Evening NEWS DIGEST
12 Feb.2017: 14 Jamadiul Awwal 1438: Vol:8, No:114
6,650 Muzaffarnagar riot
victims fail to cast their vote
Meerut: “Being a riot
victim is like a black spot. We have lost our house and now, our right to vote,”
said Mohd Arun, 70, resident of Kasavan colony in Muzaffarnagar. Arun is among
several riot victims who could not cast his vote on Saturday as he did not
possess a voter identity card though he had filled the form for the card. Many
Muzaffarnagar riot victims – now settled in various colonies of Muzaffarnagar
and Shamli – do not have voter ID cards. According to a survey by an NGO,
nearly 6,650 riot victim voters still do not have voter ID cards.At least 35%
of the total voters who got displaced after Muzaffarnagar riots are not
registered with the Election Commission, a survey conducted by Afkar India
Foundation, an NGO working for the riot victims has found.“There are nearly
1,300 riot victims living in Alflan colony on Dhebri Khurd in Shamli. Of these
900 voters not have voter ID cards. Only 11 people have them so far. We had
filled forms for voter identity cards and submitted them to the booth level
officers too but none of us got the voter id cards. When the riots took place,
we had fled from our respective homes without taking anything. Identity cards
is the last thing anybody could have thought of when people were coming to kill
us,” said Shehzaad Saifi, 32, from Alflan colony of Dhebri Khurd village in
Shamli’s Kairana block. timesofindia
UP polls: In Akhlaq's
Bisada, out of 224 Muslim voters only 18 cast their votes
Dadri: Village of Bisada,
situated 50km from national capital Delhi, wore an eventful look on Saturday as
the first phase of UP assembly polls began across 79 constituencies. The tiny
hamlet — which usually wears an eerie silence echoing the 2015 lynching of
55-year-old Ikhlaq— voted peacefully, authorities said.Before Ikhlaq’s
lynching, Bisada had 60 families. Over the last one-and-a-half-years, of 60
families, 25 have relocated to different locations.On Saturday, amid a tight
security cover, four booths were set up inside Rana Sangram Singh Inter College
in Bisada for 4,447 voters.Authorities said there were 224 Muslim voters in
Bisada of which just 18 cast their franchise in the village. All the 18 voters
who cast their votes on Saturday were elderly.18 Muslims of Bisada reached the
polling station in two groups cast their votes. The men chose early morning to
cast their franchise while women flocked in after 11 am to the polling station.
Elaborate security arrangements had been put in place, with armed police
personnel being deployed across village.None of the youngsters from the
community came out to cast their votes to avoid any conflict at the polling
centre.“We have cast our votes to make sure everything remained normal. We
couldn’t have stayed among the villagers peacefully if we didn’t do this,” said
Haji Mohammad Tasneem, 71. He added that none of the members of his community
were approached by any candidates during the campaigning. Muslim voters believe
that their small number was insignificant to make any difference to any
political party.66-year old Haji Abdul Sattar said the poor turnout among the
community was cause of a reason. Sattar said youngsters were asked to stay
indoors as the elders suspected that they might lose their cool in a charged
atmosphere.“For the last one week, tension has been gripping the village again.
No one threatened us, but when we walk on streets, people do mutter under their
breaths that the 14 accused who are in jail will be released soon. The
youngsters from the Hindu community campaigned here for a party with the
promise that those in jail for the lynching will be released. It does trigger a
fear psychosis,” said Sattar.HT
Dadri: Akhlaq’s family
unable to vote: the hindu
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/Akhlaq%E2%80%99s-family-unable-to-vote/article17290181.ece
The family members of
Akhlaq, who was lynched in Bishada in 2015, could not cast their votes even as
his brothers Jaan Mohd. Saifi, who lives in Dadri, and Zameel Ahmad, who lives
in Loni, Ghaziabad, exercised their franchise on Saturday.Saifi said Akhlaq’s
eldest son Sartaz, an Indian Air Force officer, had left for Chennai while the
rest of the family members – Sartaz’s mother Ikraman, his wife, younger sister
and brother Danish – were staying in the IAF-allotted falt in Delhi.“We have
cast our votes, but I believe Danish, Ikraman and the others in the family did
not vote as Sartaz is in Chennai and nobody was there to bring them from
Delhi," he said.
