Indian Actress Sahar Afsha Quits Industry For Islam
New Age Islam News Bureau
11 October 2022
• Malala Yousufzai Lands In Pakistan To Visit
Flood-Hit Areas
• First Women’s Varsity Okayed For Mansehra, Pakistan
• Video Of Men Performing Garba In Burqa Goes Viral
• Hanan Al-Ahmadi To Lead Shoura Delegation To IPU
Assembly In Kigali
• Iran Protests: Mahsa Amini's Family Receiving Death
Threats, Cousin Says
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Indian Actress Sahar Afsha Quits Industry For Islam
Sahar Afsha is a popular
Bhojpuri actress. Zee News
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8 Oct, 2022
NEW DELHI – Indian actress Sahar Afsha, who shot to
fame for her role in Tamil and Bhojpuri films, has announced that she is
quitting the film industry.
Taking to Instagram, the Maitri actress said that she
wanted to live her life according to the teachings of Islam.
Sharing a long note, she captioned the post as:
“Extremely happy and Allahamdulliah feeling blessed to share this with u guys
thank you every one , dua mai yaad rakhe”.
“I want to tell you all that I have decided to leave
showbiz and now I will have nothing to do with it. Inshallah I intend to live
the next life according to teachings of Islam and Allah's Alham”.
Afsha said that she repented her off what she did in
her past life, adding: “I seek forgiveness from Allah”.
Saying her entrance in showbiz industry was a
coincident, she said that now she had decided to quit the industry.
Asking people to prayer for her, she hoped that people
will not remember her for what she did in the past life but for her next life.
Before her, Indian actresses Sana Khan and Zaira
Waseem also left the industry to live their lives according to Islamic
teachings.
As Sahar Afsha shared the news on Instagram, Sana Khan
congratulated her on the decision.
“MashAllah my sister so happy for you. May Allah give
u isteqamah in every step of your life May u inspire everyone around you and
become zariya e khair for mankind,” Khan wrote in the comment section.
Source: Daily Pakistan
https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/08-Oct-2022/another-indian-actress-quits-industry-for-islam
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Malala Yousufzai Lands In Pakistan To Visit Flood-Hit
Areas
Malala Yousufzai/ Source:
Instagram
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11 Oct, 2022
KARACHI – Nobel prize winner and social activist
Malala Yousufzai reached Pakistan on Tuesday to visit the flood-hit areas of
the country.
Malala landed in Karachi along with her parents amid
tight security.
Nobel laureate and girls' education campaigner is
visiting the flood-affected areas to raise international awareness regarding
the devastation caused by climate change in the South Asian nation.
Yousufzai is expected to extend assistance from the
Malala Fund for flood relief.
Pakistan witnessed more than usual monsoon rains this
season that sparked countrywide flooding and left a third of the nation
underwater, causing damage to standing crops and roads and rail tracks in Sindh
and Balochistan.
In 2014, Yousafzai became the youngest recipient of
the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17 in recognition of her efforts for
children's rights.
Source: Daily Pakistan
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First Women’s Varsity Okayed For Mansehra, Pakistan
October 11, 2022
MANSEHRA: Special assistant to the prime minister
Sardar Shahjehan Yusuf on Monday said the federal government had approved the
first women’s university for Mansehra district along with a long-delayed water
scheme.
Mr Yusuf told reporters after addressing a lawyers’
gathering on the district bar’s premises here that an appropriate building had
been selected for the women’s university, which would begin classes in the next
academic session.
He said the prime minister would soon inaugurate the
multibillion rupees ‘gravity flow water supply scheme’ for which the Saudi and
Pakistani governments had already finalised modalities. The premier’s aide said
the last PM Imran Khan-led government had abandoned the mega project.
He said the visa protector office’s for Hazara
division would be inaugurated in Abbottabad shortly.
VACANCIES: The Darband residents have demanded of the
government to fill vacancies in the tehsil’s only rural health centre.
“Many seats of doctors, pharmacists and medical
technicians have long been lying vacant in the RHC, so patients are referred to
health centres in other parts of the district,” trader Rozimad Shah told
reporters in Darband on Monday.
He said dengue and malaria patients visited the centre
in large numbers but returned without treatment due to staff shortage. Mr Shah
demanded the immediate provision of medicines and other required goods to the
RHC. He warned that the residents would take to the streets of the demands
weren’t met.
Source: Dawn
https://www.dawn.com/news/1714356/first-womens-varsity-okayed-for-mansehra
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Video of men performing Garba in burqa goes viral
Sameer Khan
7th October 2022
In a video that is making rounds on social media, a
few men can be seen performing Garba by wearing burqas posing themselves as
Muslim women.
After the video which was shared by Instagram handle
‘Drunk Journalist’ went viral, many netizens expressed their views against
their mentality.
Though the place of the incident is not known yet, the
Instagram handle captioned it, “This is a sick perverted obsession with Muslim
women. Denigrating Muslim women by making their Hindu men wear Burqa and do
garba.
The hate and perversion has reached such a low level.
Religious festivals have become more of reason to humiliate, mock and Insult
Muslims.”.
Reacting to the incident, one of the users wrote, ‘Why
the hell they don’t focus on the well being and development of the country..!
Tired of this bull shit from 7 years hindu muslims.. why don’t they think about
startups work culture doing something creative for the country and
themselves..! Always busy in nuisance’.
Another user wrote, ‘Inka self esteem itna Low hai ke
dusro ko nicha dikhake hi khud Achha feel kar sakte hai..such pathetic Low
life’ (They can feel good only by insulting others).
