By Tufail Ahmad On Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
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Secularism is a National Security Threat to India

Every year in the rainy season, frogs come out and try to say something noisily. Similarly, during elections, some seasonal frogs emerge into India’s mainstream and proclaim loudly: “Muslim vote is secular; More...

By Tufail Ahmad On Monday, February 13th, 2017
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Muslim Women are India’s Neo-Untouchable Caste – The Case for Uniform Civil Code

Over the past year, the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind (the Assembly of Indian Islamic Scholars) – a family-owned religious organisation whose leaders are not elected by Muslims – has been organising events across India More...

By Tufail Ahmad On Monday, January 30th, 2017
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The Growing Network of Pakistan’s ISI in India

The role of the Pakistani Military’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is being suspected in a series of recent train mishaps, especially since the Indore-Patna Express train tragedy near Kanpur on November More...

By Tufail Ahmad On Friday, January 27th, 2017
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Islamic Leaders Seek Dalit Support to Undermine UCC

“Yeksan civil code thopa gaya to mulk mein takrao ke halaat paida ho jayen gein” – if the uniform civil code is imposed, situations of confrontation will emerge in the country. This is a banner headline More...

By Tufail Ahmad On Thursday, January 12th, 2017
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The Ideology of A.G. Noorani

Over the past few centuries, civilisation has witnessed a worldwide movement to separate religion from the state and law, giving birth to secularism. In India, one man is trying to reverse this process. His name More...

By Tufail Ahmad On Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017
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The Intellectual Deceit of Faizan Mustafa

 It is time for Faizan Mustafa – a leading columnist on Indian Muslim issues and vice chancellor of the Hyderabad-based NALSAR University of Law – to enroll in a madrassa and teach Islamic Sharia. In article More...

By Tufail Ahmad On Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
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Fraudsters, Charlatans and Hidden Jihadis Masquerading as Liberal Muslims

Increasingly, it appears to me that fraudsters, charlatans and hidden jihadis are posing themselves as liberal Muslim intellectuals in India. On the issue of Uniform Civil Code (UCC), some articles and tweets tend More...

By Tufail Ahmad On Saturday, December 17th, 2016
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Call for the trial of Manmohan Singh and his Foreign Policy team

I have strong reasons to call for the trial of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and key members of his foreign policymaking team such as Shivshankar Menon, Salman Khurshid and M.K. Narayanan for treason against More...

By Tufail Ahmad On Monday, January 25th, 2016
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Ghulam Ali Or The Politics of Ghazal

It is extremely sad that ordinary Pakistanis who want to visit the Khwaja Gharib Nawaz shrine in Ajmer or attend a literary festival in Jaipur are routinely denied visa by the intellectually bankrupt Indian diplomats, More...

By Tufail Ahmad On Friday, January 8th, 2016
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Isolate, Contain, Suffocate and Fight Pakistan

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif telephones our prime minister after a terror attack and we become happy, while his country has been protecting jihadist commander Maulana Masood Azhar since 1999. The recent More...