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Posted on Chowrangi.com on September 12, 2010   With the Commonwealth Games in Delhi fast approaching, foreigners should know how to use Ind...

Posted on Chowrangi.com on September 12, 2010  For some reason, a cleric in Qasim Masjid in Peshawar has been able to collect about twenty m...

Posted on Chowrangi.com on August 16, 2010  As if the world wasn’t already threatened by global warming, floods and earthquakes, a new enemy...

Posted on Chowrangi.com on July 30, 2010  Muslims in India are treated worse than Dalits. They are widely perceived as being pro-Pakistani a...

Posted on Chowrangi.com on July 2, 2010  Sheikh Adil Al-Kalbani was the first black man appointed as the imam of the Grand Mosque (the holy ...

Posted on Chowrangi.com on May 13, 2010  During and after my recent angioplasty in hospital, I was surrounded by cheerful female nurses and ...

Posted on Chowrangi.com on February 15, 2010  The people of Pakistan and India are very superstitious, perhaps because of the high poverty a...

Posted on Chowrangi.com on February 3, 2010   In “secular” India, 1,747 tribal Christians were recently re-converted to Hinduism. As reporte...

Posted on Chowrangi.com on January 31, 2010 When I ran a salt factory, I would always wonder why my illiterate workers would advise me to sa...

Posted on Chowrangi.com on January 26, 2010  Indians and Pakistanis have been rivals ever since partition in 1947. By Indian of course I mea...

Posted on Chowrangi.com on December 27, 2009  Years ago, I read about someone asking Imam Abu Hanifa about why a woman was not allowed to ha...

Posted on Chowrangi.com Not many people in Pakistan know that there is such a thing as white magic. This is because most Pakistanis (and Ind...

Posted on Chowrangi.com on  August 25, 2009      Why are Muslims so cruel to animals? What does a Muslim do when he sees a dog? He picks up ...

Posted on Chowrangi.com Embed from Getty Images According to a news item in DAWN (28th June, 2009), Sheikh Ala-ud-Din of PML-Q Forward Bl...

Posted on Chowrangi.com The recent case of the forced marriage of an eight year old girl in Karachi (and the ones reported earlier) indicate...

Posted on Chowrangi.com on May 21, 2009  Embed from Getty Images I thought I’d seen everything. But now they’ve discovered an Indian who...

Posted on Chowrangi.com on May 18 2009 Muslims are not the only ones who observe purdah. Some Hindus also do it. According to Jawed Naqvi (D...

Posted on Chowrangi.com Having studied in a missionary school in the fifties, when you could see Christians, Parsis, Hindus and even Jews li...

Posted on Chowrangi.com on January 27, 2009 Talibanization of India is continuing in full swing (by Hindu Taliban, not the Islamic ones). Ac...

Posted on Chowrangi.com Embed from Getty Images Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in for a tough time after the UK Foreign Secreta...