Malawi move to ban polygamy angers Muslims
Strike in
Kalat against acid attack
Crucial info given out to Pak officials
Madhuri Gupta says she is being framed
Haia imposes ban on women jogging in Asir
town
Army doc confesses role in BDR mutiny
‘Wireless message establishes Advani's presence at Babri
site
Ajmer blast: Hindu outfit responsible?
US ‘terrorist’ posts death threat against
Obama
Stone-pelters kill civilian, Omar slams
separatists
Terror strike warning keeps Hyderabad cops on
toes
Amnesty, Muslim council oppose Belgian burqa
bill
Ex-ISI official found dead in North
Waziristan
Two Saudi students held in Khyber Agency
Israel revokes residency of 4,901 Jerusalemites in 2
years
Can Islam and Secularism dialogue with each
other?
Foreign troops kill three
Afghan women
Kurd rebels 'attack army outpost'
Somali blasts kill at least 30 at 'militants
mosque'
An ideological split at the heart of Islam
My Name is Khan too, say Syrians
Afghan feminists fighting from under the
burqa
AMU alumnus launches website on the life and work of Sir Sayyad A
Khan
Let the arts take you on a spiritual
journey
Suicide attack kills two in Swat district
Bangladesh hands over NDFB chief Ranjan Daimary to
BSF
Belgian vote on Muslim veils could echo in
Europe
Indonesia to ratify nuclear test ban treaty
In France, forcing women to wear burqa will draw jail
term
Hillary Clinton warns Iran, calls Ahmadinejad anti-semitic
President
Court orders seizure of Pervez’s property
Pakistani workers’ conditions similar to 1886 Chicago
labourers
Philippine forces kill 5 rebels in raid before
poll
'Information an effective weapon against
terror'
Qassim incident triggers fresh debate over women
EMTs
For aspiring Imam, lessons in tolerance
Video of Jordanian CIA bomber urges Muslims to wage
jihad
Video depicts Canadian as bomb-maker's
apprentice
Kashmiri behind Khawaja’s murder
Compiled by Asit Kumar
Photo: Gender Minister of Malawi Patricia
Kalati
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Malawi move to ban polygamy angers Muslims
01 May, 2010
Muslims in Malawi have been angered by government plans to ban
polygamy.
A spokesman for the Muslim Association of Malawi told the BBC the
proposed law would discriminate against the country's Muslim
minority.
He said with about 6% more women than men in Malawi, if polygamy were
banned, many women would be left without a husband and become
prostitutes.
The gender minister said the ban was necessary to prevent women from
being abused in polygamous relationships.
She said problems occurred because men could not give their full
attention to more than one woman.
"When a man has two, three, four wives, they are not co-operative -
one will be the loved one," said Gender Minister Patricia
Kaliati.
It had not been a hasty decision and there had been wide consultation
about the matter, she said.
But Imran Shareef Muhammed - secretary general of the Muslim
Association of Malawi - disputed this.
"The minister is lying - she didn't consult the Muslim community," he
told the BBC's Network Africa programme.
"We are totally rejecting it. There are also other ethnic groups [who
practise polygamy] and they also totally reject this," he
said.
"If these people go ahead banning polygamous marriages it means many
women will go into prostitution.
"Every woman has the right to be under the shelter of a
man."
He said under Sharia law, polygamy was
optional.
"I have only one wife, my dear wife... but the moment they proceed
with this, I will take a second wife," he said.
Should the ban come into affect, those already in polygamous
marriages would not be affected, but those who flout it could face imprisonment,
the minister said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8654326.stm
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Strike in Kalat against acid attack
By Amanullah Kasi
01 May, 2010
QUETTA: Kalat closed on Friday in protest against Thursday’s acid
attack on three sisters. The strike was observed on a call given by Baloch
nationalist parties.
At Mangochar, protesters blocked the National Highway which connects
Quetta with Karachi.
Balochistan National Party-Mengal, Balochistan National Front,
National Party, Balochistan National Party-Awami, the three factions of Baloch
Students Organisation and tribal elders condemned the heinous assault in which
Sakina, Saima and Fatima suffered serious burn injuries.
Baloch nationalist groups blamed ‘hidden hands’ for crimes against
women and demanded that culprits should be brought to book and
punished.
They said that spraying innocent women with acid was a conspiracy to
project the Baloch as conservative people.
