Sunday, June 29, 2008

WOMAN GIVEN 11 YEARS JAIL

US 'slavery' woman given 11 years

Varsha Mahender Sabhnani
Mrs Sabhnani kept the women as "modern-day slaves"

A wealthy New York woman has been sentenced to 11 years in jail for keeping two Indonesian women as slaves.

Varsha Mahender Sabhnani, 46, and her husband Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51, kept them as slaves and abused them physically and psychologically.

The couple had been found guilty on 12 charges in December, including involuntary servitude, harbouring aliens and forced labour.

Mr Sabhnani is to be sentenced later on Friday and may get a shorter term.

In addition to prison, his Indian-born wife was fined $25,000 (짙12,600).

"I just want to say that I love my children very much," she told the federal court in Central Islip, on New York state's Long Island, as two of her grown children looked on.

"I was brought to this earth to help people who are in need."

Her husband wept as his wife's sentence was announced.

The wealthy couple, who run a perfume business and have four children, had brought the women to their large house to work as housekeepers, and forced them to work up to 18 hours a day.

The couple were arrested after one of the women was found wandering the streets dressed in only trousers and a towel.

Regular beatings

Prosecutors had described the case as "modern-day slavery".

They described how the two Indonesian women had been punished for misbehaviour such as sleeping late and stealing food from the dustbin to supplement their meagre meals.

Domestic workers held a protest during Ms Sabhnani's sentencing
Domestic workers held a protest during the sentencing of Mrs Sabhnani
The women said they had been beaten with brooms and umbrellas, slashed with knives, made to take freezing showers and climb stairs repeatedly.

One said she had been forced to eat several hot chillies and then her own vomit.

US District Judge Arthur Spatt called the testimony "eye-opening, to say the least - that things like that go on in our country".

He postponed a decision on the amount of back pay owed to the two women. Prosecutors have suggested they were due more than $1.1m.

Lawyers for the accused had argued that the housekeepers practised witchcraft and may have abused themselves.

They had said the couple spent a lot of time abroad and that the two Indonesian women would have been free to leave whenever they wanted.

The pair were described as "model citizens" who wanted only to clear their names.

The women, identified as Nona and Samirah, arrived in the US legally in 2002 but had their passports confiscated by the Sabhnanis, officials said. Their visas have since expired.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

NEW(FAKE)QURAN

AsSalam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakaatuhu

Above: 'The True Furqan'

You Cant Ignore this, send it to as many muslims as u can.

The new AMERICAN Quran: a dangerous trick A new Quran
is being distributed in Kuwait, titled 'The True
Furqan'.

 
It is being described as the ayats of the
Shaytan and Al-Furqan weekly magazine has found out
that the two American printing companies;'Omega 2001'
and 'Wine Press' are involved in the publishing of
'The True Furqan', a book which has also been titled
'The 21st Century Quran'! It is over 366 pages and is
inboth the Arabic and English languages... it is being
distributed to our children in Kuwait in the private

English schools! The book contains 77 Surats, which
include Al-Fatiha, Al-Jana and Al-Injil.



Instead of  Bismillah, each Surat  begins with a longer vesion of this incorporating the Christian belief of the three
spirits.


And  this so! called Quran opposes many Islamic  beliefs.


in one of its ayats it describes having more than one wife as fornication, divorce being
non-permissable and it uses a new system for the sharing out of the will, opposing the current one.


It states that Jihad is HARAAM.

This book even goes as far as attacking Allah, Subhanahu wa Tahala!

All this is poisoning our children at approx. $3.


Brothers and Sisters please make sure you forward this email to as many people as possible so that we can stop this dangerous trick.

Please tell everyone you know and may Allah reward you.

http://www.amazon. com/True- Furqan-Al- Saffee/dp/ 1579211755
check the user reviews by true muslim brothers stating this as  a fake quran

AsSalam Alaikum
AbdurRahman Meda

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

O MUSLIMS

 

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

As salaamualaikum wa rehmatullahi wa barkatuhu

Let there be a community among you who call to the good, and enjoin the right, and forbid the wrong. They are the ones who have success.(Qur'an, 3:104)
 
o you who believe! Avoid much suspicions, indeed some suspicions are sins. And spy not, neither backbite one another. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would hate it (so hate backbiting) . And fear Allah. Verily, Allah is the one Who accepts repentance, Most Merciful. (Al-Hujraat, Chapter #49, Verse #12)
 

Whole world eyes on Muslims We must not act unislamicly we not make to shame our beloved Prophet Muhammad pbuh.

We not help and support blackship in our community.What happend on friday our Mosque it was very shame in future not happened again.

We are Mulims need more tolerence, big problem with in Muslims. If you ask any things they feel very angry instead they reply nicely.We cant reply own brother how can we reply non Muslims

Especially we are Pakistani have more responsibility world eyes on us.

We are muslims works for unity with muslim community and make the great community.

JazakAllahkhiern

Wasalaam

Shahji

 

Monday, June 23, 2008

Dr Shahid Masood Sold Himself as Chairman PTV

Dr. Shahid Masood
 
 

I’m flabbergasted to know, and unable to believe that Dr. Shahid Masood has been named as the Chairman of PTV. The surprise is not at his appointment, but at his acceptance of the offer. A person who cannot digest daily meals without criticizing Pervez Musharraf, Asif Zardari and lately Rehman Malik, has taken up the post in a corporation which is not only directly answerable to the government but has a propensity to support the government (under all conditions).