Akhlaq’s son, daughter
omitted from voters’ list
Missing Akhlaq kin names on
list tell Bisada story
Bijnor murder may hang over
next UP poll phase
Friday’s murder of a
17-year-old Jat boy in a village in Bijnor may polarise 7 Assembly
constituencies in the district and the larger area which will vote in the
second phase of elections in UP on Feb.15. A group of 8 Muslims is alleged to
have attacked Vishal Singh and his father. One of accused has been arrested.
The murder figured prominently in speeches by BSP candidates of 7 seats
Saturday, as well as in Mayawati’s speech. The incident came 5 months after an
alleged incident of eve-teasing had led to the death of 3 Muslims here in Sept.
Most of those accused in Friday’s incident are relatives of those Muslims
killed, also eyewitnesses in that case. Murder appears to be another chapter in
the area’s Jat-Muslim fight conflict. Most of the disputes are sparked by
alleged harassment of girls by either Jat or Muslim boys, depending on whom you
ask. While BJP candidate from Bijnor is Suchi Chowdhary, wife of one of the
accused in the Sept killing of Muslims, BSP has fielded a Muslim, Rashid Ahmad.
On Saturday, as voting in neighbouring districts of Meerut and Muzaffarnagar
commenced and followers of BSP gathered for Mayawati’s rally at a ground in the
town, Suchi joined Jat protesters in blocking one of the main intersections.
RLD’s Bijnor candidate Rahul Singh also joined the agitation. Pushpendu Agarwal
said the entire political calculation in the area had shifted because of the
murder. According to him, incumbent MLA Ruchi Vira of SP, “who has done a lot
of work in constituency”, could have won. “But not anymore.”BSP Dhampur
candidate Muhammad Ghazi said in his speech that he was confident those who
murdered Vishal were members of BJP. “And our people were blamed, it was said
we had committed the murder,” Ghazi said. indianexpress
Tensions simmer in Bijnor
after teenager’s murder
SP vs BSP - Muslim leaders conduct battle
royale for community's vote in state: Spl story on UP polls
Rampur: It is a furious
battle between BSP and the Samajwadi Party (SP) to win the Muslim vote in the
crucial UP elections. And while Mayawati seems to have pulled off a coup by
getting support of various prominent Muslim religious groups; western-educated
elite Muslim class and alumnus of AMU, are still rooting for the success of the
SP-Congress alliance in the state polls. These elections are also turning out
to be a fight to the finish between 2 prominent Muslim faces, Naseemudin
Siddique of BSP and Azam Khan of the SP. Their respective party bosses have
entrusted them with the responsibility of luring the Muslim electorate to the
party fold, a crucial factor for the SP or BSP to return to the throne in
Lucknow. The extent of support of Muslims to any of these parties will also
expand or decrease the political clout of both these leaders, post the
polls.After the Friday sermon, here at Delhi's historic Jamia Masjid, Shahi
Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari — after blasting the SP-Congress coalition —publicly
appealed to Muslims to vote for the BSP. 3 other Muslim groups — Azamgarh based
Rashtriya Ulema Council (RUC), All India Majlis Ulame-e-Hind (AIMUH) and All
India Ulama and Mashaikh Board (AIUMB) have also issued appeals in support of
the BSP, suggesting that Siddique has pulled the rug from under Khan's
feet.Interestingly, AIUMB had played a sheet anchor for BJP, particularly PM Modi, to gain a foothold within the Muslim
community, by helping the govt to
arrange the World Sufi conference in Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi last year.It is
not clear who had approached Shahi Imam to enlist his support for the BSP, but
sources here said that Siddique was in touch with him, after his fallout with
the SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and a tiff with Azam Khan. Interestingly,
the Imam had appealed to Muslims to vote for the SP in the 2012 UP elections.Apart
from Shahi Imam, Siddique's other major coup has been to convince RUC to
withdraw its 84 candidates in favour of BSP. An influential group in Azamgarh
district and around the state, RUC had originally begun as a protest group to
protest against the killing of two youth from Azamgarh in the Batla House
encounter in New Delhi. Led by Maulana Aamir Rashadi Madni and Maulana Tahir
Madni, it had contested 100 seats in 2012. Though, it did not win any seats, it
