Protest Against Forced Conversions Of Minor Girls, Demand Anti-Forced Conversions Bill in Pakistan
27 February 2022
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Protest Against Forced Conversions Of Minor Girls, Demand Anti-Forced
Conversions Bill in Pakistan
• Mosque Loudspeakers' Volumes: Indonesia's New
Guidelines For Quieter Mosques Spark Controversy
• Children In Afghanistan ‘Cannot Be Held Hostage To
Politics’: UNICEF
• Hamas, Islamic Jihad Warn Israel Against Ongoing
Gaza Blockade, Settlements Expansion
Pakistan
• If Establishment Stays Neutral, Imran Can’t Survive
No-Trust Move: Bilawal
• PM Imran retains old faces in new PTI committees
• WHO acknowledges Pakistan’s efforts to eradicate
polio
• Thousands join PTI’s ‘Haqooq-i-Sindh March’ in
Ghotki
• Police ask Haripur university to share record of
student harassment incidents
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Southeast Asia
• As Indonesia’s Chinese Revive Original Family
Surnames, Others Get Inspiration From Javanese, American And Islamic Culture
• 126 Mendaki volunteers recognised for contributions
to Malay/Muslim community
• Zahid: BN does not see multi-cornered contests as
advantage
• NGOs Representing PwD says JKMPay Should Be Void As
Ministry Failed To Consult Them As Required
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South Asia
• Islamic Emirate Concerned for Safety of Afghans in
Ukraine
• Khost Province Residents Ordered To Remove
Afghanistan’s Flags From Homes
• Taliban Launches Vast Clean-Up Operation In Kabul,
Neighbouring Provinces
• Universities across Afghanistan reopen after six
months
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Mideast
• Iran says ready for "immediate" nuclear
deal if Western powers show real will
• Progress toward Iran nuclear deal, but issues
remain: US official
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North America
• UN Security Council To Meet In Emergency Session
Over Moscow's Invasion Of Ukraine
• ‘Power Book II: Ghost’: Mecca Actor Reveals What He
Really Thought of That Death
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Africa
• ‘Most Senior Deputy Should Be Appointed Chief Imam
Of Okene’
• Islamic Movement Lists 12 Ailments El-Zakzaky, Wife
Currently Suffers, Condemns Buhari Government For Withholding Passports
• Onga Cook Art 2022: Defending national champions
Akwamuman SHS and Islamic Girls SHS to represent Eastern region
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India
• Anjuman-e-Sharie Shian Strongly Condemns Opening Of
Liquor Shops In Jammu And Kashmir
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Arab world
• Saudi Arabia To Allow ‘Immune’ Children To Holy
Mosques
• Saudi land forces, Pakistani army continue joint
exercise
• Cyprus seeks to attract more Saudi tourists:
Minister
• Saudi Arabia arrests 13,594 illegals in one week
• Saudi Arabia’s KSrelief, UNICEF launch education
training for Yemenis
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Europe
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Threat' After Misreporting
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military operations in Ukraine
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tourism, health tourism
• Russian invasion of Ukraine, UN may call emergency
meeting
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Protest Against Forced Conversions Of Minor Girls,
Demand Anti-Forced Conversions Bill in Pakistan
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ANI
26 February, 2022
Okara [Pakistan], February 26 (ANI): Protests erupted
in Pakistan’s Okara District in the Punjab province, demanding to stop forced
conversions of minor girls and to pass the Anti-Forced Conversions Bill.
Earlier in January, Pakistan’s minority councilors
voiced their concerns over the lack of protection to religious minorities as
the country is witnessing a steep increase in incidents of forced conversion,
with cases rising from 15 in 2020 to over 60 in 2021, according to media
reports.
More than 70 per cent of people who were forcibly
converted were minor girls. Reports say every single year, at least 1,000 girls
are abducted, forced to change their religious identity and are married off in
Pakistan and there seem to be no measures taken in order to protect them from
this criminal practice.
