Mahesh Kumar Malani of Pakistan Peoples Party on Thursday became the first Hindu to win the National Assembly seat from Tharparkar in southern Sindh province. Mahesh Kumar Malani of Pakistan Peoples Party today became the first Hindu to win the National Assembly seat from Tharparkar in southern Sindh province. Malani, the 55-year-old minority community leader, defeated his nearest rival Arab Zakaullah of the Grand Democratic Alliance in the NA-222 constituency. […]

NEW DELHI: On the back of claims by a study of Pew Research Centre that India would surpass Indonesia to become the country with the largest Muslim population by 2050, VHP on Friday once again raked up the ‘Hindus-must-reproduce-more’ issue. It said if Hindus continued to restrict themselves to having one child per family, Muslims would eventually take over the country. It also indicated that parents had no right to […]

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 […]