secured nearly 6,00,000 votes.While Siddique has successfully enlisted support
of religious groups, Khan has pulled alumnus of AMU and modern looking Muslims
to support SP-Congress alliance. Countering these religious groups, including Shahi
Imam's appeal, ex-Rajya Sabha MP Mohamamd Adeeb, prominent lawyers ZK Faiza and
Ilyas Malik asked for supporting the SP-led alliance to halt the march of the
BJP.dnaindia
AIADMK crisis: Sasikala
urges party MLAs to stay together to foil opposition’s ‘evil attempts’
In a further setback for
AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala, 5 more party MPs joined Panneerselvam
camp on Sunday. With Senguttuvan of Vellore, Jayasingh of Tuticorin, R P
Marutharaja of Perambalur, Rajya Sabha MP, R Lakshmanan and S Rajendran of
Villupuram switching sides, the caretaker CM currently now has the support of
10 of the 50 AIADMK MPs. The Panneerselvam camp expects at least 25% of the
party MLAs to join them by Tuesday. "You all are aware as to what extent
our opponents have gone against us, we must stay together and foil their evil
attempts, says Sasikala while addressing MLAs at Golden Bay resort.indian
express
Sasikala says delay on
Governor’s part is to split the party
AIADMK General Secretary VK
Sasikala has said that from tomorrow onwards, AIADMK would begin a new kind of
protest. “Delaying tactics is an attempt to create divisions in party. Please
wait and watch,” she told reporters. indianexpress
Sasikala sees delay in
invitation to form govt an attempt to
divide AIADMK
If Kejriwal Wins Punjab, It
May Change the Course of National Politics – Saeed Naqvi
OTHERS
Hundreds join Lucknow
protest march, demand probe in missing JNU student case
Lucknow: Hundreds of
students from Lucknow University and the Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama came out in
support of Fatima Nafees, mother of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, who led a
protest here on Sunday.Demanding a thorough investigation into the incident, they
raised slogans against PM Narendra Modi, home minister Rajnath Singh, BJP and RSS.
Students also alleged that Delhi Police did not take adequate steps to trace
Ahmed, who went missing from his hostel on October 15 last year. They demanded
that the authorities take action against nine members of ABVP, against whom an
FIR has already been lodged.JNUSU head Mohit Pandey,ex-union vice-president
Shehla Rashid and retired professor Rajesh Mishra also participated in the protest.On
Saturday, Fatima had made an emotional appeal to the student fraternity to help
find her son. Similar protests will be held at Jamshedpur, Jabalpur, Hyderabad
and 2 cities in Kerala on Sunday.TOI
Missing Najeeb's Mother
Stages Protest in Lucknow
From Jamia Nagar to
Jamshedpur, nationwide signature campaign underway for Najeeb
New Delhi:Today is 119th
day since Najeeb Ahmed mysteriously disappeared from his hostel room at JNU,
day after his scuffle with some student members of ABVP. Seeking justice for
Najeeb, who hails from Badaun district in UP, SIO - national student body - is
running a signature campaign in different parts of the country.SIO has targeted
to collect 2.5 million signatures which will accompany a memorandum to National
Commission For Minorities. "This situation is alarming for our
constitutional rights, communal harmony and social justice. The incident of
Najeeb and Rohit Vemula is a threat to the students from Dalits, SC, ST,OBC
& Minority communities in the country and safety of Educational
Institutions is now a prime concern for all the student fraternity," said
Mohammad Kashif in Jamshedpur district of Jharkhand. He informed that a silent
protest march will be taken out here on Sunday.In Badaun, Najeeb's mother
Fatima Nafees also put her signature on the memorandum. IndiaTomorrow
Jaipur: Student groups
calls for justice for Najeeb, Vemula
Jaipur: Muslim Students
Organization of India called on the police to find Najeeb Ahmed, the JNU
student missing since October last year, at the earliest. At a press conference in Jaipur to mark 120
days since his disappearance after first being assaulted on campus on Oct. 14
last year, student leaders said police were able to act with alacrity and bring
back the buffaloes missing from UP MLA Azam Khan's farm. Sadiq Chauhan, a
member of MSO, said it was no coincidence that members of ABVP, the student
wing of the RSS, were behind both the harassment of Dalit student Rohit Vemula
