KSA Agrees To Extend Pakistani Passports To Thousands Of ‘Burmese’ Muslims For A Legal Status In Saudi Arabia
28 May 2023
On the request of Saudi government in the past,
Pakistani passports were issued to Burmese Muslims
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• KSA Agrees To Extend Pakistani Passports To
Thousands Of ‘Burmese’ Muslims For A Legal Status In Saudi Arabia
• Case Of Quran Burning In Russia Called A 'Cynical
Provocation'
• Saudi Astronaut Shares Breath-taking Glimpse Of
Mecca From Space, Captivating Global Audience
• Boko Haram: I Still Grieve For Our Children In
Captivity – Buhari
• European Team In Bangladesh Probes Genocide By
Pakistan Army In 1971
Pakistan
• PML-N adamant no talks with those who attacked state
institutions
• Ex-Sindh governor among latest line of PTI deserters
• Govt cancels diplomatic passports of nine PTI
leaders, AML chief
• PPP will think twice about accepting ex-PTI members
• Another guarantor leaves Lahore court sans
submitting Imran’s bail bonds
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North
America
• Muslim, civil liberties groups challenge Quebec
school prayer room ban in court
• Negotiators 'closer to an agreement' on US debt
crisis, but no deal in sight
• Four Nasa volunteers to spend 1 year in Houston Mars
simulator
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Arab
world
• Saudi technical team arrives in Syria to discuss
reopening of embassy in Damascus
• Saudi Arabia, US urge Sudan’s warring parties to
discuss truce extension
• The humanitarian at the helm of Philippine migrant
workers’ affairs
• KSrelief inaugurates medical projects in Africa
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Africa
• Two Killed, Dozens Injured In Police Crackdown
Against Protest By Muslims In Addis Ababa; More Than 100 People Detained
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South
Asia
• Afghanistan Regains Non-Stop China Flights After 3
Year Pause
• 3 killed in clash on Iran-Afghanistan border
• Bangladeshi pilgrims grateful for hassle-free
journey under Makkah Route
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India
• ‘Noise Pollution’ By Mosque: Bombay HC To Hear On May
29 Interim Plea Claiming Inaction By Police In Complying With Norms
• Following 13 Raids In Madhya Pradesh, NIA Nets 3
Islamic State Operatives
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Mideast
• Incumbent President Erdogan Pays Homage To Islamist
Predecessor At Istanbul's Adnan Menderes Mausoleum
• Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church head meets Sunni
leader
• Islamic Jihad: Enemy's heinous crimes against
Palestinian people will raise cost of account with this entity
• New Anti-Israel Axis Pushes Netanyahu to ‘Brink’ of
War
• Iran exchanges heavy gunfire with Taliban on Afghan
border, escalating tensions over water rights
• Iran dismisses Ukrainian Prez's 'drone supply'
claims as 'baseless'
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Southeast
Asia
• Kuala Lumpur Proposes Bill To Increase Powers Of Islamic
Courts
• Fahmi: Malaysia Needs Independent, Brave Media
• Discard culture of favouring merely the govt and
ignoring the opposition, PM tells local media
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Europe
• Russia: Only 10 Percent Of Population Actively
Religious Divided Equally Among Orthodox
• Hate Crime Probe Urged In North Carolina Mosque
Threat
• Major Shia mosque shuts down after Charity
Commission appoints non-Muslim manager
• Humza Yousaf accuses UK Government of trying to ‘scupper’
deposit return scheme
• British premier to urge supermarkets to place price
limits on basic foods
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KSA Agrees To Extend Pakistani Passports To Thousands
Of ‘Burmese’ Muslims For A Legal Status In Saudi Arabia
On the request of Saudi government in the past,
Pakistani passports were issued to Burmese Muslims
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Mushtaq Ghumman
May 27, 2023
ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia is said to have agreed to
extend Pakistani passports to thousands of Burmese Muslims residing in Saudi
Arabia on the request of Islamabad made during the recent visit of Saudi Deputy
Interior Minister, well informed sources told Business Recorder.
On May 19, 2023, during the federal cabinet meeting,
Minister for Interior Rana Sanaullah Khan conveyed the profound thanks of the
Deputy Interior Minister, on behalf of the Saudi Government, to the Prime
Minister and the Government of Pakistan for agreeing to renew the passports of
Burmese Muslims residing in Saudi Arabia.
It was informed that on the request of Saudi
government in the past, Pakistani passports were issued to Burmese Muslims to
give them a legal status in Saudi Arabia but these were not renewed after 2012,
which created difficulties for them in the Kingdom.
Endorsing the goodwill gesture, a member cautioned the
Interior Division to ensure that these Burmese Muslims and their children were
not deported to Pakistan in future.
Prime Minister also noted that he and the Iranian
president co-inaugurated a joint border market and an electricity transmission
line adding that the Mand-Pashin Border sustenance Marketplace would bolster
cross-border trade between the two neighbouring counties and provide
opportunities for local businesses to flourish.
The 100-MW transmission line to Gwadar would
supplement the electricity already purchased from Iran and help offset energy
needs of Balochistan’s border regions.
The Prime Minister lamented the delay caused by the
previous government, which had kept the project on the backburner. He said now
it had been completed on a fast-track basis and would be the harbinger of
tremendous socioeconomic benefits to the people of the area.
Referring to his meeting on the sidelines of the event
with the Iranian President, the Prime Minister shared the resolve of the two
leaders to enhance bilateral trade and multi-sectoral cooperation commensurate
with the close fraternal ties between the two neighbouring countries.
It was also agreed that the peace and security at the
Pak-Iran border would be jointly ensured. In this regard a Pakistani
delegation, led by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, would visit Iran soon to
finalize an action plan.
A member drew attention to the difficulties being
faced by Zaireen intending to visit Iran and Iraq, in matters related to visas,
which needed to be taken up at the bilateral level. The Minister for Interior
apprised that the Iraqi Interior Minister would be visiting Pakistan soon to
sign a MoU in this regard.
