Iran’s Navy on Friday took the delivery of the first indigenously designed and developed guided missile destroyer Jamaran in the presence of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

The Mowdge Class vessel has a displacement of around 1,420 tonnes and is equipped with modern radars and electronic warfare capabilities.

Jamaran, a multi-mission destroyer, can carry 120-140 personnel on board and is armed with a variety of anti-ship and surface-to-air missiles.

It has a top speed of up to 30 knots and has a helipad. It also features highly advanced anti-aircraft, anti-surface and anti-subsurface systems.

The vessel has also been equipped with torpedoes and modern naval cannons. The destroyer’s launch marks a major technological leap for Iran’s naval industries.

Taliban terrorists, under the influence of extremist Wahhabism’s ideology of Al-Qaeda, shot dead 5 Shia youths and injured scores of others near Parachinar Kurram Agency, according to Shiite News reports on Saturday.
The terrorists armed with heavy weapons targeted Shia youths in Dilasa hamlet of Baghdi area where they had established a safe heaven for a long time. Baghdi area is some 15 kilometres from Parachinar.
The Kurram Agency, a federally administered tribal area (FATA) of Pakistan makes borders with Afghanistan.
Soon after Pakistani Taliban killed Shia youths in target shootings, Afghan Taliban launched heavy missile attacks on Shia populace from numerous directions. The missile attacks seemed to be an organised campaign against Shia Muslims.
However, in a just reaction to the ferocious attacks, Shia Muslims also countered terrorist attacks. Reports had it that clashes between the Taliban terrorists and them had started on Friday and continued intermittently on Saturday.
Local analysts were of the views that foreign occupation forces (U.S.-led ISAF and NATO forces) wanted lawlessness in the area because Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorists give justification for their long stay in Afghanistan and its bordering areas with Pakistan.
An official of a ruling party of Pakistan had earlier disclosed that Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorists could have been blocked from reaching near Kurram Agency but they were always allowed to flee towards Kurram Agency. He said that military operation should target the terrorists before they could hit civilians.
“Why routes leading to Kurram are not cleared? Why terrorists are allowed to freely move and encircle the Kurram Agency,” he asked.
Interestingly, routes leading from Kurram Agency to Afghanistan are relatively more secure for travelling as compared to the routes leading to Pakistani territories.
Taliban terrorists had put Kurram Agency under siege in March/April 2007 and since then it remained under siege. On Shia Muslims protest, government had formulated a policy for protection of the convoys going to Parachinar but security forces also failed to protect the convoys.
A vast majority of Pakistanis call war on terrorism and insurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan a “fixed match” between the U.S.-led allies and Taliban-AlQaeda terrorists. Neither the 40-plus U.S.-led forces defeat terrorists’ altogether since their war started in late 2001 and now the Taliban-AlQaeda cause colossal losses to their combatant enemies. Non-combatant persons, children, women and elderly males are killed in hundreds and thousands. But, neither terrorists nor the foreign forces have so far been killed in dozens, let alone hundreds.

The Crime Investigation Department (CID) Police Karachi has arrested a shia man Hammad Riaz Naqvi from the premises of the City court allegedly involved in the killing of outlawed terrorist organization Chief Azam Tariq.

Chief of outlawed religious outfit Azam Tariq was killed by the unknown people in the year of 2003 near at toll plaza of Islamabad.

His murder FIR No 199/03 under Sections 427/109, 148/149, 302/324, 67 ATA was registered at the Golra police station against the Hammad Naqvi and his accomplices.

Syed Hammad Riaz Naqvi, was arrested in the premises of the City Courts, Karachi when he went there for a hearing. Hammad, a resident of Malir, was arrested in different cases of sectarian violence in 2007; however he was bailed in 2009 and was currently facing several trials in the court. The accused man, who was declared an absconder by the court, was continuously attending the hearing of the court in Karachi.

The police official said that he was wanted by Islamabad’s Golra police and the CID in the murder case of outlawed religious outfit SSP Chief Azam Tariq. Sindh’s CID Investigations SP Mazhar Mashwani alleged that the accused was the most active member of the SMP.

“We assisted the Islamabad police and CID team that arrived in the city with the arrest warrant of the accused,” said SP Mashwani. “The accused would be produced in the court today (Saturday) for remand and then would be shifted to Islamabad for further investigation.”

According to the Shiite News Correspondent, Hammad Naqvi’s father Riaz Ahmed, wife and children have condemned his arrest at a press conference held at the Karachi Press Club and claimed that the Hammad is innocent person. They demanded of the authorities concern and the judiciary to take the immediate notice of the illegal arrest of Hammad Naqvi.

