October 21, 2002	Monday	Sha’aban 14,1423

DUBAI, Oct 20: The world’s first English-language Islamic satellite television channel, Al-Majd 2, said on Sunday it would start broadcasting on the first day of Ramazan.

“As the majority of the world’s Muslims are non-Arabs, we felt it was natural to launch this channel in English,” said Wajdi al-Ghazzawi, chief executive officer of Al-Majd 2.

“There are approximately 100 million satellite TV households across the Islamic world,” Ghazzawi said.—AFP