Indian Govt advises Haj pilgrims against carrying Viagra, sexual oils & Porn Material for Hajj : Sub

[modern.fakir]

Haj pilgrims advised against carrying Viagra, sexual oils, porn material

Mohammed Wajihuddin & Hemali Chhapia,TNN | Aug 23, 2015, 01.52 AM IST

Flights have started taking off from August 16 for the Haj, which will be performed on September 22.
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MUMBAI: As Haj pilgrims have begun to take off on their pilgrimage to Mecca, the things that pilgrims have been advised not to carry include Viagra, sexual oils and creams.

The Haj Committee of India (HCOI), which comes under the ministry of external affairs, has issued an advisory asking pilgrims to refrain from carrying Viagra, sexual oil and creams, and items such as pornography material and narcotics, among other things. The advisory has not gone down well with a section of community leaders. Flights have started taking off from August 16 for the Haj, which will be performed on September 22.

The circular was given out to all those who were administered vaccine against meningitis. Taking the flu shot is recommended in addition to other quarantine requirements for every pilgrim. Vaccination is taken at least 10 days before pilgrims arrive into the holy cities. Though Haj is performed in and around Mecca, pilgrims visit Medina too, to pay their respects to Prophet Muhammad's shrine there.

Apart from administering vaccination, pilgrims are being informed that products banned for import into the Saudi Arabia must not be carried. This sensitization happens during Haj training sessions HCOI and several voluntary organizations hold across the country.

"Despite issuing guidelines and holding training sessions, there have been specific instances from certain embarkation points during Haj 2013 and 2014, where pilgrims have been caught with sexual stimulants like Viagra tablets, sexual oil, creams, etcetera. This is a very serious issue, which needs to be dealt with seriously," the advisory said. "Despite the divine commandments that no illegal activities should be carried out during Haj, some pilgrims in the past were found to be smuggling in items like Viagra, sexual oil and creams and many other things, which are banned in Saudi Arabia. We have inserted this advisory in the Haj application forms too," said Ataur Rahman, CEO, Haj Committee of India.

However, the advisory against carrying sexual stimulants has not gone down well with some community leaders. "People go on Haj not to seek pleasure, but to perform some rituals as commanded by Allah. During Haj, the pilgrims abstain from sex. A general advisory against carrying items like Viagra and sexual oil will mean as if this is common practice and only shows how certain officials paint Muslims as sex maniacs who cannot do without sex even during Haj," said M A Khalid of All India Milli Council.

The other prohibited things include khash-khash, synthetic capore, cystone, khammera, gutkha, khaini, gul, piper mint or narcotics in any form, political literature and even photographs. People found carrying these items are liable to punishment including life imprisonment and even death penalty.

This year, one lakh Indian pilgrims will perform Haj through Haj Committee while 36,000 will go through private tour operators (PTOs).

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[modern.fakir]

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[modern.fakir]

This statement expresses the true facts and seals the fate for muslims in india :

"People go on Haj not to seek pleasure, but to perform some rituals as commanded by Allah. During Haj, the pilgrims abstain from sex. A general advisory against carrying items like Viagra and sexual oil will mean as if this is common practice and only shows how certain officials paint Muslims as sex maniacs who cannot do without sex even during Haj," said M A Khalid of All India Milli Council

 

[Nice2MU]

بیچارے ہندوؤں کو سوائے سیکس کے کچھ نہیں سوجتا اسلیے تو ان خبیثوں کی آبادی اتنی زیادہ ہے۔ لگتا ہے یہ لوگ اپنے مذہبی عبادات کے دوران یہ کام خوب دھڑلے سے کرتے ہیں اسلیے حج پہ جانے والوں کو بھی ایسا سمجھا ہوا ہے۔

حج توانسان کا کچو کومر نکال دیتی ہے۔ کسی کو کھانے کا ہوش نہیں ہوتا اوران گدھے ہندوؤں کو سیکس اور پورنو گرافی کی پڑی ہے اور جو کوئی پورن فلمیں دیکھتا ہو اسے حج پہ جانے کیا ضرورت ہے؟

 

[ballumsingh]

This statement expresses the true facts and seals the fate for muslims in india :

"People go on Haj not to seek pleasure, but to perform some rituals as commanded by Allah. During Haj, the pilgrims abstain from sex. A general advisory against carrying items like Viagra and sexual oil will mean as if this is common practice and only shows how certain officials paint Muslims as sex maniacs who cannot do without sex even during Haj," said M A Khalid of All India Milli Council

all muslims should immediately move to khuda ka ek raj pakistan , they should enjoy there like mohazirs are enjoying ,like bangalis have enjoyed before 1971 .[hilar][hilar][hilar][hilar][hilar]

 

[modern.fakir]

24 hrs ki news nay aik he cheez per focus rakha hua hai :biggthumpup:

بیچارے ہندوؤں کو سوائے سیکس کے کچھ نہیں سوجتا اسلیے تو ان خبیثوں کی آبادی اتنی زیادہ ہے۔ لگتا ہے یہ لوگ اپنے مذہبی عبادات کے دوران یہ کام خوب دھڑلے سے کرتے ہیں اسلیے حج پہ جانے والوں کو بھی ایسا سمجھا ہوا ہے۔

حج انسان کا کچو کومر نکال دیتی ہے۔ کسی کو کھانے کا ہوش نہیں ہوتا ان گدھے ہندوؤں کو سیکس اور پورنو گرافی کی پڑی ہے اور جو کوئی پورن فلمیں دیکھتا ہو اسے حج پہ جانے کیا کیا ضرورت ہے؟

 

[ASQR1]

all muslims should immediately move to khuda ka ek raj pakistan , they should enjoy there like mohazirs are enjoying ,like bangalis have enjoyed before 1971 .[hilar][hilar][hilar][hilar][hilar]

And you by mocking Pakiatan shows your mentality of talking down to others, man o man you are as an Indian such as others who come on any Pakistani forum have a superiority complex, a worst complex to have.

