Pakistani Woman Seema Haider Summoned, First Husband Moves Noida Court, Challenges 'Validity of Her Marriage' With Sachin
New Age Islam News Bureau
16 April 2024
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Pakistani
Woman Seema Haider Summoned, First Husband Moves Noida Court Challenges
'Validity of Her Marriage' With Sachin
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Aseefa
Bhutto-Zardari, Daughter of Benazir Bhutto, Takes Oath as Member of Pakistan
Parliament
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Sosu
Launches Initiative to Economically Empower Islamic Women in Madina
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Iran's
Crackdown on Women Intensifies Under Cover of War
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Pakistani
Woman Seema Haider Summoned, First Husband Moves Noida Court, Challenges
'Validity of Her Marriage' With Sachin
Seema Haider has been asked to appear before the
court on May 27. (File photo)
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APRIL 16, 2024
Pakistani
woman Seema Haider, who entered India illegally via Nepal with her children to
live with her lover Sachin Meena, has been summoned by a family court in Noida.
She has been asked to appear before the court on May 27.
Seema’s
Pakistani husband Ghulam Haider had moved to a city court last month through an
Indian lawyer, accusing Seema and her partner Sachin Meena of cheating. Seema
was married to Ghulam Haider when she crossed over to India along with her four
minor children in May 2023 to live with Sachin, whom she claimed to have met
while playing the mobile game PUBG.
The
couple had later claimed to have gotten married in Kathmandu during an earlier
meeting. They also celebrated their first wedding anniversary last month.
Seema’s
Pakistani husband, Ghulam Haider, who lives in Karachi, had filed a petition in
the family court in Noida, challenging the validity of Seema’s marriage with
Sachin. Haider’s legal team had applied the CrPC’s Section 156 (3), which
allows a magistrate to order an investigation.
In
his petition, Haider has also challenged his children’s religious conversion.
According
to an NDTV report, Ghulam Haider’s lawyer Momin Malik has claimed that Seema
had not taken divorce from Ghulam Haider and that her marriage with Sachin was
not valid.
Ghulam
Haider had first approached Ansar Burney, a top Pakistani lawyer and human
rights activist Ansar Burney, seeking help in getting custody of his four
children.
Ansar
Burney then hired an Indian lawyer, Ali Momin and sent him power of attorney to
start legal proceedings in Indian courts.
Ghulam
Haider was working in Saudi Arabia when his wife Seema came to India via the
UAE and Nepal.
Source:
news18.com
https://www.news18.com/india/seema-haider-summoned-as-first-husband-moves-noida-court-challenging-validity-of-her-marriage-with-sachin-8853550.html
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Aseefa
Bhutto-Zardari, Daughter Of Benazir Bhutto, Takes Oath As Member Of Pakistan
Parliament
Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari
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APRIL
16, 2024
Shankhyaneel
Sarkar
Aseefa
Bhutto-Zardari, daughter of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, took
her oath as the member of the Pakistan National Assembly on Monday. She was
elected unopposed as an MNA from NA-207 Shaheed Benazirabad and succeeded her
father President Asif Ali Zardari who vacated the seat last month.
She
was accompanied by her brother and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman
Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to the Pakistan Parliament. During her oath-taking
ceremony, MNAs of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) raised slogans.
Aseefa
Bhutto-Zardari, the 31-year-old politician, was born in London and has a
bachelor’s degree in politics and sociology from Oxford Brookes University and
master’s degree in global health and development from University College
London.
Ms.
Aseefa Bhutto Zardari takes oath as newly elected Member of the National
Assembly.Hon. Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq administered the
oath.#NASession@AyazSadiq122@AseefaBZ @appcsocialmedia @demp_moib
@PTVNewsOfficial @RadioPakistan pic.twitter.com/HxaIYQDEJE
She
was also Pakistan’s ambassador for the national polio eradication campaign. It
should be noted that she was administered polio drops by her mother, Benazir
Bhutto in 1994 when her mother launched a nationwide immunisation drive to
eradicate polio and became the first Pakistani child to be administered polio
vaccine as part of the drive.
Benazir
Bhutto was assassinated in 2007 by al-Qaeda.
Imran
Khan’s PTI leaders were protesting against Aseefa because they alleged that
their candidate for NA 207, Ghulam Mustafa Rind was arrested by the Sakrand
police and because of this he could not compete against Aseefa which led to her
getting elected unopposed.
Aseefa’s
sister, Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari, celebrated her sister’s ascent to the new
role and said it was a “surreal and proud moment for our family”.
Her
party, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), said the occasion was a ‘historic
moment’.
PPP
Central Information Secretary Faisal Karim Kundi also called Aseefa’s swearing
in a “historic moment for Pakistan’s parliamentary democracy”.
Aseefa
played an important role for the PPP in the run-up to the general elections by
running an aggressive election campaign for her brother Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
and other party candidates in Sanghar, Shaheed Benazirabad and Naushahro Feroze
districts.