in Hyderabad and Ahmed in JNU. Chauhan said the Muslim students' struggle is
for justice not only for members of their own community but for Dalits and
adivasis too. "We have taken up the cause of Rohit Vemula.We cannot afford
complacency - what happened to Najeeb might happen to any of us."TOI
Hyderabad:SIO launches
signature campaign for Najeeb
Hyderabad: Students Islamic
Organisation of India (SIO) has announced that it will observe the month of
February as ‘Month of Resistance’ and run a signature campaign across the
country seeking people’s support for the demand for justice for Najeeb, missing
JNU student. State president of SIO Laeeq Ahmed Khan cited Najeeb’s
disappearance and Rohith Vemula’s suicide in University of Hyderabad to stress
that it is an insidious way to thwart the ascent of marginalised sections into
university spaces and higher educational institutions.thehindu
Signature campaign for JNU
student
JNU students' protest on
for fourth day, VC appeals for lifting blockade
New Delhi:Protesting
against a new UGC notification on the 2017-18 academic session, a section of
the JNU students have not allowed officialsÂ
including the VC to enter the administration block since the last four
days.IndiaToday
Adivasi girl in Kerala
college branded mentally ill; ostracised for speaking against discrimination: TCN
It is no secret that
students from the marginalised communities have been at the receiving end of
casteist abuse across the country, and Kerala is no different. While the tragic
death of Rohith Vemula in Jan.2016 was a painful reminder of the same, it is
also a fact that little seems to have changed since then.A few days ago, we had
reported how SFI members have been attacking Dalit and Muslim students in
Kerala colleges, but this time, it is college authorities who have been accused
of discriminating against an Adivasi girl.Athira, a 2nd-year student of College
of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram (CET) underwent mental torture and a social
boycott after she dared to raise voice against discrimination towards students
belonging to SC and ST. Athira said, “Rohith (Vemula) chose to die. But I
won’t. I will fail I die. I have decided to stand up.” Athira, hailing from a
tribal hamlet at Vanchivayal in Idukki district, has been denied entrance to
college hostel after she was portrayed as mentally disturbed. The issues
started after she asked “What is your opinion about reservation for a student
in CET?” in a Facebook group. TCN
Calcutta HC’s Justice
Karnan accuses SC of ‘upper caste’ bias over contempt notice
New Delhi: Courts have “no
power to enforce punishment against a sitting Judge of the High Court”, Justice
CS Karnan has said in response to a contempt notice by the Supreme Court for
approaching PM with a list of judges he
considers corrupt. On Feb.8, a 7-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief
Justice JS Khehar had ordered the registrar general of the Calcutta HC to
relieve Karnan of his duties. Justice Karnan was also asked to appear before
the bench on Feb.13 to face contempt charges.In a letter to the registrar
general of the Supreme Court on Friday, a copy of which is available with HT,
Karnan wrote: “This said order does not conform to logic, therefore is not
suitable for execution. The characteristic of this order clearly shows the
upper caste judges are taking law into their hands and misusing their judicial
power by operating the same against a SC/ST Judge with mala fide intention of
getting rid of him. Therefore, the suo motu contempt order dated 08.02.2017 is
not sustainable under law.”HT
Kerala: Temple festival at
Azhikkal comes under scanner after charges of ‘untouchability’
Kannur: ‘Thiruvayudham
Ezhunnallathu’ in connection with the Pampadi Aalinkeezhil temple festival at
Azhikkal here was otherwise a normal event, except that it was under the
scanner now in the wake of an allegation by activists that Dalit families
living in area were excluded from being part of the ritual. The festival
concluded on SaturdayThe ritual procession had not attracted any special
attention till 2015 when the district unit of the Kerala Pattika Jathi Samajam
(KPJS) raised an allegation that 200-odd Dalit families living in the area near
the temple were victims of caste discrimination. The charge was that the
four-day ritual procession carrying the sacred sword of the deity that visited
all Hindu households in the area excluded Scheduled Caste (SC) families there.