Recently, two Hindu girls–aged 13 and 19–along with a
teenage Christian girl were kidnapped and married off to 40-year-old men after
having changed their faith. This prompted a large demonstration in Hyderabad
which was aimed at creating awareness about such violations that thrive under
the public and state’s radar.
The matter of concern is that there is no law that
prevents this from occurring. The Prohibition of Forced Conversion Act of 2021
was prepared and introduced to the parliament only to have been rejected
because “it would create further problems for minorities”.
These are grave human rights violations–both the
forced conversions and underage marriages that follow–which must be dealt with
through proper laws that prohibit both. Furthermore, councils should be set up
to verify, in instances of religious conversion, whether an individual is
acting autonomously or under duress. Pakistan is already a dangerous home for
minorities and issues like forced conversions only make it all the more
hostile.
Such cases of crime against minorities have been
increasing steadily in recent years in Pakistan, as per the report. The cases
of forced conversion have gone up since Pakistan’s birth in 1947.
The plight of women in Pakistan is increasing day by
day as a fresh report has stated that nearly 6,754 women were abducted in the
country’s Punjab province in the first half of 2021. Out of that, 1,890 women
were raped, 3,721 were tortured and 752 children were raped.
On August 30 last year, the Board of Trustees of
Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) expressed concerns over increasing
attacks on women in the country.
In Islamabad, there were nearly 34 official incidents
of rape while 27 incidents were reported in the media. The number of official
incidents of violence recorded in Punjab was 3,721, but only 938 cases were
reported.
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Mosque Loudspeakers' Volumes: Indonesia's New
Guidelines For Quieter Mosques Spark Controversy
The Indonesian Ministry of
Religious Affairs' new guidelines on the use of loudspeakers at mosques include
a volume limit of 100 decibels. © Sipa
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Shotaro Tani
February 27, 2022
JAKARTA -- Indonesia's new guidelines to address
complaints about mosque loudspeakers' volumes are sparking controversy in the
Muslim-majority nation.
A circular issued on Feb. 18 by the Ministry of
Religious Affairs introduced several new guidelines on loudspeakers, including
maximum volume, for the more than 600,000 registered mosques in the sprawling
archipelago.
Mosques use loudspeakers for calls to prayer and other
matters. Over the years many people have complained about sound level and
quality, especially given that some prayers take place at dawn. Despite
multiple attempts to address the issue since an initial guideline was put out
more than 30 years ago, a sizable portion of mosques have failed to follow the
rules.
"The use of loudspeakers in mosques and prayer
rooms is currently a necessity for Muslims as one of the media to spread Islam
in the community. At the same time, we live in a diverse society, in terms of
religion, belief, background, and others, so efforts are needed to maintain
fraternity and social harmony," said the circular, signed off by the
religious affairs minister, Yaqut Cholil Qoumas.
While over 80% of Indonesians follow Islam, the
country also recognizes Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and
Confucianism as official religions.
Mosques broadcast the call to prayer five times a day:
at dawn, after midday, in the afternoon, after sunset and at night. © Reuters
The circular, which amends guidelines dating to 1978,
introduced for the first time a volume limit for loudspeakers, setting it at
100 decibels, and required sound quality to be "good or not
discordant." It also shortened the time allowed for Quranic recitals
before the dawn call to prayer to 10 minutes, from the previous 15 minutes.
Mosque volumes have long been a contentious issue in
Indonesia. In 2012, then-Vice President Boediono, who goes by one name, faced a
backlash after suggesting that mosques lower volumes for calls to prayer. In
2018, a woman in North Sumatra was sentenced to prison for blasphemy after
complaining about the volume of mosque loudspeakers. And last year, people
living in Tangerang on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, swarmed a housing
complex over a resident's alleged protest against mosque noise.
It is an issue that has caused a stir in other
countries as well, even Muslim ones. In neighboring Malaysia, which leaves
deciding rules on mosque loudspeakers to individual states, several states have
restricted their use only for the call to prayer.
