The election of Kemi Badenoch, as the new leader of Britain’s Conservative Party seems to have rattled not just the common public but even the diehard Tories. But this should also be seen as the last-ditch efforts by the Conservatives to revive the party’s fortunes. Last week, Britain’s chastened Conservative …
Read More »Will The US Lead A War Against Iran?
Fears of a regional war in the Middle East spiked after Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets towards Israel. This was in retaliation to the Israeli covert operations that killed a senior Hezbollah commander and a top Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh. The killing of Hamas Polit Bureau Head Ismail Haniyeh …
Read More »The Tumultuous Nepali Politics
By: Asad Mirza A universal truth is that there are no permanent enemies and friends in politics, only ensuring your interests, supremacy and continuing in office guides you breaking or forming alliances across the democratic world. But the Nepali politics gives a completely new meaning to horse-trading or coalition politics, …
Read More »AI Genius: Mustafa Suleyman – A Beacon For Muslim Youth
Discover the inspiring journey of Mustafa Suleyman, a visionary technologist who co-founded DeepMind, revolutionizing AI and now leads Microsoft's AI division, motivating youth worldwide to pursue excellence in technology
Read More »The Summit for Democracy
The summit hosted by the US president, instead of bringing together democratic voices at a common international platform, gave birth to many controversies. A US sponsored two-day virtual democracy summit wrapped up last week. It was promised by President Joe Biden during his election campaign last year, as he wanted …
Read More »Chinese Naval Strategy’s Covert Dimensions
In recent times the Chinese navy’s coercive activities in the South China Sea and its global port-buying spree have added different dimensions to its naval strategy. Ever since Communist China came into existence in 1949, its belligerence over South China Sea – SCS, has been increasing and some recent events …
Read More »Saudia plagued by an unIslamic practice
An allegedly unIslamic practice has mushroomed in Saudi Arabia, with wider societal and moral implications, while the Saudi authorities remain indifferent to it. The Saudi society currently is facing a dilemma bordering on societal norms, morals and Sharia. This peculiar situation has developed mainly due to the increase in number …
Read More »Coexistence, a unifying factor for Indians
A recent survey throws contradictory and unbelievable findings, yet it also underlines how an Indian really feels. For most political parties, sociologists and psephologists what a common Indian on the street thinks matters most. It is an insight into a common man’s psyche, which allows them to strategies and formulate …
Read More »US-Jordanian Ties Rejuvenated
King Abdullah’s US visit marks an end to four years of being snubbed by the Trump administration, and may herald a new chapter in the US-Jordanian ties. Jordanian King Abdullah became the first Arab leader to meet the US President Joe Biden at the White House on July 19. By …
Read More »UK’s New Avatar
Post-Brexit strategy poses great challenges for the UK; to redefine its internal and external policies besides handling the worsening pandemic situation calls for pragmatism in a large dose. Now that the UK has left the EU and has lost the shelter of the EU’s single market and customs union at …
Read More »Adieu 2020, Welcome 2021
2020 set many new paradigms, which may be the norm in the coming years, too. Perhaps the humans have awaited no other year’s end so eagerly across the world as that of 2020. Similarly, no other event in the recent history has had such a far-reaching impact as that of …
Read More »Global Britain – UK’s New Strategy to Bounce Back as Key Player at Global Stage
Global Britain is the new strategy, through which UK aspires to re-emerge as a key player at the global stage. The question is whether it will be able to? The recent bonhomie between India and the UK, during the continuing Covid pandemic indeed comes as a real surprise. The Indo-UK …
Read More »Indian Madrassas – A Need for Reorientation
If the Indian madrassas could reorient themselves, it may silence their critics besides influencing the government to support these initiatives. The first institute of Islamic Madrassa education was at the estate of Hazrat Zaid bin Arkam near a hill called Safa in Makkah, where Prophet Muhammad was the teacher and …
Read More »Changing perceptions and ideals of the young Arabs
A recent survey of Arabs has brought out some revealing changes and ideas endorsed by the young Arab population. A recent 2019-2020 Arab Opinion survey conducted by Doha-based Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies has bought out some revealing perceptions of the Arab citizens. The survey in its seventh …
Read More »US Elections : Changing Equations Globally
Joe Biden’s win will have a definite impact on America’s relationship with other countries across the globe. Twenty years after the nail biting Bush-Al Gore electoral fight in 2000, the recent Trump-Biden presidential contest was perhaps the most watched and nerves wracking electoral fight till the victor was declared. It …
Read More »G20 Interfaith Forum advocates political space for faith leaders
