Combating Terrorism

The sufferings of the country are worst compounded with the occurrence of acts of terror. Every such act not only inflicts bodily blow to the innocents but also acts as a divisive force, subtly polarising the communities and weakening the bonds of na...

• TERRORISM How to Get Rid of It
  By KHAN YASIR

• Trial of Muslims and Islam by media and intelligence
  By DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI

The Richest and the Biggest

I do not want to join the government. But workers of Samajwadi Party (SP) think we will benefit if I join the government.    
            – Amar Singh, SP leader
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WHY ALWAYS SUSPECT MUSLIMS? Intellectuals appeal for unbiased, neutral investigation into blast cases

Why the trend of investigation in bomb blast cases is always the same? Why Muslims are targeted after some untoward happenings like the recent Bangalore and Ahmedabad serial blasts? Is there any bias among police officers and intelligence agencies wi...

Dollar Raj

In a widely circulated and quoted article “Dollar Hegemony has to go” in the Asia Times, American analyst Henry C.K. Liu described how the US maintains its pre-eminent position in the global economy through the dollar.
Liu says that, it ...

Tell Me the Truth about Prisoner 650

The FBI lost much of its credibility when its chief J Edgar Hoover was revealed to be a transvestite who preferred to be called Mary. Hoover, probably the most powerful man in America some say even more powerful than the presidents he served under, w...

Prof. Moiz Manzar (1929-2008)

Professor Abdul Moiz Manzar, an eminent Islamic scholar and economist, breathed his last at a hospital in Patna on August 2 following a brief illness. He had developed blood clotting in the head after accidentally falling down on the floor about a mo...

Mushawarat Urges Govt. to Form a Panel to Oversee Investigations into All Terror Acts

The All-India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat has urged the central government to constitute a high level panel of retired judges, human rights activists, top lawyers and journalists to “to oversee the investigations into all terrorist acts” a...

Wonder of Wonders: A Qur'an Literacy Camp

Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal)
The 2nd National Qur’an Literacy Camp is under way in the West Indies even as I write this piece in the middle of the month of July, 2008. The ...

Greece Vs China Olympian Heights of Civilisational Games

The game, which is played in Olympics, is not always synonym to sport. Instead of the sheer power and talent of the weight-lifters, wrestlers, boxers, athletes and other sportspersons we, very often, see political muscle flexing at its best. We have ...