It acquired political colour when the Dalit activists stated that the temple
was run by a committee controlled by the activists of the CPI(M). thehindu
Rajasthan minority groups
demand higher budgetary allocation
Jaipur: Minority groups in
Rajasthan have demanded higher allocations in the upcoming State budget for
2017-18 while accusing the BJP govt of ignoring the welfare of vulnerable
sections among the Muslim, Sikh, Christian and Jain communities.In a joint
statement issued here, representatives of minority communities said the State govt
had over the years allocated an average
of 0.07% of the total budget outlay for the minorities, who constituted 11.41%
of State’s population. Seeking budgetary allocations in proportion to the
minorities’ population, Pratham Rajasthan’s managing trustee Kulbhushan Kothari
said universal coverage of welfare schemes in health and education sectors had
ignored some specific sections of society which were left behind due to their
special “incapacitating conditions”Helping Hand Foundation’s general Secretary
Naeem Rabbani said students of minority communities were finding it difficult
to get scholarships meant for them, Waqf properties were being encroached upon
and the unemployed youths were not able to get loans because of tough
conditions in BJP regime. The hindu
Court asks NIA to return Rs
9 lakh cash to Zakir Naik’s kin
Mumbai: A special MCOCA
court recently directed the NIA to return a 48-year-old man Rs 9 lakh (in
denomination of the old Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes) cash seized from his house
while investigating the Zakir Naik. This is because the agency could not prove
there was prima facie evidence to show that the amount seized from Aamir
Gazdar’s house was related to the now banned IRF or any of the entities linked
with it. Amount was seized on Nov.19, 2016. Special MCOCA judge VV Patil passed
this order on an application moved by advocate Ishrat Ali Khan on behalf of
Gazdar, who is into the business of marble contracting. Gazdar is one of Naik’s
relatives and has a share in most of Naik’s entities.The plea was moved seeking
back Rs 9 lakh cash seized by NIA during a raid in Gazdar’s residence. The raid
was part of a series of raids that were conducted at offices and residences of
people close to Dr Naik.“Apart from cash the NIA had seized books, jewelleries,
cash, laptop, pen-drives, memory cards, hard disc, passport, driving license,
identity cards etc belonging to the family members of the applicant but we
sought for return of cash amount, jewellery because all these things were
arranged at home because his (Gazdar’s) daughter’s marriage was scheduled in
Dec. 2016,” said advocate Khan. He also said the court had already allowed
return of jewellery worth around Rs 7 lakh and cash of Rs 80,000.Asian Age
Indore: Maha ATS takes SIMI
man’s brother into custody
Indore: A team of
Maharashtra police’s ATS has detained a man here in a case registered under the
UAPA, city police said on Saturday.Zadil Pervez, a resident of Khijrabad Colony
here, was taken into custody by the Maharashtra ATS on Friday, Khajrana police
station incharge Kamlesh Sharma said.Zadil was allegedly in contact through
Facebook with one Tabrez from Thane in Maharashtra, who is the main accused in
the UAPA case, Sharma said. Zadil hails from neighbouring Ujjain district and
was living with relatives in Khijrabad Colony for the last two months, he said.
Zadil’s brother Aamil was among the 13 SIMI activists arrested from Shyam Nagar
here on March 26-27, 2008. Local police were also probing Zadil’s activities,
Sharma said. free press journal
Kerala: Jamaat demands
repeal of UAPA
Malappuram: The district conference
of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind was held at Puthur, near Kottakkal, on Saturday.
The conference raised a demand to declare Islamophobia a crime. The meeting
also demanded the repeal of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. It also
sought resumption of Haj operations from Karipur.A resolution passed by the
conference asked the State govt to apply
pressure on the Union govt to resume Haj
operations from Karipur airport.Thousands witnessed an exhibition named
Sakshyam. Jamaat national assistant ameer Nusrat Ali inaugurated the
conference. The hindu
UN body defers NHRC
accreditation
New Delhi:An organisation affiliated
to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has deferred NHRC’s re-accreditation
until Nov.2017. Global Alliance for National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)
has cited appointment of political representatives as one of the reasons for
it. It has referred to NHRC’s failure in ensuring gender balance and pluralism
in its staff, among other reasons for the deferment.GANHRI has noted that the
panel’s selection process was “not sufficiently broad and transparent”. In its
November 2016 report, it had criticised NHRC for its “practice of having police
officers and former police officers involved in the investigation of human
rights violations, particularly in circumstances where the alleged perpetrators
are the police”. Indian express
NHRC urges for a report on E.