Though there is nothing inherently bad in accepting the government job or specifically becoming the chairman of state-owned Pakistan Television, but when you see the whole scheme of things, the appointment of Dr. Shahid Masood, the anchorperson of renowned GEO News TV talk show “Meray Mutabiq” as the new chairman of the Pakistan Television reeks, and it reeks very badly.

The things become more fishy, when you also keep in perspective the recent ban on his program along with the program of Hamid Mir. GEO News then shifted it’s setup from Dubai to Pakistan, and Hamid Mir resumed his program “Capital Talk”, but mysteriously Shahid Masood never resumed, while the slide on GEO told us that he would resume soon.

He did resume, but as the new chairman of the PTV. I still remember his aloof rhetoric and the high rise slogans, and then I read in the media that he stooped so low that he also demanded that along with the hefty salary and all the perks and privileges, he would also get the percentage of earning from his programs aired by the PTV.

PTV is the mouthpiece of the state. It has never changed it’s stance and it’s very hard that it would do so. Shahid Masood may get a lush push job with all the majesty and access to the Prime Minister House and the President House (why not?), but his credible standing has become tainted for ever.

The unknown person like Pervaiz Rashid was better than the Dr Shahid Masood. Pervaiz Rashid was the previous chairman of the PTV during the second term of Nawaz Sharif, who had refused to take any salary from the national exchequer.

 

 

Saturday, June 21, 2008

House of Allah?

Al-Mustafa Mosque is really house of Allah?
 

Friday, June 20, 2008

ENGINES MISSING

US reports 4 copter engines missing


 The US-led coalition in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that four US helicopter engines worth more than $13 million had gone missing while being transported by a Pakistani truck company.

“Four helicopter engines transported by a Pakistani truck company to Coalition Joint Task Force 101 went missing. The exact location is not determined yet,” coalition spokesman Christian Patterson said.

The engines went missing before the 101st Airborne took command of the coalition in Afghanistan on April 11, Patterson said.

“They were being sent from Bagram to Fort Bragg, USA. The collective value of the engines is worth 13.2 million dollars,” he added.

International forces in Afghanistan must transport much of their military equipment overland via Pakistan, a key ally in the US-led war on terror. Ties plummeted to their lowest ebb last week after Islamabad said that a US air strike killed 11 Pakistani soldiers near the border.

Days later Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that Kabul would be justified in launching attacks on militants on Pakistani soil, provoking an angry response from Islamabad.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Koun Banega Superstar

an Email from PANZ

Nawaz Sharif: A History Of Ingratitude

 
Nawaz Sharif: A History Of Ingratitude

 

Mr. Sharif is not as innocent as he portrayed himself to be. If Mr. Sharif wants accountability, let's open all the books.

 

By MIRZA ROHAIL BAIG

Saturday, 14 June 2008.

 

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—If you are one of the Pakistanis who applauded former prime Nawaz Sharif when he addressed a crowd of deranged lawyers and paid hungry supporters – who turned the most expensive piece of property in the heart of Pakistan's federal capital into an open air toilet last night, then you should know that Mr. Sharif is not as innocent as he portrayed himself to be.

 

This is a guy who went shopping in Washington DC for a U.S. $ 25,000 watch as brave Pakistanis died fighting for their honor in Kargil, a battle that Mr. Sharif ensured we lost because he was busy in a personal fight with the nation's military leaders.

 

Mr. Nawaz Sharif's record is so embarrassing that, in another country with educated voters, he would never be reelected by the people.

 

His record includes unforgettable lapses and mistakes, each of them worthy of an inquiry commission that could disqualify him for life:

 

1.      This man declared emergency after the May 1998 Nuclear detonations. Under the pretext of sanctions, he swallowed up the nation's $10 billion foreign reserves. No questions asked and no accountability since!

 

2.      This man, Nawaz, siphoned off millions of dollars of the money collected under the 'Qarz utaro mulk sanwaro' scheme where he appealed to the Pakistani nation's patriotism and asked everyone to donate money to pay off the national debt. No accountability so far!

 

3.      This man was shopping for $25,000 Philip Patek watches in the United States when our brave soldiers were dying in Kargil. No shame!

 

4.      This man built a 2000-acre Raiwind palatial complex for himself and his family when our nation was contributing to the 'Qarz utaro mulk sanwaro' scheme to pay off the national debt.

 

5.      This man Nawaz is a PROTEGE of past military rulers who turned him from a dumb, Nehari-loving imbecile into a leader.  General Imtiaz brought him from Dubai. General Jillani and General Zia-ul-Haq groomed him. Lt. Gen. Hameed Gul created for his an entire new political party, the IJI. Today he makes fun of the military. It says something about his character. He is an ungrateful person, someone we call EHSAAN FARAMOOSH in our language!

 

6.      He is the first ruler in the history of Pakistan and maybe the world who ransacked the Supreme Court building and unleashed the private armed thugs on Shahbaz Sharif's payroll as a private Sharif Militia and used them to stone the building of the Supreme Court and chase out its judges who dared to challenge his actions in 1997.