And in Saudi Arabia, a circular was issued last year
that said speaker volumes should be set at no more than one-third of their
maximum volume, and that they should not broadcast full sermons.
After the Indonesia's circular was made public, a
lawmaker from the Islamist opposition Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) also
expressed concern over the new guidelines.
"In my opinion, the Ministry of Religious Affairs
does not need to regulate very technical matters regarding worship issues,
especially the use of speakers for the call to prayer, recitation, or others in
the community, because this is not the same in every village," he said, as
reported by local media.
"It's ok to regulate using outside speaker for
call to prayer. To be honest, it is disturbing, as my house is next to a
traditional mosque and every evening the noise is unbearable. Especially when
[people] are reciting Quran, it feels like an earthquake in the
neighbourhood," one Twitter user quipped.
Another Twitter user, however, said it feels like
Islam seems to be the only religion being targeted, and "it's getting
close to feel like living in France," which controversially has banned the
wearing of Islamic veils in public spaces. Another said: "Since I was
born, call to prayer using external speaker is everywhere, no one bothered. Why
is there someone who dares to regulate the call to prayer?"
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Children In Afghanistan ‘Cannot Be Held Hostage To
Politics’: UNICEF
Children wait for free bread
in front of a bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, on January 24, 2022. (File photo by
AFP)
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February 27, 2022
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says
children in the crisis-hit Afghanistan “cannot be held hostage to politics,” as
the UN food agency has warned that 95 percent of people in the country do not
have enough to eat.
“This is no way to live. The children of Afghanistan
cannot be held hostage to politics. Decisions and actions taken today will
dictate whether these children live or die, whether they suffer or thrive, and
ultimately, whether the country survives or declines,” she said.
Almost 24 million people in Afghanistan – or 60
percent of the population – suffer from acute hunger, while millions have
already been displaced. Earlier this month, the UN’ World Food Programme (WFP)
also warned “hunger continues rising in Afghanistan” and that “95% of the
population don't have enough to eat.”
The dire situation in Afghanistan, which particularly
impacts its children, unfolded after the Taliban came to power in August last
year and formed an interim government, which has not been recognized by any
country.
Afghanistan has about $9 billion in assets overseas,
including the $7 billion in the US. The rest is mostly in Germany, the United
Arab Emirates, and Switzerland. Almost all of these assets have been frozen,
putting the country’s economy into a free fall.
The Taliban government has repeatedly called for the
release of the frozen assets, but Washington has continued to rebuff the calls.
The group has already warned Washington that they would be forced to reconsider
their policy toward the US if it refused to free Afghanistan's assets.
The UN also warned in October last year that without
financial aid or humanitarian relief, Afghanistan is on a “countdown to
catastrophe.”
Furthermore, the UN, along with international
organizations, face mounting challenges in addressing Afghanistan's growing
humanitarian crisis. The world body projects this year that over one million
Afghan children will need treatment for malnutrition and up to 97 percent of
Afghans could be living below the poverty line. A landmark UNICEF $2 billion
appeal to donors for aid is only 17 percent funded.
“And things are poised to get even worse. According to
our projections for 2022, more than 1 million children will need treatment for
severe acute malnutrition. Nearly 13 million children will need humanitarian
assistance. Diseases like measles and acute watery diarrhoea will continue to
spread. Up to 97 percent of all Afghan families could be living below the
poverty line in a matter of months,” Russell said in her statement.
About 80 percent of the Afghan budget was financed by
international aid until August, when it was halted due to the Taliban’s
takeover of Afghanistan. The Taliban have already warned Western diplomats that
insisting on sanctions as a means to pressure their governance could undermine
security and trigger a wave of economic refugees.
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Hamas, Islamic Jihad Warn Israel Against Ongoing Gaza
Blockade, Settlements Expansion
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2022-February-26
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad
resistance movements warned Israel over the continuing brutal siege against the
impoverished Gaza Strip and the regime’s land expropriation and illegal
settlements expansion activities in the occupied West Bank and Al-Quds.
