Boko Haram Jihadis Carry Out Bloody Massacre Of 33 ISIS Brides In Brutal Revenge Attack
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December 2022
Abubakar Shekau, is believed
to have left behind 83 concubines (Image: AFP)
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• Boko Haram Jihadis Carry Out Bloody Massacre Of 33
ISIS Brides In Brutal Revenge Attack
• 100 Christians Faced Faith Conversion, Child
Marriage In Three Years in Pakistan: Report Titled “Conversion without Consent”
• “Neo-Ottomanism”: Turkey Has Imposed Islamic Rule On
Both Its Domestic And Foreign Policies
• Grammy Award-Winner DJ Khaled Breaks Down In Tears
Of Joy At Mecca during Umrah
• Mauritanian Terrorist Charged with Death of American
Citizen and with Providing Material Support to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
and Al-Murabitoun
Africa
• We’ll Lose Nigeria Unless We Come Together And
Reform It —Sheikh Khalid, Former Chief Imam Of Apo Legislative Quarters Juma’at
Mosque
• Boko Haram in control of two Borno LGAs, Speaker cries out
• 2023: Islamic body urges Nigerians not to vote on
sentiments
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Pakistan
• PM Shehbaz’s Son Suleman Returns To Pakistan After
Four Years
• ‘Faysal Bank Limited Likely To Get Islamic Banking
Licence This Month’
• Minister Wants Juvenile Prisoners Facilitated In
Becoming Doctors
• Judicial Commission’s Decisions Cannot Be Challenged
Before High Courts, Holds SC
• Over 1,000 attacks made on educational institutions
in three years: Justice Isa
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Mideast
• Iran’s troubled currency slides to new low amid
unrest, isolation
• FM Reasserts Iran’s Sovereignty over Persian Gulf
Trio Islands
• Iran Again Summons UK, German Envoys Over Anti-Hijab
Protests
• Iran’s months-long protest movement, explained
• Iran condemns Australia’s sanctions as interference
in internal affairs
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Europe
• Stockholm Mosque Condemns Desecration Of Quran In
Latest Anti-Muslim Attack
• Jersey Explosion: Rescuers Continue Search After
'Ferocious' Explosion At St Helier Block Of Flats Kills At Least Three
• Teacher sacked for disrupting Muslim students’
prayers
• Islam has historical roots in Russia: Raisi
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North America
• Florida Teacher Fired After Allegedly Accusing
Praying Muslim Students Of Performing 'Magic'
• Islamic group distributing winter kits to P.E.I.
families in need
• Mauritanian Terrorist Charged with Death of American
Citizen and with Providing Material
• 4 Islamic Centres In N.J. Say They Were Targeted In
Anti-Muslim Incidents
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India
• Muslim Residents of Gujarat Village That Saw Public
Flogging Boycotted Polls
• ‘Love Is Love, There Is No Jihad’: Himanta Biswa
Sarma Should Understand This Says Asaduddin Owaisi
• Muslim Graveyard In Andheri To Build Borewells To
Conserve Water
• ‘Muslims Need To Think…’: Mayawati On Mainpuri, Rampur
Bypoll Results
• Islamic Invaders Ravaged Institutions, Britishers Ruined
Social Fabric: RSS Joint Gen Secy Kumar
• Samajwadi Party MLA slams govt for spreading fear
with statements on ‘love jihad’
• ‘Govt punishing poor Muslims’: Asad on
discontinuation of Azad fellowship
• Congress Sees Red As CPI(M) Starts Sending Feelers
To Kerala Muslim League
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South Asia
• India Engaging With Taliban For Tackling
Humanitarian Crisis And Restoring Normalcy
• Expansion of Afghan Refugee Sponsorship Program; A
Pathway to Canada
• IMF all praise for Bangladesh
• Railway Transport, a Promising Export-Import Trade
Route in Afghanistan
• Kabir Bin Anwar new cabinet secretary
• Money laundering case: casino 'kingpin' Samrat’s
bail extended till Jan 30
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Arab world
• How A British Explorer’s Search For An Ancient Lost
Arabian City Uncovered A Traveller, Carrying Fragments Of Celestial Bodies,
From The Stars Instead
• Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs: National
Day is station for consolidating values, renewing loyalty
• Islamic Development Bank and ALECSO sign an
agreement to develop a common reference framework for Arabic language
• Minister of Islamic Affairs meets with the President
of Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Bahrain
• Saudi Arabia arrests 14,253 illegals in one week
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Southeast Asia
• Malaysian Prime Minister Hails Cartoonist Lat, Wants
Youth To Read Works Of World’s Greatest Thinkers
• Sarawak DAP chief says no govt posts, no problem as
long as there’s good governance
• Annuar Musa claims PAS courting him but too soon to
join after ‘divorce’ from Umno
• How this Singaporean designer went from making
stationery to modern Islamic calligraphic art
• Kenyans complete clean sweep as Penang Bridge
International Marathon returns after two-year hiatus
Compiled
by New Age Islam News Bureau
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Boko Haram Jihadis Carry Out Bloody Massacre Of 33
ISIS Brides In Brutal Revenge Attack
Abubakar Shekau, is believed
to have left behind 83 concubines (Image: AFP)
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By John Varga
Dec 10, 2022
Islamist militants massacred 33 women married to
fighters from the so-called Islamic State in a bloody revenge attack. The
slaughter was carried out by fighters belonging to Boko Haram, a militant
Islamic terror group based in northeast Nigeria. The terror organisation
launched a jihadist insurgency back in 2009 with the aim of toppling the
Nigerian government and replacing it with an Islamic regime.
Ali Ngulde, the leader of the Nigerian militants, sent
his men to attack a camp belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province
(ISWAP).
The attack was reportedly in revenge for the killing
of the Boko Haram commander Abubakar Shekau and at least twelve other members
by ISWAP soldiers, after peace talks between the two groups broke down -
according to security analyst Zagazola Makama.
It came to world prominence in 2014, when the
militants kidnapped hundreds of school girls in Chibok, while they were sitting
an exam.
The group is believed to be responsible for an
estimated 40,000 deaths and its terror campaigns have extended into neighbouring
Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
Retired Brigadier General Abdullahi Ishaq, a special
security adviser to the Borno state governor in northeastern Nigeria, told
reporters on Saturday about Shekau's many female companions.
Commenting on a reconciliation process with former
Boko Haram militants, he said: "We started this non-kinetic approach 16
months ago.
"The model started shortly after the death of
Abubakar Shekau and the state government didn’t want Islamic State of West
African Province (ISWAP) to continue using the Shekau’s fighters.
"We know it would be deadly. So, the first of
fighters that I received in Bama told me that Shekau had 83 concubines, just
imagine he left behind 83 concubines.
It comes as a Reuters investigation alleges that the
Nigerian Army has run an illegal abortion campaign in the country since at
least 2013.
According to Reuters, at least 10,000 pregnancies
among women and girls, many of whom had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist
militants, were terminated.
