Mosque Needs To Be Removed For Smooth Traffic Flow, Recommends The Removal Of A 150-Year-Old Mosque: NDMC to HC
New
Age Islam News Bureau
15
August 2023
The traffic congestion on
the Sunehri Bagh Road roundabout and in the adjoining area has become a matter
of serious concern, the NDMC told the court. | Photo Credit: File Photo
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• Mosque Needs To Be Removed For Smooth Traffic Flow,
Recommends The Removal Of A 150-Year-Old Mosque: NDMC to HC
• National Character Most Significant Force To Be
Developed Nation By 2047: PM
• Cape Town: Parliament Looks To Amend Divorce Act To
Include Muslim Marriages
• Barred From The Pool, Doused With Alcohol: Muslims
Targeted At Montenegrin Beach Resorts
• Investigation Launched Into Photoshoot In Ankara
Mosque Over 'Revealing Outfit'
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India
• Who is Monu Manesar, Indian vigilante accused of
inciting Haryana violence?
• Independence Day: More medals for cops in anti-Maoist
operations than those in J&K
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Africa
• CAN Tackles Muslim Groups Over Sanwo-Olu’s
Commissioners-Nominee List
• Nigerian Islamic clerics meet Niger Junta
• Mufti Derian Meets Saudi Islamic Affairs Minister
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North
America
• Britain, US Issue Travel Advisory For Possible
Terrorist Attacks In Sweden After Quran Burning
• Biden Administration Urges Colleges To Pursue Racial
Diversity Without Affirmative Action
• UN force in Mali quits base early over insecurity
• APD looking for suspects in Midtown mosque burglary
• Donald Trump Calls Far-Right, Anti-Muslim Extremist
Laura Loomer ‘Terrific’ In New Video
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Mideast
• Iran arrests 8 'foreigners' after fatal shooting at
Shiite shrine
• Iran Says It Is Committed To Resolving Nuclear
Dispute Through Diplomacy
• ‘Written out the history books’: the British spy who
planned the Iranian coup
• Is the U.S.-Iran hostage swap finally materialising?
• UK should finally acknowledge role in 1953 Iran
coup, says David Owen
• Iran’s flawed strategy of promoting Latin American
ties
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Arab
World
• Saudi Arabia Will Issue Billions In Sharia-Compliant
Bonds
• Two Saudi citizens jailed for 17 years for drug
possession with intent to supply
• Pilgrimage to Medina, Mecca was a life-altering experience
• UN: Islamic State still has thousands of fighters
across Syria and Iraq
• Under protection from Israeli police, fanatic
settlers storm Jerusalem's Aqsa mosque
• KSrelief continues distributing food parcels to
Sudan
• Minister emphasizes importance of Makkah conference
given challenges facing Islamic world
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South Asia
• Protests In Bangladesh After Jailed Islamist Leader,
Delwar Hossain Sayedee, Dies
• Mosques and madrasahs being checked in Bishkek
• Blast in eastern Afghanistan kills 3, wounds 7 at
hotel frequented by Pakistani refugees
• Two years on, we fear that a second withdrawal
Afghanistan is under way
• Afghanistan refugees being let down by UK, says
think tank
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Pakistan
• 3 Midnight Militant Attacks Repulsed In Peshawar
• Mentally Unsound Man Still Has Right To Be Heard:
LHC
• Sindh picks interim chief minister, Balochistan
undecided
• Anwaarul Haq Kakar Sworn In As Caretaker Prime
Minister Amid Allies’ Grumblings
• President announces Civil Awards for citizens,
foreigners
• IHC seeks record of official accommodations
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Southeast
Asia
• Mosque In Serangoon North Suspends Over-The-Counter
Zakat After Suspicious Transactions Detected
• 'They just want KFC after voting': Nur Jazlan
laments Malay youths' lack of political awareness, says affected Umno’s chances
• Prosecutors to appeal against court's ruling on
Muhyiddin's acquittal in four power abuse charges
• Zahid says aware of calls to step down, but party's
leadership will share blame for Umno’s dismal showing in state polls
• Ahmad Samsuri sworn in as Terengganu MB for second
term
• In Johor, seven teens remanded two days for assault
on 15-year-old boy
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Europe
• Sweden Calls For Vigilance Abroad After Quran Desecrations
And Protests In Muslim World
• 'Racist' jailed for abusing Muslims at mosque,
including threatening to 'slit throat' of five-year-old boy
• Hawaii's governor warns that scores more people
could be found dead following wildfires on Maui
• German minister stuck in Abu Dhabi after another
govt plane problem
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New
Zealand
• Sydney Airport: Man charged after incident on board
Malaysia Airlines flight
• Aeroplane passenger reveals what kicked-off
mid-flight confrontation
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Mosque Needs To Be Removed For Smooth Traffic Flow,
Recommends The Removal Of A 150-Year-Old Mosque: NDMC to HC
The traffic congestion on
the Sunehri Bagh Road roundabout and in the adjoining area has become a matter
of serious concern, the NDMC told the court. | Photo Credit: File Photo
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August 15, 2023
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has recommended
the removal of a 150-year-old mosque at the Sunehri Bagh Road roundabout to the
High Court “for safe and smooth flow of traffic”.
The court was hearing a plea by the Delhi Waqf Board
seeking to restrain the NDMC from causing any harm to the mosque. In its
response to the plea, the NDMC said the area falls in the high-security zone,
being near Central government offices, Parliament, and offices of high-ranking
Defence officers. “Due to the movement of senior officials and foreign
dignitaries, the heavy traffic congestion on this roundabout has become a
matter of serious concern,” the NDMC said. The civic agency told the court that
it had carried out a joint inspection with the Delhi Traffic Police twice, and
the officials concerned had unanimously concluded that the religious structure
needed to be removed or relocated.
In its petition, the Delhi Waqf Board had argued that
the mosque’s existence was not the cause of traffic in the area and that the
board had received intimation about the inspection on a less than 24-hour
notice.
Justice Prateek Jalan extended the interim order directing
the authorities to maintain the status quo and listed the matter for further
hearing on October 6.
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National Character Most Significant Force To Be
Developed Nation By 2047: PM
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi delivers his Independence Day speech from the ramparts
of the Red Fort on Tuesday (HT Photo/Sanjeev Verma)
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By HT Correspondent
Aug 15, 2023
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday
said he has an unwavering belief that India will celebrate its Independence Day
in 2047 as a developed country and emphasized that national character would be
an important catalyst to India’s progress.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers his Independence
Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Tuesday (HT Photo/Sanjeev Verma)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers his Independence
Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Tuesday (HT Photo/Sanjeev
Verma)
“I have an unwavering belief that in 2047, when the
country will celebrate 100 years of independence, my country will be a
developed India,” PM Modi said at the Red Fort on Tuesday.
PM Modi, who also reiterated his promise to make India
the world’s third-largest economy within the next five years, said: “And I am
saying this on the basis of the strength of my country. Saying on the basis of
my available resources and most of all on the basis of my youth power under 30
years of age. I am telling this on the strength of my mothers and sisters”.
