Kashmir’s Accession to India is conditional

India has always claimed that the accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir to India is absolute and legally unconditional, while the letters exchanged between India’s Governor-General Lord Mountbatten and the State’s Maharaja Hari Singh constitute a political Commitment. A document recently unearthed from the National Achieves of India puts things in perspective. Section 8 (2) of the Indian Independence Act, 1947 empowered the Governors-General of India and Pakistan to make orders to adapt the Government of India Act 1935 to serve as their interim constitution until their respective Constituent Assembly framed their Constitutions.

Aafia, Malala and Western hypocrisy

As Malala Yousufzai delivered her speech in the UN General Assembly, in what is arguably the heart of western civilization – New York – another Muslim woman, Aafia Siddiqui, passed another day of her 86-year imprisonment in a Texas jail, in the model terrorist nation that the US is. Both Aafia and Malala are from Pakistan. But that is about the only similarity between them.

While Aafia was tortured endlessly – physically, psychologically and sexually – by the ‘peace keepers’ of the west, Malala was felicitated. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon commemorated July 12 as Malala Day. It is ironical that among the two, it was Aafia who apparently conformed to western ‘ideals’. Having immigrated to the US in 1990 and completed her PhD in neuroscience, Aafia should have been the perfect selling point for America in advocating feminism and women’s rights and its subsequent attempts in bombing Muslim countries to it. Instead, the exact opposite happened. Aafia was implicated on a series of flimsy charges and tortured in every possible manner to reduce a brilliant individual to a mass of broken bones and torn flesh. Hail the civility of the western civilization!

Malala attack: Taliban Speaks!

All Praise is due to Allah, The Glorious, The All-Mighty. And may the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon Prophet Muhammad, his family and his companions. Peace be upon those who follow the Guidance...

Almost four months on from a seemingly insignificant event in North-Western Pakistan, a headline echoed in a recent English newspaper:

“Peace icon Malala Yousafzai underwent successful surgery at a British hospital to reconstruct her skull and help restore lost hearing.”

By now, probably the entire world knows about this not-so-young ‘peace icon’ who has seemingly managed to charm the entire world with her “heroic” antics. She apparently ‘risked her life’ to promote ‘education’, ‘peace’ and ‘moderation’ in the world - something the ‘ignorant’, ‘extremist’, ‘terrorists’ can’t just seem to understand! What a story! As a perfect example of the devilish power of this uncontrollable media, this incident highlights the massive effect this media has in creating a desired global public opinion. And who doesn’t know the working hands behind the goo that is served up on the tube? The major media companies of the world are not owned by people intending to establish Shariah after all.

Malala Yousafzai was/is a young girl from the valley of Swat in North-Western Pakistan. This city is part of the blessed chain of locations that saw the beauty of Islamic Shariah in the 21st century. Anyone who has experienced the inner and outer peace that pervades blissfully through the land on which Allah’s Law is enforced will definitely know how wonderful a setting transpires.

My Lord’s Command is what I desire

It is my religion, it is my life

If only Allah’s Love could be witnessed by sight

The thorns would melt and the heavens would light!

Only a fool or someone overcome by the doleful whispers of Satan would dare transgress the limits set by Allah, The Creator of the Heavens and the earth. This Shariah that the whole world seems to fear is nothing but the Command of Allah as to how He The Exalted wants humankind to behave collectively. And in it, lies the natural order...