Right Wing Groups Move Supreme Court To Seek Action Against Muslim Leaders, Asaduddin Owaisi and Tauqeer Raza For Hate Speech
New
Age Islam News Bureau
23
January 2022
Supreme Court of Idia
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• Right Wing Groups Move Supreme Court To Seek Action Against
Muslim Leaders, Asaduddin Owaisi and Tauqeer Raza For Hate Speech
• Nusrat Ghani, Britain's First Female Muslim
Minister: I Was Sacked As A Minister ‘Because I Was A Muslim’
• Boko Haram, ISWAP Recruiting Child Soldiers
• Minister For Parliamentary Affairs Supports ‘Islamic
Presidential’ System: ‘Country Never Had Presidential System In True Sense’
• Iran Rules Out Likelihood Of 'Interim Deal' In
Vienna Nuke Talks: Report
India
• Kolar Deputy Commissioner Seeks Report Over Muslim Friday
Prayers In Government School
• Victims Say MP Police Protecting Hindu Man Accused
of Arson, Assault of Muslims And • Threatened Two Muslim Children To Leave A
Locality with 'Light Charges'
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Europe
• Plans to replace former police station with mosque
given go-ahead
• Syria: Deadly fighting continues after 'Islamic
State' prison break
• UK professor unveils seminal book of Imam Khamenei's
letters to Western youths
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Africa
• Morocco To Sign Sports Agreement To Enhance Ties
With Israel
• Muslim Council in Taraba alleges marginalization by
Gov Ishaku
• 17 Nigerian Girls Kidnapped by Boko Haram, Witnesses
Say
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Pakistan
• A Judge Should Be Fearful Of Allah, Constitution: Justice
Faez Isa
• Security forces seize large cache of weapons in South
Waziristan IBO: ISPR
• Four Islamabad policemen booked for kidnapping,
extorting money from three citizens
• PFUJ moves court against journalists protection law
• PML-N rejects Qureshi’s offer for talks on south
Punjab
• Member opposes PBC’s move against SHC CJ’s elevation
to apex court
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Mideast
• Imam Khamenei receives group of Ahl al-Bayt
eulogists
• Syrian Kurdish forces tighten siege after Islamic
State prison break
• Senior official of al-Abbas shrine receives SG of
Imam Hussain shrine
• Saudi diplomat murder: Pakistan seeks Tehran
assistance to arrest suspects from Iran
• US Navy stops ship carrying ‘explosive precursor’
from Iran on Yemen route
• Iran plans stronger ties with Turkey
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South Asia
• Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan Take A Step Further
Towards Official Recognition
• Chinese Aids’ Delivery Begins To Northern Province:
IEA
• Explosion in western Afghanistan killed and wounded
15 people
• From boom to bust to dust: how Covid-19 and typhoon wrecked
Siargao, surfers’ paradise in the Philippines, and its long road back
• Tax problems will be solved once businesses share
issues in written form: Kamal
• IEA delegation’s arrival in Oslo triggered protest
• Chinese Aids’ Delivery Begins To Northern Province:
IEA
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Arab world
• Saudi Arabia’s Ambitious Space Program Provides
Foretaste Of Exciting Collaborations To Come
• Saudi National Parks Program will benefit
environment, communities and tourism, organizers say
• Diriyah’s Historic At-Turaif ‘A New Lifestyle
Destination’ In Saudi Arabia
• Saudi aid agency rolling out relief projects
worldwide
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North America
• Was ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Banned in Georgia Due to
‘Islamic’ Lyrics?
• U.S.-Backed Fighters Chase Islamic State Gunmen Near
Prison In Syria
• Heavy gunfire heard in Burkina Faso barracks,
government denies army takeover
• Birth anniversary of Hazrat Fatemeh marked in Brazil
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Southeast Asia
• Kelantan Umno Previously Voiced Intention To Cut
Ties With PAS, Says Ismail Sabri
• Kelantan PAS respects state Umno’s decision to sever
political ties, says Ahmad Yakob
• No travel ban during Aidilfitri in Malaysia, only
EMCO if necessary, says PM
• Civil societies call for clarification, say SC’s
statement on Azam Baki’s shares may have contradicted govt rules
• Johor polls: It was a unilateral decision, we were
not consulted, says state Bersatu leader
• Umno sec-gen: Number of voters in Johor increases by
28pc
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Right Wing Groups Move Supreme Court To Seek Action
Against Muslim Leaders, Asaduddin Owaisi and Tauqeer Raza For Hate Speech
Supreme Court of Idia
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23rd January 2022
Two different intervention applications have been
filed in the Supreme Court in the ongoing petition filed seeking an independent
inquiry into the Haridwar Dharam Sansad speeches. National President of Hindu
Sena Vishnu Gupta and Hindu Front for Justice, have moved separate applications
seeking intervention and to make themselves parties in the ongoing petition filed
by Qurban Ali who has sought an independent inquiry into the Haridwar Dharam
Sansad speeches. The Supreme Court on January 10 agreed to hear petition filed
by Qurban Ali.
