IB Role in Encounters Exposed
Vol. LI No. 14
Date: July 7, 2013
Instead of Selling, Give Waqf Land on Lease for Better
Most of the pieces of Waqf land are under adverse possession and if the government, in this situation, comes up with the proposal of sale off of the land, the…
Islami Academy Re-Launched with New Enthusiasm
The Islamic Academy, which is aimed at preparing resource persons and thinkers for the service of Islam, is all set to render its service to the nation under the kind…
Conduct Mass Contact Programme
It is really time to be pleased as one of most eminent Muslim voices in the country, Radiance Viewsweekly, is completing its 50 years in the service of the nation. I…
Thugs in the mask of religious men
I was taken aghast when I read the news of loot and burglary by sadhus and so-called religious men in the flooded area of Uttarakhand. Even a regular burglar would…
Leave Dilly-Dallying Attitude on Naxalism
This is apropos of the cover stories of the Radiance 23-29 June. The Maoist threat seems getting more and more momentum with every passing day. The figure attached with the story draws…
Multiple Independent Agencies Needed to Bring Transparency
This refers to the column “Fake Encounter” (Radiance 23-29 June). The writer has rightly said that no institution to counter terrorism can be effective unless the very practice of intelligence officers…
LIBYA SACKS DEFENCE MINISTER AFTER CLASHES
Libya’s Prime Minister Ali Zidan has sacked the defence minister, after three days of gun battles in the capital and amid a deteriorating security situation. In a news conference on…
IRAN SIGNALS NO SCALING BACK IN NUCLEAR ACTIVITY
Iran will press ahead with its uranium enrichment programme, its nuclear energy chief said on 27 June, suggesting there will be no change of course despite the election on 14…
SYRIA DEATH TOLL TOPS 100,000, HEAVY FIGHTING IN BORDER TOWN
Bashar Assad’s forces have retaken a town on the Lebanese border as they press an offensive against fighters in a conflict that has now cost more than 100,000 lives, activists…
EU NEEDS TO SPEED UP ARMING OF SYRIAN OPPOSITION: SAUDIA
Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal has urged the European Union to speed up arming Syria’s opposition forces. He also called upon the UN Security Council to take a united stand…
CHINA BANS UIGHUR MUSLIMS FROM FASTING DURING RAMADHAN
Unlike millions of Muslims around the world, Uighur students returning for summer vacations in north-western China are banned from fasting during the holy month of Ramadhan. Chinese authorities have reportedly…
XINJIANG RIOTS REFLECT MUSLIM REPRESSION
At least 27 people were killed in China’s Muslim-majority province of Xinjiang on 26 June, in deadly riots seen as a result of Chinese oppression of the Muslim minority in…
UK MUSLIMS UNITE AGAINST SEX GROOMING
Stepping in to tackle a taboo subject of sex, hundreds of British mosques condemned sex grooming in a unified sermon on Friday, 28 June, highlighting Islam’s emphasis on protecting children…
SWASTIKAS SPRAYED ON WALLS OF UK MOSQUE AS HATE ATTACKS
Mosques in Britain continue to be targeted as racist graffiti, including Nazi-linked Swastikas, was painted on a Worcestershire mosque building on 26 June. A series of hate attacks has been…
INAMUR RAHMAN RAFEEQUI AWARDED PHD ON DAWAT BIWEEKLY
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, has recently awarded Mr. Inamur Rahman Rafeequi with PhD for his research thesis on “Role of biweekly Dawat in Promotion of Islam.”
