Hina Rabbani Khar’s Electricity Bill: Rs 67 Million Only

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar’s Textile Mill ” Galaxy Textile Mill, Jhang” has defaulted Electricity Bill by Rs. 67,700,000.

This huge amount has been put on monthly instalment of Rs. 3,000 pm.

Number of instalments : 23,333 (months)

Time required for instalments- 1944 Years.

This bill was shown on Dunia TV.

Generals In Real-Estate Business—Wikileaks Missing Stories Released

President Zardari demanded Rs2 billion from real-estate tycoon Malik Riaz….

Malik made Gen. Kayani’s brother business-partner on Presidential threats…

ISI chief owns many commercial plazas in Rawalpindi and Islamabad…

By Habib R. Sulemani

The Army Chief calls the shots in Pakistan and it’s a universal truth. So whatever the former American Ambassador has reported from Islamabad (in the leaked Wikileaks cables), is actually an open secret in Pakistan.

Here are some stories which the WikiLeaks missed:

• The military establishment allowed the Taliban to takeover Swat region to deceive the American Administration and get funds for fight terrorism. When the Taliban were entering Swat region, a DSP of the regional police told the government to allow him, to stop advancement of the Taliban. The high-ups told him shut-up it was a strategy of the military establishment. Then the DSP was transferred to another region.

• A follower of Maududi was appointed as Commissioner of the region, who facilitated the Taliban’s takeover of Malakand Region and then the so-called military oppression against the Taliban started.

• Militant leader Maulana Sufi Muhammad, also a follower of Maududi, was given full security with a chauffeur-driven land-cruiser by the ISI so that he could terrorize the people to leave region. Later, the military media cell gave the faked news of the death of Sufi’s son and son-in-law (even now Sufi is said to be a valued guest of the ISI like Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan).

• When a straightforward Pashtun Major-General wanted to finish the reign of Taliban the tribal areas, he was transferred to downtown—but he refused, saying that until he finishes the enemies of Pakistan, he couldn’t leave the battleground. However, later, he was tactfully packed off—

• After becoming President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari demanded Rs. 2 billion from Malik Riaz of Bahria Town. Without payment, the tycoon was told, he couldn’t continue his lucrative business! The tycoon refused. But when the Presidency threatened him to deposit the said amount in a given account, Malik Riaz suffered a heart attack but, fortunately, survived due to in-time treatment.

• After recovery, the first thing Malik Riaz did was to call the brother of Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani—and offering him partnership in the huge real-estate business. (The tycoon has reportedly also given shares to the management of the National Press Club Islamabad to amalgamate the Media Town with his Bahria Town) After this strategy of the tycoon, President Zardari kept silent.

• Another thing which was talk of the journalistic community about two years back was that the former ISI chief Lt-Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha owns many commercial plazas in the twin-cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. One of his commercial plazas is situated near the PIA office in Saddar area of Rawalpindi, where the Dawn Media Group had also its Bureau Office. A serving Major of the Pakistan Army had been assigned to collect rent from the tenants at the beginning of every month.

Supreme Court Justice Saqib Nisar Gives One Lac Out of His Own Pocket to an Italian Female Litigant

Chief Justice Should Resign

There is a reason why the figure of Justice is depicted as she is, holding a set of scales, a sword, and her eyes covered by a blindfold. The scales suspended from her right hand represent the relative strength of a case’s arguments, for and against. The double-edged sword symbolises the power of Reason and Justice. The blindfold is to spare her eyes from witnessing the trauma of what happens in her name in our Pakistani courtrooms.

The Chief Justice of our Supreme Court is being pilloried for the second time in his judicial career. The last time he stood his ground by refusing to resign. He became a cause célèbre and the sound-bite darling of the media. Today, he is again being hounded but this time for a very different reason.

His son is alleged to have taken more than 30 crores from Bahria Town’s Malik Riaz and is not outrightly denying this fact. If the son Dr Arslan has taken the money and his trips to Monte Carlo and London were sponsored by Malik Riaz there is absolutely no excuse for such a behavior and he along with Malik Riaz should be sent to the prison for indulging in corruption.

