PEACE in PERIL
Vol. XLV No. 6
Date: August 19, 2007
Implement Srikrishna panel recommendations
A number of Muslim and civil rights organisations organised a stage-in at Jantar Mantar on Parliament Street in the capital on August 7 to demand implementation of Justice Srikrishna Commission…
Redefining minorities will lead to confusion: Shahabuddin
A seminar on Proposed Bill Defining Status of Minorities in India was organised at India International Centre in the Capital on August 1.
Human Welfare Trust Hosts Workshop on Education and Career Guidance
To train the resource persons working in the field of education and career guidance throughout India an 8-day long national level workshop was organised recently by Human Welfare Trust, New…
Muslim Empowerment
I am surprised by Soroor Ahmed’s inability to distinguish between elected posts of President, Vice-President and recruitment to public employment (Radiance, 29 July-4 August 2007 pp. 18-19).
Why Double Standards?
The judgments delivered in the cases related to Mumbai blasts 1993 are now complete. The guilty of the crimes have been punished. Most of those punished spoke their hearts out…
Why Double Standards?
More than 900 were killed and thousands were injured in anti-Muslim riots of 1992-93 in Mumbai. Justice Srikrishna boldly named the people responsible for the dance of death and destruction.…
Ban Cola Ads
It refers to Union Information & Broadcasting Ministry resisting right approach of Union Health Ministry to impose a ban on cola-advertisements.
M.A. Jameel Ahmed No More
M.A. Jameel Ahmed breathed his last on August 8. His demise brings to an end an eventful period of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind in Tamil Nadu.
EGYPT TRIAL BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
The trial of 40 members of Egyptian opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood on charges of money-laundering and financing a banned organisation resumed at a military tribunal on amid calls to…
IRAN DISTASTES HOMOSEXUALITY
Iran shut down a daily for the second time in less than a year after the paper published an interview with a woman accused of being a homosexual. The ban…
OIC-IDB MISSION TO VISIT DARFUR
A joint mission by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is heading to Darfur, Sudan, to provide emergency humanitarian relief at a cost…
BANGLADESH APPEALS FOR FLOOD AID
The leader of Bangladesh’s military-backed interim government appealed for aid from home and abroad to help millions displaced in severe flooding across the country. Fakhruddin Ahmed said in a live…
PENTAGON LOSES TRACK OF WEAPONS
The Pentagon cannot account for 190,000 AK-47 rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, or about half the weapons earmarked for soldiers and police, according…
BRING MUMBAI RIOTS CULPRITS TO JUSTICE: JAMIAT CHIEF
The TADA court judgements awarding capital and jail terms to the accused in the Mumbai serial blasts cases are not unexpected but the irony is that the culprits of Mumbai…
GUJARAT MUST WITHDRAW “FREEDOM OF RELIGION ACT”
A non-governmental organisation based in Ahmedabad has welcomed the decision by the Gujarat Governor Nawal Kishore Sharma to return “The Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill 2006”.
2 TEACHERS UNDER FIRE FOR PRINTING BLASPHEMOUS SKETCHES
A highly sensitive issue was simmering and simmering and it came to a boil when an imaginary sketch of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be with him) was…
‘Put in your best efforts towards inter-community rapport and services’
MAULANA ABDUL AZIZ, president Movement for Peace & Justice (MPJ), Andhra Pradesh, talks to AYESHA AMEER on what MPJ is doing to establish peace and justice in the State. Excerpts:
Graveyard of Great Armies
At the height of tensions after 9/11 attacks when Bush was breathing down Taleban’s neck ordering them to surrender Osama bin Laden, we South Asian journalists would endlessly debate the…
Reviving India’s Freedom Spirit
This year the 60th anniversary of India’s Independence will be observed. For those born this year, Independence Day will be a distant event since this generation will probably never meet…
Losing Woods for the Trees
Islamabad’s fears with regard to Indo-US nuclear cooperation are baseless. How? After two years of toing and froing, New Delhi and Washington have reached 123 Agreement on nuclear cooperation and…
Freedom or Free Doom? Exposing the truth behind the War
Defining terrorism is not just difficult – it’s pointless, because it is hard to agree on one definition. But Al-Sharpton makes a deeper point: “Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is…
Peer Pressure or Cultural Suicide
Cultural suicide that the globe is witnessing during the recent decades has scared only a few searching souls. It is no surprise that the Muslim youth, like the frenzied young…
