Coinciding with the recent acquittal of Delhi-based Mohammad Amir Khan who spent 14 years in jail, a document released here says since 1997, some 300 cases have been registered against hundreds of Muslim youth, in places where no terrorist incidents or violence had taken place.

“In many cases, implicated youth like Amir have been acquitted. In a few cases, there have been convictions, but in these cases too, the appeals are pending before the higher judiciary,” says the do...

Indian American Muslim Council condemned Bihar government’s characterisation of Forbesganj police firings as a “minor incident” that did not merit CBI inquiry. The Bihar Government made this deeply insensitive assertion in its affidavit filed in the Supreme Court in response to the notice seeking the state’s response for a CBI inquiry into the last year’s Forbesganj police firing incident. “Despite clear evidence of police atrocities, the Bihar government h...

In a letter to Akhilesh Yadav, Chief Minister of UP, All India Milli Council supported the UP government’s decision to bring in legislation to release innocent Muslim youth implicated in terror cases. The letter further says that the ban of SIMI is unjustified and picking up of innocent youths in the name of fighting terrorism must be stopped. The letter demands closure of all cases under the now defunct TADA and POTA, and says compensation should be awarded mandatorily to all persons a...

Muslim organisation and political parties in Hyderabad have demanded ban on the activities of Qadiyanis. Last month the A.P. Wakf Board unlisted the properties of Ahmadiya community from the wakf list, and handed over those properties to endowments and even asked the Qazis not to perform their Nikah. But the conflict now seems to be on its peak with the protests by the local Muslims objecting the celebration of Ahmadiya sect formation day. On Mar 25, a group of Qadiyanis was celebrating their...

Stressing that it is important to get rid of criminals in the electoral process, Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said the law must bar such a candidate from contesting. “People ask me, why can’t you debar a candidate from contesting. We cannot do that. The law must debar them,” Quraishi said at a lecture organised by Moneylife Foundation and V Citizens Action Network (VCAN).

“The law says a person is innocent until proven guilty. I would like to ask, if...

Idara Adab-e-Islami Hind organised a seminar on Dr. Abdul Moghni and a Mushaira along with the release of two books at Ghalib Academy, New Delhi,. The seminar was presided over by Dr. Qazi Abdur Rahman, ex HOD, Department of Urdu, JMI and was attended by other dignitaries like Professor Abdul Haq, ex HOD, Department of Urdu, Delhi University, Dr. Abdul Bari Shabnam Subhani, ex Dean, Ranchi University, Dr. Ahmad Sajjad and renowned journalist Dr. Ahmed Javed. All the dignitaries shed light on ...

The post of vice-chancellor at the Aligarh Muslim University is up for grabs, setting off a fierce legal battle over who gets to assume charge and pushing the historic institution into the throes of a crisis again. A section of the university’s staff has frequently been accused of treating the institution as their fiefdom. Senior deans took turns to be pro-vice-chancellors since PK Abdul Azis retired as the vice-chancellor in January. Matters came to a head when a dean, the next in line...

Yemenese Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman said only a peaceful revolution could finish authoritarian rule in the Arab world. “Every dictator is a terrorist. Both feed on each other. Only a peaceful revolution can finish them,” said Karman while delivering the fifth Babu Jagjivan Ram memorial lecture in the Capital. Karman, 33, won the Nobel peace prize in 2011 and is the youngest recipient of the prestigious award. Noting that all sections of society participated in the Ar...