Now, National President of Hindu Sena Vishnu Gupta and
Hindu Front for Justice, in separate pleas want to be heard by the Court in the
ongoing petition against speeches deliver in Haridwar Dharam Sansad. Hindu
Front for Justice, in its intervening application filed through advocate Vishnu
Shankar Jain said that there are various instances where allegedly hate
speeches are delivered against Hindus and that should also be examined.
Meanwhile, another application has been moved in the
Supreme Court by National President of Hindu Sena Vishnu Gupta seeking
intervention and to become a party to the hate speech petition filed by Qurban
Ali. He has also sought action and lodging of FIR against the hate speech given
by All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader Asaduddin Owaisi and
Ittehad-e-Millat Council leader Tauqeer Raza and others.
Besides Asaduddin Owaisi and Tauqeer Raza, Gupta has
also sought to issue direction to concerned state government to lodge FIR
against president of All India Imam Association Sajid Rashidi, AAP politician
Amanatullah Khan, AIMIM leader Waris Pathan for allegedly delivering hate
speeches.
“That the petitioners (Qurban Ali) who belong to
Muslim Community and who are follower of Islam are not supposed to raise
objection against the affairs or activities related to Hindu Dharm Sansad. In
fact by way of aforesaid petition, an effort is being made to scandalize the
spiritual leaders of Hindus. The Constitution of India provides equal
protection to the followers of all faith and religion, in this context
reference may be made to Article 19(1)(a) and (b) read with Article- 25 of the
constitution of India, ” the petitioner Vishnu Gupta said in his plea. “Thus it
is crystal clear that every citizen of this country has freedom of conscience,
practice and propagation of religion. Therefore, the Holding Dharma Sansad by
Hindu is protected by Article 19(a)(b) and article 25 of the constitution of
India. Therefore the objections of the Petitioner (Qurban Ali) in the aforesaid
matter are against the constitutional scheme and encroachment on Fundamental
right of Hindu’s, “the petitioner added.
The application filed by Vishnu Gupta said that the
Hindu culture and civilization has been the victim of foreigners and the fact
is corroborated by the fact that temples in this country have been converted
into a mosque by Muslim Invaders right from the khilji dynasty up to the Mughal
dynasty. The petition filed by journalist Qurban Ali has sought an independent
inquiry into the Haridwar Dharma Sansad speeches allegedly inciting violence
against the minority community and the arrest and trial of people who made hate
speeches, inciting violence towards Muslims, at the Haridwar Dharma Sansad
conclave.
The hate speeches were allegedly delivered between
December 17 and 19, 2021, in Haridwar by Yati Narsinghanand and in Delhi by
‘Hindu Yuva Vahini’. The plea filed by Ali said that the alleged hate speeches
consisted of open calls for genocide of Muslims in order to achieve ethnic
cleansing.
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Nusrat Ghani, Britain's First Female Muslim Minister:
I Was Sacked As A Minister ‘Because I Was A Muslim’
Nusrat Ghani said she had
considered quitting as an MP/David Cliff/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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January 23, 2022
A British lawmaker has said she was fired from a
ministerial job because her Muslim faith was making her Conservative colleagues
“uncomfortable,” according to a report.
Nusrat Ghani, 49, Britain's first female Muslim
minister, was sacked as transport minister in a reshuffle in 2020 in Prime
Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative government, The Sunday Times reported.
Ghani told the newspaper she was told by a whip - an
enforcer of parliamentary discipline - that her “Muslimness was raised as an
issue” at a meeting in 10 Downing Street, the headquarters of the government in
London.
"I was told that at the reshuffle meeting in
Downing Street that ‘Muslimness’ was raised as an ‘issue’, that my ‘Muslim
women minister’ status was making colleagues uncomfortable," the paper
quoted Ghani as saying.
