The last surviving member of Turkey’s Othman dynasty, Ertuğrul Osman Osmanoğlu, died at the age of 97 at a private hospital in Istanbul on Wednesday 23 September. He was laid to rest on Friday September 25 in the Istanbul garden of the tomb of his grand father Sultan Mahmud II. The emotional religious ceremony was attended by hundreds of thousands …

Part of this article, dealing up to the Indian involvement, was published in the Ceylon Daily Mirror on Tuesday 22 September 2009 It is heartening to note the swift international response to the misery of Internally Displaced Tamils. There is no doubt that every country ,every organization and every individual should make every effort  to ameliorate the  conditions of  about …

Jinnah, Nehru or Hindu extremism? Muslims punished for the sin of partition. Senior Indian politician Jaswant Singh who was minister for external affairs, finance and defence, was sacked by the Bharathiya Janatha Party, a political front of Hindu extremists Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,RSS, which demands  that Indian Muslims  either give up their religion, Islam,and embrace Hinduism or leave the country. Jaswant …

Violence erupted between the native Muslims and the   Hans Chinese migrant settlers on Sunday July 5 in the Western Xingjian’s predominantly Muslim region of Uighur where the people’s struggle for political and religious freedom has been suppressed for long by the Chinese authorities. Within five days 156 people, mostly Uighur Muslims were killed in the city of Urumqi  where the …

  One after the other political leaders from the west, especially Britain and France, rushed to the island to show their humanitarian concern for the displaced Tamils who were used as human shield by the now defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, LTTE, which claimed to fight for the interest of this very same people.    However, these Western politicians’ …