Modi added that the target to become a developed
nation in 25 years was not just a dream but a “resolution of 140 crore
countrymen.”
“And to prove that resolution, there is the
culmination of hard work and its biggest strength is national character. The
countries that have made progress in the world, the countries that have come
out after crossing the crisis, along with everything else, there has been an
important catalytic agent, that has been the national character. And we have to
move forward by giving more emphasis to the national character,” the PM said.
“May our country, our national character be bright,
mighty and intense; This is the collective responsibility of all of us. And for
the coming 25 years, we should follow only one mantra, this should be the
pinnacle of our national character. The message of unity, living the unity of
India, the unity of India should not be harmed, neither my language will be
like this, nor will I do any step like this. Efforts will continue to be made
from my side to connect the country every moment,” PM Modi added.
PM Modi also added that the government has a clear
resolution. “There is no question mark on our resolution. But we have to accept
some realities and solve them,” he said, “Transparency and fairness are our
strong requirements. It should be our collective responsibility to nurture that
source of strength through institutions, as citizens and as families,” he said.
PM Modi maintained that India has no dearth of
resources but reminded that the Amrit Kaal (the next 25 years) was also the
time for duty.
“When the war of independence was going on, the
generation that was born before 1947 got the opportunity to die for the
country. They did not leave any chance to die for the country, but we do not
have the chance to die for the country. But there cannot be a bigger
opportunity than this for us to live for the country. We have to live every
moment for the country, along with this resolution, we also have to make a
resolution for the dreams of 140 crore countrymen in this immortal period. The
resolution of 140 crore countrymen has to be converted into achievement and
when the tricolour will be hoisted in 2047, then the world will be praising a
developed India,” Modi said.
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Cape Town: Parliament Looks To Amend Divorce Act To
Include Muslim Marriages
A view from the gallery of
the Constitutional Court. Picture: SA History
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Lindsay
Dentlinger
14 August 2023
CAPE TOWN - Parliament is looking to amend the
country’s more than 40-year-old Divorce Act for the first time to include
Muslim marriages.
"They are given the same protection as any other
child of any other marriage in South Africa that includes maintenance,
guardianship, care and contact."
“There, they would look at whether the husband is the
spouse in more than one Muslim marriage, so that women are afforded protection
where that is the case.”
Parliament is still considering whether to proceed
with a private member’s bill introduced by the Al Jama-ah party to recognise
Muslim marriages.
Muslim religious marriages are not included in a draft
marriages bill also currently before Parliament and open for public comment
until the end of August.
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Barred From The Pool, Doused With Alcohol: Muslims
Targeted At Montenegrin Beach Resorts
A family takes photos next
to a crescent moon-shaped decoration placed in the town of Ulcinj on April 9,
during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
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August 14, 2023
By Srdjan Jankovic
PODGORICA -- Two incidents in quick succession this
month that targeted Muslims in religious dress have cast a shadow over
Montenegro's sun-splashed coast and its reputation for religious tolerance.
First, on August 4, a Kuwaiti woman in an Islamic head
scarf and her family were doused with an alcoholic beverage from a hotel
balcony overlooking the sidewalk in the medieval town of Budva on the Adriatic
coast.
Two days later, a man berated and barred a teenager in
a Burkini -- the Muslim-inspired swimsuit that covers all but the face, hands,
and feet -- from a pool near Utjeha Beach, which is about 20 kilometres south
of the coastal town of Bar. Asked why, the man responded: "Because I hate
Muslims and 300 guests object to it."
But some Montenegrins have responded to say they can't
recall such incidents occurring in the past in their corner of the Balkans.
"Islamophobia, and especially gender-based Islamophobia,
is present in Montenegro," longtime human rights activist
AleskandarZekovic told RFE/RL's Balkan Service. "In both incidents, the
targets of the attacks were women, which means that the practice of religious
identity by women is very much the target of attacks by those who are driven by
some kind of intolerance toward diversity."
Around one-fifth of Montenegro's 620,000 residents
identify as Muslim, divided mainly between Bosnian-speaking ethnic Bosniaks and
ethnic Albanians.
Bar and its environs have been hailed for years as a
model of multifaith coexistence, including to a considerable extent during the
1990s. The region is also a popular tourist destination among Muslims from
elsewhere in Europe and farther abroad.
Some locals trace that "tradition of
coexistence" back more than a century to a chatty mufti who got along
famously with his Orthodox and Catholic counterparts; others say it stretches
back much further.
But nationally, a spate of anti-Muslim incidents
followed elections in 2020 that were marked by Serbian Orthodox activism and a
resurgence by Serbian nationalist parties.
In Budva, an 18-year-old Austrian national of Serb
descent was fined 250 euros ($272) for "brazen and reckless" behavior
toward the Kuwaiti tourists, specifically for "spilling liquid" on
them, according to an official statement obtained by RFE/RL. Alcohol is banned
under strict interpretations of Islam.
In Utjeha, local radio and TV outlet Rozaje News
shared a video on Facebook of a man later identified as Dragan Djurovic, the
owner of a beachfront restaurant, shouting insults at a group that included a
girl in a burkini, saying they couldn't use the pool. The video, from August 4
and posted three days later, included the "because I hate Muslims"
retort. He said her presence would frighten off "normal" guests.
On August 6, a man whose family is from the
northeastern Montenegrin city of Rozaje but who lives in Belgium complained to
police that his daughter had been insulted by the man and prevented from using
the Utjeha Beach "in a burkini swimsuit."
Investigators from Bar and the Montenegrin capital,
Podgorica, concluded that there had been no criminal wrongdoing and merely
pledged to initiate misdemeanor proceedings "if it is determined that
there are elements of a misdemeanor in the actions."
Montenegro's controversial Bar to Boljare highway was
financed by the Export-Import Bank of China with an immense loan and created
long-term economic risk by saddling the country with debts to Beijing that once
totaled more than a third of the state budget.
After some public outcry, the man in the video,
Djurovic, said the video clip had been edited selectively and said guests in
hijab are welcome "but not at the swimming pools, where there is a sign
stating that bathing in clothing is not allowed for hygiene reasons and the
opposition of guests."
Burkinis are the creation of a Lebanese-Australian
fashion designer and are usually made of similar fabric as other swimsuits.
While initially intended to comply with hijab, a strict interpretation of
Islamic dress, they also gained popularity among non-Muslims eager to block
potentially cancer-causing rays of the sun.
France, Germany, and Belgium have grappled with
burkini bans that add a layer of complexity to questions of religious practice
in secular societies. A group of Belgian communities commissioned an opinion
piece in 2017 from the independent public institution Unia that solicited the
views of experts in which it said burkinis posed no health, safety, or hygiene
risks.
"I guess it's legal and legitimate to hate
Muslims in 'liberated' Montenegro," RifatFejzic, head of the Islamic
Community in Montenegro, commented after the authorities' response to the
Utjeha incident. He urged the government to do more to ensure that diversity is
respected in the country.
