World Shia Leader: Iran’s enemies targeting Islam

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World Shia Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, says the enemies are targeting Islam and the Holy Qur’an to fight Iran.

In a Wednesday meeting with Basij youth, Imam Khamenei pointed to the 30-year animosity of arrogant powers toward the people of Iran and said, “The enemies pretend that their target is Iran but in reality they are targeting Islam and the Qur’an.”

“Because they have realized the source of the Iranian nation’s development, resilience and dignity is the religion of Islam, spirituality and the Qur’an.”

Imam Khamenei said the Iranian nation is a pioneer in the battle between the Muslim Ummah and hegemonic powers and it will increase its strength to advance without retreating or slowing down.

Ayatollah Khamanei said the Iranian nation is passing a dangerous turn in history, adding that “in the past 30 years we have passed parts of this fate-determining era but crossing these sensitive points is not yet over.”

Imam Khamenei added that the nation and its officials would continue their path with “wisdom, deliberation and solidarity.”

Imam Khamenei said certain individual claim that the Revolution has aged, is over and Imam Khomeini has been forgotten.

“These individuals, who were not necessarily the enemies of the Revolution from the beginning, were left wanting in the face of their egocentricity and materialistic motivations and succumbed to temptations of power and position.”

The Leader said these individuals have become empty on the inside and this is why they think the Revolution is over but this claim is a fraction of their “imagination and a hallucination.”

Imam Khamenei said Iranians would overcome the enemies and “reach the high peaks of progress and honor.”

Shias in Kuwait seek election boost-up

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KUWAIT CITY: Kuwaiti Shias are looking to boost their strength in parliament when the country goes to the ballot box on Saturday.

Under a new election system, the number of electoral districts has been cut from 25 to five, increasing the number of voters in each constituency five-fold and changing the geographic distribution of voters.

A Shia candidate Abdulwahed Khalfan expected Shia candidates to benefit from the new system.

In the past, two legislators were elected for each electoral district, and Shias were a majority in only two constituencies.

Now each constituency will elect 10 deputies. Shias constitute half the voters in one constituency and sizeable numbers in the remaining constituencies.

Pakistan Police Arrest 2 Men Planning to Kill Doctors, Shia Muslims

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The police have arrested two men on suspicion of being involved in the killings of doctors and Shia scholars. One of them is a repeat offender out on bail from jail.

In his first press conference since assuming office, chief of police Fayyaz Leghari announced that the men were caught in Orangi Town. “[One of them] was leading a group of terrorists and was not only involved in the target killings of doctors and Shia scholars but had also planned to attack Ahmedi places of worship,” said the CCPO at a press conference at the Central Police Office on Sunday.

The media had earlier reported that the arrests took place early Friday. The police have denied this.

The police identified the men as Naseem Haider alias ‘Firon’ and Asif Rasheed alias ‘Dunba’ and said they were related to the banned militant Lashkar-e-Jhangvi outfit.

They were booked in the murder cases of Maulana Ghulam Muhammad and Muhammad Hussain, for killing Dr Najm-ul-Hasan on Aug 17, Dr Syed Mehtab Hussain and a Shia man named Sheraz in March this year.

Leghari said that the pair had revealed during questioning that they had planned to attack Ahmedi sites before the by-elections in Orangi Town. An informer had tipped the police off that the men were on their way to Saleemabad to target another doctor. A team was dispatched. It found the men on a motorcycle (No KBP 8591) and flagged them down. “They did not stop and instead opened fire on the police who retaliated and arrested them,” said SP Khurram Waris, who headed the operation. The police claimed to have seized one Kalashinkov and two TT pistols from their possession.

This is not the first time that Naseem was arrested. He was in jail from 2003 to 2007 but was released on bail in all of the cases against him.

CCPO Leghari said that people involved in such crimes do not stop working for their organizations even after they are imprisoned and then released. “They do whatever they were doing before imprisonment,” he said, adding that his department was working in close collaboration with the registrar of the high court to ensure such criminals get justice.

“We are holding meetings on a monthly basis,” he said.

Target killing investigations

The CCPO said that they have divided target killings into four categories: Sectarian killings, ethnic killings, political killings and random killings. “The CID is looking after the sectarian target killings,” he said.

The department has appointed focal persons to investigate the other types of killings. So far this year, the CPO has recorded a total of 230 target killing and out them, according to Leghari, there have been arrests in 32 cases.

Shrine attack

The CCPO came to the press conference well prepared. He knew that the media would ask questions related to the Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine attack and other law and order matters. He had a grey file in his left hand and whenever someone asked him a question, he would take out the relevant colour-coded paper to answer.

“We have found some clues and with their help will soon identify the suicide bombers,” he said. He denied, however, that the perpetrators of the attack would benefit if any information leaked out.

Orangi town by-election

The chief of police said that the police have planned security for the Oct 17 by-election in Orangi Town. This seat fell vacant after Muttahida Qaumi Movement MPA Raza Haider was murdered. “We have divided the constituency into eight zones,” said the CCPO, adding that a detailed plan would later be issued to the media.

AI: Bahraini Shias at risk of torture

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JNN 11.10.10 Amnesty International says more than 200 people, arrested as part of a clampdown against Shia political opposition in Bahrain, are at the risk of being tortured.

Around 250 individuals in Bahrain, who are believed to have been detained, are at risk of torture, the group said in a statement on Monday.

The detentions come ahead of the parliamentary elections on October 23.

Human Rights Watch also accused Bahrain of restricting the travel of rights activists to prevent them from talking about the arrest of opposition members.

The Sunni-dominated government has intensified the crackdown against the Shia population, arresting dozens of opposition figures on the allegation of planning to topple the government.

“There is a continuous war against all Shias who are critics of the government,” Nabeel Rajab, the head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, earlier told Press TV.

Many of the opposition detainees — including religious figures — were tortured and sexually assaulted, he said.

The population of Bahrain is predominantly Shia. However, the majority group has long complained of being discriminated against by the Sunni-dominated government in obtaining jobs and receiving services.

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