Opinion

In today’s world, the Muslim Ummah faces immense challenges, and many are struggling with confusion and uncertainty, especially in light of the ongoing crises in the Middle East. Disunity, leadership struggles, sectarianism, and an overwhelming focus on materialism are plaguing the Muslim community. These issues leave the Ummah questioning their …

The Bill would enable the government to withdraw citizenship to a person without informing him or her. The controversial Nationality and Borders Bill was introduced by the ruling Conservative Party in the House of Commons on 6 July 2021. The bill has now progressed to the House of Lords, and …

A recent Saudi ban announced through a tweet has once again pointed the needle of suspicion towards Indian Tablighi Jamaat, let’s analyse the whole episode. Recently most of the Indian newspapers and news channels in English, Hindi and Urdu carried a news story stating that the Saudi Arab has banned …

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 …

News reports about a new faith to be implemented globally, has caused consternation amongst the people and also raised questions about its validity and designs behind it. Recently in this era of conspiracy theories, in vogue particularly after the onset of the Covid pandemic, I recently received a message on …

India and Pakistan are poised against each other, to play a more proactive and constructive role in Afghanistan’s redevelopment, trying to negate each other’s initiatives. The ascendancy of Taliban to power in Afghanistan almost two-and-a-half months ago, after the hasty and chaotic withdrawal of the US forces from the country …

While an effort to classify the Taliban into good and bad is rather easy, the underlying reasons to classify them as Deobandi becomes a little tough and illogical. The seizure of Afghan capital, Kabul by the Taliban and their declaration to declare Afghanistan an Islamic Emirate has again raised the …

Muslim leaders to Discuss Challenges Faced by Indian Muslims Hyderabad, October 18:  All India Majlis e Tameer e Millat’s 72nd annual public meeting will be held on Tuesday, 19th October at Exhibition Grounds, Nampally from 9 am to 1pm. Known as Jalsa-e-Rahmatul lil Alameen, the public meeting is a grand …

Hyderabad, Ocober 16: “Over 90% of Indian startups fail because of poor technical foundation or gap between the industry and the academics”, said renowned business mentor and MSME coach Dr Azmathullah Khan. Delivering a lecture on “Challenges in MSME” and proposing solutions to the current crises faced by the MSME …

Proposals for a EU army have re-emerged after the Afghan fiasco – but many member states still remain ‘hard to convince’, about its feasibility. It seems that the EU has learnt the lessons of the abrupt end of the US-led mission in Afghanistan and furthermore after AUKUS, that the US …

A more holistic and pragmatic approach needs to be adopted by the policy makers to make Indian agriculture sector more competitive and profitable. Since Independence agriculture sector has remained the main source of national income and occupation in India. In 1947, 72 per cent of the total working population was …

The 2020 survey carried out by Carnegie Endowment, tries to find and analyse the reasons for Modi’s popularity in the United States. Indian-origin American citizens now comprise the second-largest immigrant group in the USA. Over the years with increasing political influence and playing an active role in the US internal …

The recent demonstrations in Russia might have raised the West’s hope to see an end to the Russian oligarchy, but it may turn out to be a wishful dream. Over the last two weeks, many Russian cities including Moscow and St. Petersburg witnessed a second wave of public demonstrations in …

75 years after independence and 72 years after India became a republic, instead of feeling ecstatic and consolidating our achievements we are forced to ponder the question, whether our freedom fighters, leaders and constitution framers dreamt of the India in its present form? At present we are standing at a …

It seems as if the Indian Muslims are under a collective siege from the external as well as internal forces and pressures. External pressure is being applied from the outside to weaken it psychologically, lessen the morale of its followers and instead of allowing them to focus their energies on …

After tolerating four years of tantrums, mood swings and fits, bad language, and the worst idiotic and overtly racist behaviour when defeated by any US president, the world keenly awaited the change of power in the oldest democracy in the world when Joe Biden took over as the new American …

It’s not only the Muslims, even Hindus and Jews have raised questions about the use of the COVID vaccine, due to prohibited substances in its composition.  Even before the COVID vaccination process starts in India. The Indian Muslims have courted another controversy. The question is whether they’ll be amenable to …

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 …

By: Riaz F Shaikh Who is a Muslim? A person who follows Islam. What is Islam? A religion in which you submit to the will of Allah (glory be to him), and follow the teachings of his last prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). These seem to be simple questions …

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 …

As per Income Tax Act,1961 any person having Income of more than Rs.2.5 Lakhs in a financial year is required to file Income Tax Return but if you travel out of India for any purpose and incur expense of more than Rs.2 Lakhs , you are required to file Income …

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 …

At 75, UN calls for a boost to multilateralism. The 75th UN General Assembly (UNGA) session, which began on 15 September has been unlike any other in the organisation’s three quarters of a century of existence. This year, most globals leaders will not be at the UN in person and …

