【New Delhi】Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Government in New Delhi is likely to go slow in its engagement with Islamabad, notwithstanding the hullabaloo over a recent meeting between an aide of yoga guru Baba Ramdev and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh is likely to have a bilateral meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Chaudhury Nisar Ali Khan in Kathmandu on the sideline of a Saarc conclave in the first week of August when he would take up Islamabad’s inaction on Saeed and the tardy progress of the trial of the seven terrorist involved in the Mumbai attack.
New Delhi will factor in Khan’s response and the outcome of the meeting before taking a call on the future course of its engagement with Islamabad, sources told Deccan Herald.
○Indian Muslim youth being drawn to join jehad in Iraq
【New Delhi】Hundreds of Indian Muslim youth, mostly from poor and vulnerable backgrounds, are lining up for visas at the embassies of some of the Gulf and Middle East nations with the aim of joining the 'jehad' in Iraq, according to diplomatic sources.
Iraq alone has had to deal with nearly 2,000 applications from highly charged Muslim youth from all over the country, particularly Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, these sources said.
When consular officials of one of the embassies informed some of these youth that it was not possible to give them visas, many said that "we will go, visa or no visa," said a source, who spoke to IANS on the condition that neither he nor his embassy was identified.
○Indian Muslims must stand up to radical ideologies
【New Delhi】Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has urged the likes of Syed Imam Bukhari and Zakir Naik to go to Iraq and preach peace to ISIS.
Sri Sri is not only prodding them to take the responsibility of mitigating the sufferings in Iraq but also underlining that their brand of Islam runs the risk of encouraging ISIS-type of fanaticism in India. What's happening in Iraq and Syria is not a conventional Shia-Sunni conflict. It is a case of motivated groups of wrongly indoctrinated fighters going out of control and playing havoc. They are killing Sunnis, Sufis, Shias and Christians. Their call for Caliphate is just a camouflage to spread Wahhabism in areas traditionally dominated by spiritually-oriented liberal Muslim sects.
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Govt to go slow on engagement with Pak
Indian Muslim youth being drawn to join jehad in Iraq
Indian Muslims must stand up to radical ideologies
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