He further apprised that the Saudi Deputy Interior
Minister recently visited Pakistan and signed an agreement on execution of the
Road to Makkah, a project aimed at simplifying the immigration process at the
embarkation stage for pilgrims intending to perform Hajj and Umrah.
As per the accord, in the first phase, the services
would be available at Islamabad airport and will be extended to Karachi and
Lahore airports by next year. The members desired a detailed presentation on
the Road to Makkah project in the next Cabinet meeting.
The members also discussed the recent wide circulation
of controversial audios, which had been witnessed on national electronic, print
and social media, allegedly regarding the Judiciary and former chief Justices/
certain Judges, whereby alleged conversations raised serious apprehensions
about the conduct of a few belonging to the higher judiciary pertaining to the
administration of justice.
The members opined that such audio leaks had eroded
public trust and serious concerns had been raised by the general public
regarding independence, impartiality and uprightness of the chief justices/
some judges of the superior courts.
It was observed that under the constitution of
Pakistan, the independence, integrity and character of chief justices/ judges
is of utmost importance for keeping the public trust and confidence in the
administration of justice.
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Case Of Quran Burning In Russia Called A 'Cynical
Provocation'
A woman holds a portrait of
Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov during a rally staged in Grozny on May 23
after a citizen of Volgograd burned the Koran in front of a mosque.
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By Andrei Besedin
May 27, 2023
On May 19, a short video was posted on Telegram
purportedly showing an unidentified person silently burning a Quran outside a
mosque in the southern Russian city of Volgograd. The post was accompanied by
the words: "Volgograd! May Allah break your back, country of
Islamophobes."
That 11-second clip, however, has set off a chain of
events that has seen the Russian authorities taking the unusual step of
transferring the investigation to the nearby Muslim-majority North Caucasus
region of Chechnya, where thousands of people gathered on May 23 in a
demonstration of outrage organized by the government of Kremlin-backed
strongman Ramzan Kadyrov.
"There are no grounds for moving the case to
Chechnya," said AbubakarYangulbayev, a Chechen human rights advocate who
fled abroad citing harassment from the regional government over his online
criticism of Kadyrov. "The political context is clear: Kadyrov is
continuing to build his reputation as 'the defender of Muslims,' of the Quran
and Sunnis. He has said as much himself."
The original video appeared on the Morning In
Daghestan Telegram channel, which is tied to Ilya Ponomaryov, a former Russian
parliament deputy who is now based in Kyiv and is an active opponent of
Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In comments to the opposition Telegram channel Sota on
May 21, Ponomaryov expressed no regret about posting the video while also
condemning the act of burning the Islamic holy text. He speculated that the
video had been produced and sent to Morning In Daghestan by Russia's Federal
Security Service (FSB) "in order to create a scandal and earn awards for
‘solving' the case."
In a post on his Telegram channel on May 23, Kadyrov
claimed without evidence that the Quran burning was "one of the crimes
against Islam that are organized by henchmen of the satanic West and
Europe."
"The West wanted to divide us inside
Russia," Kadyrov continued. "But it turned out the other way around:
We hate the West even more, and Western mercenaries will feel our anger."
Kadyrov's remarks echo wording in a September 2022
speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin that has since been repeated by
other Kremlin-connected sources. In that speech, Putin accused the West of
"the total negation of the human, the overthrow of religion and
traditional values" and said that "the crushing of freedom comes to
look like the opposite of religion -- open satanism."
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Saudi Astronaut Shares Breath-taking Glimpse Of Mecca From
Space, Captivating Global Audience
Two Saudi astronauts,
including the first Saudi woman, head off from Florida on May 21 on a private
mission to the International Space Station (ISS). (Photo by Fayez Nureldine /
AFP)
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May 27, 2023
Dubai: Saudi Astronaut Rayana Barnawi has offered her
global followers an awe-inspiring view of Mecca from the International Space
Station (ISS).
On Friday, she shared a captivating video on Twitter
showcasing the night view of Mecca with the Grand Mosque brightly illuminated.
“After I concluded my experiments for the day, we
happened to pass over Mecca,” Barnawi commented in her post, amplifying the
beauty and sanctity of the holy city seen from space.
Barnawi’s video of Mecca has garnered significant
attention, sparking widespread admiration and reminding the world that despite
the vast distances, the view from space can bring a new perspective to places
of significance on Earth.
Saudi Astronauts RayanaBarnawi and Ali Al Qarni were
launched into space on May 21st from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida,
aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. Accompanied by veteran NASA astronaut Peggy
Whitson and American entrepreneur John Shofner, the launch was organised by
Axiom Space.
Approximately 15 hours after liftoff, the crew arrived
at the ISS where they are set to conduct 14 cutting-edge scientific research
experiments in the unique microgravity environment.
On Thursday, Barnawi took to Twitter to share an
update: “The first steps in starting scientific experiments is to test the
response of immune cells to infections using the live experiments box.”
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Boko Haram: I Still Grieve For Our Children In
Captivity – Buhari
A file photo of President Muhammadu Buhari
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By Soonest Nathaniel
May 28, 2023
In his short farewell broadcast on Sunday, the
president who will be handing over on May 29, said the fight to rescue the
children (mostly girls), is still on, adding that the plan remains to rescue
them unscathed.
“Up-till now, I still grieve for our children still in
captivity, mourn with parents, friends and relatives of all those that lost
loved ones in the days of the senseless brigandage and carnage.
“For all those under unlawful captivity, our Security
Agencies are working round the clock to secure their release unharmed,” the
president assured.
He further stated that his government’s battle to
ensure all Nigerians live in a safe and secure environment has achieved
considerable results.
“As I complete my term in office, we have been able to
reduce the incidences of banditry, terrorism, armed robbery and other criminal
activities considerably,” he emphasized.
In a bid to sustain the gains made so far on security,
the president called on all Nigerians to be more vigilant and support the
security agencies by ensuring that “our values defined by being your brothers’
keeper govern our actions”.
