PAK-ORIGIN BARONESS SAYEEDA IS UK MINISTER
40
Taliban killed by Afghan, NATO troops
Cop dies in Hyderabad shootout, SIMI hand
suspected
Now a Deoband fatwa against Muslims working in
banks
India: Urdu press tears into latest Deoband fatwa against
women
Deoband needs to catch up
Deoband Fatwa is stupid, say Muslim working women in
Bangalore
FBI arrests 'several people' in Times Square
case
Pakistan arrests man with militant ties
Obama: Pak realises its top worry is terror, not
India
Obama gets tougher over terrorism
US will soon burn, threatens Pakistan
Taliban
Libya elected to UN Human Rights Council
Banned Malaysian sect Al-Arqam leader with 38 kids
dies
U.S. not to abandon Afghanistan
Karzai Tries To Ease Mistrust
AND NOW, THE SINGING BHUTTO
Bhutto kids defend father, poke fun at cousin
Fatima
UK school brands student truant for not dressing like a
Muslim
Did Omani carry out Mumbai recce for 26/11 before
Headley?
Civil war takes a toll on Pak psyche
Iran eases grip on Al-Qaeda
Pakistan: The last chance for a great generation
Prophet Muhammad: Ensuring peace within the
community
Aspects of Islamic Faith: When an order admits two
interpretations
Mohammed honours Arab journalism award winners
73-yr-old hangman willing to come out of retirement to hang
Kasab
Digvijay triggers Samjhauta row
How to counter terror? Ask France
‘Honour killing’ in Allahabad
'No scientific basis to gotra allergy of khaps'
Despite political uncertainties in Iraq, U.S. sticking with drawdown
plan
Eight dead in blast in Dagestan
SIALKOT : Rapist’ held on victim’s
identification
Operation completed, but forces to stay in Kala
Dhaka
Compiled by Asit Kumar
Photo: Sayeeda Hussain Warsi is, uniquely, Christian Britain's first Muslim
cabinet minister
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PAK-ORIGIN BARONESS SAYEEDA WARSI IS UK MINISTER
ASHIS RAY
May 14, 2010
LONDON: She's colourful and feisty, even a little controversial. But
39-year-old Sayeeda Hussain Warsi is, uniquely, Christian Britain's first Muslim
cabinet minister. The youngest member of the House of Lords, she was, on the
recommendation of now PM David Cameron, conferred the title of Baroness of
Dewsbury in 2007.
Warsi has made a virtue of being a daughter of a Pakistani immigrant
millworker. "Its terribly humbling,'' she said as this diminutive figure
demurely walked through the British capital's government district of Whitehall
to attend her first cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on Thursday.
Warsi shot into British media limelight after she, among others,
successfully secured the release of a British school teacher, Gillian Gibbons,
in Sudan in 2007. The latter had been convicted and imprisoned for permitting
her pupils name a teddy bear Mohammed. Warsi is, arguably, a beneficiary of a
drive by British political parties to woo Britons of Islamic faith, mostly of
Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin, but of Middle Eastern and North African
extraction, disaffected since the United Kingdom's 2001 intervention in
Afghanistan and invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Last year, she was pelted with eggs by militant Muslims in Luton.
They accused her of not being a proper Muslim and supporting the death of
Muslims in Afghanistan. Warsi called them "idiots who do not represent the
majority of British Muslims.''
Warsi will doubtlessly have to tread carefully. But if skilful, she
has the potential of becoming a powerful voice for Muslims within the British
cabinet as well as influential of matters concerning Pakistan, not to mention
Kashmir.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5928525.cms?prtpage=1
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40 Taliban killed by Afghan, NATO troops
May 14, 201
KUNDUZ: Around 40 Taliban-linked terrorists were killed in separate
raids by Afghan and NATO troops in northern and central Afghanistan, officials
said on Thursday. In the biggest single raid in weeks, NATO’s International
Security Assistance Force said two dozen insurgents were killed in the northern
Kunduz province. “The Afghan and international security forces killed more than
two dozen insurgents and captured several others while pursuing a senior Taliban
commander in Kunduz last night,” it said in a statement. The rebels were killed
in clashes, which erupted after the troops came under fire from a mosque and
nearby woods, the military said. An operation to disrupt the movement of
terrorists in the province was continuing, it added.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\14\story_14-5-2010_pg7_8
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Cop dies in Hyderabad shootout, SIMI hand
suspected
May 14, 2010
HYDERABAD: A policeman was killed and two others were injured when
two people on a motorcycle opened fire on a police picket in the old city of
Hyderabad on Friday. A high alert has been sounded across the city.