Ahamed's death
The controversy of an
apparent 'cover up' of ex-Union Minister E. Ahamed's death has now reached the
NHRC.NHRC has directed the Delhi police commissioner and the medical
superintendent of RML Hospital to submit within four weeks an Action Taken
Report (ATR) on a complaint that the govt and the hospital authorities colluded
to cover up and withhold information about the death of veteran parliamentarian
and E. Ahamed, for “certain motivated reasons”, reports The Hindu. Two MPs from
Kerala and a lawyer from Supreme Court filed a petition with the NHRC, seeking
a probe into allegations that his death was kept a secret and his relatives
prohibited from seeing him in hospital, according to the TOI. out look
MPs, SC lawyer move NHRC
for Ahamed’s death probe
E Ahamed death: Muslim
League MP seeks breach of privilege motion against hospital
Rajasthan: Pak spy detained
by CID and Border Intelligence Police in Jaisalmer, investigation underway
Jaisalmer: An alleged Pak
spy was detained by CID and Border Intelligence Police near Indo-Pak border in
Jaisalmer Rajasthan. A joint interrogation is underway. More details awaited.In
August 2016, Nandlal, an alleged Pakistani spy hailing from Sangad district in
Pakistan was arrested from a hotel in Jaisalmer and items containing
information on India’s defence institutions were seized from him.
Pak spy detained by CID
& Border Intelligence Police near Indo-Pak border in Rajasthan;
interrogation underway
Gujarat: Sex racket gets
bigger: 35 women lured by BJP workers, says rape victim
Ahmedabad:Over 35 women
were reportedly lured into prostitution by local businessmen and politicians in
Kutch district, according to a 23-year-old woman who was allegedly gang-raped
by four BJP workers, among 5 others.On Friday, State BJP general secretary KC
Patel told reporters in Kutch that the party suspended the workers immediately
after their names figured in the police complaint. The accused party workers
are: Shantilal Solanki, the Abdasa taluka president of the party’s Baxi Panch;
BJP councillors in the Gandhidham municipality Govind Parumalani, Ajit Ramvani;
and Vasant Bhanushali, a party worker.As per the details given by the victim in
an affidavit, the accused had lured the women with the promise of jobs. The
victim has also named nine persons in FIR.The incident has put the ruling BJP
in a fix ahead of the Assembly polls scheduled later this year. the hindu
Indian Muslims are peace loving:
Dalai lama
Hyderabad: Islam is
practised in many parts of the world, but it is the local culture that defines
how tolerant or intolerant they are, said the Dalai lama here on
Saturday." Cultural heritage of the country or region plays a big role.For
example, unlike the Muslims in China or other neighbours, those from India are
peaceful and harmoniously co-exist with people of other faiths. It is the same
religion but culture makes the difference," the Tibetan spiritual head
told 139 IPS probationers and 15 officer trainees from Bhutan, Maldives and
Nepal at the event.TOI
J&K: 3 jawans, 4
militants killed in Kulgam encounter
3 army jawans were killed
and 2 others injured in an encounter with militants in J&K’s Kulgam
district, ANI reported on Sunday. 4 militants have been neutralised in the
encounter after security forces, in a joint operation with police, conducted
searches in Frisal. The forces launched a cordon and search operation in Frisal
area of Kulgam district around 4.30 am following information about presence of
a large number of militants in the area, a police official told PTI.Out of the
4 militants, 3 have been identified as Mudasir Ahmed Tantray, Farooq Ahmed Dar
and Azhar Ahmed Clashes between protesters and law enforcing agencies broke out
soon after the encounter ended, police official said. indian express
Post unrest, ‘freedom’
songs make waves in Kashmir
Srinagar: Almost a
month into last year’s civil unrest in Kashmir, as violence on the streets
spiralled and civilian death toll increased, Ali Saffudin, 23, — a rock singer
here — uploaded a song titled ‘tum kitne jawa maroge’ on YouTube.His song goes:
“Tum kitne jawa maroge, har ghar se jawa niklega/ Jo lahoo hai behta rag rag
mein, wo junoon banke ubhre ga…” (How many youth will you kill, from every home
a youth will come out/The blood which flows in the veins, will rise into a
frenzy, madness)The song became quite popular and had 30,000-odd views on