My fellow Nigerian brothers, sisters and friends of
Nigeria.
2. I address you today, in my last assignment as a
democratically elected President of our great and well endowed nation, with a
deep sense of gratitude to God, a great deal of appreciation to the Nigerian
people and a modest sense of fulfilment.
3. Today we mark and celebrate another peaceful
transition of power from one elected government to another in our steady march
to improve and sustain Nigeria’s democracy.
4. This year we witnessed the most keenly contested
Presidential Elections since the first Republic and this demonstrates that our
democracy is getting better and more entrenched with each election.
5. We must as a nation improve and sustain gains we
make in the electoral process, on an incremental basis for Nigeria to take its
rightful place among Nations.
6. Our democracy provides for, allows and encourages
seeking redress for any perceived injustices, enabling some candidates and
political parties that did not agree with the results to go to court.
7. Irrespective of the outcome of the various cases, I
urge all parties involved to accept the decision of our courts and join hands
to build a better Nigeria.
8. I salute the doggedness and resilience of all the
Presidential Candidates and their political parties for believing in our
judicial system by taking their grievances with the election results to court.
9. In the course of the campaigns, we had argued and
disagreed on how to make Nigeria better but we never disagreed or had any
doubts that Nigeria has to be better.
10. As your President, I call on all of us to bring to
bear the strength of our individualism, the power of our unity, the convictions
of our beliefs to make Nigeria work better and together with one spirit and one
purpose.
11. To my brother, friend and fellow worker in the
political terrain for the past ten years – Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu -, I
congratulate you on the realisation of your dream, which was propelled by a
burning passion to put Nigeria amongst the leading nations of the world.
12. You have indeed worked for this day and God has
crowned your efforts. I have no doubt that your passion for excellence,
reliance on competence, fairness in relationships, commitment to equity,
loyalty to the country and desire for Nigeria to be globally relevant would
come through for you, under God’s guidance, as you lead our country to levels
higher that I am leaving.
13. You are the best candidate among all the
contestants and Nigerians have chosen well.
14. The last eight years have been an exciting
experience in my desire and commitment to see a Nigeria in which public goods
and services are available, and accessible within a united, peaceful and secure
nation.
15. Fellow Nigerians, on the strength of your
over-whelming support for me and my political party, I started this journey
with a great deal of promise and expectation from you. I never intended to be
just politically correct but to do the correct things that will make meaningful
impact on the lives of the common Nigerian.
16. This high expectation was not misplaced because,
like the ordinary Nigerian, I had grown tired of watching the country
progressively moving away from the path of correctness.
17. To ensure that our democracy remains resilient and
our elected representatives remain accountable to the people, I am leaving
behind an electoral process which guarantees that votes count, results are
credible, elections are fair and transparent and the influence of money in
politics reduced to the barest minimum. And Nigerians can elect leaders of
their choice.
18. We are already seeing the outcome of this process
as it provided an even playing field where persons without any political God-Father
or access to money defeated other well-resourced candidates.
19. The Nigerian economy has become more resilient due
to the various strategies put in place to ensure that our economy remained
afloat during cases of global economic downturns.
20. You would all recall the supply chain disruptions
and economic downturn that the world witnessed between 2020 and 2022 as a
result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The deftness of our response to the pandemic
still remains a global best practice.
21. Furthermore, we increased the ability of the poor
and rural Nigerians to earn a living, provided more food for millions in our
villages and gave our women opportunities to earn a living.
22. Young men and women in urban centres were also
supported to put their skills into productive use. Our administration also
provided an enabling environment for the private sector to engage in businesses
for which their return on investments is guaranteed.
23. The private sector proved a strong partner in our
drive to build a resilient and sustainable economy as evidenced by the growing
number of turn-key projects in various sectors of the economy.
24. In the course of revamping the economy, we made
some difficult choices, most of which yielded the desired results. Some of the
measures led to temporary pain and suffering for which I sincerely apologised
to my fellow countrymen, but the measures were taken for the over-all good of
the country.
25. Mindful of the need to ensure adequate
infrastructure to drive economic growth, we completed age-long projects and
processes notably amongst which are the Petroleum Industry Act, completion of
some power projects, completion of the second Niger bridge and various
important roads linking cities and states.
26. Our battle to ensure that all Nigerians live in a
safe and secure environment has achieved considerable results. As I complete my
term in office, we have been able to reduce the incidences of banditry,
terrorism, armed robbery and other criminal activities considerably.
27. To sustain the gains made so far, I call on all
Nigerians to be more vigilant and support the security agencies by ensuring
that our values defined by being your brothers’ keeper govern our actions.
28. Up-till now, I still grieve for our children still
in captivity, mourn with parents, friends and relatives of all those that lost
loved ones in the days of the senseless brigandage and carnage. For all those
under unlawful captivity, our Security Agencies are working round the clock to
secure their release unharmed.
29. Fellow Nigerians, you know how dear the desire in
my heart to rid the country of corrupt practices that had consistently
diminished our efforts to be a great country.
30. I did pursue this commitment relentlessly, in
spite of the expected pushback. I am happy that considerable progress had been
made in repatriating huge sums of money back to the country and also taking
over properties illegally acquired from our commonwealth.
31. To improve service delivery, we began the
implementation of a number of reforms aimed at producing an Efficient,
Productive, Incorruptible and Citizen-oriented (EPIC) Federal Civil Service and
the results are beginning to show.
32. On the international scene, Nigeria’s influence
continues to grow as exemplified by notable Nigerians occupying headship and
leadership positions in renowned global bodies.
33. Our democracy is built on and continues to thrive
on the principles of separation of powers. The leadership and members of the
National Assembly deserve my appreciation for their patriotism which did not
detract from their roles as a check to the executive arm.
34. I also want to use this opportunity to express my
appreciation to a good number of Nigerians who provided their support and
encouragement to help me navigate the exciting journey in moving Nigeria
forward.
