Nation for Peace

Both the surgical strike and Operation All Out have failed to end militancy in Kashmir. Is it time to take Pakistan on more directly? Amid the drizzle, smoke and the smell of burnt flesh were hanging in the air. Still. The wreckage of the ill-fated bus, the bloodied human flesh and the dismembered parts were being collected by fellow security …

Joerg Friedrichs, University of Oxford. Especially since the refugee crisis, Europe has been grappling with populist reactions to the growth of Muslim minorities. Yet, despite decades of migration, native Europeans have limited experience and imagination when it comes to relating to Muslim minorities. Europeans must look far back in time to the Al-Andalus period of medieval Spain, or to the …

SRINAGAR: A pregnant woman stuck in heavy snowfall safely delivered twins, thanks to the Indian Army which came to her aid in the nick of time and shifted her to hospital in north Kashmir’s Bandipore district. On Friday, the company commander of Panar army camp of Bandipore received a call from a villager seeking help for evacuating his pregnant wife …

The ijtema will be held jointly by the Tabligh Jamaat factions The Biswa Ijtema will be held in February, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said. Following a meeting with two factions of Tabligh Jamaat, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan announced that the feud between them has been resolved and they reached a consensus to jointly hold the Ijtema in February. …

On 7th February 2019 the Department of English, Jamia Milia Islamia hosted an extension lecture SUKI’S WORLD: A Cartoon Character’s Journey by the novelist, playwright, and comic strip artist Manjula Padmanabhan, conducted in the Seminar Hall of the Department, 11.30 am onwards. It was started off by the Head of Department, Professor Nishat Zaidi where she introduced to us the field and …

By Kamila Hyat March 9, 2017 Gerard Manley Hopkin’s poem about the strange sadness of spring holds true for Lahore. There is something especially dismal about seeing bright blue skies against which no kite flutters, no contests occur and no distant cheers are heard from kite flyers. We have already succeeded in raising a generation that does not know how …

On 4 February, the musical legend AR Rahman performed on stage at Dharavi to commemorate ten years of Slumdog Millionaire, the Danny Boyle movie for which he had won two Oscars. The Mozart of Madras was soon embroiled in a hate campaign because of his daughter expressing her right to choose.During the performance, Khatija had come up on stage to …

The Conflict Between Human Rights and Apostasy in Islam 7 In terms of the hadith, they argue that the hadith of the prophet Muhammad does not hold the same rank as the Quran. The acceptance of the hadith may raise the question of abrogation of Quran by Hadith (Peter and De Veries, 1976: 14). I do not favor the rejection …

Mr. Roh had never imagined that retired life could be so fulfilling. He had held a senior post in a company, a job that involved hectic travelling and much socialising. “I just dreaded the thought of retirement,” he would say. “My job was my life! It kept me so, so busy! I thought I’d die of boredom the day I’d …

Bahadurpura: Sunni Dawat-e-Islami has planned a two-day state-level Ijtema (religious gathering) on February 9 and 10 at Eidgah Mir Alam, near Zoo Park, in Bahadurpura. “The main aim of Sunni Dawat-e-Islami is to stop unlawful acts and make people aware of Islamic teachings, propagate true teachings of Prophet Mohammed, and encourage people to learn The Holy Quran (Islamic Book) and …