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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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) …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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, …

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. …