35. I can not and will not forget the millions who
prayed for me during my illness in my first term of office. I am constantly
praying for you and for Nigeria to thrive in peace.
36. As I retire home to Daura, Katsina State, I feel
fulfilled that we have started the Nigeria Re-Birth by taking the initial
critical steps and I am convinced the in-coming administration will quicken the
pace of this walk to see a Nigeria that fulfills its destiny to be a great
nation.
37. I am confident that I am leaving office with
Nigeria better in 2023 than in 2015.
38. I thank you all. And may God Bless the Federal
Republic of Nigeria.
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European Team In Bangladesh Probes Genocide By
Pakistan Army In 1971
A Bangladeshi man in Dhaka
sells national flags on the annual "Black Day" celebration
commemorating the victims of the 1971 genocide by the Pakistani army. AFP -
FARJANA K. GODHULY
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28/05/2023
Campaigners hailed the 20-26 May Dutch-led mission as
a recognition of efforts to bring to justice those responsible for 3 million
deaths, 200,000 rapes and exodus of 10 million Bangladeshis to India.
The team – which includes British security expert
Chris Blackburn, Dutch genocide scientist Anthonie Holslag and several others –
will report to the Netherland government and parliament in The Hague.
Team leader and former MP Harry Van Bommel accused
Washington of turning a blind eye to the slaughter because of its support to
Cold War ally Pakistan.
Dutch politician and former MP Harry van Bommel, along
with a European delegation is on a visit to #Bangladesh from May 20-26, where
the delegation will investigate the genocide committed by Pakistan in
1971https://t.co/rifZpfB67W
"West's friendship with Pakistan is the reason
for this dilemma," he said on the sidelines of a conference on the
atrocity that began in March 1971 and ended nine months later when India sent
its military into what was then East Pakistan.
"Even if it takes a hundred years to get global
recognition of the Armenian Genocide, I hope it will not take that long in the
case of Bangladeshi genocide.
Bommel was speaking in the capital Dhaka, which saw
the worst violence after troops on 25 March, 1971, began exterminating
university students, professors and critics of the regime in Islamabad.
In October 2022, two US Congressmen tabled legislation
that declared the atrocities against ethnic Bengalis as "crimes against humanity,
war crimes, and genocide”.
We Bengali Hindus work to make ourselves forget the
near-genocide we suffered in E Pakistan & Bangladesh at the hands of
Bengali and other Muslims - from Noakhali (1946) till today!
pic.twitter.com/AS0fhNjzEI
The British parliament has condemned the action in
East Pakistan, while France has encouraged Dhaka to research and document the
atrocities.
Bilateral ties bloomed ever since the Netherlands
became one of the first European nations to recognise Bangladesh as a sovereign
state a year after it was carved out from Pakistan’s eastern rump in 1971.
The Bangladesh event is counted as India’s most
successful military campaign against rival Pakistan, which capitulated after
93,000 of its soldiers surrendered 17 days after a full-scale war erupted on 3
December 1971.
“The time has come to bring them to book and we, not
only as Indians but the whole of humanity, should spit on them for their dirty
affairs,” said retired Indian army colonel VK Sahni.
While Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has acted swiftly
against war criminals, many of those who plotted the killing of Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman, a former Bangladesh president and her father, have fled to the West.
Three-star general GG Dwivedi said he saw signs of the
atrocities, including Bangladeshi women held as “sex slaves” in battle bunkers,
while in Dhaka as a young lieutenant.
In an interview with NewsX TV, Dwivedi compared the
genocide to the Holocaust, adding the "Pakistani army got away with it”.
“The people tried in Bangladesh were mere
collaborators but the real perpetrators got away scot free and so it comes as a
great relief that now the investigation has been opened up again.”
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Pakistan
PML-N adamant no talks with those who attacked state
institutions
May 28, 2023
KARACHI: Ruling out talks with Imran Khan, the
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Saturday said that negotiations cannot
be held with those who attacked the state, rather they are awarded punishment.
In a statement, Information Minister Marriyum
Aurangzeb said the PTI chief was not appealing for negotiations but, in fact,
was seeking an “NRO”. She ruled out talks with those who attacked sensitive
installations which were symbols of national pride, including GHQ, and
ambulances, hospitals and schools.
In a separate tweet, PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif
stated that negotiations could not be held with terrorists and saboteurs, but
with politicians.
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Ex-Sindh governor among latest line of PTI deserters
May 28, 2023
KARACHI: Embattled PTI leaders continued to leave the
party in droves, with some even quitting politics, as the noose around those
involved in the violent protests of May 9 tightened.
Some of the big names who parted ways with the PTI on
Saturday included former Sindh governor Imran Ismail, its Sindh’s president Ali
Zaidi, MNA Shaukat Ali, and former federal minister Khusro Bakhtiar.
In their press conferences after being freed, party
leaders have followed a similar line: condemn the violence and, as Mr Khan has
complained, say the magic words, “We are no longer in PTI”.
However, one prominent member of the party, Senate
Opposition leader Dr Shahzad Waseem, bucked the trend by announcing he was
still very much a part of PTI. Although he criticised the incidents of May 9
and 10, terming them unacceptable, he dispelled rumours that he quit the party.
In Karachi, the party suffered a major blow when Mr
Ismail, one of its founding members and a close aide of the PTI chief, Mr Zaidi
announced quitting the party over a “difference of opinion”.
Shortly after being released from jail on an
anti-terrorism court order, Mr Ismail drove to the Karachi Press Club, where he
held his “last political press conference” and announced parting ways with PTI
and its founder.
In his presser, Mr Ismail even criticised Mr Khan for
building an anti-establishment narrative right after his ouster from power
which led the party and the country to a crisis.
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Govt cancels diplomatic passports of nine PTI leaders,
AML chief
Iftikhar A. Khan
May 28, 2023
ISLAMABAD: The government on Saturday cancelled the
diplomatic passports of nine PTI leaders and the Awami Muslim League (AML)
chief, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed.