The incident took place this evening near Volga Hotel in Shahali
Banda area, about a km from the historic Charminar and Mecca Masjid.
Eye witnesses said two people on a motor cycle opened fire on a
police picket deployed as part of the security arrangements ahead of the third
anniversary of the blast at the historic Mecca Masjid (May 18). The assailants
fled after attacking the policemen.
Constable Ramesh, of the Andhra Pradesh Special Police (APSP), died
while being shifted to Osmania Hospital while two other policemen were being
treated for their injuries.
Police have put up barricades at several points in the city and
started checking vehicles and frisking people.
The incident sent shock waves as it came despite the continuing
search operations by police for over a fortnight amid intelligence warnings of
possible terror attacks and close on the heels of the arrest of a terror
suspect.
Last year, on the second anniversary of the blast, a policeman was
killed and another injured in a similar attack when assailants opened fire on
police at Falaknuma area of the old city.
Police believed Viqaruddin, an alleged terror operative, was
involved. Two policemen were injured Dec 3, 2008 in the attempt to arrest
Viqaruddin, when one of the two people accompanying him opened fire at the
policemen. The trio managed to escape.
The bomb blast during on Friday prayers in the 17th century mosque
May 18, 2007 killed nine people. Five people died in the subsequent police
firing on protestors outside the mosque.
Police on May 3 arrested an alleged terror suspect belonging to the
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Police said 34-year-old Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq was planning
to cause explosions in busy areas of the city.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Cop-dies-in-Hyderabad-shootout-high-alert-in-city/articleshow/5931405.cms-
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Now a fatwa on men working in banks
By Piyush Srivastava
May 14, 2010
AFTER the flip- flop over the fatwa on women working in offices, the
Darul Uloom Deoband has come out with a fresh diktat.
And this time it is the men who will be facing the
heat.
On Thursday, India’s foremost Muslim seminary prohibited men from
working in banks and insurance companies, terming it un-
Islamic.
Darul Ifta, the fatwa department of Darul Uloom Deoband, has passed
this decree following an online question posed by a person working in a private
company.
“ I want to know about bank jobs. Can Muslims do jobs in banks or
insurance companies?” the person had asked on March 29.
Full report at:
Mail Today
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Urdu press tears into latest fatwa
Mohammed Wajihuddin
May 14, 2010
MUMBAI: The Urdu press has slammed the Darul Uloom of Deoband's fatwa
which decreed earning of Muslim women was haraam (prohibited) and asked them not
to work with men in public/private organisations. Though the fatwa was just an
opinion and not binding on Muslims, it could derail the community's efforts to
empower their women, observed Urdu dailies.
In its stinging editorial titled, "Kya Deoband sun raha hai? (Is
Deoband listening?)", The Sahafat (May 13) attacked the Islamic seminary's lack
of understanding about contemporary world. "Which world do these people who
issue such fatwas inhabit? If they think they spoke for today's world, they have
missed the train," commented the editorial.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Urdu-press-tears-into-latest-fatwa/articleshow/5928678.cms
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Deoband needs to catch up
Zia Haq
May 14, 2010
THE FATWA ON WOMEN AT WORKPLACES, HAS SHOWN THAT DEOBAND HAS FAILED
TO RECONCILE ISLAM WITH MODERNITY
Even Muslims are smarting under the April 4 fatwa issued by Islamic
semi- nary Darul Uloom, Deoband, which said women should shun workplaces that
require them to mingle with men.
