BUDGET 2011-12 TIGHT ROPE BALANCING

The inherent structural weaknesses in the economic condition of the nation, as the Budget depicts is the effect of interest-based capitalist method of budgeting on deficit financing system; it has become a vicious circle and it cannot be changed with...

MIXED MESSAGES Arabs Challenge Israeli Hasbara

When the Libyan people took on their reviled dictator, Moammar Gadhafi, Israeli officials seemed puzzled by the alarming and unprecedented trend of popular awakenings in the Arab world.
Israel’s Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has claime...

Now Shahbaz After Taseer

We Indian Muslims too were shell-shocked at the Taliban-planned assassination of Mr. Shahbaz Bhatti in Islamabad on March 2. He was the only Christian Minister in the Pakistan government. Like him, his Muslim progressive-predecessor, Dr. Salman ...

Tyrants in Muslim World

Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai!” (Iqbal)
It seems to me sometimes our Islam gets in the way of our understanding the world.
Sometimes, the blinders we wear, often in the name o...

PM Confers Fakruddin Ali Ahmed Award to MJ Akbar, Hema Bharali

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conferred the Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Memorial Award for National Integration upon eminent journalist MJ Akbar and Gandhian Hema Bharali for 2008 and 2009 respectively at a function held at Pragjyoti Indian Tea Association ...

PROF. ABUL HUSSAIN MAZUMDER (SABIRI) Author Thrice Felicitated in Four Months

He is a lean and thin, short-statured lifelong ailing man, M.A. in English and Arabic. M.M. (Mumtazul Mahaddithin) in Islamic Education system prevailing in West Bengal and Assam. He is a versatile and prolific writer in four languages – Bengal...

Group Deliberation a Must to Reach Consensus

Fiqh (Jurisprudence) is concerned to human beings in every walk of life. Change in society is the law of nature. Human life confronts different new issues and problems due to the changes in time, situation and space. So it is the responsibility of Ul...

ISLAMIC BANKING IS NOT BLEMISH FREE

All is not well in the name of Islamic banking. There are grey areas and one should simply accept it without any hesitations so that scope of improvement can remain open. Whatever is happening in the name of Islamic banking and finance cannot be vouc...

UNDERSTANDING A WELFARE STATE and the Issue of Cash Transfer

By SOHEB LOKHANDWALA...