A few users took it lightly and started mocking the
incident. One of such users wrote, “Burqa sales have gone up”. Another user
wrote, “Yeh Bahanay burqaa toh peh liye.”
Source: Siasat Daily
https://www.siasat.com/video-of-men-performing-garba-in-burqa-goes-viral-2429028/
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Hanan Al-Ahmadi To Lead Shoura Delegation To IPU
Assembly In Kigali
October 11, 2022
KIGALI — A Shoura Council delegation, headed by
Assistant Speaker Dr. Hanan Al-Ahmadi, is scheduled to participate in the 145th
Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), which will be held in Kigali,
Rwanda.
Al-Ahmadi stressed the importance of the participation
of the Shoura Council in international parliamentary events and effective
activities during them as part of the parliamentary diplomacy that the council
uses to enhance the role of Saudi Arabia, under the leadership of Custodian of
the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in
efforts in cooperation with friendly countries and partners around the world in
facing global crises and maintaining international security, peace and
stability.
She also referred to the big role of women in the
Shoura Council at the legislative, oversight and parliamentary diplomacy
levels. "This parliamentary event is considered an opportunity to share
with the world what the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has achieved in women
empowerment, especially that women are a main and effective pillar in realizing
the Saudi Vision 2030."
The assistant speaker concluded her remarks by saying
that the international parliamentary meetings provide a precious opportunity to
enhance dialogue and cooperation among legislative councils and activate
parliamentary efforts to support the government in enacting regulations and
laws that can contribute to finding successful solutions to circumstances and
crises the world is witnessing at all levels.
The delegation includes Secretary General of the Shoura
Council Mohammed Al-Muteiri, and council members Ibrahim Al-Mifleh, Huda
Al-Huleisi, Major General Abdulrahman Al-Harbi and Raeda Abu Nian, in addition
to several officials. — SPA
Source: Saudi Gazette
https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/625891
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Iran protests: Mahsa Amini's family receiving death
threats, cousin says
By Anna Foster
October 11, 2022
The family of Mahsa Amini - the 22-year-old Kurdish
woman whose death in police custody three weeks ago sparked protests across
Iran - say they have received death threats and have been warned not to get
involved in the demonstrations.
Mahsa became a symbol of Iranian repression after her
arrest by the morality police, who accused her of wearing her hijab improperly.
Her face, and her story, are now known around the world.
"Our family have been under immense pressure from
the Islamic Republic's officials, so we don't talk to human rights
organisations or channels outside of Iran and inform anyone from the outside
world about her passing," her cousin Erfan Mortezai tells me when we meet
across the border in Iraq's Kurdistan Region.
Erfan is a Peshmerga fighter for Komala, an exiled
Iranian Kurdish opposition party based in Iraq. For years, since long before
Mahsa's death, he has been trying to bring down the Islamic Republic. The
Iranian government have blamed the latest unrest on such outside influences.
Mahsa Amini's family in Iran, including her father and
uncle, have repeatedly denied supporting Kurdish opposition groups, which Iran
accuses of separatism.
As we talk in the shadow of the mountains, he uses her
Kurdish given name - Zhina - the one her friends and family called her every
day. Mahsa is her official Iranian name, which her parents were forced to use
on documentation because certain Kurdish names are banned in Iran.
"Zhina was a normal person, she was not
political," Erfan insists. "The regime have been making up scenarios
and disinformation - saying that Zhina was in contact with me and I taught her
and sent her back to Iran to do a certain activity, when in fact this is
completely baseless."
He says the threats that his family members have
received have made them question their safety.
"They are under Islamic Republic torture,"
he tells me. "The regime's officials have threatened us through Instagram
with fake accounts, and told the family members in Iran that if they get
involved in the protests, they might be killed."
"Myself, I have been receiving many threats over
the phone, [saying] that if they see me in the city, they will kidnap me and
kill me."
Erfan shared previously unseen videos with me and they
reveal a heartbreaking contrast.
The first is of Mahsa dancing at a wedding, waving
colourful shawls and glancing shyly up at the camera.
The second shows her family gathered at a cemetery,
marking what should have been her 23rd birthday. A cake decorated with her face
has been carefully placed on her grave. There is angry shouting and many tears.
I travelled to the mountainous border between Iran and
Iraq, where dust blows across the steep roads and farmers riding donkeys herd
their cattle. Here is one of the few places you can hear stories first-hand
from Iranians.
I meet a family who have come from Sanandaj, in the
west of Iran, loaded into a minibus. They say they have left for just a short
time to visit family.
Most importantly, they are terrified to talk publicly.
While they are eager to speak and share messages to pass on to the outside
world, they know that to appear on camera or to reveal their names puts them at
serious risk.
"We'd be killed by Iranian intelligence,"
they tell me. But they're desperate for change. They talk of corruption and
repression, of many more issues than just the hijab. It is more a whole system
that breaks their spirits, they explain. Iran is a country they love, but fear
living in.
There have been demonstrations in Iran before, but the
regime has always stood firm. That is why it is so hard to predict what will
happen next.
As the latest protests reach new cities, Mahsa's
cousin Erfan believes the momentum could have a lasting effect.
"We shouldn't forget the people of Iran have been
in resistance and protest against the regime for many years, but the people now
are revolutionaries," he says.
"They are women, workers, teachers, sportspeople,
artists, taking to the streets and mixing their voices of dissent with that of
Zhina's family. In my opinion, these protests will continue and it will end
with the fall of the Islamic Republic."
Source: BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63200649
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