 

7.      More than 80 complaints of corruption and misuse of authority were pending at different stages of inquiry, investigation and trial against former PM Nawaz Sharif when he was granted pardon by the president and went into a self-chosen exile. The complaint said Nawaz Sharif did not mention in his declaration of assets in the nomination form for NA-12 in 1997 that he owned a helicopter. It was alleged that he did not pay duties of Rs. 30 million on this machine. Don't take my word for it, check this news story: http://www.millat.com/ghalibcom/events/nawaz%20exile/80_cases_pending_against_nawaz_b.htm

 

8.      According to a report:

 

8.1              Rs. 1.5 billion loan was taken out by the Sharif brothers against the security of their company, Ittefaq Foundries

8.2             Rs. 302 million were obtained for Brothers Sugar Mills

8.3             Rs. 92 million for Brothers Textile

8.4             Rs. 392 million for Brothers Steel Mills

8.5             Rs. 102 million for Ramzan Sugar Mills and Khalid Siraj Textiles each

8.6             Rs. 385 million for Ittefaq Sugar Mills

8.7              Rs. 368 million for Ittefaq Textiles and

8.8             Rs. 239 million were loaned to Ittefaq Brother.

 

9.      The Nawaz family which is now one of the richest in the country largely due to the largesse of Pakistani banks has unveiled its one billion rupee Raiwind Complex. Spread over an area of around a thousand acres it houses palatial residences, a 300 acre farm, a 500 bed hospital, a school, a medical teaching facility, 200 acre dairy farm, a 350 line telephone exchange, Polytechnic institute, Nursing and Midwifery school etc. The Sharifs who must really be minting money have built it all in 17 months at a cost of Rs 740 million. The Punjab government headed by a Sharif has chipped in by providing government-funded roads and forcibly purchasing land for papa Sharif. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2423/20.html

 

10. Nawaz is currently Pakistan's 4th RICHEST MAN in the list 'Top 40 Richest Pakistanis'.

 

11.  Nawaz has asked for Pakistan to open permanent border with India, VISA-FREE! Why doesn't he simply call for making both one & same country? This way he'll get an endless supply of Indian music DVDs that he so loves!

 
Finally, when Nawaz's son was suspected of having blood cancer and needed treatment in London, Pervez Musharraf violated his own 10-year agreement with the Saudis and ordered the Pakistani Embassy in Riyadh to provide the Sharifs with passports on humanitarian grounds.
 
Musharraf again put the exile agreement aside and helped Shahbaz Sharif get treatment in New York.
 
In comparison, Mr. Nawaz Sharif could have shown magnanimity and rise above petty revenge and address the real issues facing Pakistan, internally and in the region.
 
Mr. Baig is a Pakistani commentator. He can be reached at opinion786@yahoo.com

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Indian Donates USD $11 Million

Indian American donates $11million to US university

By Parveen Chopra (IANS)

15 June 2008
 
NEW YORK - An Indian American, a native of Amritsar, has become the top individual donor to a US university, his alma mater, by gifting it nearly $11 million.

John P. Kapoor, a pharmaceutical entrepreneur, bequested the money to the State University of New York at Buffalo, which had offered him a graduate fellowship in the 1960s when the Bombay University graduate could not afford to pay.

The gift will support construction of a new home for the Buffalo university's nationally ranked pharmacy school, as well as to fund research, student financial aid and an emerging-technologies fund.

While making the bequest, Kapoor said, "I owe so much to this university. Fortunately, I am in a position to help, and the university is on the top of my list."

The Amritsar-born Kapoor earned his doctorate in medicinal chemistry in 1972 at the university and went on to become an entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical industry. But he never forgot his alma mater. In 2000, he gave it $5 million, and increased it to $10.8 million last month.

John B. Simpson, president of the university, and Wayne K. Anderson, dean, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, thanked Kapoor.

"It's a point of substantial pride for us that our pharmacy school provided the foundation for Dr Kapoor's remarkable career in the pharmaceutical industry. It is very significant to our university that he has chosen to honour his alma mater with another truly extraordinary gift that will help us take the school to even greater heights of excellence," Simpson said. 

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Dr.AQ KHAN

Dr AQ Khan says many scientists betrayed Bhutto

(NNI)

16 June 2008
 
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s top nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has said that many scientists promised Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to make nuclear bomb in few years but betrayed him.

He said late Bhutto was the only person who made the nuclear programme possible.

“Bhutto asked me can we become a nuclear power and I had replied him, Insha Allah we will”, Dr Khan said in an interview with a private TV channel.

He alleged that the western countries have been defaming him since long and had been accusing him of stealing nuclear secrets. However, Dr AQ Khan said he visited many western countries, including Netherlands, but no action was taken against him.

To a question he said that General Zia had never instigated him against Bhutto, however, Zia always condemned Bhutto.

“I asked Zia not to hang Bhutto. Zia never rolled back our nuclear programme”, he said.

Dr Khan believed that the United Stated had ignored Pakistan’s nuclear programme due to Afghan war. —

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Do you want more space on Hotmail????

Login ur hotmail account and go to options.
Go to "Personal"
Click "My Profile"
Change Country to "United States"
Wait for browser to load United states settings.
Change the state to "Florida" and zip code "33332"
Click "update"
Click "Continue"
Go to "Language" and make sure its "English"

Paste this link in the same browser:
<http://by17fd.bay17.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/Accountclose>

Old Man Stop to Marrying a young Girl

Man, 92, Prevented From Marrying Girl
Arab News
 

CAIRO, 14 June 2008 — The Egyptian Justice Ministry rejected an application to register a 92-year-old Arab man’s marriage to a 17-year-old Egyptian girl recently. The Arab man, whose nationality was not revealed, was denied his request to wed the teenager because Egyptian law pertaining to marriage with foreigners stipulates that the age difference between the woman and the foreigner, should be less than 25 years, the Al-Madinah daily reported yesterday. The law also stipulates that a foreigner intending to marry an Egyptian woman should submit her birth certificate in addition to documents attested by his country’s embassy showing his social and employment status. The documents are used to verify that the man can financially support his wife.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

US AIRPORTs WATCH OUR BODY underneathh

Dear brothers and sisters,                          June 12, 2008;

 

Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmathullahi Wa Bharakhathuhu.

http://news. yahoo.com/ s/afp/20080610/ ts_alt_afp/ ustransportaviat ionsecurity_ 080610211153

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Scanners that see through clothing installed in US airports

Tue Jun 10, 5:11 PM ET

NEW YORK (AFP) - Security scanners which can see through passengers' clothing and reveal details of their body underneath are being installed in 10 US airports, the US Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday.