It's being asked, “is this what Islam makes of women?“ If one knew
where Deoband came from, “fatwa no. 21031“ would neither be surprising nor
unexpected.
Full report at:
Hindustan Times
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It's stupid, say the Muslim working women in
Bangalore
Bindiya Carmeline
14 May 2010
Muslim working women in city lash out against Darul Uloom Deoband's
reported ruling that terms it unislamic for women to work with
men
A day after Darul Uloom Deoband reportedly deemed it unislamic for
Muslim women to work alongside men, MiD DAY asked Muslims in the city - working
women as well as scholars - for their take on the influential seminary's ruling.
Nuzhath Jabeen (27), a mother, homemaker and entrepreneur who runs
her own event management company, said she disagreed with the ruling.
"I quit school in Std VI to help out at my father's tailoring shop
because I had to fend for my family of eight. I find the Darul Uloom's ruling
totally wrong. The Quran places no restrictions on working women. Moreover, when
it comes to married women working with men, it is all a matter of trust, and my
husband trusts me completely."
Full report at:
http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/may/130510-Darul-Uloom-Deoband-Muslim-Women-Bangalore.htm
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FBI arrests 'several people' in Times Square
case
May 14, 2010
WASHINGTON: US Attorney General Eric Holder has told Congress that
"several people" had been taken into custody for immigration violations in the
Times Square case.
In describing the development at a House Judiciary Committee hearing,
the attorney general said the arrests came as investigators looking into the
bombing attempt in New York's Times Square executed search warrants at locations
he did not identify.
Holder said the latest action came on Thursday and was "the product
of evidence gathered in the investigation" of the Times Square bombing attempt.
Federal agents conducted morning raids in Massachusetts and New York
in connection with the failed Times Square car bomb, federal authorities and
witnesses said on Thursday.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/FBI-arrests-several-people-in-Times-Square-case/articleshow/5927712.cms
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Pakistan arrests man with militant ties who says he aided Times
Square bomb suspect
By Greg Miller
May 14, 2010
The Pakistani government has arrested a suspect with connections to a
Pakistani militant group who said he acted as an accomplice to the man accused
of trying to bomb Times Square, U.S. officials said.
The suspect, whose arrest has not been previously disclosed, provided
an "independent stream" of evidence that the Pakistani Taliban were behind the
attempt and has admitted helping Faisal Shahzad, the main suspect, travel into
Pakistan's tribal belt for bomb training.
Officials familiar with the investigation cautioned about
inconsistencies in the two suspects' accounts. Federal authorities expanded
their search for evidence Thursday, carrying out raids in four northeastern
states, and arresting three people suspected of funneling money to
Shahzad.
Full report at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/13/AR2010051305032_pf.html
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Obama: Pak realises its top worry is ‘cancer’ of terror, not
India
S Rajagopalan
May 14, 2010
US President Barack Obama believes that Pakistan has finally come to
recognise that its chief worry is not India but the ‘cancer’ of terrorism in its
midst as extremist groups allowed to use its territory as a base in the past are
now threatening its own sovereignty.
In comments to the media after talks with Afghan President Hamid
Karzai, Obama said he is encouraged by what he has seen from the Pakistani
Government over the last several months, but felt it would still take some more
time for Islamabad to effectively deal with the
extremists.
“I think there has been in the past a view on the part of Pakistan
that their primary rival, India, was their only concern,” Obama said in reply to
a question from an Afghan journalist who brought up the issue of Pakistan not
being honest in its dealings vis-à-vis Afghanistan.
Full report at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/255636/Obama-Pak-realises-its-top-worry-is-%E2%80%98cancer%E2%80%99-of-terror-not-India.html
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Obama gets tougher over terrorism
By Jonathan Mann
May 14, 2010
If you've seen enough
American cop shows on TV there's a phrase that may sound
familiar:
'You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will
be used against you in a court of law..."
That world-famous American warning to criminal suspects about their
constitutional rights may be about to change.
Sixteen months after taking office and inheriting the Bush
administration's war on terror, Barack Obama may be turning out just as tough as
his predecessor.