The two movements made the warning during a meeting
that brought together their senior officials in the Lebanese capital city of
Beirut on Friday, Anadolu news agency reported.
“The continuation of the occupying Israeli regime’s
settlement projects in the occupied West Bank and Al-Quds, and its continued
siege of the Gaza Strip cannot be tolerated, and the Palestinian resistance
front cannot allow the situation to continue as it is,” they stressed in a
joint statement.
Gaza Strip, home to some two million Palestinians, has
been under an all-out Israeli siege since June 2007. The tight blockade has caused
a decline in the standards of living as well as unprecedented levels of
unemployment and unrelenting poverty.
All Israeli settlements are illegal under
international law as they are built on occupied land. The United Nations
Security Council has condemned Israel’s settlement activities in the occupied
territories in several resolutions.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad underlined the need “to
achieve national Palestinian unity, on the basis of partnership, restructure
and development of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and an
agreement on a national struggle campaign [against Israel]".
The resistance groups also expressed their opposition
to the Tel Aviv regime’s flagrant violations of Palestinian prisoners’ rights,
and cautioned Israeli authorities against the grave consequences of their
practices.
There are reportedly more than 7,000 Palestinians held
at Israeli jails. Hundreds of the inmates have been apparently incarcerated
under the practice of the so-called administrative detention. Some prisoners
have been held in administrative detention for up to 11 years.
Palestinians and human rights groups say
"administrative detention" violates the right to due process since
evidence is withheld from prisoners while they are held for lengthy periods without
being charged, tried, or convicted.
The detention takes place on orders from a military
commander and on the basis of what the Israeli regime describes as secret
evidence.
Rights groups describe Israel’s use of administrative
detention as a “bankrupt tactic” and have long called on the regime to bring
the practice to an end.
Source: Dawn
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Pakistan
If establishment stays neutral, Imran can’t survive
no-trust move: Bilawal
Imran Ayub
February 27, 2022
KARACHI: Sounding confident and determined about the
renewed campaign of the opposition parties against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf
(PTI) government, Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on
Saturday claimed that Prime Minister Imran Khan could not survive the vote of
no confidence in the government, if the establishment chose to stay neutral.
However, responding to a question after his press
conference at Bilawal House, he appeared a bit sceptical about the role of the
establishment amid the emerging political developments referring to the history
of the country which didn’t suggest ‘very good’ prospects on these lines.
The PPP chairman made it clear that whatever the
results of the opposition’s no trust motion, his party would continue its
struggle.
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PM Imran retains old faces in new PTI committees
Amir Wasim
February 27, 2022
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan, in his capacity
as the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) chairman, reconstituted the party’s
core committee and central executive committee (CEC), mostly retaining the old
faces.
According to an official announcement by the PTI’s
central media department, the new core committee comprises 33 members, whereas
the newly formed CEC has 60 members. Mr Khan will remain the head of both
committees.
Prominent members of the core committee include Shah
Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Aamir Kiani, Fawad Chaudhry, Pervez Khattak,
Shafqat Mehmood, Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar, Imran Ismail, Asad Qaiser, Qasim
Suri, Ali Amin Gandapur, Ali Zaidi, Hammad Azhar, Mahmood Khan, Shireen Mazari,
Usman Buzdar, Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar, Murad Saeed, Aamir Dogar, Azam Swati,
Arbab Ghulam Rahim, Babar Awan and Haleem Adil Sheikh.
In December, Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved the
party’s organisational structure across the country a few days after a shocking
defeat of the PTI in the first phase of local government elections in its
stronghold of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He then constituted a 21-member committee to
form a new structure of party organisations.
Announcing the premier’s decision to dissolve all
party chapters, federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry told a news
conference at the time that Mr Khan had dissolved all PTI organisations from
centre to tehsil level across the country after consulting the party’s senior
leadership and that all the office-bearers of the organisational set-up had
been removed from their posts.