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The above loss of privacy is for air-travellers. Unfortunately similar technology is available in the market to be bought by any and used.

 

 http://www.pricesav vy.co.uk/ a/shop_profile/ id_mag/1213/ shop_profile. htm#

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Head office
Advanced Intelligence Co.
21/849 Tavorn nivej 2. Soi 4.
Bangna-Trad Road. Km. 2
10260 Bangna Prakanong Bangkok
Thailand

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In the above URL, there is a link -- > Visit Advanced Intelligence Spy Shop. When you right click and 'open in new window' the same page is displayed. In the new page click the same link, and the following page appears in a new tab.

 

 http://www.advanced -intelligence. com/index. html?1933

 

In this URL, open the link -- X-Ray Glasses -- in a new tab to get

 

http://www.advanced -intelligence. com/glasses. html

===

Q. What type of materials actually does theses Glasses see through?

A. Swimwear, Silk, and all types of synthetic materials are the best candidate.

In USA (summer time) in public areas, do expect about 1 out of 20 for normal clothing.

For swimwear, do expect approximately 70 out of 100 .

Approximately 45% of swimwear allow see through as though seeing through glass.

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We suggest Muslim engineers experiment with making cloth using cotton and fine metallic threads. Metals block electromagnetic radiation and they also conduct heat and thus destroy the infrared signal. Thus it is expected that cloth with cotton and metallic threads would protect the privacy.

 

We recommend an abaya made of such material for sisters and a waist cloth of same material for brothers. Such abaya and waist cloth need be worn while outside only.

Ya Allah protect us from the technology that violates our privacy. Aameen, Aameen, Ya Rabbil Aalameen.

Your brother,

Mohideen Ibramsha

Was Salaam

Messages

((( Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem )))

~~~Let there be a community among you who call to the good, and enjoin the right, and forbid the wrong. They are the ones who have success.(Qur'an, 3:104)

~~~They believe in Allah and the Last Day, and enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and compete in doing good. They are among the righteous.(Qur'an, 3:114)

~~~If you avoid the serious wrong actions you have been forbidden, We will erase your bad actions from you and admit you by a Gate of Honour.(Qur'an, 4:31)

~~~Help one another in birr (righteousness, virtue), and taqwa (piety, fear of Allah, God-consciousness), and do not help one another in sinning and transgression. And fear and revere Allah; verily, Allah is severe in punishment.(Qur'an, 5:2)

~~~You who believe! Have fear of Allah and seek the means of drawing near to Him and strive in His way,so that hopefully you'll be successful. (Qur'an, 5:35)

