Fatwa Issued On Veena Malik For Objectionable Photographs and For Refusing To Accept Marriage On A TV Show

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After creating a controversy for her nude photoshoot and then for her disappearing act, Pakistani actress Veena Malik has been slapped with a fatwa.

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Pakistani Hindus Take Refuge in India

Tarun Vijay in New Delhi

Tarun Vijay visits a tent camp in New Delhi where Hindu refugees from Pakistan try and start a new life.

Pakistan doesn't send just terrorists like Ajmal Kasab. They send Hindus too -- forcing them to flee if they want to save their honour and their lives.

The common Hindu is a mute spectator to the changing times and the Abbotabad, Haqqani and ISI phenomenon.

He cannot comment on the political situation of his country. He cannot vote as freely as a common Muslim Pakistani. He is constitutionally directed to vote only for the Hindu candidates in their designated constituencies.

A country that might have taken birth in 1947, but the land belonged to his ancestors for centuries. He is as much the owner of the land of the 'pure' as any other religionist. But while the 'other' religionist is free to vote and shout for his rights and participate in the mainstream activities, he for just being a Hindu is asked to live in a cocoon.

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Hindu Exodus From Pakistan

Pakistan’s Hindus seek India sanctuary

Septuagenarian Lakshmi sits on a torn blanket inside a tent. She is finishing the last morsel of her lunch and says a small prayer thanking god that her roti has not come through hands that killed a cow.

In between bites, she says she wants her last rites performed according to Hindu rituals and that is what gave her the strength to leave the house where she had lived all her life.

Lakshmi is one of the 145 people who came to India on a tourist visa from Pakistan three months ago and have, since then, refused to return. She is among the Hindus living in Sindh Province of Pakistan. The group has pitched tents at an ashram and appealed to the Prime Minister for permanent shelter in India.

Hindus from Pakistan have left behind their houses, fields and shops hoping for a life free from fear. “We Hindus have been living a miserable life in the Muslim country. There are no jobs for us. We are not even given complete wage when we work in the fields. There is no future for me and my sons in Pakistan,” said Ganga Ram, who owns a pucca house and a grocery shop in Matiari district.

Ram is a graduate. However, his sons refused to go to high school, considering the degree in vain since they anyway would not get jobs. Ravi Prakash, alias Prince, has studied till fifth grade and worked as a labourer in Pakistan. He has now assembled a cart on his own and is selling mobile phone accessories.

“Since I don’t have permission to live here any more, I cannot go to far-off places. However, I manage to earn Rs 250-300 each day,” he says. Ram’s son dreams of a house in India and wants his two younger sisters to go to school.

Sagar Rai, who worked as a motor mechanic in Pakistan, says the life is unsafe there. “Our daughters are picked up from homes. The Muslims of Sindh province are forcing us to adopt Islam. They enter our houses and threaten us. We had no choice but to escape,” he explains.

Another refugee, Raj Kumari, asserts, “Here, we have the freedom to go to the temple. We don’t see men slaughtering cows.  Here, even if we have to live under the open sky for the rest of our lives, we will.”

At the dera of Baba Rajkumar Ji at Majnu Ka Tila, women do daily chores like cooking and cleaning while the men have picked up odd jobs in the neighborhood. Small children — about 30 of them — study in a room.

“We have been trying to get a visa to India for about five years now. Each year, we would apply for a visit visa but it was rejected. This time, we applied for a tourist visa and got it for two months,” says Shoba Ram.

The visitors went to the Golden Temple in Amritsar and Har Ki Pauri at Haridwar. It has been a month now that their visas have expired. “We are hard working people and will be able to earn our own bread,” says Rukmani.

Dera devotee Basant Ramdhari adds, “They are all followers of Babaji and the doors of this ashram are open for anybody in need. They can live here till whenever they want.”

Lest We Forget 26/11

Blood, bullets and beyond: bitter 26/11 lessons

IBN Live  Three years have passed since the horrific events of 26/11 held us hostage for 62 hours, from the night of November 26 to the morning of November 29, 2008. A significant element in those attacks was the visible engagement of Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists in a frontal gun battle with Indian security forces. Earlier terror attacks had generally involved simultaneous bomb blasts in crowded market places, religious sites and office complexes.

The intensity and meticulous planning that went into the Mumbai attacks were of an unprecedented nature. National Security Guard (NSG) commandos expressed surprise at the training level of the LeT terrorists and the quantity of weapons carried by them. The involvement of the LeT in terrorist activities inside India is a critical security concern for India.

The stated objective of the LeT is to wage violent jihad in India in order to establish an Islamic rule amongst India's Muslim population. It also aspires to form a Union of Muslim majority areas surrounding Pakistan through violent means. Towards achieving this goal, the countries that have been listed as enemies of the LeT are India, Israel and the United States. Besides the LeT, there exists the menace of homegrown terror outfits like the Indian Mujahideen (IM). However, unlike the LeT, the IM is not a well-knit organisation devoid of any clear hierarchical structure.