Pakistsn is if one has the sisdom to see a country who is sacrificing a great length to keep you bozos in peace. So come down from your high horse and kiss the ground fir your betterment.

 

[RAW AGENT]

24 hrs ki news nay aik he cheez per focus rakha hua hai :biggthumpup:

persecution of shias by punjabi sunnis




[h=3]Pakistan: New Hajj application asks: ‘Are you Shia?’[/h]1st May 2015



By Zahid Gishkori
ISLAMABAD, (Tribune):

Confirming that the conditions had been forward by Saudi Arabia, government officials responsible for making Hajj arrangements said, “Saudi Arabia will not entertain any Hajj application from aspirants that fail to specify whether the applicant is a Shia or a Sunni.”
Taking Saudi requirement seriously, the government has added a question on page eight of the Hajj application form with the question “Are you Shia.”
The Ministry of Religious Affairs Spokesperson Muhammad Farooq said, “Aspirants are supposed to fill it with: ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.”
Riyadh has made it mandatory for all Hajj pilgrims to declare their sect as it fears that sectarian tensions could rise in the kingdom owing to the conflict in Yemen.
“Saudis do not want a repeat of the 1987 demonstrations during the Hajj pilgrimage, which led to the deaths of over 400 people in Makkah,” a senior official of Pakistan Hajj mission observed.
Religious affairs ministry officials, who are facilitating applicants (under government scheme) for getting visa, said the Saudi authorities also slightly amended the new Hajj visa form requirements. Though officials insisted that there was no such written instruction from Saudi authorities. But they said that the decision to insert the question was taken at a high level.
On the other hand, the religious affairs ministry spokesperson claimed that the question had been added on the request of representatives of Shia community in the country in order to prevent exploitation of the ‘mehram’ rule by Sunni women for performing hajj. Shia women, unlike their Sunni counterparts, can perform Hajj without a ‘mehram’. There have been reports that Sunni women have in the past exploited this provision.
Commenting on the new condition put forward by the Saudi Arabia, Chairman Pakistan Ulema Council Tahir Ashrafi said that he supports the Saudi move, adding that every country has the right to set new terms and condition to ensure better security.
“It’s not a new move. Pilgrims should abide by Saudi laws and declare their sect. Pilgrims are treated equally regardless of their sect,” he stated.
Amin Shaheedi, a representative of the Shia community in the Council for Islamic Ideology, said that, “We have no problem with this new addition. If Saudis are satisfied with this new move, Shia community is ready to abide by newly amended laws.”
http://tribune.com.pk/story/878644/new-hajj-application-asks-are-you-shia/

 

[ballumsingh]

And you by mocking Pakiatan shows your mentality of talking down to others, man o man you are as an Indian such as others who come on any Pakistani forum have a superiority complex, a worst complex to have.

Pakistsn is if one has the sisdom to see a country who is sacrificing a great length to keep you bozos in peace. So come down from your high horse and kiss the ground fir your betterment.

what ? pakistan is sacrificing for india ? :lol::lol::lol:


sending terrorists to kill indians daily ,pakistanis are making life hell for indians .


we send muslims for haj free itna ehsan hai.

 

[modern.fakir]

tu pehlay dalit, shudr aur baki saray scheduled castes ki problem solve kerlay ...shias have become presidents in Pakistan ....like our last PM !!...enjoy [hilar][hilar]


India: UN Finds Pervasive Abuse Against Dalits

After Review by UN Anti-Discrimination Body, Government Should Move From Talk to Action

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(New York) - The Indian government should take immediate steps to implement the recommendations of a United Nations committee that found persistent violence and discrimination against Dalits, or so-called “untouchables,” a group of international human rights organizations said today.
The organizations include Human Rights Watch, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law, and the International Dalit Solidarity Network.
On March 9, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued its Concluding Observations regarding India’s compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The Committee’s report found that “de facto segregation of Dalits persists” and highlighted systematic abuse against Dalits including torture and extrajudicial killings, an “alarming” extent of sexual violence against Dalit women, and caste discrimination in post-tsunami relief.
The Committee called for effective measures to implement laws on discrimination and affirmative action, and sought proper protection for Dalits and tribal communities against acts of “discrimination and violence.” The Committee has given India a year to respond to four of its recommendations, including its recommendations on how India can end widespread impunity for violence against Dalits, and Dalit women in particular.
“The UN Committee’s concluding observations confirm that India has failed to properly protect Dalits and tribal communities,” said Brad Adams, Asia Director of Human Rights Watch. “This is a prime opportunity for India to give its own policies on discrimination some meaning. Laws need to be implemented, and those who violate them must be prosecuted.”
The Concluding Observations were issued following two days of hearings in Geneva on February 23 and 26 between Committee members and the Indian delegation. During the hearing, Committee members uniformly took issue with the Indian government’s refusal to acknowledge that caste-based discrimination is covered by the Convention and is an issue of international human rights concern.
In particular, the Committee called on the Indian government to:

• Introduce mandatory training on the application of India’s Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for police, judges and prosecutors, and take disciplinary measures against those who fail to implement this law.
• Ensure the protection of witnesses and victims to caste-based crimes and ensure their immediate access to effective remedies.
• Prosecute and punish perpetrators of sexual violence and sexual exploitation of Dalit women, and sanction anyone found preventing or discouraging victims from reporting such incidents, including public officials.
• Eradicate the social acceptance of caste-based discrimination through public education and awareness campaigns.
• Ensure equal access to health care, safe drinking water, and other public services.
• Investigate all alleged cases of discrimination against Dalits in post-tsunami relief and compensate or retroactively grant benefits to victims of such discrimination.
• Take effective measures to reduce dropout rates and increase enrollment rates among Dalits at all levels of schooling by providing scholarships and by ending classroom segregation.
• Ensure proper enforcement of reservations or quotas to counter the under-representation of Dalits and tribal communities in government and public services.
• Adopt measures to enhance Dalits’ access to the labor market, including by extending the reservation policy to the private sector.
• Repeal the Armed Forces Special Powers Act that, while providing the armed forces with widespread powers to search, arrest and shoot suspects, leading to allegations of human rights abuses, has immunity provisions under which troops cannot be prosecuted unless authorized by the Central Government.

