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This article was published in The Globalist, Dawn (Pakistan), Foreign Policy in Focus (US), Scoop (New Zealand) and the Muslim Observer India is playing a highly risky game of brinkmanship in Kashmir. Its recent deployment of forces along the line of control (LoC), the de facto...

On mother’s day, the Likud party overwhelmingly rejected the idea of a Palestinian state in complete defiance of the position advanced by President Bush who sees the establishment of a Palestinian State as the only solution to resolving the Middle East conflict. It is also a key...

The shadow of 9/11 and the various crises such as Enron and the Middle East that have followed it have obscured an important aspect of the contemporary American condition. America today is experiencing a crisis of integrity. The common denominator that links the Enron fiasco, the...

On March 21st, over 150 federal agents raided the offices of several prominent Muslim organizations and the homes of some of the most respected members of the American Muslim community, located in Northern Virginia. For over twenty years, the Muslim leadership associated with the...

The American Presidential election is always important for the rest of the world. The US is the primary sponsor and maintainer of the present global order and changes in the US can have direct impact in the economic and political structure of the world. If Bush Wins If George W....

Nearly 700 Muslims have been slaughtered and burnt, their homes and business looted, while police deployed to stop the rioting watched without doing anything in India in the last few weeks. TV news cameras, especially those of the BBC have taped the complicity of the Gujarat...

One of the byproducts of the American war on terrorism is the growing recognition in Washington that outstanding conflicts such as the dispute in Kashmir and the Arab-Israeli struggle cannot be allowed to fester indefinitely. Increasingly disparate voices in the administration as...

The US constitution was framed with the explicit purpose of strengthening the Federal government in order to protect among other things the integrity of the Union. But in the debates that ensued before the ratification of the new constitution, the anti-federalists pressed for the...

India is on the verge of greatness. Its economy has become more and more global — and is ready to take off. It is now a technological tiger in its own right. Its mostly uninterrupted democracy since independence in 1947 is being recognized and respected globally. But the Kashmir...

A plot to blow up a mosque and the offices of a Muslim political action committee and the office of a California Congressman of Arab origin by a Jewish group has highlighted the domestic dimension of the Arab-Israeli conflict. For decades pro-Israeli lobbyists have operated under...