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If pigs could fly ... Read
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Taking Stock: Stoned to Death Read

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Document:
AIMMM on national and international issues Read

Media:
Signpost: The 5 Ws of news Read
Media's attempts to plug holes in Washington's stories reveal how absurd stories really are Read

National News:
UP police mows down five Read
Ban on SIMI widely condemned Read
Bitter truths about Babri Masjid cases Read
‘Kashmir to be solved within two years’: Mir Qasim Read
Selfless defender of Babri Read
The World after 11 Sept Read
Maulana Waheedudin Khan denies report Read
SIMI ban fits into BJP plan Read
Communal virus in Rajasthan Read
Muslim names deleted from electoral rolls in UP Read
Tongue watcher Read

Interview: PROF. NOAM CHOMSKY: ‘Americans walking into a diabolical trap’ Read

Issues:
An Overview of the global war against terrorism Read
Central government's strides towards an 'indianised, nationalised and spiritualised' curriculum Read
Is this a war of civilizations ? - I Read
Madrasas in a morass: between medievalism and Muslimophobia - i Read
Double standards defeat democracy Read

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Awards Read

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The loyalty of the Pakistany army is under extreme strain
Mulla Omar - in his own words
Feminist's anti-US speech causes uproar
The Destruction of WTC and the Pentagon Read
What about Sharon’s daily dose of terrorism?
Naipaul attacks Islam
Pakistan's Afghan policy
13 Questions for President George W. Bush
A year of war crimes and resistance Read

Books:
Has Gandhism failed? Read
Muslim lives in India Read
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Major contribution to Minor(ities) Affairs Read
WAQI'AT-I-KASHMIR by Khwaja Muhammad Azam Dedmari Read

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Nepal-border madrasas : no iota of ‘terrorism’ or ‘ISI’ activity
Every accusing finger targets them these days. Every second person feels free to label them with whatever he fancies and none musters courage to counter the claim. It is the fate of madrasas these days. The system that has been selflessly serving the country for hundreds of years, with no financial or any assistance from the government. Its contribution in the drive to alleviate illiteracy is enormous. But instead of recognizing this contribution, it is now suspected for charges that cannot be digested. These remain just accusations and no one cares to substantiate the senseless charges. Newspapers are replete with planted stories about the alleged connivance of madrasas with ISI and their alleged involvement in breeding terrorism in the country, specially the madrasas which are dotting the Indo-Nepal border. Fed up with rumours we decided to visit these madrasas in Eastern UP on the Indo-Nepal border. We had a feeling in deepest part of our heart that these accusations may be true in some way or the other and that the propaganda against madrasas here could not be without substance. But we were startled by the enormity of falsification put in by saffron organizations and under their influence by some front ranking security agencies and the home ministry of our country. We visited more than a dozen well-known madrasas on the Nepal border covering around 200 kms in three districts, namely Basti, Siddharth Nagar and Balrampur. These areas have been house to a number of madrasas for a long time. Most of them boast of histories of fifty to hundred years of services. We also visited some madrasas on the Nepali side of the border in order to get the real picture. Most of the madrasas visited by us were those which are being hounded by our security agencies and police for a couple of years, particularly after BJP government assumed power in UP a decade ago. What we saw assured us that these accusations are just a bundle of lies and figment of imagination and that the charges are patently false. Nowhere on this sensitive border we could see any madrasas where any sort of even physical training is imparted. The question of arms training simply does not arise..... Complete Article

Hashimpura killings by the PAC
The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ghaziabad, issuing bailable and then non-bailable warrants against the 19 PAC men, who faced charges of murdering 40 Muslims of Hashimpura (Meerut) in 1987, twenty three times between January 1997 and April 2000. They were never arrested and produced before the court, though all along this period they were in active service with known postings and residential addresses. At the end of May and early June 2000, sixteen of the accused surrendered and got bail, The trial court fixed dates in September, October and December 2000 for framing of charges, for which the Govt. counsel was not prepared. On 13 December the CBCID submitted that it wanted time for appointing a Special Public Prosecutor. The case was adjourned.... Complete Article

Advani and the truth
If a single person who could be credited with spoiling India's secular fabric and bringing the two major communities of the country at loggerhead it is LK Advani who led the Babri demolition from front. Not only he headed the Rath Yatra in 1990 that led the country to the greatest communal divide and caused lot of bloodshed in the whole country, but also participated and led the hooligans (Karsevaks) in Ayodhya in December 1992 to demolish the historical Babri Masjid. Now this very same person talks of deepest sorrow on the demolition of the Babri Masjid and goes on to say that it was the saddest day of his life.... Complete Article