The Concluding Observations reflect the Committee’s disappointment with India’s presentation before the Committee on February 23 and 26. Despite India’s Solicitor General Goolam Vahanvati’s claim to the Committee that the government is “deeply conscious and concerned about caste and is fully committed to tackling this at every level,” the Indian delegation resorted to a semantic debate on the difference between caste and race to support its erroneous assertion that the Convention only covers race-based discrimination.
Citing India’s extensive laws and policies to end caste-based discrimination, none of which have been faithfully implemented, the Indian delegation also questioned the credibility of the Committee’s sources of information. These sources included reports of India’s own governmental agencies and numerous reports by Indian and international nongovernmental organizations, including “Hidden Apartheid,” which the NYU Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) along with Human Rights Watch produced as a “shadow report” ahead of CERD’s review of India’s periodic report.
In its Concluding Observations, “the Committee reaffirm[ed] that discrimination based on the ground of caste is fully covered by article 1 of the Convention.” It cited its position expressed in General Recommendation No. 29, “that discrimination based on ‘descent’ includes discrimination against members of communities based on forms of social stratification such as caste and analogous systems of inherited status which nullify or impair their equal enjoyment of human rights.”
“The Indian delegation’s arrogant rejection of well-documented abuses against Dalits before UN experts in Geneva mirrors India’s systematic denial of Dalit rights at home,” said Professor Smita Narula, faculty director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. “India once again squandered an opportunity to enlist the support of experts in its efforts to ensure equality in law and practice for its citizens.”
Comprised of independent experts from around the world, the Committee was led in its review by Mr. Linos-Alexander Sicilianos of Greece. On December 27, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh likened the practice of untouchability in India to apartheid in South Africa. “After this statement,” Siciliano said, “I sincerely feel that the official position [of the Indian delegation…] is simply untenable.” The Committee formally noted its appreciation for the prime minister’s remarks in their Observations.
Committee members characterized India’s position as a “broken record,” a “step backwards,” and cautioned that India should not “confuse growth with development.” Sicilianos reminded the government that “change cannot be achieved by legislation alone.” The Committee also highlighted its concern over “abuses at the local level” for which “radical measures” were necessary. The Indian government’s position left Committee members asking why India did not choose to view the review as “an opportunity rather than a threat.” Committee members also noted that caste-based discrimination was not unique to South Asia, but also existed in many parts of Africa The Committee’s sharp rebuke to the Indian government has been matched by growing scrutiny both inside and outside the country. On February 1, 2007 the European Parliament passed a resolution voicing strong concern about the plight of Dalits in India and urging the government to engage with relevant UN bodies, including CERD.
“Instead of sidestepping its responsibilities, India should welcome assistance from the international community to eliminate caste-based discrimination,” said Rikke Nhrlind, coordinator of the International Dalit Solidarity Network. “The fact that European Parliament strongly urged its own institutions to address caste discrimination in all EU-India relations reflects growing worldwide concern about India’s ‘hidden apartheid.’”
More than 165 million people in India continue to be subject to discrimination, exploitation and violence simply because of their caste. In India’s “hidden apartheid,” untouchability relegates Dalits throughout India to a lifetime of segregation and abuse. Caste-based divisions continue to dominate in housing, marriage, employment and general social interaction—divisions that are reinforced through economic boycotts and physical violence.
“Hidden Apartheid,” which was produced as a “shadow report” ahead of CERD’s review of India’s periodic report, documents India’s systematic failure to respect, protect and ensure Dalits’ fundamental human rights. Severe violations persist in education, health, housing, property, freedom of religion, free choice of employment and equal treatment before the law.
The report also documents routine violations of Dalits’ right to life and security of person through state-sponsored or sanctioned acts of violence, including torture. Dalit women face multiple forms of discrimination and are frequent targets of sexual abuse. State and private actors enjoy virtual impunity for these crimes.

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Pakistan: New Hajj application asks: ‘Are you Shia?’

1st May 2015

Confirming that the conditions had been forward by Saudi Arabia, government officials responsible for making Hajj arrangements said, “Saudi Arabia will not entertain any Hajj application from aspirants that fail to specify whether the applicant is a Shia or a Sunni.”
Taking Saudi requirement seriously, the government has added a question on page eight of the Hajj application form with the question “Are you Shia.”
The Ministry of Religious Affairs Spokesperson Muhammad Farooq said, “Aspirants are supposed to fill it with: ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.”
Riyadh has made it mandatory for all Hajj pilgrims to declare their sect as it fears that sectarian tensions could rise in the kingdom owing to the conflict in Yemen.
“Saudis do not want a repeat of the 1987 demonstrations during the Hajj pilgrimage, which led to the deaths of over 400 people in Makkah,” a senior official of Pakistan Hajj mission observed.
Religious affairs ministry officials, who are facilitating applicants (under government scheme) for getting visa, said the Saudi authorities also slightly amended the new Hajj visa form requirements. Though officials insisted that there was no such written instruction from Saudi authorities. But they said that the decision to insert the question was taken at a high level.
On the other hand, the religious affairs ministry spokesperson claimed that the question had been added on the request of representatives of Shia community in the country in order to prevent exploitation of the ‘mehram’ rule by Sunni women for performing hajj. Shia women, unlike their Sunni counterparts, can perform Hajj without a ‘mehram’. There have been reports that Sunni women have in the past exploited this provision.
Commenting on the new condition put forward by the Saudi Arabia, Chairman Pakistan Ulema Council Tahir Ashrafi said that he supports the Saudi move, adding that every country has the right to set new terms and condition to ensure better security.
“It’s not a new move. Pilgrims should abide by Saudi laws and declare their sect. Pilgrims are treated equally regardless of their sect,” he stated.
Amin Shaheedi, a representative of the Shia community in the Council for Islamic Ideology, said that, “We have no problem with this new addition. If Saudis are satisfied with this new move, Shia community is ready to abide by newly amended laws.”
http://tribune.com.pk/story/878644/new-hajj-application-asks-are-you-shia/

