Karnataka - Bangalore

Wakfs board to have women members

BANGALORE: Women will soon be appointed as office-bearers of the Karnataka State Board of Wakfs and the Karnataka State Haj Committee, Mumtaz Ali Khan, Minister of Wakf, Haj and Minority Welfare, has said. “We are on the look out for eminent Muslim women who fit the required profile,” he said at an event organised by the Centre for Community Development (CCD). “While some are against the idea, I don’t think there is any problem,” he said.

Mr. Khan was speaking on the sidelines of a talk by veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar on “Media’s role in promoting communal harmony”, where he emphasised that Indian culture was inherently composite and Islam/Muslims were one aspect of it.

On the media, Mr. Nayar said: “Hindi and Urdu media has no responsible reportage, while the English news media has some responsibility. But look at the way they covered the murder of Aarushi.”

Mr. Nayar released the former Vice-Chancellor Sheik Ali’s English translation of Muhammad Iqbal’s Javednama. Prof. Ali hoped that with the English translation, Iqbal’s work would be read by more people.

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