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Fifty-four years ago, Pakistan the first premeditated Islamic state was born with great hopes and promises; riding on the aspirations, sacrifices and the dedication of millions of Muslims from the Indian subcontinent. The idea behind Pakistan was not only to provide a homeland...

The modern Iraq was clearly the most advanced and developed of Arab societies. It matched Egypt in political and intellectual matters and with the additional help of oil resources, Iraq out stripped Egypt in matters of modernization and human resources development. The...

Megawati Sukarnoputri has finally fulfilled her destiny to return to the Presidential palace on her own right. The Indonesian Presidential palace was her home for two decades, 1945-1965, when her father also the father of Indonesian independence, was President. She sure would...

Bangladesh is an interesting puzzle. It is representative of the contemporary postmodern condition when nothing is clear-cut. It is at once both highly developed as well as underdeveloped. Bangladesh is a country that is economically backward and politically quite advanced. Many...

America’s misfortune is that in the era of globalism it has elected a President with a very narrow political vision. Bush is far out of synch from contemporary international issues and this was never more evident than in the bundle of issues he had packed in his diplomatic pouch...

On Friday a Hamas militant struck killing 21 Israelis and injuring nearly a 100 and in the process killing himself. This attack was one of several that Islamic Jihad and Hamas have launched as part of the new intifada. Yasser Arafat and the international community condemned the...

Published in the Mirror international on May 30th, 2001   The Qur’an was sent as a divine guidance to those who believe and contains principles and guidelines essential for social, political and spiritual guidance of humanity. The Qur’an should however not be mistaken...

Fighting terrorism and preparing to defend against imminent attacks of colossal proportions from “rogue states” is the new mantra of the military-industrial complex. The end of the Cold War deprived the military-industrial complex of its greatest ally – the Soviet Union and its...

Originally published in the Baltimore Sun on May 21, 2001. An Arabic version was published in Al-Mustaqbal (Gulf Edition) on May 24th, 2001. ADRIAN, Mich. — There were several reasons why American Muslims voted for George W. Bush in November. Chief among them was the...

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has been going on for nearly eight months. The battle sparked off by Ariel Sharon’s provocative visit to Masjid-Al Aqsa, has now taken 500 lives and has resulted in serious injuries to over 1000 children alone. While both sides have...