Succumbed

Despite this knowledge on the LeT's objectives much before 2008 vis- -vis India, Mumbai succumbed to its terror plan. Added to intelligence assessment failure on the LeT's terror plans was the fact that the Mumbai attacks were preceded by terror attacks on Jaipur, Ahmedabad, New Delhi and Assam that year, which should have alerted the security agencies on the possibility of future terror attacks on major Indian cities.

Significantly, the US State Department 'Country Reports on Terrorism 2008' identified India as one of the world's most terrorism-afflicted countries. Sadly, after a lull of three years, Mumbai has again fallen prey to terror attacks in July this year. Given this, the obvious question that comes to mind is: Why has Mumbai been a recurring target of terror attacks since 1993? There are three plausible answers to this question.

First, attacking Mumbai increases the credibility and visibility of the terror outfit concerned. By definition, terrorism is "the use of violence against civilians for political ends". Terrorists engage in "costly signaling" (violent attacks) in order to spread terror, sabotage the institutions of a state and establish their own deadly credibility to a target audience: their own recruit base, ideologues and terror financiers. Second, it exposes the inability and weaknesses of Indian security agencies. Third, attacking Mumbai, India's financial capital brings global attention on India as an unsafe place for investment and tourism.

Doubts

Recurring terror attacks inside India raises serious doubts about India's counter-terror mechanism. The common fear prevalent in India is the ability of terror outfits to repeatedly target Indian cities despite security measures being strengthened in recent years.

There is a deep-seated belief that the country lacks effective and well-trained counter-terror forces. In fact, counter-terrorism mechanisms in India suffer from more than just a lack of 'effective' counter-terror forces. There are existing structural problems that afflict the entire police force across states. For instance, in cities like Delhi and Mumbai today, most of the best trained police personnel are utilised for VIP security.

For instance, nearly 60 per cent of the 83,740 or more police personnel in Delhi are employed for securing VIPs and their movements. The living conditions of most police personnel are sub-optimal; they are made to work in conditions where even basic amenities are absent. Out of 76,613 Assistant Sub-Inspectors (ASIs) in Delhi, nearly 63,103 are yet to get housing promised to them.

Also, the ratio of police personnel at the level of constables in Delhi is much lower than the mid level ASIs, thereby coming in the way of a visible police presence on the ground. While special units to fight terror have been raised in cities like Mumbai, these have so far proved inadequate. What further affects the effectiveness of the police force in cities like Mumbai is that sub-inspectors and constables are over-stretched and do not have time to attend refresher courses to update their skills in terms of proficiency in the latest technology or concepts in counter terrorism.

Technology

For instance, the lack of expertise on the use of cyber space and technology by terrorist groups in India is another key area of concern. The emails sent by the IM after the terror attacks in Ahmedabad and Delhi in 2008 were through hacked wi-fi connections in Mumbai. Incidentally, the IM's top leader Abdul Subhan Qureshi is a highly trained computer specialist.

The use of satellite phones by the 10 LeT terrorist in the Mumbai attacks was visible. Cyber-terrorism could target critical infrastructure like financial sectors, telecommunications, banking and finance, gas and oil storage facilities and government operations within India.

Such attacks could undermine national security, erode confidence in government, and damage the economic system of a state. Malicious software is widely available and does not require special technical skills to disseminate and create terror. To deter this, law enforcement agencies in India would require expertise in cyber and other technologies if they are to keep pace with the terror outfits' growing prowess in using technology.

Lessons

Be that as it may, the Union government did take some measures to strengthen its counter-terrorism mechanism immediately after 26/11. First of all, learning a bitter lesson from the slow movement of the then elite NSG personnel to Mumbai to counter the 26/11 terrorists, a number of NSG regional hubs have been set up in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad.

Also, India's coastal security has been beefed up by developing an integrated approach between the Indian Navy and the Indian coast guards to secure India's long coastline of 7, 517 km. This integration has been set up under the command of the Naval Chief to bring about effective coordination. The most significant institutional counter-terrorism measure was the setting up of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2009.

The NIA is India's first federal agency to deal with cases pertaining to terrorism, investigating terror links, and linking up different intelligence agencies like the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and other state intelligence agencies.The integration of intelligence inputs is a much-needed change as the biggest state failure in India while fighting terror has been its inability to assess intelligence inputs.

This shortcoming has come in the way of providing clear guidelines to implementing bodies in order to prevent terror attacks from occurring on Indian soil. Counter-terror mechanisms like the intelligence agencies and security personnel have also been routinely plagued by lack of intelligence sharing, trust, inter-agency coordination and turf wars. While an important step in counter-terrorism, the NIA is not an appropriate agency for enabling such seamless intelligence flow, assessment as well as coordination as it is more a reactive than a preventive body. The NIA' s chief task is to investigate terror cases once the act has already been carried out.

Critical

The critical question that arises in this regard is: how has the US been successful in averting terror attacks on its soil since 9/11? The answer is not too far to seek. Immediately after 9/11, the Bush administration engaged in a massive reform of institutional mechanisms to avert and respond to future terror attacks on US soil.

A 'Department of Homeland Security' headed by a 'Director of Homeland Security' was set up with a massive staff of 170, 000, making it the second largest US federal body after the Department of Defense (DoD). The overall working of the department is guided by the policy document titled "National Strategy for Homeland Security" with a three words punch line: prevent, protect and respond. The main philosophy behind the Homeland Security Department is to not only prevent terror attacks but also enable a rapid response in case there is a terror attack.