 

[ballumsingh]

Time for Shias to leave Pakistan

MURTAZA HAIDER — PUBLISHED FEB 17, 2013 01:01PM
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It is a massacre alright. Sunni extremists, aligned with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, are killing Shias by the dozens in Pakistan.I was yet to compile the list of the 106 (mostly Shias) killed in the twin bomb blasts in Quetta last month, that the news of another bomb blast killing yet another 84 (mostly Shias) in Quetta came over the wire. As the Shia massacres in Pakistan gain momentum, the State, including the Superior Courts, appear completely impotent.
In such troubling times some Shias may have a choice. They may sit and wait for a messiah or relocate to a Shia-exclusive enclave elsewhere, or to escape from Pakistan altogether. It may sound harsh, but it is an inescapable truth that Pakistan has been run over by the extremists and life is going to be even tougher for the minorities and moderate Sunnis in the near future.
In the two consecutive months this year, bomb blasts have killed hundreds of Shia Hazaras in Quetta, a Garrison town where each and every street is manned by intelligence operatives. Still, the militants operate with impunity. Saturday’s bomb blast, which has killed over 80 and injured hundreds, occurred almost within a month of the last bomb blast that delivered even a higher death toll.
Space is fast running out in Shia graveyards in Quetta. It may be the time for Shias to relocate to protect their next generation.
Many naively believe that peace will prevail in Pakistan and Afghanistan after the scheduled withdrawal of Nato troops from Afghanistan in 2014. While I vehemently oppose prolonging the stay of the Nato forces in the region, still I believe this would spell even a bigger disaster for the minorities in Pakistan. The battle-hardened veterans of the Afghan war will return to Pakistan to target Shias, Ahmadis, and other religious minorities. Even Barelvis may not escape the wrath of the mostlyDeobandi-led militancy.
There are reasons for my pessimism. I saw the same happen in the late nineties when the Afghan war veterans were pushed into Indian-administered Kashmir. The resulting militancy left over 70,000 dead in Kashmir but failed to make any tangible progress towards the resolution of the dispute that has pitched India, Pakistan, and Kashmiris in a deadly decades old conflict.
What looked like a gory beginning of a new millennium in Indian-administered Kashmir, the security landscape however suddenly transformed in 2002 when the militants started to relocate to Pakistan and Afghanistan to join the Pashtun Taliban. The result was a decline in militancy which is evident from the graph below that shows the drop in the number of news reports about militancy in Srinagar starting after 2002.

Source: Tabulations by the author using the Factiva (2013) database.A spike in militancy in Pakistan however is observed at the same time when militancy subsided in Indian-administered Kashmir. See the graph below that documents the number of civilians and security force personnel who became victims of terrorist violence in Pakistan. Since 2003, Pakistan has been the target of terrorism orchestrated by the very agents who once afforded the state its strategic depth.

Source: http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/database/casualties.htm (Feb. 15, 2013).Shias and other religious minorities are the most targeted in Pakistan. No city is safe anymore. The past few weeks saw the targeted killing of Shia lawyers, doctors, and other professionals in Peshawar. Shia legislators were shot dead in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi. While the State is struggling to suppress violence against Shias, the deep-rooted support for militants in society and the inadequate judicial system in Pakistan has created the situation where hardly any terrorist has been convicted of sectarian or other terrorism in Pakistan. In the past few years, several known militants have been set free by the courts because of the archaic judicial system that is incapable of convicting those involved in the modern-day guerilla warfare.
Some, not all, Shias have a choice. They can abandon the death traps in Quetta and Peshawar by relocating to the Shia majority areas in Karachi, Lahore, and other cities. A better option is to plead with the embassies in Islamabad for asylum for the Shia, especially the Hazara, youth.
Seeking asylum abroad may not win the approval of Pakistan’s superior courts, who have recently mocked those who held dual citizenship. However, it is better to be alive in exile than to be splattered on a wall in Pakistan.


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[ballumsingh]

[hilar][hilar][hilar][hilar]

Attacks on Pakistan's Shia

Numbers killed since January 2015 include:

• 60 killed in a mosque in southern province of Sindh in January

• 20 killed in attack on a mosque in Peshawar in February

• 14 die in suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore in March
• 45 killed in attack on Karachi bus carrying Ismaili Shia Muslims in May

Source: Pakistani police






shame shame shame

 

[modern.fakir]

Dalit girl beaten up as her shadow falls on high caste muscleman

PTI | Jun 16, 2015, 04.50 PM IST

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The episode enraged the family of the muscleman. (Representative Photo)







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CHATTARPUR, MP: In a shocking incident, a minor Dalit girl was allegedly beaten up by higher caste women in Ganeshpura village here after the victim's shadow fell on a muscleman belonging to their family, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took place on June 13 and the complaint was also filed on the same day at Gadi Malhera police station, Additional superintendent of police (ASP), Neeraj Pandey said.