He's pulled back from his pledge to close Guantanamo Bay prison in
Cuba, maintained Bush war policy in Iraq, escalated the effort in Afghanistan
and authorized ongoing drone attacks in Pakistan as well.
Full report at:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/14/mann.constitutional.rights/
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US will soon burn, threatens Pakistan Taliban
May 14, 2010
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Taliban militants have warned America that it
will soon "burn" while calling for Pakistan's rulers to be overthrown for
following "America's agenda".
The United States is convinced Pakistani Taliban militants allied
with al-Qaida and operating out of northwestern Pakistani border regions were
behind an attempted car bomb attack in New York's Times Square on May 1.
The Pakistan Taliban had claimed responsibility for the attempted
bombing. If confirmed, it would be the first time their members were involved in
an an attempted attack in the West.
A Pakistan Taliban spokesman, in a video message said, repeated a
claim of responsibility, saying: "The movement proved what America could not
have even imagined ... It was just an explosive-laden vehicle which did not
explode. "But it (America) will see, all imperialist forces will see that it
will explode also and America will also burn," said the spokesman, Azim Tariq,
sitting cross-legged on the ground in front of a rock face and speaking in Urdu.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/US-will-soon-burn-threatens-Pakistan-Taliban/articleshow/5931116.cms
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Libya elected to UN Human Rights Council
14 May, 2010
UNITED NATIONS, May 13: Libya was elected on Thursday to the United
Nations Human Rights Council, over the objections of numerous NGOs that said the
country was unfit to serve on the body.
A group of 37 human rights organisations had called on the UN’s 192
members not to allow Libya a seat on the Geneva-based council, the UN’s main
body dealing with human rights.
They described the regime of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi as “one of
the world’s most brutal and longest-running tyrannies.” “Colonel Qadhafi belongs
in jail, not on the world’s highest human rights body,” they added.
But the appeal fell on deaf ears, and a General Assembly secret
ballot produced 155 votes in favour of adding Libya to the council,
significantly more than the 97 votes needed.
Full report at:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/international/libya-elected-to-un-human-rights-council-450
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Banned Malaysian sect Al-Arqam leader with 38 kids dies
May 14, 2010
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The founder of a banned Islamic sect has
died in Malaysia, leaving behind three wives, 38 children and about 200
grandchildren, his daughter-in-law said Friday.
Ashaari Muhammad died Thursday of a lung infection in a hospital in
northern Perak state, his daughter-in-law Rohaya Mohamad said. He was
73.
Ashaari, who used to head an Islamic sect that was deemed heretical
and banned in 1994, shot into the limelight again last year when his fourth wife
founded a "Polygamy Club" to promote the practice in
Malaysia.
Malaysian Muslims, who make up two-thirds of the country's 28 million
people, are allowed to have up to four wives though polygamy is not widespread.
Non-Muslims can only have one spouse.
Full report at:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jnzi9xOmDiTXZzu76ROa0YOTErBwD9FMC2600
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U.S. not to abandon Afghanistan
May 14, 2010
Washington: Insisting that recent tensions between the two
governments were “overstated”, U.S. President Barack Obama has moved to mend
fences with his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai stating that America will not
cut out and run from the nation.
Reassuring Mr. Karzai that U.S. will not abandon Afghanistan after
its proposed troop withdrawal next year, Mr. Obama gave Afghan President an
effusive welcome at the White House saying the two nations shared a common
objective of eliminating terrorism.
Mr. Obama's conciliatory remarks were apparently aimed at ending
months of sniping between Washington and Kabul and Mr. Karzai on his part said
that frankness would only contribute to strengthening relations between the two
countries.
“There are moments when we speak frankly to each other, and that
frankness will only contribute to the strength of the relationship,” said Mr.
Karzai at the joint White House press conference.
Full report at:
http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/14/stories/2010051455391800.htm
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Karzai Tries To Ease Mistrust
May 14th, 2010
Polished politicians both, Presidents Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai
spoke directly to one another’s constituencies at a White House appearance,
hoping to ease mistrust straining their war alliance.
