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That women will play a critical role in politics, in fact is no longer a matter of discussion. Struggles and movements for women's rights over many decades have marked women's political empowerment as a high priority. These took place mainly because it became evident that unless women have the right and power to contribute in policy making and to legislate for themselves, they will have to wait and depend on others to do it for them. The authos analyses the role of women in the South Asian countries with a focus of representation in the national parliaments.

This article reflects religious, political and cultural foundations of Taliban's creed which makes them different in the Islamic world as well as gives them special place in today's international power politics. The main objective of this article is to review Taliban's policies which are manifested frequently in their public statements and general practices. It further explains the influence of tribal customs and traditional Pushtun code of conduct over the establishment of Taliban's movement. An attempt is made to appraise gender policy of Taliban's which dictates strict moral code for both men and women and its repercussions for gender relations. This paper also discusses all those factors which contributed in the rise of talibanization in Afghanistan as well as in other parts of the Muslim world. Madrassa education is strongly believed to be responsible for designing terrorist minds. This article reveals views of talibs (madrassa students) regarding the nature of their studies and the way this knowledge is actually applied in the course of their life.

Islam, like all the great world religions and their scriptures, off er a universal message, a discourse that can speak to all times and places. Believers of this religion, in every age and situation, fi nd teachings, principles, and values that give them meaning and guidance. The Quran and the Sunnah, or prophetic example, provides a theology for peace, for living in a world of diverse nations and peoples. They also provide guidelines on how to fi ght the enemy as well as how to fi ght against corruption and oppression. This paper attempts to draw a careful line between Jihad, self-defense and aggression, resistance and rebellion, reform and terrorism. Little has been done to study the formation and evolution of the notion of divinely sanctioned war in Islam or to critically examine the spectrum of Islamic views on the subject. Classical Islamic tradition has developed its own canonical view on the formation and evolution of holy war and, with some small variation among the legal schools, a more or less standard view on the meaning and application of divinelysanctioned war in general. Scholarly studies of holy war in Islamic civilization have tended to accept uncritically, or at least not challenge, these standard views. The main theme of this writing is to critically examine the origin of the holy war phenomenon in Islam in order to describe and explain the early importance of holy war and its implications for contemporary Muslim societies.