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Sarabjit vs. Qateel Siddiqui
By Zafarul-Islam Khan
May 18, 2013
Indian media, especially the 24x7 news channels, have shed enough crocodile tears for Sarabjit Singh to fill Delhi's dry Hauz Khas or Hauz Shamsi. We too are sorry for Sarabjit and forcefully condemn his killers, ordinary prisoners in Lahor...
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Communal elements make life for Muslims difficult in U.P. villages
May 18, 2013
By Our Own Correspondent New Delhi/Azamgarh: Padrauna (Kushi Nagar, U.P.): Zubeda Khatoon of Chaubia Rampur village was kidnapped last month to force her to change her religion. Her kidnapper was a trained member of the Hindu Yuva Vahini, ...
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Sikhs rebuild mosque demolished in 1947
By Zafarul-Islam Khan
May 16, 2013
In a historic gesture, Sikhs of Punjab have rebuilt a mosque demolished during the Partition riots of 1947 and handed it over to the Muslims of the area. The mosque is situated in village Sarwarpur which is situated at a distance of ten kilomet...
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Deoband fatwa and media politics
May 16, 2013
A fatwa was picked up recently by a national daily, known for its periodic itching to make fun of Islam and Muslims. It splashed it on the front page on 12 May with a misleading headline saying "Women’s earning haram, says Deoband&qu...
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Muslims compelled to leave Swarnim Gujarat
May 14, 2013
Muzaffarpur (Bihar): This city recently witnessed the fact that the atmosphere created by the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 is still fresh and Muslims of that state are even now migrating from that state due to persecution. A group of 22 Muslims from ...
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Muslims and Congress
By Zafarul-Islam Khan
May 11, 2013
Muslim disillusionment with the Congress is at unprecedented levels today - almost at the same level which prevailed after the Emergency. The Congress has wasted away during these past eight years all the goodwill it enjoyed and all the hopes i...
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Mulayam out to woo Muslim religious heads
May 11, 2013
By Mohammad Shahid Lucknow: As the Muslims await for the release of their innocent youths arrested on fake charges of terrorism and fulfillment of other promises made by the Samajwadi Party over a year back during UP assembly elections, th...
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Three innocent Muslim “terrorists”
May 07, 2013
New Delhi: Though there are thousands of prisoners in Indian jails who even after long years of incarceration are still waiting for their cases being taken up by courts for hearing, there is no dearth of persons who are wrongly arrested by poli...
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Terror against Muslims is not accidental
By Zafarul-Islam Khan
Apr 27, 2013
Indian police is biased against Muslims. This is a known fact and Muslims have been for decades crying hoarse about it. Even an IPS officer, Vibhuti Narain Das (now vice chancellor of a university), has authoritatively stated this fact of daily...
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Delhi Muslims protest for the Rohingyas
Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: Indian Muslim organizations and human rights bodies demonstrated near Myanmar embassy in the capital on 9 April against the continuous violation of human rights and violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Indian Muslim ...
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After EU’s tight slap, “Muslims” lick Modi’s feet
Apr 03, 2013
Ahmedabad: “United Force for Peace & Harmony”, an unknown social group of some Muslims living in Gujarat led by financier Zafar Sareshwala, has taken a “serious note” of statements made by German members of Parliamen...
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Jamia graduates earn laurels
Apr 03, 2013
New Delhi: An alumnus of Jamia Millia Islamia has achieved a significant honour for himself, his alma mater and the country. A paper co-written by Danish Nadeem, who graduated in computer science from the Jamia in 2002. Later he obtained Master...
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UPA Govt routinely spies on Muslims
By Zafarul-Islam Khan
Apr 03, 2013
New Delhi: In what gives away the treacherous, conspiratorial and anti-Muslim nature of our intelligence agencies, the central government has acquired sensitive technology from Israeli companies (Comverse and Verint) among others to routinely s...
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Mr. Tariq Anwar, it’s your NCP in Maharashtra which has done the greatest damage to Muslim image
Mar 26, 2013
What should be done if we want to put a full stop to fake encounters, false terror attacks, their fabricated investigations and arrests of innocent Muslim boys. There is at least one thing we should learn from Modi?
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Katju appeals to Media: exercise restraint in terror cases
Mar 21, 2013
Chairman of the Press Council of India, Justice Markandey Katju has appealed to the media to exercise restraint in reporting cases of bomb blasts and other terrorist activities. Asking the media to avoid anything which could promote communal ha...
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Where is Indian Mujahidin’s headquarter?
Mar 14, 2013
The government must tell: who is the chief of Indian Mujahidin, where is its headquarter and why its HQ has not been sealed so far? Has the opening of Israeli embassy in India anything to do with the sudden wave of hatred against Muslims? If no ba...
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Hyderabad blasts: no lessons learnt
Mar 12, 2013
Hyderabad was hit again by a terror strike. Over a dozen precious lives have been lost and dozens have been injured. Memories of Makka Masjid blast are still fresh, three dozen Muslim youths then implicated and framed by the A.P. Police are sti...
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Hyderabad: Composite Culture Targeted Again
Mar 12, 2013
By Mustafa Khan Muslim-scattered section of the old city, Konark theatre, Venkatadri theatre, time 7 pm, Thursday 21 February 2013, two bombs exploded killing 18 people and injuring more than 50. A third bomb remained unexploded at a footb...
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The Curious Case of David Headley
Feb 21, 2013
By Amaresh Misra With the row over India getting access to David Headley growing acrimonious each day, the CIA’s double agent saga seems all set to open up a can of incredible worms. First, the case unmasks the pro-US face of the...
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Mushawarat condemns Afzal Guru’s hasty, unjustified execution
Feb 12, 2013
New Delhi: Dr. Zafarul-Islam Khan, President of All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (AIMMM), the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organizations, said here on 9 February in a press statement that Afzal Guru’s execution this morning was lega...
