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Ever since Pakistan’s new Army chief General Asim Munir picked General Ahmed Sharif to lead the powerful Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)– the Army’s media wing, the latter’s background has generated a lot of interest.  Sharif is the son of controversial, and blacklisted nuclear scientist Bashiruddin Mahmood. Mahmood was arrested in 2003 and later released by […]

Iran has done away with its morality police in face of massive protests triggered by the arrest of young woman Maha Amini for allegedly violating the hardline Islamic regime’s strict female dress code, and her death in custody. “Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary and have been abolished,” said Iran’s attorney general […]

Former top Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde, who has been accused of suppressing conservative voices in India and the US, instrumental in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop scoop on the microblogging platform, reveals an explosive Twitter thread endorsed by CEO Elon Musk. In October 2020, Indian-American Gadde along with a small group of senior Twitter executives […]

Calling Islam the religion of peace, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval today highlighted the role that Ulemas, the learned interpreters and scholars of Islamic texts can play in countering elements of extremism and terrorism. “Extremism and terrorism is against the very meaning of Islam. Islam means peace and well being,” he said at the first […]

The UN urged China not to detain people simply for taking part in peaceful protests, as Beijing tried to curb a nationwide spate of demonstrations demanding political freedoms and an end to Covid-19 lockdowns.