Mr Khan blamed the selection of wrong candidates for
the defeat in the first phase of KP’s local government elections. Later, the
special committee constituted by Mr Khan to review the PTI’s organisational
structure decided to revoke party’s constitution and revive the previous one
adopted in 2015 with a few changes aimed at strengthening the party at
grassroots level.
The committee recommended that the party should have
five tiers instead of seven and make provincial constituencies the new tier in
place of tehsils.
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WHO acknowledges Pakistan’s efforts to eradicate polio
Staff Reporter
February 27, 2022
RAWALPINDI: Representative of the World Health
Organization (WHO) Dr Palitha Mahipala on Saturday acknowledged Pakistan’s
efforts to eradicate polio in the country.
Talking to mediapersons after inaugurating the
four-day polio vaccination drive at Cantonment General Hospital (CGH), he said:
“Effective measures had been taken in Pakistan to eradicate the polio and due
to this, not a single polio case has been reported in Pakistan last year.”
Deputy Commissioner Tahir Farooq, District Health
Officer Dr. Ehsan Ghani, Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) Cantonment Executive
Officer Imran Gulzar also spoke to mediapersons.
Palita Mahipala appreciated the role of the front line
polio workers and urged the parents to get their children vaccinated against
polio and extend cooperation to the polio vaccinators as every family should
inoculate all its children of up to five years of age against the crippling
disease.
Source: Dawn
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Thousands join PTI’s ‘Haqooq-i-Sindh March’ in Ghotki
Waseem Shamsi
February 27, 2022
SUKKUR: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, leading
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s ‘Haqooq-i-Sindh March’ at Kamoo Shaheed in Ubauro
town of Ghotki district on Saturday said that Pakistan Peoples Party had done
nothing for the uplift of Sindh and its people over the last almost 15 years.
“The masses present here to join this march against PPP shows that they want a
change and support Prime Minister Imran Khan,” he said.
“No public welfare programme, no development plan, no
new industries and no agriculture sector development had been seen in the long
rule of PPP over Sindh,” he pointed out, and deplored that PPP chief ministers,
ministers, lawmakers and other leaders only enjoyed powers and amassed money.
Source: Dawn
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Police ask Haripur university to share record of
student harassment incidents
The Newspaper's Correspondent
February 27, 2022
HARIPUR: District police officer Kashif Aftab Abbasi
has asked the management of the University of Haripur (UoH) to share three-year
detail of cases of students’ harassment and the action taken against the
culprits.
In a letter dated Feb 24, he informed the
vice-chancellor and the registrar that incidents of harassment of female
students had come to his notice through social media, but these cases were
neither reported to the police nor to any other forum.
Source: Dawn
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Southeast Asia
As Indonesia’s Chinese Revive Original Family
Surnames, Others Get Inspiration From Javanese, American And Islamic Culture
Johannes Nugroho
27 Feb, 2022
Indonesians have a saying that a name is akin to a
prayer. So when parents give their child a name, it goes without saying That a
certain wish for his or her future is inherent within. This belief has produced
some distinctive name-giving traditions rooted in the country’s history and
diverse cultures. Since there are some 1,300 ethnic groups in Indonesia, the
results are as varied as they are unique.
Source: Asia.Nikkei
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126 Mendaki volunteers recognised for contributions to
Malay/Muslim community
Shermaine Ang
27-02-2022
SINGAPORE - Quality assurance and accreditation
executive Nurshahiddin Abdul Rasid, 30, failed mathematics at the O levels when
he was a teenager and could not get into a junior college or polytechnic.
It was a wake-up call that pushed him to study hard at
a private school, and he made it into the Singapore Management University,
where he eventually earned a Master of Science in Management.
After graduating in 2020, he signed up as a volunteer
with Malay/Muslim self-help group Mendaki to tutor pupils under its Primary
School Leaving Examination Maths
Coaching Programme. He did not want children who did not like studying to have
the same regrets that he did.
