Saudi Wahhabis remove banners and signs of Imam Hussain (A.S)

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On 2 January 2010 Saudi Wahhabi authorities have pulled down posters of the third Shia Imam in the coastal city of al-Qatif, which hosts the country’s largest community of Shia Muslims.

Municipality staff escorted by a security team and a police convoy removed all Hussaini signs and banners during the morning hours when the city’s residents were at work or school, leaving most streets fairly clear of any bystanders, then insensibility burned them in front of people .

The posters displayed Hadith (Arabic for narrations) of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) about Imam Hussein (AS), as well as quotes by the Imam himself.

The posters had been put up in al-Qatif city and the road to al-Awamiyah, a town situated further south in the county.

In Saudi Arabia , any practices contrary to the Wahabi sect, are discouraged. The Government prohibits Shia public processions during the Islamic month of Muharram in the Shia cities as Dammam and al-Ahsa and restricts them in some cities as Qatif .

It is worth mentioning that it is not the first time in which the Saudi regime removed all Hussaini banners and signs , where on 26th of December 2009 the security authorities removed all banners and signs fixed on the streets of the town of Rumaila in al-Ahsa.

Pakistani Shia Women Demands Arrest of Ashura day bombing masterminds+ Pic

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QUETTA, January 03rd, 2010:Shia women in Quetta have demanded of the Sindh government to impartially probe into Ashura day bombing and expose the elements behind the inhuman act.

 

QUETTA, January 03rd, 2010:Shia women in Quetta have demanded of the Sindh government to impartially probe into Ashura day bombing and expose the elements behind the inhuman act.

Speaking at a press conference in Hazara Nichari Imambargah, they criticized the Sindh government and its law enforcement agencies for their failure to check the gory incident and said the poor performance of Sindh government as well as federal government can judged from the fact that they could not ascertain the actual cause of the blast even after a week of the incident.

They categorically stated that the Ashura procession participants were not involved in arson and other violence which erupted after the blast on M.A Jinnah Road in Karachi as they were busy in shifting their bodies and injured to hospitals. They demanded of the Sindh government to release all mourners of Hazrat Imam Hussain (A.S) who have arrested in this connection.

They also demanded payment of compensation to legal heirs of the victims who have fallen prey to sectarian target killings.

Later, Quran Khuwani and Majlis were also held in the imambargah Hazara Nichari wherein special prayers were offered for departed souls of the Karachi blast martyrs.

World Shia Leader condolence message to demise of Ayatollah Ali Safi Golpaygani

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Ayatollah Khamenei offered his condolences in a message to Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani the demise of his brother, Ayatollah Ali Safi.

 

Ayatollah Khamenei offered his condolences in a message to Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani the demise of his brother, Ayatollah Ali Safi.

Grand Ayatollah  Haj Shaikh Lotfollah Safi ;

“I condolence the demise of Ayatollah Ali Safi to you, his survivers and his companions, especially the believers of Golpaygan.
 
The senior jurisprudent Mr. Ali Safi, who was one of the outstanding students of Ayatollah Boroujerdi, spent his valuable life at the service of science and religion.

We hope bestow mercy and forgiveness on him.”

Iran bans contact with 60 groups including BBC, HRW

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TEHRAN: Iran has banned its citizens from having contact with 60 organisations including the BBC, Human Rights Watch and opposition website Rahesabz as well as US-funded broadcasters, state media have reported.

The deputy intelligence minister in charge of external affairs said that the 60 blacklisted groups were suspected of being involved in efforts by Western governments to topple the Islamic regime as part of a “soft war” and that it was an offence to communicate with them.

“Any kind of contact by individuals or legal entities with those groups involved in the soft war is illegal and prohibited,” state media quoted the deputy minister as saying on Monday without giving his name.

The blacklisted organisations also included US government-funded Voice of America and Radio Farda as well as US-based pro-monarchist satellite channels, Israeli public radio and the outlawed rebel People’s Mujahedeen.

The deputy minister also called on the public to avoid “irregular contacts with embassies or foreign nationals or centres linked to them”.

Karachi blast: Bomb planted in sacred papers’ box

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KARACHI: The chief of the Investigative Committee, probing the Karachi incident, Shafqat Malik has submitted the report to the IG Sindh.

According to the report, Karachi Ashura blast was not a suicide attack.

Talking to Geo News in Peshawar, AIG Bomb Disposal Squad Shafqat Malik said after examining the evidence recovered from the site of the blast, it is established that the Karachi blast was not a suicide attack but a 12 to 15 kilogram explosives was planted in a box meant for keeping sacred papers.

The bomb was exploded with the help of remote controlled device, he added.

Malik further said initial investigation revealed that the blast doest not seem to have the connection with the group carrying out blasts in the country but a new group is behind the Karachi Ashura blast, which seems to have experience of such activities.

“It is a new trend. Previously, vehicles were being used for such attacks but Karachi blast was carried out through a planted bomb, which was exploded through remote controlled device at a time when the Ashura procession was crossing the blast site,” he said.

Malik chairs high-level sitting over Karachi mayhem

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ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has chaired a high-level meeting over the law and order situation in Sindh province especially in metropolis city of Karachi here in Islamabad on Monday morning, Geo news reported.

According to sources, Federal Secretary for Interior Affairs, the heads of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC), Chief Secretary of Sindh, IG and Director General (DG) Rangers also attended the meeting.

At the beginning of the meeting, the attendees offered prays for the martyrs of Karachi debacle, following which, the investigation report over the Karachi terrorism, occurred after bomb blast on Ashura procession, was also submitted from investigation agencies and analysis over various evidences in regard to incident were tabled before meeting, sources privy to interior ministry claimed.

Meeting also mulled over the measures to thwart such tragedies in future and discussed steps necessary to be taken to bring to justice, the anti-state elements that are involved in plotting such attacks, sources added.