The PTI leaders whose passports have been revoked
include Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Pervez Khattak, Azam Swati, Ali Amin
Gandapur, Ali Muhammad Khan, Zartaj Gul, Farrukh Habib and Aon Abbas Bappi.
Former interior minister Sheikh Rashid and the nine
PTI leaders are among those who are still standing with embattled PTI chief
Imran Khan and have not left the party.
The list does not include the names of Fawad Chaudhry,
Shireen Mazari and Ali Zaidi — the former members of Imran Khan’s cabinet who
have said their goodbyes. It was not immediately clear if they also held
diplomatic passports or not.
Source: Dawn
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PPP will think twice about accepting ex-PTI members
May 28, 2023
LAHORE: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has said it
will be careful in inducting leaders who were leaving the Pakistan Tehreek
i-Insaf (PTI) into its fold.
This was announced by PPP central Punjab general
secretary Hasan Murtaza at a presser here on Saturday. He claimed that most
ex-PTI members had already contacted PPP, and the party was planning on
conducting proper scrutiny to be sure if the interests of the person align with
PPP’s ideology .
He further said, “PPP is hopeful to see favorable
results by grabbing most seats in Punjab in upcoming elections. It will also
appear as a future ruling party.”
Source: Dawn
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Another guarantor leaves Lahore court sans submitting
Imran’s bail bonds
May 28, 2023
LAHORE: The bail bonds on behalf of former prime
minister Imran Khan in three cases relating to the May 9 riots could not be
submitted on Saturday as another guarantor left an anti-terrorism court without
completing the process.
Advocate Muhammad Habib, the guarantor, appeared
before the court to submit papers of three vehicles as surety bonds in as many
as cases.
The other day, the judge also rejected the bail bonds
of Imran Khan in the cases as the guarantor showed reluctance to take
responsibility for the appearance of the PTI chairman in the trial proceedings.
However, the judge turned down the request and asked
the guarantor whether he could give an undertaking about the appearance of the
ex-premier in future hearings.
Source: Dawn
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North
America
Muslim, civil liberties groups challenge Quebec school
prayer room ban in court
By Sidhartha Banerjee
May 26, 2023
MONTREAL - A civil rights organization and a national
Muslim advocacy group are the latest to launch a legal challenge of Quebec’s
decree banning prayer rooms in public schools, the second one in recent weeks.
The National Council of Canadian Muslims and the
Canadian Civil Liberties Association filed a motion Friday seeking a judicial
review of the government decree on behalf of a plaintiff whose teenage son had
sought a space to pray along with some other Muslim students at a Montreal-area
high school last October.
According to the filing, the teen had become more
devout over the summer and began praying five times a day in accordance with
his Muslim faith, including once a day at school during the lunch hour.
Sometimes it was with a small group of students, both indoors and outdoors.
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Negotiators 'closer to an agreement' on US debt
crisis, but no deal in sight
May 28, 2023
WASHINGTON: US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin
McCarthy said Saturday that Republican negotiators were "closer to an
agreement" that would resolve the looming debt crisis, but had not reached
a deal with President Joe Biden.
He said there was no firm timeline for a final
compromise that would raise the nation's borrowing limit and avoid a
catastrophic default while also making spending cuts that House Republicans are
demanding. House negotiators left the Capitol after 2 am and returned hours
later.
"We'll get it when it gets right," McCarthy
said as he arrived on Capitol Hill. McCarthy's comments echoed the latest
assessment from Biden, who said Friday evening that bargainers were "very
close."
Their optimism came as treasury secretary Janet Yellen
told Congress that the United States could default on its debt obligations by
June 5 - four days later than previously estimated - if lawmakers do not act in
time to raise the federal debt ceiling. The extended "X-date" gives
the two sides a bit of extra time as they scramble for a deal.
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Four Nasa volunteers to spend 1 year in Houston Mars
simulator
May 28, 2023
WASHINGTON: Living on Mars wasn't exactly a childhood
dream for Canadian biologist Kelly Haston, though she'll soon spend a year
preparing for just that. "We are just going to pretend that we're
there," the 52-year-old told AFP, summing up her participation in an exercise
simulating a long stay on the Red Planet.
At the end of June, she will be one of the four
volunteers stepping into a Martian habitat in Houston, Texas that will be their
home for the next 12 months. "It still sometimes seems a bit unreal to
me," she laughs.
For Nasa, which has carefully selected the
participants, these long-term experiments make it possible to evaluate the
behaviour of a crew in an isolated and confined environment, ahead of a real
mission in future.
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Arab
world
Saudi technical team arrives in Syria to discuss
reopening of embassy in Damascus
ARAB NEWS
May 28, 2023
RIYADH: A Saudi technical team arrived on Saturday in
Syria, to discuss the reopening of Saudi Arabia's embassy in Damascus, Saudi
Press Agency reported.
The reopening the Saudi embassy in Damascus comes
after the Kingdom’s foreign ministry announced in April the decision of
resuming diplomatic mission work in Syria.
The Saudi technical team, headed by Minister of
Plenipotentiary, Ghazi bin Rafi Al-Anzi met with assistant foreign and
expatriates Minister Ayman Sousan at the Syrian Foreign Ministry headquarters
in Damascus.
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Saudi Arabia, US urge Sudan’s warring parties to
discuss truce extension
ARAB NEWS
May 28, 2023
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and the US are urging Sudan’s
warring sides to work to work on extending a short-term truce currently in
force in the country.
“Saudi Arabia and the US call on the Sudanese Armed
Forces & the Rapid Support Forces to continue discussions to reach an
agreement on extending the ceasefire that is set to expire on May 29,” the
Saudi foreign affairs ministry said in a statement early on Sunday.
Saudi Arabia and the US, who brokered the current
ceasefire, urged the sides to continue to adhere to their obligations even if
an extension deal isn’t reach before May 29. The parties signed a Declaration
of Commitment to Protect the Civilians of Sudan agreement in Jeddah,
safeguarding humanitarian assistance and access.
