Southern India Makes History with First Women-Only Hajj Flight
New Age
Islam News Bureau
10
June 2023
Southern India
Makes History with First Women-Only Hajj Flight
Pak Court Denies
Further Physical Remand of 13 Women Supporters of Imran Khan in Jinnah House
Attack Case
People of Zahedan
Rises Up – Protesters in Southeast Iran Call for Regime Change
Hindu Girl
Recovered In Sindh, Sent To Darul Aman
Ukrainian Woman,
Her Daughter Embrace Islam In Türkiye
Iran’s Regime
Struggles to Enforce Hijab as Women Resist
Pakistan Women’s
Football Team Rises in FIFA Rankings
Iran Women's
Football Team Climb 6 Places InFIFA Rankings
Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau
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The
Air India Express flight, IX 3025, took off from Karipur, Kerela at 6:45 am
local time (1:15 am GMT) on Thursday with 145 women pilgrims and six
female crew members. It landed in Jeddah 10:45 pm local time (7:45 pm) where
they were welcomed by the Consulate General of India. Photograph :( Twitter)
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June 09, 2023
NEW DELHI: An
Indian Hajj flight run exclusively by women and carrying only female pilgrims
has made history, authorities said on Friday, after it reached Saudi Arabia
from the southern state of Kerala.
The Air India
Express flight from Kozhikode arrived in Jeddah on Thursday night carrying 145
pilgrims.
It was operated by
Capt. KanikaMehra, First Officer GarimaPassi, and four cabin crew members.
At the airport, the
women were accompanied by Minority Affairs State Minister John Barla, who
distributed their boarding passes.
“I am very proud,”
C. Mohammed Faizi, chairman of the Kerala Haj Committee, told Arab News.
Source: arabnews.com
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2318886/world
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Pak Court Denies
Further Physical Remand of 13 Women Supporters Of Imran Khan In Jinnah House Attack
Case
Jun 9, 2023
By Press Trust of
India: An anti-terrorism court has denied police further physical remand of 13
women supporters of former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, including
fashion designer Khadija Shah, in a case linking them to the attack on the
historic Jinnah House here and sent them to jail on judicial remand.
When the women
belonging to Khan's Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party were produced before
the court on the expiry of their six-day physical remand, the Investigating
officer (IO) asserted that further custody of the suspects was required to
recover clubs and petrol bombs used during the May 9 attack at the Jinnah
House, also the residence of the Lahore Corps Commander, the Dawn news
reported.
The IO said clubs
were recovered from Shah, Sanam Javed, and Tayyaba Raja.
The three women
however rejected the claim that the club had been recovered from their
possession.
Judge AbherGul Khan
observed that the IO had not mentioned the recovery of petrol bombs in the
previous application for the physical remand of the suspects and turned down
the police request for further physical custody.
The women,
including former Member of the National Assembly Alia Hamza, Maryam Mazari,
SabuhiInam, Huma Saeed, Ayesha Masood, Maha Masood, and Khadija Nadeem, apart
from Khadija Shah, Sanam Javed, and Tayyaba Raja, were then sent to jail on
judicial remand.
At least 10 persons
were killed and more than 1,000 injured in the violence that broke out
following the arrest of former prime minister Khan from the premises of
Islamabad High Court by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the
Al-Qadir corruption case.
Protesters, mostly
from Khan's PTI party, on May 9 attacked over 20 military installations and
government buildings, including the Lahore Corps Commander House, Mianwali
airbase and the ISI building in Faisalabad. The Army headquarters (GHQ) in
Rawalpindi was also attacked by the mob for the first time. Khan was later
released on bail.
Law enforcement
agencies have arrested over 10,000 workers of Khan's Pakistan party across
Pakistan, 4,000 of them from Punjab province.