MUSLIM GIRL DENIED ADMISSION IN DELHI
A 14-year old Muslim girl, Sidhra Malik, has been denied admission in class nine by several government schools in Delhi without any reason. Having no option left, the parents of…
CONGRESS MP CONFUSED OVER NUMBER OF BEEF-EATERS IN GOA
Francisco Sardinha, a member of parliament from Goa, on 24 June, stated that 60 per cent of the Goa people eat beef, but soon after his statement he retracted and said,…
AIMPLB’S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETS ON VARIOUS ISSUES
The executive committee of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, on 22 June, met in Delhi to discuss the intervention of courts in personal laws of Muslims. After the…
MINISTER FOR COMMERCIAL USE OF WAKF LAND
Union Minster for Minority Affairs, K Rahman Khan, on 25 June, stated that the commercial development of Waqf properties may generate more funds for the welfare of Muslims and his…
‘CUSTODIAL KILLING OF KATEEL WAS A PART OF CONSPIRACY’
Advocate Mahmood Pracha, in a recent press meet jointly called by Association for Protection of Civil Rights and Jamiat Ulema Hind, said the police have implicated many an innocent in…
ROW OVER MARRYING AGE OF MUSLIMS
The Kerala government’s 14 June circular, which legalises the marriage of Muslim boys and girls when they get matured and describes no age criterion, has created furore among the citizens.…
JUDGE RECUSES HIMSELF IN ISHRAT FAKE ENCOUNTER CASE
A single-judge bench of Gujarat High Court, on 24 June, recused himself from the hearing of a petition of Additional Director General of Police, PP Pandey, in connection with Ishrat…
PIL DEMANDS ACTION AGAINST OFFICIALS IN MALEGAON MANIPULATED INQUIRY
Sayyad Ameen Mustafa of Muslim-e-Hind has recently filed a Public Interest Litigation in Bombay High Court against 15 senior officers of Indian Police Service who have played their role to…
Filipino Nurse Embraces Islam
I hope I’m not late in discovering the light of truth When 55-year-old Duris Newels, head nurse at Abdulkarim Bakr Medical Centre, Jeddah, embraced Islam last week, it was a…
From Tahrir to Taksim West Reserves Right to Interfere
The distance between Cairo’s Tahrir Square and Istanbul’s Taksim Square is impossibly long. There can be no roadmap sufficient enough to use the popular experience of the first in order…
Myanmar Bans Time Magazine for Story on Extremist Monk
The Myanmar government banned last week’s issue of Time magazine because of its cover story, which is about an extremist Buddhist monk accused of promoting violence against Muslims in the…
Myanmar Gives Official Blessing to Anti-Muslim Buddhist Monks
Buddhist extremist movement in Myanmar, known as 969, portrays itself as a grassroots creed. Its chief proponent, a monk named Wirathu, was once jailed by the former military junta for…
Will Political Parties Ever Compete for Welfare of Minorities?
No country can claim to be a developed state unless and until minorities and weaker sections feel secure and enjoy equal social and constitutional rights as compared to others and…
WPI for Separate Ministry of Disaster Management
The Welfare Party of India, in a press statement on 26 June, said there must be a separate ministry of disaster management both at centre and in states to combat…
AIMMM Donates 1 Lakh for Flood Victims
The All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, on 27 June, donated Rs One lakh to the Prime Minister’s national relief fund for rehabilitation and relief work of Uttarakhand flood victims. Dr…
Jamaat, SIO Install Relief Camps in Uttarakhand
The Uttar Pradesh (West) and Uttarakhand zones of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind along with Students Islamic Organisation of India, on 25 June, started its relief work in the flood affected areas of…
JIH Ameer Writes to Governor Uttarakhand over Disaster
The Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, on 24 June, wrote to the Governor of Uttarakhand, lamenting over natural calamity in the state which left hundreds dead and…
British Muslim Women Send Forceful Message to Europe’s Politicians, Radical
The largest Muslim Women’s Conference in Europe took place on 23 June 2013 in London, UK. The Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA) – an international organisation committed to educating…
The Curious Case of Tamil Nadu Police Preventing Ex-Maoists’ Return
A group of concerned citizens, including Prof. A. Marx, People’s Union for Human Rights; Ko. Sugumaran, People’s Rights Forum; Dr. P. Sivakumar and Prof. M. Thirumavalavan, Ex-Principals of Government Colleges;…
The Growing Significance of Two Ports – Gwadar and Chabahar
Two deep-sea water warm ports situated roughly 70 kms away from each other on the gulf of Oman in the Arabian Sea, are in news for various reasons in last…
Prevention is Better than Cure
All of us are regularly reading and watching a spate of news about crimes like suicides, homicides, indiscriminate rapes and murders of even minors, etc. everywhere at increasing rates, the…
A Month of Endurance
Salman Farsi relates that the Holy Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) delivered a sermon on the last day of Sha’aban in which he said, “O people!…
The Intent of Fasting
Believers! Fasting is enjoined upon you as it was enjoined upon those before you, that you become God-fearing
Renounce Violence to Save Egypt
On 30 June Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi completed one year in office. The question is how. Protecting the nation from national and international onslaughts, preserving the sanctity of the revolution…
I have a Right to Know Complete Truth Who Killed
My daughter Ishrat Jahan was abducted, illegally confined and killed in cold blood by officers and men of the Gujarat police, in June 2004. She was killed as part of…
IB Role in Encounters Exposed, Union Home Ministry in a
SYYED MANSOOR AGHA analyses the news reports indicating the role of IB officials in fake encounters in the Narendra Modi-led Hindutva laboratory of Gujarat, and finds the Union Home Ministry…