Federal Minister Mir Israrullah Zehri who hails from the area accused
police and intelligence personnel of not taking adequate action to prevent such
attacks, the first having taken place in Dalbandin.
In Quetta, a demonstration was held in protest against the acid
attack and kidnapping of Hindu traders for ransom.
Addressing the protesters outside the press club, Habib Jalib Baloch
accused intelligence agencies of carrying out acid attacks on women and
distributing pamphlets in the name of a fictitious organisation to create panic
among women and defame the Baloch.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/strike-in-kalat-against-acid-attack-150
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Crucial info given out to Pak officials
Pramod Kumar
01 MAY 2010
New Delhi, April 30: Indian diplomat Madhuri Gupta used to pass
crucial information of Indian intelligence agencies to her handler and ISI agent
Rana allegedly by creating fake email IDs.
Investigating agencies have sent the hard-disc of her computer for
forensic examination. Report of the forensic examination of the hard-disc will
also reveal the close contacts of Ms Gupta in Pakistan as well as in India,
sources revealed.
According to sources, she reportedly disclosed her interrogators that
Rana taught her how to create fake email IDs.
Whenever Madhuri had to pass some information to Rana, she used to
send it through fake e-mail IDs instead of informing the latter on mobile phone,
sources said.
“Immediately after three or four meetings with the diplomat, Rana
taught her how to create fake e-mail IDs. Not only Rana, she passed some crucial
information to Pak officials also through fake IDs. Further interrogation of
Gupta will reveal the identity of Pak officials who were in touch with her”,
sources said.
“Gupta’s interrogators are also trying to ascertain the identity of
one more ISI official who was in regular touch with Ms Gupta. There are
confirmed inputs that, besides Rana, one more ISI official was there with whom
Ms Gupta used to share crucial information. There are also reports that Ms Gupta
had once met them in Kuala Lumpur, which is being investigated,” sources added.
Ms Gupta also revealed names of more Pakistan intelligence officers
with whom she shared some crucial details. However, officials interrogating her
said that most of the information which Ms Gupta had was not important at all.
Investigating agencies plan to question senior Indian officials who were posted
with her in Baghdad.
http://www.asianage.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10882:crucial-info-given-out-to-pak-officials&catid=35:india&Itemid=60
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Madhuri Gupta says she is being framed
May 1, 2010
NEW DELHI: Madhuri Gupta, an Indian diplomat arrested on charges of
spying for Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), told a court here on
Saturday that she was being framed, police sources said.
Gupta was sent to 14 days judicial custody by Chief Metropolitan
Magistrate Kaveri Baweja. The police were told to present Gupta before the court
on May 15.
According to a police official, Gupta, 53, said she was not a senior
officer and could not have passed on sensitive information to her contacts in
Pakistan where she was posted in the Indian High Commission.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Madhuri-Gupta-says-she-is-being-framed/articleshow/5880113.cms
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Haia imposes ban on women jogging in Asir town
May 1, 2010
AL-MUJARADAH: The Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention
of Vice (Haia) has banned women from jogging and other physical exercise in
certain areas of an Asir town, Al-Watan reported on
Friday.
The Haia’s branch in Al-Mujaradah attempted to justify its decision
by claiming it was doing the women a favor.
“The Haia did not exactly ban women from physical exercise, it only
intervened to guarantee their safety from criminals who frequently harass them
as they walk in lonely places,” said Haia spokesman for Asir province Bandar
Al-Mufreh.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article48859.ece
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Army doc confesses role in BDR mutiny
01 MAY 2010
Dhaka, April 30: A medical official confessed at a special court
about his role in concealing 40 bodies of slain Army officers in 2009 BDR mutiny
in which 57 Army officers were killed, including BDR chief Major-General Shakil
Ahmed.
The 57-year-old Torab Hossain Khan was among 256 members of the BDR
hospital unit who are accused in bloody Pilkhana carnage that took place in
February 2009.
On Thursday the mutineers were hauled before a Special Court-6 set up
at the Pilkhana headquarters.
Prosecutor of this case Lt. Col. S.M.A. Al-Muid said 16 of the
accused, including medical assistant Torab and JCO (junior commanding officer)
Monaranjan Sarker were involved in removing the bodies from the Darbar Hall
(meeting room) during the 33-hour mutiny.
