By Dr. Katherine Bullock On his way to a recent caucus meeting, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appealed for people to stop targeting Canadian Jews and Muslims in the wake of Hamas’ violent October 7th attack on Israelis and Israel’s subsequent retaliatory war on Gaza. “This is not who we are as Canadians,” he said. Unfortunately, […]...
Fact-checker Pratik Sinha dubs India the ‘disinformation capital of the world,’, the title unfortunately, seems rooted in the rise of right-wing nationalism Muslim Network TV Desk The unfolding Israel-Palestine conflict has cast light on the alliance between India’s ruling Hindutva extremist ideology and Israeli Zionism. Both seemingly r...
-Indian diplomacy in recent times has been characterized by its claims to leading the Global South, but aligning with the colonial West on key global issues By Iftikhar Gilani After successfully hosting the G-20 summit, India was in the spotlight as the new leader of the Global South. A month later after achieving this coveted position, it wa...
Hamas’ surprise attack exposes Israel’s vulnerabilities and revives need for addressing Palestinian issue for sake of stability and peace in region By Iftikhar Gilani When U.S.-born Israeli journalist Yaakov Katz asked in the Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post on Sept. 22 whether the Yom Kipper War could be repeated, he had no idea t...
While not optimistic, there is hope that opposition alliance’s boycott of 14 TV presenters may lead to some sanity and put an end to lunacy that has infected India’s national media and damaged its credibility By Iftikhar Gilani After traveling throughout the eastern Indian state of Bihar to cover the 2015 provincial elections, I checked [&hel...
Canada denied visa to Indian security officials after finding that a military officer implicated in the murder of a senior Kashmiri lawyer had been facilitated entry into Canada By Iftikhar Gilani Diplomatic tensions between India and Canada have taken new proportions in recent days with the expulsion of diplomats and retaliatory measures. The...
Few people know that scientist Vikram Sarabai, founder of India’s space program and his family had close ties to the Kashmir Valley By Iftikhar Gilani India’s robotic vehicle “Vikram” that successfully landed near the south pole of the Moon as part of the Chandrayaan mission recently was named after Vikram Sarabai, the founder of India’s...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s one-day visit to Greece last week, during which bilateral relations were upgraded to a comprehensive defense partnership, was followed with great interest in Türkiye By Iftikhar Gilani Will an emerging alliance between modern day King Porus and Greece’s Alexander the Great lead to a new “Great Game” ...
Although India claims to be the world’s largest democracy, a disturbing trend of rising communal tensions has made the situation in the country deeply worrying. Muslim Network TV NEW DELHI, India – India’s 77th Independence Day, which was observed on Tuesday, is definitely an event to celebrate, but also a reflection on the path the [&he...
Under the banner of the Forum for Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir, a citizens’ group that includes retired judges, military officers, and top civil servants, in a report, urges New Delhi to address fears of demographic change. By Iftikhar Gilani Even as four years later Indian Supreme Court began hearing on the revocation of […]