Source: indiatoday.in
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/pak-court-denies-physical-remand-women-supporters-imran-khan-jinnah-house-attack-case-2391016-2023-06-09
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People of Zahedan
Rises Up – Protesters in Southeast Iran Call for Regime Change
9th June 2023
On Friday, June 9,
despite the presence of repressive forces and heightened security measures, the
resilient people of Zahedan once again took to the streets following Friday
prayers to vehemently protest against the executions, suppression, and
plundering perpetrated by the IRGC and the mafia affiliated with Khamenei.
Their resounding chants echoed: “Death to Khamenei,” “I will avenge my martyred
brother’s blood,” “I will kill whoever killed my brother,” “Free political
prisoners,” “So many years of crime, death to this theocracy,” and “Iranians:
Unity, Revolution, Freedom.”
The demonstrators
brandished placards conveying powerful messages: “Neither Monarchy nor
Leadership, Democracy, and Equality,” “Down with the oppressor, be it the Shah
or the Leader (Khamenei),” “Freedom will come with ‘We can and we must’,” and
“Monarchy, Theocracy: A Century of Crime.”
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi,
President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), extending
her greetings to the brave Baluch compatriots, affirmed that Zahedan once again
rose on another Friday, standing firm for revolution and freedom, embodying the
unwavering determination of the Iranian people to overthrow the mullahs’
regime, rejecting all forms of dictatorship, and establishing a democratic
republic.
Source: ncr-iran.org
https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/ncri-statements/statement-iran-protest/zahedan-rises-up-protesters-in-southeast-iran-call-for-regime-change/
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Hindu Girl
Recovered In Sindh, Sent To Darul Aman
June 10, 2023
DADU/KARACHI:
Shaheed Benazirabad DIG YounisChandio has said that a Hindu girl allegedly
kidnapped and forced to convert and marry a Muslim was recovered in a police
raid in the wee hours of Friday.
The raid was
conducted in the Bachalpur area by a strong contingent of police led by SSP
Ameer Saud Magsi, he said.
“She was produced
before a judge, who ordered that the girl be sent to Darul Aman. He directed
the police to produce her in court again on June 12,” the DIG said.
He said that some
of the nine suspects nominated by her father in his FIR lodged at the Qazi
Ahmed police station had been arrested before her recovery.
In his FIR, the girl’s
father alleged that nine armed men kidnapped his 15-year-old daughter, a
student of class-VIII, from his home and also took away Rs100,000 cash and gold
jewelry. He named three of the suspects in the FIR.
Lawmakers laud govt
During the day’s
proceedings of the Sindh Assembly, lawmakers belonging to the Hindu community
lauded the provincial government for ensuring the girl’s recovery.
Women Development
Minister Syeda Shehla Raza informed the house that she had been recovered at
4am on Friday and taken to the Women Police Station of Nawabshah.
Lal Chand Ukrani,
who had raised the issue on the floor of the house a day earlier, thanked the
provincial government and police for her recovery.
Other minority
members including MQM-P’s Mangla Sharma and Sanjay Perwani; GDA’s Nand Kumar
and ministers Mukesh Kumar Chawla and Giyan Chand Essrani also lauded the
provincial government’s role in the girl’s recovery.
Source: dawn.com
https://www.dawn.com/news/1758943/hindu-girl-recovered-in-sindh-sent-to-darul-aman
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Ukrainian Woman,
Her Daughter Embrace Islam InTürkiye
09.06.2023
KARABUK, Türkiye
A heartwarming
conversion ceremony took place in the Black Sea province of Karabuk in Türkiye,
as a Ukrainian woman and her daughter embraced Islam.
LiubovMaksymenko
and her daughter AlonaAlekseienko made the significant decision to convert to
Islam, the local mufti's office announced on Friday.
A mufti is a
professional jurist who interprets Muslim law.
During the
ceremony, Provincial Mufti ErcanAksu introduced the mother and daughter to the
fundamental principles of Islam.
Following their
newfound faith, LiubovMaksymenko took the name "Safiye," and her
daughter AlonaAlekseienko adopted the name "Melek."
