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The Trump Administration is dispatching its senior South Asia official to the region facing a spate of crises including ongoing crisis in Kashmir, Afghan fragility, and US-Iran tensions. Alice G Wells, who heads U.S. policymaking on...

An elementary school in Fort Bend county Texas named after Malala Yousafzai opened this week, celebrating the Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner’s unflinching commitment to education for all children. “This is an important part of the...

Saudi Arabia is sending a senior official to Washington on a mission to contain US-Iran crisis, which have escalated precariously following killing of an Iranian general and invasion of the U.S. embassy compound in Iraq. Analysts...

An illustration of Emperor Akbar holding a religious assembly including Jesuit missionaries Rodolfo Acquaviva and Francisco Henriques Credit:Nar Singh/Public Domain/Wikipedia About five centuries ago, India was the center of a thriving empire under the leadership of...

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...

As Kashmir remains tense four months after India deprived the region of its autonomy, the UN Security Council meets Tuesday to consider the situation in response to China’s request for a meeting. The Council will likely...

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...

Appalled at the passage of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill – which excludes Muslim immigrants from Indian citizenship – in the lower house of the Parliament, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has recommended sanctions against Home...