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100 Christians Faced Faith Conversion, Child Marriage
In Three Years in Pakistan: Report Titled “Conversion without Consent”
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Staff Reporter
December 11, 2022
LAHORE: As many as 100 cases of abduction, forced
faith conversion, forced and child marriage of girls and women belonging to the
Christian community have been reported since January 2019 to October 2022 in
Pakistan, says a report titled “Conversion without Consent” released by Voice
for Justice (VFJ) and Jubilee Campaign.
According to the report released on Saturday, as many
as 27 cases were recorded in 2019, 12 in 2020, 42 in 2021 and 19 till October
2022. The data showed that the highest number of cases - 86 - were reported in
Punjab, followed by 11 in Sindh, two in Islamabad and one in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, whereas no case was reported in Balochistan.
The report also includes the renowned cases of
underage girls particularly Zarvia Parvaiz, Saba Nadeem, Chashman Kanwal and
Sunaina James who became victims of forced faith conversions.
Zarvia Parvaiz told the court that she was heavily
drugged, raped, beaten with a stick, burnt with cigarettes, and electrocuted by
her abductors.
Saba Nadeem testified that “she was abducted and
raped, and the perpetrator took her thumb impression on the certificate of
marriage and conversion against her free will and consent, and threatened her
with dire consequences if she revealed the assault to anyone.”
The report shows that 61 per cent of girls were
targeted before reaching 16 years of age, 18pc became victims between the age
of 16 and 18 years and 14pc became victims above 18 years of age and the ages
of seven victims were not ascertained.
The data reveals that 67pc of the cases were reported
in the five districts alone - Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, and Sheikhupura
from Punjab and Karachi from Sindh - which exhibit a high rate of cases of
underage minorities girls.
The report reveals that the majority of the girl
victims of forced faith conversions and child marriage are minors, however, the
fabricated age of all victims is deliberately altered to 18 years or above by
perpetrators on certificates of marriage to avoid criminal conviction under the
Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929 according to which marriage to an underage
child is illegal and punishable by imprisonment.
All minor girls are presented as adults and
economically independent and their marriages are executed in the absence of a
lawyer or consent of a legal guardian (parents).
The report concludes that child brides have a greater
likelihood of school dropout, health-related complications, lower labour force
participation and earnings, and little decision-making power within the family.
The abduction of schoolgirls hinders their access to
opportunities such as education, skill development, and employment, all of
which are essential for leading a dignified and self-sufficient life.
The report recommends that an affirmative action must
be taken for the protection, promotion, and fulfillment of minority rights,
particularly in the context of reforming the existing civil and criminal
justice system to render it more sensitive to the needs of victims of forced
conversions and their families.
Moreover, the authorities must ensure that the
observance of a state religion neither impairs the enjoyment of any human
rights or any minority religion, nor results in discrimination in law, policy,
and jurisprudence against those who profess a faith or set of beliefs contrary
to the majority religion.
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“Neo-Ottomanism”: Turkey Has Imposed Islamic Rule On
Both Its Domestic And Foreign Policies
People Gather at a memorial
in Istanbul to the victims of last month’s deadly blast at Gezi Park.
(Photo credit: Dilara
Senkaya/Reuters)
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By Robert Ellis
December 11, 2022
Both the Biden administration and the GOP might be
lulled into believing that Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could be
the honest broker they need to act as go-between between the United States and
Russia. But this is not the case.
By now it must be apparent that Turkey has joined
forces with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi, China’s Xi Jinping
and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman.
When the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to
power in 2002, it presented itself as moderate, Westward-looking and
neoliberal, and the US and the European Union were taken in. As then-secretary
of state Condoleezza Rice gushed, the AKP was “a government dedicated to
pulling Turkey West toward Europe.”
The AKP made use of EU conditionality to obtain
economic benefits, but with the show trials against secular opponents from 2008
to 2013 and the crackdown on Istanbul’s Gezi Park protests, it showed its real
face.
The same year, the head of the AKP’s Istanbul branch
made it clear that “the new Turkey” the party was building would not feature a
future that its liberal supporters could accept or desire.
It has become clear that Turkey has imposed Islamic
rule not only in domestic policy (including the economy) but also in foreign
policy. In 2001, Turkish Prof. Ahmet Davutoglu – who became Erdogan’s chief
adviser, foreign minister and prime minister – posited in his key work
Strategic Depth that Turkey’s foreign policy should be based on engagement with
countries with which it shared a common past and geography. This policy came to
be dubbed “neo-Ottomanism.”
Davutoglu considered the century of republican rule “a
parenthesis” and aimed to restore Turkey’s hegemony over the Balkans, Caucasus
and Middle East. In an address at an AKP conference, he spoke of the birth of a
global power and the mission to create a new world order (nizam-i âlem), an
Ottoman concept synonymous with Islamic rule.
Davutoglu, however, flew too close to the Sun and was
toppled in an AKP plot. In October 2012, Islamic scholar Ibrahim Kalin, who is
now Erdogan’s chief adviser and spokesperson, gave a keynote speech at the
Istanbul Forum, where he spoke of a new geopolitical framework that rejects the
Western-centric political and economic order.
He also rejected the European model of secular
democracy, politics and pluralism. This is in keeping with the views expressed
by Putin at a plenary session of the Valdai Club in October.
AT THE Qatar Forum in March, Kalin repeated his call
for a new global security architecture. Political scientist Nuray Mert has
dismissed neo-Ottomanism as irredentist nationalism. Indeed, Erdogan has talked
of revoking the 1923 Lausanne Treaty, which defined Turkey’s present borders,
in favor of the National Pact (Misak-i Milli), a decision by the last Ottoman
Parliament in 1920 to include parts of Syria, Greece and Iraq.
Four years ago, Erdogan’s head of international
relations, Ayse Sözen Usluer, stated that Turkey for the last 10-15 years had
felt no need to choose between the West and the East, or between the US and
Russia. She emphasized Turkey’s strategic importance and maintained there was
no axis shift.
Now there is. Against a backdrop of estrangement from
the US and the EU, Erdogan in September on his return from a Shanghai
Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand declared it was his intention to
join. Membership of “Rogue NATO” will undoubtedly put a strain on Turkey’s
relations with NATO, which are already tenuous because of Turkey’s strengthened
economic ties with Russia and Putin’s plan to make Turkey a hub for the
transporting of Russian gas to Europe.
At the same time, Erdogan cites “security concerns” to
force Sweden to hand over political refugees in return for Turkey’s approval of
that country’s NATO membership. The Istanbul bombing has given Erdogan a
pretext to play the national security card and justify airstrikes on Kurdish
positions in Iraq and northeastern Syria.
He is also planning a fourth incursion into Syria to
boost the president’s approval ratings ahead of next year’s elections. US
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez has condemned these
airstrikes as not the actions of an ally.