The Department of Homeland Security also brings together different intelligence agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to share intelligence. This has mitigated turf wars to a large extent as well as addressed the tendency of intelligence agencies not to share secret information. Integration of intelligence has enabled forming a holistic map of terror networks, financing and source.

Further on, the Department of Homeland Security also pools in several other organisations like the US Coast Guard, the US Customs Service, the Nuclear Incident Response Team, the Federal Computer Incident Response Team, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and many others, making information flows an inter-agency matter. This massive need for coordination has necessitated a change in US bureaucratic attitudes in order to tide over different cultures and histories of each department, and guard against the powerful incentive to protect one's turf. The end result is however an effective counter-terror mechanism.

Vulnerable

This kind of inter-agency coordination is sadly missing in India rendering Indian cities like Mumbai vulnerable to terror attacks. One can realistically imagine a scenario where a coordinated cyber or bio-terror attack will succeed in disrupting life in India given the absence of a coordinated cyber or public health response system to counter such attacks.

The need of the hour in India is to establish a Federal Counter-Terrorism Mechanism, which will integrate the various intelligence agencies, state police, customs, border security, cyber and public health departments to counter terror attacks. India should devise a counter-terrorism strategy which is well-coordinated and led by specialized units with superior intelligence-gathering and assessment skills. The government must immediately activate effective countermeasures including covert operations against terror networks based on sound intelligence and efficient bureaucratic coordination.

Visible policing is another critical component in fighting terrorism and must be conducted by personnel who are well trained, well paid and motivated enough to get the job done. Unless such a change occurs at the ground level, major Indian cities like Mumbai are likely to suffer from repeated terrorist attacks. At the same time, given that the terror group which targeted Mumbai on 26/11 was just one small cell of a larger terror network spread across South Asia, defeating the network would require the concentrated efforts of all countries in the region.

It is time a common counter-terror framework under the mechanism of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is also created.

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Pakistani Cricketer Worships Nude Vishnu

Uniform "Shopped" onto Nude Photo Show Pakistani Cricketer Worshipping Vishnu ...
For Pakistan...This Is Definitely NOT Cricket!

ZeeNews

Mumbai: Sachin Tendulkar, the god of cricket in India, got the shock of his life when he learnt that some morphed nude pictures of him and sleaze queen Poonam Pandey were doing rounds on the internet.

Poonam Pandey, who became an overnight sensation post her claim to parade nude to celebrate Indian Cricket team’s World Cup victory, is mighty peeved with a nude morphed picture of hers in circulation on the web.

The controversial picture of hers that surfaced on the web shows her completely nude holding a framed picture of Lord Vishnu with cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar’s face morphed on the God’s and a Pakistani cricketer bowing in front of the photo frame. What is more insulting is that the God is shown holding a bat, a ball, a helmet and the World Cup in his hands on website of modelzview.

Poonam took to Twitter to express her feelings on seeing the nude picture of hers. She retweeted the message of her fan with the link of the website that carried the picture in question.

She wrote, “TweetHrts & All my Fans round d World i do appreciate ur Love towards me but such edited pix really hurt me as for me Cricket is a RELIGION (sic).”

The attention starved girl also said that she was surprised to see such a picture of hers.

“Had Seen Few Pix Photoshoped oh RaOne ,Then also Singham ect. but never that someone would make a pic of mine like this . Crazy people lol (sic).”

She expressed unhappiness about mocking the game of cricket and the sport star, but did not regret the misuse of Lord Vishnu’s picture in the morphed image in her tweets. 

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Sufis Reject Fatwa Against Celebrating Muhammad's Birthday

Times of India

NEW DELHI: The All India Ulama and Mashaikh Board (AIUMB), a leading body ofSunni Sufi Muslims, rejected the fatwa issued by Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband against celebration of birthdays, including that of Prophet Muhammad. 

AIUMB General Secretary Maulana Syed Ashraf Kichhouchhvi said, "The birth of the Prophet is the greatest favour of Allah on humanity. So, Muslims celebrate the Prophet's birth anniversary with traditional zeal on the 12th of Rabi-ul-Awwal." He said some "mischievous elements devoid of spiritualism" are trying to impose a foreign ideology on Indian Muslims. 

Earlier, Deoband vice-chancellor Maulana Abul Qasim Nomani had said celebrating birthdays is part of the Western culture and against Sharia. He also said the Islamic seminary does not celebrate the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammed either. 

Prof S Irfan Habib, who holds the Maulana Azad Chair at Delhi's National University of Educational Planning and Administration, said, "Why should we take such fatwas seriously? These dos and don'ts are Wahabi innovations. Vested interests are attempting to infuse such consciousness to spread Wahabism." 

The Prophet's birthday is a public holiday in 54 countries, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. "Israel and Saudi Arabia are the only countries in the Middle East who do not recognize Mawlid an-Nabi (the Prophet's birthday) as a national holiday," said Maulana Kichhouchhvi.  More Here

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