All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslim (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi had made a scathing attack on the Islamic State and said that the members of the militant outfit were “dogs from hell”. Condemning the terror attack near the Prophet’s mosque in holy city of Medina, Owaisi said if Muslims find ISIS chief Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, they will cut him into 100 pieces. Addressing a gathering on Friday, the IMIM leader also […]

Days after a group of men were arrested for planning terror strikes in Hyderabad, MP Asaduddin Owaisi reiterated his anti-Islamic State (IS) stance on Friday. The chief of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Lok Sabha member from Hyderabad, Owaisi said he plans to invite prominent Syrian scholar, Muhammad Abul Huda al-Yaqoubi, known for his strident opposition to the IS, to his constituency. On June 29, six men were […]

 Well-known poet and writer Javed Akhtar on Tuesday hit out at All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi in Parliament. “He (Owaisi) said he will not say `Bharat mata ki jai` as the Constitution does not require him to say so. The Constitution even does not ask him to wear sherwani (dress) and topi (cap)… I don’t care to know whether saying ‘Bharat mata ki jai’ is my […]

Even with a knife to my throat won’t say ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’: Asaduddin Owaisi to Mohan Bhagwat In yet another controversial statement, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi, in a direct attack on the RSS, said that he would not chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. Addressing a public rally in Udgir tehsil in Latur district here on Sunday, Owaisi said, “I don’t chant that slogan (Bharat Mata […]

AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi has stirred a controversy with remarks that every child is born a Muslim as he locked horns with right-wing Hindu outfits over their ‘ghar wapsi’ programme. “Every child is born a Muslim. His parents and society convert him to other religions,” Owaisi said, apparently in a tit-for-tat to hardline Hindu organisations which have been claiming that ancestors of all Indians were Hindus. “Islam is the real […]

There was nothing in Akbaruddin Owaisi’s demeanour to suggest that he was suffering from ill-health when he landed at Hyderabad airport from London, to a rapturous welcome early on Monday 7 January morning. On the contrary, his trademark swagger firmly in place, greeting supporters and well-wishers with a salaam, Owaisi was wearing a T-shirt with ‘4’ embossed on it. But Owaisi has not managed to get past the fielder to […]