In connection with the Biden administration’s plan to
conclude an F-16 deal with Turkey, Menendez has warned, “I think the administration
has to stop seeing from the aspirational part of what we would like Turkey to
be, and realize that Turkey is under Erdogan.”
In October, Turkey’s Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu,
a hard-liner and contender for the post as president, delivered a speech that
was indicative of the government’s mindset.
“Allah will grant us this,” he said. “We will design
the new world order. We caught this opportunity now. Turkey is no longer the
old Turkey. Our alliance [between the AKP and the Nationalist Movement Party]
is on the path to Allah.
“After 2023 [when the next presidential and
parliamentary elections will be held], we will move so fast that they [the
West] will have to eat our dust. Are you ready to teach those [Western]
ambassadors [in Turkey], the plotting US and Europe, a lesson? Are you ready to
make the 21st century Turkey’s century?”
Last year, Putin signed a law paving the way for two
more terms as president, and in China, Xi Jinping has secured a third term as
president. In Turkey, there is the possibility that Erdogan will secure a
further term as president. With the talk of a new constitution, “the new
Turkey” could also become an Islamic republic.
As he demonstrated in his July meeting in Tehran with
Putin and Raisi, Erdogan is well on his way to becoming a permanent member of
the despots club.
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Grammy Award-winner DJ Khaled Breaks Down In Tears Of
Joy At Mecca during Umrah
DJ Khaled breaks down in tears of joy at Mecca(Pic Credit: Instagram)
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10 DEC 2022
Grammy Award-winner DJ Khaled visited Mecca for Umrah
and said that the moment he walked into Mecca, his eyes welled up.
Khaled, who is known for tracks such as 'I'm the one',
'Wild thoughts' and 'Higher', shared a string of pictures and videos from his
visit of the Ka'aba.
He wrote: "The second I walked in Mecca, tears
came down my eyes. Tears of joy. I wanted to go to Mecca to pray and to give
gratitude to Allah my whole life. I prayed for the world for more love, for
more life, more peace, more joy, more health and protection for all of us. GOD
IS THE GREATEST!!!!! It so beautiful we all ONE LOVE here & GOD DID !!!!!!!
DJ Khaled, is an American DJ, record executive, record
producer and rapper. Khaled first gained recognition as a radio host in the
1990s, and translated his popularity by working with hip hop collective Terror
Squad as a DJ for their live performances.
After gaining production credits on the group's
material, Khaled released his debut studio album 'Listennn... the Album' in
2006, which earned gold certification. He followed it with 'We the Best'
(2007), which contained the top 20 single 'I'm So Hood'. His other two releases
'We Global' (2008) and 'Victory' (2010) charted in the top ten on the U.S.
Billboard 200, with the latter containing the single 'All I Do Is Win', which
was eventually certified triple platinum.
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Mauritanian Terrorist Charged with Death of American
Citizen and with Providing Material Support to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
and Al-Murabitoun
December 10, 2022
Fawaz Ould Ahmed Ould Ahemeid, aka Ibrahim
Idress, aka Ibrahim Dix, 44, of
Mauritania, was arraigned earlier today in federal court in the Eastern
District of New York on a six-count indictment charging him with multiple
terrorism offenses, including for his roles in the March 7, 2015 attack on the
La Terrasse restaurant in Bamako, Mali, in which five people were killed; the
Aug. 7, 2015 attack on the Hotel Byblos in Sevare, Mali, in which 13
individuals – including five United Nations workers – were killed; and the Nov.
20, 2015 attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali, in which 20 victims
were killed, including U.S. citizen Anita Ashok Datar. The defendant, who was
transferred to U.S. custody in Mali, arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport in
Queens, New York, on Dec. 9, 2022, and appeared today before U.S. Magistrate
Judge James R. Cho, who entered a permanent order of detention pending trial.
“Ahemeid planned and executed deadly attacks targeting
westerners, including Americans, and will now be brought to justice,” said
Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s
National Security Division. “Let this be a reminder to any who would use
violence against our people: no matter how far you run or how long you hide, we
will not relent in our efforts to hold you accountable.”
“Today, we have once again made clear that we are, and
will remain, steadfast in our commitment to working with our law enforcement
partners here and abroad to bring to justice those who commit violent acts of
terrorism targeting innocent American civilians, wherever they may be found,”
said U.S. Attorney Breon Peace for the Eastern District of New York.
"Bringing Ahemeid to the United States to face
the charges against him is an important step in achieving justice for those
harmed by acts of terrorism, including the American citizen killed in the
Radisson Blu Hotel attack," said Assistant Director Robert R. Wells of the
FBI's Counterterrorism Division. "The FBI will not be deterred by the
passage of time or geographical distance as we work with our partners to hold
those who commit acts of terrorism accountable."
As detailed in the indictment, the previously filed
criminal complaint and other publicly filed documents, Ahemeid joined AQIM in
or around 2007. Subsequently, Ahemeid planned and committed at least three
significant terrorist attacks against Western targets in Mali. On March 7,
2015, Ahemeid, armed with two AK-47 assault rifles, a pistol, and grenades,
committed an attack on the La Terrasse restaurant in Bamako, Mali, killing five
people. That same day, al-Murabitoun issued a public statement claiming
responsibility for the attack.
Following the La Terrasse attack, Ahemeid helped plan
and execute the Aug. 7, 2015 attack on the Hotel Byblos in Sevare, Mali,
including by conducting surveillance of the hotel prior to the attack. During
this attack, a lone gunman armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and equipped with
a suicide vest entered the Hotel Byblos and opened fire. The attack resulted in
the deaths of 13 individuals, including five United Nations workers. The gunman
was killed in the attack. Al-Murabitoun subsequently issued a public statement
claiming responsibility for the attack.
Finally, Ahemeid, along with others, planned and
oversaw the Nov. 20, 2015 terrorist attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako,
Mali. Beginning in the morning of Nov. 20, 2015, two men attacked the Radisson
Blu, a hotel frequented by Western visitors. The attackers, wearing Western
clothing and armed with AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades, moved from
floor to floor of the hotel, shooting innocent victims as they progressed.
Security forces responded to the scene and both attackers were ultimately
killed.
The attack resulted in the deaths of 20 victims,
including U.S. citizen Anita Ashok Datar. Datar, a guest at the Radisson Blu,
was shot multiple times and died at the scene as a result of the gunshot
wounds. Datar was a 41-year-old public health expert from Takoma Park,
Maryland, who was in Mali working for an international development firm
assisting the United States Agency for International Development. In addition
to the 20 deaths, the attack also wounded at least seven people.
Following the attack, AQIM issued a public statement
claiming responsibility for the attacks on behalf of AQIM and al-Murabitoun,
stating “Two heroes infiltrating the Radisson Hotel in Mali, may God accept
them. #Al-Qa’ida_in_West_Africa #Ansar_al_din #Al_Murabitun.” The tweet included photographs of the two
attackers holding AK-47s and each attacker’s nom de guerre.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Algor and Michael
Keilty is in charge of the prosecution, with assistance provided by Trial
Attorney Katie Sweeten of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism
Section.