"Hatred must not be tolerated in any form, and it
should have been considered whether there are elements of a criminal
offense," Veselin Radulovic, a lawyer with experience on rights issues,
said. "We have elements of hatred across the nation. It should not have
been concluded so leniently, with only a misdemeanour."
Bosniak Party lawmaker Kenana Strujic Harbic called it
a sign that the "not-so-long-dormant beast of primitivism, savagery, and
backwardness" has been reawakened in Montenegro.
Around 70 percent of the population of the Ulcinj
municipality, of which Utjeha is a part, declares itself Muslim, and burkinis
are a fairly common site on Ulcinj's beaches.
Arjona Resulani, a journalist from Ulcinj who broke
barriers when she became the first presenter regularly to appear on Montenegrin
television in Islamic dress, told RFE/RL's Balkan Service after the Utjeha
incident that she's been wearing a burkini for months and "I haven't
noticed any condemnation."
She said that included the beach at Utjeha. But
"after what happened, of course, I won't [wear] it again. I wouldn't like
to be in a situation like the girl from yesterday, where I feel bad about my
choice."
Montenegrin law bans discrimination on religious
grounds and is monitored by an ombudsman whose determinations may be enforced
by courts.
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Investigation Launched Into Photoshoot In Ankara Mosque
Over 'Revealing Outfit'
File Photo: Ankara’s
Kocatepe Mosque
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August 14 2023
Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on Aug. 14
launched an investigation into a photoshoot held in the capital Ankara’s
Kocatepe Mosque over “"publicly insulting the religious values adopted by
a section of the public.”
The move came after Islamist and pro-government
figures targeted the photoshoot and its crew as they said the model wore a
“revealing outfit” inside a mosque.
In a statement, the prosecutor’s office said the model
woman was determined to be with the initials E.C. living in Ankara and that
research is ongoing to determine the identity of the director of the photoshoot,
state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
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India
Who is Monu Manesar, Indian vigilante accused of
inciting Haryana violence?
By Alishan Jafri
14 Aug 2023
Nuh, India – In February this year, two Muslim men
were abducted and allegedly burned alive in their car by a group of cow
vigilantes in India’s northern state of Haryana.
As the charred skeletons of the two men – Nasir
Hussain, 28, and Junaid Khan, 35 – were discovered inside an SUV in the state’s
Bhiwani district, the main accused, 28-year-old Mohit Yadav, became a poster
boy of cow vigilantism in India and a subject of extensive public scrutiny.
Haryana is governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been accused of patronising Yadav,
better known as Monu Manesar, and preventing his arrest in numerous such cases
of cow-related attacks and even killings.
Many Hindus belonging to the privileged castes
consider cows sacred. The sale and consumption of beef are banned in several
Indian states, mostly in the north.
Dozens of Muslims have been lynched on suspicion of
killing or transporting cows since 2014 in attacks critics say were enabled by
the rise of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power.
In Nuh, Haryana’s only Muslim-majority district,
Manesar heads the local cow protection unit of the Bajrang Dal, the far-right
youth wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council or VHP), which in
turn is affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the BJP’s
ideological mentor.
Founded in 1925, the RSS aims to create an ethnic
Hindu state out of a constitutionally secular and religiously diverse India.
The secretive organisation has millions of lifetime members across the world’s
most populous nation and also abroad.
On July 31, the VHP and the Bajrang Dal decided to
take out a religious procession through Nuh, with many participants carrying swords,
tridents, sticks and firearms, and allegedly raising anti-Muslim slogans.
Two days before the procession, a Facebook video went
viral, showing Manesar exhorting Hindus to congregate “in large numbers” for
the procession in Nuh, saying he will also be there.
According to the police and the Hindu groups, the
mostly Muslim residents of Nuh, angry over the February killings of Nasir and
Junaid and other such incidents involving Manesar, attacked their procession
with stones and burned some vehicles along the highway.
Nuh’s Muslims, in turn, accuse the Hindu groups of
starting the violence, in which at least six people, including two Bajrang Dal
members and two police guards, one of them Muslim, were killed.
Soon, the violence spread to the neighbouring Gurugram
district where a mosque was attacked and its imam beaten and stabbed to death.
In response to the violence, more than 1,000
properties – mostly belonging to Muslims – were bulldozed by the Haryana
government in Nuh, forcing an Indian court to ask if it was an “exercise of
ethnic cleansing”.
Last week, several village councils in the region and
a leading farmers’ group demanded Manesar’s immediate arrest to restore
communal harmony and peace in the region, less than 100km (62 miles) from the
national capital, New Delhi.
Since his college days, Manesar, who holds a
polytechnic diploma in engineering, has been a member of the Bajrang Dal, a
group with a decades-old history of attacking minorities, mainly Muslims and
Christians.
He was only 21 when a horrifying video, again from
Haryana, showing him and his men attacking Muslims went viral in the summer of
2016. The video showed two Muslim men, their faces swollen and bloodied, being
forced to eat cow dung after they were beaten for allegedly transporting beef.
Such videos are shared widely by right-wing Hindu
groups on social media and WhatsApp groups to terrorise Muslims and other
minorities. Soon, Manesar began to gain notoriety as a hardline vigilante.
His YouTube channel won a silver play button for having
over 200,000 subscribers while his Facebook page boasted of more than 83,000
followers.
His posts mostly featured videos of high-speed chases
and crashes, men flashing firearms and firing at trucks allegedly carrying
beef, and photos and videos of injured men, usually Muslims, attacked by his
team. Some photos showed him with powerful politicians and officers, including
Home Minister Amit Shah.
Despite Meta and Google taking down his Facebook and
YouTube pages respectively earlier this year, his videos are still shared
widely by numerous fan pages run by right-wing groups and individuals.
Meanwhile, Manesar began to appear in debates on
pro-BJP news channels, where he defended his violent cow vigilantism and
attacks on Muslims.
In 2021, Manesar was invited to speak at a
mahapanchayat, or a grand council of villages, called in support of some Hindu
men accused of murdering a Muslim gym trainer, Asif Khan, who was also from
Nuh.
At the mahapanchayat, Manesar was introduced as someone
who shoots and gets shot at by “cow-smugglers”. In his speech, Manesar asked
the crowd to prepare a list of Muslim men allegedly involved in “love jihad” –
a far-right conspiracy theory that believes Muslim men target Hindu women
through romance and marriage in order to convert them to Islam.
After the killings of Hussain and Khan in February,
multiple victims came out in public with chilling testimonies and video
evidence of torture posted online by the vigilante groups. The demands to
arrest Manesar and his associates grew.
Imran Khan told Al Jazeera his cousin, Waris Khan, a
motorcycle mechanic, was also allegedly lynched by Manesar’s gang a few weeks
before Nasir and Junaid were murdered.
While police claimed Waris’ death was an accident, a
video appeared showing him and two other men being forcibly shoved into a car.
The man shooting the video asks the men to tell their names on camera.
Imran alleged the video was telecast live on Manesar’s
Facebook page and showed Waris injured and bleeding, hours before he succumbed
to his injuries at a government hospital in Nalhar.
