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Last week saw a record rise in COVID-19 deaths in Pakistan. With the capacity of COVID-19 to spread exponentially, fear is spreading across Pakistan that it too will see a similar picture to India.

This week the Senate of Pakistan voted to approve the Compulsory Teaching of the Arabic Language Bill 2020.

In a rare move, Indian police have filed charges against an army officer as well as two civilians for planting guns on the corpses of three Kashmiri labourers shot and killed in July earlier this year.

“I categorically presented Pakistan’s stance on Israel to the UAE’s foreign minister that we will not and cannot establish a relationship with Israel until a concrete and permanent solution to the Palestine issue is found...”

The Indian government has updated its law to allow any Indian citizen to buy land in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Islam21c team would like to extend their sincerest condolences to the family of Abdul Ghaffar Aziz, the community, and the Muslim Ummah at large. May Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) have mercy on him.

Demographic shift fears as India starts to issue residency certificates to thousands of non-Kashmiris, almost a year after Modi’s Hindu nationalist government decided to strip Kashmir of its special constitutional status.

Innā lillāhi wa innā ilayhi rājiʿūn. May Allāh have mercy on them and accept those that have returned to him as martyrs, āmīn.

“I did not think this was possible in my lifetime … I hope this will bring the two countries together.”

In a provocative ruling on Saturday, India's Supreme Court granted Hindus control over the controversial and much-disputed religious site in the town of Ayodhya.