The indictment charges the defendant with (1) the
murder of Anita Ashok Datar; (2) the unlawful use of firearms in connection
with a crime of violence; (3) causing the death of Anita Ashok Datar through
the use of a firearm; (4) conspiracy to provide material support to the
designated foreign terrorist organizations al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
(AQIM) and al-Murabitoun; (5) provision and attempted provision of material
support to AQIM and al-Murabitoun; and (6) unlawful use of explosives. If
convicted, he faces a maximum statutory penalty of life in prison. A federal
district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S.
Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
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Africa
We’ll Lose Nigeria Unless We Come Together And Reform
It —Sheikh Khalid, Former Chief Imam Of Apo Legislative Quarters Juma’at Mosque
By TAOFEEK LAWAL
Dec 10, 2022
I give glory to the Almighty making me what I am today
and for showing me the light to see the truth and abide by it. I have been
saying that things are wrong in Nigeria since the administration of former
President Goodluck Jonathan. But I wasn’t popular then because I was speaking
to my people (northerners) who were totally against Jonathan’s administration.
But I wasn’t speaking for Jonathan’s sake or because Jonathan was not from the
north or because he was not a Muslim; I was speaking up for Nigeria. At the
beginning of the current (Buhari’s) administration, I maintained my position
that whenever there is an attack against Nigerians, I will condemn it and call
the attention of the leaders to the need to do the right thing. Unfortunately,
the northern people and particularly those in power did not take kindly to my
submissions. They started criticising me for speaking the truth.
Now Nigerians have realised that it is not about where
power belongs or what geographical location the president comes from. It is a
matter of our country. Things are not going well. We are supposed to come
together, put all hands on deck and reform Nigeria or we risk losing the
country.
Our security is in danger, our economy is declining
and our unity is diminishing. If you have to bring together the presidential
candidates to sign a peace accord, it shows that the country and its democracy
are at risk. Under normal circumstances, the presidential candidates ought to
have the maturity to understand that it is Nigeria first and therefore not to
do anything that could put the country and its democracy in danger – if really
they want to serve the country. If they really love Nigeria, there is no need
to sign any peace accord or agreement because they are the ones who should be
role models and peace ambassadors for the country.
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Boko Haram in control of two Borno LGAs, Speaker cries out
By Ndahi Marama
December 11, 2022
Contrary to claims that no Local Government Area, LGA,
in Borno State is under the control of Boko Haram insurgents, Speaker of the
state House of Assembly, Abdulkarim Lawan, has said that two LGAs are being
controlled by the terrorists.
The lawmaker, who represents Guzamala, made this call
while briefing newsmen on the state’s 2023 budget presentation by Governor
Babagana Zulum.
“I have consistently pleaded with the federal
government to deploy security there so that the civil population can return.
This situation is not restricted to my local government alone. The situation
applies to Kukawa Local Government Area as well.
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2023: Islamic body urges Nigerians not to vote on
sentiments
By Haruna Salami
December 11, 2022
An Islamic organisation, Centre for the Promotion of
Shari’ah has called on Nigerians to elect leaders not based on sentiments, but
on the candidate’s ability to build bridges of consensus across the country.
Aminu Inuwa Muhammad, National Coordinator of the
Centre stated this on Saturday in Abuja at a Consultative meeting of
Stakeholders of the Muslim Constituency in Northern Nigeria, which the Centre
organised.
Muhammad said the Centre, which is a non-governmental
Think Tank with members from different parts of the country was established in
2000 and has consistently remained committed to the advancement of Shari’ah in
particular and Islam in general, adding “it has conducted several
research-training and sensitization activities in the last two decades”.
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Pakistan
PM Shehbaz’s son Suleman returns to Pakistan after
four years
Dawn.com
December 11, 2022
Suleman Shehbaz, the absconding son of Prime Minister
Shehbaz Sharif, returned to Pakistan in the early hours of Sunday after four
years of self-exile in London, according to the PML-N.
His return comes days after the Islamabad High Court
barred the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and NAB from arresting him in an
assets-beyond-means reference, while hearing his petition for protective bail
that would enable him to surrender before a trial court.
Suleman had been in London with his family since 2018
when the National Accountability Bureau (FIA) registered multiple cases against
him ahead of the general election and he left Pakistan after appearing in a few
hearings.
Source: Dawn
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‘Faysal Bank Limited Likely To Get Islamic Banking
Licence This Month’
By Erum Zaidi
December 11, 2022
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) would likely
grant Faysal Bank Limited (FBL) a new license this month, allowing it to
operate as the country’s second-largest Islamic bank, its official said.
“The conversion of FBL’s operations to Islamic banking
is nearly complete. Ninety percent of the bank’s assets, deposits, and balance
sheet have been converted to Islamic finance. There is only one conventional
branch remaining out of our total of 650 branches, and it will be converted to
Islamic as early as next week,” Syed Majid Ali, chief financial officer at FBL
said in an interview with The News.
According to our plans and discussions with SBP, “we
may give up our current license after we convert 85–90 percent of our
conventional branches to Islamic”, he said. “We submitted an application for a
license to function as a bank that applies the interest-free principles of
Islamic finance in all its operations,” Ali added.
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Minister wants juvenile prisoners facilitated in
becoming doctors
Ikram Junaidi
December 11, 2022
ISLAMABAD: Minister for National Health Services (NHS)
Abdul Qadir Patel in an unprecedented step has directed the Pakistan Medical
Commission (PMC) and other stakeholders to make arrangements to provide an
opportunity to child prisoners to become doctors, nurses and study allied
health sciences.
He said children confined in jails across the country
should have been allowed to take admission to the medical colleges for Bachelor
of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), nursing colleges and allied health
sciences.
NHS ministry spokesperson Sajid Shah while talking to
Dawn said: “All public sector universities will be made bound to ensure that
prison child and prisoners would be able to sit the admission tests of medical
and dental colleges and attend classes.”
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Judicial commission’s decisions cannot be challenged
before high courts, holds SC
Nasir Iqbal
December 11, 2022
ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission of Pakistan’s (JCP)
decisions regarding elevation of judges to the superior courts cannot be
challenged through petitions before high courts under the Constitution, the
Supreme Court held on Saturday.
“By no stretch of imagination can it be assumed that
framers of 18th and 19th amendments envisaged that decisions of JCP would be
made amendable to judicial review by way of constitutional petitions filed
under Article 199 of the Constitution,” Justice Ijazul Ahsan noted while
deciding an appeal of a judge regarding his challenge to JCP decision.
Justice Ijaz was heading a two-member SC bench that
had taken up the appeal of former additional judge of the Islamabad High Court
and district and sessions judge Mohammad Azim Khan Afridi, who had challenged
the Oct 22, 2012 decision of the JCP against his confirmation as an IHC judge.