* Writing by
SedaSevencan
Source: aa.com.tr
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/ukrainian-woman-her-daughter-embrace-islam-in-turkiye/2918616
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Iran’s Regime
Struggles To Enforce Hijab As Women Resist
10-06-23
Iran's Police Chief
Ahmad Radan has threatened government offices that do not deny services to
unveiled women with repercussions as part of hijab enforcement.
Speaking on the
sidelines of a ceremony in the northern province of Mazandaran Wednesday,
Brigadier General Radan said his force will be reporting lack of adequate
action in enforcing hijab laws by government offices as administrative
infringement.
He also vowed that
police will be surveilling Caspian Sea beaches, in Mazandaran and Gilan
provinces, by special patrols and electronically to prevent any behavior
violating hijab laws.
Threats against
unveiled women have increased with the arrival of summer which has always been
a season for women to ignore the strict government dress code.
In July 2022, after
weeks of harsher measures on the streets, President Ebrahim Raisi ordered all
government entities to strictly implement a “chastity and hijab” law approved
by the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council under hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
in 2005.
Not long after
that, the death of the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of hijab
enforcers, morality police, fuelled protests that spread throughout the country
and lasted for several months.
Since March
hardliners have tried to put an end to women’s increasing defiance of the
compulsory hijab and to reclaim the lost ground but to no avail: More women are
now walking around, commuting, shopping, and jogging unveiled.
Iran's media
published the final version of a new hijab bill prepared jointly by the
judiciary and the government. An earlier draft which was revealed two weeks ago
was strongly criticized by hardliners which saw its punishments for unveiling
“too lenient” to be able to stop women from unveiling.
Punishments
proposed in the bill are mainly cash fines ranging from 5 million rials ($10)
to 240 million rials ($480) for repeat offenders, and deprivation from
employment and social media activity for athletes, celebrity artists and
activists who unveil.
The bill, however,
also includes provisions against “anyone” other than authorized entities, who
confronts citizens in public and uses violence and threats against unveiled
women.
Hardliners such as
Raisi’s very influential father-in-law, Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda, who
represents Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Khorasan-e Razavi Province, have
strongly criticized the bill.
Alamolhoda alleged
on May 26 that the bill, if passed, would promote unveiling rather than prevent
it.
Firebrand
HosseinShariatmadari, the editor of the flagship hardliner newspaper Kayhan
wrote about the first version of the bill on May 21. “A look at the content of
the bill and comparison with the existing laws suggests that the bill has been
prepared with the possible aim of removing the existing legal obstacles
[against unveiling] and preparing the ground for the spread of this nasty and
abominable phenomenon rather than taking action against unveiling,”
The population in
general, however, even in many smaller and more conservative areas of the
country, appears to have become much more tolerant of women who do not dress
according to the prescribed codes and their newfound freedom from the hijab.
“Women know that
it’s now or never because the mullahs are afraid of more protests. They are
persisting with all their might, given this opportunity, to normalize the
presence of unveiled women in the society,” Ronak, a 34-year-old engineer in
Tehran told Iran International.
“They can pass any
laws they want to convince their supporters they are doing something or
reinstate their control but after the recent protests they have realized that
the enforcement of such laws by force could be very costly and one little push
too far may cause the Berlin Wall to crash down,” she said. “That’s why they
are telling the vigilantes to back down.”
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202306095364
Women’s rights
organization Na’amat chair HagitPe’er blasted National Security Minister Itamar
Ben Gvir in a statement, saying his solution to the crime wave has been to
“flood the streets with tens of thousands of more weapons.”
“If anyone has the
illusion that this violence will remain in one community or another, they are
wrong. It is a contagious epidemic, and it affects us all. It is not clear what
motivates [Ben Gvir], but it clearly isn’t our safety.”
According to the
Abraham Initiatives, an anti-violence monitoring group, at least 99 Arabs have
been killed in violent circumstances since the start of the year, a major leap
from the 35 slayings at this point in 2022. Netanyahu’s government was sworn in
on December 29, 2022.
Earlier Friday,
police said they had arrested 11 suspects in connection with the shooting in
Yafa an-Naseriyye.