Jurisprudence has evolved over the millennia to protect the rights of man from the wrongdoing of fellow man.

It does not however offer equivalent protection to those who have been appointed to adjudicate. Their courtroom is the well of public opinion, their jury the press.

It is clear that we Pakistanis have reached a depth of insensitivity where pain knows no limits. We refuse to improve, to stand above ourselves, preferring instead to pull down those who presume to rise above us. Those who could stand outside the rest of us have demonstrated that detachment by migrating. Those who have remained in the country do so either out of necessity or out of a belief in an afterlife here on earth. There is no evidence to support that faith.

It is unlikely that the Chief Justice did not know about his son taking the money. It goes to his credit that he may not have been influenced by it but the fact that the son was taking money from Malik Riaz and perhaps from some other quarters as well like Mobilink and Ufone goes to show that corruption was taking place right under the Chief Justice’s nose. It is hard to believe that such corruption was taking place and he did not know about it.

How could one argue that the Chief Justice did not know about Dr Arslan taking money and then going on foreign trips and staying in expensive hotels, sometimes along with his mother?

If the Chief Justice did not know about it then it would be negligence on his part. He is entrusted with controlling corruption nationally by dispensing justice and how can he do justice and ascertain its presence if he cannot do it within the family.

Chief Justice’ sincerity to the nation and in opposing corruption cannot be doubted but he should accept the moral responsibility by resigning.

 

The Entire Muslim Ummah is Like a Slave of America

Muslim Paranoia, Perpetual Victimhood and Hatred of Others Can Destroy Muslims Themselves

The following article from Pakistan’s Urdu Press reveals how paranoia, victimhood and hatred of other religious communities are being promoted among Muslims in Pakistan. Sadly, a similar situation prevails in India’s Urdu press too.

Regardless of the deeds or misdeeds of other communities, paranoia and victimhood should be known to be self-fulfilling prophecies.

The depth of hatred revealed in this article, for instance, towards Jews is a common phenomenon among Muslims. Blaming them for the misdeeds of Zionists and the state of Israel is like blaming the entire Muslim community for the misdeeds of Islamists. Hating them or, for that matter, anyone else, and calling them unholy or dirty and invoking Islam’s sanction for this ill-feeling is an injustice towards and betrayal of our commitment to Islam and its pluralism.

Quoting the holy Quran’s verses meant for a certain period in history and as guidance for a certain situation in the infancy of Islam when the very survival of the few followers of Islam was in danger and treating them as universal exhortation amounts to vilification of Islam and Mohammad (saw). I wonder if there is some way mainstream Muslims can have a dialogue with hate-mongering Islamists in our midst and convince them to mend their ways in the interest of our religion and the world Muslim community which is facing myriad problems because of their conduct and approach. — Editor, New Age Islam

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Muslims will have to Identify Their Common Enemy

By Syed Azhar Husain Kazmi

Colonial powers have once again become active with all their might to wipe out Islam from existence. After capturing power in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait, colonial powers are dreaming of colonising Iran. In more than fifty Islamic countries Iran is the only one where there is no sign of colonial slavery.

Since the successful Islamic revolution of Iran, all anti-Islam countries have been striving to bring an end to this powerful Islamic nation. As Iran did not kneel down to their threats and conspiracies they are trying to pin it down with economic restrictions. Iran got a good opportunity of being self-sufficient because of these restrictions. Colonial powers are vexed to see Iran’s national pride and their courage and belief on God.

During the last 30 years these colonial powers played the dirty game of making Muslim countries fight among themselves.  The Muslim countries fell in this trap. Muslim countries are taking assistance of Islam’s biggest enemy America to fight their own brothers in Islam. And more so, they take pride in this perfidy. Enemies are busy trying novel ideas for dominating Islamic countries whereas Muslim rulers are engrossed in their comfort.