The Forum stressed on the importance of role, which could be played by religious leaders in resolving many global issues. Attracting an extraordinary assembly of diverse representatives from world’s religious and interreligious networks and communities, the seventh annual G20 Interfaith Forum concluded its meetings mid-October, after five days of virtual …
Read More »Sudden warmth in Indo-US ties
The sudden warmth might be due to the increased Chinese belligerence, in the region and the world over, and also might have a bearing on the upcoming US presidential elections. Some recent observations and statemenst by the US State Department on India’s role in the region, have led to predictions …
Read More »Iran’s move towards China will have global ramifications
China’s Diplomatic Outreach-II The 25-years pact between Iran and China may change regional geopolitical dynamics to a large extent. The global audience was gripped recently by two historic developments in the Middle East. Both are supposed to have considerable affect on the regional geopolitics. The news of a strategic partnership …
Read More »China’s Diplomatic Outreach-I
Israel-China Relations on an Upswing Economic ties between China and Israel have increased considerably in recent years. In addition Israel has also been working hard to strengthen political and cultural interaction between the two nations. In its 72 years of existence, Israel has been a nation with few friends except …
Read More »Destruction of Islamic architecture in China
An Australian think tanks has brought out considerably verifiable proofs of the destruction of Uyghur and Islamic monuments in Xinjiang province of China. Reports about the Chinese persecution of Uyghur and other other minorities by the Chinese Communist Party are not new anymore, and they have always been denied by …
Read More »Dragon is the new economic superpower
By: Asad Mirza At present the whole world it seems is influenced or being governed by signals emanating from the eastern world, instead of the western world, as has been the historic precedent. It seems that the Chinese dragon, which for ages had been trying to rule the world has …
Read More »Indo-Nepal—Strained Ties
By: Asad Mirza The seesaw like relations between India and Nepal, have taken a nosedive for the worse, during the last fortnight. The immediate provocation is the long-standing territorial issue surrounding Kalapani, a patch of land near the India-Nepal border, close to the Lipulekh Pass on the India-China border. However, …
Read More »Eid in Lockdown
By: Asad Mirza Perhaps this will be the first time for many Muslims around the world that they’ll be observing Eid-ul Fitr, the most important and looked forward-to festival amongst Muslims, in completely new and unparalleled circumstances. Forced upon us by the pandemic Corona, which has changed everyone’s day-to-day life …
Read More »The conspiratorial angle of Corona
By Asad Mirza Covid-19 or Corona virus, besides giving anxiety to people all over the world has also given birth to many controversies, as to its origin, spread and control, the strategies of the governments tackling it, the role of the big business and its control by secret lobbies or …
Read More »COVID-19, a planned virus?
By: Asad Mirza The Covid-19 has given birth to many controversies, over reactions of the world leaders to the pandemic and its subsequent control by their governments, to who spread or manufactured the virus, China or the US. The latest to join this series of controversies is a 26-minute slickly …
Read More »Whither Indian Muslims?
by: Asad Mirza The political developments during the last five years, and in particular since the last May have forced many a Muslim intellectuals, community sympathisers and well-wishers to turn into a pessimist. They are brooding that many recent political developments and reaction of the Muslim religious and community leaders …
Read More »Countering Islamophobia in the Indian Media
By : Asad Mirza In the recent days, post Delhi riots and Tableeghi Jamaat’s alleged actions violating the Corona pandemic related rules have brought into sharp focus, the anti-Muslim narrative promoted by fake news web sites, social media and most of the mainstream TV channels across India. Indian Muslims, have …
Read More »Corona’s Message To Ponder and Act
By: Asad Mirza The Corona virus pandemic, which has tormented the world for the last 6 months and is now in full bloom, after devastating China and some European countries has also, brought some changes to the thinking that how the future relationship between the nature and humans should be …
Read More »For Indian Muslims NPR more deadly than Corona
Asad Mirza Based on a response by the HM in the parliament recently, some people have started saying that the government is taking a step back and bowing to pressure of anti-CAA protestors is ready to change tacks. Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Delhi violence, the …
Read More »Corona’s Economic Impact
Asad Mirza The Corona virus endemic and its deadly effects have brought new words like quarantine, lockdown, sanitisation etc. into the lexicon of every common Indian. People who had no regard for their own cleanliness have awaken to the harsh realities and have started practicing what the government was trying …
Read More »Anatomy of a riot in India
Asad Mirza One wonders how a riot starts. A city or a locality which is apparently calm, with people going about their day to day lives, suddenly find themselves surrounded by rioters followed by physical abuse, shooting, arson and fire setting. The pattern is copiable anywhere in India, where a …
Read More »Delhi Violence: Genesis of Carnage
