Maulana Mufti Arshad Farooqi, the Mufti of Darul-Uloom Deoband and the chairman of Online Fatwa Department, glorified Taliban for its victory in Afghanistan
The High Court has directed that a Special Investigation Team, under the monitoring of the Court, should investigate the criminal cases related to post-poll violence.
And as if being apologists for homegrown Islamists was not enough, the so-called fact-checkers have now gone international to clean up after the Taliban.
Speaking on the floor of the Legislative Assembly, the Chief Minister came down heavily on the "liberals" and the leaders of the opposition parties for glorifying the Taliban, a radical outfit that tramples on the basic rights of women and children.
The Independence Day celebrations at Madarsa Alia inside the Jama Masjid premises was organised by the Local Islamia Agency. UP Miniority Commission chairperson Ashfaq Saifi had hoisted the Tricolour.