Asghar Ali

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Name: Asghar Ali
First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Action against ghost schools, absent teachers likely

UMERKOT, May 18: Strict disciplinary action was recommended for six ghost schools and six teachers found absent during an inspection visit of the assistant district education officer on Saturday who visited 20 schools in Umerkot taluka.The visits were ... [Published DAWN Group - 18 hours ago]
First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

PTEA slams massive power loadshedding

Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) have strongly criticised the massive power loadshedding of 12 to 14 hours on daily basis coupled with four days a week gas suspension that has brought the industrial wheel to a halt and industrial productions ... [Published Business Recorder - 23 hours ago]
First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Exporters Back PML-N, Hope Industrial Revival

FAISALABAD -- The Pakistan Textile Exporters Association has felicitated the Pakistan Muslim League-N leadership on massive victory in the general elections and hoped that the new government would bring economic reforms, overcome energy crisis and put ... [Published HighBeam Research - May 18 2013]
First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Asghar Ali Engineer's demise a loss for interfaith relations say Indian Americans

The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC -www.iamc.com ), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India's pluralist and tolerant ethos has expressed a deep sense of loss over the demise of noted activist Asghar Ali Engineer.Mr Engineer was the founding ... [Published Siasat Daily - May 18 2013]
First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

There will never be another Asghar Ali

Scholarly, courageous and secular, Asghar Ali Engineer spent his life combating regressive beliefs and practices while presenting a modern, humanistic interpretation of Islam... ... [Published Bangalore Mirror - May 16 2013]
Entities: Asghar Ali, Islam
First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Dr Asghar Ali Engineer: an Appreciation

Asghar Ali Engineer died of natural causes on May 14, 2013.Mumbai:To the general public, Asghar Ali Engineer was many things: a learned Islamic scholar dedicated to interpreting his faith from a modern perspective. Influenced also by Marxist thought, ... [Published UCAN India - May 16 2013]
First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

City police get custody of five terror suspects

Five of the 10 terror suspects arrested in the April 17 Malleswaram blast case were produced before the magistrate court and taken into police custody for further interrogation.The court allowed the custody of Valayil Hakeem, Asghar Ali, Tenkasi Suleiman, ... [Published The Hindu - May 16 2013]
Entities: Custody, Police, Asghar Ali
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

Asghar Ali Engineer (1939-2013)

Asghar Ali Engineer's son, Irfan explained why his funeral took place at the Sunni Muslim graveyard in Santa Cruz (W) in accordance with the scholar's wish:"Most of his friends, like Ali Sardar Jafri, Kaifi Azmi, Majrooh Sultanpuri and K A Abbas, are ... [Published Outlook India - May 16 2013]
Entities: Asghar Ali, Islam, Rioting
First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 2 reports

Uniting The Nation: Asghar Ali Engineers Struggle For Preservation Of Plural Ethos

Countercurrents.orgThe events of last over two decades have shown us, more than before that the efforts of dividing the nation by communal forces have been a major obstacle to social peace and process of development. In India while the communal violence ... [Published Counter Currents - May 15 2013]
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Asghar Ali Engineer's death condoled

A condolence meeting was held at Centre for Harmony and Peace to pay tributes to Asghar Ali Engineer, internationally known for his work on liberation theology in Islam, who passed away in Mumbai on Tuesday. ... [Published Times of India - May 15 2013]
Entities: Asghar Ali, Mumbai, Islam
First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Asghar Ali Engineer passes away

Eminent Islamic scholar, social activist, author and Dawoodi Bohra reformist leader Asghar Ali Engineer passed away here on Tuesday following age-related ailments. He was 74.Asghar Ali was suffering from pulmonary complications and septicemia. The funeral ... [Published Deccan Herald - May 14 2013]
First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Asghar Ali passes away

Mumbai, May 14 (UNI) Renowned Islamic scholar, progressive thinker,author and Dawoodi Bohra reformist leader Asghar Ali Engineer died here today after a prolonged illness, family members said.Need complete story?Subscribe our service.Click Register to ... [Published United News of India - May 14 2013]
Entities: Asghar Ali, Mumbai

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...of an aamil (a maulvi who represents the Dawoodi Bohra spiritual head), Engineer never fitted into the stereotype of a traditional Muslim scholar. "he was among the few muslim men who wrote passionately about muslim women. he doggedly fought for the rights islam provides to women but which the conservative clergy have denied them" said Islamic scholar Zeenat Shaukat Ali, who knew Engineer ever since her days as a college student
...The family feels that no amount of ex gratia and promises of jobs can bring Aijaz back or deliver justice. "look at the boston marathon bombing. they caught the terrorists within a few days, and justice will be done quickly to the bereaved families. what about us? now, nobody is talking about the terrorists who had planted bombs in dilsukhnagar" Asghar Ali says.Aijaz's academic record was excellent. He scored 8...

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Action against ghost schools, absent teachers l... [Published DAWN Group - 18 hours ago]
PTEA slams massive power loadshedding [Published Business Recorder - 23 hours ago]
Exporters Back PML-N, Hope Industrial Revival [Published HighBeam Research - May 18 2013]
Asghar Ali Engineer's demise a loss for interfa... [Published Siasat Daily - May 18 2013]
PTEA felicitates PML-N leadership on grand victory [Published Business Recorder - May 17 2013]
There will never be another Asghar Ali [Published Bangalore Mirror - May 16 2013]
Dr Asghar Ali Engineer: an Appreciation [Published UCAN India - May 16 2013]
Farmer kidnapped [Published DAWN Group - May 16 2013]
City police get custody of five terror suspects [Published The Hindu - May 16 2013]
Asghar Ali Engineer (1939-2013) [Published Outlook India - May 16 2013]
The Reformist As Pacifist: Asghar Ali Engineers... [Published Counter Currents - May 15 2013]
Uniting The Nation: Asghar Ali Engineers Strugg... [Published Counter Currents - May 15 2013]
Condolence Message on the Death of Shri Asghar ... [Published Web Newswire - May 15 2013]
Asghar Ali Engineer, the golden lad is gone [Published Meri News - May 15 2013]
‘Asghar Ali championed a modernist version of I... [Published Tehelka - May 15 2013]
Obituary on Asghar Ali Engineer by prof Zeenat ... [Published Hindustan Times - May 15 2013]
Asghar Ali Engineer's death condoled [Published Times of India - May 15 2013]
Asghar Ali Engineer passes away [Published Deccan Herald - May 14 2013]
Crusader against communalism [Published The Hindu - May 14 2013]
Terror suspects’ kin accuse police of planting ... [Published The Hindu - May 14 2013]
Asghar Ali passes away [Published United News of India - May 14 2013]
Casualties in parts of Punjab [Published DAWN Group - May 12 2013]
Ballot papers, boxes transported to polling sta... [Published DAWN Group - May 11 2013]
SINDH: Close contest likely [Published DAWN Group - May 11 2013]
Azath Salley a Security Threat to India Too in ... [Published LankaWeb - May 09 2013]
What was my sonâs crime? ... [Published Siasat Daily - May 09 2013]
No upsets for PPP likely in Nawabshah [Published DAWN Group - May 09 2013]
Tainted by association [Published DAWN Group - May 08 2013]
Malleswaram blast case: Suspects in court [Published The Hindu - May 08 2013]
Three more arrested in Malleswaram blast case [Published The Hindu - May 07 2013]
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