JNN 26.10.10 Karachi : Jafaria Allilance Pakistan ‘s complete leadership in the presence of Allama Abbas Kumaili , Molana Hussain Masoodi , Furqan Haider Abdi , Nisar Qalandari , Salman Mujtaba & Shabbar Raza, in there Press conference have pointed out Major security lapses at the Mazar of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar at Sehwan , As the enemies of Pakistan and Islam , the banned Outfits like Sipah e Sahaba Pakistan, Tehrik e Taliban , Jundullah, Lashkar e Jhangvi , and similar outfits have been targeting  the Mazarat of Aulia Allah’s , As already 3 Mazarat , namely Data Darbar (Lahore ) , Mazar e Abdullah Shah Ghazi (Karachi ) , Mazar e Baba Fareed ud din Shakar Ganj , have already been bombed by these terrorist organisations. So extra measure should be taken to prevent any further such incidents at the holy premises of Mazarat of Aulia Allah’s

Leadership pointed out that when ever any incident is occured , for a couple of days the Security and other Government Departments are seen active and just after few days every thing is forgotten , and the same lapse are seen at the same points , were these tragic and horrible incidents have already occured, and because of these irresponsible attitude of the government departments the evil designs of enemies of Pakistan and Islam have boosted so much that they are challenging the faithful against there evil beliefs ‘

Government should take immediate action and replace the non working walk through gates from sehwan Lal Shahbaz Qalandar ‘s Mazar , before any untoward incident may happen , so it can be prevented , and the casualty can be saved before it happens.

World Shia Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has met with a number of top religious figures during his visit to the holy city of Qom in central Iran.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has met with a number of top religious figures during his visit to the holy city of Qom in central Iran.

The Leader, who is on a 9-day tour of the city, sat down with Grand Ayatollahs Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani, Hossein Nouri Hamedani, Naser Makarem Shirazi, Mousa Shobeiri Zanjani, Jafar Sobhani and Abdollah Javadi Amoli.

Imam Khamenei also visited the families of three martyrs of the 1980-1988 Iraqi imposed war on Iran late Thursday, and paid tribute to the fallen men as well as their next of kin. He offered prayers to their souls and prayed to God to grant their families patience and forbearance.

The Imam arrived in Qom on Tuesday and received a rapturous welcome upon his arrival. Thousands of people, including foreigners studying at Qom’s theology schools, poured into the streets to welcome him.

Imam Khamenei also addressed tens of thousands of clerics and students of the Qom Islamic Seminary early on Thursday.

Sheikh Ali Salman, the secretary general of the Society of National Islamic Unity, which is considered the principal Shi’ite organization in Bahrain, has demanded that the government authority in the country not be monopolized by the ruling family.

He says that he would like to see someone from outside that family to become prime minister.

In an election rally for the Bahraini parliament, Salman declared: “We seek, through a long-term program, that one day, the government will be in the hands of the children of the people.”

The Al-Khalifa family has ruled Bahrain since 1783.

JNN 17.10.10 DALLAS: Former president General (retd)  Pervaiz Musharaf has said that those who were killed in Islamabad’s Lal Masjid were terrorists and insisted that no woman was killed during that operation, adding that out of 150 only 94 terrorists, including two foreign nationals, were killed in the July 2007 encounter.

The former president was  addressing a Public meeting of All Pakistan Muslim League in Dallas on Saturday. The former general dwelt at length on Pakistan’s political situation and the issues of Dr Qadeer and Taliban.

Musharraf clarified that he had never apologised for the Lal Masjid episode. According to him, Lal Masjid was a “den of terrorists” and as a head of state it was his duty to restore the writ of the state. He said that the government tried its best to settle the Masjid issue peacefully. “We also invited the Imam of Ka’aba for mediation, but all in vain. Since, we never wanted to turn Pakistan into a Taliban state, we took action”.

“I have apologised on the issue of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), which I had to accept on the advice of my political advisers.”

The former president said that when he was in uniform, people called him a dictator. Pointing at himself, he said that “  Dictatorship lies in the brain, and it is a mindset and uniform has got nothing to do with it”.