Source: Antara News
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Zahid: BN does not see multi-cornered contests as
advantage
27 Feb 2022
BATU PAHAT, Feb 27 — Barisan Nasional (BN) does not
view the situation of being involved in 35 four-cornered fights in the Johor
state election as an advantage for the party to score easy wins, said BN
chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
“The winds of change have begun to blow in Johor, not
only among the Malays support from
Indian and Chinese voters especially in urban areas has started to shift to BN
candidates,” he told reporters after attending a gathering with the people at
the Ayer Hitam Barat voting district centre here today.
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NGOs representing PwD says JKMPay should be void as
Ministry failed to consult them as required
BY R. LOHESWAR
27 Feb 2022
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 — Malaysia Independent Living
Association for Disabled (MILAD) today said that the Ministry of Women, Family
and Community Development (KPWKM) had no right to amend the Social Welfare
Department’s (JKM) cash payment system for the local disabled community.
MILAD president pastor Sia Siew Chin said the ministry
failed to abide by their own Action Plan for Persons with Disabilities
2016-2022 which states that the disabled community must be consulted before any
changes are made to their welfare.
Sia pointed out that the ‘Core Strategy 6’ in the plan
clearly states that the disabled community’s participation is necessary in any
decision-making process but in this case it wasn’t hence the change is void.
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South Asia
Islamic Emirate Concerned for Safety of Afghans in
Ukraine
By Shirshah Rasooli
27-02-2022
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said on Twitter
that it was in close contact with several regional “governments and
international organizations in this regard.”
The Islamic Emirate “is concerned for the safety of
Afghan citizens and students in Ukraine and is utilizing all available
facilities and communication channels to safeguard its citizens and evacuate
them to safety,” MoFA’s Spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi said.
Source: Tolo News
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Khost province residents ordered to remove
Afghanistan’s flags from homes
By Najibullah Lalzoy
27 Feb 2022
The provincial governor of the eastern Khost province
Muhammad Nabi Omari ordered residents of the province to collect and remove
Afghanistan’s (black, red, green) flag from the rooftops of their homes and
houses and from their vehicles.
The provincial head of the Taliban in a gathering on
Saturday, February 26, 2022, said that the citizens of Khost province only have
three days to remove flags.
Source: khaama Press
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Taliban Launches Vast Clean-Up Operation In Kabul,
Neighbouring Provinces
By Najibullah Lalzoy
26 Feb 2022
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has launched its
first-ever vast clean-up operations in the Afghan capital Kabul and its
neighbouring provinces aimed at tracing kidnappers, thieves, and offenders.
Spokesperson of the Kabul police-Taliban security
forces- Habib Zadran said that the ongoing clean-up operations were launched at
the behest of the residents of Kabul not against them.
Source: khaama Press
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Universities across Afghanistan reopen after six
months
By Najibullah Lalzoy
26 Feb 2022
All universities across Afghanistan reopened on
Saturday, February 26, 2022, six months after they were closed upon the Taliban
takeover on August 15, last year.
The universities that reopened on Wednesday are those
in non-tropical provinces where the educational year normally starts in March.
Source: khaama Press
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Mideast
Iran says ready for "immediate" nuclear deal
if Western powers show real will
February 26, 2022
DUBAI, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Iran is ready to
"immediately conclude" a deal in talks to revive its 2015 nuclear
accord with world powers if Western powers show real will, Iranian Foreign
Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Saturday.
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Progress toward Iran nuclear deal, but issues remain:
US official
REUTERS
February 27, 2022
WASHINGTON: Negotiators have made significant progress
in the last week or so on an agreement to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal but
very tough issues remain, a senior US State Department official has said.
“There’s been significant progress over the last week
or two. We have significantly narrowed the areas that still need to be resolved.
And so, in that sense, there has been progress that has been moving toward a
potential deal,” he told reporters.
Source: Reuters
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North America
UN Security Council To Meet In Emergency Session Over
Moscow's Invasion Of Ukraine
February 27, 2022
The UN Security Council is scheduled to meet in an
emergency session on February 27 to vote on whether to refer a resolution
opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the General Assembly.