"I will not pretend that this hasn’t shaken my
faith in the party and I have at times seriously considered whether to continue
as an MP (Member of Parliament),” she added.
She also said she was told “there were concerns ‘that
I wasn’t loyal to the party as I didn’t do enough to defend the party against
Islamophobia allegations.’”
“When I challenged whether this was in any way acceptable
and made clear there was little I could do about my identity, I had to listen
to a monologue on how hard it was to define when people are being racist and
that the party doesn’t have a problem and I needed to do more to defend
it," she said.
“It was very clear to me that the whips and No 10 were
holding me to a higher threshold of loyalty than others because of my
background and faith,” said Ghani, who is vice chairwoman of the party’s
decision-making 1922 Committee of backbenchers.
She said she kept quiet about the issue as she was
warned that she would be “ostracised by colleagues” and her “career and
reputation would be destroyed” otherwise.
Ghani said the feeling of “isolation and powerlessness
after this episode would not leave me and I raised it several more times
through official party channels and with some colleagues.”
“I will not pretend that this hasn’t shaken my faith
in the party,” she said.
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Boko Haram, ISWAP Recruiting Child Soldiers
Director, Army Public
Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu
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Solomon Odeniyi
23 January 2022
The Nigerian Army said it was studying the video of
the Islamic State West Africa Province children fighters executing its
personnel.
The video released by the ISWAP, according to the
Associated Press, was published on Tuesday by the SITE Intelligence Group,
which monitors jihadi activities.
In the video, a man in the Nigerian Army uniform, who
claimed that he was with the army special forces, was shot twice in the head by
a boy of about 12.
Shortly after, another soldier, who said he was
captured in April 2021, was shot in the head by one of the three masked
fighters behind him.
Speaking with our correspondent on Friday, the
Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, stated
that the action of the terrorists had been a long time practice in terrorism
across the world.
He said the terrorists were trying to embark on
recruitment drive with the video as many of their fighters had surrendered to
troops.
Nwachukwu stated, “We are studying the video. However,
the action of the terrorists has been a long time practice in terrorism across
the globe.
“Recall that the terrorist groups, ISWAP/Boko Haram,
have in the past used women and children as suicide bombers. They have also
conscripted children and minors, who they engage as child soldiers, and women,
who they use as sex slaves.
“Having been depleted by our troops, the imbroglio in
their ranks and the massive surrendering of Boko Haram, the terrorists in a
desperate move are embarking on a recruitment drive to shore up their strength
with child soldiers, who they can easily indoctrinate, manipulate and cheaply
manage financially.
“We have raised this alarm before now and have since
commenced sensitisation in the North-East to guard against and block their
recruitment drive.”
Nwachukwu urged residents of the North-East not to be
deceived by the gimmicks of ISWAP terrorists into releasing their children and
wards for their evil cause.
AP had quoted the Executive Director, SITE
Intelligence Group, Rita Katz, as saying that ISIS “is now more desperate than
ever to keep its name in the global discussion…given the fact that it no longer
has a physical ‘caliphate’ outside of relatively small bases in different
countries.”
The video, she said, “demonstrates the immense focus
ISIS is placing on Africa” and puts a “spotlight on Nigeria as one of its
strongholds and projecting itself as an adaptive, enduring force to the world.”
The UN children’s agency estimates that globally, more
than 93,000 children were recruited and used in conflicts between 2005 and
2020.
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Minister For Parliamentary Affairs Supports ‘Islamic
Presidential’ System: ‘Country Never Had Presidential System In True Sense’
Pakistan Minister For
Parliamentary Affairs
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By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir
January 23, 2022
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs
Ali Muhammad Khan on Saturday, while speaking about the “Islamic” Presidential
System in detail, said the country has never experienced the presidential
system in true sense and spirit.
In an interview, he said the presidential system is
being discussed at the social media alone but it has not come up for a
discussion at the cabinet or government level so far.
The PTI minister said Pakistan had never experienced
the Islamic Presidential System. Both the parliamentary and presidential
systems have their own merits and demerits but the government has not taken any
decision for holding a referendum for the Islamic Presidential System. It is
the people who will decide about the system, he added.
Comparing Parliamentary and presidential systems, the
PTI minister said in the parliamentary system, a party forming the government
had secured lesser votes than the aggregate votes of candidates of other
parties; however, in the Islamic Presidential System, every vote that has been
cast, would carry its significance.