America and its allies have started a new chapter of enmity among the Muslim countries.  Iran’s growing power is being used as an excuse for creating fear in the minds of Muslim rulers and specially the Saudi Arabian administration. America has brought Saudi Arabia’s Sunnism against Iran’s Shiaism and has achieved many of its objectives. America frightened many Muslim countries, particularly Saudi Arabia and sold them arms worth billions of dollars. It created a good market for the sale of its arms manufacturing companies, on the one hand and on the other brought them under its influence. Not long ago, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and UAE had signed an agreement of purchasing arms and weapons worth 123 billion dollars from America so that Iran could be stopped from its nuclear program.

Saudi Arabia is one such Muslim country in the Islamic world which does not wish to get rid of American slavery at any cost.

No Arab country could muster enough courage to support the oppressed Afghan Muslims, after America attacked it on the pretext of 9/11 and massacred hundreds of thousands of them.

Saudi King shocked the entire Muslim world by offering one billion dollars to American President Bush in order to compensate for the lives lost in the 9/11 incident. More shocking than this is that President Bush did not accept this amount and refused to meet the King. Then the Saudi King had to incur the cost of spending another one billion dollar on President’s emissaries and friends to persuade Bush to accept the ‘gift’.

When Saddam attacked Kuwait on America’s hint Saudi Arabia took US assistance to provide the Jews an opportunity to desecrate the pious land of Iraq. Saudi Arabia is busy in isolating Iran, accusing it to be responsible for the sectarian killings in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria. By acting on the conspiracy theory of America it is performing the duties of a slave.

Muslims are in danger of losing their own identity because of their infighting at a time when they should have united to counter the threats of the enemies of Islam. Those Muslim rulers who do not understand the implications of the present world order have sold their self respect to America for the sake of their own safety.

America has devised a new policy of trampling down Muslims after the failure of its previous strategies.

America’s final plan is to make Hizbullah and Iran fight with the Arab Muslims. To achieve this objective it is cunningly playing the game of making Shias of the world fight against Ahle-Sunnat and Wahhabism on the pretext of revenge for Shias of Bahrain. America wishes Saudi army to kill Shias in Bahrain, on the one hand and on the other wishes Hizbullah and Iran to come to war in their defence. Very brutal and aggressive steps will be taken against Shias of Bahrain so that Iran has no option but to join the battle with Arabs. In such a scenario American slaves like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and UAE will be bound to fight Iran directly.

Saudi Arab has already sent its army with ultra modern and sophisticated weapons mounted on armoured vehicles to massacre innocent Muslims of Bahrain. Colonial powers are of the opinion that Iran’s religious emotion will get inflamed and they will come to the battlefield against Saudi army and Bahrain government. And thus a massacre of Muslims by Muslims will start.

Anti-Islam countries are facing a wave of anxiety because of Iran’s practical thinking. Iran did not fight Saudi forces to counter the mayhem created in Bahrain by the colonial forces.  The Muslim countries who are U S puppets, have since the very beginning been against any kind of Islamic revolution and have been busy in making it unsuccessful. When they failed they became hostile towards Iran’s Islamic revolution with the help of their master, the United States.

Iran has taken the right path in the prevailing circumstances which America has created through its devilish designs. The situation would have been quite different had Iran not tackled Bahrain’s problems diplomatically. Had Iran joined the fight with Saudi Arabia and other Arab states, it would have simply fallen in the American trap.

America will never attack Iran on its own. It will keep trying to reach its goal through making the Muslim countries fight each other.

Political analysts think that Arab slaves of America will not like to see peace in Syria at any cost. Saudi Arabia and Turkey have mutually prepared a strategy to overthrow Basher-al-Assad’s government in Syria. America and Saudi Arabia have almost got their wish of establishing a puppet government there. For the achievement of its goal, Saudi government is supplying arms and weapons to the rebels and fanning civil war to force Assad government to step down.

Syria is being punished because it does not ditto Israel’s cruel and repressive policies and for being eager to have good relations with Iran.