By: Dr. Ram Puniyani They say ‘history repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce’. In case of India, communal violence not only keeps repeating itself, the pattern of the tragedy keeps changing every next time. Some features of the violence are constant, but they are under …
Read More »CAA’s International Condemnation Continues
By: Asad Mirza The condemnation of the controversial CAA and the violence perpetrated against Muslims protesting against the Act, by the international community continues unabated. Iran has become the latest country to join the ranks of the European parliament, the British parliament, UNHCR, Pakistan, Turkey and Malaysia to criticise the …
Read More »Afghan Accord: Watchful Joy
By: Asad Mirza The United States signed a peace deal with the Taliban, of Afghanistan on 29 February at Doha, Qatar. The accord follows a weeklong truce and 18 months of stop-and-go negotiations. It sets the terms for the withdrawal of the remaining roughly 13,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan over …
Read More »Trump India Visit: Result Zero
By: Asad Mirza US President Donald Trump became the seventh American president to visit India, with his maiden two-day visit on 24 February 2020. The government which has become habitual of spending big bucks on irrelevant but optics high events, spent more than an estimated 250 crore rupees on the …
Read More »Beware of the NPR
For the common Indian and particularly the Muslim community, the war of obfuscation on NPR, NRC and CAA continues. The PM and HM have issued contradictory statements on the controversial law and its implementation. Critics say NPR, alongside the NRC and CAA, will lead to the mass exclusion of Indians, …
Read More »Rule of Law Still Prevails
By: Asad Mirza Three events of the last week, related to jurists and the courts have restored one’s belief in the institutions and actors, who are supposed to be the guardian angels of the Indian Democracy, besides the supremacy of the rule of law and the constitution. In a notable …
Read More »Spirit of India won!
By: Asad Mirza 8 February in Delhi saw the end of one of the most vitriolic, hate-fuelled and destructive election campaign in India. The ruling BJP made it an issue of honour, but they made one mistake. With one arrow they wanted to kill both the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) …
Read More »A new dawn for the Indo-UK trade?
By: Asad Mirza The UK officially became a non-member of the European Union (EU) from Friday 31 January’s night, a certainty welcomed by Indian businesses operating in the UK as well as British businesses keen to expand into the Indian market. The official transition period from Saturday until the end of …
Read More »Delhi Elections: Muslims and the NRC
By Asad Mirza The lead-up to the Delhi assembly elections is slowly building up. The manner, in which the ruling BJP has made it a prestige issue to win, is a pointer towards its naked lust for power and to control every state in the country by hook or by …
Read More »India at 70. Was this our destination?
by Asad Mirza 72 years after independence and 70 years after India became a republic, instead of feeling ecstatic and consolidating our achievements we are forced to ponder the question, was this the India, dreamed of by our freedom fighters, leaders and constitution framers? At present we are standing at …
Read More »What Now?
by Asad Mirza The only face off seems to change the retrospective date for the NRC and instead set a current date for new citizens being born in India e.g. after 1 Jan 2020. The on-going protests against the CAA-NRC-NPR trio have entered 36th day now. The government is adamant …
Read More »Chanakya’s Chakravyuh
By : ASAD MIRZA For the past one-month or so, since the new Citizenship Amendment Act and NCR and NPR were thrust on the Indian citizens, the country has been waddling in a chakravyuh (maze) of ambiguous promises and statements. People are demonstrating against the decision due to the ambiguities regarding …
Read More »Indian Women will soar high like Shaheen
Shaheen Bagh women have presented a model of Gandhian Satyagraha in practice. Shaheen is a Persian origin word in Urdu, referring specifically to the Barbary falcon In Persian, Shaheen literally means ‘majestic’ or ‘like a king’. It also symbolises speed, superiority, determination, loyalty, strength, wisdom, freedom, focus, ambition and aspiration. …
Read More »Malaysian Threat to the OIC
by: Asad Mirza The fifth edition of an annual gathering of Muslim leaders from across the world was hosted by Malaysia from Dec 19 to 21 last year. The conference was attended by leaders from 20 Muslim countries including Iran, Qatar and Turkey, and sought to foster closer cooperation among …
Read More »Different labels, the goal same
By Asad Mirza It seems the ruling class in India is trying to teach the public, the rudimentary alphabets. For it first comes the CAA then NRC then NPR. But unlike the traditional alphabets the new alphabets means the same. So whether it is CAA or NRC or the NPR, …
Read More »Masjid-e-Nabawi – Little Known Facts and an Inside View
Every year millions of Muslims from across the world visit the Holy Mosque in Madina, popularly known as Masjid-e Nabawi. The visit embodies their love and respect for the messenger of peace, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Madina is his city and within the precincts of Masjid-e Nabawi lays his tomb also. …
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