Referring to Dr Qadeer’s confession, the former dictator termed the nuclear scientist “ A Liar”, adding that Dr Qadeer “sold” nuclear secrets to three countries and he (Musharraf) had valid proof.

Denying that his government had harassed the nuclear scientist, he said that whatever Dr Qadeer had said on television he had done so voluntarily and he was not forced to do so, said Musharraf.

“I saved Dr Qadeer because he is a national hero, and I also consider him national hero,” he said, adding: “It is also a fact that he (Qadeer) made mistakes.”

The public meeting was also addressed by Coordinator of APML’s Dallas coordinator Javed Siddiqui. As many as 500 people attended the public meeting.

Earlier, General Musharraf was received by party leaders Ameer Sukhano, Dr Hassan, Dr Tasnim Agha, Naeem, Nadeem Akhter Azeem Siddiqui Tanvir Malik, Dr Arjumand, Khalil Qureshi Muhammad Ali Siddiqui, Nadem Chaudhry and others.

JNN 17.10.10 A media report says that US intelligence officials were aware of plans to attack Mumbai years before the terrorist incident killed more than 170 people in India’s main port city in 2008.

A report published by the Washington Post on Wednesday said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had been tipped off in 2005 about an American national, who masterminded attacks on the Indian financial hub three years later.

The man identified as David Coleman Headley underwent intensive training with banned militant groups in Pakistan, the report added.

Based on the report, Headley’s wife told FBI agents that her husband was in close contact with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the group blamed by India for the deadly attacks on Mumbai.

The report also says Headley went to Mumbai five times to scout landmark locations and targets for the attack on the city.

The report comes months after the Pakistani interior ministry suggested that the Mumbai attack were planned outside Pakistan.

“An initial probe conducted by a three-member team set up by the Interior Ministry has concluded that the 26/11 attacks were planned outside Pakistan,” Pakistan’s Dawn News quoted unnamed sources as saying in 2009.

The British intelligence service, MI5, however, had earlier said that it had uncovered links between the terrorists involved in the Mumbai attacks and UK nationals.

“We have looked at individuals’ communications, where they have been and so on and found they have got connections with most countries including the UK…,” said MI5 Director General Jonathan Evans in early January 2009.

Pakistan has rejected the involvement of its government in the attacks, saying that “non-state actors” were involved in the incident.

Relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors have soured since the incident.

Whlie even in previous reports of UK based newspapers it was said that the Attacker were not Pakistani , but they were from Britian and were even trained by British Intelligence agencies.

As per the reports published in the following Papers on Saturday, November 29, 2008

Both the  Daily Express  and the Daily Star assure their readers that British citizens were involved in the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Under the headline”Brit terror nuts shoot girl, 13, dead” the Starreports:

“The Mumbai massacre that left more than 150 people dead was carried out by Brits, it emerged last night. Police from the UK and India are probing claims that up to seven of the assassins, whose victims included a 13-year-old girl, travelled from the UK.

“Indian security forces said at least two of the captured terrorists were British-born Pakistanis, while the total number could be as many as seven. In a sick twist, they are thought to have possible links to Yorkshire towns where the 7/7 outrages were plotted.

“Last night UK police were using hi-tech computer software to link images of up to 25 gunmen to known Islamic fanatics.”

Read on, however, and you find Gordon Brown quoted as saying: “At no point has the Prime Minister of India suggested to me there is evidence at this stage of any terrorist of British origins.” And an unnamed security source states that there is “no specific information” linking suspects to the UK.

Which, of course, doesn’t prevent the Star and Express using this tragedy to publish scaremongering headlines as part of their propaganda campaign against the UK’s Muslim communities.

Nor is this malicious reporting restricted to Richard Desmond’s rags. The Daily Mirror  goes with “Seven Mumbai gunmen are from ‘Leeds and Hartlepool'”, while the Independent  takes the opportunity to run a story entitled “British Muslims have become a mainstay of the global ‘jihad'”.

Some 23 activists arrested as part of a clampdown on Shia political opposition in Bahrain have been charged with “terrorism and conspiring against the government.”

The men will face trial on October 28 on the charge of “spreading false information and forming an illegal group,” said Prosecutor General Abdul-Rahman al-Sayed on Wednesday.