Outgoing BDR director-general Maj.-Gen. Mainul Islam, who heads the
panel of judges, asked Torab how many bodies he had
removed.
Full report at:
http://www.asianage.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10811:army-doc-confesses-role-in-bdr-mutiny&catid=36:international&Itemid=61
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‘Wireless message establishes Advani's presence at Babri
site'
01 May, 2010
LUCKNOW: Senior IPS officer Anju Gupta, who was the personal security
officer of BJP leader L.K. Advani on December 5-6, 1992 at Ayodhya and key
witness in the Babri demolition case, on Thursday, said she knew he remained at
the scene even after she had left because a police wireless message notified her
of the precise time of his departure.
She was answering questions put to her by defence counsel of the BJP
leaders facing trial in a Rae Bareli court for their role in the demolition of
the mosque.
Asked how she could have told the court on March 26 that Mr. Advani
was present till 7.55 p.m. when she herself left his side around 6.30 p.m. to
control the crowd elsewhere, Ms. Gupta said she received a police wireless
message informing her that the BJP leader was getting ready to move at 7.55 p.m.
This meant he was definitely at the scene till then, she
said.
Full report at:
http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/01/stories/2010050164141400.htm
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Ajmer blast: Hindu outfit responsible?
May 1, 2010
JAIPUR/AJMER: After the Malegon blasts, the role of the radical Hindu
outfit, Abhinav Bharat, resurfaced with the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS)
on Friday arresting Devendra Gupta for his involvement in the Ajmer dargah
sharif blasts in 2007.
Three people were killed and 30 others injured when explosives kept
in a tiffin box went off at the famous sufi shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti
on October 11, 2007.
‘‘Investigating agencies have gathered enough evidence to prove that
the arrested person also had links with the RSS,’’ said Rajasthan home minister
Shanti Dhariwal. Gupta (36), a resident of Bihariganj in Ajmer, was produced in
the CJM court in Ajmer on Friday and was remanded in 12-day police custody. ATS
sources said Gupta had confessed to his involvement in the Ajmer blasts.
Investigations also show that Gupta was in constant touch with Sadhvi Pragya
Singh, the alleged mastermind of the Malegaon blasts.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Ajmer-blast-Hindu-outfit-responsible/articleshow/5878836.cms
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US ‘terrorist’ posts death threat against Obama
01 MAY 2010
A Dallas man describing himself as a terrorist threatened to kill
President Barack Obama in an online posting because he was upset about
healthcare reform, according to a criminal complaint. Brian Dean Miller, 43,
faces one count of making threats against the President, which carries a maximum
sentence of five years in prison and a US $250,000 fine. He is scheduled for
arraignment in federal court on Saturday.
His public defender and his mother did not return phone messages on
Thursday. According to a criminal complaint, Miller made the death threats on
March 21 on Craigslist under a posting titled “Obama must
die.”
Full report at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/252862/US-%E2%80%98terrorist%E2%80%99-posts-death-threat-against-Obama.html
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Stone-pelters kill civilian, Omar slams
separatists
M Saleem Pandit
May 1, 2010
SRINAGAR: A 40-year-old Kashmiri man travelling on a public bus was
killed after being hit by a stone hurled by ‘‘professional’’ azadi protesters in
central Srinagar on Friday triggering widespread condemnation by politicians and
even moderate separatists of such orchestrated protests.
A group of youth enforcing bandh attacked a mini bus with stones at
Magarmal Bagh locality of Srinagar killing Shafiq Ahmed Sheikh, travelling from
Natipora to Batmaloo. Sheikh was taken to Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical
Sciences, where he succumbed to head injuries, Srinagar SSP Javid Riyaz Bedar
said.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Stone-pelters-kill-civilian-Omar-slams-separatists-/articleshow/5878974.cms
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Terror strike warning keeps Hyderabad cops on
toes
Omer Farooq
01 MAY 2010
With Central intelligence agencies giving a clear warning of a
possible terror attack in Hyderabad in the next three days, the city police have
launched massive search and combing operations at different places, including
railway stations, bus stands, shopping malls, cinema theatres and other public
places. Vehicles were also being subjected to scrutiny.
The warning was confirmed by city Police Commissioner AK Khan, who
told the media, “We have some specific information from the Central agencies
that something might happen in the next few days.”