~~~Ask your Lord for forgiveness and then repent to Him. He will let you enjoy a good life until a specified time, and will give His favour to all who merit it. But if you turn your backs, I fear for you the punishment of a Mighty Day.(Qur'an, 11:3)

~~~Strive for Allah with the striving due to Him. He has selected you and not placed any constraint upon you in the religion-the religion of your forefather Ibrahim. He named you Muslims before and also in this, so that the Messenger could be witness against you and you could be witnesses against all mankind. So perform prayer and give alms and hold fast to Allah. He is your Protector-the Best Protector, the Best Helper. (Qur'an, 22:78)

   (((Subhan-Allahi Wa-Bihamdihi, Subhan-Allahil Azeem)))

Friday, June 13, 2008

US Airstrike on Pakistan

 
Pakistani men survey the site of a reported US air strike in Gora Prai on 11 June
The US releases video footage which it says justifies an air strike in which Pakistan says 11 of its soldiers died.

The Pentagon has released footage of an air strike that Pakistan says killed 11 of its troops in the Mohmand frontier region.

The US said the footage proves that US forces were legitimately targeting pro-Taleban militants and its forces had acted in self-defence.

Pakistan's military said earlier that the soldiers had died as a result of an "unprovoked and cowardly act".

SEE ALSO

 

Thursday, June 12, 2008

MARRY OR FIRED

'Marry or be fired', Iranian state firm warns
(AFP)

10 June 2008


TEHRAN - A major Iranian state-owned company has told its single employees to get married by September or face losing their jobs, the press reported on Tuesday.

"One of the economic entities in the south of the country has asked its single employees to start creating a family," the hardline Kayhan daily reported.

The paper did not mention the name of the company but the reformist Etemad newspaper said that the firm is the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone Company -- which covers Iran's giant gas and petrochemical facilities on the shores of the Gulf.

"Unfortunately some of our colleagues did not fulfil their commitments and are still single," Etemad quoted the company's directive as saying.

"As being married is one of the criteria of employment, we are announcing for the last time that all the female and male colleagues have until September 21 to go ahead with this important and moral religious duty."

The giant energy zone of refineries is located on Iran's southern coastal energy hub Assalouyeh where temperatures reach 50 Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in summer, hardly a place for families.

The workers are usually young males seeking to earn a good income and the decree appears aimed at making them marry to ensure they eschew sexual temptations during their stay away from home.

Sexual relations outside of marriage are illegal in Iran -- for the most part a traditional society where young people normally are encouraged by their families to marry in their 20s and swiftly bear children.

The country is also in the midst of an unprecedented moral crackdown which has seen tens of thousands of women warned by the police for dress deemed to be unIslamic.

However officials have lamented the relatively low numbers marrying in recent years, a trend encouraged by a difficult economic situation where newly-weds struggle to pay for weddings, let alone buy a home.

Around 12 million Iranians are umarried and aged between 15-29 but there were only 840,000 marriages last year, according to the head of Iran's youth organisation Ali Akbari.

In a similar warning, the governor of the eastern province of North Khorasan has said only married civil servants will be allowed to take up official posts in the region.

"Officials who are single must marry before being authorised to take up their posts," the student ISNA news agency quoted Mohammad Hossein Jahanbakhsh as saying.

"A mayor can only take up their responsibilities in a town in the region if they are married," he added.

SPEAK CORRECTLY

1. FATWA
 
Saudi council of Muftis have given an unanimous
Fatwa that ring tones on QURA
AN AYAAT are haraam because the AYA AT are not complete when we pick the phone & meanings of AYAAT changes when they are not complete. QURAN is for Hidayat and not for ring tones, Please inform
others   


 KINDLY PASS THIS MESSAGE TO OTHER MUSLIM BROTHERS AND SISTERS AS WELL
 

  ???????
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2. BE ADVISED
 

Don't say 'Mosque'
Always say '
  Masjid'
Because Islam organization has found thats mosque = Mosquitoes

 

Don't write ' Mecca '
Write always correctly '
Makkah'
Because  Mecca = house of Wines 

 

Don't write ' Mohd'
Always write completely as '
Muhammad'
Becasue  Mohd = the Dog with big mouth.

 

Forwared it as many Muslims as you can for Thawaab, Nothing bad will happen if you dont forward this but these points are impotant and it is our duty to
educate our brothers and sisters..

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Do you know what is Masjid Al Aqsa

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Do you knaow what is Masjid AQSA

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14 Aug 2008

PANZ is calling for meeting for discussion and suggestions for biggest event of Pakistan in NZ , for big function like 14 Aug we need big numbers of volunteers, we welcome all Pakistanis to come in this meeting with suggestions to make it better and even bigger , said Jamshaid ul Hussen , President of Pakistan association NZ.

Meeting : Sandringham Community Centre Sandringham

Time : 6pm


Date : Sunday 15 of June 2008

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Cheapest Secrets car build

An exclusive look at the new Tata Nano in action

Secrets of building the world's cheapest car

India is fast becoming the centre of a revolution in motoring.

A new generation of ultra-cheap cars is about to hit the streets, allowing millions of would-be drivers to dream of personal mobility for themselves and their families.

"A totally new market is opening up - the way we are receiving comments and inquiries is quite mind-boggling," said Ravi Kant, the managing director of Tata Motors.

International car manufacturers are also scrambling to establish a firm foothold in India, which is set to become the fastest growing car market in the world.

The Tata Nano was unveiled with great patriotic fanfare in January. Its basic price - about $2,500 - is about half of its nearest current rival.

The BBC travelled to the huge Tata Motors complex in the western city of Pune to get an exclusive look at the Nano in action, and to talk to the team which created the ultimate no-frills car, cutting costs part by part.

Everything from the number of wheel nuts to the number of parts in the door handle was re-examined.

"The body was redesigned three or four times, and the engine three times," said Girish Arun Wagh, the head of Tata's small car project. "Simplicity was the key."

And that means that when the Nano goes on sale towards the end of this year it will be in a position to overturn the economics of motoring.

"We believe that more than goods transportation it is people transportation that is going to see a massive change, and we are prepared to tap into this opportunity, " said Ravi Kant.

But Tata won't have it all its own way.

