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WordForPeace.com Tabinda Ghani’s body was laid out in the shade of the apple orchards that cloak the of the great blue mountains towering over the north Kashmir town of Langate. Her killers had raped and battered the 12-year-old, before slitting her throat with a kitchen knife, leaving her to slowly bleed to death. Even in violence-scarred Kashmir, the savagery inflicted …

Amit Shah, in his Parliament speech on 5 August, had assured restoration of its status as a state in course of time. A reiteration of this assurance at an appropriate level from the Union government would assuage the hurt feelings of Kashmiris to some extent. It would be of utmost importance that in handling the law and order situation to …

Srinagar: Authorities in Kashmir are asking civil society activists and political detainees to provide a written assurance that they won’t disturb the peace in exchange for release from detention. Although government officials claimed that they have released some lower-rung political activists, most of the politicians including former chief ministers, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, continue to remain in detention. In a written permission slip to allow the …

Jammu and Kashmir additional director-general of police, law and order, Munir Khan has said that the ground situation in the state is under control, and that his main focus was to have a peaceful celebration on Independence Day. During an Indian security forces briefing along with Rohit Kansal, principal secretary, he said that the law and order in the state …

Muhammed Muhasin from Kerala has died fighting for the Islamic State is no surprise. After all, it is now fairly well-known that groups of people from various parts of Kerala have felt motivated enough to join the Islamic State’s proclaimed Caliphate in Syria. But here’s what’s unusual. He died in Afghanistan and not in Syria, in what the press wrongly …

Hussain Bin Mansur Hallaj, the Sufi mystic of Baghdad during the 3rd century Hijri was declared heretic by the muftis of the time and the king had ordered that he be killed. He was killed in 309 Hijri. The religious circle had said that Hussaiin bin Mansur’s assertion “An’al Haque’ was akin to kufr as the sentence was literally translated …

Dr Mahathir Mohamad has suggested that Putrajaya has no choice but to allow Dr Zakir Naik to reside in Malaysia as other countries are not keen to accept the controversial Muslim preacher who is wanted by Indian authorities. “We have a multiracial and multi-religious population in Malaysia. We don’t want anybody who comes up and expresses extreme views about race …

WordForPeace Special Correspondent There should be no room for complacency now. A strong and effective response in the wake of these jihadist rivalries implies an uncompromising stance against terror outfits. This should be a reminder to run counter to the destructive ideology of all hues, paving a progressive path for the youths….. The current rivalry between the Pro-Pak and pro-Caliphate …

Editorial Note: At a time when terror continues to pose an intense threat to the global peace, India’s fight against the cross-boarder terrorism needs to be incessant. The terrorists  should not have any space to damage the normal and routine lives of the people. Any amount of unleashing of violence cannot b justified under any set of circumstances. Prime Minister …

More than a dozen men armed with assault rifles marched in the backdrop of snowscape in a video circulated online, announcing them as the soldiers for Ghazwa-e-Hind, the prophesied battle for India in Islamic traditions. A subsequent frame closes in on three jihadists, the snowscape missing, two flags behind them announced their allegiance to Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent, or …