Pakistan's former federal minister for human rights Ansar Burney is now going to begin agitation against female circumcision (khatna) practiced by certain communities and tribes both in India and ...

Reacting to the audio clip that has been going around in which the Dawoodi Bohra spiritual head Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin made indirect references to the act of khatna (female circumcision) and urged ...

In another victory for Dawoodi Bohras campaigning for an end to the ancient practice of female genital cutting, all Bohra residents of London have been instructed to stop the practice of khatna, or ...

Implying that female circumcision should continue in countries such as India where the practice has not been made illegal, spiritual leader of the Bohra community, Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin on Monday ...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Members of Sri Lanka's Muslim communities have strongly condemned criticism of ancient cutting rituals performed on girls, saying it should not be classed as ...

Mumbai: The arrest of Detroit-based emergency room physician Dr. Jumana Nagarwala and two others in connection with female genital mutilation (FGM) of two minor girls in the United States has once ...

NEW DELHI: Eleven years ago, Farida Bano was circumcised by an aunt on a bunk bed in her family home at the end of her 10th birthday party. The mutilation occurred not in Africa, where the practice is ...

The Hindu contacted the office of Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin and asked for the leader’s response to the accusations of the activists and reformers. The Syedna’s spokesperson declined to comment, but ...