A big transition
IT is hard to imagine how someone changes the course of their life — more so when that person is a top jihadist leader on the world’s most-wanted terrorist lists…
The change in the wind
TWENTY-ONE years ago, the 9/11 attacks in the US set off a range of social and political changes in Muslim societies. The Middle East was the flashpoint as it was…
India’s demonisation of Muslims
THE Modi administration has been at daggers drawn with Indian Muslims for years. Before the pandemic struck, a draconian citizenship law aimed at divesting millions of legitimate Indians of their citizenship based…
Enters another ‘Muslim League’
A too-early to a brand-new organisation's electoral campaign would raise some eyebrows, particularly if the latest outfit is yet another Muslim League - "Milli Muslim League" in this case. But…
For the record
A too-early to a brand-new organisation's electoral campaign would raise some eyebrows, particularly if the latest outfit is yet another Muslim League - "Milli Muslim League" in this case. But…
Grading Pakistan’s August 5 gestures
Some of the public-facing symbolic gestures that Pakistan is making in solidarity with Kashmiris to observe one year since the annexation of Occupied Kashmir on August 5 are being criticized.…
A loose cannon supreme leader
Hell hath no fury like Nawaz Sharif ousted from power. Disqualified in a Panama Papers scandal related case and facing corruption references in a NAB accountability court, he has been…
Urgency to fulfil FATF action plan
The success of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout package depends on several factors however one that is not under much discussion domestically at least (though one would hope this…
No meaningful progress
Narendra Modi’s emphatic election victory is not only a reaffirmation of his Hindu nationalist agenda but also an endorsement of his muscular foreign policy, particularly towards Pakistan. India’s relationship with…
Who stands for our sovereignty?
Over 40 Indian soldiers of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed on February 14 in Pulwama, Occupied Kashmir in a car bombing that shook India, the wider…