YouTube. Indian express
I lost 13 yrs, my wife and
my mother because of false terror charges: Hanif Pakitwala
Shahid Azmi death
anniversary: Remembering the crusader who was silenced 7-ysr-ago: By Zeeshan
Shaikh
Adv Shahid Azmi: Son for
two mothers: Rehan Ansari
WORLD
Pak boycotts UN meet as US
delays visa to deputy chairman
Islamabad:Pakistan Senate
Chairman Raza Rabbani announced a boycott of UN-sponsored International
Parliamentary Union (IPU) being held in New York next week, after the US failed
to issue a visa to his deputy, who was to represent Pakistan at the forum,
media reported on Sunday. Senate Chairman has also directed that no Senate
delegation will visit the US "unless an explanation (for) the delay in
issuance of visa" to Deputy Chairman Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri was
given by US govt or its embassy in Pakistan, Dawn reported. Haideri, who
belongs to Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), was scheduled to travel to the US
with PML-Nawaz Senator Lt. Gen. (retd) Salahuddin Tirmizi on Sunday to attend IPU
hearing at the UN HQRS on Feb.13-14.According to an official statement released
by the Senate secretariat, Rabbani has also directed that "no delegation,
member of Congress or diplomat of the US will be welcomed by the Senate of
Pakistan, Senate standing committees and senators in their official capacity
(until) this issue is resolved".IANS
US expects India to be a
major partner in fight against Islamic radicalism, says Trump aide
US expects India to be a
major partner in fight against Islamic radicalism and terrorism, according to
US President Donald Trump’s close aide Shalab Kumar who is presently visiting
India. According to a report in The Hindu, Shalab Kumar, who heads the
Republican Hindu Coalition (RHC), said that the US also wants India to provide
soldiers to fight terrorism in Afghanistan.“It will be nice if Indian soldiers
could be there to support US forces in places like Afghanistan. It is my
feeling that the Donald Trump administration wants India to partner counter
terror operations in Afghanistan,” he said. indiatvnews
4th Muslim group rejects
federal grant to fight extremism
Washington: A California
Islamic school wanted to keep an open mind before Donald Trump took office. But
less than a month into Trump's presidency, school rejected $800,000 in federal
funds aimed at combatting violent extremism.The decision made late Friday night
by Bayan Claremont graduate school's board to turn down the money — an amount
that would cover more than half its yearly budget — capped weeks of sleepless
nights and debate.Many there felt Trump's rhetoric singling out Islamic
extremism and his travel ban affecting predominantly Muslim countries had gone
too far.It also marked the fourth organization nationwide under the Trump
administration to reject the money for a program created under President Obama
known as countering violent extremism, or CVE, which officials say aims to
thwart extremist groups' abilities to recruit would-be terrorists.AP
Swiss referendum on
citizenship after anti-Muslim row
Switzerland is holding a
referendum on Sunday on whether to make it easier for third-generation
immigrants to become citizens, after a campaign tainted by anti-Muslim messages
and charges of religious prejudice.The govt, as well as most politicians and
political parties, supports the proposal that would allow the grandchildren of
immigrants to skip several steps in the lengthy process of securing a Swiss
passport.But the outcome of the referendum, the latest in Switzerland's direct
democracy system, has been clouded by the far right nationalist Swiss People's
Party (SVP), which put issues of Islam and national identity at centre of the
debate. aljazeera
Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed
Bin Nayef receives CIA award for 'counter-terrorism'
The heir to Saudi Arabia's
throne has been awarded a medal by the new director of US CIA, who honoured his
contributions to "counter-terrorism" work.Mike Pompeo, making his
first overseas tour since being confirmed as CIA chief in late January, made presentation
to Crown Prince Muhammed bin Nayef at a weekend ceremony, the official Saudi
Press Agency (SPA) said.Bin Nayef, 57, has been interior minister since 2012
and has years of experience in intelligence work.He oversaw a crackdown on
al-Qaeda, a group that killed security officers and foreigners in the kingdom
