Scholar Michael Kugelman said that until Pakistan is willing to target extremists operating within the country, ordinary Pakistanis will continue to suffer.
A group of envoys including those from several Europe Union countries and a few Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) member states began a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday to take a first-hand account of the situation in newly-carved union territory, especially after the recently-concluded local body elections.
A large number of people took out a 'solidarity march' in South Delhi on Sunday in support of Jamia Millia Islamia students and those facing police action during protests against the contentious law.
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United States Vice President Joe Biden on Monday left for a rare vice presidential trip to India for the first leg of his visit to the Asia-Pacific region.
'Media reports have highlighted that hawala money is coming from Arab countries. And this money is used to create disturbances in Jammu and Kashmir.'
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Thursday said there was no scope of change in the triple talaq system and rejected the suggestion by some community outfits for building a consensus on making a three-month period mandatory before finalisation of divorce.
The ordinary life lived in Pakistan is rarely a part of Indian imagination. This is this gap that Pakistani television serials have succeeded in bridging, says Mohammad Asim Siddiqui.
'Tipu Sultan was no doubt a valiant fighter who vigorously opposed the British, but that cannot mitigate the fact that he was also by all accounts a religious bigot -- a figure incompatible with modern secular times,' says Vivek Gumaste.
The triple talaq bill is against the provisions of the Constitution and violates the rights of women, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board said on Sunday, demanding its withdrawal.
'If Mamata Banerjee doesn't want, then violence cannot be stopped.'
The bench had made it clear that it would examine whether the practice of triple talaq among Muslims is fundamental to their religion.
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A special tribunal on Wednesday upheld the ban imposed by the Centre on Students Islamic Movement of India, which has links with Pakistan-based terrorist outfits including Lashkar-e-Tayiba and its front, Indian Mujahideen.
Having outplayed Bangladesh 'A' in all the departments in the first unofficial ODI, an upbeat India 'A' will be looking to keep the winning momentum.
'The challenge before the two countries is to turn the peak into a plateau and enter an irreversible phase of cooperation,' notes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
The SC said 'the issues are very important. These issues cannot be scuttled'.
A collection of some of the recent controversial fatwas
Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who will demit office as the Chief Justice of India in a week's time, has etched his name in the annals of history by giving finality to one of the most politically and religiously sensitive cases, the Ayodhya land dispute, which dates back to even before the Supreme Court came into existence in 1950.
Forty civil rights activists, including writers and journalists, issued an appeal to boycott the award ceremony slated at India Islamic Cultural Centre in New Delhi on Saturday, expressing shock at the honour being bestowed to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, an accused in the anti-Sikh riots in 1984.
Girls in the Kashmir valley hurling defiance at the security forces will detract from the legitimacy of India's response and its standing in the world, says Ajai Shukla.
Sirajuddin Qureshi, India's leading meat-exporter to the world and president of the India Islamic Cultural Centre, said being at the summit "was a unique experience."
Apart from high-profile cases like the validity of Aadhaar Act in light of the right to privacy judgment and Ayodhya land dispute, the CJI is also heading various benches that are expected to decide cases related reservations to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in promotion in government jobs, the alleged dilution of Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code -- which stipulates punishment against harassment of women by husband and in-laws -- and framing of guidelines to check violence and vandalism by a protesting mob.
The statements made by the opposition parties after the preemptive air strike on terror camps have made only people of Pakistan happy, he claimed.
The decision, they said, has given new hope to Muslim women.
Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik on Sunday claimed that there has been no misuse of funds by his banned NGO and rejected all allegations of involvement in terror-related activities.
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'We have to find a way out of this confrontational politics.'
'Mamata is campaigning hard and not giving the BJP a walkover.'
"There has been substantial increase in Muslim population and also in (their) getting opportunity in various public sectors but because of some disgruntled elements are propagating, spreading rumours of government discriminating against them. Hence, this ban is justified to bring Muslim in the mainstream," Additional Solicitor General A S Chandhiok said.
Indian claims to the Ram story and ownership could be challenged from more places than one, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'Congress toh BJP ki naani hai (The Congress is the grandmother of the BJP). The BJP made the wrong allegation first and the Congress has now given it wings,' says SIMI's Dr Shahid Badr Falahi in an interview with Vicky Nanjappa
Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, facing heat over allegation of inspiring some of the Dhaka attackers through his speeches, has cancelled his press briefing again, citing pressure from authorities of the venue where he was slated to interact with the media via Skype.
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"It was Veer Savarkar who first mooted the idea of a two-nation theory which was later adopted by Muhammad Ali Jinnah," Singh told reporters.
Days after Al Qaeda issued a video threatening to carry out its campaign in India, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday said the terror group is trying to set up base in the state and had "tacit understanding" with United Liberation Front of Asom.
"Whenever we do compromise those rights, the world is worse off," Pompeo said.
King Salman and Narendra Modi will find common ground to intensify cooperation against jihadi terrorism, says Tarun Vijay, MP.
The Uttar Pradesh police has alerted their counterparts in Uttarakhand about the possible presence of suspected terrorists associated with the banned outfit Students Islamic Movement of India in that state.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday
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