The Benefits of Aki Nawaz
The Asian Today Interview'Violent resistance is always and always will be justified’ - Aki Nawaz
When Fun-Da-Mental front man Aki Nawaz signed and sealed off his latest album, he was aware his selection of songs would cause controversy. From suicide...
Back with a Bang!
Sanjay Dutt on being Munnabhai!When filming began on ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’, the eagerly awaited sequel to ‘Munnabhai’ the production crew expected to have a stress free day. But such is the hysteria surrounding the film, they were immediately mobbed...
Live and Kickin’
Football Fever for NihalGet ready for Premiership football like you’ve never heard it before… not just all the goals, not just all the gossip, but also all the glamour and all the grimness that’s all part of the beautiful...
England Zindabad
Can Brit Asian's support England?
British or Pakistani? Sajid Mahmood
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Father charged with murder
36-year-old Rahan Arshad has appeared in court charged with the murder of his wife and three children.
Mr Arshad was remanded in custody by Stockport magistrates to appear at Manchester Crown Court on 11 September.
He was arrested by police...
PM accused of creating ‘negative’ Muslim images
THE UK'S first Muslim Miss England has hit out at Prime Minister Tony Blair accusing him of creating a negative image of Islam following the 7/7 London bombings.
19-year-old Hammasa Kohistani said Mr Blair was guilty of fuelling hostility towards...
Hundreds turn out in memory of Ricky Bhalla
A FUNDRAISING fun day in memory of a Midlands firefighter who died in 2003 from a brain tumour has raised over £7,000.
Ricky Bhalla, from Stirchley, Birmingham, died in July 2003. The event at the Tally Ho Police Training Centre,...
Former Gandhi tea-boy meets Lord Attenborough
WHEN Dipak Joshi bent upon his knees and paid homage to Lord Attenborough at the University of Leicester- it was a dream come true.
For the former teaboy on the sets of Gandhi was able to renew acquaintance with...
Midlands to remember Pak Quake Victims
AS THE one-year anniversary of the Pakistan earthquake approaches, an exhibition of photographs of the aftermath of the disaster, Nature’s Fury, is set to open in Birmingham.
The photographs have been taken by award-winning Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam; former...
Media giants in Picture storm
FOUR major media organisations face paying damages to a London council worker after wrongly identifying her as a suspect in the alleged terror bomb plot to blow up passenger planes.
ITV News, the Sun, the Daily Mirror and Daily...
British Asian Murder – Eight appear in Court
EIGHT people have appeared in court in India charged with the brutal murder of a Leicester businessman in the Punjab last August.
59-year-old father of two Mohan Singh Biring, was in the Punjab on business in August 2005 when...
University terrorist recruitment slammed
There is no widespread recruitment of Muslim students by terrorist organisations on university campuses in the UK, an Islamic student body has said.
The Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS), which represents over 90,000 Muslim students in the UK and...