Jameatus-Salehat: revolutionizing women education
If you believed that madrasas are only outdated things with their obsolete syllabi formulated centuries and centuries ago and students who come from poorest of poor families, you are due for a surprising jolt. You may be in for a further jolt when a madrasa meant for girls education established some quarter a century ago catches everyone's attention in the country. Complete Article

Kanpur: one-sided PAC riot
Kanpur riot, which erupted on 16 March and continued unabated for the next two days, was mostly a repetition of the familiar, one-sided, PAC violence we were used to until the Rapid Action Force (RAF) was formed by Narasimha Rao after great Muslim pressure and protests. The PAC has been thoroughly discredited and side-lined to the point that a judicial order prevents it fromentering Meerut where its brave jawans committed crimes unheard of in the police history anywhere in the world. Complete Article

Another 'Babri' in the making
The VHP is trying for several months now to perform yagna in the complex and is constantly trying to provoke people in order to give it an Ayodhya type turn. An ASI official said that ‘every Ganesh Chaturthi there are threats to review the worshipping of the idol. But the ASI maintains status-quo from the time the monument was notified as protected one.

When the police refused to allow the VHP to perform Ganesh Chaturthi in the complex they announced to try and perform the yagna every month till they are able to offer prayers before the Ganesha idol and install an idol in the complex. It has now become a monthly ritual and they gather every month outside the complex in order to try to install an idol inside. Click to Read Another Related Article Click to Read

Taliban defy world outcry...Their Indian counterparts cross all limits
Hindutvaites, who perpetrated greater crimes by demolishing the Babri Masjid which led to the demolition of hundreds of mosques, dargahs, imambaras and the murder of thousands of innocent Muslims in the riots that erupted all over the country as a result, took the Taleban demolitions to indulge in their favourite game of hate-mongering. The climax was the burning of the Holy Qur’an in Delhi by the World Hindu Council (VHP) activists in Delhi on 5 March. The above picture, taken by Kamal Kishore and distributed by Reuters news agency and was seen on the following internet site: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20010305/ts/mdf21501.html. ...Their Indian counterparts cross all limits Click to Read Related Articles Taliban defy world outcry... Click to Read Letters to the Editor: Taleban

Nigar Cinema accused go scot free
A two-member Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on 23 February accepted the appeal of ten persons accused of the Nigar cinema massacre and freed them all. The High Court upheld the December 1999 order of the U.P. state government and of the district and sessions judge of Meerut under which the cases of murder, dacoity and arson against the accused were withdrawn.
The Nigar cinema saga took a dramatic turn when, on 15 February, the main accused of this heinous crime and city vice president of Shiv Sena Dharam Dutt Sharma, alias Dharma, was shot dead by three scooter-borne youths on Meerut-Baghpat Road. Two other accused, KD Gaurav and Sirohi, were shot dead earlier by the UP Police in an encounter. Dharam Dutt Sharma was a top goonda of the district and was placed by Meerut police at number six in the top ten list of criminals. Complete Article

Setting world records in an unknown town
Sitting in a small town, Dr Ayub has set world records. He has performed maximum number of mini cholecystectomy operations in the world by single surgical team. Moreover, he has performed a mini cholecystectomy operation in just six minutes - another world record! He is slated to make it to the Guinness Book of World Records soon. Guinness researchers have already come twice to his hospital and checked the records themselves. Dr Ayub is a living example that armed with dedication and sincerity you can achieve excellence just about anywhere in the world. Complete Article

Hero buried in the Capital amid total media blackout
The country lost yet another promising young soldier in front of the lofty chinar trees in what used to be ‘paradise on earth.’ Captain Jawed Ali Saifi, who had just celebrated his 32nd birthday on 1 August, was shot at around 11 in the night of 22 August in Srinagar. He succumbed immediately to his injuries on the spot itself. But the martyrdom of the young captain made no news for the ‘national’ or mainstream media which goes berserk to highlight the religious affiliation if the victim is a non-Muslim. The sole bread-earner of his family, he is survived by his young wife Abida whom he married in 1994 before he joined the army. He has left behind a 4-year-old son, Faisal, an ailing father, two brothers, one of whom is blind and three sisters........ Complete Article

MG Impact
During the short period since its publication, The Milli Gazette was the first to break many important stories like the exposure of Al-Falah fraud, community-specific police and intelligence surveys in various parts of the country, 4-page supplement on police assault on the Jamia Millia, 16-page supplement on the great victory of resistance in South Lebanon, the first such supplement anywhere in the world.... We broke two stories in our 16 August issue (MG 15). The results are more than satisfying Complete Article

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