The Shia activists could face sentences as harsh as life imprisonment if convicted.

Bahrain’s Sunni-dominated government has intensified its crackdown on the country’s majority Shia population, arresting dozens of opposition figures on the allegation of planning to topple the Bahraini government.

Amnesty International says more than 250 people, believed to be in detention, are at the risk of being tortured.

The detentions come ahead of the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections on October 23.

Human Rights Watch has also accused Bahrain of restricting movement and travel of human rights activists in an effort to prevent them from spreading the word about the arrest of opposition members.

“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 said on Monday.

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

I have followed the events in Bahrain over the past two months and have been shocked by the news that our brothers are ill-treated in prisons.

We in the Shia Islamic Movement and indeed the entire Muslims in Nigeria express our solidarity with these brothers, especially the religious scholars like Sheikh Mohammad Habib Al Miqdad, Sheikh Saeed Al Nouri, Sheikh Mirza Al Mahroos, Sheikh Abdul Hadi Al Makhowdar and Sayyed Aqeel Al Sari.

The reports by the international human rights bodies like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have caused enormous anxiety among Muslims in Nigeria. These acts are crimes and the perpetrators have committed crimes against humanity.

It is also absurd to hear the withdrawal of the Bahraini nationality from Ayatullah Sheikh Hussain Najati and his family. He is the representative of Grand Ayatullah Sayyed Ali Al Sistani and this is an act of disrespect to the religious leadership.

We stand shoulder to shoulder with our Muslim brothers in Bahrain and call on the Government of Bahrain to stop its aggression against its own people and respect their rights.

We call for the following:

1-    The immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners in Bahrain.

2-    A thorough and impartial investigation into the use of torture against the prisoners of conscience.

3-    The prosecution of the torturers and an end to the impunity as enshrined in the Bahraini laws.

4-    An immediate halt to the naturalization process that aims at altering the demographic balance in Bahrain. This act is tantamount to silent genocide.

5-    The restoration of Bahraini nationality to Ayatullah Sheikh Hussain Najati who was born and bred in Bahrain.

6-    A constitution written by the people and approved in a referendum as is the practice in the modern world.

7-    An immediate end to kidnappings by the Death Squads, and an impartial investigation into all cases of this kind.

Ibraheem Zakzaky

Leader of Shia Islamic Movement in Nigeria

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.

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.

JNN 04.10.10 MUMBAI: A new study has shown that taking raw ginger in small amount every day reduces the strain on muscles after a workout.

Ginger has long been used as a remedy for nausea, but recent research has suggested it has other powerful properties, reports the Daily Mail.

One lab study showed powdered ginger could kill ovarian cancer cells.

In the latest experiments, American scientists gave participants 2g of raw ginger, or a similar amount of heat-treated ginger as some evidence shows heat treatment boosts the spice’s potency for 11 days.

A third group was given a placebo. They were then put through a series of testing arm exercises.

The results showed that 24 hours after exercise, pain levels in the raw ginger-eating group were 25 per cent lower than those on the placebo.

And in the heat-treated group, pain levels were 23 per cent lower.

Researchers say this supports anecdotal evidence that ginger has a pain-killing effect.

• The results have been published in the Journal of Pain.

JNN 26.09.10 Karachi : Majlis Wehdat Muslimeen (MWM) leaders on Friday condemned the Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik and biased Rangers officials who were responsible for the killing of three innocent Shia Youth

Addressing the Central protest demonstration held at Abul Hassan Isphani Road after the Friday prayer to condemn the killing of three innocent participants of funeral prayer of Shaheed Tanveer Abbas, MWM Karachi Secretary General Mohammad Mehdi, Allama Salman  Hussaini, and Agha Mubashir demanded that  the authorities concern must take stern action against these Rangers personnel , while the culprits should be brought to the book and they should be court martial for their  killing of three innocent Shia youth.

They said that Sachal Rangers wing 83 personnel have killed  these three innocent Shia men at Liaquatabad, when they were  returning  after the burial of Shaheed Tanveer Abbas from Wadi e Hussain Graveyard in a convoy.

