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Zubair Khan

" Holder of three bachelor (honours) degrees in administration, management and strategic studies. Possess more than 40 years of experience on various managerial and adminstrative posts of private and public organizations. Contributes to Urdu and English periodicals regularly. Currently engaged as in charge Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Croatia

Reforming Saudi Arabia

Source: Dawn THE de facto Saudi ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, spoke only half the truth when he admitted in an interview to the Washington Post that his country had funded the spread of Wahhabism at the behest of Western powers to help counter the Soviet Union during the […]

Germany has a far-right enemy within

Source: CNN After six long months of coalition talks, the new German government of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats finally got off to a start two weeks ago — but it crashed almost at once. There’s an enemy within it: the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), a xenophobic nationalistic party […]

A mean son of a bitch

Source AT My guess is that he was chosen precisely on that account. You have to be a mean son of a bitch to be a dictator in the Kim family mold. If, in fact, he’d been a secret reformer, Kim had time after his father’s 2011 death to show […]

Punish a Muslim Day

Source: ET Ever since Britain’s exasperated populace announced its wish to leave the European Union (EU), there seems to have been a blanket approval given to racists to harass, intimidate and scare Muslims and other ethnic minorities in an attempt to put ‘Britain first’. A sizeable increase in attacks against Muslims was reported soon after Brexit occurred, […]

A thirst for barbarity

Source: Dawn FEW recent incidents have shocked the people as much as the one involving two young Christian men, one of them accused of blasphemy and the other nearly killing himself in a bid to escape torture. Even more outrageous appears to be the Punjab government’s stubborn refusal to order […]

Islamic scholarship

Source: Dawn THE Arabic word ‘aalim’, which means one who possesses knowledge, is often used, particularly in the subcontinent, for only those who profess to have studied at some madressah. There is a proliferation of mostly men and a few women who may have learned the Quran and books of […]

Decaying notion of one Ummah

Source: ET A few days ago, the whole world witnessed the epitome of political hypocrisy when the chief propagandist of a Muslim travel ban was warmly welcomed by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in Islam. As a result, the Saudi-government invited taunts on social media for allegedly honouring […]