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Over 1,000 attacks made on educational institutions in
three years: Justice Isa
Ikram Junaidi
December 11, 2022
ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court
on Saturday said though human rights were recognised as fundamental rights in
the Constitution and Article 25 gave the right of education to both boys and
girls, over 1,000 attacks were made on educational institutions in the country
in three years.
He was speaking at a national seminar held at the
International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) female campus in
collaboration with the Parliamentarians Commission for Human Rights (PCHR) in
connection with International Human Rights Day.
“The holy Quran says men are protectors of women.
Islam is the best example of giving dignity, freedom and justice to the
humanity, irrespective of their caste, creed and colour,” he said.
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Mideast
Iran’s troubled currency slides to new low amid
unrest, isolation
11 December ,2022
Iran’s troubled currency fell to a new low against the
US dollar on Saturday amid continued unrest and the country’s increasing
isolation in the face of Western criticism of its security crackdown and ties
to Russia.
The dollar was selling for as much as 370,200 rials on
the unofficial market on Saturday, up from 367,300 on Friday, according to the
foreign exchange site Bonbast.com.
The rial has lost 13.8 percent of its value since
nationwide protests erupted after the death in police custody of a 22-year-old
Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, on September 16.
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FM Reasserts Iran’s Sovereignty over Persian Gulf Trio
Islands
December, 11, 2022
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein
Amirabdollahian described the three islands in the Persian Gulf as inseparable
and eternal parts of Iran, stressing that Tehran will by no means compromise on
its territorial integrity.
"The islands of Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb and
the Lesser Tunb in the Persian Gulf are inseparable parts of the pure land of
Iran and belong to this motherland forever," Amirabdollahian said in a
post on his Twitter account on Saturday.
He emphasized that Iran would never compromise with any
country on the importance of respecting the Islamic Republic's territorial
integrity, Press TV reported.
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Iran Again Summons UK, German Envoys Over Anti-Hijab
Protests
December 10, 2022
Tehran: Iran on Saturday again called in the British
ambassador, marking the 15th time in less than three months a foreign envoy has
been summoned, as protests shake the country.
The foreign ministry called in British ambassador
Simon Shercliff, a day after his German counterpart, Hans-Udo Muzel, had to
appear, state news agency IRNA said.
This brings to at least 15 times in about 10 weeks
that Iran has summoned foreign envoys, almost all of them from Western
countries.
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Iran’s months-long protest movement, explained
By Ellen Ioanes
Dec 10, 2022
Ellen Ioanes covers breaking and general assignment
news as the weekend reporter at Vox. She previously worked at Business Insider
covering the military and global conflicts.
For nearly three months, protests have gripped Iran —
protests that have not only been surprisingly durable, but also led primarily
by women.
On Thursday, the Islamic Republic, headed by Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, executed 23-year-old Mohsen Shekari for the
crime of “waging war against God,” or moharebeh in Farsi.
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Iran condemns Australia’s sanctions as interference in
internal affairs
By Newsroom
Dec 11, 2022
Tehran: Iran has condemned Australia’s sanctions on
Iranian individuals and institutions, saying they represent the country’s
interference in Iran’s internal affairs.
The Australian government “has for years been
violating the basic rights of indigenous Australians, prisoners and refugees,”
said Nasser Kanaani, the Foreign Ministry Spokesman, in a Ministry statement on
Saturday.
Earlier in the day, the Australian government announced
sanctions on six Iranians and Iran’s morality police and Basij volunteer force
over what it calls “human rights violations and abuses”.
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Europe
Stockholm Mosque Condemns Desecration Of Quran In
Latest Anti-Muslim Attack
11-12-2022
A Stockholm mosque has condemned the latest attack on
its facility after a damaged copy of the Quran was left chained up and hanging
outside the mosque’s entrance.
Images released by the Stockholm Central Mosque of the
attack last Friday show the damaged Holy book of the Muslims chained up and
hanging from an iron railing outside the mosque.
Tying a destroyed Quran and hanging it to the garden
bars next to the mosque door is humiliating for Muslims, the mosque wrote on
Facebook.
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Jersey explosion: Rescuers continue search after
'ferocious' explosion at St Helier block of flats kills at least three
By Siba Jackson
11 December 2022
Emergency services have been working through the night
after a "devastating" explosion at a three-storey tower block in
Jersey left three people dead and "around a dozen" more missing.
The Jersey government tweeted a video of firefighters
and specialist rescue teams, including a dog, on the scene in the Channel
Island's capital in St Helier on Saturday night.
The footage captured some of the devastation and
debris behind the cordon - including piles of rubble, crushed cars and a blown
out window in the neighbouring building.
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Teacher sacked for disrupting Muslim students’ prayers
Gabriella Ferlita
10 December 2022
In a video that recently went viral, the Floridian
practitioner appeared to interrupt those engaging in prayer time and allegedly
called it ‘magic’.
The footage appeared to see the unidentified member of
staff at Franklin Academy in Pembroke Pines, Broward County, stepping on the
hands of teenagers while they prayed on mats.
Three teenage schoolchildren could be seen in the
video reciting Islamic prayer while calm music was on in the background before
a member of staff stormed into what looked like a PE room.
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Islam has historical roots in Russia: Raisi
December 10, 2022
President Raisi sent a message to the Summit of the
Muslims of Russia on the occasion of commemorating the 1,100th year of the
presence of Islam in Russia. The message was read out by Haj Abolghasem
Doulabi, Raisi’s representative to the summit, according to the official
website of the Iranian presidency.
In the message, Ayatollah Raisi called Russia one of
the first foci of the presence of Islam in distant lands and stated, "We
Muslim Iranians are proud of ourselves that the historical city of Derbent,
which is the center of fusion and intersection of Russian, Iranian and Islamic
culture, is the first passage and the focal point of the presence of Muslims in
this vast land".
The religion of Islam appeared at a time in the
history of this world when the blackness and darkness of ignorance, corruption
and crookedness in the field of life had narrowed the human race and the
Prophet of Islam (PBUH) made this distortion of spirituality and morality, the
deposit of peace and security in the sphere of justice for humanity.
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North America
Florida teacher fired after allegedly accusing praying
Muslim students of performing 'magic'
By Adam Schrader
DEC. 10, 2022
A teacher at a charter school in Florida has been
fired after she allegedly accused praying Muslim students of performing
"magic," school officials said.
The teacher, who was not identified, was caught on a
video reviewed by UPI that went viral on TikTok disrupting three praying students
as one of them recited "Surah At-Tin" from the Quran.
The incident occurred at Franklin Academy, which has
locations in Broward and Palm Beach counties, and was first reported by NBC
News.
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Islamic group distributing winter kits to P.E.I.
families in need
Dec 10, 2022
About 80 winter care kits will be distributed across
P.E.I., thanks to Islamic Relief Canada volunteers.
