हज़ारों दलित, मुसलमान एवं पिछड़े समाज के लोगों का विगत एक साल में फ़र्ज़ी एनकाउंटर किया गया जिसमें से लगभग 66 लोगों को एनकाउंटर में मार दिया गया, पर ये चर्चा का विषय तक नहीं बन पाई, कहीं कोई ख़बर तक नहीं बनी। शायद इस मुल्क में इनके लिए कोई सहानुभूति तक नहीं रखता, उलटा...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that his country could not remain silent over the use of sanctions as weapons while it is in a bitter standoff with the United States over the fate of an American evangelical Christian pastor detained by Ankara. Turkey says the United States should respect the legal process for...
Misconceptions toward a region as intrinsically important to Pakistan as the Middle East should be amended, what with so much has happened there since Pakistan itself came into being in 1947 with Israel arriving on the scene a year later. Substituting relevant knowledge and the ability to accurately gauge geopolitical circumstances, when combined with false...
The abrupt postponement of next week’s Afghan conference in Moscow might look like an undignified Russian defeat in the face of a dangerous American provocation this morning, but it’s actually a strategic delay intended to make the outcome more fruitful by potentially including Kabul in this framework. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called Afghan President...
Muthuvel Karunanidhi, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, passed away at a private hospital in Chennai on August 7 after prolonged illness. He was 94. The end came at 6.10 p.m., hours after theKauvery Hospital announced that he was “extremely critical” and “unstable”. Mr. Karunanidhi was under treatment at...
People know a lot about discrimination in judiciary, media, government, banks, universities, corporate houses and other sectors. But not many know about discrimination that happens in civil society on the issue of Muslims. My attempt today is to describe what happens to a young activist who attempts to speak as a Muslim. I dare to...
What is happening to Swiss-born Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan in France is disgraceful and simply ignominious. I can no longer maintain my silence before this grotesque travesty of justice. Since rape charges were filed against him in France, Ramadan’s case has been marred by procedural irregularities. In fact, Ramadan’s mistreatment by the French courts and his virtual public lynching...
Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which translates to the Pakistan Movement For Justice and is commonly known by its abbreviation as the PTI, came out on top in the latest elections after campaigning on a strong anti-corruption platform, but it was nevertheless a supposedly “controversial” victory because of the opposition’s claims of “military rigging” and the...
THIS SUNDAY THE entire New York Times Magazine will be composed of just one article on a single subject: the failure to confront the global climate crisis in the 1980s, a time when the science was settled and the politics seemed to align. Written by Nathaniel Rich, this work of history is filled with insider revelations about...
A seven-year-old deaf and mute girl with injuries all over her legs and arms narrated her ordeal before a magistrate in Muzaffarpur last month. A fellow inmate translated her frantic signs into numbing words for the judge, detailing sexual assault on her. She was among the youngest victims of what has come to be known...