It is the same deceitful America which got Saddam ready to attack Kuwait and Iran with a dream of ruling both of them. Saddam’s attack on Kuwait just after his battle with Iran sent a wave of shock all over the world. Saddam remained a hero of illiterate and communal Muslims for a decade and kept massacring his innocent brothers in Islam. Under a pre-planned strategy America sent its army to Kuwait at the time of attack on Iraq so that it could befool the Islamic world and take them under its control. After getting unsuccessful in influencing Iran in any way it has played another devilish game. As per the new strategy, after getting rid of present Syrian government, America will inflame different kinds of communal and tribal strife in Pakistan. To achieve their goal they have already started targeting Shias in Balochistan, so that they get themselves engaged in Pakistan politics and forget about Iran. America is afraid of Shias and Baloch starting to favour of Iran. Balochis’ presence on Pakistan-Iran border in a big number is a headache for America as it thinks Pakistani Baloch may come to the rescue of Iranian Balochis. Hence communal strife in Pakistan against Shias. In the near future Baloch and Pathans may also join battle with each other.

America which has been killing two birds with one stone is now getting ready to kill four birds with one stone. It is waiting for the moment when it will be able to divide Pakistan in small parts and take all of them under its wings.

The entire Islamic world at the moment is like a slave to America. No country can take any step without its permission. Muslims make marginal issuers a question of their ego and try to impose their own views on other communities.  This is what America takes advantage of. It turns these ideological differences into a weapon of communal strife and sectarian violence. And Muslims do not even realise it.

Muslims take theoretical differences as ‘Kufr’ and declare them anti-Islam and start sectarian violence and killings. Muslim world has still not tried to understand how its common enemy is achieving its goal. We do not even know who our ‘enemy’ is. Until and unless we identify our common enemy, we will remain helpless. Muslim world should have been united and under the prevailing circumstances should have fulfilled their duties with self respect, keeping their Islamic identity intact. But all the Muslim countries kept taking help from anti-Islam nations to keep their governments safe. As a result, almost every country is under America’s obligations.

So called Muslim leaders like Colonel Gaddafi, Saddam Husain, Hosni Mubarak, Zia-ul-Haque, Osama bin Laden and Reza Shah Pahlavi kept ignoring the Muslim world and their Islamic duties for the sake of their personal gains. Everyone, be it politicians of Muslim countries, Ulama, labourers, farmers, businessmen or a bureaucrat, every Muslim is communal and sectarian.

I have reached to the conclusion that Pakistan gets affected of every kind of happening in the Islamic world the most, as the Pakistanis are more emotional. This keeps them surrounded with turbulent circumstances. It is providing the colonial forces to use Pakistan as a laboratory of communal and sectarian violence. It is sowing seeds of hatred among us. America has since the very beginning been trying to make Pakistan its military base against Iran. Having failed in this endeavour in the face of public reaction, it is now trying to break it into pieces. It is our united duty to see that America does not succeed in all its evil designs. We should always keep Afghanistan and Iraq in our minds as an example.

Delhi High Court Legalizes Child Marriage for Muslim Children

Indian court ruling on marriage age of Muslim girls disturbing: activists

Women organisations have expressed concern over a Delhi High Court upholding the marriage of a 15-year-old Muslim girl, quoting Mohammedan law on marriage in June 2012.

The court has held the marriage of a minor girl valid, while ruling that a Muslim girl could marry a person of her choice at the age of 15 years if she has attained puberty.

Citing concerns, general secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women Annie Raja said: “This is disturbing because one of the reasons for India’s high maternal mortality is early marriage. This will also prevent the girls from enjoying their Constitutional rights like Right to Education.”

While strongly arguing for one’s right to choose one’s life partner, Raja said the existing law on marriage age should be universally applied.

Sudha Sundararaman, the general secretary of All India Democratic Women’s Association echoed this view. “When it is a question of rights of minor, we are for equal law and equal rights across the board.”

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board welcomed the decision. Hyderabad-based functionary of the law board, AR Qureishi, said Islamic laws prohibit child marriage and deem a girl who has attained puberty to be fit for marital life. “This is a correct interpretation of Muslim personal law. However, since social realities have changed, most Muslim girls marry at a much later age.”