Rival car

Another Indian company Bajaj Auto, which makes auto-rickshaws and motorbikes, has announced plans - in partnership with Renault and Nissan - to produce a direct competitor to the Nano by 2011. The starting price will be the same.

Chairman of Tata rival Bajaj Auto on the Nano

"Whoever wants to do it at least has to manufacture it in India," said Rahul Bajaj, the company's chairman.

"If Tata motors can make money I can make money. My costs are lower than Tata Motors. But if General Motors or Volkswagen tries, I don't think they can make money."

But even if they won't compete at the very cheapest end of the market, that hasn't stopped a host of global car companies investing in new factories on the outskirts of cities like Pune and Madras (Chennai).

Soon the region around Pune alone will make more cars than Britain.

Many of them will be sold to India's eager domestic market. And there's plenty of room for expansion out in the countryside, where 70% of Indians still live.

But India's cities are already suffering from congestion and pollution, and millions of new cars will only make matters worse.

"You want to give mobility to all," said Anumita Roychowdhury of the Centre for Science and Environment. "And cars can never give mobility to all in Indian cities."

"You just do not have the space in Indian cities where you can motorise and meet the needs of everyone. There's a big equity issue here."

The response from the motor industry is robust.

"I'm all for a clean environment," declared Rahul Bajaj. "But if you want a real clean environment, go back to the cave age."

The rapid increase in demand for cars is closely linked to soaring economic growth, and Indians are understandably sensitive to suggestions that they shouldn't be able to enjoy freedoms people in the West take for granted.

But that still leaves India grappling with a familiar challenge on a massive scale: How to meet the demand for private cars and personal mobility in a way that works.

For a billion people, and counting.

You can see more on this story on 'Our World - India's Motoring Revolution' on the BBC News Channel in the UK on June 7th at 0530, 1430 and 2130, and on June 8th at 0330 and 1430

US is &#39;world&#39;s leading jailer&#39;

US is 'world's leading jailer'

The United States has 2.3 million people behind bars, more than any other country in the world and more than ever before in its history, Human Rights Watch said.

The number represents an incarceration rate of 762 per 100,000 residents, compared to 152 per 100,000 in Britain, 108 in Canada, and 91 in France, HRW said in a statement commenting on new Justice Department figures.

"The new incarceration figures confirm the United States as the world's leading jailer," said David Fahti, HRW's US program director.

"Americans should ask why the US locks up so many more people than do Canada, Britain, and other democracies," he added.

The newly released figures show a sharp racial imbalance in the US prison population, with blacks outnumbering whites by six to one.

Nearly 11 per cent of black men aged 30-34 are in prison, according to Justice Department figures.

HRW said blacks in the United States are 12 times more likely to be sent to jail for drug-related crimes than whites, even though drug use among the two races is about the same.

"Although whites, being more numerous, constitute the large majority of drug users, blacks constitute 54 per cent of all persons entering state prisons with a new drug offence conviction," the rights group said.

Friday, June 6, 2008

IF MUSLIMS HONESTLY THINK

SUBHAN ALLAH



O my Lord! bestow wisdom on me, and join me with the righteous;" (ash-Shu`ara': 83) 
JAZAKALLAHKHIERN
WASALAAM/SHAHJI
شاه الا نبي
 
 


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Thursday, June 5, 2008

U.S PAKISTANIS

 Pakistanis among the most philanthropic people in the U.S.

A CIVIL society depends on the generosity of its citizens for the support and strengthening of its basic fabric. Charitable giving adds to the beauty and durability of the warp and weft of this fabric.

Americans, considered the world's most generous people, give away $240 billion a year to charitable causes and a full 75 percent comes not from big corporations or foundations but from individual donors. About 86 percent of American households share their blessings.

America is not a monolith but a sum total of its numerous ethnic groups. Among this mosaic is a relatively small group, 500,000 by some conservative estimates, who lead the pack in charitable giving. They are the Pakistani-Americans.

There is a general assumption that immigrants in general and recent arrivals in particular tend not to give as much or as often as the established ethnic groups.

This assumption also considers Pakistanis as more clannish, more inward-looking and thus not inclined to share their money with others in the society.

Not true, says professor Adil Najam, director of the Pardee Center for the Study of Long Range Future at Boston University. Mr. Najam shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore and the scientists who served on Mr. Gore's International Climate Council.

Recently Mr. Najam discussed the findings of an extensive survey of Pakistani expatriates in the United States that was published in his 2006 book, Portrait of a Giving Community: Philanthropy by the Pakistani-American Diaspora (Published by Global Equity Institute of the Asia Center at Harvard University).

Taking the colors and hues from the pallet of his methodical and extensive research, Mr. Najam paints a flattering picture of Pakistanis in America.

There are approximately 500,000 people of Pakistani origin in America who give away $250 million in cash and kind every year. In addition, they contribute more than 43 million hours to volunteer work which, when translated in monetary terms, come to $750 million, making the total giving an impressive $1 billion.

Forty percent of this giving goes to charities in Pakistan and an additional 20 percent to Pakistani causes in this country. Forty percent is donated to causes that have no connection with Pakistan.

In the post 9/11 climate, support of causes in Pakistan has declined because of fear of sending money abroad and a relative lack of clarity about restrictions on foreign remittances.

The most striking finding, however, was that Pakistani-Americans give 3.5 percent of their estimated household income to charity, whereas the national average in America is 3.1 percent. And yet, the researchers found, Pakistani-Americans suffer from what Mr. Najam calls a misplaced sense of philanthropic inferiority.

Somehow, Pakistanis believe that they do not give as much as some other ethnic communities in America. They also think that people living in Pakistan give proportionally more to charities than they do.

The study also found some interesting idiosyncrasies. Most Pakistani giving, for example, has a faith-based motivation. Pakistanis also tend to give to individuals in need rather than to charitable organizations. This, in part, is the result their general distrust of charitable organizations, here in the U.S. but particularly in Pakistan.

Though they do appreciate and trust faith-based charitable organizations, Pakistanis still prefer to give to individuals rather than to organizations. They just have no confidence in the Pakistani government and the myriad nongovernmental organizations to use their donated money wisely and prudently.