Russia on February 25 blocked the move with its veto
in a Security Council vote.
Source: Rferl.
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‘Power Book II: Ghost’: Mecca Actor Reveals What He
Really Thought of That Death
Chelsea Stewart
February 26, 2022
Death is not a new concept on Power Book II: Ghost.
The series has caught plenty of bodies since launching on Starz in 2020 — from
Lil’ Guap to Jabari Reynolds. But what happened to Mecca felt more pointed and
surprising. Daniel Sunjata (Mecca) admits he was also shocked as he expected
Mecca to go out with his guns blazing.
Source: Cheat Sheet
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Africa
‘Most Senior Deputy Should Be Appointed Chief Imam Of
Okene’
By Tijani Labaran
February 27, 2022
The El-Birru Muslim Association of Nigeria (EMAN) has
recommended the appointment of the most senior of the five deputy chief imams
at the Ebira Central Mosque, Okene, Kogi State to become the substantive chief
imam of the mosque.
The association said that was the only measure to
resolve the lingering crisis over the selection of a new chief imam for the
mosque.
Source: Rferl.
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Islamic Movement Lists 12 Ailments El-Zakzaky, Wife
Currently Suffers, Condemns Buhari Government For Withholding Passports
By Saharareporters
FEB 26, 2022
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria has raised fresh
concerns over the deteriorating health conditions of their leader, Sheikh
Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, his wife, Zeenah, and the denial of their passports by the
President Muhammadu Buhari regime.
The Shiites Academic Forum in a press statement issued
in Abuja by the Secretary of the forum, Abdullahi Musa, said the continued
withholding of the duo's passports and denying them of medical trips abroad was
a move to complete what the Nigerian Army started at the end of 2015 in Zaria,
Kaduna State.
The IMN disclosed that the couple was suffering from
at least 12 ailments and was still having poisonous bullets fragments in their
respective bodies.
Source: En.Irna
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Onga Cook Art 2022: Defending national champions
Akwamuman SHS and Islamic Girls SHS to represent Eastern region
Fostina Sarfo
26 February 2022
Defending National Champions, Akwamuman Senior High
School (SHS) had to compete with 12 other schools to retain their title.
By the end of Round One, the reigning champions were
in a comfortable lead. But there was a threat, Islamic Girls SHS; Suhum
determined to secure their slot in the national competition, followed Akwamuman
SHS closely.
Source: Myjoy Online
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India
Anjuman-e-Sharie Shian Strongly Condemns Opening Of
Liquor Shops In Jammu And Kashmir
February 27, 2022
Jammu and Kashmir Anjuman-E-Sharie Shian will oppose
the new mischievous excise policy of the govt and push for totally alcohol
prohibition in the Jammu and Kashmir.
Jammu and Kashmir Anjuman-E-Sharie Shian President Aga
Syed Hassan Mosavi Al-Safavi has
strongly condemned the order by government about the Opening of New Liquor
shops.
Source: ABNA24.com
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Arab world
Saudi Arabia to allow ‘immune’ children to Holy
Mosques
26 Feb 2022
Doha: The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Hajj and Umrah
announced on Friday that children aged 7 and above can now enter the two Holy
Mosques provided the ‘Tawakkalna’ application shows their health status as
“immune”.
This information was shared by Makkah region on its
Twitter account yesterday.
Source: The Peninsula Qatar
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Saudi land forces, Pakistani army continue joint
exercise
ARAB NEWS
February 27, 2022
RIYADH: The Royal Saudi Land Forces continued the “Al
Samsam 8” joint exercise with the Pakistani Army in Pakistan, the Kingdom’s
defense ministry said on Saturday.
During the past few days, the participants carried out
several maneuvers that included special exercises in a number of areas,
including encircling cities and liberating hostages. They have also been
trained ini irregular war operations, wh8ich will continue over the next few
days.