He recalled that police had also arrested him on 3rd March 2007 from his home but showed his arrest in a fake police encounter.

They said that Hammad was illegal arrested by the CID Police officials from the premises of court, when he went there for a hearing of his case.

They further said that they was filed a legal petition on the city court regarding the illegal detention of Hammad Riaz.

However, Judicial Magistrate Ubaid Ahmed Khan has issued the notices to CID officers on the application of illegal detention of Hammad Riaz filed by his father Riaz Ahmed

Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said that “the Resistance will not be affected by statements of critics because it represents a majority of the Lebanese,” according to a statement issued by Hezbollah on Friday.

According to  Shiite News Correspondent,Numerous Lebanese political figures criticized Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s speech on Tuesday during leader martyrs’ commemoration. Sheikh Qassem praised the role of the Resistance, saying it achieved many victories and achievements.

Sheikh Qassem vowed to those who want to know the future of Hezbollah’s resistance “to make it stronger and stronger until Israel fails to just think of attacking Lebanon.”

The Resistance will strengthen until the Israeli enemy no longer contemplates attacking Lebanon, he added. According to Sheikh Qassem, a balanced national defense strategy requires calm dialogue sessions instead of critical statements to the media. “If some want to discuss the defensive strategy through media outlets, we tell them that we will hear their screaming without answering them.”

“A reasonable defensive strategy requires calm sessions rather than ‘acrobatic’ media statements,” he added.

He warned that European passport holders could pose a danger to Lebanon, referring to the 11 Israeli agents—six of them holding British passports, three Irish, one French, and one German—believed by the Dubai police to have assassinated top Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Special measures to protect the Lebanese people should be taken as long as Israelis could sneak in Lebanon by using European passports, his eminence said.

Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami, throughout Tehran’s this week Friday Prayer sermons termed the epic registered through the presence of tens of millions of people throughout the rallies staged to mark the 31st anniversary of victory of the Islamic Revolution as the main victory of all.
According to Shiite News Correspondent,Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers Leader, Ayatollah Khatami thanked the glorious and eye-catching presence of the grand nation of Iran during these rallies, noting that people’s presence in rallies, marking the anniversary of victory of Islamic Revolution conveyed important messages. He noted that people through their glorious presence in these rallies showed they continuously support the sacred Islamic system, and will not separate from the Islamic establishment in the face of any ploy and deceit.
He underscored that Western states and their allies should know our people’s viewpoint toward the Islamic system is not political and is religious in nature.
Ayatollah Khatami added: “The Iranian nation considers the Islamic system as the platform of the sacred religion of Islam and supports the Islamic establishment till its last breath and last drop of blood.”
Ayatollah Khatami went on to say that the view of people toward the Leader is not solely political, while adding that another message conveyed by people’s glorious participation in February 11 rallies was renewal of their allegiance with the Founder of Islamic Republic of Iran late Imam Khomeini (May his soul rest in peace) and the ideals of martyrs. Ayatollah Khatami further pointed out that although a few are intent on claiming that in Islamic Iran there is no late Imam’s path, people believe the path of late Imam Khomeini (May his soul rest in peace) is perfectly transparent and is being led by the Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei

Notorious Wahhabi terrorists slaughtered a Shia youth Hamid Hussain at Sher-e-Yazdan Imam Baragah Orangi Town secotr 11, Near Irani Camp, Orangi Town in the limits of Mominabad police station.

According to the Shiite News Correspondent, Police and eyewitness said Hamid Hussain, 22, son of Abid Hussain, was the resident of same area and occasionally, he used to sleep in local Imambargah, Sher-e-Yazdan, situated at Raheem Shah Colony, Orangi Town, Sector 11.

The incident occurred in the night between Friday and Thursday, when Notorious Wahabi terrorists slaughtered the Shia Youth with knife and managed to flee to an unknown destination, the police added.

The people of the area alleged that this was the sectarian killing adding that terrorists of outlawed terrorists outfit Laskhar-e-Jhangvi and SSP were involved in the killing of Hamid Hussain.

People pointed out that the more than 45 persons belongs to the Shia Community of Orangi Town had been killed by the terrorists of outlawed terrorist organizations during the last ten years.

The funeral prayer of the martyred Shia youth was offered at Haideri Mosque Orangi Town after the Friday prayers. Large number of people attended the funeral prayers of Hamid Hussain while chanting the slogans of Labaik Ya Hussain (AS) and Yazidiat Murdabad.

The martyred Hamid Hussain was laid to rest at the local graveyard of Orangi Town.

No FIR has been yet registered as the family of the victim was busy with the burial rituals.