In view of the Friday congregations, special security arrangements
were also made outside all the major mosques, including the historic Mecca
Masjid. Vehicles parked outside the mosques were also
searched.
Full report at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/252772/Terror-strike-warning-keeps-Hyderabad-cops-on-toes.html
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Amnesty, Muslim council oppose Belgian burqa
bill
By RAF CASERT
May 1, 2010
BRUSSELS: Belgium's Muslim council and rights group Amnesty
International led the criticism Friday of plans to ban burqa-type Islamic dress
in public.
They condemned Thursday's vote by the House of Representatives to
back a bill which considers burqa-type clothing incompatible with basic security
because everyone in public must be recognizable.
Friday's criticism came as the bill moves to the
senate.
It is unclear though when the senate will be able to vote, as
Belgium's government has fallen and elections are expected in
mid-June.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/world/article48875.ece
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Ex-ISI official found dead in North Waziristan
Omer Farooq Khan
Apr 30, 2010
ISLAMABAD: An ex-intelligence official associated with Pakistan's spy
agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) who was abducted last month by
militants was found dead on Friday in North Waziristan.
On March 26, former spy agents Khalid Khawaja, retired colonel Amir
Sultan Tarar, knick-named Colonel Imam and journalist Asad Qureshi went missing
while travelling to North Waziristan to shoot a documentary and interview
Taliban and al-Qaida leaders.
Khawaja, one of the abductees, was found dead beside a road near the
town of Mir Ali, in North Waziristan, intelligence sources said.
"He was shot in the head and in the chest," said a Pakistani
intelligence official in the region.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Ex-ISI-official-found-dead-in-North-Waziristan/articleshow/5877817.cms
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Two Saudi students held in Khyber Agency
By BARKATULLAH MARWAT
May 1, 2010
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: The Political Administration of Khyber Agency
arrested two Saudi students in Wazir Dhand in Jamrud tehsil on Friday evening,
official sources said.
The Assistant Political Agent, Rehan Gul, when contacted by
telephone, said that two Arab nationals identified as Eman Ahmad, resident of
Madinah, and Hassan, resident of Makkah, entered Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency
without proper documents.
He said, "They are students of the National University of Modern
Languages in Islamabad."
Gul said the students had mistakenly entered Khyber Agency without
relevant documents and were sent to Khyber House in Peshawar for procedural
process.
http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article48891.ece
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Israel revokes residency of 4,901 Jerusalemites in 2
years
By MOHAMMED MAR'I
May 1, 2010
RAMALLAH: As part of its efforts to Judaize Jerusalem, the Israeli
Interior Ministry revoked the residency of 4,901 East Jerusalemites in the last
two year, Palestinian human rights organization said on
Friday.
The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) said in a
press statement that the Israeli Interior Ministry revoked the residency of 229
Jerusalemites in 2009 and 4672 residents in 2008. The center said that its
report was based on data it received from the Israeli
ministry
JCSER added that "30,000 Jerusalemites lost their residency since
Israeli started implementing its expulsion and ethnic cleansing in the city in
early 90s."
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article48760.ece
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Can Islam and Secularism dialogue with each
other?
By Maulana Waris Mazhari,
1 May 2010
The question of whether or not there can be a dialogue between Islam
and secularism is a particularly pertinent one today. Many Muslims, including
the vast majority of ulema and Islamists, believe that these ideologies are
polar opposites. Hence, they insist, there is no possibility of arriving at even
a minimum consensus between the two.
Yet, the question of dialogue between Islam and secularism remains
one of particular importance, especially in the context of the rights of Muslims
living as minorities in non-Muslim-majority countries. Numerous non-Muslim
scholars and even some noted Muslim intellectuals (such as the Pakistani writer
Mubarak Ali, the Indian Islamic scholar Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, and the late
Professor Mushirul Haq) complain that where Muslims are in a majority, they
brand secularism as ‘anti-Islamic’ and a threat to Islam and its followers, but
where they are in a minority, they regard it as a blessing. Furthermore, where
they are in a minority, they seem to argue for a secular state but, at the same
time, insist that Muslims must remain safe from
secularism.
Full report at:
http://twocircles.net/2010may01/can_islam_and_secularism_dialogue_each_other.html
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Foreign troops kill three Afghan women
May 01, 2010
KABUL: International troops opened fire on a car in Afghanistan
Friday, killing two women and a girl after mistaking them for Taliban, the
Afghan interior ministry said.
