Pakistani Woman, Iqra And Her Hindu Husband, Missing Since Sept 19 Last Year, Arrested In Bangalore
New Age Islam News Bureau
28 January 2023
• Woman Arrested In US Accused Of Murdering Saudi
Student In Knife Attack
• Saudi Arabia Top Of Women’s Health List For Arab
Countries, Ranks Ahead Of UK
• Palestinians Denounce Unprovoked Killing Of Woman In
Jenin
Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau
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Pakistani Woman, Iqra And Her Hindu Husband, Missing
Since Sept 19 Last Year, Arrested In Bangalore
Iqra Jeewani and Mulayam
Singh Yadav. (Express Photo)
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Mohammad Hussain Khan
January 28, 2023
HYDERABAD: Iqra, a young woman arrested along with her
purported Hindu husband Mulayam Singh Yadav last Monday in Bengaluru
(Bangalore) for staying in India illegally, had actually disappeared after
leaving for college in Hyderabad on Sept 19, 2022.
Iqra had been living with her parents in the Shahi
Bazaar area near Seroghat downtown. She was a student of the Federal Govt
College located within the jurisdiction of the Cantonment police station.
Her father, Sohail Jeewani, a cloth trader, appeared
unaware of when and how she had left the country and reached Bangalore.
She had gone missing on Sept 19, 2022 after leaving for
the college, Mr Jeewani told Dawn over phone while confirming in a brief
conversation that “she is in trouble in India now”. He was reluctant to share
details of what had actually happened to her.
“I just don’t know what has happened. I came to know
about her [whereabouts] when the matter was reported by a television channel.
It said that she is in the Indian city of Bangalore where she has been
arrested,” said Mr Jeewani.
Her family says her purported spouse is Muslim but
Indian police declared him a Hindu
He said he was quite disturbed over the matter. “When
she did not return home, I inquired from the college management and I was told
that she simply didn’t turn up on Sept 19,” Mr Jeewani stated in his FIR lodged
vide crime No. 86/22.
According to a family source, the girl got in touch
with the man through an online Ludo game. “Iqra had been talking to her mother
until before she was arrested by the Bangalore police. She told her mother that
she had married him but didn’t share the Nikahnama,” said the family source.
According to Afzal Jeewani, Sohail’s younger brother,
Iqra had mostly been speaking to her mother until her arrest but her father did
not speak to her much so far. Afzal said that she had been in touch with the
man through video game for around seven-eight months before she left the
country.
Sohail Jeewani said that he could speak to her only
once and then came the news of her arrest. “We had received her first call 12
days after we failed to locate her in Pakistan,” he said.
“We were told that the man is Muslim and his name is
Sumair Ansari. But he turned out to be a non-Muslim; he has deceived her,” said
Mr Jeewani. He said that Iqra had performed Umrah with her grandfather and
paternal uncles last year.
Reports say that she travelled to Nepal and then to
India. Her father has, however, lodged a case of her kidnapping at the City
police station.
Mr Afzal and his father, Haji Rafiq Jeewani, appealed
to the government of Pakistan to help rescue Iqra. “We are suffering from
severe mental stress; the entire family is in trouble,” they said.
Source: Dawn
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Woman Arrested In US Accused Of Murdering Saudi Student
In Knife Attack
Alwaleed Algheraibi (Internet)
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January 27, 2023
DUBAI: Philadelphia police arrested a 19-year-old
woman on Friday in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Saudi student, local
US media have reported. It is understood the woman was the victim’s neighbour.
Police found the body of Alwaleed Algheraibi, 25,
inside a property on Hansberry Street, in Germantown Philadelphia. He had
suffered a knife wound to the neck on Monday at about midday local time.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigating officers told local press that the
victim’s phone and other valuables were taken.
Police confirmed Friday that Nicole Marie Rodgers was
in custody following a week-long manhunt.
She faces charges of murder, robbery, burglary, theft,
and possession of instrument of crime, police said.
Alwaleed Algheraibi was nearing the end of his studies
and was due to return to Saudi Arabia.
The victim’s uncle told local Saudi media that his
nephew’s suspected killer was a neighbor who lived in the apartment opposite.
Princess Rima bint Bandar, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador
to the United States, had contacted the victim’s family to offer condolences
and full assistance on the painful circumstance, Al-Ekhbariya TV said
Saturday.
Al-Ekhbariya TV quoted the statement saying the
embassy has been following with “great sadness and sorrow the circumstances of
his death.”
Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2239926/saudi-arabia
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Saudi Arabia top of women’s health list for Arab
countries, ranks ahead of UK
RASHID HASSAN
January 27, 2023
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has ranked as the top Arab
country for women’s health, being placed ahead of the UK on a global list.
According to the recently released Hologic Global
Women’s Health Index’s 2021 report, the Kingdom and the UAE were positioned
28th and 35th, respectively, the highest rankings for nations in the Arab
world.