between 2003 and 2007. Pompeo awarded him George Tenet Medal in recognition of
his "excellent intelligence performance, in the domain of
counter-terrorism and his unbound contribution to realise world security and
peace". Aljazeera
Israeli PM hails US veto of
Palestinian as Libya envoy
Jerusalem: PM Benjamin
Netanyahu on Sunday hailed the US veto of a Palestinian to be named UN envoy to
Libya, saying the world body failed to give equal consideration to
Israelis."I was informed of the possibility of the appointment of Salaam
Fayyad to a UN position," he said at Israel's weekly cabinet
meeting."I said that the time has come for reciprocity in the UN's
relations with Israel and free gifts cannot be constantly given to the Palestinian
side," Netanyahu said, welcoming the US veto. According to Israeli media
reports, Jewish state could accept the appointment of Fayyad, ex-Palestinian
premier, if Tzipi Livni, a former foreign minister of Israel, were offered the
post of a UN deputy secretary of state.UN chief Antonio Guterres defended his
choice of Fayyad to be the UN peace envoy to Libya, a day after US blocked it.AFP
South Korea calls on Israel
to stop settlement expansion
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170211-south-korea-calls-on-israel-to-stop-settlement-expansion/
South Korea expressed its
disappointment on of Israeli Knesset’s approval of the settlement bill which
retroactively legalises previously illegal settlement outposts built on private
occupied Palestinian land, Mesralarabia.com reported. “South Korean govt calls
for Israel to stop building settlements in the West Bank,” said spokesperson
and Deputy Minister for PR in Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cho June-hyuck. middleeastmonitor
Erdogan: Turkish troops
enter ISIL-held Al Bab
Turkey's President Tayyip
Erdogan on Sunday said Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies have
entered the centre of the ISIL bastion Al Bab, saying its capture was just a
"matter of time"."Al Bab is now besieged from all fronts ... Our
forces entered the centre" with Turkish-backed Syrian rebels, Erdogan told
journalists in Istanbul on Sunday before leaving for a tour of Gulf
countries.Erdogan said it was "only a matter of time" before the
allied forces took full control of the flashpoint town in northern Syria. aljazeera
IS Syrian stronghold should
be isolated by spring, says UK minister: Reuters
Inter-Shi'ite tension mounts
in Baghdad after clashes
Tension between Iraq's
Shi'ite leaders mounted on Sunday as toll from protests in central Baghdad on
Saturday increased to 6 killed, 5 demonstrators loyal to fiery cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr and one policeman.At least 174 other protesters were injured in clashes
that pitted police and Sadr's followers who had gathered to demand an overhaul
of a commission that supervises elections, ahead of a provincial poll due in Sept.The
clashes broke out as the protesters attempted to cross the bridge that links
Tahrir Square where they had gathered and the heavily fortified Green Zone,
which houses govt buildings, embassies and international organizations. Reuters
91 mosques were attacked in
Germany in 2016: ministry
German govt says 91 mosques
were attacked in the country in 2016.The interior ministry said in a report
late Friday that most attacks — 21 of them— took place in the western German
state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which is the country's most populous state
with a high number of Muslim immigrants.AP
Lohan scared to return to US
due to her interest in Islam
New York: Actress Lindsay
Lohan has revealed that her interest in Islam made her feel “scared” about
returning to the US.30-year-old has returned to New York and opened up about
the recent speculation that she would be converting to Islam.“I’ve studied the
Quran for quite some time. It’s a process to convert to anything. I respect all
religions… It’s a beautiful religion and I am a very spiritual person. It’s
something I’ve been studying,” Lohan said.“You can’t just convert overnight to
a religion,” she added. Lohan, who has been spending time in Greece and Turkey,
revealed that she was in doubt about returning. “I was scared to come here with
everything going on because of my personal beliefs,” she said. siasat
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