Mr Karzai arrived in Washington after a series of spats with US
officials, which saw him pilloried in the media and Congress as either a
bumbling incompetent or a kind of political gangster unworthy of support. His
four-day visit was elaborately scripted, with Mr Karzai offered the full pomp of
a White House visit on Wednesday, in an apparent bid to build his standing among
US voters and to show that Mr Obama’s Afghan troop stra-tegy was on
track.
Both Mr Obama and Mr Karzai appeared to appreciate the political
strains weighing the other down, in apparent recognition that their fates are
intertwined.
Full report at:
http://www.asianage.com/international/karzai-tries-ease-mistrust-013
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AND NOW, THE SINGING BHUTTO
May 14, 2010
Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari has released nine songs in mother Benazir's
memory My mom -- she was the catalyst behind every track, even if it had no
relation to her.
Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, the elder daughter of slain former
Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto and President Asif Ali Zardari, is quietly
documenting her pain in the world of music.
While her fiery cousin Fatima Bhutto makes head- lines by her memoir
on the Bhutto dynasty, Bakhtawar has released nine songs, mostly in her mother's
memory, and one on the many dead members of the Bhutto
family.
Bakhtawar's musical talen first got noticed when she released a song,
I'll take the pain away, on the internet on her mother's first death
anniversary.
Full report at:
Hindustan Times
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Bhutto kids defend father, poke fun at cousin
Fatima
May 14, 2010
Slain former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto’s children are using the
social networking website Twitter to defend their father President Asif Ali
Zardari and to settle scores with their cousin Fatima Bhutto. “The man lampooned
unfairly by the country’s powerful establishment as ‘Mr 10 per cent’ has in fact
given 110 per cent back to the country,” read a tweet by Benazir’s elder
daughter Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari.
“For the first time in the history of this country, a democratically
elected President has voluntarily given up his power...”
Bakhtawar tweeted when Zardari signed into law a landmark
Constitution reforms package which stripped the President of his sweeping
powers.
Full report at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/255617/Bhutto-kids-defend-father-poke-fun-at-cousin-Fatima.html
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UK school brands student truant for not dressing like a
Muslim
May 14, 2010
London : A fourteen-year-old British girl was branded as truant
because she refused to dress as a Muslim and visit a
mosque.
Amy Owen and her classmates were instructed to wear a headscarf,
trousers or leggings and cover their arms for the “compulsory” field trip to
promote “community cohesion”.
She was asked to make a three-pound contribution towards the trip to
the Al Rahma mosque in Toxteth, Liverpool, last month, but when she objected to
the dress code, head teacher Peter Lee told her the visit was “as compulsory as
a geography field trip”.
But after she objected and boycotted the outing, she was told her
refusal was being treated as non-attendance and it would be marked down as an
“unauthorised absence” in the school register, the Daily Express
reported.
Full report at:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/uk-school-brands-student-truant-for-not-dressing-like-a-muslim/618421/
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Did Omani carry out Mumbai recce for 26/11 before
Headley?
Josy Joseph
May 14, 2010
NEW DELHI: David Coleman Headley was not the only 'foreigner'
deployed by Lashkar-e-Taiba for organizing the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, ongoing
investigations reveal. In a fresh twist to the 26/11 attack investigations,
credible evidence is emerging that some of the logistics for the LeT plot may
have come from the Gulf region.
According to dependable sources in the security establishment, an
Omani national, Abdul Aziz al-Hooti aka Ali, may have played a major role in
assisting LeT execute the operation. As of now, the investigators believe that
Ali provided some of the SIM cards used in the Mumbai attacks by the 10
terrorists who landed in Mumbai on November 26, 2008. Ali is currently in the
custody of Oman authorities for plotting to carry out terror attacks in Oman.
A source in the Indian security establishment told TOI that they were
in touch with the Oman authorities for further cooperation.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Did-Omani-carry-out-Mumbai-recce-for-26/11-before-Headley/articleshow/5927524.cms
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Civil war takes a toll on Pak psyche
May 14, 2010
Rifaat Ramzan lay in still traumatised weeks after losing his best
friend, Noman, to a suicide bomber.
