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...
अब्दुल्लाह अंसारी/मिल्लत टाइम्स:मऊआइमा इलाहाबाद, कुर्बानी अल्लाह के हुक्म पर बलिदान होने का जरिया है अल्लाह ने अपने नबी हजरत इब्राहीम अलैहिस्सलाम का कठिन इम्तिहान लिया और हजरत इब्राहिम सदैव हर इम्तिहान में कामयाब रहे उक्त बातें युवा आलिम मुफ्ती फजलुर रहमान इलाहाबादी ने मऊआइमा स्थित पक्का तालाब वाली मस्जिद में ईद उल अजहा की नमाज...
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...
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...
Hajela’s team made an unpleasant joke with peasantry of Assam and a gigantic mockery of public resources By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi Nearly 33 years after the Assam Accord was signed in 1985 between then Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and All Assam Students Union (AASU), the Assam state Coordinator for National Register of Citizens...
सेकुलरिस्म हिंदुस्तान की ज़रुरत है. ज़रुरत इसलिए क्योंकि हमारे मुल्क में मुक्तलिफ़ मजाहिब को मानने वाले लोग रहते हैं. हमने इरादतन अपने मुल्क का सेकुलर आईन बनाया ताकि सभी मजाहिब के मानने वालों के साथ इन्साफ हो सके. सेकुलर निजाम की ज़रुरत शायद इसलिए भी थी क्योंकि ऐसे निजाम में ही कमजोर, पिछड़े तबको और...
In 2018, the United Nations estimates that almost 1 million Rohingya refugees have fled Burma’s violent campaign of ethnic cleansing and moved into refugee settlements in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Yeehang Lee said, the Rohingya crisis in Rakhine “bears the hallmarks of genocide”. The statement followed the release of images...
Assam accommodates more than 50 different tribal, semi-tribal, and plain land ethnic groups, as well as several religions. According to the 2011 census, 61.47% of Assam’s population were Hindus, 34.22% were Muslims, and Christians were 3.7%. Hindus are predominant here, and the religion is playing the leading role in uniting many ethnic groups against a...
By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi The National Register of Citizens (NRC) final draft is released today in Assam, (30 July 2018) in accordance with Supreme Court order. Thanks to hon’ble SC of India for it’s strong and decisive stand to bring out the draft list by all means. It is only because of SC that the...