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...
By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi The Assam state coordinator for National Register of Cetizens (NRC) Parteek Hajela announced that the complete draft under supervision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India will be released tomorrow (Monday) at 10 am. Nearly 32 years after the Assam Accord was signed, the first draft of an updated NRC for...
The pact between the Saudi monarchy and the Wahhabi establishment has been reinterpreted and redesigned during times of transition and crisis. The speed and magnitude of change in Saudi Arabia have accelerated considerably after the consecration of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. To legitimize his ascent, fulfill his absolutist ambitions and face various internal and external challenges,...
Prof: Faizan Mustafa “The good governors should have a broken leg and keep at home,” wrote Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes. A governor’s primary role, as the author indicated, was to be like a sagacious counsellor “to be consulted, to warn and to encourage”. In other words, the person should be above politics. Unfortunately, India’s...
एड.अन्सार इन्दौरी:दोस्तों!शादी ब्याह में दहेज़ और फ़िज़ूल खर्ची की रोकथाम के लिए यूँ तो सभी समाजो के साथ मुस्लिम समाज में भी सामूहिक विवाह की परम्परा शुरू हुई है लेकिन सभी जानते है इस नाम पर सियासत और खुले रूप से दहेज़ की लिस्ट प्रचारित होती है खाना टेंट वगेरा के खर्च के बाद निजी...
Latest attacks focus attention on continuing failure of Trump’s efforts to stabilise the country. The latest, dreadful suicide bombings in Kabul and Kandahar, which killed more than 50 people on Monday have again focused attention on the continuing failure of American-led efforts to stabilise the country. After 16 years of conflict, critics say, the US is...
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, that was launched in 2017 and became dormant, is moving toward resurrection. The complex restructuring of international relations and the arrival of Cold War 2.0 between Eurasian sovereignists and Atlantic integrationists has shifted to the Indo-Pacific region. New Delhi’s history of uneasy relations with Beijing, coupled with the sweeping and...
Both the Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League had divisive and regressive ideologies. The inheritors of Savarkar’s ideology are now bent upon destroying universities which are, ideally, supposed to be liberating spaces that allow all kinds of ideas to flourish Prof. Faizan Mustafa No one individual has caused as much damage to the Muslim cause in...
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...
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...