I want to express my appreciation to the leadership of Institute of Policy Studies, (PS) for organizing this memorial for Dr. Ayub Thakur, (March 10, 2004) who was a friend, and a colleague. He was a great thinker, scholar, an intellectual and a well-known expert on the subject of Kashmir. He was

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"A judge's son is a lawyer, and this lawyer's father is an inspector. Then who is the judge?"

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Quran 2:154 And do not say of those who are killed in the way of Allah that they are dead…you have no knowledge of their life.”

Quran 44:24  Dukhan (Smoke) 24  “…Surely, they is an army that is doomed to be drowned.”

Hamas is

If not for the sake of herself at least for the reputation of the University of Westminster, NItasha should move the concerned authorities and forums (ii)_ NItasha can rely on the important and effective support of the leader of free world the USA especially in this election year 2024. 

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Afghanistan has systematically, throughout history, been victim of the ambitions of superpowers, exploiting its strategic position as a playground to increase their influence, irremediably plunging the country into a state of destruction and civil war over the last fe

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Turkey is wildly out of step with o

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 The stark reality that around 3 million pe

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 Even in secular countries religion is the custodian of the values of their contemporary society (ii)- Hence the religions in the USA are mainly to be blamed for genocide of Palestinians (including of Children) in Gaza. 

The US-Lawmakers have expressed the policy of the USA wh

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 The principle of self-determination in modern times can be defined as the right of peoples to determine their own political status and