NARENDRA MODI A Genocide Accused Aspiring for Top Post
Vol. XLVII No. 6
Date: May 10, 2009
Pakistani Taliban’s treatment of Sikhs is illegal and barbaric: Muslim
The religious, political and community leaders of Indian Muslims have expressed their shock and concern at “the reports coming out of Pakistan’s tribal areas about the Pakistani Taliban’s kidnapping, extortion…

The Swine Flu
The swine flu is sending shivers down the spines of all nations in the world, including the most advanced ones like the U.S., Russia and China.

PM from Lok Sabha Only?
BJP and CPM have desired that the country’s Prime Minister should be only from Lok Sabha, evidently with an eye on Congress’s Prime Ministerial candidate Dr Manmohan Singh who is…

A Real Eye-opener
Maqbool Ahmed Siraj’s article, “Catastrophe of Character” made a great reading. It was a real eye-opener for us Indians. And as Mahatma Gandhi said,

Probe the Role of Marauders of Humanity
The recent Supreme Court order to probe into the alleged role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, his cabinet colleagues and senior police officers for aiding and abetting the infamous…

CIA’s Muslim Black Sites
Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal)

US MOSQUES LEAD SWINE FLU CAMPAIGN
American Muslims are leaving no stone unturned in increasing their community’s awareness about the swine flu virus that has been registered in several America states and is spreading globally.

UN TELLS ISRAEL TO STOP AL-QUDS DEMOLITIONS
The United Nations on May 1 urged Israel to freeze demolitions of Palestinian houses in Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem), reflecting the growing international concerns over Israeli policies in the holy…

ALCOHOL, PROSTITUTION RIFE IN POST-INVASION IRAQ
After disappearing for the past six years, sin and vice are now running rife in the streets of the Iraqi capital. “Sin is part of Baghdadis’ lives again,” Fadilla Muhammed,…

BRITISH TROOPS END COMBAT OPERATION IN SOUTHERN IRAQ
British troops officially ended combat operations in southern Iraq today, handing over control of their base in Basra to US forces. The last British army patrol around Iraq’s second city…

SAUDI ARABIA TO BAN UNDERAGE MARRIAGE
Coming under local and international criticism after marriages of young girls to men at the age of their fathers, Saudi Arabia is considering a total ban on underage marriages.

SWAT MINORITIES PREFER SHARI’AH JUSTICE
Members of religious minorities in the restive Swat Valley have no grudge against Taliban and say they are not troubled by the enforcement of a Shari’ah judicial system under a…

AMU VC AWARDED HONORARY “COLONEL”
The Directorate General, National Cadet Corps, Ministry of Defence, Government of India has decided to bestow upon Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis, Vice Chancellor, Aligarh Muslim University, the honorary rank…

APJ ABUL KALAM PRESENTED WITH HOOVER MEDAL FOR 2008
Former President A.P.J. Abul Kalam had been presented with the prestigious Hoover Medal for 2008 on April 28 for his services to humanity at a ceremony at Columbia University in…

NATIONAL ORTHPOPEDIC SYMPOSIUM AT AMU
The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Aligarh Orthopaedic Club jointly organised a symposium on “Limb Salvage in Malignant Bone Tumours”. The guest speakers,

A DISTRICT COURT JUDGE SEEKS PROTECTION FROM HC
A district court judge who had recently questioned the “magical powers” of the Special Staff of Delhi Police and ordered registration of FIR against eight policemen for wrongly implicating two…

SC ORDERS FAST TRACK TRIAL OF 2002 GUJARAT RIOTS
The Supreme Court on May 1 lifted the stay on trial of 2002 Gujarat riots cases and directed the setting up of fast track courts for holding it on a…

JIH, RIGHTS BODY WELCOME SC ORDER TO PROBE MODI’S ROLE
A number of peace- and justice-loving persons as well as organisations have welcomed the Supreme Court order to probe into the role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi into the 2002…

Clinton’s Unpromising Start
Incongruous. One can hardly think of a more suited term to describe the new US administration’s approach to peacemaking in the Middle East.

Factors behind Low Voters’ Turn-out
SOROOR AHMED discusses what is special about this parliamentary election that the turn-out is not crossing 50 per cent mark in many states.

‘Gaza is Israel’s Warsaw’ Professor’s Comparison of Israelis to Nazis
Controversy has erupted at UC Santa Barbara over a professor’s decision to send his students an e-mail in which he compared graphic images of Jews in the Holocaust to pictures…

SWINE FLU Should Biological Muddle Be Blamed?
Misfortune never comes alone, goes the saying. After the economic melt-down the West is now in the grip of a pandemic disease, swine flu.

Terrorism has No Religious Basis
AMBASSADOR ISHRAT AZIZ, former career diplomat who is regarded as the architect of India’s policy to diffuse the diplomatic crisis during the Gulf War I, has a word with SAAD BIN…

Alleviation of Poverty-II
The Nobel Laureate Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh founded his Grameen Bank in Dhaka some 40 years ago. This bank has helped some 40 lakh very poor families to…

Attack on AMU Autonomy by Congressmen?
Recently President of India Smt. Pratibha Patil in her capacity of the visitor of the Aligarh Muslim University asked for facts from the University in view of contradictory representations received…

Modi must Step Down, Otherwise Remove Him
The ghastly crimes against humanity committed by communal devils and their accomplices in Gujarat in 2002 are still crying for justice.

NARENDRA MODI A Genocide Accused Aspiring for Top Post
DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI comments on the recent Supreme Court order to probe the role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 62 others in the Gujarat genocide in 2002,…

GUJARAT CARNAGE Role of Narendra Modi
In the worst ever communal carnage of this century, the post-Godhra Gujarat violence, over 2000 innocents lost their lives. Most of the survivors not only lost their livelihood and shelter…

Ban Abhinav Bharat, Demands Qaumi Majlis-e-Shoora
In a memorandum sent to Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on April 27, Qaumi Majlis-e-Shoora demanded clamping of ban on Abhinav Bharat, the Hindutva Right wing organisation allegedly involved in the…