Thanks, but No Thanks  – say the farmers to the government on Farm Bills 2020.  Last week, Indian government has passed three legislations in the Lower House of Parliament during its Monsoon session of Parliament. Lok Sabha passed bills to replace the agricultural regulations. These bills have drawn severe criticism from …

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, …

The continuous images on television and social media platforms of beaten out, hungry, gaunt faces of luggage carrying individuals on their heads, some of whom walking bare foot, with their earthy possessions on their heads and shoulders, with women and children in tow; were enough to pull one’s heartstrings. This …

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 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 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presenting the Union Budget 2020 has suggested a new education policy, besides several measures that will bring in a paradigm shift in the educational system and creation of employment. According to the FM, by 2030 India is set to have the largest working-age …

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 One has lost the count of sleepless nights spent since 15 Dec when the ‘police action’ against Jamia students started a whole chain of protests and reprisals across the country. Jamia was followed by AMU and scores of cities in UP and down south in Karnataka. The …

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, …

By:  Asad Mirza Azadi has become a dirty word these days, whereas it has always been regarded as the most sacred tenet of human existence throughout the world. The expression of Azadi in the post-colonial era widely differs in the strict sense of the term, as it was used then and …

by: Asad Mirza The protests against the CAA started as soon as the news that the Bill has been given Presidential Assent became public. The first protestors were students, and within five days of the start of protests from Jamia, it spread to 22 campuses across India, medical and legal …

Just in two days the protests against The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 have spread to many cities in the country. The protests which started in Assam after 4 December spread to West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Delhi, UP and Bihar after 13 December. Before we analyse the reason for such rapid …

By: Asad Mirza The exponential growth of Social Media services in the recent years, with every person becoming a photographer or a journalist or a critic has transformed our society to a completely new one, where most of us are living with two personas, one our original and one our …

The number of devotees thronging Ayodhya, to have a glimpse of the old Ram temple at the disputed site has been swelling since the SC verdict awarded the disputed land in entirety to the Hindu temple, ending 69 years old litigation.  This also is a pointer to the plans of …

In the next general elections in the UK, British Muslims constitute a swing vote to which none of the major or smaller political parties has paid any attention. Muslim voters in the UK, numbering 2 million, have the ability to swing the result, one way or the other. This is …

British Indians (also Indian British people or Indian Britons) are citizens of the United Kingdom (UK) whose ancestral roots lie in India. According to latest figures, Indians comprise about 1.4 million people in the UK, making them the single largest visible ethnic minority population in the country. The largest group …

by: Asad Mirza After a year of agony, mental and physical stress for me and my kids taking care of my wife, undergoing treatment for carcinogenic lump in the breast, the final test carried out in the mid-September heralded for us a huge sense of relief when she was diagnosed …

By: Asad Mirza At last the Supreme Court of India pronounced its verdict in the title case of Babri Masjid-Ram Mandir case in Ayodyha. The SC verdict put an end to the 82-years long legal battle to the ownership of the disputed site. Though the verdict accepted many facts, which …

By: Asad Mirza Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in the US today, on his first visit to the US after becoming the country’s prime minister for the second time in may, this year and fourth since he became the prime minister for the first time in 2014. As …

By: Asad Mirza Former London Mayor Boris Johnson led the campaign for Britain to leave the EU, and after a dramatic prime minister race, he’ll be serving in one of the country’s top positions. Johnson is a clownish character, but he’s got enviable popularity levels and is known by his …

By Asad Mirza Recent mass shootings in the US have been attributed to a variety of causes – disaffected youth, mental illness, workplace conflict and family discord. According to the BBC the nature of the attack could also prompt a rethinking of the domestic threat presented by militant white nationalists …

By:Asad Mirza Rahul Gandhi’s resignation as Congress President seems to have put the party on the brink of a collapse. Even after getting rejected by the people, who do not think that the party has changed much after Rahul Gandhi took over the party’s command in December 2017, and despite …

By :Asad Mirza The Media Ownership Monitor (MOM) project, a global research and advocacy effort to promote transparency and media pluralism at an international level, was initiated by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in 2015. In India, it conducted the Media Ownership Monitor project together with Delhi based digital media company, …

Should Mohammed Azharuddin contest election from Hyderabad? If so, he will contesting against MIM leader  Asaduddin Owaisi. The Telangana State Congress has invited Mohammed Azharuddin, who has earlier represented the party from Muradabad constituency, to contest from the Telangana State. But is Mohammed Azharuddin interested? In this video, Dr. Syed …

In a country vowing women empowerment to eradicate hazards to women safety, women security has different facets and oblique meanings. There’s social security, financial security and of course physical security to discuss about. The threat of physical security to a woman working during night shifts, physical assaults on school girls …