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The humanitarian at the helm of Philippine migrant
workers’ affairs
SHAHRUKH JAMSHED
May 27, 2023
JEDDAH: Last week, Susan V. Ople, secretary of the
Department of Migrant Workers of the Philippines, visited Arab News
headquarters in Riyadh.
Commenting on her visit, she tweeted: “Once upon a
time, I was (a) columnist of @arabnews. Visiting its office in Riyadh was (a)
homecoming of sorts.”
Yes, you read it correctly. Ople was once an important
part of Arab News. Her visit to Arab News brought back so many memories of the
time I dealt with her as an editor.
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KSrelief inaugurates medical projects in Africa
ARAB NEWS
May 27, 2023
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid
and Relief Center (KSrelief) inaugurated two volunteer medical programs in
Kenya and Cameroon.
In Kenya, 13 volunteer doctors from the aid agency’s
medical team performed cardiac catheterization surgeries for patients in
Nairobi. The program, operational from May 22 to May 26, was rolled out in
cooperation with the Al-Balsam International Organization, the Saudi Press
Agency (SPA) reported.
“The project comes as an extension of the voluntary
medical programs implemented by KSrelief in various specialties to help
individuals and families with limited income in countries in need,” read the
SPA statement.
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Africa
Two Killed, Dozens Injured In Police Crackdown Against
Protest By Muslims In Addis Ababa; More Than 100 People Detained
MAY 27, 2023
Addis Ababa – At least two civilians were killed
yesterday and more than 40 people, including police officers and different
police backup forces, suffered minor and serious injuries during police
crackdown against Muslim protesters in and around the Grand Anuwar Mosque in
the capital Addis Ababa on Friday afternoon.
The protests broke out Friday after prayer hours by
the Muslim community in the city against the demolition of Mosques in the newly
formed Shaggar city, which was formerly known as Oromia Special Zone
Surrounding Finfinne. The protesters demanded an end to the demolition of
mosques in the Shaggar city.
On 23 May the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs of
the Oromia Regional State said 19 Mosques were illegally demolished in Shaggar
city alone & urged the regional government to immediately stop the
demolitions and return to resolving the problem through dialogue. earlier, the
Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs of Ethiopia has sent a letter to Prime
Minister Abiy Ahmed seeking an end to the demolitions and a solution to the
problem.
According to a statement released by the Addis Abeba
Police last night, the two victims died after “being sent to the hospital for
treatment.” The statement didn’t mention if the two victims were killed by the
police. The victims are identified by Jeilu TV as Siraj Mohammed and Abubeker
Elias, both residents of the city.
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South
Asia
Afghanistan Regains Non-Stop China Flights After 3
Year Pause
BY SU WU
28-05-2023
Afghanistan announced the resumption of direct flights
between Afghanistan and China earlier this week. The Afghan national flag
carrier Ariana Afghan Airlines began the first weekly passenger flight from
Kabul to Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in
northwestern China.
This is the first time China has resumed direct
flights to the Taliban-ruled country since the end of 2019, which at the time
was disrupted due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The resumption of the air service
is expected to help strengthen economic and political relations between the two
countries.
Imamuddin Ahmadi, the spokesperson for the Taliban's
Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, stated that current daily flights
from Afghanistan were mainly to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Turkey.
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3 killed in clash on Iran-Afghanistan border
28-May-2023
Two Iranian border guards and one Taliban fighter were
killed during armed clashes near a border police station between Iran and
Afghanistan, according to Iran's official IRNA news agency and the Taliban's
Interior Ministry on Saturday.
The two sides accused each other of opening fire first
on Saturday morning near the police station on the border of Iran's Sistan and
Baluchestan province, and the Afghan province of Nimroz.
The reason for the skirmish is not known yet, and the
Iranian Embassy in Kabul and Afghanistan's Taliban-run acting Ministry of
National Defense have started correspondence and phone calls to investigate the
cause of the tension.
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Bangladeshi pilgrims grateful for hassle-free journey
under Makkah Route
SHEBAB SUMON
May 27, 2023
DHAKA: Bangladeshi pilgrims departing for Hajj are
grateful for Makkah Route facilities, which they say streamline the immigration
process and remove the burdens of traveling abroad.
More than 125,000 Bangladeshis are traveling to Saudi
Arabia this year for the pilgrimage that is one of the five pillars of Islam.
Most are departing from the capital, Dhaka, and are assisted by Saudi
authorities, who have been working round-the-clock since last week, when the
special Hajj flights started under the Makkah Route initiative.
The flagship pre-travel program was launched by the
Kingdom in 2019 to help pilgrims fulfill all the visa, customs and health
requirements at their airport of origin, saving them long hours of waiting
before and on arrival in Saudi Arabia.
“All the pilgrims are boarding their planes with
comfort and smiles. This initiative is being highly praised by the people at
home and abroad,” Saiful Islam, director of the Hajj Office Dhaka, told Arab
News.
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India
‘Noise Pollution’ By Mosque: Bombay HC To Hear On May
29 Interim Plea Claiming Inaction By Police In Complying With Norms
By: Express News Service
May 27, 2023
The vacation bench of the Bombay High Court will hear
on May 29 an interim application by a lawyer, a resident of Thakur Village,
Kandivali (East), who made several complaints to Samta Nagar Police station and
had posted live videos on Twitter to show that a mosque is using loudspeakers
during early morning hours, despite there being restrictions on the use of
loudspeaker between 10 pm and 6 am and the area in question being a silence zone.
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Following 13 Raids In Madhya Pradesh, NIA Nets 3
Islamic State Operatives
By Vicky Nanjappa
May 28, 2023
The operation was led by the NIA in assistance with
the Intelligence Bureau and Madhya Pradesh Anti Terrorism Squad. During the
raid, the agencies recovered sharp-edged weapons, ammunition, incriminating
documents and digital devices.
