Clerics in Musharraf Trap Another lesson to learn

SOROOR AHMED says that beleaguered Musharraf, at war with Chief Justice, is successfully improving his image by long drawn conflict with simplistic clerics of Lal Masjid, who at will can be eliminated as sitting ducks. He laments that they do not kno...

Secularism: A Comparative Legal Perspective

VINOD KUMAR SONKAR identifies the distinguishing characteristics of American secularism, Communist secularism and Indian secularism. Features of Indian secularism have been viewed in the context of the Indian social reality. Relevant legal provisions...

Crossing the Threshold Khadija Masood's Journey to Faith

A modelling agency: an unlikely place for the seeds of Islam to take root in someone's heart. But that was where Aarti* first came across the freshness of a creed that was to bring a whirlwind change in her life.
20-year-old Aarti was what you could...

Truth and Lies about Bhagalpur Conviction

SOROOR AHMED opines that infamous Bhagalpur riots 1989 remain a blot on our country and the guilty are largely unpunished. There is a competition to take credit for the recent conviction of 14 accused. He discussed who did what and who can claim how...

Islam on Trial in Pakistan

DR S AUSAF SAIED VASFI reiterates Muslims' concern for Pakistan's raison d'etre with which it had been brought into existence, laments that almost all its rulers – military as well as democratically elected – had little...

The Universal Theory of Relativity

Dr Javed Jamil, the well known thinker, writer and expert in Applied Islamics has now unfolded an entirely new theory of Physics that will revolutionise the understanding of the Universe. In his now famous series, “Scientific and Social Theorie...

Hamas Helps Release BBC Reporter Alan Johnston

British reporter Alan Johnston was released on July 4, in Gaza City after spending 114 days in captivity. The release of the reporter by Hamas' security apparatus, the “Executive Force,” is certainly a major achievement for the Islamic mo...

Both are World Class

The very modestly clad Presidential nominee Pratibha Patil surprised everyone recently when she commented that purdah (veil) system began in India during Mughal rule to "save women from Mughal invaders". She has not yet tendered any clarifi...

The Miracle of Smart Salaam

Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai,/ Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai!  (Iqbal)
Ask yourself, how many big, fat books, with footnotes, do you need to read before realising that – perhaps – there is no one else in...