In recent years, Nuh, also known as Mewat, has become
an easy target for vigilante raids under the garb of cow protection, adding to
anger and distrust among its residents.
“There was anger in the whole village when Monu
Manesar was not arrested after Nasir and Junaid’s murder. If he was not given
impunity by the government, he would not be roaming free. If he had not
released his video before the July 31 procession in Nuh, riots would not have
taken place,” Maksood Khan, a 22-year-old truck driver from neighbouring
Rajasthan state, told Al Jazeera.
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Independence Day: More medals for cops in anti-Maoist
operations than those in J&K
Aug 15, 2023
NEW DELHI: In continuation with a trend seen since
this year's Republic Day, the number of police medals awarded on Independence
Day eve for gallantry displayed in fighting left-wing extremism (125) have
surpassed the count of those announced for personnel engaged in counter-terror
operations in J&K (71).
On Monday, 954 police medals were announced, including
a President's Police Medal for Gallantry to be awarded to CRPF assistant
commandant Loukrakpam Ibomcha Singh, 229 police medal for gallantry, 82
President's police medal for distinguished services and 642 police medal for
meritorious service.
CRPF assistant commandant Loukrakpam Ibomcha Singh,
part of the paramilitary forces' Kashmir Valley quick action team, was honoured
with PPMG for an operation on June 21, 2020, in which he performed a daring
room intervention to neutralise a dreaded terrorist holed up in a building.
As many as 125 or 54% of the 230 gallantry awards
recognise acts of bravery in Naxal-hit areas, while 71 or 30% medals honour
personnel engaged in fighting terrorism in J&K. Eleven personnel deployed
in the North-East are also in the PMG list. Among the various police forces,
the maximum gallantry medals have been bagged by J&K police, followed by 33
by Maharashtra police, 27 by CRPF, 24 by Chhattisgarh police and 22 by Tamil
Nadu police.
The shift, to some extent, may be explained by the
improving security situation in J&K and a lull in operations during Covid
lockdown. On the other hand, the fight against Left-wing extremism has entered
a decisive state as the counter-Naxal forces move deeper into the CPI (Maoist)
bastions in the jungles of Chhattisgarh and adjoining states.
A key PMG awardee this I-Day eve is IGP, Kashmir,
Vijay Kumar. He has been leading counter-terror operations in J&K's Kashmir
division from the front.
In terms of the overall tally, there is a tie between
CRPF and UP police for the No. 1 spot with 89 medals each, though CRPF's 29
gallantry medals far surpass the UP police's 13.
As many as 20 officers of CBI have been awarded the
President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service and Police Medal for Meritorious
Service. Six officers — joint director Nawal Bajaj, SP Virender Mohan Mittal,
additional SP Maharshi Ray Hajong, deputy SP Nilambur Narayanan Srikrishnan and
sub-inspectors Geeta Paul and Rajeshwar Singh Rana have been awarded
President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service. Fourteen CBI officers have
been awarded the Police Medal for Meritorious Service, it said.
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Africa
CAN tackles Muslim groups over Sanwo-Olu’s
commissioners-nominee list
By Dachen Isaac
August 15, 2023
The Lagos State chapter of the Christian Association
of Nigeria (CAN), has taken on the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), and other
Muslim bodies for criticising the list of commissioners nominated by Governor
BabajideSanwo-Olu.
The Islamic organisations had, last week, slammed the
governor over the list, claiming they had been marginalised after fighting to
return the governor to office in the 2023 gubernatorial election.
The over 30 Muslim groups under the aegis of the Joint
Muslims Forum (JMF), had expressed dissatisfaction after Sanwo-Olu sent the
list to the House of Assembly for confirmation, calling on the House to
disregard the list which they said did not have a balance as it favoured the
Christian community with just eight Muslims on the list of the 39-man list.
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Nigerian Islamic clerics meet Niger Junta
by Tribune Online
August 13, 2023
Top Nigerian Islamic clerics met with the leader of
the military coup in Niger, AbdourahmaneTchiani.
The national leader of the
Jama’atuIzalatuBidi’ahwaIkamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS) alongside other Islamic
scholars arrived Niger’s capital. Niamey, on Saturday.
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MUFTI DERIAN MEETS SAUDI ISLAMIC AFFAIRS MINISTER
14-08-2023
NNA - Grand Mufti Sheikh AbdellatifDerian met in Mecca
with Saudi Arabia's Minister of Islamic Affairs Sheikh Dr. Abdullatif
Al-Sheikh, over an array of religious affairs.
Both stressed the necessity of "unifying the
stance of the Muslims and enhancing the image and noble values of Islam."
They also highlighted the importance of the
cooperation and coordination between Lebanon's Dar-al-Fatwa and Saudi Arabia's
Ministry of Islamic Affairs.
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America
Britain, US issue travel advisory for possible
terrorist attacks in Sweden after Quran burning
by: C.G. Jones
08/14/2023
Britain urged its citizens traveling to Sweden on
Sunday to remain cautious of a possible terrorist attack following the Quran
burnings by anti-Islam activists last month.
Reuters reported that Britain’s updated travel advice
noted Swedish authorities had already stopped planned attacks and made some
arrests since the burning.
The update said “you should be vigilant at this time,”
adding that “terrorists are very likely to try and carry out attacks in
Sweden.” It went on to note that places visited by tourists could be potential
targets for such attacks.
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Biden administration urges colleges to pursue racial
diversity without affirmative action
Aug 14, 2023
WASHINGTON: Colleges can focus their recruiting in
high minority areas, for example, and take steps to retain students of color
who are already on campus, including by offering affinity clubs geared toward
students of a certain race. Colleges can also consider how an applicant’s race
has shaped personal experience, as detailed in students’ application essays or
letters of recommendation, according to the new guidance.
It also encourages them to consider ending policies
known to stint racial diversity, including preferences for legacy students and
the children of donors.
“Ensuring access to higher education for students from
different backgrounds is one of the most powerful tools we have to prepare
graduates to lead an increasingly diverse nation and make real our country’s
promise of opportunity for all,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a
statement.
The guidance, from the Justice and Education
departments, arrives as colleges across the nation attempt to navigate a new
era of admissions without the use of affirmative action. Schools are working to
promote racial diversity without provoking legal action from affirmative action
opponents.
Students for Fair Admission, the group that brought
the issue to the Supreme Court through lawsuits against Harvard and the
University of North Carolina, sent a letter to 150 universities in July saying
they must “take immediate steps to eliminate the use of race as a factor in
admissions.”In its guidance, the Biden administration offers a range of
policies colleges can use “to achieve a student body that is diverse across a
range of factors, including race and ethnicity.”
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UN force in Mali quits base early over insecurity
Aug 14, 2023
DAKAR: The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali on Sunday
said it had brought forward its withdrawal from a base in the north of the
country due to deteriorating security conditions.
The MINUSMA force's departure from Ber comes after the
Malian army on Saturday said six soldiers died and 24 fighters from "armed
terrorist groups" were killed in a skirmish in the area on Friday.
