Indian Muslims Need to Wake up and Resolve to Play Their Role as One
Sectarianists or the secularists whoever among the hoard wins this election, the result, alas! will have no bearing on incidents like Hashimpura and Muzaffarnagar. Muslims as it seems are content flowing adrift with the...
Modi Reacts after Cow Vigilantism Boomerangs
Cow vigilantism, referred as "Gau Rakhshaks" in India is a wannabe terrorist network, that aims to save "cows" in India by terrorising people. The vigilantes have terrorised people who were caught transporting cows or consuming...
Why Muslims can never surrender their claim on Babri Masjid?
It was not merely a communal insurgency, which claimed hundreds of innocent Muslim lives across India; rather it was a big blow to Muslims religious identity. It was also a blatant attack on the...
8-year-old Asifa’s heinous rape and murder in India fans the flames of nationalism
Early in January 2018, Asifa, an 8-year-old Muslim child from the nomadic Bakarwal community in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir in northern India, was gang-raped and murdered, as reported by Global Voices.
Much of India's local news...
Kim Jong-nam killed by a lethal chemical weapon, says Malaysia
By Emily Crawford, University of Sydney and Ian Musgrave, University of Adelaide
A preliminary report from Malaysian authorities has found that Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, was killed by the banned...
Pakistan’s under-threat minorities have found their voice. But will the state listen?
It is just another spring Sunday in Quetta, Pakistan. In the Hazara section of the district of Mehrabad, Nazar Hussain is about to start his work day. He grabs the keys of his yellow...
The “Mother of All Bombs” Killed ISIS Fighters—But Poor Afghan Farmers Now Deal With...
When Spogmai Akseer heard the news of Thursday’s bombing of the region where she was born in southeast Afghanistan, she immediately thought of her young cousins. They still live in Nangarhar province, where her...
Military planes bomb ISIS targets in Marawi City, Philippines
ILIGAN CITY – Military aircrafts on Saturday continue to bomb enemy targets in Marawi City where jihadists were holed out as security forces battled ISIS-affiliate Maute group and their armed supporters fighting for the...
What escalating Kashmir attacks tell us about Modi’s changing foreign policy
What escalating Kashmir attacks tell us about Modi’s changing foreign policy
Priya Chacko, University of Adelaide
Simmering tensions between India and Pakistan in the disputed state of Kashmir appear to have flared up again with an...
Urdu, Indian Muslims and Politics
Urdu language in India has been caught in the communal politics of the country. It is being called as a language of Muslims and a large section of the non-Muslim speakers have drifted away...