Abdul Khaliq The most sacred of our laws – the Constitution- contains a number of articles that guarantee the rights of minorities to lead a life of dignity and equality. However, to enable us to assess the actual impact of the comprehensive legislation for an egalitarian society conceived by our founding fathers, I wish to [...]
Bhagat Singh, the legendary revolutionary who the British hanged in 1931, lived and died in Lahore. India’s bloody Partition in 1947 ensured that his memory as a staunchly secular radical was washed out in a city and country that increasingly and misguidedly became Islamist. But over the last few years, a Leftist fringe has been [...]
Dear A, “We, the willing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.” This quotation was written diagonally on the first page of his diary as he showed me his poems. My host is a young [...]
Kanwal Sibal Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari’s visit to India has produced predictable results. It was a private visit, but it was unavoidably given an official colour as the Indian prime minister could not have ignored the Pakistani president’s presence on Indian soil without creating a misunderstanding. Observers would have conjectured that India considered the [...]
BeyondHeadlines News Desk A decade after the month-long outbreak of violence that resulted in the killing of at least 2,000 women, men and children, mostly Muslims, and the rape of significant numbers of women and girls, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, India’s authorities are yet to bring justice to the majority of victims, [...]
No one knows the hand behind the Delhi bomb attack. With Israel pitching for war against Iran, why is the media jumping to prejudiced conclusions? Akash Bisht (Journalist, Delhi) While Indian intelligence agencies are struggling to unearth all significant leads about the perpetrators of the bomb blast targeting Israeli diplomats in Delhi, sections of the [...]
BeyondHeadlines News Desk New Delhi. A ten year Old Delhi boy suffering from severe Aplastic Anemia has made a desperate appeal to Netizens to save his life. Abdul Hafeez, a resident of Batla House in New Delhi, is a 7th class student in Govt. Boys senior Secondary School, Jogabai, Batla House. Like any other student, [...]
Leaving the Syrian theatre to Western directors is not a good choice. Partnership with Turkey and the Arab League may avoid bad scenarios particularly the Libya styled military intervention. OmairAnas for BeyondHeadlines Bloodshed has not receded even after Arab League delegation has arrived in Syria last week. Countries of the BRICS (Brazil, India, China and [...]
CAIRO, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) — Thousands of Egyptians rallied Friday in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, calling on the military rulers to transfer power as early as possible and ban members of the disbanded former ruling party from running in the upcoming parliamentary elections. The protesters demanded the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) [...]
THE HAGUE, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) — The international Criminal Court (ICC) was having indirect conversations with Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif Al-Islam for him to face justice in the Hague, the ICC confirmed on Friday. Like his father and former intelligence chief Abdullah Al-Senussi, Saif Al-Islam was indicted with crimes against humanity in Libya by the [...]
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