READ ALSO: Upper caste men 'urinate' in dalit youth's mouth in Tamil Nadu

According to the complaint lodged by the girl's father, the problem began when his daughter was fetching water from a village hand pump and her shadow fell on muscleman Puran Yadav (belonging to a higher caste) when he happened to pass by, the ASP said.

The episode enraged the family of the muscleman to such an extent that the women of the family severely beat the girl and threatened that if she was spotted again at the hand pump, they would kill her, he said.
READ ALSO: Jats crush 3 dalits under tractors in Rajasthan
Yadav's family also prevented the victim from going to police station, but they somehow managed to reach there. A case under sections 323, 341, 506 of the IPC has been registered against the accused and further investigation is under way.

In several remote pockets of India, where untouchability is still prevalent, people from the lower caste are forbidden to come in contact with those belonging to the higher rung so much so that they can't share their food, cook for them or even look them in the eye. It is even forbidden for their shadow to fall on higher caste people, who consider it as defiling or polluting.

Attacks on Pakistan's Shia

Numbers killed since January 2015 include:

• 60 killed in a mosque in southern province of Sindh in January

• 20 killed in attack on a mosque in Peshawar in February

• 14 die in suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore in March

• 45 killed in attack on Karachi bus carrying Ismaili Shia Muslims in May

Source: Pakistani police






shame shame shame

 

[modern.fakir]

Here shabaaash ...feel "proud proud proud India" for Dalit and Shudr ABUSE [hilar][hilar][hilar]



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Attacks on Pakistan's Shia

Numbers killed since January 2015 include:

• 60 killed in a mosque in southern province of Sindh in January

• 20 killed in attack on a mosque in Peshawar in February

• 14 die in suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore in March

• 45 killed in attack on Karachi bus carrying Ismaili Shia Muslims in May

Source: Pakistani police






shame shame shame

 

[modern.fakir]

Here feel proud proud proud [hilar][hilar][hilar]

Upper caste men 'urinate' in dalit youth's mouth in Tamil Nadu

Senthil Kumaran,TNN | Mar 18, 2015, 11.30 AM IST

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The incident happened during a temple festival at Karuvanur in Krishnagiri district.



KRISHNAGIRI: A group of non-dalits in a Tamil Nadu village allegedly attacked a 20-year-old dalit youth and urinated in his mouth. The incident happened during a temple festival at Karuvanur in Krishnagiri district on March 2.

M Aravindhan (20), who is working as a welder at a private company in Bangalore, visited his native village to participate at a temple festival on March 2. "I went to the temple with my relative R Dinesh (20). Some caste Hindus used filthy words against us when they saw us," Aravindhan said.

When the duo opposed it, the group attacked them. The caste men later dragged both of them to a nearby toilet and continued to beat them up.

Aravindhan fell on the ground. When he asked for a glass of water, the men allegedly urinated in his mouth.

Meanwhile, Dinesh, who managed to escape, alerted his family members. They rushed to the spot and rescued Aravindhan.

The next day, he was admitted to Dharmapuri Government Medical College and Hospital.

"I suffered several injuries when they attacked me," the victim told TOI.

Meanwhile, he lodged a complaint with the Kallavi police. However, the police allegedly refused to register a case under the SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act. "They just registered an assault case against unknown people," he said.

Meanwhile, district secretary of the Tamil Nadu Kuravan Pazhankudiina Makkal Sangam (TNKPMS) S Ravi urged the Kallavi police to register the case under SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act. "Police officials told me that they would extort money from the non-dalits in return for not registering a case against them. So, we have decided to take up this issue to the court," Ravi said.

When contacted by TOI, the Kallavi police said they had registered a case and the investigating was going on. "We will alter the case once we confirm whether the dalit youth was harassed or not," they said.

Time for Shias to leave Pakistan

MURTAZA HAIDER — PUBLISHED FEB 17, 2013 01:01PM
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It is a massacre alright. Sunni extremists, aligned with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, are killing Shias by the dozens in Pakistan.I was yet to compile the list of the 106 (mostly Shias) killed in the twin bomb blasts in Quetta last month, that the news of another bomb blast killing yet another 84 (mostly Shias) in Quetta came over the wire. As the Shia massacres in Pakistan gain momentum, the State, including the Superior Courts, appear completely impotent.
In such troubling times some Shias may have a choice. They may sit and wait for a messiah or relocate to a Shia-exclusive enclave elsewhere, or to escape from Pakistan altogether. It may sound harsh, but it is an inescapable truth that Pakistan has been run over by the extremists and life is going to be even tougher for the minorities and moderate Sunnis in the near future.
In the two consecutive months this year, bomb blasts have killed hundreds of Shia Hazaras in Quetta, a Garrison town where each and every street is manned by intelligence operatives. Still, the militants operate with impunity. Saturday’s bomb blast, which has killed over 80 and injured hundreds, occurred almost within a month of the last bomb blast that delivered even a higher death toll.
Space is fast running out in Shia graveyards in Quetta. It may be the time for Shias to relocate to protect their next generation.
Many naively believe that peace will prevail in Pakistan and Afghanistan after the scheduled withdrawal of Nato troops from Afghanistan in 2014. While I vehemently oppose prolonging the stay of the Nato forces in the region, still I believe this would spell even a bigger disaster for the minorities in Pakistan. The battle-hardened veterans of the Afghan war will return to Pakistan to target Shias, Ahmadis, and other religious minorities. Even Barelvis may not escape the wrath of the mostlyDeobandi-led militancy.
There are reasons for my pessimism. I saw the same happen in the late nineties when the Afghan war veterans were pushed into Indian-administered Kashmir. The resulting militancy left over 70,000 dead in Kashmir but failed to make any tangible progress towards the resolution of the dispute that has pitched India, Pakistan, and Kashmiris in a deadly decades old conflict.
What looked like a gory beginning of a new millennium in Indian-administered Kashmir, the security landscape however suddenly transformed in 2002 when the militants started to relocate to Pakistan and Afghanistan to join the Pashtun Taliban. The result was a decline in militancy which is evident from the graph below that shows the drop in the number of news reports about militancy in Srinagar starting after 2002.