The kits will be handled by the Muslim Society of
P.E.I. They consist of 17 items, including gloves, socks, blankets, hygiene
products, energy bars and gift cards to local grocery stores.
It distributes winter survival kits to people in need
each year. This year, it's hoping to deliver over 4,300 kits in 19 cities
across Canada.
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Mauritanian Terrorist Charged with Death of American
Citizen and with Providing Material Support to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
and Al-Murabitoun
December 10, 2022
Fawaz Ould Ahmed Ould Ahemeid, aka Ibrahim
Idress, aka Ibrahim Dix, 44, of
Mauritania, was arraigned earlier today in federal court in the Eastern
District of New York on a six-count indictment charging him with multiple
terrorism offenses, including for his roles in the March 7, 2015 attack on the
La Terrasse restaurant in Bamako, Mali, in which five people were killed; the
Aug. 7, 2015 attack on the Hotel Byblos in Sevare, Mali, in which 13
individuals – including five United Nations workers – were killed; and the Nov.
20, 2015 attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali, in which 20 victims
were killed, including U.S. citizen Anita Ashok Datar. The defendant, who was
transferred to U.S. custody in Mali, arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport in
Queens, New York, on Dec. 9, 2022, and appeared today before U.S. Magistrate
Judge James R. Cho, who entered a permanent order of detention pending trial.
“Ahemeid planned and executed deadly attacks targeting
westerners, including Americans, and will now be brought to justice,” said
Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s
National Security Division. “Let this be a reminder to any who would use
violence against our people: no matter how far you run or how long you hide, we
will not relent in our efforts to hold you accountable.”
“Today, we have once again made clear that we are, and
will remain, steadfast in our commitment to working with our law enforcement
partners here and abroad to bring to justice those who commit violent acts of
terrorism targeting innocent American civilians, wherever they may be found,”
said U.S. Attorney Breon Peace for the Eastern District of New York.
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4 Islamic centers in N.J. say they were targeted in
anti-Muslim incidents
By Jackie Roman
Dec. 10, 2022
Community leaders in New Jersey’s Muslim community and
law enforcement are holding an interfaith solidarity rally on Sunday at Muslim
Center of Middlesex County in response to a series of anti-Muslim incidents.
Four Islamic centers in Middlesex County were targeted
on Nov. 26 when a truck displaying a digital billboard with anti-Muslim
messages and photos from 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai drove through the
premises, according to security footage provided by the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NJ).
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India
Muslim Residents of Gujarat Village That Saw Public
Flogging Boycotted Polls
Tarushi Aswani
11-12-2022
Undhela (Gujarat): Malik Shahid is 24 years old, a
devout Muslim and a young engineer who dreams of a future in Canada. On October
3, he was picked up from his home in Kheda’s Undhela village and taken to Matar
Police Station by at least 20 policemen late at night. What happened the next
day has paused his dreams and his life.
It had been an exciting day for Shahid, he had it in
Ahmedabad, buying decorations, sweets and gifts for children, to celebrate the
upcoming Eid-e-Milad.
But late on October 3, he and 42 others arrested along
with him were taken to the Special Operation Group (SOG) office at Dabhan, 13
kilometres away from Undhela. They were arrested based on a complaint lodged by
village Sarpanch, Indravadan Manibhai Patel, who accused them of pelting stones
at a Garba event held as part of Navratri celebrations in the village.
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‘Love Is Love, There Is No Jihad’: Himanta Biswa Sarma
Should Understand This Says Asaduddin Owaisi
Dec 10, 2022
“Himanta should understand this; he is a chief
minister. Love is love, there is no jihad. The term love jihad is completely
obnoxious. Why is he bringing the law against it? He is trying to create hatred
in Assam,” Asaduddin Owaisi said at Agenda AajTak.
All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief
Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday hit out at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders,
including Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, for giving the bone-chilling
Shraddha Walkar murder case a "religious angle" and said that the
incident is not about “love jihad”.
“Himanta should understand this; he is a chief
minister. Love is love, there is no jihad. The term love jihad is completely
obnoxious. Why is he bringing the law against it? He is trying to create hatred
in Assam,” Owaisi said at Agenda AajTak.
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Muslim Graveyard In Andheri To Build Borewells To
Conserve Water
Dec 11, 2022
MUMBAI: A large Muslim graveyard with 1,600 burial
units in Andheri is paving the path for water conservation. The Andheri Muslim
Qabristan Masjid at Four Bungalows is taking the initiative to reduce its
consumption of BMC water by installing borewells in its premises.
During the 2016 water crisis in the city, TOI had
reported how the trustees had put up large banners advising people to
temporarily avoid watering graves, a common practice in Islamic burial grounds.
Well-known personalities like poet Kaifi Azmi, composer Khayyam, actors
Farooque Shaikh and Shaukat Kaifi and cinematographer Ishan Arya are laid to
rest at Four Bungalows Qabristan.
Trustee Babar Atik Kashmiri said, "Mosques which
are attached to graveyards typically require thousands of litres of water every
day. Scores of Namazis, who arrive for worship five times a day, perform
'wuzoo' (ablutions) before prayer. Hundreds of mourners who accompany the
deceased for burial, as well as people who visit the graves on a routine basis,
perform 'Wuzu' before entering the ground and after they leave. The plants and
shrubs upon the graves are also watered by visitors."
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‘Muslims Need To Think…’: Mayawati On Mainpuri, Rampur
Bypoll Results
Dec 11, 2022
By HT News Desk
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Sunday
wondered whether Samajwadi Party's win in the Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypoll and
defeat in the Rampur assembly bypoll was a result of “internal collusion"
with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Mayawati said the Muslim community needs to
think a lot so they can be “saved from being cheated” in the upcoming
elections.
In the recently held bypoll in Mainpuri, SP's Dimple
Yadav defeated her nearest rival BJP’s Raghuraj Singh Shakya by a margin of
2.88 lakh votes. The by-election was necessitated due to the death of Samajwadi
Party founder-leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, who was also Dimple Yadav’s
father-in-law.
The BJP, however, breached Samajwadi Party leader Azam
Khan's stronghold Rampur Sadar assembly seat for the first time. BJP's Akash
Saxena defeated Azam's nominee Asim Raza in a close battle by a margin of over
34,000 votes.
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Islamic invaders ravaged institutions, Britishers
ruined social fabric: RSS joint gen secy Kumar
by Deeptiman Tiwary
December 11, 2022
Islamic invaders destroyed India’s social institutions
such as temples and universities, Britishers not only ravaged India’s economy
but also tried to erase its social fabric and values, RSS joint general
secretary Arun Kumar said on Saturday. He also said that those Indians who came
out of English education and established influence in India’s institutions post
1911, reduced the idea of freedom struggle to just self-rule and ended up
accepting India’s Partition.
