By Amber Rahim Shamsi

Now the Shiv Sena has a problem with Indian tennilebrity Sania Mirza marrying Pakistan’s cricket captain Shoaib Malik. To quote the right-wing Hindu party’s octogenarian chief Bal Thackeray: “Had [Sania’s] heart been Indian, it wouldn’t have beaten for a Pakistani. If she wished to play for India, she should have chosen an Indian life partner.” No surprises there.

Advocate Khandokar Mahbub was the chief prosecutor of the first war crimes trials in Bangladesh, which began in 1973 but were halted two years later. In an exclusive interview, he told Pinaki Roy that the new tribunal could struggle to find the evidence it needs to secure prosecutions 40 years on.

By Asim Siddiqui

Studies show that poor educational attainment and professional underachievement are prevalent amongst young British Muslims. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an independent development and social research charity, found that British Muslims are less upwardly mobile than their Hindu, Christian and Jewish counterparts. This trend appears consistent across Europe, where Muslims are almost three times more likely to be unemployed than non-Muslims.

UK Independence Party member Julian Conway argues that Symon Hill was wrong to liken UKIP's policies to those of the far-right British National Party in his article for The Samosa.