The victims were among five civilians, who were traveling on a
highway in Zabul province when they came under fire, ministry spokesman Zemarai
Bashary told AFP.
“A foreign forces convoy opened fire on a vehicle coming the other
way, thinking they were Taliban,” said Bashary. “Two women and one girl were
killed and one other woman was wounded.”
The nationality of the soldiers was not immediately clear. Nato’s
US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it had received no
reports of any such incident in Zabul, but was checking.
The deaths sparked furious protests in Kandahar, the Taliban’s
spiritual capital, and expressions of regret from Nato and US Defence Secretary
Robert Gates.
http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=236901
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Kurd rebels 'attack army outpost'
01 May, 2010
Kurdish rebels have attacked a military outpost in eastern Turkey
killing four soldiers and wounding several, officials sources
say.
They say militants from the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
used rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles in the attack near
Nazimiye.
The government has intensified efforts to end the insurgency in
recent months.
The PKK has been fighting for autonomy in Turkey's largely Kurdish
south-east for more than two decades.
Officials quoted by the semi-official Anatolia news agency said the
rebels had staged the attack at about midnight on Friday, and that the fighting
had continued until dawn.
Several rebels are reported to have been
killed.
There have been a number of clashes between rebel and government
forces since the Constitutional Court banned Turkey's pro-Kurdish DTP party in
December, saying it had links with the rebels.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8655937.stm
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Somali blasts kill at least 30 at 'militants
mosque'
01 May, 2010
At least 30 people have been killed by blasts inside the main mosque
in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, reports say.
More than 70 were injured in the explosions in the Bakara
market.
One report said a senior member of the al-Shabab militia was the
target. Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, known as Fuad Shongole, was said to have been
injured.
The Islamists, who are linked to al-Qaeda, are credited with having
brought greater stability to the part of the country under their
control.
The attack near Abdalla Shideye mosque came as people were attending
prayers.
Full report at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8655912.stm
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An ideological split at the heart of Islam
Mahmoud Delkhasteh
1 May 2010
Iran's green movement is defined by an Islam of freedom, a model
rejected by Khomeini after the 1979 revolution
The current situation in Iran is both a result of and response to a
complex combination of socio-political repression and economic corruption. But
it is expressed through a range of different discourses – nationalist and
leftist, to be sure – but most significantly by different Islamic discourses
that read the uprising as a struggle between an Islam of power, represented by
Iran's ruling regime, and an Islam of freedom, represented by many Muslim
thinkers who oppose it.
Full report at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/may/01/iran-islam-tawhid-religion
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My Name is Khan too, say Syrians
By Sami Moubayed
01 May, 2010
DAMASCUS - In a bygone era, cinema-going in Syria was a popular
event, shared by young and old. Men would dress in full attire, women in evening
gowns, and children with bow ties, to attend blockbuster films in Damascus.
That came to an abrupt end in the 1960s when the importation of
foreign films fell under the strict monopoly of the government, which then
practiced a radical brand of socialism. All films from the United States were
banned and replaced with those cranked out by the Soviet Union.
The only American films in the country were those smuggled in on
VCRs. By the 1990s, satellite television had arrived, then came today's plush
cinema complexes with state-of-the-art technology. These made use of a law
passed by President Bashar al-Assad
that broke the state's monopoly over the importation of foreign films
and Damascus now boils with international blockbusters.
Full report at:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LE01Ak01.html
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Afghan feminists fighting from under the burqa
Jon Boone
01 May, 2010
Feminists in Afghanistan are forced to operate as underground
movement, often using the burqa as a convenient disguise
As a committed feminist, there are few symbols of women's oppression
that Parween hates more than the burqa.
But compromises are necessary in a country where fighting for women's
rights can be a controversial and dangerous business, and she is not above
donning the all-concealing garment if it helps her to stay one step ahead of the
authorities.
"I don't like the burqa, but sometimes I have no choice when I'm
moving around Kabul – it's a great disguise," she says. Parween, who is in her
mid 20s, is not using her real name. Full report at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/30/afghanistan-women-feminists-burqa
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AMU alumnus launches website on the life and work of Sir Sayyad A
Khan
May 01, 2010
Aligarh: Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis, the Vice Chancellor of Aligarh
Muslim University launched the website Sir Syed Today
(http://www.sirsyedtoday.org) in the central hall of Maulana Azad Library,
AMU.