Former rebels from the Tuareg ethnic group also said
the army and the Russian mercenary group Wagner had attacked their forces in
Ber on Friday.
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APD looking for suspects in Midtown mosque burglary
Aug. 15, 2023
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The Atlanta Police
Department is asking for help finding two suspects that burglarized a mosque in
Midtown Atlanta.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Crime
Stoppers Atlanta tip line at (404) 577-8477, text information to 274637, or
submit tips online.
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Donald Trump Calls Far-Right, Anti-Muslim Extremist
Laura Loomer ‘Terrific’ In New Video
By RowaidaAbdelaziz
Aug 14, 2023
Former President Donald Trump praised Laura Loomer, a
self-described “Islamophobe,” as “terrific” and “very special” in a video
posted Sunday.
“You are a very opinionated lady, I have to tell you.
And in my opinion, I like that,” Trump tells Loomer in the video she shared on
X, formerly Twitter. “I appreciate all of your support.”
Loomer, who said she spent time with Trump on Sunday
at his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, called it “the best day of
[her] life.”
“There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do for him,” she
wrote in a lengthy tweet. “Donald Trump inspires me to never give up, he
inspires me to be a fighter, and he has inspired me for years, even before he
was a candidate for President. Everyone who knows me knows I am President
Trump’s biggest fan.”
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Mideast
Iran arrests 8 'foreigners' after fatal shooting at
Shiite shrine
Aug 14, 2023
"Eight people suspected of links with the
terrorist attack... have been arrested," according to the judiciary's
Mizan Online website, quoting Fars province chief justice Kazem Mousavi.
The main suspect was arrested on Sunday night shortly
after the attack, and Mizan identified him as RahmatollahNowruzof from
Tajikistan.
Windows were left shattered by bullets, and blood
stained the ground in a courtyard of the arched and colonnaded complex after
the shooting.
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Iran Says It Is Committed To Resolving Nuclear Dispute
Through Diplomacy
August 14, 2023
DUBAI, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Iran is committed to
resolving its nuclear dispute with world powers through diplomacy, the
country's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told reporters in a
televised news conference on Monday.
"We have always wanted a return of all parties to
full compliance of the 2015 nuclear deal," Amirabdollahian said.
Indirect talks between Washington and Tehran to revive
the nuclear agreement have stalled since last September.
Having failed to revive the pact, Tehran and
Washington said on Thursday they had reached an understanding under which $6
billion in Iranian funds will be unfrozen from South Korea while five American
nationals detained in Iran will be released.
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‘Written out the history books’: the British spy who
planned the Iranian coup
Julian Borger
15 Aug 2023
Seventy years ago, the fate of Iran hung in the
balance, when a US-UK coup to oust the elected prime minister appeared to have
failed. The CIA was ready to pull the plug on the operation, but a 28-year-old
British intelligence officer, monitoring events from a clandestine base in
Cyprus, insisted on persevering.
The coup – which took place this week 70 years ago –
ultimately succeeded, Mohammad Mosadegh, the leader who was popular in Iran for
nationalising a British-run oil-field, was detained, and the Shah flew back to
Tehran, strengthened.
Most intelligence work is collecting information. It
is rare for a spy to change the course of history in the way this MI6 officer,
Norman Darbyshire, did in 1953. British interests were restored in the short
term but the shah went on to become a reviled dictator, paving the way for the
1979 Islamic Revolution and the state of enmity between Iran and the west that
has endured ever since.
Despite the scale of events he set in train, very
little was known about Darbyshire, who planned the putsch and was instrumental
in its success. He had been put in charge of the operation by MI6 despite his
young age, because he was fluent in Farsi and had already spent nearly a decade
in Iran. From a collection of huts outside Nicosia known as the ‘stud farm’,
Darbyshire rallied his agents to whip up protests in the street. This
ultimately swung momentum from Mosadegh towards the shah.
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Is the U.S.-Iran hostage swap finally materialising?
PRIYALI PRAKASH
August 14, 2023
The story so far: Iran on Thursday moved five Iranian
Americans from prison to house arrest as part of a tentative deal that is still
being negotiated and can lead to their full release. Iran agreed to the release
in exchange for around $6-$7 billion frozen in South Korea because of sanctions
on the country, an Associated Press (AP) report said.
However, Mohammad Jamshidi, the Iranian President’s
Deputy Chief of Staff for Political Affairs, said on Friday that the American
detainees will remain in Iran until the full transfer of frozen funds, as per
an Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) report.
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UK should finally acknowledge role in 1953 Iran coup,
says David Owen
Julian Borger
15 Aug 2023
The UK should finally acknowledge its leading role in
the 1953 coup that toppled Iran’s last democratically elected leader, for the
sake of Britain’s credibility and the Iranian reform movement, a former foreign
secretary has said.
The US formally admitted its role 10 years ago with
the declassification of a large volume of intelligence documents, which made
clear that the ousting of the elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosadegh, 70
years ago this week was a joint CIA-MI6 endeavour. The formal UK government position
is to refuse to comment on an intelligence matter.
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Iran’s flawed strategy of promoting Latin American
ties
DR. MOHAMMED AL-SULAMI
August 14, 2023
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited three Latin
American countries in mid-June. This trip was an opportunity to visit three
revolutionary countries that are under US sanctions, namely Venezuela,
Nicaragua and Cuba. These countries are also ideologically close to the
revolutionary Iranian state, as they oppose the US-led international order and
Washington’s foreign policies.
One of the trip’s objectives was to publish diplomatic
statements outlining Iran’s convergence with the revolutionary Latin American
countries against US pressures and policies and to present a common agenda.
Raisi explained that Latin America is no longer “the backyard of the Americans”
because of the search for independence of each of the Latin American countries.
Despite the ideological convergence between Iran and
the revolutionary Latin American countries, they do not complement one another
from an economic standpoint. For example, even though Iran and Venezuela
proclaimed during Raisi’s visit that they aimed to reach a trade volume of $10
billion and eventually $20 billion, official trade reached only $3 billion in
2022. Also, Iran’s relationship with Nicaragua is now focused more on developing
military cooperation in order to counter US influence in Latin America, rather
than on economic matters, and Cuba has been a historical partner of Iran since
the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Overall, it can be said that the Iranian strategy in
Latin America is based on exporting and reinforcing the revolutionary ideals
that are specific to the populist ideology of the founder of the Islamic
Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Arab
World
Saudi Arabia will issue billions in Sharia-compliant
bonds
Abdul Rahman Bazian
August 14th, 2023
ALBAWABA – Saudi Arabia will issue billions in
Sharia-compliant bonds, also known as Sukuk, to bolster the domestic market,
Bloomberg reported Monday.
The Kingdom has purchased $9.52 billion worth of
outstanding debt, in debt instruments maturing in 2024, 2025 and 2026, the
National Debt Management Center said in a statement on Sunday.
Under the Local Saudi Sukuk Issuance Program, NDMC
said the government is planning to issue Sukuk for $9.57 billion, according to
Bloomberg.
