Author: Tanveer Jafri

Pakistan leads in Human Rights violation

Friday, June 17, 2011
Formed in 1947, with intent to establish an Islamic state, Pakistan can today be seen crushing every single Islamic teaching and ideal. The Holy Quran clearly prohibits any kind of ill-treatment of any innocent. It equates killing of an innocent with the killing of entire humanity. Dozens of innocen ...

The closure of BBC Radio Service...Biggest tragedy of Information Era

Sunday, February 6, 2011
Peter Hawks, the Chief of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced in an unexpected declaration that the broadcast of BBC Radio service in Hindi, Macedonian, Serbian, Albanian Russian, Ukrainian, Turkic, Mandarin, Spanish, Vietnamese and Azeri will be stopped with effect from 20th March. ...

Need to free Islam from the clutches of extremism

Saturday, January 15, 2011
The religion of Islam is at the crossroads at present. As is evident from the history of the religion, the biggest threat to it since the last 1450 years has been from none other than the people who call themselves Muslims . But unfortunately their thoughts and actions were never in tandem with the ...

Taseer's assassination in the context of Islamic teachings

Monday, January 10, 2011
Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Punjab province of Pakistan, senior leader of the Pakistan People's Party and also an industrialist, was brutally killed by his own security guard on January 4. The assassin, Mumtaz Qadri, on his arrest expressed happiness on Taseer's killing and said since Taseer was ...

True Nationalism of Azim Premji

Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Reports and news of corruption, briberies and scams have dominated the Indian media in the last few days. Investigations have led to sacking of many big politicians and officers accused. Even Ashok Chavan, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, second largest state of India, had to resign. Amidst ...