women want polygamy outlawed, with 85% saying it should be legally invalid and 87% wanting the application of existing criminal provisions against their husbands if they remarry, a new survey has found.”
- “Renowned Islamic scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani has strongly criticized the proposal to grant the President of Pakistan lifelong immunity from legal proceedings, calling it contrary to the principles of Islam.”
- “The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) together with the Directorate General of Taxation (DJP) have agreed to establish a joint force tasked with reviewing the fatwa recommendations and formulating steps to improve the national tax system to be fairer and more accountable. Chairman of the MUI for Fatwa, Asrorun Niam emphasized that MUI is ready to collaborate in providing religious and ethical guidelines to strengthen the national tax system so that it is in accordance with Islamic values.”