The website has been designed by Dr. Masarrat Ali, an AMU alumnus
from USA.
Dr. Masarrat Ali claimed that this is the first and largest
digitization work in India dedicated to any person or institution. The website
has more than one lakh ten thousand pages of historical documents related to Sir
Syed, MAO College and AMU history.
He said that more than 45,000 pages of Aligarh Institute Gazette and
five thousand pages of Tehzibul Akhlaque were digitized. He said that the
purpose of this website was to revive the Aligarh Movement. He also presented a
set of 103 CDs to the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Azis.
Full report at:
http://www.ummid.com/news/2010/May/01.05.2010/website_on_sir_sayyad.htm
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Let the arts take you on a spiritual journey
BY JOLONDA YOUNG
01 May, 2010
Though war, poverty and tough economic times have some of us living
in a state of despair, the journey to peace and solace can begin with
Springfield’s biennial Liturgical Arts Festival.
Held May 1 to May 4 at various locations throughout the city, the
multi-faith interdenominational festival features a variety of programs designed
to promote sacred and liturgical arts, while fostering a dialogue between people
from different backgrounds.
The festival kicks off Saturday at 11 a.m. with a labyrinth walk at
Jubilee Farm, located at 6760 Old Jacksonville Road. The labyrinth, a winding
concentric path leading to a center point, is designed to provide a place for
meditation and peaceful introspection. The labyrinth walk represents a journey
to a person’s center and back out into the world.
Full report at:
http://www.illinoistimes.com/Springfield/article-7222-let-the-arts-take-you-on-a-spiritual-journey.html
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Suicide attack kills two in Swat district
May 1, 2010
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a busy
market in the main town of northwest Pakistan's Swat district on Saturday,
killing two people and wounding 10 others, police said.
Two bombers tried to launch the attack in Mingora, but police said
security forces shot dead one before he could detonate his explosives.
"It was a suicide attack," Qazi Jamil, the police chief for the
northwestern Malakand region to which Swat belongs, said.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Suicide-attack-kills-two-in-Swat-district/articleshow/5880386.cms
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Bangladesh hands over NDFB chief Ranjan Daimary to
BSF
May 1, 2010
DAWKI (MEGHALAYA): Ranjan Daimary alias D R Nabla, chief of the
anti-talks faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and wanted in
the 2008 serial bomb blasts in Assam, was today handed over to BSF by BDR,
official sources said.
Daimary, who was hiding in Bangladesh, was handed over by BDR near
Dawki international border in Meghalaya in the early hours, the sources said.
NDFB was originally formed under Daimary's leadership as Boro
Security Force on October 3, 1986 and on November 25, 1994, the outfit changed
its name to NDFB.
It had entered into a ceasefire agreement with the government on May
25, 2005, but mostly flouted the ground rules of a ceasefire.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Bangladesh-hands-over-NDFB-chief-Ranjan-Daimary-to-BSF-/articleshow/5879908.cms
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Belgian vote on Muslim veils could echo in
Europe
By TOM HENEGHAN
May 1, 2010
PARIS: Belgium's vote to ban full face veils in public is the
furthest any European country has gone to confront a tiny minority whose choice
in clothing has come to symbolise the issue of integrating some Muslim
minorities.
The issue is being debated elsewhere in Europe, especially in France,
and the example of two countries moving toward a ban has raised the stakes in a
dispute pitting politicians and public opinion against Muslim leaders and human
rights groups.
The lower house of parliament in Brussels passed the draft law almost
unanimously on Thursday evening. It could become law in the coming months as the
Senate is not expected to block it.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/world/article48876.ece
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Indonesia to ratify nuclear test ban treaty
May 1, 2010
NEW YORK: Indonesia said Friday it will soon ratify the Comprehensive
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, a step hailed by disarmament advocates as helping the
treaty to enter into force.
"I warmly welcome the statement made today by Foreign Minister Marty
Natalegawa to the Indonesian Parliament that Indonesia will soon ratify the
CTBT," said Tibor Toth, the executive secretary of the treaty's secretariat in
Vienna.
"This announcement is of crucial importance in moving the treaty
closer to entry into force, and underscores the leadership role of Indonesia in
regional and global non-proliferation and disarmament efforts," Toth said.