Source: Arab News
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Cyprus seeks to attract more Saudi tourists: Minister
SALEH FAREED
February 27, 2022
JEDDAH: Cyprus Minister for Tourism Savvas Perdios has
revealed recently that the Mediterranean country is prepared to welcome Saudi
tourists as he confirmed the opening of direct flights to and from Jeddah.
The minister, who arrived last week to Saudi Arabia
for a short visit to promote the country’s tourism industry, held separate
meetings with senior officials from the Saudi Chamber of Commerce and the
General Authority of Civil Aviation as well as air carriers and representatives
of travel agencies.
“We are here campaigning to encourage airline
companies to keep their connections with the island and to convince tour
operators to set up packages for Cyprus by buying seats on scheduled flights,”
the minister said.
Source: Arab News
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Saudi Arabia arrests 13,594 illegals in one week
SPA
February 27, 2022
RIYADH: Saudi authorities arrested 13,594 people in
one week for breaching residency, work and border security regulations.
From Feb. 17 to 23, a total of 7,465 people were
arrested for violations of residency rules, while 4,299 were held over illegal
border crossing attempts, and a further 1,830 for labor-related issues.
Source: Arab News
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Saudi Arabia’s KSrelief, UNICEF launch education
training for Yemenis
SPA
February 27, 2022
ADEN: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief
Center recently launched a training course for educators in cooperation with
UNICEF as part of a project to support Yemeni children’s access to quality
education opportunities.
The training course lasts for eight days, during which
60 people in the education sector receive training in security, safety and
teacher readiness.
The director of the office of the Ministry of
Education in the Aden governorate, Abdul Raqib Al-Raqibi, noted that the
course’s outputs will train both teachers and students and form qualified teams
that will contribute to the stability of the educational process, especially in
light of the current humanitarian crisis.
Source: Arab News
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Europe
Russia-Ukraine war: British Muslim MP reports 'death threat'
after misreporting
By MEE staff
26 February 2022
Zarah Sultana, a British Muslim MP with the Labour
party, said on Friday that she had received "a death threat... filled with
racist abuse" linked to her misreported views on Ukraine.
"I am in no doubt that this horrific and absurd
attack is the direct result of inaccurate media reports and deliberately
misleading press comments," she wrote in a Facebook post.
A local BBC radio station apologised to her earlier in
the week, she said, for falsely stating she had "suggested Nato is
responsible for the crisis in Ukraine".
Source: Middle East Eye
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Russia summons Israeli ambassador over position on
military operations in Ukraine
February 27, 2022
Russia has summoned the Israeli ambassador to the
country’s capital for clarifications over the occupying regime’s position
regarding the Russian military operations in Ukraine.
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov
called in Alexander Ben Zvi on Friday after Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid
lambasted Moscow’s military actions in the former Soviet state and said the
military operation was “a grave violation of the international order.”
In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said
Bogdanov and Ben Zvi discussed the situation in Ukraine and the Russian
diplomat had “expressed hope” that Israel would show understanding toward
Moscow’s motives for the military campaign rather than backing
"Nazis."
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Europe, Islamic countries hold online meeting on
tourism, health tourism
Feb 26, 2022
It is said that another such meeting is also scheduled
to be held next year.
Secretary General of the Health Tourism Development Center
of Islamic Countries Majid Zangooei told IRNA that the participants have
welcomed the event owing to the endeavor of the keen young generation of the
country.
Source: En.Irna
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Russian invasion of Ukraine, UN may call emergency
meeting
By Najibullah Lalzoy
27 Feb 2022
As Russian forces are pressing towards the Ukrainian
capital Kyiv, the United Nations Security Council plans to vote to call General
Assembly on Ukraine.
The United Nations Security Council will be voting on
Sunday to make the 193-member body hold an emergency meeting on Monday,
February 28 to address the situation in Ukraine.
Diplomats say that voting of the 15-member council is
procedural so no permanent member-France, Russia, China, UK, US- can wield vetoes
and the move need a total of nine votes.
Source: khaama Press
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