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Samajwadi Party MLA slams govt for spreading fear with
statements on ‘love jihad’
By: Express News Service
December 11, 2022
Samajwadi Party MLA Rais Shaikh on Saturday slammed
the state government for spreading fear in the minds of citizens by making
statements, which imply the state will have a law against ‘love jihad’.
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‘Govt punishing poor Muslims’: Asad on discontinuation
of Azad fellowship
MD NIZAMUDDIN
Dec 11, 2022
Hyderabad: Alleging that the Union government was
punishing poor Muslims, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday questioned the
recent decision of the Centre to discontinue of the Maulana Azad National
Fellowship (MANF).
Pointing out that ‘government data’ had clearly
indicated that poverty had prevented Muslims from giving their children an
education, Owaisi challenged the decision that was announced in Parliament last
week.
“Maulana Azad Fellowship for minorities has been
discontinued. This is @narendramodi’s sabka saath, vikas. Govt’s data shows
that Muslims want to educate their children but extreme poverty prevents them.
This is punishing Muslims for their poverty (sic),” he posted on Twitter.
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Congress Sees Red As CPI(M) Starts Sending Feelers To
Kerala Muslim League
PTI
DEC 10 2022
A day after describing Muslim League a non-communal
party, CPI(M) on Saturday started sending feelers to the key UDF constituent in
Kerala, saying that its doors were always opened for those parties accepting
the politics of the Left after correcting...
Apparently shaken by the CPI(M) state secretary M V
Govindan's political overtures aimed at Muslim League, the Congress today said
his moves would not succeed as the party controlled by Panakkad Thangal family
was an inseparable part of the UDF.
Sensing the real intention behind the moves by the
CPI(M), Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) supremo Panakkad Sadik Ali Shihab
Thangal said what Govindan stated about his party was just a political reality
and there was no need to see it as a politi...
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South Asia
India engaging with Taliban for tackling humanitarian
crisis and restoring normalcy
By Khaama Press
December 10, 2022
Indian Embassy in Kabul resumed its functionality in
June 2022. Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed the decision and
expressed hope for fruitful ties. Since then India has taken several
initiatives to resuscitate Afghanistan’s development and help the country in
tackling its humanitarian crisis. Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs
spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi said,” IEA (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan)
welcomes decision by India to return diplomats and technical team to their
embassy in Kabul to continue their relations with the Afghan people and their
humanitarian assistance.”
Meanwhile, in a recent interview on the side-lines of
a conference of anti-Taliban Afghan leaders with the US and EU representatives,
the former Afghanistan Intelligence Chief Rahmatullah Nabil, warned that
Pakistani terror groups targeting India such as Jaish-e-Mohammad and
Lashkar-e-Taiba have shifted their bases to Afghanistan with help from the
Taliban. He warned that while engaging the Taliban was necessary for India in
its “own interests”, New Delhi should keep channels open with Afghanistan’s
former leaders as well, even though they are now out of power. He added that
“we are not in a position now to advise India, and they know their national
interest better. But they should not live in any illusion that the Taliban has
changed.”
This raises new concerns about safe havens to terror
modules in the neighbourhood of India. Nabil also asserted that these terror
outfits, once they get safe havens, would have more access to technology and
territory. India is willing to help restore normalcy in Afghanistan, but it is,
unlike other countries, is not interested in taking any side with the political
stakeholders. India has always pursued a policy of non-interference in the
internal affairs of any country and this is true for Afghanistan as well. It is
reflected in India’s willingness to engage with the Afghan Taliban for tackling
the humanitarian crisis in the country and restore the scuttled development
projects for resuscitating economic growth of the country. India’s priority is
promoting peace and development in Afghanistan with which it has long
historical, cultural and economic ties.
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Expansion of Afghan Refugee Sponsorship Program; A
Pathway to Canada
By Nizamuddin Rezahi
December 10, 2022
The Canadian government and people have been extremely
generous to the people of Afghanistan. Their unconditional support has
continued for the people of Afghanistan over the past two decades across
different domains. Even after the Taliban’s takeover, they moved thousands of
vulnerable Afghan families to Canada through a so-called emergency program.
Immigration Refugee and Citizenship Canada introduced
a temporary federal program dedicated to Afghan nationals less than two months
ago, waiving the need for official refugee status, as long as the refugees meet
the Canadian government’s criteria to be privately sponsored.
However, the demand was so high that the program
reached its cap of 3,000 applications within the initial 20 or 30 minutes,
leaving many sponsors frustrated, who raised funds and took full preparation to
fill out an application.
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IMF all praise for Bangladesh
Staff Correspondent
Sun Dec 11, 2022
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday said the
International Monetary Fund had praised Bangladesh's economic progress as
"outstanding".
"The IMF opened its heart and described
Bangladesh's achievements as outstanding," he said at an award-giving
ceremony for the top VAT payers at the InterContinental Dhaka.
When the Awami League government came to power in
2009, Bangladesh's GDP was $100 billion. This has increased almost four and a
half times and now stands at $465 billion. The per capita income increased from
$686 to $2,866.
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Railway Transport, a Promising Export-Import Trade
Route in Afghanistan
By Nizamuddin Rezahi
December 11, 2022
According to the Afghanistan Railway Authority (ARA),
the country’s railway transport reached a total of 109,808 tons of import and
export items over the past week. These commercial goods have been transported
by the railway via Hairatan, Aqina and Torghundi trail trucks. 10,830 tons were
the import, and,1,498 tons of export goods, respectively.
As a landlocked country, Afghanistan has had critical
challenges in transporting commercial goods to and from the regional and
international markets. Normally, it took weeks and even months for the goods to
reach overseas markets. However, with the establishment of new railways linking
to the Central Asian countries, the problems have been mitigated to some
extent. Besides, the commercial items can reach destinations in a timely
manner, it is quite cost-effective.
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Kabir Bin Anwar new cabinet secretary
Star Digital Report
Dec 11, 2022
Kabir Bin Anwar, senior secretary at the water
resources ministry, has been appointed as the cabinet secretary.
The Ministry of Public Administration issued a gazette
notification in this regard today.
Kabir joined the civil service on 15 February in 1988
as an assistant commissioner.
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Money laundering case: casino 'kingpin' Samrat’s bail
extended till Jan 30
Star Digital Report
Sun Dec 11, 2022
A Dhaka court today extended the bail of expelled Jubo
League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat till January 30 next year in a Tk
222-crore laundering case.
Judge Al Asad Md Asifuzzaman of the Special Judge's
Court-6 passed the order after Samrat's lawyer Afroza Shahanaj Parvin Hira
submitted an application seeking extension of bail in the case.
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Arab world
How A British Explorer’s Search For An Ancient Lost
Arabian City Uncovered A Traveller, Carrying Fragments Of Celestial Bodies,
From The Stars Instead
Jonathan Gornall
December 11, 2022
LONDON: It was, in the words of a 1998 report
published in Scientific American, “the day the sands caught fire.”
