The “significant progress” said to have been made during six days of talks between US officials and the Afghan Taliban suggests that both sides are serious about trying to find a peaceful solution to a 17-year conflict that has scarred Afghanistan. But with the Taliban currently refusing to hold direct talks with Afghan officials, and...
Dr Nyla Ali Khan Armed insurgency and counter insurgency in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Jammu and Kashmir scorched the landscape, blighting educational and economic opportunities. Despite their active role in political mobilization of 1931, the Quit Kashmir movement (anti-monarchical movement) of 1946, and the fierce nationalism of 1947, terror made women revert...
Millat News Network,New Delhi:They say police are harassing them after PUCL plea in Supreme Court. Family members of those killed in alleged ‘encounter killings’ in Uttar Pradesh claimed they were being harassed by police after a petition on extra judicial killings in the State was filed in the Supreme Court by the People’s Union for...
Freedom of religion in India is a fundamental right guaranteed by Article 25-28 of the Constitution of India. Modern India came into existence in 1947 and the Indian constitution’s preamble was amended in 1976 to state that India is a secular state. However, in S.R Bommai v Union of India, Supreme Court of India ruled that India was already a secular state from the time...
Millat News Network,New Delhi:Sheema Mohsin, National General Secretary of Welfare Party Of India strongly condemned Modi government for levying charges of very serious nature under various sections of IPC which include sedition, forgery, unlawful assembly, rioting , criminal conspiracy and many others against former JNU students and students from other universities for alledgly raising anti...
Nyla Ali Khan My book Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s Reflections on Kashmir (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) is a compendium of the speeches and interviews of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who reigned as Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1953, and who was a large presence on the political landscape of...
Millat News Network,New Delhi: It has been reported in the media today that the Delhi Police has filed a 1200 page chargesheet against former JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, former students Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and 7 Kashmiri students in the matter pertaining to the 2016 case. From the JNUSU we see this submission of the...
Dr. Nyla Ali Khan I had the honor of being invited to the Oklahoma Conference of Churches 2017 Annual Dinner by the Reverend William Tabbernee. This event was held at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, which, to my mind, symbolizes the dynamism of cultures and histories...
The strategic partnership of Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in UP is very crucial in the run to 2019 general election in India. The Indian National Congress should have been taken on board but its arrogance, as seen in recent past during Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgar and Rajasthan elections, might be among the...
Millat Times,Madhubani: 13/01/2018 Renowned jurist and scholar Maulana Zubair Ahmad Qasmi (82) passed away today morning at 9:30 am in his native village Chandr Sen Pur, Madhubani Bihar. His last rite will be observed today after Asr prayer and he will be laid to rest at the same place. Maulana Zubair Ahmad Qasmi was a...