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Two Saudi citizens jailed for 17 years for drug
possession with intent to supply
ARAB NEWS
August 14, 2023
RIYADH: Two Saudi citizens have been jailed for a
total of 17 years and fined SR100,000 ($26,655) after they were found guilty of
possessing drugs with intent to supply.
The man and woman had prepared a holiday home to
supply drugs and were found in possession of 100 pills of psychotropic
substances, a quantity of hashish, and scales, Saudi Press Agency reported.
Source: Arab News.Com
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Pilgrimage to Medina, Mecca was a life-altering
experience
by Hassan BadruZziwa
August 15, 2023
In June, The Observer’s Hajji HASSAN BADRU ZZIWA and
wife traveled to Muslim holy cities of Medina and Mecca for their first hajj.
It was a grueling and surreal three weeks there. In
this first of two-part series, he shares his pilgrim’s experience from
preparation to life and rituals in Medina. For decades, the dream of embarking
on the hajj had been constant in my heart but I always kept postponing it.
That’s until I broke the jinx behind me a few weeks ago.
Hajj is a significant pilgrimage in Islam that is
considered one of the five pillars of the faith. It is an annual pilgrimage to
Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is obligatory for all able-bodied Muslims who can
afford it. It is a challenging experience meant to cleanse followers of sin and
bring them closer to Allah (God).
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UN: Islamic State still has thousands of fighters
across Syria and Iraq
By EDITH M. LEDERER
15-08-2023
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Islamic State group still
commands between 5,000 and 7,000 members across its former stronghold in Syria
and Iraq and its fighters pose the most serious terrorist threat in Afghanistan
today, UN experts said in a report circulated Monday.
The experts monitoring sanctions against the militant
group, also known by its Arab acronym Daesh, said that during the first half of
2023, the threat posed by IS remained “mostly high in conflict zones and low in
non-conflict areas.”
But the panel said in a report to the UN Security
Council that “the overall situation is dynamic,” and despite significant losses
in the group’s leadership and reduced activity in Syria and Iraq, the risk of
its resurgence remains.
“The group has adapted its strategy, embedding itself
with local populations, and has exercised caution in choosing battles that are
likely to result in limited losses, while rebuilding and recruiting from camps
in the northeast of the Syrian Arab Republic and from vulnerable communities,
including in neighboring countries,” the experts said.
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Under protection from Israeli police, fanatic settlers
storm Jerusalem's Aqsa mosque
15/August/2023
JERUSALEM, Tuesday, August 15, 2023 (WAFA) – Dozens of
fanatic Israeli settlers Tuesday morning broke into the compounds of al-Aqsa
Mosque under heavy protection from the Israeli police.
The extremist settlers, divded into groups, raided the
holy Islamic Mosque from al-Maghariba gate and took provocative tours in its
compounds.
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KSrelief continues distributing food parcels to Sudan
ARAB NEWS
August 15, 2023
RIYADH: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief
Center (KSrelief) distributed 106 tons of food baskets across the Republic of
Sudan on Saturday.
The parcels were distributed to displaced individuals
in the city of Matammah and Kabushiya which are both located in the state of
River Nile.
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Minister emphasizes importance of Makkah conference
given challenges facing Islamic world
ARAB NEWS
August 14, 2023
RIYADH: Saudi Islamic Minister Sheikh Abdullatif
Al-Asheikh said convening the Makkah forum that finished on Monday was very important
considering the current challenges faced by the Islamic world.
These serious challenges include acts aimed at
distorting the image of Islam and creating divisions among Muslims, the
minister said after the “Communication with the Departments of Religious
Affairs, Ifta and Sheikhdoms in the World” ended in the holy city.
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South Asia
Protests In Bangladesh After Jailed Islamist Leader,
Delwar Hossain Sayedee, Dies
August 15, 2023
Thousands of furious protesters chanting
anti-government slogans marched in Bangladesh on Monday hours after a powerful
jailed Islamist opposition leader died of a heart attack aged 83, officials
said.
Delwar Hossain Sayedee, vice president of the
opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party, died in a prison hospital early Monday
evening, just over a decade since his conviction by a controversial war crimes
court triggered the deadliest political violence in the country's history.
Thousands of mourners and supporters of Sayedee
rallied outside the hospital after his death, chanting "Allahuakbar",
or "God is greatest", with large numbers of police deployed.
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Mosques and madrasahs being checked in Bishkek
15 August 2023
A special commission created by the city kaziyat has
been checking the activities of all religious institutions in Bishkek since
August 11. The Spiritual Directorate of the Muslims of Kyrgyzstan reports.
The documents of mosques and madrasahs, as well as
curricula, compliance with sanitary and fire safety requirements are being
checked.
The check is carried out within the framework of the
Cabinet of Ministers’ resolution on control over the activities of religious
institutions. «Appropriate measures will be taken against managers who did not
prepare for the check,» they noted.
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Blast in eastern Afghanistan kills 3, wounds 7 at
hotel frequented by Pakistani refugees
August 14, 2023
ISLAMABAD (AP) — An explosion ripped through a hotel
in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Khost on Monday, killing at least three
people and wounding seven others, police said.
The blast occurred at a city hotel frequented by
Afghan people and refugees from Pakistan’s former militant stronghold of North
Waziristan bordering Afghanistan, said MustaghfirGurbaz, a police spokesperson
in Khost.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, though
Afghanistan’s Taliban government has blamed the regional affiliate of the
Islamic State group — known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province — for
previous attacks.
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Two years on, we fear that a second withdrawal
Afghanistan is under way
15 Aug 2023
Two years ago today, international troops and
diplomats hastily withdrew from Kabul and Taliban rule returned to Afghanistan.
Afghanistan was already in the grip of a humanitarian
crisis, after decades of conflict and with the intensifying impact of climate
change. Since then, the significant deterioration of the country’s economy has
turned that crisis into a catastrophe.
Nearly 29 million Afghans are now in need of
lifesaving assistance and more than 15 million face acute hunger. The effects
of this fall disproportionately on women and girls, with UN experts estimating
that 20 years of progress for women and girls’ rights has been erased since the
Taliban takeover.
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Afghanistan refugees being let down by UK, says think
tank
By Becky Morton
15-08-2023
Many Afghan refugees have been "let down" by
the UK, with some living in hotels for up to two years and now facing eviction,
a think tank has said.
Operation Pitting saw the UK airlift around 15,000
people out of Kabul - including British nationals, as well as people who worked
with the UK in Afghanistan and their family members.
Those who had nowhere to live were placed in
government-funded hotels. This was supposed to be temporary accommodation but
by the end of March, there were still around 8,800 Afghans living in hotels.
The government has imposed a deadline of the end of
August for Afghans to be moved out of hotels, but councils have warned some are
facing homelessness as they cannot find anywhere else to live.
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Pakistan
3 Midnight Militant Attacks Repulsed In Peshawar
August 15, 2023
PESHAWAR: The police and security forces repulsed
three midnight militant attacks at as many locations in the jurisdiction of
Mattani police station — an area bordering the Kohat district — some 50
kilometres south of the provincial capital.
