HUMAN history may be seen as a record of the eternal struggle between right and wrong, virtue and vice, good and evil, and righteousness and wickedness. This struggle was decreed by God when Adam, an earthly creature, was sent to earth to engage in this eternal battle.

Beyond the clichéd-ridden rhetoric on Kashmir, real people — men, women and children — are getting killed and maimed by one of the most ruthless military machines in the world: India's 1.2 million-strong army, of whom 700,000 are deployed in Kashmir.

On the blessed occasion of Eid-ul-Adha, the Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, addressed the following statement to the Islamic Ummah:

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution and Wali-ul- Amr of World Muslims Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei in a message on the occasion of the annual Hajj pilgrimage has said the wave of Islamic awakening, which is spreading in today's world, is a reality that heralds a glorious future for the Islamic Ummah.