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By Seema Mustafa A Venomous attack on the Muslims by the BJP via the Congress this time. Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and seconded by able Minister of Defence Nirmala Sitharaman

By Zahid Hussain Imran Khan thought he was there in 2013, but it was not to be. He claimed that the elections were stolen. He won’t accept defeat and was willing to

By Harsh Mander The court has asked Parliament to consider passing a special law on lynching. As the grim threat of lynching casts a terrifying shadow over large swathes of the country,

By Tahir Kamran Critics of democracy in the Muslim South Asian ethos often invoke Allama Iqbal’s famous verses as an example of how it is a Western system imposed on the East

By Zakia Soman We are witnessing manoeuvres by different political parties in the run-up to the 2019 general election. Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s recent meeting with eminent Muslims is one such measure.

By MIHIR SHARMA Nawaz Sharif – dodgy businessman, convicted criminal, and thrice Prime Minister of Pakistan – showed Friday, in his triumphant return to Pakistan, that he remains by far the country’s

By Karan Thapar I have no doubt that the BJP politician I’ve got to know best–– and through him his family as well –– is Lal Krishna Advani… Our relationship began ––

By S.N.SAHU The beginning of the monsoon session of the Parliament on July 18, 2018 generates in mind the unmistakable feeling that Parliament as the apex legislature representing the supreme will of

By Zeeshan Ali The 2018 World Cup delivered on all the promises and allayed all the suspicions and jeremiad predictions. It had a gamut of ineffaceable moments, vocabulary of emotions, kaleidoscope of

By S. Akbar Zaidi Next week, Pakistanis are expected to vote in the country’s eleventh general election, the first having been conducted in 1970. Of the previous 10, apart from the first