Police officials said that militants attacked Hameed
Khan police post with latest weaponry from a nearby forest. However, they said
that the militants could not hit the police post since they were firing from a
distance. They added that the personnel returned the fire, repulsing the
attack. They said that there were no casualties reported.
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Mentally unsound man still has right to be heard: LHC
Wajih Ahmad Sheikh
August 15, 2023
LAHORE: The hearing of an appeal by a convict may be
prejudiced if it is heard while he is ‘mentally unsound’, as it would deny them
the right to be heard, the Lahore High Court (LHC) has ruled.
A two-judge bench, headed by Justice Tariq Saleem
Sheikh, recently issued the ruling on the appeal of a Wapda engineer who killed
a director and wounded another at Wapda House in 2004.
When appellant Iqbal Ansari was in lock-up, his
relatives applied for the constitution of a medical board, saying he had lost
his mental balance and was unfit to stand trial.
Medical board says appellant suffers from
‘schizoaffective disorder’; court holds appeal can only be heard once convict
declared to be of sound mind
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Sindh picks interim chief minister, Balochistan
undecided
Imran Ayub
August 15, 2023
KARACHI / QUETTA: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali
Shah and Provincial Assembly Opposition Leader Rana Ansar on Monday agreed to
appoint retired Sindh High Court chief justice Maqbool Baqar as the caretaker
chief minister, minutes before the deadline ended.
On the other hand, there was no sign of consensus in
Balochistan on the appointment of interim CM, as a crucial meeting between the
outgoing chief minister, Abdul Quddus Bizenjo, and the opposition leader could
not materialise on Monday.
According to a brief statement issued by the Sindh CM
House, “After three-day consultations between Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad
Ali Shah and Leader of Opposition in the dissolved provincial assembly Rana
Ansar, the two have agreed on the appointment of retired justice Maqbool Baqar
as caretaker chief minister.”
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Anwaarul Haq Kakar sworn in as caretaker prime
minister amid allies’ grumblings
Syed Irfan Raza
August 15, 2023
ISLAMABAD: After he took oath as the eighth interim
prime minister of Pakistan on Monday, Anwaarul Haq Kakar will start consultations
for the formation of the caretaker cabinet today, even as former ruling
coalition members, particularly PML-N, expressed reservations over his
‘surprise’ selection to lead the interim set-up.
The appointment of the former senator, who founded the
Balochistan Awami Party, came as a surprise for many in the outgoing coalition
government after his name was announced by former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif
and NA Opposition Leader Raja Riaz following protracted consultations.
President Dr Arif Alvi administered the oath to the
caretaker prime minister in a ceremony at the President House on Monday, which
was attended by outgoing PM Shehbaz Sharif, COAS Gen Asim Munir, Senate
Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani, Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman, Sindh Governor
Kamran Tessori, Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi, Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Caretaker Chief Minister Azam Khan, and others.
Following the oath-taking ceremony which coincided
with Independence Day celebrations, the interim premier was presented with a
‘guard of honour’ at the Prime Minister’s House, where outgoing PM Shehbaz
Sharif welcomed him. Mr Sharif was also given a guard of honour as he bid
farewell to the PM House after a 16-month tenure.
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President announces Civil Awards for citizens,
foreigners
August 15, 2023
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on the Independence
Day announced Civil Awards for citizens of the country as well as foreign
nationals for showing excellence and courage in their respective fields and for
martyrs of Covid-19.
Muhammad Hafeez Qureshi (late), Nuclear Science;
Iftikhar Arif, Literature/Poetry/Writing; Islahuddin Siddiqui, Sports, Hockey;
Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Public Service; Raja Zafarul Haq, Public Service; Dr
Shamshad Akhtar, Public Service; Retired Air Marshal Najib Akhtar, Public
Service.
Brig Syed Sarfraz Ali (Late), Strategic Planning &
Development; Prof. Dr Shahid Mahmood Baig, Science; Prof Dr Mukhtar Ahmed,
Education; Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Education; Prof Dr Muhammad Umar,
Education/Medical Sciences; Rahat Ali Khan, Arts/ Qawwali/Singing; Mohammad
Ahmed Shah, Arts/Culture; Mehmood Ahmed Tahir Bhatti, Film Direction &
Fashion Designing; Muhammad Anwar Masood, Literature, Poetry, Zahid Malik
(Late), Journalism; Dr Muhammad Amjad Saqib, Social Services; Ahmed Irfan,
Public Service; Raja Naeem Akbar, Public Service; Retired Lt Gen Muhammad Akram
Khan, Public Service; Brig Atif Rafique, Public Service; Dr Muhammad Jehanzeb
Khan, Public Service; Syed Tariq Fatemi, Public Service; Tariq Bajwa, Public
Service; Tariq Mahmood Pasha, Public Service; Shahid Khan, Public Service;
Sibtain F. Haleem, Public Service; Retired Capt Zahid Saeed, Public Service; Mr
Zahid Zaman, Public Service; Mufti Abdul Shakoor (late), Public Service,
Religious Scholar; Syed Babar Ali, Philanthropy; Prof Dr Adil Najam,
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IHC seeks record of official accommodations
Malik Asad
August 15, 2023
ISLAMABAD: As it questioned the allotment of official
accommodation to retired civil servants, the Islamabad High Court has sought
the record of houses allotted to government employees in general as well
allocations made after relaxation in rules since January last year.
Sumaira Nazir Siddiqui, a member of the Anti-Dumping
Tribunal, and directed the Ministry of Housing and Works to submit a response
at the next hearing, on August 21.
It may be mentioned that government officials had
expressed concerns over alleged violations of guidelines set by the superior
courts for making the allotment of official residences.
It was alleged that the general waiting list was not
being updated, especially after the PDM government took over following the
no-confidence motion against former prime minister Imran Khan in April last
year.
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Southeast
Asia
Mosque in Serangoon North suspends over-the-counter
zakat after suspicious transactions detected
Anjali Raguraman
15-08-2023
SINGAPORE – A mosque in Serangoon North Avenue 2 has
temporarily suspended all over-the-counter zakat collections, including those
in cash.
This was after the Islamic Religious Council of
Singapore (Muis) detected suspicious zakat – or tithe – transactions involving
cash payments by members of the public at Masjid Al-Istiqamah during a regular
check.
In a statement on Tuesday, Muis said that members of
the congregation who wish to fulfil their zakat may do so digitally via the
SalamSG Pay self-service kiosk located at the mosque, or online via
www.zakat.sg.
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'They just want KFC after voting': Nur Jazlan laments
Malay youths' lack of political awareness, says affected Umno’s chances
By Ben Tan
15 Aug 2023
JOHOR BARU, Aug 15 — Umno’s Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed
said the party’s shortcomings were due to a majority of the Malay youth who
have a wrong view of Umno, as they lacked the basic knowledge to understand
politics.
Citing his experience on the campaign trail, Nur
Jazlan lamented that many Malay teenagers were at a loss on politics or their
responsibility to vote in the state elections.
