It appears that the Sunni-led leadership of the Kingdom of Bahrain is intent on increasing tensions with the Shia majority. This reality is based on stripping Ayatollah Sheik Issa Qassim of Bahraini citizenship, suspending the leading Shia opposition group called al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, t

Islamic State which stormed Iraq and whole world in 2014 with its takeover of major Iraqi and Syrian cities by exploiting Sunni Arab grievances in Iraq and chaos in neighbouring Syria. But the militant group is steadily losing ground in both the countries. The so-called Caliphate is on the back foot

The recent years have seen a rise in the trend of exclusion of non-Muslims from our national society and there are factions within the State ensuring the continuation of this process. Having said that, one cannot be stress more that no citizens, Muslims or non-Muslims should be hounded due to the re

Investigators from the United Nations (UN) human rights committee finally stress that ISIS (Islamic State – IS) is committing genocide against the embattled Yazidis in Iraq and Syria respectively. Of course, while this is welcomed it still remains unclear why this reality wasn’t stated much earlier.

We woke up yesterday to the horrible tragedy in Orlando. I wrote a Cultural Commentary calling on Christians to pray with passion, honesty, and hope.
But the pain is just as deep today. And the threat of further terrorism is just as real.
Omar Saddiqui Mateen was born in New York and lived in St.

Sub:- (i)- Merely military and economic power will not do, political power too needed (ii)- Muslim countries (especially in NAME) finding difficult to stop breeding of Jihadi terrorism (iii)- SAARC region also a ticking bomb and will be conducive for Jihadi terrorism (iv)- Muslims cannot be allowed

Though some of media, politicians and political commentators all across the world are busy in advising UK that it should not leave European Union (EU) through June, 23 referendum but Brexit will be good for UK if ‘Common Wealth’ is realized by UK as given below:-
(1)- First and foremost UK should u

Pakistan and Kashmiris are happy after Modi made Kashmir an international issue in address to US congress; Pity on the incompetent strategy and security advisers of PM Modi who may be patting on their back that Modi has done a great job on Wednesday by bringing, the issue of terrorism emanating from

Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a Muslim dominated country, where, it is imposed to respect Islam and if any one talk about its force imposition, it can be consider as blasphemy. Minorities of the country are already living under the 24/7 threats and being dealt as second class citizen. Many people ar

The date was October 29, 1974. My brother and I were in Houston's Astrodome along with 50,000 others, there to watch a closed circuit telecast of Muhammad Ali's fight with George Foreman. Even though Houston was Foreman's hometown, ninety percent of the crowd chanted "Ali! Ali! Ali!" through the ent

Does Defense Minister know that ‘Pak Occupied Kashmir’ (POK) is still not with coward & crafty India? As if one ‘Bayan-Bahadur’ (Brave through Statements only and not by action) PM Narendra Modi was not enough – [who is so brazenly & flagrantly protecting black money and corruption and (instead of

It is an enormous grief for all citizens of Pakistan (minorities and Majority). Highest prices of daily basic need of human had been increasing in every year budget than income of daily wagers. It breaks back bone of daily wagers, servants who are earning below 12.000 Rupees monthly. Poor becomes p

Several religious scholars believe that non-Muslims cannot be awarded the death penalty for blaspheming; In the recent months we have seen relentless misuse of the blasphemy law. Within a month, three false blasphemy cases have been reported in different cities of Punjab — first in Mandi Bahauddin a

In a development that is most important since the killing of Al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the onlyTaliban leader India was forced to deal with in 1999, has been killed by an American drone attack. This can hardly be a consolation as his successor could be worse.
The likely

Syrian peace talks are heading in direction of another failed process, or have already been failed, depending on how grim a view we take of the events unfolding in Geneva. The Syrian opposition has called a ‘pause’ to negotiations which we can conclude as an equivalent to a walkout from the talks. E