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Ironically by being captured, Wing Commander Abhinandan may well have averted a war fuelled by jingoism and irresponsible rhetoric.

Why are young Kashmiri men turning to militancy?

“Freedom of the press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose.” - George Orwell

"It is sheer irony that while living in multi-cultural societies they push for a fascist agenda in their motherland."

Innā lillāhi wa innā ilayhi rājiʿūn. Indeed, to Allāh we belong, and to Him we are returning. On the 29th of Rajab, 1439 (the 14th of April) renowned scholar, Moulana Muhammad Salim Qasmi passed on to meet his Lord at ...

Asifa, an eight-year-old child filled with innocence and the joy of life, was drugged, gang-raped and brutally murdered in a Hindu Temple in Indian-occupied Kashmir. Many had not heard of Asifa Bano until this week, or the depraved ordeal she ...

Hindu scholar from India speaks out against the Islamophobic campaign against Dr Zakir Naik Ever since a Bangladeshi newspaper reported that Islamic preacher Dr Zakir Naik “inspired” Dhaka militants, a new frenzy of Islamophobic discourse has begun in India. The Modi ...

Suspicion is forbidden in Islām, however the irony is that under the Government’s Prevent, counter terrorism strategy, all Muslims are themselves under suspicion.  Not even little four year old children at nursery are exempt, as demonstrated by the recent ‘cooker ...

Asim Qureshi reviews the book, Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict by Dr Katy Sian “I wonder what happened to her? I think the last I heard was that she was in Pakistan…” At the centre of Dr Katy Sian’s book, ...

The Emperor Aurangzeb, who rose to the throne in the 17th Century as the sixth Mughal ruler over “India”, is often painted as a vicious, religiously intolerant, minority-suppressing fanatic, whose only job was to demolish temples in favour of mosques, ...