He further said that if the Islamic Presidential
System gets its way in Pakistan, it would be through polls in a democratic
manner as Ayub Khan, Ziaul Haq and Pervez Musharraf were not elected through
the democratic process.
The discussion about the presidential system has
continued to dominate the social media, while no political party has supported
the highly controversial idea as the constitutional experts are of the view
that any scheme that could damage Constitution’s Parliamentary and Islamic
character would demolish the very basis of it.
Source: The News
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Iran Rules Out Likelihood Of 'Interim Deal' In Vienna Nuke
Talks: Report
Iran’s flag at the IAEA
headquarters
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January 23, 2022
Iran does not consider an interim deal in ongoing
negotiations in the Austrian capital of Vienna aimed to restore the 2015
nuclear deal, a source close to the Iranian negotiating team told Tasnim News
Agency.
"The Iranian team seeks to achieve a lasting and
credible agreement," the source was quoted as saying on Saturday.
The NBC News network reported on Saturday that Russia
has discussed a possible interim nuclear deal, which includes limited lifting
of anti-Iran sanctions and re-imposition of certain restrictions on Iran's
nuclear activities, with Iran in recent weeks as part of efforts to revive the
2015 nuclear pact, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,
Xinhua news agency reported.
Source: BVusiness
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India
Kolar Deputy Commissioner Seeks Report Over Muslim
Friday Prayers In Government School
23rd January 2022
By Express News Service
KOLAR: The Kolar deputy commissioner Umesh Kumar has
ordered an inquiry against a school for allowing Muslim students to pray in a
classroom. Kumar, who is also the Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer,
sought a detailed report from the Deputy Director of Public Instruction (DDPI).
Members of Hindu organisations protested against the
school headmistress for allowing 20 students to pray on Friday afternoons in a
vacant classroom of Mulbagal Someswara Palaya Bale Changappa Government Kannada
Model Higher Primary School. They said the decision was biased and promoted
religion in the school.
Source: New Indian Express
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Victims Say MP Police Protecting Hindu Man Accused of
Arson, Assault of Muslims And Threatened Two Muslim Children To Leave A
Locality with 'Light Charges'
The Wire Staff
23-01-2022
New Delhi: Police have been accused of invoking
lighter charges to protect a serial offender after the latter allegedly set
fire to property belonging to two Muslim families, assaulted a Muslim man, hit
his sister and threatened two Muslim children to leave a locality in Madhya
Pradesh’s Khandwa district.
“This is a Hindu colony, we don’t need Muslims here,”
Bunty Upadhyay is learned to have told one Saleem Beg of the Kodiya Hanuman
Mandir locality.
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Europe
Plans to replace former police station with mosque
given go-ahead
ByJohn Jones
22 JAN 2022
Plans to knock down a former police station and
replace it with a mosque have been approved, despite opposition from some local
residents.
The Old Police Station in St Mellons has been home to
the East Cardiff Muslim Centre since 2019, with an application to demolish it
and replace it with a permanent purpose-built centre submitted last year.
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Syria: Deadly fighting continues after 'Islamic State'
prison break
23.01.2022
Fighting at a prison in the northern Syrian city of
al-Hasaka entered a fourth day on Sunday as the Kurdish Syrian Democratic
Forces (SDF) continued to battle fighters from the extremist "Islamic
State" (IS) group after a breakout at the facility.
Almost 80 IS members and 39 Kurdish fighters have been
killed in the violence at the Ghwayran jail since it was first attacked by IS
militants on Thursday, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights. The group, affiliated with the Syrian opposition, has been
monitoring the country's conflict since it broke out in 2011.
The Observatory said that at least seven civilians
have also been killed in the fighting, which has seen US-led coalition forces
carry out airstrikes in support of Kurdish forces. US troops were also reported
to have taken up positions around the prison, which houses people suspected of
belonging to IS.
Source: Dw.Com
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UK professor unveils seminal book of Imam Khamenei's
letters to Western youths
January 23, 2022 -
On behalf of the youth concerning justice for the
world, a new paradigm response to the Leader’s letters to the youth in Western
Countries, the title of a 90-page book authored by retired British Binary
Economics Professor, Rodney Shakespeare.
The book, to be translated into multiple languages,
picks up on two open letters penned by Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in the wake of a rise in terrorist attacks in
2015, among them the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, which fueled Islamophobia
in the West.
