Capital Punishment Why doesn’t It Deter a Murderer?
Vol. LI No. 30
Date: October 27, 2013
BJP and Asaram
It is surprising why BJP and Sangh Parivar should be rooting for an alleged sex offender like Asaram. Prima facie, the case against Asaram is so horrifying, that one can hardly…
Unless Modi Apologises for Gujarat Riots…
With the parliamentary elections nearing, all political parties are trying to attract more and more voters in their favour. Amidst the election buzz, it is strange that a section of…
Is it Indian Secularism?
It shocked my conscience to go through a news item in Inquilab Urdu Daily (Oct. 19) that for the last about 25 years Muslims in village Lohra under Police Station Mubarakpur in…
ISRAEL SEEKS TO UNDERMINE NUCLEAR TALKS
Iran’s foreign minister on 18 October accused Israel of trying to undermine what he described as progress in Tehran’s nuclear talks with world powers. The negotiations — which ended in…
EGYPT’S INT’L ANTI-COUP ALLIANCE ISSUES ‘100 DAYS OF COUP’ ADVERTISEMENTS
IACPDA (The International Anti-Coup Pro-Democracy Alliance) has commissioned a series of advertisements which started appearing in leading European newspapers, beginning with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 14 October, 2013. In the…
BENGHAZI MILITARY LEADER KILLED
Gunmen killed the head of the regional military police in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi as he was headed to a mosque to attend Friday prayers. Libya has been in…
FJP URGES ALL FOR PEACEFUL ACTION TO CONTINUE JANUARY 25
Hussein Ibrahim, Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Secretary-General, called on all the patriotic people of Egypt to join peaceful action in order to protect the gains of the January…
EGYPT ALLIANCE CALLS ‘PATIENCE PATH TO VICTORY’ WEEK OF PEACEFUL
Huge masses of the Egyptian people all over the country turned out, defying threats of violent attacks, humiliation, injury, detention, fines and even murder that have just been supported by…
HAMAS REACHES OUT TO ABBAS
Hamas, its Gaza Strip stronghold cut off by the new military-backed government in Egypt, called upon rival Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on 19 October to end their six-year schism and…
6 YEMENI SOLDIERS KILLED IN SUICIDE ATTACK
A suicide bomber killed six Yemeni soldiers on 18 October in a militant attack on a military base in the south of the country. Militants are increasingly targeting Yemeni Army…
WOMAN SHOULD BE COVERED FROM HEAD TO TOE, SAYS KHAP
Khap panchayats (caste councils) in Jhajjar, Haryana have hit out at girls “for being the agents who pollute society and bring a bad name to the community”. Within days of…
NOBODY FEELS SAFE IN GUJARAT
Hitting out at Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Congress spokesperson Renuka Chowdhary on 19 October said “nobody” felt safe in Gujarat. “Nobody feels safe in Gujarat …
HINDUTVA ACTIVISTS BEAT UP THREE PERSONS FOR ‘STEALING BULL’
Activists of the Hindu Jagaran Vedike allegedly attacked three persons suspecting that they were stealing a bull near T.T. Road at Kaipady village on the outskirts of Kundapur town in…
CENTRE ASKS UP TO ENSURE NO COMMUNAL FLARE-UP
The Centre has issued a strict advisory to the Uttar Pradesh government asking it to take all possible steps to ensure status quo is maintained at the Ram Janmabhoomi Babri…
128 COMMUNAL INCIDENTS IN 21 DAYS LEFT 62 DEAD: UP
To dispel the allegation of bias in enforcing law and order after the communal riots in Muzaffarnagar and four other districts last month, the UP government on 17 October informed…
BAJRANG DAL, BJP LEADER HELD FOR VIOLENCE DURING MAHAPANCHAYAT
Bajranj Dal leader Balraj Singh Dungar was on 18 October arrested for his alleged role in the violence that broke out during Mahapanchayat organised in support of BJP MLA Sangeet…
HT Allah Finally Helped Me Find the Right Way
Born 1953 in the town Linz in Austria, I spent my childhood in Munich (Germany) until we moved to Salzburg (Austria) when I was 16 years old.
South vs. North, Yemen Teeters between Hope and Division
On 12 October, tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of Eden in the South of the country, mostly demanding secession from the north. The date is significant,…
Why is Mr. Netanyahu So Distraught?
As President Rouhani conducts a diplomatic charm offensive, Israel’s Prime Minister is left in a spin, writes HAMID DABASHI Mr. Netanyahu is not feeling well lately, and for good reasons.…
Erdogan Vying for Broader Kurdish Ties
It reminds me of the words of prominent Kurdish politician Leyla Zana’s statement last year, wherein she emphasised: “I believe that he [Prime Minister Erdogan] will be able to solve…
A Letter Published on 4 June, 1972
I received a copy of Radiance in January 1968 sent to me by my friend Syed Waqar Ahmed Hussaini, who was a doctorate candidate in Stanford University in Palo Alto,…
SP’s Political Blunder will Reflect in 2014 Polls
SP’s dubious move on Babri Masjid issue and its lethargic approach towards riots is likely to do more harm than good. The language of politics is coded and decoded by…
LOVE JIHAD From Illusory Slogan to Potent Weapon
The country is yet to recover from the aftermath of Muzaffarnagar violence (October 2013). This violence was engineered over a period of time in the areas of Western UP, where…
When Tears Speak Louder than Words
A white sea of faithful surged from Mina to Arafat as dawn broke on the second day of the five-day event. Waves of men in seamless white robes and veiled…
Lord Carlile Voices Concern over Dhaka’s Continuation of WCT
One of Britain’s leading lawyers on 2 October rounded on the Bangladesh Government for their continuation of a controversial war crimes tribunal that now faces further international criticism. Lord Carlile…
Modern Education for Girls
I came across a book titled “Munthakhab Masaail” – part I of which contains 160 pages and is authored by Mr. Mufti Mohammed Salahuddin Qasmi with the assistance of Mr.…
Good Deeds of Unbelievers
Aisha relates: I said: Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be to him), the son of Judan established ties of relationship, fed the poor. Would that be of…
A Clear Message
And surely We wrote in the Psalms, after the exhortation, ‘that the earth shall be inherited by My righteous servants’. Herein, surely, is a message for those devoted to worship.
Modern-Day Slavery Will Ever Man Walk Free?
Australia-based rights organisation “Walk Free Federation” has recently published the Inaugural Global Slavery Index 2013, which brings out vividly the painful fact, that even today, large sections of humanity are…
Capital Punishment, Why doesn’t It Deter a Murderer?
DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI underlines the what and why of capital punishment. Today India lives in an extraordinary ambience, in which provocation for evil carries a premium while virtue…