The treaty bans nuclear tests in the atmosphere to prevent
radioactive fallout on the earth.
The treaty has been signed by 182 countries, of which 151 have
ratified by adopting national laws to implement the treaty. But the treaty
demands that the world's 44 countries with nuclear technology must all ratify
before it enters into force. Of the 44, nine have not yet ratifed.
The nine are Indonesia, China, North Korea, Egypt, India, Iran,
Israel, Pakistan and the US.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Indonesia-to-ratify-nuclear-test-ban-treaty/articleshow/5879276.cms
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In France, forcing women to wear burqa will draw jail
term
May 1, 2010
PARIS: France will jail and impose huge fines on anyone who forces a
Muslim woman to wear a full-face veil, according to a leaked version of a
proposed law revealed on Friday.
While women will face only a 150-euro penalty if they choose to don a
burqa or a niqab, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to slap one-year prison terms
and $20,000 fines on those who make others wear them.
“No one may wear in public places clothes that are aimed at hiding
the face,” says the text of a new law that is to be presented to parliament in
July, according to a copy seen by the pro-government newspaper Le Figaro.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/In-France-forcing-women-to-wear-burqa-will-draw-jail-term/articleshow/5879119.cms
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Hillary Clinton warns Iran, calls Ahmadinejad anti-semitic
President
01 May, 2010
WASHINGTON: Describing Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as
"anti-Semitic", US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Friday said that Tehran
with its hostile nuclear ambitions poses a threat not only to Israel but the
region.
"Iran, with its anti-Semitic president and hostile nuclear ambitions,
continues to threaten Israel, but it also threatens the region and it sponsors
terrorism," Clinton said at the American Jewish Committee Annual Gala Dinner.
Clinton's remarks comes just ahead of the NPT Review Conference in
New York which among others would be attended by the Iranian President.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Hillary-Clinton-warns-Iran-calls-Ahmadinejad-anti-semitic-President/articleshow/5876249.cms
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Court orders seizure of Pervez’s property
01 MAY 2010
Islamabad , April 30: A Pakistani court on Friday ordered seizure of
former military ruler Pervez Musharraf’s property in a case related to illegal
detention of a government employee. Abbotabad district and session Judge Abdul
Mateen Khan gave directives to seize Pervez Musharraf’s property during the
hearing of a case regarding the “missing persons”.
The court earlier heard the case of a missing employee of Atomic
Energy Commission Attiqueur Rehman.
Attiqueur Rehman’s family has held Mr Musharraf responsible for his
abduction.
“The court had ain the last hearing issued summons for Pervez
Musharraf to appear before the court but since he and his counsel did not turn
up court orders seizure of his property,” a court official said. Also on Friday,
Lahore high court dismissed plea for constituting a larger bench for hearing of
petitions against Pervez Musharraf. The petitioner said that several petitions
have been filed against Mr Musharraf including the charges of treason and prayed
the court for constitution of a larger bench for hearing of all petitions.
The court comprising of Justice Azmat Saeed, however, dismissed the
petition.
Shafqat Ali
http://www.asianage.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10815:court-orders-seizure-of-pervezs-property&catid=36:international&Itemid=61
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Pakistani workers’ conditions similar to 1886 Chicago
labourers
01 May, 2010
LAHORE: The condition of workers in Pakistan is very similar to that
of the labourers of Chicago in 1886, Working Women Organisation (WWO) Executive
Director Aima Mehmood said on Friday.
Aima was addressing a demonstration organised by the WWO outside the
Lahore Press Club to commemorate the Labour Day. She said female workers had
been demanding less working hours, better pays, permanent jobs and
implementation of labour laws. She also said working women in Pakistan were
ready to sacrifice anything for their rights just as the rebels of Chicago did.
Full report at:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\01\story_1-5-2010_pg13_5
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Philippine forces kill 5 rebels in raid before
poll
01 May, 2010
MANILA: Philippine forces killed five members of the Abu Sayyaf group
in a raid on their hideout in the southern jungles, a marine commander said on
Friday, days before a national election the rebels have vowed to attack.