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Africa
Morocco to sign sports agreement to enhance ties with
Israel
January 23, 2022
In a step to further enhance ties with the Zionist
regime, Morocco is planning to sign an agreement to boost sports cooperation.
Moroccan Royal Basketball Federation said in a
Saturday statement that they have achieved a historic agreement for cooperation
with Israel’s basketball federation. The agreement includes cooperation in
educational, sports, social, and medical fields.
Source: IQNA
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Muslim Council in Taraba alleges maginalization by Gov
Ishaku
By Great Ozozoyin
January 22, 2022
The leadership of the Taraba State chapter of the
Muslim Council of Nigeria has cried out over the alleged marginalization of its
members by the incumbent state government.
The group which voiced out its displeasure during a
media parley, expressed sadness at the alleged way and manner members of Muslim
faith are relegated to the background especially in the area of appointments
despite their massive population in the state.
Source: Daily Post
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17 Nigerian Girls Kidnapped by Boko Haram, Witnesses
Say
Anna Venarchik
Jan. 22, 2022
Seventeen girls were abducted by Boko Haram extremists
in northeast Nigeria on Thursday, witnesses told the Associated Press.
Source: Punchng
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Pakistan
A judge should be fearful of Allah, Constitution:
Justice Faez Isa
By Numan Wahab
January 23, 2022
LAHORE: Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court on
Saturday said that the appointment of a judge was the most difficult task
wondering if judges in the district judiciary were appointed after examinations
why there was no such mechanism for appointments in the higher courts.
Justice Faez Isa expressed these views while
addressing a gathering of lawyers at the Lahore High Court Bar Association
(LHCBA). The judge also addressed at a function hosted by the Punjab Bar
Council (PBC).
Source: The News
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Security forces seize large cache of weapons in South
Waziristan IBO: ISPR
Naveed Siddiqui
January 23, 2022
Security forces conducted an intelligence-based
operation (IBO) in the Sarwakai area of South Waziristan district and recovered
a huge cache of weapons, the military's media wing said in a statement on
Sunday.
According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR),
the forces conducted the IBO on the reported presence of terrorists in the
area.
Source: Dawn
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Four Islamabad policemen booked for kidnapping,
extorting money from three citizens
Staff Reporter
January 23, 2022
ISLAMABAD: Four policemen were suspended after a case
was registered against them for kidnapping and extorting Rs1 million from three
citizens.
A police spokesman said both the incidents were
directly reported to Inspector General of Police (IGP) Islamabad Mohammad Ahsan
Younas by the victims at an open court.
Source: Dawn
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PFUJ moves court against journalists protection law
Staff Reporter
January 23, 2022
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists
(PFUJ) has challenged before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) the definition of ‘journalist’
as well as Section 6 of the Protection of Journalists and Media Professionals
Act, 2021.
PFUJ Secretary General Nasir Zaidi filed the writ
petition in the Islamabad High Court through Journalists’ Defence Committee
(JDC) of Pakistan Bar Council (PBC).
Source: Dawn
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PML-N rejects Qureshi’s offer for talks on south
Punjab
Staff Reporter
January 23, 2022
LAHORE: The opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz
(PML-N) has rejected the offer of Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to join
hands with the government for the creation of a south Punjab province, advising
him to take up the bills the PML-N submitted in the provincial and national
assemblies on the issue and get them passed.
Mr Qureshi told reporters in Multan on Saturday that
he had written to Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif and
Pakistan Peoples’ Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, asking them to join
the efforts of the ruling party to create south Punjab province.
Source: Dawn
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Member opposes PBC’s move against SHC CJ’s elevation
to apex court
Nasir Iqbal
January 23, 2022
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council’s (PBC) resolution
adopted on Friday opposing the elevation of the Sindh High Court’s chief
justice (CJ) to the Supreme Court has created a stir, with one of its members
from the province calling the development a conspiracy like the one against a
former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) hailing from Sindh.
Mohammad Yousuf Leghari, who has also served as the
PBC’s representative in the Judicial Commission of Pakistan — a constitutional
body that appoints superior court judges, told Dawn on Saturday that he had
written a two-page letter to newly elected PBC Vice Chairman Hafeezur Rehman
Chaudhry and expressed regret about the passage of the resolution in his
absence, as he was on leave.