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/HC-ruling-on-marriage-age-of-Muslim-girl-disturbing-activists/Article1-867047.aspx

Is Hijab Liberating & Empowering?

The Hijab has Liberated Me from Society’s Expectations of Women

By Nadiya Takolia

Wearing the hijab doesn’t have to be about religious dedication. For me, it is political, feminist and empowering

When you think of the hijab, you probably don’t think “political”. Or “independent”. Or “empowered”. Feminist? Certainly not – feminism is far better known for burnt bras and slut-walks than headscarves.

There is much misunderstanding about how women relate to their hijab. Some, of course, choose the head cover for religious reasons, others for culture or even fashion.

But in a society where a woman’s value seems focused on her sexual charms, some wear it explicitly as a feminist statement asserting an alternative mode of female empowerment. Politics, not religion, is the motivator here. I am one of these women.

Wearing the hijab was not something I deliberately set out to do. It was something I unexpectedly stumbled upon as a 20 something undergraduate, reading feminist literature and researching stories of women’s lives in the sex industry. From perfume and clothes ads to children’s dolls and X Factor finals, you don’t need to go far to see that the woman/sex combination is everywhere.

It makes many of us feel like a pawn in society’s beauty game – ensuring that gloss in my hair, the glow in my face and trying to attain that (non-existent) perfect figure.

Subconsciously, I tried to avoid these demands – wearing a hat to fix a bad-hair day, sunglasses and specs to disguise a lack of makeup, baggy clothes to disguise my figure. It was an endless and tiresome effort to please everyone else.

Sure the hijab was not the only way to express my feelings and frustrations; but knowing that our interpretation of liberal culture embraces, if not encourages, uncovering, I decided to reject what society expected me to do, and cover up.

It was not a decision I made overnight. It took several months of agonising over the pros and cons – will it change the way others treat me? Will I get hot in a headscarf? Is it possible, at all costs to avoid the all-black look?

I rarely discussed the decision with others – I wanted it to be mine and mine alone. Like so many women, my main reservation was the discrimination I might face. Things like looking for a job, or socialising and being judged by others based on prejudices about Muslim women (because now I would look like one) before they even got a chance to know me. And not just the prejudices of non-Muslims, but also the simplistic assumptions of Muslims who think that a veiled woman is a holier woman.

The first day I stepped out in a hijab, I took a deep breath and decided my attitude would be “I don’t give a damn about what you think”. The reaction was mixed. One friend joked that I was officially a “fundamentalist”. Extended family showered me with graces of “mashallah”, perhaps under the impression that I was now more devout. Some, to my surprise (and joy), didn’t bat an eyelid. I was grateful because, ultimately, I firmly believe that a woman’s dress should not determine how others treat, judge or respect her.

I do not believe that the hair in itself is that important; this is not about protection from men’s lusts. It is me telling the world that my femininity is not available for public consumption. I am taking control of it, and I don’t want to be part of a system that reduces and demeans women. Behind this exterior I am a person – and it is this person for which I want to be known.

Wearing the hijab has given me a new consciousness of this. Though my mode of expression may appear Islamic, and my experiences carry a spiritual dimension, there is no theological monopoly on women’s empowerment; I really believe that a non-Muslim woman could do this if she chose to. My motivations have been explicitly political, and my experiences human.

The result has been refreshing. In a world as diverse and changing as our own, the hijab means a multitude of things to the many women who choose to wear it. I speak as a woman who just happens to come from the Islamic faith, and for me the hijab is political, feminist and empowering. This dimension is increasingly important for many women who choose to wear it; it’s a shame it is understood by so few.

Source: The Guardian, UK

Will the Indian Muslims End up Like the Pakistanis?

Will Indian Muslims Engage in Sectarian Bloodshed as do Pakistanis?

