News: On 6th April, the Chinese Foreign Ministry's press release expressed that, last week Chinese, Pakistani and Russian diplomats held a meeting in Beijing, discussing the situation in Afghanistan, in which they stressed the effective and active role of Shanghai cooperation Organization in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Before this meeting, in April, the Foreign Policy magazine quoted Russian officials saying that After 2014 Moscow wants to build few military bases…

The Express Tribune in Pakistan ran an opinion piece on 23rd March by Pervez Hoodbhoy: "On choosing popes and caliphs" which criticized Hizb ut Tahrir's work to revive the caliphate as "impossibly difficult." Before refuting this claim, we object to three words that are so out of place in the writer's introduction to his argument that they cannot be left without contention: "Today, several Muslim groups are marketing the idea…

News: News agency Tatar-inform reported about the all-Russian conference "Islam-Online" that took place on the 4th of April in the capital of Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan. Approximately 100 representatives of electronic media from different regions of Russia gathered in this conference. Spiritual Board of Muslims of Tatarstan that organized this activity dominated the aim of this conference as consolidation of Muslim journalists to propagate the values of the so-called "traditional…

A social worker told me recently at her joy of a very happy and loving child who was disabled, being adopted. When I asked about why he had been in care in the first place, she related how his mother had abandoned him at the hospital after giving birth to him. Although I could understand the joy of the momentous occasion of his adoption, I felt deep sadness that the…