“He had just told me how it is good to dream and we will achieve our
dreams,“ said Ramzan, who began sleeping with a gun under his pillow, fear- ful
he too will be killed in Pakistan's relentless violence. In the conflict between
Taliban insurgents and Pakistan's army, thousands have been killed in bombings
of everything from military and police facilities to crowded street markets;
even a volleyball match was attacked.
Countless others have been wounded. “This is alarming us,“ said
psychologist Najam Younes.
Full report at:
Hindustan Times
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Iran eases grip on Al-Qaeda
May 14, 2010
Al-Qaeda operatives who have been detained for years in Iran have
been making their way quietly in and out of the country, raising the prospect
that Iran is loosening its grip on the terror group so it can replenish its
ranks, former and current US intelligence officials say.
This movement could indicate that Iran is re- examining its murky
relationship with Al-Qaeda at a time when the U.S. is stepping up drone attacks
in Pakistan and weakening the group's leadership.
Hindustan Times
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Pakistan: The last chance for a great
generation
Zaair Hussain
May 14, 2010
Our young elite are our future leaders. They, too, must be nurtured,
must be directed and beyond all must be given hope that, with them, their
country stands a chance. Hope is the air without which patriotism cannot
blaze
This aphorism oft rings like a bell without a clapper: hollow and
pointless. After all, children were also our past, and our present plainly and
evidently leaves a great deal to be desired.
But there are moments in history that breathe life into tired
phrases, and it is a matter of great excitement and anxiety for those with the
fortune — good or ill — to live in these pivotal times.
A recent British Council report, ‘Generation Next 2010’ reveals that
such a moment is upon Pakistan, produced by a conjuncture of demographics: over
half our population is under 20. Full report at:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\14\story_14-5-2010_pg3_3
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Prophet Muhammad: Ensuring peace within the community
By Naushad Shamim Al-Haq
May 14, 2010
The Prophet (peace be upon him) melded a society in which all people
were equal.
When Makkah fell to Islam without a fight, eight years after the
Prophet and his companions had to seek refuge away from it as a result of a
sustained persecution campaign, Bilal, a black companion of the Prophet and a
former slave, stood on top of the Kaabah to make the call to prayer. One of the
chiefs of Makkah said to another: “I am glad that my father had died before he
could see this taking place.” What he did not wish his father to see was that a
former slave doing such an honourable action. Class distinction was so important
to those people, as it has always been in many human societies.
Islam, on the other hand, takes a very different view. All human
beings are equal. They distinguish themselves by their deeds. Those of them who
are more God-fearing achieve a better position in God’s
standards.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/lifestyle/islam/article53340.ece
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Aspects of Islamic Faith: When an order admits two
interpretations
By Adil Salahi
May 14, 2010
Abdullah Ibn Umar reports: “When we returned home after the siege by
the confederate tribes was ended, the Prophet (peace be upon him) ordered us:
‘No one should offer the Asr prayer except at the Qurayzah
quarters.
Some of us were still on the way when Asr was due. Some said that
they would not pray until they have arrived at Qurayzah, while others said that
they would pray on the way, because the Prophet did not wish anyone to delay
prayers until its time was over. The Prophet was told of this, and he did not
reproach either group.” (Related by Al-Bukhari).
The siege referred to in this Hadith was when the combined forces of
major Arabian tribes, together with their Jewish allies, besieged Madinah, with
the declared aim of exterminating Islam and all Muslims. The Prophet and his
companions dug a moat along the area where these forces could come into Madinah,
which was wide and deep enough to prevent any breach of their lines. The Muslims
were able to hold on indefinitely because their enemy could not force entry, no
matter how much they tried. It was only after the Jewish tribe of Qurayzah,
which was bound by a treaty of friendship and alliance with the Muslims, decided
to switch sides and attack the Muslims from behind that the Muslims were in real
danger. Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/lifestyle/islam/article53342.ece
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Mohammed honours Arab journalism award winners
14 May 2010
Shaikh Mohammed honoured the
winners of the 9th Arab Journalism Awards at a gala ceremony that marked the
conclusion of the Arab Media Forum 2010.
