Unclear About Nuclear: The Left-Right March To Nowhere

Plus into minus (+ x - = -) is always equal to minus. In the same way adopting wrong means to achieve right––even a nobler––goal yields negative result. This is what the Left parties have done recently. They have botched up th...

• The Pyrrhic Win

JUSTICE HAS BECOME A DEAR COMMODITY

Getting justice has become very difficult. Around 60% of people languishing in the jails of country are those who are detained in the name of investigation. The numbers of such person who are held for the purpose of investigation may be around seven ...

OBSTACLES TO ISLAMIC ECONOMICS RESEARCH

Excerpts from the lecture of DR. MOHAMMAD NEJATULLAH SIDDIQI in the Seventh International Conference on Islamic Economics, Islamic Economics Research Center, KAAU, Jeddah, April 1-3,2008...

International Criminal Court Instrument for justice or geo-politics?

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Louis Moreno Ocampo, has applied to the Court for a warrant of arrest against the President of Sudan, Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir. He is accused of committing the crime of genocide, crimes aga...

In The Land Of Qurtaba And Gharnata

The Ministry of Culture and Information of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia invited the Editor of the Radiance Viewsweekly to attend the World Conference on Dialogue but he was unable to go there owing to his pre-occupations. He recommended my name to the min...

The Dollar's Reign Of Terror

One of th...

Trapped between Tauhid and Shirk

Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai!  (Iqbal)
Lately, my writing for Payaam has taken a bit of a hit. Reasons are many. But they all could also be summed up into one. Regardless, gone are t...

Godmen and Mortal World Happenings at Asaram Bapu's Ashram

 Death of two students of Gurukul (traditional schools run by Hindu Gurus) of Asaram Bapu's Ashram (July 2008) has raised multiple questions. The children staying in the Ashram were missing for some time before being found dead near the river. T...

DA'WAH ISLAMIA IN JAPAN

There are now over 48 titles on Islam in Japanese. Islamic Center-Japan has been distributing a book by Dr. Sanada Head, Department of Law, Chuo University on Islamic law for the last 15 years. An increasing number of Non-Muslim Japanese scholars, wh...