Source: Dawn
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Mideast
Imam Khamenei receives group of Ahl al-Bayt eulogists
January 23, 2022
A group of Ahl al-Bayt (PBUH) eulogists met with
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on
Sunday on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Hazrat Fatemeh Zahra,
Prophet Mohammad's (PBUH) daughter.
The meeting took place in Imam Khomeini Hosseiniyeh,
where the Supreme Leader holds public meetings.
Source: IRNA
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Syrian Kurdish forces tighten siege after Islamic
State prison break
By REUTERS
JANUARY 23, 2022
Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) troops
aided by US troops tightened their siege of a prison housing Islamic State
suspects after inmates took over the facility, residents and officials said on
Sunday.
At least 70 inmates were killed in the attack on the
prison in northeastern Syria, which began on Thursday. Militants detonated a
car bomb near the prison gates, helping dozens of inmates and flee to the
neighboring Ghweiran district of al-Hasaka, witnesses and officials said.
Source: Jpost
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Senior official of al-Abbas shrine receives SG of Imam
Hussain shrine
January 23, 2022
Source: Al Kafeel News
His Eminence Sheikh Abd al-Mahdi al-Karbalai
congratulated the senior official of the al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine; Sayed
Mustafa Mortadha Dea' al-Din, on the occasion of his assumption of his duties
as Secretary-General of the Holy Shrine.
This was during the visit of a delegation from the
Holy Shrine this Saturday afternoon, headed by the Secretary-General of the
al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine, and which included a number of members of its board
of directors and heads of its departments to the Imam al-Hussayn's (p) holy
shrine, and to meet with its senior official and its new general secretary, Haj
Hassan Rashid al-'Abayji. The delegation presented its congratulations to Haj
al-'Abayji, wishing him continued success in his work in the service of the
shrine of Imam al-Hussayn (peace be upon him) and his honorable visitors.
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Saudi diplomat murder: Pakistan seeks Tehran
assistance to arrest suspects from Iran
NAIMAT KHAN
January 22, 2022
Pakistani police have asked for assistance from
authorities in Tehran in apprehending the suspected killers of a Saudi diplomat
who are believed to be hiding in Iran, a counterterrorism official has said.
Hassan Al-Qahtani, an employee of the Saudi consulate
in Pakistan’s southern metropolis of Karachi, was killed in 2011 when gunmen
opened fire on his car in the city’s Defence Housing Authority neighborhood.
Source: En.abna24
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US Navy stops ship carrying ‘explosive precursor’ from
Iran on Yemen route
23 January ,2022
The US navy said Sunday it had stopped a ship carrying
40 tons of a fertilizer that can be used to make explosives as it travelled
from Iran along a route previously used to smuggle weapons to Yemen’s Houthi
militia, which is backed by Iran.
The navy said it boarded and searched the ship, which
last year was caught carrying thousands of weapons and handed to Yemen’s coast
guard, after intercepting it in international waters in the Gulf of Oman on
Tuesday.
Source: English.Alarabiya
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Iran plans stronger ties with Turkey
23-Jan-2022
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi vowed on Saturday to
strengthen ties with Turkey to ensure regional stability, according to Iran's
presidential website.
"Iran has a long-term and comprehensive vision of
relations and cooperation with Turkey, and we welcome planning for strategic
cooperation with Turkey," Raisi said in a phone conversation with his
Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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South Asia
Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan Take A Step Further
Towards Official Recognition
2022-01-22
Kabul (BNA) A delegation of Islamic Emirate led by
acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi lift Kabul to “Oslo” capital of
Norway.
According to BNA, Norwegian capital will host a
meeting tomorrow, at Oslo capital of Norway, where delegation of Islamic
Emirate Muttaqi will talk with a number representatives from many countries.
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Chinese aids’ delivery begins to Northern Province:
IEA
By Najibullah Lalzoy
22 Jan 2022
Officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said
that they have started the delivery of humanitarian assistance aided by China.
Ministry of Refugees and Repatriates of the IEA on
Saturday, January 22, 2022, said that the relief assistance comprises 440
tonnes of rice that will be distributed to impoverished people in ten Northern
Provinces.
Source: khaama Press
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Explosion in western Afghanistan killed and wounded 15
people
By Najibullah Lalzoy
22 Jan 2022
An explosion has targeted a van in the western Herat
province on Saturday, January 22, 2022, that killed six people and wounded nine
more.
The explosion has taken place in Police District 12 of
the provincial province.
