Politics in advanced democracies is often characterised by conservatives on the one side and liberals on the other. Read more

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Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 9:48 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, Darul-Uloom, economy, external affairs minister, foreign secretary, Islamic seminary, Muslims, Neo-Nazi radicals, politics, Subramanian Swamy, Suhasini Haider, taxation, They call me Muslim, voting rights, Zia Haq
At least 85 people have been confirmed dead in a bombing in downtown Oslo and a shooting at a Labor Party youth camp outside the Norwegian capital. Norwegian police arrested Anders Behring Breivik, 32, for the attacks. Read more

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Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Anders Behring Breivik, far-right extremism, Geert Wilders, Hindustan Times, Islamists, Labour party, news, Norway attacks, oslo, right-wing fundamentalist Christian, William Hague, World War II, Zia Haq
Henry Kissinger, in 1971, dismissed Bangladesh as a nation blighted at its very birth by calling it an “international basket case”. Read more

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Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 11:22 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Bangladesh, Gerry Weber International AG, Gobinda Chandra Tagore, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Henry Kissinger, Hindustan Times, international basket case, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Manmohan Singh, Muslim-majority nations, news, Nobel Prize winner, Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, They call me Muslim, Zia Haq
A missed Khushwant Singh column does to me all that a missed Khushwant Singh column can do. It makes my Sundays dreary. Read more

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Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, July 3, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Filed under Religion, World · Tagged Asma Jahangir, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, hindu, Hindustan Times, Hyderabad, Islam, Islamophobia, Jains, journalism, Khushwant singh, Khushwant Singh column, liberalism, Mumbai, Muslims, news, Pakistani women, philosophical systems, Sherry Rehman, Sikhs, They call me Muslim, Zia Haq