Three arrests took place during the operation, which
included raids at 13 locations in Jabalpur on May 26 and 27. The three persons
arrested include, Syed Mamoor Ali, Mohammad Adil Khan and Mohammad Shahid. They
will be produced before a special NIA court in Bhopal.
On May 24, the NIA had registered a case during its
probe Into the alleged pro-Islamic State activities of Mohammad Adil Khan, who
had come under the radar in August last year. He and his associates are accused
of being involved in propagating the ideology of the Islamic State through
social media platforms. They also undertook the 'Dawah' programme, the agency
has also learnt.
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Mideast
Incumbent President Erdogan Pays Homage To Islamist
Predecessor At Istanbul's Adnan Menderes Mausoleum
27 May, 2023
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid homage to
his executed Islamist predecessor on Saturday in a last-gasp attempt to rally
his conservative base on the eve of a historic runoff election.
Erdogan's visit to Istanbul's Adnan Menderes mausoleum
took him back to the man he cited when he called early polls for May 14 in a
bid to ease his way to an unprecedented third decade of rule.
Erdogan told his followers in January that he wanted
to continue Menderes's fight for religious rights and nationalist causes in the
officially secular but overwhelmingly Muslim republic of 85 million people.
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Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church head meets Sunni
leader
May 27, 2023
Baselios Marthoma Mathews III, the supreme head of the
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India, on Saturday called on Sunni leader
Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliyar for a cordial discussion on fostering
communal harmony among minority communities and the need to fight against
elements that constantly try to create communal tensions. Prominent religious
leaders who offered cooperation in sectors covering educational, spiritual and
developmental needs of society, asserted that they would come up with
initiatives to foster social and communal harmony with the support of parishes
and mahallu committees. Both of them expressed concern over increasing attempts
to challenge the secular values of the country by circulating unhealthy content
on social media. Drug trafficking and drug abuse among youngsters also figured
in the discussions. Sunni YuvajanaSanghom State secretary A.P. Abdul
HakkimAzhari was also present at the meeting held at Karanthur.
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Islamic Jihad: Enemy's heinous crimes against
Palestinian people will raise cost of account with this entity
26/May/2023
GAZA May 26. 2023 (Saba) - The Palestinian Islamic
Jihad has confirmed that the heinous crimes of the Zionist enemy against the
Palestinian people will raise the cost of the account with the enemy's entity,
soldiers and settlers, and increase the heyday of prolonged resistance to
making inevitable victory dates in the courtyards of the holy Al-Aqsa mosque.
In a press release carried by Palestine Today news
agency on Friday, the movement called on the Palestinian people and martyred
nation Alaa Khalil Qaysiya (28) from the town of Dahiriyah, who was shot by
enemy soldiers near the settlement of "TanaUmrim" south of al-Khalil
this morning.
In its statement, the movement extended condolences to
the martyr's family and the entire population of Khalil al-Rahman.
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New Anti-Israel Axis Pushes Netanyahu to ‘Brink’ of
War
Mel Frykberg
May 28, 2023
Israel fears that a growing anti-Israel alliance in
the Middle East is now strong enough to spark an outbreak of war in the region.
Recent months have seen strengthening alliances and
unprecedented coordination between Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Iran and
Syria while Benjamin Netanyahu’s chaotic right-wing coalition struggles to
maintain its authority in Israel.
The possibility of a localized war has been
exacerbated by recent cross-border clashes between the Israel Defense Forces
(IDF) and Palestinian military groups in Gaza and in Lebanon as well as clashes
with Hezbollah and Iranian proxies across multiple borders.
The Israeli military believes that a surge in
low-level attacks in response to Israel’s treatment of Muslims and their holy
sites demonstrates increasing unity between a range of militant groups. Last
month’s rocket attacks launched at Israel by Hamas from southern Lebanon
reportedly took place while the commander of Iran’s Quds Force hosted senior
officials from Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah at Iran’s embassy in Beirut.
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Iran exchanges heavy gunfire with Taliban on Afghan
border, escalating tensions over water rights
By JON GAMBRELL
27-05-2023
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Taliban and
Iran exchanged heavy gunfire Saturday on the Islamic Republic’s border with
Afghanistan, killing and wounding troops while sharply escalating rising
tensions between the two countries amid a dispute over water rights.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency quoted the country’s
deputy police chief, Gen. Qassem Rezaei, accusing the Taliban of opening fire
first Saturday morning on the border of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province
and the Afghan province of Nimroz. IRNA said Iran inflicted “heavy casualties
and serious damage.”
From the Taliban’s view, Afghan Interior Ministry
spokesman Abdul NafiTakor accused Iran of shooting first. Takor said the
firefight killed two people, one from each country, and wounded others. He
described the situation as now being under control.
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Iran dismisses Ukrainian Prez's 'drone supply' claims
as 'baseless'
2023-05-28
Tehran, May 28 (IANS) The Iranian Foreign Ministry
spokesman rejected as "baseless" the Ukrainian President's claims
about Iran supplying Russia with drones for use against Ukraine.
Nasser Kanaani made the remarks in a statement
published on the Iranian Foreign Ministry's website, in response to a recent
call by Ukrainian President VolodymyrZelensky on Tehran to stop "its
supply of combat drones to Russia", Xinhua news agency reported.
Kanaani reiterated Iran's opposition to the
Russia-Ukraine conflict and is very sorry about the Ukrainian people's pain and
suffering, adding Iran stays ready to provide assistance to the finding of a
political solution to end the crisis at the earliest possible time.
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Southeast
Asia
Kuala Lumpur proposes bill to increase powers of
Islamic courts
05/27/2023
Kuala Lumpur (AsiaNews) - A recent proposal by
Malaysia's prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, regarding an amendment that would
increase the powers of Islamic courts has generated several criticisms. The
Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), part of the ruling coalition, has raised
concerns that even non-Muslims could be tried by shari'a courts, also known as
the syariah court system, using the Malaysian spelling.
