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Don't bury terrorists here, they aren't part of us: Indian Muslims

New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Indian Muslim clerics and commoners alike feel a prominent organisation's decision not to bury the slain Mumbai militants will send a strong message that the community wants to distance itself from those...

New terrorists in an old context

Tuesday, December 02, 2008 Mosharraf Zaidi The writer is an independent political economist One of the clear invocations of the Bhagvad Gita is an invitation to human beings to explore and traverse the more difficult, but...

Terror despite fatwas

The violent terrorist attacks in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), a tourism and financial center and the most crowded city in India, were watched by the entire world as they were broadcast live on TV.

Pakistan: Divided by Faith - 60 Years of Independence - TIME

The Way of Islam Muslims congregate for prayer in Lahore's 17th century Wazir Khan mosque Photograph by Bertrand Meunier / Tendance Floue A few weeks before Abdul Rashid Ghazi died in a shootout with Pakistani special forces,...

The simmering in Bombay

Part II Sunday, November 30, 2008 Aakar Patel After 9/11 it was pointed out that no Indian Muslim was in Guantanamo Bay. On December 2, 2002, a bomb went off on a bus in Ghatkopar, a Gujarati suburb in North Bombay, killing two...

Behind the Mumbai Massacre: India's Muslims in Crisis

Far Pavilion Police look on as smoke rises from Mumbai's iconic Taj Mahal Hotel in the historic south of the city after terrorists stormed the building on Nov. 26. A gunman, holed up in Mumbai's Oberoi Trident hotel where some...

Sugar price slips further on sluggish demand

New Delhi, Nov 26, 2008 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) -- Sugar prices today dropped by up to Rs 25 per quintal in the national capital on the back of excess supply by millers. Traders said heavy stocks in the market...

For Muslims in the West, no place is more instructive than India

New Delhi: Vali Nasr is the professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in the US. An American citizen of Iranian origin, Nasr has also extensively written on the politics...

Sugar remains unchanged in thin trade

New Delhi (PTI): The wholesale sugar prices closed on a steady note in the national capital on Saturday following sufficient demand as compared to the adequate ready stocks position. Marketmen said supply and demand were almost...

German rape case probe is not fair: HC

Panaji, Nov. 21: The Goa bench of the Bombay high court on Friday termed the police investigations into rape of the German minor as neither "just nor fair". "We have no hesitation in observing that the investigation into the...

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