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Beyond its boundaries, India’s strategic policy of supporting terrorism for its own purposes has a substantial negative influence on regional stability, with Pakistan being the primary target of its nefarious…

 Shafaqna India: Commentary on Nahjul-Balaghah, Hadith Number 1, by Mohammad Sobhanie. قَال (عليه السلام): كُنْ فِي الْفِتْنَةِ كَابْنِ اللَّبُونِ ، لاَ ظَهْرٌ فَيُرْكَبَ، وَلاَ ضَرْعٌ فَيُحْلَبَ. Amir Al-Mu’minin, Imam Ali…

Shafaqna India: THE appalling case at Ludhiana Civil Hospital, where a patient was forced to share a bed with a corpse for over half an hour due to administrative negligence,…

India is set to begin the world’s largest general elections on Friday, held in terrain sweeping from the icy Himalayas to humid jungles, with nearly a billion people eligible to choose 543…

Shafaqna India: Owing to the anti-Muslim rhetoric of the ruling BJP, most opposition parties, despite relying heavily on the support of minorities, are shying away from speaking out on issues…

Shafaqna India: THERE is a perceptible voter fatigue against divisive planks. That’s encouraging news coming in for Indian democracy, which braces for a seven-stage general election starting Friday. The last…

Shafaqna India: One out of four BJP candidates in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections are defectors from other parties. An analysis of the 417 candidates announced shows that 116 of…

Shafaqna India:Was the Delhi High Court’s rejection of Arvind Kejriwal’s petition challenging the legality of his arrest the beginning of the end of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in the capital? The rejection…

Shafaqna India: Narendra Modi often says he likes to think big, dream big and act big. Having sold tea at a railway station as a boy while his mother washed…

Shafaqna India: Iran launched more than 200 drones and missiles on Israel in an unprecedented attack late on Saturday, the Israeli army announced, “in response” to a deadly airstrike on…

India’s monopolistic tendencies affect every nation in South Asia. It has maintained tense relations with the majority of its neighbours since gaining independence in 1947. India’s challenges in building peaceful…

Shafaqna India: In early March, a realistic AI-generated image of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, styled as Bhishma Pitamah from the ancient Hindu epic Mahabharata, was boosted as a political…

Shafaqna India: Thousands of Muslims offered Eid prayers across Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday and no untoward incident was reported from anywhere. Large Eid gatherings were seen at the Hazratbal…

Shafaqna India: Delhi Minister Raaj Kumar Anand on Wednesday resigned from the Cabinet and quit the AAP, alleging Dalits were not given representation in the party. Addressing a press conference…

Shafaqna India: The office of Grand Ayatollah Syed Ali Sistani in Najaf Ashraf has announced Wednesday (April 22, 1403) as the first day of Shawwal 1445 Hijri and Eid al-Fitr…

Shafaqna India: India and Bangladesh announced to observe 30th fasting day of the holy month of Ramadan and celebrate Eid ul Fitr on Thursday (April 11) as Shawwal crescent was not…

Shafaqna India:  The article “God’s Mercy Through Fasting” is written by Sheikh Husayn Ansarian, and translated to English by Dr. Mohammad Javad Shomali. Abstract Although all acts of worship that…

Fifty years after India and Sri Lanka settled a long-simmering dispute over a tiny island, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accused a former government of the now-in-opposition Congress Party…

THE zero from the large ‘G20’ image created with a mesh of wires has vanished. It was placed ambitiously over a tall footbridge near the venue where the G20 summit…

Had it not been for his grandfather, Ganesh Kale might have been dead today. In January this year, the 40-year-old woke at 6am in his remote village in India’s western…

Shafaqna India: Cryptocurrency, an unregulated investment domain, has been flagged by federal regulators and consumer advocates as subject to fraud. It became popular during the pandemic, with investors showing interest…

Shafaqna India: India’s hot pursuit tendency is now assuming a global phenomenon. Notwithstanding claims made by The Guardian that New Delhi has taken out Pakistani civilians in cold-blooded murder extraterritorially,…

Recent happenings around the world suggest that countries have decided to ignore the rules-based order and do as they please. Issues that once required diplomacy are now being resolved with…

Despite your valiant efforts to stay clear of the subject, Indian elections, being the world’s biggest exercise in procedural democracy, have the habit of sucking you in. This year’s Kurukshetra…

Shafaqna India: As South Asia’s security environment continues to remain volatile and explosive, India’s extensive procurement of weapons has only added fuel to the fire. The recent election of Pakistan…

Shafaqna India:  The family of the child “Amal al-Dar” who was martyred in the recent attack of the Israeli government in southern Lebanon met with the Grand Ayatollah Syed Ali…

Shafaqna India: THE Centre has given an undertaking to the Supreme Court that it would refrain from initiating coercive steps to recover the Congress’ tax dues of more than Rs…

THERE was a time, not so long ago, when theorists of substantive democracy scoffed at the two presuppositions of minimalist theories of democracies. One, democracy is a method of choosing…

Shafaqna India:  After his brother was murdered in anti-Muslim riots, Pervez Qureshi watched the videos he believes incited the killers, part of a wave of hatred fomented on social media…

Shafaqna India: The recent wave of inclusivity and freedom of speech, instead of liberating people from narrow interpretations of religious thoughts and scriptures, has turned them into a misguided and…