Commentators say this is an attempt by the executive
to move closer to the PerikatanNasional (PN) opposition dominated by the
Islamist Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) party ahead of local elections scheduled
for July. The bill proposes to increase the maximum sentencing limits for
criminal offenses tried by syariah courts to 30 years in prison, a fine of 100
thousand rupees (1,130 euros) and 100 strokes of the cane. The current limits
are three years in prison, a fine of 5 thousand rupees (57 euros) and six
strokes.
The current Minister for Religious Affairs announced
on May 25 that the amendment known in Malaysia as RUU355 would be submitted to
Parliament once the government's approval was obtained, but he did not specify
the timeline for it, while the following day PAS Vice President Idris Ahmad,
Minister for Religious Affairs from August 2021 to November last year, said the
previous cabinet had already given the go-ahead for the bill to be submitted to
Parliament.
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Fahmi: Malaysia needs independent, brave media
28 May 2023
IPOH, May 28 — Malaysia not only needs an independent
media but one that is also brave enough to speak without fear and favour, said
Communications and Digital Minister FahmiFadzil.
Fahmi said such media is needed not only in terms of
checks and balances but also to make sure that the voices heard will be
recorded and reported.
"Malaysia is ranked 73rd in the World Press
Freedom Index 2023, as released by Reporters Without Borders, the highest
Malaysia achieved in many years. But this position should not be taken for
granted; there’s a lot of work to be done.
“So, I hope these few days, friends of media will be
able to think, through conversations, discussions that not only will help
broaden our horizons but also carry on with investigation on what we need to do
for the sake and future of this industry,” Fahmi said in his opening remarks at
the Hawana 2023 Media Forum here today.
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Discard culture of favouring merely the govt and
ignoring the opposition, PM tells local media
By John Bunyan
28 May 2023
IPOH, May 28 — At the summit of National Journalists’
Day (Hawana) 2023, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim reminded media
practitioners to get rid of their culture of writing in favour of the
government of the day and neglecting the Opposition’s view.
“Due to the changes of time and political climate, the
government have made a clear stand that the media in the country will have
total freedom when it comes to writing, which also includes the Opposition’s
view.
“Criticism against the government, which includes the
prime minister and other ministers, should be allowed without fear. And if
there is weakness among the ministers, they should be ready to apologies and
rectify it,” he said in his speech at the Casuarina Convention Centre here.
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Europe
Russia: Only 10 Percent Of Population Actively
Religious Divided Equally Among Orthodox Christians, Muslims, And Protestants –
OpEd
Paul Goble
May 28, 2023
Only 10 percent of the population of Russia today is
actively religious, with that small fraction divided equally among Orthodox
Christians, Muslims and Protestants, Nikolay Mitrokhin says. The remainder are
indifferent or even increasingly hostile to religion, a trend that will
increasingly set the weather in that country.
“Today,” the specialist on religion in Russia who
teaches at the University of Bremen says, “there is a decline in institutional
religiosity on all fronts. That is the number of people involved is not growing
but rapidly falling,” a pattern that will only accelerate as urbanization
proceeds (polit.ru/article/2023/05/23/mitrohin/).
That trend, Mitrokhin continues, is somewhat hidden by
polls showing the same high levels of attachment to Orthodoxy as in the past.
But those polls reflect the fact that people give the answers they think the
authorities want; and the Putin regime wants people to identify as Orthodox
because that means for it that they are attached to the traditional values it
favors.
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Hate crime probe urged in North Carolina mosque threat
27 May, 2023
Brooke Anderson
Rights advocates are urging for a hate crime probe
following a threatening phone call to a US mosque this week.
On Tuesday, a mosque in North Carolina received a
phone call in which the caller promised a 9/11-style attack.
“I’ll blow you worse than 9/11,” said the caller in
part of the recorded call that was shared with local media. The rest of the
call is filled with anti-Muslim and anti-Arab remarks.
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Major Shia mosque shuts down after Charity Commission
appoints non-Muslim manager
By 5Pillars (RMS)
26th May 2023
The Islamic Centre of England in London, one of
Britain’s biggest Shia mosques, has shut its doors after the Charity Commission
appointed a non-Muslim interim manager.
The Maida Vale centre – which is affiliated to Iran –
has been under investigation by the Charity Commission since a vigil for
assassinated Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was held there in 2020.
On Wednesday a banner on the door of the centre read:
“After receiving the concerns of the community and for their safety, we are
saddened to inform you that all upcoming programs, including prayers, have been
suspended until further notice.”
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Humza Yousaf accuses UK Government of trying to
‘scupper’ deposit return scheme
By Katrine Bussey
28-05-2023
Scotland’s First Minister has accused the UK
Government of trying to “scupper” the deposit return scheme, as the war of
words between Westminster and Holyrood about the environmental initiative
intensifies.
Lorna Slater, the Scottish Government minister responsible
for implementing the scheme, told the UK Government on Saturday the move to
allow it only if glass bottles were removed from its remit will “present a
severe challenge to the viability” of the scheme north of the border.
And First Minister Humza Yousaf said the UK Government
was “not just trying to scupper the deposit return scheme (DRS), which is
clearly what they are trying to do, they’re trying to undermine devolution time
and time again”.
He and Scottish Green government minister Ms Slater
both hit out after the UK Government declared that in order for it to allow DRS
in Scotland to proceed, the scheme – which now has a start date of March 2024 –
could only include PET plastic bottles and aluminium and steel cans.
Source: Standard.Co.Uk
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British premier to urge supermarkets to place price
limits on basic foods
AysuBicer
28.05.2023
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is planning to
request retailers to implement price caps on essential food items, such as
bread and milk, aiming to address the mounting cost of living.
According to the Telegraph, Downing Street is
currently developing strategies to tackle inflation, with a team of aides
working under Sunak initiating negotiations with supermarkets, drawing
inspiration from a similar arrangement observed in France.
"Food inflation is much more resilient and
difficult to get rid of than we anticipated," said the newspaper, citing a
Treasury source.
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