By Asghar Ansari

In the light of the verses from Quran, sayings of the Prophet and Imame Karam’s explanations it is clear that killing innocent citizens in terror attacks is not only against the teachings of Islam but the greatest sin in Islam

In Shariah laws, it has been characterised as rebellion, collective murder of humanity and ‘fasad fil ardh’.

The Indian Muslims should understand this fact as we have neighbours of different religions and sects and we are well mixed in the society. We are partners in business. We speak one language. We never forbid anyone from meeting anyone.

This brotherhood is difficult to understand for Takfiri countries like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan etc.

These are Muslim countries that know nothing about the faith, religion and views of other people. They take followers of all other religions as fodders of hell-fire.

Muslim society of these countries is heading towards the ‘Dark Ages’ of 5th to 8th centuries, like the European communities. As, the community, church and all the social organisations were in the hands of church in the Dark Ages, everything related to social organisation of Islamic society has gone in the hands of Maulvis. Its effect has started showing in India also.

Even the mosques are not safe in the hands of organisations like Taliban, Tahreek-e-Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Lashkar Jhangvi, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Al Shabab, Boko Haram, Nesar-ul-Islam, Ansar-ul-Asna, Asbat-ulAnsar, Jamiat-ul-Ansar, Jundallah, Hizb-ul-Tahreer, Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami, Jamaat-ul-Fuqra, Jama-al-Islamiyah and many more organisations like these which are on a killing spree of human beings. These are the organisations which are busy in murdering in the name of Islam. For them all other Muslims except the followers of their ideals and views are ‘non-believers’.

These said organisations call themselves followers of Islam and are claim to be establishing an Islamic society.  These organisations think making followers of other religion and views embrace their version of Islam is the greatest of virtue and for this virtuous deed they spill human blood as and where they wish.

They claim to be representatives of a divine sect. To them all the followers of Ahl-e-Bait are non-believers. They have shocking criteria of ‘kufr’. They take Shias as ‘wajib-ul-quatl’ (deserving to be killed). Sects like Ahl-e-Sunnat too are not safe in their bloodied hands. For them one who shaves his beard and the one who helps him in it are also ‘wajib-ul-quatl’. Hundreds of barbers were killed in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtukhnwa, Para Chinar, Peshawar and Swat and their shops were gutted. For them the criterion of being a Muslim is a beard. As long as the beard as big as in their view a Momin’s beard should be. For them one who does not have beard is not a Muslim.

Not very long ago a Fatwa against Imam Bukhari, the Imam of Shahi Masjid, Delhi, was delivered as his beard is not up to their standard for an Imam.

The list of black deeds of these organisations is increasing every day with the continuing bloodshed of Muslims.

Aalim-e-Deen Tahir-ul-Quadri who keeps issuing fatwas against terrorism had come to India.

Our Urdu media and Muslim organisations did not only ignore his visit but tried to sabotage it.

And on the other hands crores of rupees were wasted on advertising of Imam of Haram Sharif. He was projected as if there is no other personality more respectable in Islam than him.

If America and Israel can be blamed to defame Islam in the name of terrorism, the above-mentioned organisations, their followers and members are more responsible than them. What kind of Jihad are they engaged in that everywhere Muslims are being killed? In Islamic world calling ‘wajib-ul-quatl’ to others has become a way of life. ‘Apostates’ and ‘blasphemers’ were already ‘wajib-ul-quatl’, now even those are ‘wajib-ul-quatl’ who do not accept the greatness of companions of the Prophet.

Those Islamic institutions which are running big madarsas and institutions in the name of the promotion of Islam are greater culprits than these killer organisations. They are producing such a society where the Muslim youth is engulfed in extremism and anger rather than developing qualities of patience and perseverance. This situation is increasing with every passing day.

Muslim youth is becoming captive of a particular mental block which is taking them away from their surroundings and this mental block is proving to be a recruiting ground of terror organisations.

Exactly the same situation can be seen evolving in the Indian Muslim community. This is dangerous.

If this chronic disease is not stopped at the earliest from spreading further, India could be engulfed in militancy just like Pakistan.

Asghar Ansari is Group Editor at UNN Media Pvt Ltd.