Dr. Mona Salahuddin Al-Munajjed, a prominent
sociologist at the forefront of those influencing women’s affairs in Saudi
Arabia, told Arab News: “I am not surprised by these new findings. On the
contrary, I am happy by the great results.
“I am proud that my country has made incredible
positive developments in education, health, and other fields for both men and
women.
“Saudi women are now leading in lots of fields thanks
to our government which has been continuously encouraging and supporting us to
go ahead at national and international levels. This means we are going in the
right direction in fulfilling our Saudi Vision 2030,” she said.
Lebanon and Turkey held some of the lowest scores,
named in the bottom 10 of the 122 countries listed at 118th and 119th,
respectively.
The UK was ranked two positions behind Saudi Arabia at
30th.
The medical technology company’s global report struck
a chord in the UK, where the cash-strapped National Health Service is battling
staff shortages and patient-treatment backlogs. Ambulance workers recently held
their biggest strike and junior doctors have voted for industrial action.
The US came in 23rd in the index behind Germany, New
Zealand, and Singapore but ahead of France. Taiwan and Latvia scored the
highest and Afghanistan the lowest in the global index.
The health survey showed a decline in women’s ability
to meet their basic needs as well as record levels of stress, worry, and anger.
The UK dropped three points in the latest index,
ranking on a par with Poland, Slovenia, and Kosovo, besides Kazakhstan. It was
among the fastest-declining countries for emotional health, according to the
report.
The US remained an exception because higher health
spending did not translate into better outcomes, said the report.
The findings were based on interviews with almost
127,000 women and men, with questions encompassing preventive care, emotional
health, opinions of health and safety, and basic needs.
Hologic Inc. and partner Gallup interviewed women to
rate multiple measures, from mental health to preventive care.
The purpose of the global index is to identify
critical gaps in what the world understands about the health and well-being of
women and girls, to eventually find solutions.
Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2240126/saudi-arabia
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Palestinians denounce unprovoked killing of woman in
Jenin
MOHAMMED NAJIB
January 27, 2023
RAMALLAH: The killing of a Palestinian woman, along
with eight men, by Israeli soldiers during Thursday’s attack on Jenin has been
widely condemned.
Majida Obaid, 61, was inside her house and posed no
danger to the attacking force, Palestinian sources in Jenin told Arab News.
The killing has left people in the city, as well as
her family, in a deep state of shock.
Her daughter, Kifaya Obaid, 26, a government employee,
told Arab News that around 9 a.m. after her mother had finished prayers, she
heard heavy gunfire in the area directly opposite their house.
“She opened a window to find out what was going on.
And I was surprised that after less than a minute that she was hit with a
bullet in her neck. She fell off the chair on the ground bleeding.”
Kifaya started screaming and tried to close the
bleeding wound with her hands. Volunteer paramedics came in to provide first
aid, but the Israeli forces began shooting at them. They pulled Majida out of
the room to avoid being hit again.
Majida, a mother of five daughters and a son, lived in
Jenin with two of her daughters, Kifaya and Shireen.
Kifaya described her mother as a simple, religious person
who always prayed to God to die a martyr. She was fasting when she was killed,
Kifaya said.
“This is the first time the Israeli soldiers targeted
my house and my family with such brutality; they were shooting at every moving
target,” Kifaya said.
“A house without the mother’s presence would be
difficult to live in, but I am proud that I became a martyr’s daughter,” Kifaya
said.
As soon as her death was confirmed, her father,
58-year-old Omar Obaid, who works in a factory in Israel, returned home to attend
his wife’s funeral.
One of their married daughters lives in Beersheba,
southern Israel, and another in Jordan. The funeral was delayed until the
family members arrived.
Kifaya said she could still not understand why Israeli
soldiers would target her mother while she was inside her house, adding she was
unsure whether there would be a fair investigation into the killing.
“I do not trust their investigations because no one is
held accountable. The example of what happened to Al Jazeera journalist Shireen
Abu Akleh confirms my belief,” she said.
Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American journalist who
worked as a reporter for Al Jazeera for 25 years, was killed by an Israeli
soldier on May 11, 2022, while reporting on an Israeli raid in Jenin.
Omar Obeid told Arab News that the “despicable Israeli
occupation does not discriminate between a woman or a child.”
He added: “What do we expect from these haters? Majida
was sitting in her house when bullets were fired at her directly, killing her.
She did not resist and did not shoot at the army to be targeted in such a
horrible manner.
“We do not trust their investigations. They were
shooting randomly, and no army in the world shoots randomly like these killers.
“I never expected that this would happen. My life will
be difficult and harsh after her death, and I will miss her a lot.”
Majida is the first woman to be killed in Jenin this
year. Last year, the total death toll in the city as a result of clashes with
Israel reached 59, including 34 civilians.
Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2240146/middle-east
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