“We have to admit that the Malays are turning away
from Umno, not because of the party’s leader but because the Umno brand has
been misunderstood.
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Prosecutors to appeal against court's ruling on
Muhyiddin's acquittal in four power abuse charges
By Kenneth Tee
15 Aug 2023
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 — The Attorney General's Chambers
(AGC) confirmed today it will be appealing against the High Court's decision to
discharge former prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin of four abuse of power
charges earlier.
Deputy public prosecutor Datuk Wan Shaharuddin Wan
Ladin said instructions received were for prosecutors to file an appeal this
evening and seek a stay of proceedings for Muhyiddin's remaining three money
laundering charges at the Sessions Court pending today's appeal.
Previously the Sessions Court had fixed September 19
to hear a joint trial application filed by prosecutors to consolidate four
power abuse (now struck out) and three money laundering charges faced by
Muhyiddin.
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Zahid says aware of calls to step down, but party's
leadership will share blame for Umno’s dismal showing in state polls
By Ben Tan
15 Aug 2023
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 — Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
has reportedly said he is aware of calls for him to step down as Umno president
for the party’s dismal showing in the six state elections.
In an interview today, The Star reported that Ahmad
Zahid said that while he admits his responsibility over Umno's performance, the
party's leadership will shoulder the task of turning the ship around.
“I am aware of such calls [to step down]. What I can
pledge is that I, with the help of the party’s leadership, will do more to
regain the people’s confidence.
“We will scrutinise our approach and strategies. We
will adopt new ones, so we can win over the hearts and minds of voters again,”
he was quoted as saying in the English daily.
Source: Malay Mail
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Ahmad Samsuri sworn in as Terengganu MB for second
term
15 Aug 2023
KUALA TERENGGANU, Aug 15 — PAS vice-president Datuk Seri
Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar was sworn in as the menteribesar of Terengganu for the
second term today.
Ahmad Samsuri, 53, who is also the elected assemblyman
for Ru Rendang, took his oath of office at 3.18pm before the Sultan of
Terengganu Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin at Istana Syarqiyyah in Chendering.
Also present at the swearing-in ceremony of the new
menteribesar and state executive councillors were Yang DipertuanMuda of
Terengganu Tengku Muhammad Ismail Sultan Mizan and Tengku Muhammad Muaz Sultan
Mizan Zainal Abidin.
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In Johor, seven teens remanded two days for assault on
15-year-old boy
By Ben Tan
15 Aug 2023
JOHOR BARU, Aug 15 — Seven male secondary school
students, who are believed to be involved in the gang assault of a teenage boy
last week, have been remanded for two days to assist police investigations.
The school-going suspects were wanted for allegedly
assaulting a 15-year-old boy in a recreation area in Taman Bistari Indah here
at 3pm last Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Johor Baru South police chief Assistant
Commissioner RaubSelamat said the remand order application was in accordance
with Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC).
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Europe
Sweden calls for vigilance abroad after Quran
desecrations and protests in Muslim World
15 August 2023
A senior Swedish official said on Monday Swedes abroad
and businesses linked to Sweden “should observe increased vigilance and
caution,” following recent Quran burnings in the country and protests in the
Muslim world.
Henrik Landerholm, Sweden’s National Security Adviser,
said there are signs of “a heightened threat" to the country and to
Swedish interests abroad, adding the security situation has worsened.
Authorities have instructed police to intensify their
work on the country's border and to check to a greater extent who is entering
Sweden and who may have a terrorist motive.
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'Racist' jailed for abusing Muslims at mosque,
including threatening to 'slit throat' of five-year-old boy
Ellen Manning
14 August 2023
A man who threatened to behead and blow up Muslims as
they attended a family event at a mosque –including gesturing to slit the
throat of a five-year-old – has been jailed for four years.
Alexander Bolam waited outside Heaton Mosque in
Tyneside as families collected children from an event, abusing them and
threatening them.
The 33-year-old became aggressive, threatening to 'cut
your heads off', 'behead you all' and 'blow you all up', before pushing one man
and then urinating in the door of the mosque.
Bolam, from High Heaton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who has
26 previous convictions, has now been jailed for four years and given an
extended licence period of a further three years after pleading guilty to
racially aggravated assault, racially aggravated damage and making threats to
kill.
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Hawaii's governor warns that scores more people could
be found dead following wildfires on Maui
Aug 14, 2023
LAHAINA: Hawaii's governor warned that scores more
people could be found dead following the Maui wildfires as search crews go
street by street through neighborhoods where the flames galloped as fast as a
mile a minute across the landscape.
The blazes that consumed most of the historic town of
Lahaina, are already the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century, with a
death toll of at least 96.
"We are prepared for many tragic stories,"
Gov. Josh Green told "CBS Mornings" in a recorded interview that was
aired Monday. "They will find 10 to 20 people per day, probably, until
they finish. And it's probably going to take 10 days. It's impossible to guess,
really."
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German minister stuck in Abu Dhabi after another govt
plane problem
Aug 15, 2023
BERLIN: Germany's foreign minister was waiting in Abu
Dhabi on Monday after a technical problem on her government plane - the latest
in a succession of such incidents - forced it to return to the airport rather
than continue to Australia. AnnalenaBaerbock was due to arrive in Canberra on
Monday night. But her German air force Airbus A340 had to return to Abu Dhabi
after a refuelling stop because of "a mechanical problem with the landing
flaps," ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer wrote on X, formerly known as
Twitter.
It was the latest in a string of problems with
Germany's government planes, some of which are aging, that have affected
various senior officials. In May, Baerbock had to extend a trip to the Persian
Gulf region by a day because of a damaged tyre on an aircraft when she was in
Qatar. The plane Baerbock was using for her flight to Australia was involved in
a 2018 incident that resulted in then-Chancellor Angela Merkel and then-finance
minister Olaf Scholz making a delayed departure to a G20 summit in Argentina on
a commercial flight. In that case, an electrical distributor box failed,
affecting the radio system and a fuel system and meaning that the aircraft
couldn't dump fuel.
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Zealand
Sydney Airport: Man charged after incident on board
Malaysia Airlines flight
15 Aug, 2023
Australian police have charged a Canberra man
following a bomb threat last night on board a Malaysia Airlines flight at
Sydney International Airport.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) responded to flight
MH122, a Malaysia Airlines Airbus A330 flight to Kuala Lumpur that turned back
to Sydney.
Sydney Airport said on social media last night that at
least 35 domestic flights were cancelled (16 inbound and 16 outbound), with
delays of up to 90 minutes for other domestic flights.
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Aeroplane passenger reveals what kicked-off mid-flight
confrontation
Nathan Schmidt
15 August 2023
A passenger on-board an international flight forced to
return to Sydney after a man’s rant about “Allah” has revealed what kicked off
the crisis.
The rant, caught on video, was widely shared online
after the Malaysia-bound flight was forced to return less than three hours
after takeoff.
AFP allege Muhammad Ali Arif, 45, became disruptive
mid-flight and was heard in the video asking passengers if they were “slaves to
Allah”.
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