Did Imran Khan’s refusal to host US bases, Russia outreach, and tensions with Pakistan’s military reshape the country’s trajectory, leading to his removal as the prime minister and incarceration on trumped-up charges?
The attack apparently targeting Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ dinner is the latest in a long history of assassination attempts on US presidents and political violence in America
From the war against ISIS a decade back to the American-Israeli attack on Iran in 2026, the Battle of Karbala fought in 680 CE continues to shape how resistance, sacrifice, and justice are understood across the Shia world
Segments of Christian Zionists and dispensationalist evangelicals believe in the ‘ingathering’ of Jews in Israel and interpret conflicts in West Asia, including the 2026 Israeli-US war on Iran, through a prophetic lens, viewing them as steps toward a Messianic era in which Israel becomes the centre of divine redemption
Iran has overcome restrictions on accessing weapons and technology thanks to a resilient and adaptable military-industrial complex, which has been classified as a ‘niche supplier’, concentrating on surface-to-surface precision-guided munitions
COP30 in Brazil’s Belém concluded with a diluted agreement, which failed to address fossil fuel phase-out or deforestation, amid US federal absence, China’s leadership, and calls for equitable transitions outside UN consensus
The rise of Zohran Mamdani, who is set to become New York’s first Muslim and African mayor of South Asian descent, and his political vision is rooted in his father and Columbia University academic Mahmood Mamdani’s civil rights activism and the idea of linked struggles for freedom
Suharto’s elevation as a national hero opened the wounds of the mass killings, repression, corruption, and militarisation, which were never fully confronted or healed, under his over three-decade dictatorship. It becomes more fraught as Prabowo strengthens the military’s role, raising fears that Indonesia may be drifting back. Accountability or amnesia will determine whether Indonesia’s democracy endures or creeping authoritarianism continues
Zakat atau 2,5% dari tabungan yang wajib disumbangkan umat Islam untuk beramal telah mengubah kehidupan di negara-negara seperti Indonesia dan berpotensi untuk mengurangi kemiskinan global serta berkontribusi terhadap Tujuan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan PBB jika dimanfaatkan secara profesional
Despite evidence that polygamy is marginal, declining, and not specific to a religious group, it has been weaponised against Muslims to fuel Islamophobia, even as the Quran, the primary source of Islamic law, backs monogamy as the preferred model of marriage, underlining how polygamy can never be fair and just