They further added that more than 500 people of Karachi have lost their lives in different incidents of target killing since the federal government has given the special powers to Rangers for maintaining law and order situation, which speaks for itself, as who is maintaining the law and due to whom law Order situation has been created.

MWM Leaders pointed out the killing of three innocent youths by the Rangers have exposed the real face of Rangers and demanded the authorities concern to immediately register the FIR against Colonel Chachar, Colonel Sohail and DSR Sachal Rangers Fayyaz Khan over their allegedly involvement in the killing of innocent people.

They also demanded the government to immediately grant the financial compensation for the families of the victims.

However, according to the press release, MWM has organized the demonstrations at Shah Faisal Colony, Steel Town, Landhi and Orangi Town beside the Friday prayer leaders of the various mosques of the metropolis in their sermons condemned the brutal acts of Rangers.

JNN 26.09.10 : FOR minorities, success is best in small doses. Too much may stir bigotry and charges of dual loyalty, or even make some within the minority dangerously impatient for change. Shias on the Arab side of the Persian Gulf have long lived with such ironies. Largely ignored through centuries under Sunni rulers, they now feel increasingly exposed.

First came the Islamic revolution of 1979 in neighbouring Iran, whose ripples frightened those rulers and emboldened their Shia subjects, leading to ugly clashes that subsided only in the 1990s. The more recent rise of Shia influence in Iraq and the success of Hizbullah, the Shia party-cum-militia in Lebanon, have caused similar waves, made stronger by Iran’s bid to become the dominant regional power.

Conditions for Shias vary among the Gulf monarchies but had until recently been broadly improving. In relaxed and relatively liberal Kuwait, where Shias account for a third of the ultra-rich citizenry, they have long been prominent in business and in government. Some hold high office in Bahrain, too, but proportionately far fewer than their two-thirds share of the island kingdom’s population.

Saudi Arabia has the largest number of Shias at 2m-odd, but they are thinly diluted in a population ten times bigger and are subject to more systematic discrimination. No Shia has become a cabinet minister or general—or even a headmistress in a state school, reflecting the Saudis’ severe Wahhabism, in effect the kingdom’s official doctrine. Still, in recent years the Saudi government has loosened some strictures on Shia worship and forced extremist Sunni clerics to lessen their anti-Shia vitriol.

Those gains look fragile amid a mood of rising sectarian tension across the region. In Bahrain, months of agitation by Shias campaigning for greater rights have led to growing government fears of worse to come in the event of trouble with Iran. Pressure from Saudi-aligned Sunni radicals has led to a full-scale crackdown on Shia politicking. Widespread arrests, the closure of mainstream Shia websites and newspapers, and the banning of some Shia preachers from mosque pulpits have combined to tilt much of Shia opinion into sullen hostility to the state.

Sectarian jitters

Many Bahrainis were shocked when a prominent Shia cleric, Ayatollah Hussein Mirza Najati, was ordered to be stripped of his citizenship. By contrast, Bahrain’s Shias often complain that the government has secretly given citizenship to thousands of foreign Sunnis in a bid to alter the sectarian balance. Moderate Shias still counsel patience with the ruling al-Khalifa family, whose promises of reform a decade ago had quelled unrest until now. But clouds may be gathering ahead of a parliamentary election due next month.

Kuwait’s authorities have grown jittery, too. Following sustained pressure from Islamist Sunni members of parliament, the emirate revoked the Kuwaiti passport of Yasser al-Habib, a Shia preacher exiled in London, whose sermons suggesting that one of Prophet Muhammad’s (s.a.w.w) wives had poisoned the prophet prompted widespread outrage. Alarmed by a spate of calls for Sunni protests, Kuwaiti police have banned all public meetings.

More quietly, Saudi authorities have for months been harassing local Shia campaigners, arresting dozens and holding many for weeks at a time. A ban on fatwas by independent Sunni clerics has muted public attacks on Shias, but Sunni chat-sites on the internet still describe them menacingly as a fifth column for Iran.

JNN 22.09.10 If any body want to see the best example of Bad Governance of a country, then he/she must visit Pakistan now , other wise you ll loose the chance to see the the  Best example of Bad Governance of any Country.