His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President
and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, presented the ‘Media
Personality of the Year 2009’ award to Abdulla Omran Taryam, chairman of the
Board of Directors for the UAE-based Dar Al Khaleej Press, Printing and
Publishing. Taryam was selected for his contribution to journalism since the
1950s, when he started his career with his brother Taryam Omran in establishing
and developing Al Khaleej newspaper as well as six daily, weekly and monthly
publications.
Full report at:
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2010/May/theuae_May393.xml§ion=theuae
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73-yr-old hangman willing to come out of retirement to hang
Kasab
May 14, 2010
PUNE: Seventy three-year-old Arjun Bhika Jadhav says it will take him
27 seconds to hang Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist sentenced to the gallows in
the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attack case.
As the last official hangman at Yerawada central prison in Pune,
Jadhav should know. He has put the noose around the necks of 101 convicts and
pulled the lever to hang them in his 33-year stint. Jadhav retired in 1996.
Among those whose fate he has sealed were the assassins of General
Arunkumar Vaidya— Harjinder Singh ‘Jinda' and Sukhdev Singh ‘Sukha' in 1992.
Jadhav, unmindful of his age, is willing to come out of retirement
just to hang Kasab. "I do not mind if anybody shoots me dead after I hang Kasab.
I am ready to do it for free. Don't go by my age. I still have the capacity to
execute him in just 27 seconds," he said.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Pune/73-yr-old-hangman-willing-to-come-out-of-retirement-to-hang-Kasab/articleshow/5919492.cms
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Digvijay triggers Samjhauta row
May 14, 2010
After slamming the Centre’s policy towards Maoists, Congress general
secretary Digvijay Singh has triggered another controversy by debunking the UPA
Govern-ment stand on Samjh-auta Express blast.
Speaking in Ajmer on Wednesday, Digvijay Singh claimed that groups
linked to the RSS were behind terror attacks like Samjhauta train blasts. The
Congress leader said RSS and VHP have been training activists in bomb making and
that the pattern behind Samjhauta, Mecca Masjid and Malegaon blasts was similar.
Singh said, “I have been saying that groups linked to the RSS were behind the
Ajmer Dargah blasts. The same groups were behind the Samjhauta blasts, Mecca
Masjid blast in Hyderabad and the 2006 Malegaon blast. The pattern in all these
blasts is the same. They used iron pipes filled with a mixture of Ammonium
Nitrate, TNT and RDX. Mobile phones were used to trigger the blasts.”
Full report at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/255654/Digvijay-triggers-Samjhauta-row.html
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How to counter terror? Ask France
May 14, 2010
The tip from Spain was only a
vague warning. But it was enough for France's domestic intelligence agents to go
to work, tapping phones, tailing suspects and squeezing informants. Before long,
they rolled up a group of Muslim men in a provincial French town who, beneath a
tranquil surface, were drawing up Al- Qaeda-inspired plans to set off a bomb in
the Paris subway.
The plot was one of 15 planned terrorist attacks by jihadist cells in
France that have been thwarted in recent years, according to a count by the
Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence, France's main antiterrorism force.
The antiterrorism policing has been conducted for the most part in the dark, and
in a style that sets France and other European countries apart from the U.S. As
U.S.
Full report at:
Hindustan Times
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‘ Honour killing’ in Allahabad
By Piyush Srivastava
May 14, 2010
AN 18- YEAR- OLD girl in Allahabad was allegedly killed by her family
after she refused to marry the boy of their choice and got pregnant with her
lover’s child.
Rajni Sahu was found dead at her house in Allahabad. The police
initially thought she had committed suicide by hanging herself. They even
recovered a suicide note, ostensibly written by her, which stated that she was
not interested in life because her family members were not allowing her to meet
her lover, Vipin Kaserwani.