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From Boom To Bust To Dust: How Covid-19 And Typhoon
Wrecked Siargao, Surfers’ Paradise In The Philippines, And Its Long Road Back
Thomas Bird
23 Jan, 2022
When Typhoon Rai smashed into the Philippines in
mid-December, the island of Siargao was among the hardest hit.
The storm killed at least 405 people and left a trail
of destruction in the eastern provinces of Surigao del Norte – which includes
Siargao, a tourist hotspot – Bohol and Cebu.
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Tax problems will be solved once businesses share
issues in written form: Kamal
Star Business Report
Jan 23, 2022
Steps will be taken to solve the tax and stimulus
related problems of the district level members of the Federation of Bangladesh
Chambers of Commerce and Industry if they share the issues in written form,
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said today.
Kamal's comment came a day after the top business
leaders urged the government to take steps to put an end to the harassment
businesses face at the hands of VAT and tax officials.
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IEA delegation’s arrival in Oslo triggered protest
By Najibullah Lalzoy
23 Jan 2022
A small number of Afghans based in Norway protested
against the visit of the Taliban delegation to the country’s capital Oslo and
said that they (Taliban) do not represent us, Euronews reported.
The demonstration was staged to oppose the visit of
the Taliban delegation and their meetings with Norwegian authorities and
members of the International community.
Source: khaama Press
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Chinese aids’ delivery begins to Northern Province:
IEA
By Najibullah Lalzoy
22 Jan 2022
Officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said
that they have started the delivery of humanitarian assistance aided by China.
Ministry of Refugees and Repatriates of the IEA on
Saturday, January 22, 2022, said that the relief assistance comprises 440
tonnes of rice that will be distributed to impoverished people in ten Northern
Provinces.
Source: khaama Press
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Arab world
Saudi Arabia’s ambitious space program provides
foretaste of exciting collaborations to come
RAWAN RADWAN
January 23, 2022
JEDDAH: More than half a century ago, Neil Armstrong
and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to set foot on the surface of the moon.
Since this historic milestone, governments, scientists and now entrepreneurs
have set their sights on more distant and ambitious goals.
From Jeff Bezos’ forays into space tourism with Blue
Origin and Elon Musk’s dream of establishing colonies on Mars to NASA’s launch
of the James Webb Space Telescope and the UAE’s Hope probe mission to Mars,
space, it seems, is once again all the rage.
Source: Arab News
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Saudi National Parks Program will benefit environment,
communities and tourism, organizers say
TAREQ AL-THAQAFI
January 22, 2022
MAKKAH: Saudi Arabia’s recently launched National
Parks Program will benefit the environment and local communities, and provide a
boost to sustainable tourism and by attracting local and foreign visitors,
according to the National Center for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating
Desertification.
The program, unveiled by the center this month,
includes plans to establish and enhance 100 national parks within five years
and showcase the Kingdom’s natural splendor and treasures. It also includes the
planting of 50 million trees as part of the Saudi Green Initiative.
Source: Arab News
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Diriyah’s historic At-Turaif ‘a new lifestyle
destination’ in Saudi Arabia
RAHAF JAMBI
January 22, 2022
RIYADH: A two-day Diriyah art forum is building links
between Saudi cultural authorities as part of a broader plan to make the
At-Turaif district a lifestyle and culture destination.
Dalya Mousa, DGDA director of culture, spoke about new
projects and developments set to take place in Diriyah, including At-Turaif
district, the first capital of Saudi Arabia and an important political and
historical site.
Source: Arab News
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Saudi aid agency rolling out relief projects worldwide
SPA
January 22, 2022
AMMAN: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief
Center has rolled out aid projects in numerous countries.
Winter supplies, including 8,840 blankets and 4,420
winter family packs, were distributed in the governorates of Amman, Balqa,
Karak, Tafileh, and Mafraq to needy Jordanian families and Syrian and Palestinian
refugees in Jordan.
Source: Arab News
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North America
Was ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Banned in Georgia Due to
‘Islamic’ Lyrics?
By Bethania Palma
22 January 2022
The state of Georgia banned the Queen song
"Bohemian Rhapsody" because of "Islamic" lyrics.
On April 23, 2020, the religious parody website
Religimarole published an article positing that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp banned
the Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody” because of the song’s “Islamic” lyrics:
Source: Snopes
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U.S.-backed fighters chase Islamic State gunmen near
prison in Syria
BY BASSEM MROUE
JAN. 22, 2022
BEIRUT — Kurdish-led fighters advanced slowly Saturday
under the cover of U.S.-led coalition air power in Syria’s northeast. Intense
clashes with Islamic State group militants took place around a prison where
thousands of extremists were held, officials said.