Soldiers seized explosives and bomb-making materials after heavy
fighting with the Muslim militants linked to al Qaeda on Basilan island. One
soldier was killed and dozens wounded on both sides, said Brigadier-General
Eugene Clemen. “Our troops found the Abu Sayyaf’s bomb factory,” Clemen told
reporters, adding the rebels planned to disrupt the presidential and
congressional elections on May 10. Muslim separatists and Maoist guerrillas have
in the past attacked voting centres and harassed people trying to vote in the
country’s troubled south. Bomb-making manuals in Arabic, mobile phones, two-way
radio sets, electric circuits, switches and detonating cords were also seized
from the militants’ base in a wooded area near Sumisip town, Clemen said.
reuters
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\01\story_1-5-2010_pg4_6
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Information an effective weapon against terror'
May 1, 2010
WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the United States Adel
Al-Jubeir reiterated on Friday the Kingdom's call for increased global
cooperation, including exchange of information, in the war on
terror.
"Information is the most effective weapon against terror and so the
countries committed to fight terror should make extra efforts to exchange
information to ensure general safety," Al-Jubeir said in a press statement
issued by the embassy in Washington.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article48892.ece
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Qassim incident triggers fresh debate over women
EMTs
May 1, 2010
JEDDAH: The death of a student of Al-Qassim Teachers’ Education
College for women earlier this month sparked a new debate in the Kingdom about
allowing women to be emergency medical technicians.
According to a report in the daily Al-Shams, the girl died from an
unknown health emergency because a team of Saudi Red Crescent Society
responders, who were all men, were delayed by women security guards from
entering the campus.
The guards insisted that they would take the girl to hospital rather
than allowing any men volunteers to enter the campus. As the guards and rescuers
squabbled, the girl breathed her last.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article48844.ece
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For aspiring Imam, lessons in tolerance
May 1, 2010
WASHINGTON: If there were a prototype for an American-style imam,
Adeel Zeb might be it.
In Qur’an study groups, the 28-year-old volunteer chaplain at
American University weaves in references to US Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and
comedian Dave Chappelle (both Muslim), TMZ.com, frat life and President Barack
Obama.
He preaches tolerance and civic idealism and sports a pinstriped
suit, a GQ-ish trimmed beard and an animated delivery he learned from the
Baptist college where he minored in communications. He’d like to become part of
the first generation of American-born imams, but it’s a career path that is
proving much more difficult than he expected.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/world/article48821.ece
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Video of Jordanian CIA bomber urges Muslims to wage
jihad
01 May, 2010
CAIRO: The Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a
suicide attack in Afghanistan late last year called on Muslims to wage jihad and
become martyrs in a posthumous message posted on extremist websites
Friday.
Humam Khalili Abu-Mulal Al-Balawi also said in the 29-minute audio
recording that Islamic countries have been "plagued with despotic leaders" who
discourage Muslims from jihad, and lamented that holy war has become little more
than an adventure in the eyes of many Muslims.
"How long will love for jihad be just a dream, little more than a
hobby which you do on your off-time?" he said.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article48762.ece
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Video depicts Canadian as bomb-maker's
apprentice
By JANE SUTTON
01 May, 2010
GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE, Cuba: Prosecutors in the US war crimes
tribunal at Guantanamo replayed a video on Thursday showing Canadian prisoner
Omar Khadr as a boy, learning to wire roadside bombs in
Afghanistan.
"Allah willing, we'll get a good number of Americans," an adult tutor
is heard saying in Arabic, according to the subtitled translation on the
video.
The video was found in a tunnel under the mud-walled compound where
Khadr was captured in Afghanistan in July 2002, when he was 15 years old. He is
now 23 and has spent a third of his life locked behind the razor wire at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/world/article48701.ece
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Kashmiri behind Khawaja’s murder?
Amir Mir
May 01, 2010
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities, investigating the March 25
abduction and subsequent assassination of the former ISI official Khalid Khawaja
believe that the killers, “Asian Tigers”, which had demanded $10 million and
release of a senior commander of the Afghan Taliban Mullah, was actually a cover
for Harkatul Jihadul Islami (HUJI), led by Commander Ilyas
Kashmiri.
According to well-informed sources in the Pakistani security
establishment, Ilyas Kashmiri is currently based in the Mir Ali area of North
Waziristan from where the body of Squadron Leader (R) Khalid Khawaja was
recovered on April 30, almost a month after his abduction along with another
retired ISI official Colonel Sultan Amir Tarar, commonly known as Colonel Imam
and a British journalist of Pakistani origin, Asad
Qureshi.
Full report at:
http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=236899
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Sultan Shahin
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