The Situation of Pakistan at present is worst than ever , there is no writ of government in any matter of the Country. The prices of all the essential and daily use commodities are sky rocketing , the terrorism is all time high , there is no security of life , even if you seal your self in the 4 folds of iron walls. Shortage of Electricity , High rate of Load shedding of Electric and Gas. People are committing suicide because of Unemployment and Hunger.

The Government is so corrupt , that if you want to have any Law Passed from the Assembly , of your personal Interest than You pay the price and you ll have it passed from the Legislative Assembly, on the given time frame from the Broker of the Government .

If you want to have the Price fixed , of any commodity , according to your will , you can have it passed . The example of this Rate Hike of essential items like CNG is evident to all , as the Government is revising the Prices upward , while the suppliers or the CNG Pump station owners are revising the Prices downwards, as they know if they dont revise it down , then they can’t  sell even a single Kg of it as the buying power of the common Man is badly affected .

The prices of all the essential Kitchen items have increased to a record level , and till yet no steps have been taken to lower the prices or make measures that the common man can get some relief in such circumstances.

And the worst of all is that even the judiciary is corrupt and biased, from Top to the core , As people are now of the view that instead of hiring a good lawyer for your case , it is better to have a good judge for there case , which even gives them the gaurantee of wining the case. Even the top slot is so biased and politically motivated , that they see each and every fault in one party of the state , while they dont see any thing bad or not even ready to hear any thing bad against the Other Political party , as they must be there friends of there bad times. They can take suo moto action on the missing Persons , but could not order an inquiry of the target killing of the Innocent Shia community members , and not this but  if the rangers even Kill the Protesting Youth , they dont feel it bad or think it is liable to be punished. As it is Dictatorial rule they want to implement , By acting and trying to become the Chief Executive of the State.

The Law & Order situation is so bad that the Mafia’s and vested foriegn intelligence agencies are fulfiling their long awaited dreams of destablizing Pakistan ,and are now on the verge of Disintegrating Pakistan, By suicide attacks and target Killing of the Loyal poplulation of Pakistan , especially the Shia community , which is paying the heaviest cost of their loyalty to Pakistan and being the stanch believers of Islam ,as the whole situation is being created by the enemies of Pakistan and Islam.

JNN 21.09.10 – Kuwait will withdraw the citizenship of a Shia cleric whose so called derogatory remarks about a wife of the Prophet Mohammad fanned sectarian tension in the world’s No. 4 oil-exporting state, the state news agency said.

KUNA said the cabinet on Monday approved a draft decree to strip Yasser al-Habib of Kuwaiti citizenship and to prosecute him for his “shameful crimes”, a move it said was in the Gulf country’s higher interests.

Habib’s criticism of Aisha, whom Sunni Muslims revere and call the “mother of believers”, drew protests from Sunni clerics and lawmakers and threatened to cause civil strife. About one third of Kuwaitis belong to the Shiite sect of Islam.

Many Kuwaiti Shiite clerics and legislators denounced Habib’s comments, which he made in London, and said they were a threat to national unity. KUNA said the Kuwaiti government would ask Interpol to arrest Habib.

Writings about differences between the two sects and criticism of personalities belonging to them riled Kuwaitis in the past, raised fears of a developing security threat.

JNN 11.09.10 Karachi. Jafaria Allliance Pakistan this year has announced the Eid Day as the DAY of MOURNING , against the Ongoing Suicide attacks , Target Killings of Pakistani Shia Community Members and Natural Clamities of the Disastrous Floods in Major parts of Pakistan , which has Claimed the lives of a very big No. of people of Pakistan , and has displaced more than 30 Million People

from there homes ,who are homeless and facing the shortage of food and even the necessities like the clean drinking water.

JAP even announced a Protest Demonstration on the Ground of Mousleum of Quaid e Azam , on the Eid Day , which was attended by the President of JAP , Allama Abbas Kumaili , Molana Hussain Masudi , and other Prominent leaders of JAP, This Peaceful Protest Demostration was done in the presence of hundreds of People who came to pay there respects to the father of the Nation on the Eid Day .