The Wahhabi Invasion of Sri Lanka
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz with Irfan Al-Alawi To many non-Muslims, the existence of an Islamic community on the island of Sri Lanka may be surprising. Sri Lanka has been known for the past three decades More...
Long road ahead in U.S.-Pakistan ties after NATO deal
Pakistan and the United States are set to resume broader talks on security cooperation, militant threats, aid and other issues in the wake of an agreement to reopen supply routes into Afghanistan, Pakistan’s More...
Reinvigorated Islam
Columns by Amil Imani – Trauma, viruses, or bacteria cause the death of a biological entity. Viruses and bacteria are major killers of human beings and present great challenges to medicine. They can be deadly More...
Pakistan lawmakers elect former minister Ashraf as PM
(Reuters) – Pakistan’s parliament elected former water and power minister Raja Pervez Ashraf as the new prime minister on Friday after the incumbent was disqualified by the Supreme Court. Pakistan’s More...
Twenty dead in Taliban siege of Afghan hotel; NATO blames Haqqanis
Report by Mirwais Harooni and Samar Zwak, KABUL (Reuters) – Elite Afghan police backed by NATO forces ended a 12-hour siege on Friday at a popular lakeside hotel outside Kabul, leaving at least 20 dead after More...
Romila Thapar and the Study of Ancient India 2: History as propaganda
Column by Dilip K Chakrabarti (Edited with comments by N.S. Rajaram, Contributing Editor. This continues Professor Dilip Chakrabarti’s analysis of the motives and methodology of Romila Thapar and her colleagues.) Diluting More...
Looking beyond the Indus Script: Story of Vedic Harappans
A decade since Jha and Rajaram presented their findings, there have been significant developments that show that the script was one piece of a larger picture that connects Harappan archaeology to the Vedic literature, More...
Afghan kids die after acid attack
A boy and girl have been killed in Afghanistan due to the nature of their friendship. The 12 and 15 year old children were sprayed during the week in a spiteful acid attack. Their bodies were only discovered in More...
Afghan shooting suspect has “memory loss”
Kansas, USA – The US soldier accused of massacring of 16 Afghans “doesn’t remember everything” about the incident, his lawyer has said after meeting with his client in a military detention More...
Pakistan demands US apology for drone strikes
Islamabad, PAKISTAN – A Pakistani parliamentary panel has demanded a stop to US drone strikes inside Pakistan territory and an unconditional apology from the US for a NATO air strike last November that killed More...