It is a shame that because of historic distrust of the government and other organizations, Pakistani-Americans are not helping institution-building in their native land. Giving to individuals and families in need is commendable and gratifying in the short term. One can see the results immediately and in real time. But the future direction of a country or people is set not by feeding a hungry person but by building and nurturing institutions.

I met Mr. Najam last week in Detroit, where he spoke at a fund-raiser for the Human Development Foundation. The foundation, based in Chicago, works in Pakistan to ameliorate poverty by improving literacy, providing micro-credit and vocational training for women, and other activities in rural and so-called backward areas of the country. In one evening the group, true to Mr. Najam's research, raised $250,000.

Philanthropy is an attitude that is not dependent on the amount of wealth one has. People give because they want to spread the blessings around for the greater good of the society and humanity. Pakistani-Americans, to their credit, are trend setters in this arena.

Dr. S. Amjad Hussain is a Toledo surgeon whose column appears every other week in The Blade.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

NZers must be registered to enter US from next year

NZers must be registered to enter US from next year

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A new requirement for New Zealand travellers to register online at least three days before entering the United States is a barrier, but not as bad as having to get a visa, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.

From next year, the USA will require the registration of travellers from countries which do not currently require a visa, including New Zealand.

Intended to bolster US security, the new requirement is due to be officially announced later today by Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff.

Miss Clark said the new rules were related to legislation implemented in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

"It applies to all countries whose citizens have visa waivers obviously it puts an extra step in the way of travel to the US, but then the US has been the subject of a very serious attack, so it is not surprising to us."

Miss Clark said in most cases it would be a formality, but common sense held that a registration system would see some people from some countries blocked from entering the US.

Even though this was another barrier to entry for New Zealanders, it was still less of a burden than those from countries who had to apply for a visa, she said.

American Chamber of Commerce in New Zealand executive director Mike Ahern said the rule could be an inconvenience for a small number of business executives who rely on last-minute flights for deal-clinching face-to-face meetings.

The online registrations will begin in January and will be valid for a two-year period.

Those needing to register will be travellers from New Zealand and the other 26 countries whose citizens are not required to obtain visas for US entry.

The countries include those in most of western Europe as well as Andorra, Australia, Brunei, Japan, and Singapore.

Eight other countries - the Czech Republic, Hungary and South Korea among them -- are expected to be admitted to the visa waiver programme.

Miss Clark said the New Zealand embassy in Washington was too be fully briefed tomorrow.

"The US has made its decision, so whether there are issues around the edges which countries like ours might offer some advice is another matter."

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Monday, June 2, 2008

Politician

One night, after a long hard day at work a politician went home. It was fairly late, around 10:00 p.m. All of the sudden, a masked man jumped out of the bushes and demanded all the politician's money.
"You can't do that!!" The politician cried. "I'm a politician!"
"Oh," said the masked man, "in that case give me all MY money!!"

Sunday, June 1, 2008

HONOR KILLING

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,555667,00.html

Honor Killing Victim Wanted to Live Like other German Girls

By SPIEGEL Staff

At age 16, all Morsal Obeidi wanted was to live the way other girls in Germany do. She paid dearly: Obeidi's oldest brother stabbed her 20 times. Her murder has sparked a renewed debate in Germany about the failure of many immigrant families to integrate into Western society.

Morsal is buried one week after her death. In the morning, the women wash the body, cleansing it of its earthly sins, in keeping with tradition.

The teenage girl's thin body is covered with stab wounds, evidence of the knife that was plunged into her torso. The women wrap the body in linen and lay it into a coffin made of a light-colored wood.

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At noon, six men lift the coffin to their shoulders and begin walking, leading a procession of 200 men and women dressed in black. Ghulam-Mohammed Obeidi, the father, who came from Afghanistan, lost his 2nd daughter and now, more than likely, his son in a single night -- is at the center of the group. They walk along a path that leads to the new Muslim section at the back of a cemetery in Hamburg's Öjendorf neighborhood, to where a group of construction workers stand leaning against an excavating machine. The women stop as the men carry the coffin to the grave, which is lined with boards, a rectangular hole in the ground with pale sand piled up around its edges.

 
This is where the story ends, with the body of a stabbed girl being brought to her grave. Her name was Morsal Obeidi, and she was 16. Born in Afghanistan, she died a few days ago, in a parking lot in Hamburg.

In the years between her birth and her death, Morsal Obeidi tried to lead western style life like other girls in her school led. Perhaps she was trying to do precisely what politicians and social workers are constantly encouraging immigrants to do: to become integrated.

A Life in Two Worlds

But her parents and her family -- especially Ahmad, her brother -- were an obstacle to integration. In the end, Morsal Obeidi was torn apart by the need to live a life in two worlds, and by the daily struggle to be the kind of person she wanted to be.

Morsal met with Mohammed, her cousin (not her fianc챕/boy friend, because she did not have one), on the evening of May 15, Thursday. They were sitting in a McDonald's restaurant. Morsal had only been back in the city for a few months, after a prolonged visit with relatives in Afghanistan. It was spring in Hamburg. As they ate, Mohammed thought about the plan that he was keeping a secret from Morsal. It seemed harmless enough. Mohammed said later that Ahmad, Morsal's brother, had asked him to bring his sister to the Berliner Tor train station. "He said to me: 'I want you to meet Morsal today. Then walk to the Berliner Tor with her. But don't tell her anything. I just want to talk to her."

It seemed harmless enough.