The sands in question were at an isolated spot deep in
Saudi Arabia’s Rub Al-Khali, or Empty Quarter. The fire, which melted half a
square kilometre of desert and transformed it into black glass, fell from the
sky in one of the most dramatic meteorite strikes the planet has ever
experienced.
Geologists continue to debate exactly when the
so-called Wabar meteorite fell to Earth — the theories range from 450 to 6,400
years ago. However, we can be almost certain that this ancient traveller,
carrying fragments of celestial bodies that formed in the earliest days of our
solar system, originated in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs: National
Day is station for consolidating values, renewing loyalty
DECEMBER 11, 2022
HE Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs Ghanem
bin Shaheen Al Ghanem affirmed that Qatar National Day is an occasion that is
renewed every year, to recognise what the ancestors planned for the sake of
achieving the horizons of glory, and a station for the coexistence of the
values of loyalty and belonging to the homeland among all citizens, and to
consolidate the foundations of the values and principles established by the
founder, and the efforts made by the ancestors to raise the flag of Qatar high,
as it is an occasion to renew loyalty to the leader of the nations march, His
Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.
In a statement to Qatar News Agency (QNA) on the
occasion of the National Day, His Excellency said that Qatar celebrates its
National Day this year under the slogan "Our Unity Source of Our
Strength", to be proud of the glories of the past and the achievements of
the present, filled with hope for a bright future and a future full of success,
achievement and peace.
He added that the State of Qatar is proceeding on the
path of development and construction, and is proceeding at a firm pace for the
sake of the nation's elevation, and preparing the Qataris to be able in the
future to give and achieve, to build and protect the dear country, and to
preserve its entity, interests, rights and capabilities, by acquiring knowledge
and arming ourselves with religion and values, and dedication and sincerity in
its endeavours.
Source: Gulf-Times
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Islamic Development Bank and ALECSO sign an agreement
to develop a common reference framework for Arabic language
10 Dec, 2022
The Islamic Development Bank and the Arab Organization
for Education, Culture and Science (ALECSO) have signed a technical assistance
grant agreement on “Developing a Common Reference Framework for the Arabic
Language: Teaching, Learning and Assessment”, in the presence of the Bank’s
President Dr. Mohamed Suleiman Al-Jasser, and ALECSO's Director General Dr.
Mohamed Ould Amar.
According to the agreement the Islamic Development
Bank will contribute $288,000 to the project, provided that ALECSO be the
executing body of the project.
Source: Al Riyadh Daily.
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Minister of Islamic Affairs meets with the President
of Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Bahrain
10 Dec, 2022
Minister of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance, Sheikh
Dr. Abdullatif bin Abdulaziz Al Al-Sheikh, has held a meeting with Sheikh
Abdulrahman bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Khalifa, Chairman of the Supreme Council
for Islamic Affairs in Bahrain, attended by the Minister of Justice, Islamic
Affairs and Endowments, Nawaf bin Mohammed Al-Maawda, and several members of
the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, within the framework of his current
visit to Bahrain to sign the executive program for cooperation in Islamic
fields between the two countries.
Sheikh Abdul Rahman bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Khalifa
appreciated the pivotal Saudi role under the leadership of the Custodian of the
Two Holy Mosques and HRH the Crown Prince in defending the nation, its entity,
its values and constants, and its exceptional role in serving the Two Holy
Mosques, and the holy sites, and caring for pilgrims, Umrah performers and
visitors.
Source: Al Riyadh Daily.
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Saudi Arabia arrests 14,253 illegals in one week
SPA
December 11, 2022
RIYADH: Saudi authorities arrested 14,253 people in
one week for breaching residency, work and border security regulations,
according to an official report.
From Dec. 1 to 7, a total of 8,610 people were
arrested for violations of residency rules, while 3,451 were held over illegal
border crossing attempts, and a further 2,192 for labor-related issues.
The report showed that among the 438 people arrested
for trying to enter the Kingdom illegally, 43 percent were Yemeni, 48 percent
Ethiopian, and 9 percent were of other nationalities.
Source: Arab News
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Southeast Asia
Malaysian Prime Minister Hails Cartoonist Lat, Wants
Youth To Read Works Of World’s Greatest Thinkers
11 Dec 2022
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar
Ibrahim wants youth to study great works, including those of world thinkers.
He also thanked famous Malaysian cartoonist, Datuk
Mohammad Nor Khalid or better known as Lat, who depicted in his book a scene of
employees from various races reading books of philosophers in the office of
'Anwar Ibrahim'.
Source: Malay Mail
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Sarawak DAP chief says no govt posts, no problem as
long as there’s good governance
By Sulok Tawie
11 Dec 2022
KUCHING, Dec 11 — Sarawak DAP chairman Chong Chieng
Jen today thanked supporters for propping up Pakatan Harapan and enabling it to
lead the grand coalition federal government under Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
“We strongly believe that with Pakatan Harapan as the
backbone of the unity government, the main principles of good governance,
transparency and accountability will continue to be the main agenda as we make
tangible efforts to move away from the old days of corruption, cronyism and
lack of accountability,” he told reporters here.
Source: Malay Mail
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Annuar Musa claims PAS courting him but too soon to
join after ‘divorce’ from Umno
By Keertan Ayamany
11 Dec 2022
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 — Sacked from Umno, Tan Sri
Annuar Musa claims he is being courted by its ally-turned-rival PAS.
However, the former Keterah MP said he is hesitant to
accept the Islamist party’s invitation, including speaking at PAS events, as it
is too soon since his “divorce” from Umno.
“Tonight, I was invited to speak at a PAS rally, but I
answered plainly. I’ve just been divorced for three days and they’re already
proposing.
Source: Malay Mail
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How this Singaporean designer went from making
stationery to modern Islamic calligraphic art
11 Dec 2022
Suffian Sumamaili prefers to be known by a name that
is not his own. He goes by Abu Salwa which translates to “Father of Salwa”.
Born and raised in Singapore, the 42-year-old practices a unique craft. His
business, ArtSalwa, is well known in the Malay-Muslim community for affordable,
originally designed Islamic art and art frames.
Source: Cnalife Style
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Kenyans complete clean sweep as Penang Bridge
International Marathon returns after two-year hiatus
11 Dec 2022
GEORGE TOWN, Dec 11 — The Penang Bridge International
Marathon (PBIM) made a grand return this year with nearly 26,000 participants
from 60 countries competing in the various categories today.
Penang State Tourism and Creative Economy Committee
chairman Yeoh Soon Hin said about 5,500 participants ran the full marathon (42
kilometres), more than 10,000 contested the half-marathon (21km) and over 9,000
competed in the 10km run.
“We received an overwhelming response this year, with
runners from more than 60 countries, such as Canada, Africa and the United
States, taking part in the PBIM 2022,” he told the reporters at the
prize-giving ceremony here today.
Yeoh said that the PBIM 2022 event was held not only
to promote the marathon but also to revive the state’s economy and boost the
tourism sector,” he said.
Source: Malay Mail
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