THE conviction of veteran Kashmiri freedom fighter and head of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik by an Indian court on terror funding charges on Thursday reflects the panic…
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The conviction of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik on terrorism-related charges may mean life imprisonment at the sentencing hearing for him later in the month. Mr Malik…
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Widening outreach activities by Muslim leaders across India relays very disturbing and hopeless signs, instead of formulating a strategy to unify Indian Muslims, these leaders are hell bent on further…
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India’s assault on Muslim holy sites continues, with a court recently restricting prayers at the historic Gyanvapi Mosque in Varansi. The reasoning given is to research a claim that a…
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The G7, Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, the United States, and the High Representative of the European Union, have met in Germany and discussed the…
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India seeks to damage Pakistan as it has not reconciled with the partition of the sub-continent. Therefore, it is busy in hatching conspiracies to destabilise Pakistan through all means available,…
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During his recent visit to India, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, alluding to Khalistan supporters, said that the United Kingdom would not welcome people who planned to use the…
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CONCERNS have been raised about the questionable trial of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik by an Indian court, with the AJK prime minister as well as Mr…
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The northeastern part of India, as well as the surrounding countries of Southeast Asia, is a fascinating seismotectonic zone. The region is bordered on the north by the eastern and…
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As the rugged repeated attacks on Indian Muslims are plunging the country into the abyss of the barbarism of the worst kind it is now best for Indian Muslims to…
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ONE likes all manner of movies including trashy movies. But I am not planning to see Kashmir Files yet. If and when the dust settles down on the communal muck…
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In unseemly controversy has been breaking out every now and then for the last few years regarding azaan. Recently, the vice-chancellor of Allahabad University, Sangita Srivastava, complained to the district…
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India should stop its “regulatory assault” on Chinese companies, state-backed Chinese newspaper Global Times said, after smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp (1810.HK) alleged threats of “physical violence” in Indian investigations. Reuters…
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–Hindu leader calls for mosque loudspeakers to be turned down. Mosques in Mumbai comply with demands after police intervene. Sitting in an office lined with books overlooking a giant prayer…
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The BJP’s rule since 2014 has shrunk the space for Muslims in India. In seven years, the party in power has changed the social architecture envisaged by Ambedkar’s constitution and…
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The Indian government’s moves to change the demographic profile of held Kashmir are continuing, with New Delhi giving more seats to the disputed region’s Hindu areas in the latest redrawing…
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Since time immemorial there have been nth discourses and discussions and debates surrounding the smoldering topic of ‘women empowermentʼ. So many – isms have evolved in this process to arrive…
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AS Muslims celebrate Eid after two years of Covid-related disruptions, there are still the usual things to worry about. Mosques are under attack, as they have been in the past,…
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In India, politics and crime go hand in hand as many chief ministers, union and provincials ministers, parliamentarians have criminal cases against them. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also falls in…
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India declares itself a democratic and secular state that claims to promote religious harmony within it. However, the reality is opposite, and the Indian constitution has failed to transform the…
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s stand on recent religious violence in India’s capital and the subsequent police crackdown on Muslims may be politically expedient, but critics question whether it’s moral,…
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The dialectics of any association’s progressive evolution entails periods of growth, agenda expansion, predominance of centripetal forces, crisis passing, when it is essential to review goals and objectives and synchronize…
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Genocides are preceded by incitement and indoctrination through widely disseminated hate propaganda. Theologian and philosopher Abraham Heschel famously said that Auschwitz was built not with stones but words. Hitler’s propaganda…
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President Zelensky was commenting on the commonly held belief that neo-Nazis lurked in the body politic of Ukraine and even ran powerful militias in the country, including the one apparently…
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Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control protested in large numbers as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first visit to Occupied Kashmir since he illegally ended…
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The United Kingdom and India will collaborate on the development of fighter jet engines and maritime electric propulsion among other defense technology fields, as part of a major partnership deal…
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India and Pakistan are two rival countries that are always at daggers drawn with each other. The schisms between two states started after British colonialism in the subcontinent when Muslims…
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Opinion: Between Nitish Kumar and Muslims of Bihar; A relationship based on fundamental abnormality
by Abbas AdilAmid the highly polarized political atmosphere the love hate love relationship between Nitish Kumar and Muslims of Bihar is an outlier where by and large the two protagonists have maintained…
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought strong Western condemnation and sanctions, but many nations around the world have chosen not to join this united front. Dozens of governments outside Europe…
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In 2014, a country that had prided itself on its secularism and on being the largest democracy in the world elected an unvarnished Hindu supremacist as its leader, and brought…