Morsal and Mohammed arrived at the suburban railway station shortly after 11 p.m. They walked around the corner to a small parking lot next to an apartment building, where they sat down to smoke a cigarette. At 11:20 night, Ahmad suddenly appeared out of the darkness. Morsal recognized him -- and froze. Ahmad approached his sister and then, without saying a word, began stabbing her. He stabbed her a few times. "I think he must've taken something first. Drugs. Or maybe he got drunk. I tried to stop him, but he pushed me away," says Mohammed.

Ahmad Obeidi, 23, is a strong, athletic young man. Morsal tried to run away, but she stumbled and fell. Ahmad stood over her and continued to stab her, five times, ten times, still silent as he swung his right arm up and down over his sister's body. He seemed intoxicated. The police counted 20 stab wounds, inflicted with such force that Ahmad would later wear a bandage on his right forearm.

Morsal screamed, waking up the residents of the apartment building. Passersby called the police. Ahmad fled to a nearby subway station, and Mohammed followed him. The two cousins boarded a train, where they sat silently across from each other, a killer and his accomplice.

Morsal died.

Mohammed spent a short time wandering through the night before going to a police station, where he was interrogated for six hours. It was Ahmad, he said, who had killed her.

At approximately noon on May 16, roughly 12 hours after the killing, police officers stood at the door of Ahmad Obeidi's apartment. He allowed them to take him into custody without resisting, and he confessed to the crime. To the officers, it seemed that Ahmad, the murderer of his own sister, had been waiting for them.

In the days following the crime, it was frequently referred to as an "honor killing." A murder for the sake of honor? Is this even possible? Doesn't a man who cold-bloodedly kills his own sister, a girl seven years his junior, little more than a child, in fact lose all honor?

A Criminal for Whom Germany Was Foreign

Her father Ghulam-Mohammed Obeidi was the first to come to Germany. He arrived in 1992, when Helmut Kohl was still chancellor. The father was barely 30 years old, a good-looking young man who had been trained as a pilot in the Soviet Union. He had flown the legendary MiG-21 jet fighter, an aircraft capable of traveling at twice the speed of sound. Obeidi flew combat missions against the religious mujahedeen, and he was a member of the Communist Party, which soon fell from power when the Soviets withdrew and the mujahedeein took Kabul. Obeidi fled to Hamburg, where there was already a sizeable Afghan community. It seemed a good place for a new beginning, a place where he would not be alone.

An Afghan Enclave in Europe

Today, Hamburg is home to about 20,000 people of Afghan heritage, more than any other European city. Close to 7,000 have German passports. Before the murder of Morsal, Hamburg's Afghan community was relatively loose-knit and was rarely perceived as an ethnic group, partly because these immigrants had been so deeply divided at home that there was little left to unite them as a community abroad.

When the communists came into power in 1978, the supporters of the king were the first to leave Afghanistan. In 1989, the communists fled the victorious mujahedeen. After the Taliban was ousted in 1996, many of its supporters also went abroad. In other words, each group was fleeing from the next group that would follow it into exile.

Once they had arrived in Germany, the groups found that they had little in common. Old enemies were now neighbors, living together in the same city. To make life together more tolerable, these disparate immigrants focused on the one thing that could surmount all ideological differences: the family.

The family became their safe haven, and it was to be defended at all costs. The family, in this new, foreign world, could not be allowed to disintegrate.

 
This emphasis on the family created great pressure to conform, to obey the rules -- and it sealed the fate of Morsal Obeidi. Her father brought his family to Germany in 1994, when Ahmad was 10 and Morsal was only three. He could no longer work as a pilot in his adopted homeland. An Afghan elite soldier was not in high demand in Germany, and so he learned to drive a bus. He never learned enough German to truly fit in. Everyone here seemed to be overtaking him, even his own daughter.

Morsal attended the Ernst-Henning-Strasse Schule, an elementary and junior high school in Hamburg's Bergedorf neighborhood with students from 18 different countries. In the same neighborhood, near a pedestrian zone, she would often get together with friends after school. It was not a very attractive place to meet but, being in a different neighborhood, it offered Morsal and her friends an opportunity to get away from their families. There they could hang out, smoke, listen to music and occasionally drink alcohol. Morsal liked hip-hop music and Afghan pop. She was 16 and not unattractive to the boys.

There are many files about Morsal Obeidi, filled with the sparse comments of the many Hamburg agencies with which she came into contact over the years: the youth welfare agency, the school authority, the police. The files describe Morsal as a relatively poor student. In January 2007, the principal of her school, Dorit Ehler, informed her that she would not be able to complete the requirements to graduate from the vocational-track high school she was attending. Ehler informed the parents that she planned to keep Morsal back a grade, but that perhaps something could be worked out. The parents, however, had made up their minds long before, and they withdrew their daughter from the school.

Morsal, unlike her older sister, was obstinate. She was 14 when she began to resist her parents' authority. She was tired of being complacent, of living according to the old Afghan rules, which seemed irrelevant to her life in Hamburg. She argued with her parents about her appearance and her behavior, her uncovered hair, her makeup, her tight jeans and about smoking and drinking. They argued about her friends and acquaintances. For former fighter pilot Ghulam-Mohammed Obeidi, the family's reputation was at stake. It was the only thing he had left to lose.

In early March 2007, the family sent Morsal to stay with relatives in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. They wanted her to study the Koran and familiarize herself with prayer, and to shed everything that was German about her, the many bad influences and her supposedly dishonorable life. The parents, who had told their daughter that the trip was to be a vacation, soon returned to Germany. But Morsal was kept behind for nine months -- to be reeducated.

In Afghanistan she lived with her cousin, Yussuf Obeidi, a stately man in his mid-fifties. She attended a Koran school, filling her notebook with surahs, which she wrote down onomatopoeically using German letters. "Morsal was here because she wanted to be here," the cousin claims.

But by then it was too late for Morsal Obeidi.

It was the night she encountered Ahmad on the small parking lot across the street from the train tracks -- a fatal night for two siblings who no longer knew exactly where they belonged.

Traces of Morsal's blood remained behind on the concrete in front of the building's garage. Three days later, all that remained were a few dark spots, as black as motor oil.

 

JOCHEN-MARTIN GUTSCH, PER HINRICHS, SUSANNE KOELBL, GUNTHER LATSCH, SVEN RÖBEL, ANDREAS ULRICH

 

Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan