India's Anju alias Fatima Receives Land, Job From Pak Businessman For Converting To Islam
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Age Islam News Bureau
30
July 2023
• India's Anju alias Fatima Receives Land, Job From Pak Businessman For Converting To Islam
• Morocco’s Nouhaila Benzina Becomes First
Hijab-Wearing Women's Football World Cup Player
• Afghan Women, Arefa, and Mina, Who Fled Taliban Set
To Make History At UCI Cycling World Championships In Glasgow
• British Muslim Woman, Attiya Shaukat, Overseeing
Experimental Farm At Islamic Convention In UK
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India's Anju alias Fatima Receives Land, Job From Pak
Businessman For Converting To Islam
Anju, who now goes by the
name Fatima
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Jul 29, 2023
By India Today News Desk:
A Pakistani businessman has gifted a piece of land to
Anju, the Indian woman who travelled all the way to Pakistan to marry a man she
met on Facebook, along with an offer to work for his company. Mohsin Khan
Abbasi, CEO of Pak Star Group of Companies, said he wants to ensure that Anju
faces no problems and feels at home in Pakistan.
Anju, who now goes by the name Fatima after converting
to Islam, is a married Indian woman from Rajasthan who travelled to Pakistan's
northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to marry Nasrullah, a man she
befriended and fell in love with on Facebook.
Businessman Abbasi said his company's board members
decided to provide Anju with a 272 square feet plot in the city to build a
house, so she feels welcomed in his country and religion. Once the legal
process regarding Fatima's documents from India is completed, his company, Pak
Star Group, will offer her a job in their real estate business, he said.
Abbasi went down to meet the couple, Anju and
Nasrullah, at their residence, and offered them the land. He also gave them a
cheque, though the amount written on it is unknown.
Abbasi also asked the Pakistani government and other
affluent businessmen in the country to support Fatima and Nasrullah's family.
He also called upon them to extend gifts to the newly-wedded couple.
Abbasi emphasised the importance of making Fatima feel
welcomed and valued after leaving her home and family in India to embrace Islam
and marry Nasrullah. He further said that he hopes that her journey inspires
others to adopt Islam.
Anju is originally from Rajasthan's Bhiwadi district,
and had travelled to Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to
meet her now husband Nasrullah in Pakistan. She informed her husband, Arvind,
that she was going to Jaipur for a few days, but Arvind later learned through
the media that she had crossed the border.
Pakistani media reported that Anju converted to Islam
and married Nasrullah a few days later.
Source: India Today
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Afghan Women, Arefa, and Mina, Who Fled Taliban SetTo
Make History At UCI Cycling World Championships In Glasgow
Nouhaila Benzina made her first start at the World
Cup.
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By Sadiya Chowdhury
30 July 2023
Two women are set to make history next week when they
represent Afghanistan at the UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow.
Arefa, 24, and 22-year-old Mina have been training
twice a week in their local park since February to prepare for the tournament.
"I want to represent my country, for every Afghan
girl that doesn't have that opportunity," Arefa told Sky News.
"When the Taliban came to the country everything
was banned for girls, every day, one more thing we couldn't do."
Women and girls in Afghanistan have been banned from
playing and competing in sport since UK and international forces left the
country two years ago and the Taliban took over.
"We had to leave to be safe and to try to be a
professional cyclist and improve prospects for Afghan women."
As refugees, they spent one year in hiding, fearing
for their lives.
Once in the UK, both trained under the guidance of
coach James Hey.
He provided them with bikes from his small cycling
business when they arrived and soon saw their talent.
"Mina and Arefa had great potential," he
told Sky News.
"After much work, we have now been invited to
participate in the UCI World Cycling Championships in Glasgow.
"Their initial response was one of disbelief.
"Going from their province where they used to
dress up as men to now being on the world stage.
"It's a phenomenal story."
Source: News.Sky.Com
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British Muslim Woman, Attiya Shaukat, Overseeing
Experimental Farm At Islamic Convention In UK
By Aisling Grace
30-07-2023
A British Muslim woman is experimenting with a 1.5
acre test farm on the site of the largest Islamic convention in the UK.
Attiya Shaukat, 43, has gone from growing vegetables
in her garden to overseeing three farming sites – two in Nigeria and one in
Alton, Hampshire – with the aim of sharing agricultural knowledge with
communities in Africa.
Ms Shaukat, who is from a South Asian background, told
the PA news agency: “Instead of going to Africa, we can trial things here and
regulate them more and record them and then we can trial them in a different
country.”
The test farm is being used to try out no till-farming
and experimental forms of drip irrigation on the site of the Jalsa Salana,
which 40,000 Muslims were expected to attend.
Food waste from the convention will be composted for
the farm, which is testing out the fastest ways to break down waste material in
order to share that knowledge with communities in Africa.
Ms Shaukat, the agricultural secretary for the
International Association of Ahmadi Architects and Engineers (IAAAE), said that
“sustainability means that you’re trying to make yourself as independent as
possible,” which she believes is particularly important in light of global
instability.
“We can see that even as a developed nation, we cannot
guarantee that our shelves will always be full and that concept is becoming
more and more conscious to us after Covid, after Brexit.
The farm was gifted 200 strawberries by a plant
nursery near Ms Shaukat’s home in Warwick “because the women’s organisation
this year in our community is celebrating their 100 years of formal existence
as an auxiliary organisation within the Muslim community”, Ms Shaukat said.
Ms Shaukat started growing vegetables in her garden
after being encouraged to do so by the current caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim
Community, Mirza Masroor Ahmad.
“I only did it to fulfil the caliph’s instruction and
then I did start enjoying it because when you produce your own tomatoes, or
your crop of salads, and there’s so much you can share with your streets of
neighbours, it’s a really nice feeling to be able to do that.
In 2019, she displayed a raised bed of growing produce
at a Muslim women’s conference and upon seeing her work, the caliph encouraged
her to become the IAAAE agricultural secretary, which saw her take on some of
the organisation’s farming projects.
Ms Shaukat oversees a 100-acre farm and an 11-acre
model farm in southwestern Nigeria, which allow local people to experiment with
growing different types of produce using a variety of methods.
She said: “We’re looking at teaching people around
that local area to come and learn so they can take that knowledge and start growing
in their own homes.”
“This project was started because of a humanitarian
purpose. It has no desire for monetary profits. It is just to help all humans,
all forms of life.
“The caliph said at the recent IAAAE symposium speech
that it’s our responsibility to help everyone from every colour, creed and
background, and those who have been murdered and in poverty and deprivation, so
I would say that’s our goal.”
Source: Belfast Telegraph
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