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Who needs Haj subsidy?
By Zafarul-Islam Khan
May 12, 2012
The so-called "Haj Subsidy" started in around 1974 when Govt. of India stopped pilgrims from travelling by sea and insisted that only air travel mode should be used by the Indian pilgrims going to Mecca on Haj. This was a government d...
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16000 Muslims still displaced in Gujarat
May 12, 2012
+ Pic Ahmedabad: Janvikas, an NGO in Gujarat has just published a detailed survey report which shows that while over 200,000 people were displaced during the 2002 violence in Gujarat, over 16,000 people are still living in 83 refugee ca...
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Maoists or Sanghi beasts?
May 12, 2012
+ Pic By Faheem Ahmad Chitra (Jharkhand): Bharatiya Communist Party (Maoist) has now completely strayed from its original agenda and has opened an anti-Muslim front in some regions which makes people think that now they are complete...
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Mr Chidambram is angry...
By Zafarul-Islam Khan
Apr 28, 2012
Speaking to the chief ministers on 16 April during the conference on NCTC, Home Minister P Chidambram saw it fit to lambast the Muslim community without naming it. He raised the issue of “protests lodged by some people in the name of reli...
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Secret Centre-ULFA parleys may lead to a fresh Nellie
Apr 28, 2012
By Our Correspondent Guwahati: In a possible replay of the 1985 Assam accord, the Centre is again “actively considering” denial of voting rights to migrants of East Bengal origin who settled in Assam between January 1966 and Mar...
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UP terror-accused: much more needed than justice to Qasmi and Mujahid
Apr 12, 2012
+ Pix By Ravi Shekhar Lucknow: The newly-elected UP government’s decision to withdraw cases against two innocent Muslim youths, who were implicated in 2007 serial blasts in UP court premises, is laudable if not delayed. Knowin...
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Who is getting mesmerised by the chime of shekels?
Mar 27, 2012
Kanchan Gupta’s piece, “Indian arrested in Delhi attack visited Iran, Syria” in Jerusalem Post came as an utter surprise on the day when Indian newspapers reported police’s changing stand on Kazmi (“Police sing a d...
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As protests mount, Police drops Kazmi like hot potato
Mar 27, 2012
+ Pix New Delhi: The unusual 20-day police remand of noted journalist Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi ended abruptly on 24 March when Delhi Police approached a court here saying that they no longer need the journalist for questioning. Thus K...
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Arrest of Kazmi – questions galore
Mar 13, 2012
By S. Aziz Haider Editor, Life Watch + Pix The arrest of Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi in the Israeli embassy car bomb blast case is being shown by media as just another arrest of a terror-planner. But those who know Kazmi are aware that h...
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Terror jinn is out of the bottle
By Zafarul-Islam Khan
Mar 02, 2012
Terror jinn is out of the bottle again. It is not long ago when media in chorus with the Saffron Brigade used to parrot that “Not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims”. This lie was nailed by late Hemant Karkare...
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RAW gives clean chit to Iran, needle of suspicion points towards Israel
Mar 02, 2012
+ PIx New Delhi: Who was behind the attack on the Israeli diplomat’s car? Where the conspiracy was hatched? Days have passed but no concrete answers have been found. Ibn7 has come to know that India’s premier secret Intellig...
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When news is not news
By Zafarul-Islam Khan
Feb 14, 2012
Our so-called “mainstream” media is super-nationalist and ultra-patriotic. It knows when and what to publish and what to kill or bury in inside pages. This arrogant media, which prints terror stories with banner headlines on front p...
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The Myth of Muslim votebank
Feb 14, 2012
By Shahid Siddiqui Shahid7862000@yahoo.com + Pic The myth of Muslim votebank, although denied by all sociologists and debunked by most of the respectable sephologists refuses to die. It reasserts itself with new vigour at eve...
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It is a mad, mad world...
By Zafarul-Islam Khan
Jan 27, 2012
Rushdie did not come or even speak over video after all; yet he is all over the place. Earth is ruined, skies have fallen for this temerity on part of “the mob” as TOI front page banner headline shrieked on 25 January. No matter if ...
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Discord in Jamia Hamdard over the VC
Jan 27, 2012
By Muhammad Iqbal Professor of Botany and an ex-acting VC, Jamia Hamdard + Pic Located in Tughlaqabad, south Delhi, Jamia Hamdard (deemed university), is a unique institution. Its founder, late Hakim Abdul Hameed, set up the campu...
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Notice to The Hindu for defamation, damages
Jan 14, 2012
By Abdul Bari Masood New Delhi: Father of Muhammad Yasin Bhatkali, a youth of Bhatkal (Karnataka) has sent a legal notice to the English daily The Hindu’s editor N. Ram and its associate editor Pravin Swamy, the self-styled e...
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BJP fighting a lost battle in UP?
By Mohammad Naushad Khan
Jan 14, 2012
BJP camp is already demoralised ahead of polls. The saffron party’s political strategy seems to have gone awry. Induction of various tainted leaders expelled from the BSP into BJP’s fold mirrors the political bankruptcy of the BJP w...
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MG, media and Muslims
Dec 30, 2011
With this issue, The Milli Gazette starts its 13th year. This is a matter of pride and joy for a publication which from the very beginning chose to swim against the tide and took up issues not appreciated by the so-called “mainstream&rdqu...
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During last 10 years, Police killed 4 in custody daily
By Mohammad Naushad Khan
Dec 30, 2011
According to a report released by the Asian Centre for Human Rights in the past ten years police have killed on an average four a day in police and judicial custody. As per the report the number of custodial deaths between 2001 to 2010 is 14,23...
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Joke...tokenism...dangerous...
Dec 30, 2011
While Left and Samajwadi parties have criticised the quota of 4.5 % as "most inadequate" and "tokenism," Muslim organisations like Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, All India Ulema Mashaikh Board (AIUMB) and All India Muslim...
