Latest Muhammad Ali Jinnah News & Updates

New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Shiv Sena-UBT MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, reacting to the Jammu University committee recommending the removal of topics on Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah from the curriculum, on Monday said that history must reflect both heroes and villains to give a complete understanding of the past. Chaturvedi said that if there are heroes in the pages of history, it is equally important to understand whom they fought against.”If there are heroes, then who did they fight? For that…

New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) Responding to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP)’s demand for the immediate removal of Muhammad Ali Jinnah from academic curricula, RJD MP Manoj Kumar Jha on Saturday said that history cannot be altered and must be understood in its entirety. Speaking to IANS, Jha questioned the rationale behind such demands and emphasised the importance of studying historical figures in context.“I do not understand whose domain is what and who is commenting on which dom…

New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Pakistan, despite its seven decades of existence as an independent nation, having utterly failed to act as a responsible nation and Turkey’s abetment to Islamic extremism and radicalism has created a disturbing global environment, which must be called out and decried by fellow nations, including India, an opinionated report in a leading portal said. It says that Pakistan provided tacit support to events leading to political turmoil in Bangladesh and backed rather, proppe…

New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi on Saturday launched a sharp attack on the Congress party, accusing it of evolving into a “Jamaati Congress” through alliances with communal organisations, potentially endangering national unity and democratic values. Also, while addressing the media at the BJP headquarters here, Trivedi criticised the West Bengal government’s budget for prioritising “Maulvis, Muezzins, and Madrasas” over th…

Patna, Jan 26 (IANS) A serious and disturbing incident has come to light in Bihar’s Supaul district, where a government school teacher has been arrested for allegedly raising slogans in support of Pakistan’s first Governor General, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, during a Republic Day flag-hoisting ceremony. The incident occurred during the celebration of the 77th Republic Day at Abhuwar High School under the Kishanganj block.The accused has been identified as Mohammad Mansoor Alam, a teacher at the sc…

New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) The NDA allies on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh over his remarks accusing the BJP and the RSS of playing a “coordinated game of division” with the AIMIM, asserting that the veteran leader was making such statements only to keep his politics alive.Digvijaya Singh had accused the BJP and the RSS of pursuing a “coordinated game” of division in tandem with the AIMIM.He also claimed that Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Muhammad Ali J…

New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) Thirty-five years is a long time in the life of a nation. It is long enough for governments to change, for narratives to be rewritten, and for uncomfortable truths to be buried under layers of convenient silence. But for a community driven out of its homeland solely because it was Hindu, time has not softened the pain – it has only deepened the wound.Three-and-a-half decades after the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits, the questions remain unanswered. Not because the answer…