India

India’s booming rent-a-womb industry

Dawn.com Most pregnant mothers are kept in Shelter Homes during their days of confinement; critics have dubbed these homes as “baby factories”. Why do women take such a step? A 28-year-old surrogate mother Vasanti, said, “In India, relationships and family are very highly valued. One can do anything for one’s […]

Chahbahar and Gwadar

Originally published in the Nation October 01, 2013 BY YASMEEN AFTAB ALI  Even before Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s “loud-thinking” the idea of making Gwadar into a free port- India moved in May this year to counter China, upgrading Iran’s Chahbahar port that gives a transit route to land-locked Afghanistan. An […]

Mumbai world’s second most honest city

Source: TOI LONDON: India often finds itself embarrassingly high on the corruption index, rating among the most corrupt countries in the world. However, in a recent experiment, the country’s commercial capital Mumbai presenteda different picture. The ruse was a simple, abandoned wallet lying on the road, and recording how many people stumbling on […]

Is Bismi-Llāh ar-Rahmān ar-Rahīm The First Verse Of Every Sūrah?

Source: nafirizaman.blogspot.in Depend on few valid Ahādīth, بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم is actually the first verse of every Sūrah. “Qutaybah ibn Sa‘īd, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Marwazī, and Ibn as-Sarh narrated to us; from Sa‘īd ibn Jubayr, Qutaybah said; from Haḍrat Ibn ‘Abbās(ra), he said: The Holy Prophet(SAW) used to not know the separation of Sūrah until […]

[Video] Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmed (as) in words of Maulana Abul Kalaam Azaad

Source: youtube.com | wikipedia.org | muslim.org Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed Azad (Urdu: مولانا ابوالکلام محی الدین احمد آزاد‎, Bengali: আবুল কালাম মুহিয়ুদ্দিন আহমেদ আজাদ) (11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958) was an Indian scholar and a senior political leader of […]