Source: http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/database/casualties.htm (Feb. 15, 2013).Shias and other religious minorities are the most targeted in Pakistan. No city is safe anymore. The past few weeks saw the targeted killing of Shia lawyers, doctors, and other professionals in Peshawar. Shia legislators were shot dead in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi. While the State is struggling to suppress violence against Shias, the deep-rooted support for militants in society and the inadequate judicial system in Pakistan has created the situation where hardly any terrorist has been convicted of sectarian or other terrorism in Pakistan. In the past few years, several known militants have been set free by the courts because of the archaic judicial system that is incapable of convicting those involved in the modern-day guerilla warfare.
Some, not all, Shias have a choice. They can abandon the death traps in Quetta and Peshawar by relocating to the Shia majority areas in Karachi, Lahore, and other cities. A better option is to plead with the embassies in Islamabad for asylum for the Shia, especially the Hazara, youth.
Seeking asylum abroad may not win the approval of Pakistan’s superior courts, who have recently mocked those who held dual citizenship. However, it is better to be alive in exile than to be splattered on a wall in Pakistan.


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Saudi Arabia deports Pakistanis for ‘begging’

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LAHORE - While most of the Pakistanis perform Umrah as a religious duty, there are many who go for the pilgrimage to get opportunity to earn "easy money" through begging.
The Saudi authorities have identified many such people and are deporting them, official sources told TheNation here on Monday.
An FIA Deputy Director posted at the Lahore Airport has sent a report to the Interior Ministry highlighting the activities of such people while in Saudi Arabia and the way they are bringing a bad name to their country.
It is said that only last month about 100 Pakistani beggars were deported from Saudi Arabia on emergency passports after they were arrested on account of overstay and being involved in begging.
All of them confessed during the investigations to have gone to Saudi Arabia to earn money through begging.
Seventy-seven "beggar-pilgrims" were deported to Lahore alone last month. Of them, 29 arrived on March 1, 30 on March 19, 18 on March 21 and 20 on April 13. Their confessional statements were recorded by the immigration authorities.
According to sources, they told the FIA that they had been sent to Saudi Arabia by one Ehtisham, a travel agent, for the purpose of begging.
The deportees included men and women. Some of them were also jailed in Saudi Arabia before being sent back to Pakistan.
An Umrah visa is valid only for a month. The overstayers are deported and their travel agent fined by the relevant authorities.
According to an official, these "beggar- pilgrims" were all able-bodied. In Saudi Arabia, such people tell other pilgrims their 'sorry' tales to seek their financial help. Many of them concoct similar stories.
According to some people, such cases are seen even in Holy Kaaba and Masjid-i-Nabvi (PBUH) and other Holy places like , Ghar-e-Hira, Maidan-e-Arafat, Safa-o-Marwa and outside the Haramain.
These ‘beggar pilgrims’ posed to be cheated by someone or have lost their passport and then they were supposed to go back to their homeland and they needed some money.
An FIA officer said that the travel agent Ehtisham was an influential man and he has connections in Ministry of Interior and after being blacklisted by Saudi Arabian authorities he gets his travel agency cleared again.
Deputy Director Immigration,Lahore Airport through a letter has put the matter into the notice of DG FIA and said that these people were bringing a bad name to Pakistan so they must be stopped by blacklisting their travel agent.
He said that after blacklisting of such travel agents and if they get themselves involved in such practices, FIA would be in legal position to take action against such travel agents.

 

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The world over, shoplifters are giving the retail industry a gigantic headache. A $119-billion headache! According to the Global Retail Theft Barometer for 2011, globally shrinkage rose to $119 billion in 2011, up 6.6 per cent of total sales since the last survey in 2010.
'Shrinkage' or 'shrink' is inventory loss caused by crime or administrative error. It is measured as a percentage of retail sales value. The average shrinkage stands at 1.45 per cent of total sales in 43 countries in 2011, compared to 1.36 per cent in 2010.
Almost 35.9 per cent of retailers globally reported that actual and attempted shoplifting rose last year and 24 per cent suffered higher employee theft. The costs of retail crime-plus-loss prevention were $128 billion in 2011 equivalent to $199.89 per family. ($66.27 per individual).
After a dip in shrinkage last year (2009-10), shrinkage has risen in the 12-months ending June 2011 as a result of increased shoplifting, higher employee fraud, and organised retail crime, the Global Retail Theft Barometer for 2011 says.

Saudi Arabia deports Pakistanis for ‘begging’

