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The Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), passed by the Indian Parliament on December 11, has triggered widespread protests across the country. Though large-scale agitations are not new to India, not since the days of the Emergency in...

Amid widespread protests against exclusion of Muslims from seeking Indian citizenship, the United Nations has called the BJP Government’s Citizenship Amendment Act as “fundamentally discriminatory.” The UN Human Rights Office reacted to the passage of the...

By Mumina Ali and Anjali Singh Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, our Professor of the World of Islam at American University, a former diplomat, playwright and author has conducted many dialogues discussing the idea of interfaith and how...

In yet another move fulfilling BJP ruling party’s exclusionary agenda, India’s Parliament on passed a bill that would deny Muslims from other countries a right to seek Indian citizenship. The measure, known as Citizenship Amendment Bill...

Pakistan-American Amna Nawaz, who is working as senior Public Broadcasting Service National Correspondent, will co-moderate December 19 Democratic presidential primary debate along with three other seasoned journalists. Amna Nawaz is the first ever South Asian to...

One of my favorite classes I’ve taken at American University, The World of Islam, has introduced me to new ideas about how the Islamic World can be understood. Our professor, Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, the former Pakistani...

With a stark warning that the world may be heading for “great fracture” in the face of dysfunctional relations between major powers, UN Chief Antonio Guterres is prescribing multilateralism as the only way to save the...

The world is not accepting New Delhi’s narrative on the festering Kashmir crisis, yet the powerful nations are not openly speaking up for the rights of the people in Indian controlled part of the disputed region,...

President Donald Trump has termed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement against Pakistan at the Houston rally as “very aggressive” and expressed surprise that such a statement was made at Sunday’s event. In remarks at a...

A Pakistani-American organization is seeking Congressional support for a strong U.S. stand for the rights of Kashmiri people, who have been subjected to an unprecedented Indian military lockdown in the disputed region after New Delhi’s suspension...