Fighting broke out Thursday night when Islamic State
unleashed its biggest attack in Syria since the fall of its “caliphate” three
years ago. More than 100 militants assaulted the main prison holding suspected
extremists in the northeastern city of Hassakeh, sparking a battle with
U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters that has so far left dozens dead.
Source: Latimes
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Heavy gunfire heard in Burkina Faso barracks,
government denies army takeover
by Reuters
January 23, 2022
(CNN)Gunfire rang out from several military camps in
Burkina Faso early on Sunday, the government said, but it denied the military
had seized power.
Heavy arms fire at the capital Ouagadougou's Sangoule
Lamizana camp, which houses the army's general staff and a prison whose inmates
include soldiers involved in a failed 2015 coup attempt, began at least as
early as 5:00 a.m. (midnight ET), a Reuters reporter said.
Source: Edition
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Birth anniversary of Hazrat Fatemeh marked in Brazil
January 23, 2022
The birth anniversary of Hazrat Fatemeh Zahra (SA) was
held in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo with the participation of Lebanese,
Brazilian, and Iranian Muslims and Shias.
Hojjat ul-Islam Khalilu, head of Imam Mahdi Islamic
Center in Sao Paulo, spoke on Saturday on the birth anniversary of Hazrat
Fatemeh Zahra (SA) about her character.
Source: Iran Press
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Southeast Asia
Kelantan Umno previously voiced intention to cut ties
with PAS, says Ismail Sabri
23 Jan 2022
BERA, Jan 23 — Kelantan Umno had previously expressed
its desire to sever ties with PAS during a Supreme Council (SC) meeting, says
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
The Umno vice-president said at the time, the party
leadership had left it to the wisdom of Umno Kelantan to determine the party’s
future in the state.
Source: Malay Mail
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Kelantan PAS respects state Umno’s decision to sever
political ties, says Ahmad Yakob
23 Jan 2022
KOTA BARU, Jan 23 — Kelantan PAS says it respects the
decision by the state Umno to sever ties between the two political parties
effective yesterday.
Kelantan PAS commissioner Datuk Ahmad Yakob said his
party could not do anything about it as the decision was made by Umno’s own
internal leadership.
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No travel ban during Aidilfitri in Malaysia, only EMCO
if necessary, says PM
23 Jan 2022
BERA, Jan 23 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri
Yaakob has given the government’s assurance that there will be no movement
control order (MCO) enforced and travel restrictions during Aidilfitri this
year.
He said economic and social sectors, as well as
interstate travel, had been allowed to return to normal, adding that in the
event there was an increase in cases in certain localities, the enhanced
movement control order (EMCO) targeted approach would be used.
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Civil societies call for clarification, say SC’s
statement on Azam Baki’s shares may have contradicted govt rules
23 Jan 2022
BY KENNETH TEE
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 — The Securities Commission (SC)
needs to provide documentary evidence and properly explain the share
transactions in Tan Sri Azam Baki’s account for transparency’s sake, seven
civil society groups said today.
The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs;
Transparency International Malaysia; Centre to Combat Corruption and Cronyism;
Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih 2.0); RasuahBusters; Gabungan
Bertindak Malaysia; and Undi18, said the controversy surrounding the Malaysian
Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief’s share acquisition in 2015 were no
clearer despite the SC’s second statement.
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Johor polls: It was a unilateral decision, we were not
consulted, says state Bersatu leader
23 Jan 2022
KULAI, Jan 23 — The decision to dissolve the Johor
legislative assembly was made unilaterally without prior discussion with the
other component parties that made up the state government, a Johor Bersatu
leader said today.
Johor Bersatu information chief Mohd Solihan Badri
said Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN), in coming to the decision, had sidelined
Bersatu and PAS.
Source: Malay Mail
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Umno sec-gen: Number of voters in Johor increases by
28pc
23 Jan 2022
JOHOR BARU, Jan 23 — The number of voters in the state
recorded an increase of about 28 per cent with the addition of 749,731 voters
aged 18 and above following the automatic registration process, which poses a
huge challenge to all contesting parties.
Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan said
the increase meant there were now about 2.5 million eligible voters compared to
1.8 million in the 14th General Election (GE-14).
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