Later Thursday a
man aged about 30 was shot dead in a drive-by shooting near the central city of
Kafr Qasim, while another man was moderately injured. The shooting caused the
car to crash, also injuring a 46-year-old woman.
Along with the two
deadly incidents, a 3-year-old girl and her father were seriously hurt after
being struck by gunfire in KafrKanna, which like Yafa an-Naseriyye is near
Nazareth.
In light of the
events, the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, an umbrella
group representing the community, announced a general strike Friday in the Arab
community. The committee also called for protests to be held over the weekend.
On Monday, MKs from
the Arab-majority Hadash-Ta’al party met with Netanyahu to discuss the problem
and demand urgent action to combat the crime wave. The sides agreed with
Netanyahu on forming a committee for fighting violence in the Arab community
that the prime minister himself will head, Netanyahu’s office said.
Police, politicians
and community leaders have struggled over the past several years to rein in
criminal activity driving the spiking violence, which has appeared to ramp up
in recent months.
Many community
leaders blame the police, who they say have failed to crack down on powerful
criminal organizations and largely ignore the violence, which includes loan
sharking, family feuds, mafia turf wars, protection rackets and violence
against women. The communities have also suffered from years of neglect by
state authorities.
Source: timesofisrael.com
https://www.timesofisrael.com/woman-18-shot-dead-in-north-99th-victim-of-violence-in-arab-community-this-year/
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Pakistan women’s
football team rises in FIFA Rankings
June 9, 2023
ZURICH: Pakistan
women’s football team on Friday, made a big leap in the latest FIFA World
Rankings following their participation in the AFC Olympic Qualifiers.
As per the latest
updates, the green shirts jumped four places to claim the 157th position in the
FIFA Women’s rankings.
Pakistan edged
Tajikistan in the AFC Olympic Qualifiers 1-0. The victory earned them valuable
points which propelled them to 944.58 points.
The victory also
powered Pakistan to finish third in Group E of round one of the qualifiers for
the Paris Olympics 2024.
Pakistan women’s
football team had an unwanted start to their Olympic Qualifier campaign as they
succumbed to two back-to-back defeats – against the Philippines and Hong Kong –
before finally tasting triumph against Tajikistan.
Earlier, Pakistan
women’s team participated in the four-nation cup in Saudi Arabia.
The green shirts
put on a dominant show in the tournament and finished second behind hosts Saudi
Arabia.
Pakistan and Saudi
Arabia locked horns in an enthralling final and fought rigorously. The final,
however, failed to conclude any result and ended in a goalless stalemate.
Saudi Arabia,
consequently, topped the standings with seven points while Pakistan finished
second in the tournament with four points.
It is worth
mentioning that FIFA reinstated Pakistan’s women’s team to the FIFA rankings table
in October 2022 after a six-year absence.
The development
came after Pakistan women’s football team participated in the SAFF Women’s
Championship 2022 and claimed a historic 7-0 victory over Maldives.
Following their
reinstation in the rankings table, the green shirts occupied the 160th rank
with a total of 928.4 points.
It is worth
mentioning here that the SAFF Women’s Championship 2022 marked the first
tournament in which Pakistan was taking part after FIFA lifted the ban on the
Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) on June 29 2022.
Source: a-sports.tv
https://a-sports.tv/pakistan-womens-football-rises-fifa-rankings/
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Iran women's
football team climb 6 places in FIFA rankings
TEHRAN, Jun 09
(MNA) – The national Iranian women's football team have moved up six places in
the latest rankings released by the world football governing body (FIFA) on
Friday.
The FIFA on Friday,
June 9 released its latest ranking of women's national football teams in the
world, according to which Iran's national women's team have ranked 60th in the
world with 1409.89 points, moving up 6 places as compared to the last rankings.
Led by Maryam
Azmoun, the Iranian women have ranked above the teams of Greece, Turkey and
Uruguay.
Source: en.mehrnews.com
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/201734/Iran-women-s-football-team-climb-6-places-in-FIFA-rankings
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