April 16, 2013/ 1 Comment

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LAHORE - While most of the Pakistanis perform Umrah as a religious duty, there are many who go for the pilgrimage to get opportunity to earn "easy money" through begging.
The Saudi authorities have identified many such people and are deporting them, official sources told TheNation here on Monday.
An FIA Deputy Director posted at the Lahore Airport has sent a report to the Interior Ministry highlighting the activities of such people while in Saudi Arabia and the way they are bringing a bad name to their country.
It is said that only last month about 100 Pakistani beggars were deported from Saudi Arabia on emergency passports after they were arrested on account of overstay and being involved in begging.
All of them confessed during the investigations to have gone to Saudi Arabia to earn money through begging.
Seventy-seven "beggar-pilgrims" were deported to Lahore alone last month. Of them, 29 arrived on March 1, 30 on March 19, 18 on March 21 and 20 on April 13. Their confessional statements were recorded by the immigration authorities.
According to sources, they told the FIA that they had been sent to Saudi Arabia by one Ehtisham, a travel agent, for the purpose of begging.
The deportees included men and women. Some of them were also jailed in Saudi Arabia before being sent back to Pakistan.
An Umrah visa is valid only for a month. The overstayers are deported and their travel agent fined by the relevant authorities.
According to an official, these "beggar- pilgrims" were all able-bodied. In Saudi Arabia, such people tell other pilgrims their 'sorry' tales to seek their financial help. Many of them concoct similar stories.
According to some people, such cases are seen even in Holy Kaaba and Masjid-i-Nabvi (PBUH) and other Holy places like , Ghar-e-Hira, Maidan-e-Arafat, Safa-o-Marwa and outside the Haramain.
These ‘beggar pilgrims’ posed to be cheated by someone or have lost their passport and then they were supposed to go back to their homeland and they needed some money.
An FIA officer said that the travel agent Ehtisham was an influential man and he has connections in Ministry of Interior and after being blacklisted by Saudi Arabian authorities he gets his travel agency cleared again.
Deputy Director Immigration,Lahore Airport through a letter has put the matter into the notice of DG FIA and said that these people were bringing a bad name to Pakistan so they must be stopped by blacklisting their travel agent.
He said that after blacklisting of such travel agents and if they get themselves involved in such practices, FIA would be in legal position to take action against such travel agents.

 

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China provoked India once again, this time calling Delhi as the "rape capital of the world".

In a strongly worded report, state-run news agency Xinhua said on Friday that India is known for "rampant rapes" and "Delhi is called the rape capital of the world".

The Chinese Embassy in India has asked its citizens living in the country, especially women, to remain alert about their personal security and avoid going out of their houses alone. They have been advised to shun insecure places and report to police and the Chinese Embassy if they meet any unusual situation.

The report comes in the wake of a Chinese woman's rape in Delhi recently. The Chinese Embassy had expressed "shock and strong anger" over the incident and urged the Indian authorities to seriously deal with the incident. It also asked them to take effective measures to protect Chinese citizens i

LAHORE - While most of the Pakistanis perform Umrah as a religious duty, there are many who go for the pilgrimage to get opportunity to earn "easy money" through begging.
The Saudi authorities have identified many such people and are deporting them, official sources told TheNation here on Monday.
An FIA Deputy Director posted at the Lahore Airport has sent a report to the Interior Ministry highlighting the activities of such people while in Saudi Arabia and the way they are bringing a bad name to their country.
It is said that only last month about 100 Pakistani beggars were deported from Saudi Arabia on emergency passports after they were arrested on account of overstay and being involved in begging.
All of them confessed during the investigations to have gone to Saudi Arabia to earn money through begging.
Seventy-seven "beggar-pilgrims" were deported to Lahore alone last month. Of them, 29 arrived on March 1, 30 on March 19, 18 on March 21 and 20 on April 13. Their confessional statements were recorded by the immigration authorities.
According to sources, they told the FIA that they had been sent to Saudi Arabia by one Ehtisham, a travel agent, for the purpose of begging.
The deportees included men and women. Some of them were also jailed in Saudi Arabia before being sent back to Pakistan.
An Umrah visa is valid only for a month. The overstayers are deported and their travel agent fined by the relevant authorities.
According to an official, these "beggar- pilgrims" were all able-bodied. In Saudi Arabia, such people tell other pilgrims their 'sorry' tales to seek their financial help. Many of them concoct similar stories.
According to some people, such cases are seen even in Holy Kaaba and Masjid-i-Nabvi (PBUH) and other Holy places like , Ghar-e-Hira, Maidan-e-Arafat, Safa-o-Marwa and outside the Haramain.
These ‘beggar pilgrims’ posed to be cheated by someone or have lost their passport and then they were supposed to go back to their homeland and they needed some money.
An FIA officer said that the travel agent Ehtisham was an influential man and he has connections in Ministry of Interior and after being blacklisted by Saudi Arabian authorities he gets his travel agency cleared again.
Deputy Director Immigration,Lahore Airport through a letter has put the matter into the notice of DG FIA and said that these people were bringing a bad name to Pakistan so they must be stopped by blacklisting their travel agent.
He said that after blacklisting of such travel agents and if they get themselves involved in such practices, FIA would be in legal position to take action against such travel agents.

 

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LAHORE: The city witnessed two explosions in 2011 which left 13 people dead and 112 injured. More than 250 were killed in 18 terrorist activities in 2010.
In the first incident, on January 25, at Ghora Chowk, Urdu Bazar, a suicide bomber killed 10 people and injured 85. The second incident, on February 3, a bombing, killed three people and injured 27 near Haider Sayeen shrine.
Shahbaz Taseer, son of late Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer and US citizen Warren Weinstein were kidnapped for ransom during the year.
Shahbaz was abducted from Gulberg on August 27, while Weinstein was picked up from his Model Town residence.
Security officials have claimed that Al Qaeda operatives are behind both abductions.
The police have still no clue to the whereabouts of Amir Aftab Malik, son-in-law of Gen (retd) Tariq Majeed, who was kidnapped at gunpoint on August 25, 2010.
Some defence analysts hold the view that the operations in Tribal Areas have effected the network of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which had resulted in a lull in incidents of terrorism. They say there is no evidence to conclude that the terrorists have changed their policy permanently.
Prof Hasan Askari Rizvi said overall incidents of terrorism had decreased but noted that some high profile attacks had occurred. He said the reduction was due to the operations being conducted in Tribal Areas. Rizvi added that TTP apparently lacked training facilities as many suicide attackers had been arrested last year. He said recruitment of suicide bombers had likely been denied by the operations in Tribal Areas.
Rizvi said Aiman al Zawahri had claimed to be behind the kidnapping of Weinstein. He said it was evident that Al Qaeda and TTP were involved in these high profile kidnappings.
Rizvi noted that last year several banned organisations, like Sipah-i-Sahaba and Jamatud Dawa, were allowed to continue their activities. He said although these organisations were limited to the Punjab they could surprise and harm to the security establishment, which currently is patronising them.
He said because the Punjab was relatively more conservative and had more of an ‘anti-India’ element than other provinces, these banned organisations had settled here. He said intelligence agencies were using these organisations to put pressure on the US and the Pakistani government against drone attacks and granting Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India. He said these organisations were also opposed to the military for its role in the war on terror.
A Counter Terrorism Department police officer, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Express Tribune that terrorists had suspended operations in the settled areas. He said it was evident from intelligence reports that many TTP leaders and operatives were alive and in regular contact. He said even Lahore was not free of TTP operatives.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 30th, 2011.

