Pashtuns are an Iranic ethnic group who mostly live in the region of Pashtun homeland which was divided and distributed with a Duran line border by the #British Empire between #Afghanistan and #Pakistan. As an important minority group in Pakistan, Pashtuns constitute the second-largest ethnic group or about 15% of the population. And in Afghanistan...
M. S. Alam Umri The statistics and reports produced by the Indian government at different times including Gopal Singh Report of 1983, Rangnath Mishra Report of 2004, Sachchar Committee Report of 2006 and lately 2011 Educational Data about Muslim states of education. and according to that latest data, the percentage of Muslims’ illiteracy is highest...
Obada Safi JMI,New Delhi Looking back in past there are clear,very obvious and infamous examples of confrontation between belief and science.As the global world swiftly experiencing the charismatic development of modern science,the ill-conceived notion of religious belief and superstitions still found in human minds. Could such a thing happen today? Indeed yes,it is going on,the...
The Hindu Liberal-Left must take the time to engage with the Muslim public sphere not just by quoting Urdu poetry and enjoying Sufi music and admiring Mughlai cuisine, but also by visiting madrassas and Islamic seminaries to understand to what extent they are communal. Ramachandra Guha’s ‘trishul-burqa’ analogy has once again revived the debate about...
“My son has lived his life, do not bring sorrow to other homes”. Imam Imadadul Rashidi’s voice was matter of fact when contacted by The Citizen, as if what he had done was what any one would do. Asansol was in the grip of violence threatened by a tornado as the Muslims started gathering to...
मेरे प्यारे बिहारियों, हमारा राज्य जल रहा है। इसे बचा लीजिए। इस तमाशे में किसी का भला नहीं है। दंगों की कुछ वजहें होती हैं। उसने पहले फेंका तो उसने बाद में ये कहा। पुलिस उनकी मदद के लिए आई, हमारी मदद के लिए नहीं आई। कहीं गाय का मांस फेंकना तो कहीं सुअर का...
When I was 12, Saddam Hussein, vice president of Iraq at the time, carried out a huge purge and officially usurped total power. I was living in Baghdad then, and I developed an intuitive, visceral hatred of the dictator early on. That feeling only intensified and matured as I did. In the late 1990s, I...
Russian President Vladimir Putin won a re-election victory on Sunday after garnering 76.66 percent of votes, 13 percent more than he accrued in 2012. The voter turnout is also higher than six years earlier. The result fully showed the support and respect Putin has in Russian society. The past six years have seen the most...
Valpoi (Goa) Legal services authority of North Goa has opened legal literacy club at National High School Valpoi on Saturday . The inaugural function was held at forest training school auditorium and it was inaugurated at the hands of Registrar of high court Kiran Bagi by watering the plant in distinguish presence of Secretary of the legal...
On March 8, South Korea’s National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong delivered a statement at the White House announcing that U.S. President Donald Trump would meet with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un before the end of the May. The statement’s release prompted mixed reactions across the world, but Russia swiftly emerged as one of the strongest international supporters...