But later, Rajni’s postmortem examination threw up some questions,
leading the police to investigate if this was a case of
murder.
Full report at:
Mail Today
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No scientific basis to gotra allergy of khaps'
Rukmini Shrinivasan
May 14, 2010
NEW DELHI: Khap leaders and Haryana politicians have now begun
invoking science in their advocacy for a ban on intra-gotra marriages. But
scientists assert that there is no scientific basis to their demand, and that
'gotra' should be recognized as a purely social construct.
The Hindu Marriage Act prohibits marriages between a man and a woman
who are within the degrees of prohibited relationship or 'sapindas' of each
other, unless the customs they follow permit it. The first refers to
relationships between parent-child, brother-sister, aunt/uncle-nephew/niece and
cousins. Sapinda refers to the third generation of ascendants on the mothers
side and fifth on the fathers side and bans marriages between two persons if one
is a lineal ascendant of the other within these limits.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/No-scientific-basis-to-gotra-allergy-of-khaps/articleshow/5928698.cms
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Despite political uncertainties in Iraq, U.S. sticking with drawdown
plan
By Ernesto Londoño and Craig Whitlock
May 14, 2010
BAGHDAD -- The U.S. military is on track to draw down to 50,000
troops in Iraq by the end of the summer, but it now faces the long-dreaded
prospect that its exit could coincide with a power vacuum similar to the one
that drove the country to civil war in 2006.
Approaching what it calls the end of its combat mission in Iraq, the
U.S. military will maintain substantial firepower here for the near future. But
it will have to adjust to waning resources, influence, mobility and money like
never before. And it will be drawing down amid a political standoff in the wake
of the March 7 parliamentary elections that has no end in
sight.
American commanders are watching the sluggish government formation
process closely and warily. The risks are high, with U.S. and Iraqi military
commanders expressing fears ranging from a possible resurgence of Shiite
militias to the splintering of security forces along sectarian
lines.
Full report at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/13/AR2010051305655_pf.html
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Eight dead in blast in Dagestan
14 May, 2010
MOSCOW: Eight people were killed on Thursday in a bomb attack in
Russia’s southern region of Dagestan, the latest unrest in the troubled North
Caucasus, officials said.
“At around 10:30 (0630 GMT), an explosive device went off as repair
workers drove by in a vehicle,” the investigative committee of Russian
prosecutors said in a statement.
“As a result, eight people died and four police officers escorting
the workers were wounded.” The victims were workers who were sent to fix a cell
phone mast that had been blown up the previous day by unidentified attackers in
the district of Sergokalinsk, investigators said.
Full report at:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/international/eight-dead-in-blast-in-dagestan-450
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Rapist’ held on victim’s identification
14 May, 2010
SIALKOT, May 13: Daska police on Thursday arrested a man after a
minor rape victim identified him as her abductor and rapist during an
identification parade.
District Police Officer Waqar Ahmad Chohan told a press conference
held at Daska ASP office the victim girl identified Abdul Razzaq, 28, as the man
who abducted her from near her Hameed Colony house on April 26 and raped her at
his outhouse.
The DPO said the police had produced six suspects before the girl
during an identification parade.
He said the accused took the girl to his havelli (outhouse) located
in Daska’s congested Islampura locality near Eidgah, where he raped her and
later threw her in the fields near Chak Gillan village, considering her dead.
Full report at:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/rapist-held-on-victims-identification-450
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Operation completed, but forces to stay in Kala
Dhaka
14 May, 2010
PESHAWAR, May 13: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian
Iftikhar Hussain has said law-enforcement agencies have completed house-to-house
search operation in Kala Dhaka and arrested several wanted people.
Speaking at a press conference here on Thursday, he said weapons,
explosives and suicide jackets had been recovered in the search operation.
He said curfew had been relaxed in several areas of Kala Dhaka. He
said the Frontier Constabulary and police had searched 124 villages in the
provincially administered tribal area.
Full report at:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/operation-completed,-but-forces-to-stay-in-kala-dhaka-450
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