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The basic premise on which we won ourselves Pakistan was that a permanent majority cannot and should not dominate a permanent minority on account of numeric strength. Yet contrary to that founding logic, Pakistan is today legally a totalitarian fundamentalist theocracy
A fresh round of hate has been unleashed against the hapless Ahmediyya community once again. A young woman has been expelled from her university for daring to stand up to hate speech against her community on campus in Lahore. In Rawalpindi, ignorant and boorish mobs have been agitating to close down an Ahmedi ‘place of worship’ for being ‘unconstitutional’. In other words, practising their own faith in their own space is deemed unconstitutional by a mob that has probably never opened the constitution. All the while this community goes on praying and fasting for Pakistan, where a majority continues to persecute them for believing differently.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the great American Judge, wrote in his dissenting opinion in Abrams vs United States 250 US 616 (1919): “When men have realised that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.” If the Ahmedi beliefs are so patently false and ridiculous as our ulema (Islamic scholars) say they are, then why be so insecure as to shut them down completely? Why not allow them to be ridiculed in the marketplace of ideas?
Every citizen of Pakistan has the unfettered right to practice and propagate his or her religion and every religious denomination and sect thereof has the right to establish its places of worship and educational institutions according to Article 20 of the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973. These rights are paramount. Unlike other articles, this Article — the cornerstone of religious liberty in our country — is not restricted by reasonable restrictions but is subject to law, order and morality alone. This means that religious freedom and freedom of conscience cannot be restricted. Ahmedis might be non-Muslims for the purposes of law and constitution under Article 260 but that does not mean that they are not Pakistanis. Unfortunately, time and again the judiciary in Pakistan — whose basic function is to safeguard marginalised sections of our society — has upheld retrogressive laws that target the Ahmedis.
To begin with, let us put a popular notion to rest that if an Ahmedi calls himself a Muslim, he is violating the constitution. The most one can stretch Article 260, which is a definition clause, is to say that the state of Pakistan does not agree with an Ahmedi if he calls himself a Muslim and that laws and provisions specific to the Muslims will not apply to the Ahmedis. When Article 260 is read with Article 19 (freedom of speech and expression) and Article 20 (freedom of religion), it becomes clear that there is no constitutional bar against an Ahmedi citizen calling himself a Muslim, even if the Pakistani constitution and law does not agree with him. In these circumstances Ordinance XX of 1984 is a clear violation of the fundamental rights of an entire community to any sane and reasonable mind. However, two judges on a three member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in Zaheeruddin vs the State 1993 SCMR 1718 did not think so. They felt — incredibly enough — that Ahmedis purporting to or even thinking themselves to be Muslims is a violation akin to violation of intellectual property rights. One of these judges went so far as to declare that it was reasonable for a Muslim to be outraged and therefore attack the Ahmedis on this ground. This is our Supreme Court for God’s sake. Check your religious biases on the door, Lordships. You cannot be partisan judges serving communitarian interests of the majority. You are justices of the superior judiciary of Pakistan, tasked with safeguarding fundamental rights of every citizen of Pakistan, whatever his faith maybe. The clearest duty on part of the Pakistani Supreme Court is to stand up for every citizen of Pakistan, be it an Ahmedi, Shia, Christian or Hindu. If you cannot be unbiased or if you cannot stand up or are too afraid to stand up for every citizen of Pakistan, then I implore you to resign and let men made of sterner stuff replace you.
Last but not the least, the history of Ahmedi persecution is as sordid as it is surreal. The anti-Pakistan Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam, which had opposed the Muslim League in the 1940s, enflamed passions on the Ahmedi issue to hit back at the Muslim League, which had many prominent Ahmedis in it. One particular Ahmedi target for this party was Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan who was Pakistan’s first foreign minister and in the words of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the most able Muslim in his team. Jinnah himself would have been horrified at the persecution of the Ahmedis. He had dismissed appeals by the mullahs in his lifetime. saying that anyone who professes to be a Muslim is a Muslim. It was this statement that won him the eternal animosity of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam and other religious outfits. These religious organisations are today claimants of the protectors of Nazaria-e-Pakistan (Ideology of Pakistan).
The basic premise on which we won ourselves Pakistan was that a permanent majority cannot and should not dominate a permanent minority on account of numeric strength. Yet contrary to that founding logic, Pakistan is today legally a totalitarian fundamentalist theocracy. It will lead us to a dead end from which there will be no way out. It is time the Muslims of Pakistan halted and thought about where they intend to take this much abused, much maligned and much misunderstood Islamic Republic.
The writer is a lawyer based in Lahore. He is also a regular contributor to the Indian law website http://mylaw.net and blogs on http//globallegalforum.blogspot.com and http://pakteahouse.net. He can be reached at [email protected]
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