Radiance: 16 May 2009

Former career diplomat Ishrat Aziz talking to Saad Bin Zia says:

Maulana Azad was made the in-charge of the West Asia/Arab World Section in Foreign Ministry although Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was himself the Foreign Minister because as you know Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru very rights beleived that there are certain insights that Maulana Azad can give on the Arab World because of the fact that Maulana Azad knew this region well and he had his own perceptions about them.


This comes right after the revelation that Nehru had permitted of opening of Israeli Consulate in New Delhi. Though until recently, Indian Passports came with the stamp that it is not valid for travel to Israel.

In the article "Alleviation of Poverty' writer Mr. Chaudhari Fariduddin mentioned that if all Muslims of India who have zakat due on them paid their zakat then it will come out to be 10,500 crore rupees and 1/3rd of that will be from North India. I am yet to figure out calculation or the source.

Another interesting thing that I found in this issue is an ad for change of names. This is the first time I have seen such an ad in this magazine for the last three years.



In the day of "love-jihad" and forced religious conversion, it is interesting to see that whole family had converted to Islam. But then who is Mr. Kunwarl Pal and Mrs. Kishan Dei and how they are related to the Chhatrapal family?

Payaam-e-Maghrib is a long running column in Radiance written by Syed Husain Pasha. In this issue he writes, "... even though I have been now writing almost every week for well over a year and a half, I have not heard from a single individual, either agreeing or disagreeing with anything I say. " This is really sad and to Pasha sahib pledged to try something new- current affairs. Let's see if he is able to elicit some response now.

You can hear Dr. Pasha at: http://www.islamicsolutions.com

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