Source:
news18.com
https://www.news18.com/world/aseefa-bhutto-zardari-daughter-of-benazir-bhutto-takes-oath-as-member-of-pakistan-parliament-8853731.html
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Sosu
launches initiative to economically empower Islamic women in Madina
Apr
- 15 - 2024
The
Member of Parliament (MP) for the Madina Constituency in the Greater Accra
Region, Francis Xavier Kojo Sosu, has launched a project to financially empower
the Islamic women within the Madina Zongo communities.
The
project dubbed “Islamic Women Development Project” is an entrepreneurship
initiative that seeks to help the women to earn a living by providing them with
free short-to-long term apprenticeship training.
The
project which was launched during the “Madina Sallafest celebration” held in
Accra on Sunday April 15, 2024, will commence in May 2024.
According
to Mr Suso, part of his mandate as the
MP for Madina was to create a platform to empower Muslim women and
provide leverage for them to contribute to development of the area.
He
said the initiative will therefore provide life-enhancing programmes to empower
Muslim women in the constituency.
He
stressed that when women are empowered, they feel confident, capable, and
become active contributors to socio-economic development of the community.
The
MP who expressed concerned about the high rate of poverty in the Zongo
Communities said the initiative will help to drastically decrease poverty in
those areas after the women have been well equipped with skills.
He
further said under the project, Islamic women will be grouped in smaller
economic units and giving special training in their different skills.
"Now
during the Ramadan, one of things that came out when l visited the various
Mosques is the fact that there is the need for us to commit more to the
development in Islamic women or women of the Islamic faith.
"So
the new project I am developing known as Islamic Women Development Project,
this project is going to be used through the Islam project.
"We
are going to running all Islamic women and put them into a small economic unit.
Those that desire special training, we are going to be training and help them
acquire skills that can make them effectively participate in the society.
"And
we are putting them together to always ensure that in the next government when
His Excellency John Dramani is in-charge, there will be easier to use other
economic intervention projects to rich out to the Islamic women," the MP
stated.
Source:
graphic.com.gh
https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/politics/ghana-news-sosu-launches-initiative-to-economically-empower-islamic-women-in-madina.html
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Iran's
Crackdown On Women Intensifies Under Cover Of War
Apr
- 15 - 2024
Iranian
women are facing tougher crackdowns for refusing to wear the compulsory hijab
in the shadows of Iran’s conflict with Israel.
While
news of IRGC missile and drone operations against Israel over the weekend has
overshadowed other events, on Saturday, as part of what they claim is a
"national and public demand," the Iranian police have begun enforcing
hijab regulations on women in a new initiative called the Noor plan, Persian
for ‘light’.
Morality
police are also back on the streets in full force, having been scaled back
since the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, with a stronger presence around
Tehran’s central districts, full of police patrols, morality vans and police
motorcycle patrols.
The
22-year-old Kurdish Iranian died in morality police custody suffering severe
head wounds, sparking the strongest uprising against the regime since the
founding of the Islamic Republic.
Businesses
that do not comply with the regulations may find themselves closed down.
Announced by Tehran’s police chief, Abbas Ali Mohammadian, it signals more
oppression ahead for Iran’s women and girls.
"From
today the police in Tehran, as in other provinces, will implement their
measures against this sort of violation of the law regarding hijab," he
said on live television on Saturday.
"People
who did not pay attention to previous police warnings will be specially warned
in the city from today and legal action will be taken against them," he
added, just days after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that women in
the Islamic republic must obey the dress code, regardless of their beliefs.
A
social media user wrote on X: "As a woman in Iran, the possibility of
being killed by morality police is much higher than being killed by the attack
of the Israeli army.”
Iran
Human Rights reported the increased presence “at major crossings in Tehran”,
noting that it is “their most significant show of force since the “Woman, Life,
Freedom” uprising.
Video
clips posted on social media also show citizens reporting that their car
windows were broken by officers' batons, and others saying that they were
assaulted by government motorcyclists as crackdowns worsen under the cover of
Iran’s escalating shadow war with Israel.
Reports
also suggest vehicles being seized and their owners punished for transporting
women without veils. Authorities continue to shut down cafes and restaurants
where the hijab rules were not enforced.
The
escalating crackdowns on women come alongside Iran’s first direct attack on
Israel from Iranian soil.
Over
350 projectiles were launched on Saturday night following the alleged April 1
Israeli air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus in which two senior
IRGC commanders were killed along with several others.
It
all comes while Iran’s controversial hijab bill, officially titled
"Protection of Family Through Promotion of Hijab and Chastity Culture”, is
awaiting approval, but officials have all but begun enacting its draconian
regulations. Women now face even greater threat of arrest and punishments
including travel bans for hijab defiance.
After
initially securing parliamentary approval in September 2023, the draft was
rejected for review by the Guardian Council, which is the ultimate legislative
authority.
Source:
iranintl.com
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202404154516
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