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India must wage its own war

We should mean business in tackling terrorism and the war against terror to its logical conclusion. Our security forces and and intelligence agencies can do…

What makes a terrorist?

In a despatch headlined ‘Frustrated Strivers in Pakistan Turn to Jihad’, published in The New York Times of February 27, Sabrina Tavernise and Waqar Gillani…

China: The new imperialist power

It is no secret that cheap Chinese goods have in the past been smuggled into India via Nepal which needs to be looked into. Meanwhile,…

Victims of Islamic bigotry

The beheading of Sikhs in Pakistan and the assault on a temple at Sonargaon in Bangladesh point towards the plight of non-Muslims in Muslim majority…

Husain stay back, all is not forgiven

Although some of M F Husain’s paintings are offensive, the artist himself says he never felt victimised in India and left the country voluntarily. So…

Muslims need to introspect

The beheading of two Sikh hostages by the Pakistani Taliban who, it is said, still hold three more Sikhs captive, represents a problem not just…

Islam’s stockpile of human bombs

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had promised his people and the Muslim ummah the ‘Islamic Bomb’. He didn’t live to see his promise fulfilled by a thieving…

Hindus feel the heat in Pakistan

Pakistan is home to some 2.5 million Hindus, 95% of them living in the southern Sindh province. There are many cases of abduction, kidnapping, murder…