The South Transitional Council (STC) will receive domestic and international legitimacy for its separatist cause after entering into a reported power-sharing agreement with Hadi’s government as part of a peace deal aimed at ending the ambiguity over South Yemen’s political status following the group’s dramatic liberation of Aden in August. The author declared back in...
India’s revocation of Kashmir’s relative “autonomy” embodies everything that its new “Israeli” ally wishes it could do to Palestine such as eliminating its separate political status and giving non-residents of the UNSC-recognized disputed territory the right to buy property there as part of its long-term plan to wage demographic warfare against the locals, yet few...
After the reports of India and Pakistan locking horns on Line of Control, Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, said, “It is time to end the long night of suffering for the people of Occupied Kashmir,” and added that the people of Kashmir must be allowed to exercise their right to self determination according to...
RIYADH: More than 21,000 people from 162 countries have so far applied to take part in two prestigious Saudi-organized religious competitions. Launched earlier this year by Turki Al-Sheikh, chairman of the Kingdom’s General Entertainment Authority (GEA), the Qur’an and Adhan recital contests will offer a winners’ prize pot of SR7 million ($1.9 million). The initiative aims...
Zaira Wasim, the Bollywood actress who declared her dissociation from the industry last weekend, has grabbed many an eyeball both for the right and wrong reasons. While fellow Muslims, who have even the slightest bit of imaan and can see through the filth of Bollywood, have lauded her for her courageous move on the Path...
Egypt’s only elected President, Mohammed Morsi, is dead. He died in court, apparently of a heart attack. But the reality is that the Egyptian dictatorship murdered him, and thus by US imperialism. He had been denied much-needed medical treatment by the military regime. His supporters called the death “full-fledged murder.” Second, only to Israel, the Egyptian military regime has long...
More than 1 million Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang region of China, their native land, are believed to have been interned in so-called reeducation camps by the Chinese authorities. The number may be as high as 2 or 3 million—out of a population of 11 million. Trapped along with them are Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and Uzbeks,...
The fact not a single leader of a Muslim majority country has spoken out either forcibly or frequently against China’s cultural genocide in Xinjiang, one that constitutes the largest industrial scale persecution of a religious minority since the Holocaust, leaves ordinary Muslims asking what it is they can do to save 12 million of their...
Turkey has three possible courses of action in response to the civil war in Syria: diplomatic engagement, isolation or military intervention. The idea at the outset was to bring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the negotiating table with the opposition, and to persuade them to find common ground, focusing on rights and freedoms and swift...
New Delhi, 12 June 2019: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind called upon the nation to tackle the problem of growing hate crimes against the minority community. Addressing the monthly press conference at Jamaat’s headquarters today, JIH President (Ameer) Syed Sadatullah Hussaini said, “There is a disturbing trend of increasing hate crimes against the minorities, even as a new...