(Canada / Pakistan)
Roohi Tabassum:
'In 3 weeks I will be put to my death' - Deportee fears honour killing
-- "A Mississauga woman says she'll be the victim of an honour killing by her
estranged husband, a Muslim extremist, when she's deported to Pakistan at the end of the month."
-- "Roohi Tabassum, 44, says Faisal Javed, a businessman and Sunni community
leader, will be waiting for her in their native Pakistan when she's sent back on April 28."
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/04/03/8986241-sun.html
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/04/03/8986241-sun.html
(Pakistan) NWFP: Pakistani Taliban defends flogging, says Sharia permits it
-- Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan: "the punishment awarded to the woman was just as she was of loose character"
-- Khan: "No one would be allowed to interfere in Sharia (Islamic law) and if
any man or woman commits sin, we will punish them according to Sharia."
-- "He termed the video played in the media Friday 'as fake and said
we will punish the man who filmed the video whenever we catch him'"
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-16039.html
-- Unrepentant Taliban say 17-yr-old 'flogged' girl should have actually been 'stoned to death'
--- Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan: "The actual punishment for
adultery was stoning to death. However, as there were no Qazis at that time, the girl was awarded punishment of 40 lashes"
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-15964.html
http://www.geo.tv/4-4-2009/39039.htm
(Pakistan) NWFP: Man who made Swat flogging video speaks to Dawn News
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-
library/dawn/news/pakistan/witness-to-swat-flogging-speaks-out--qs
-- "Shaukat is the only eye-witness who has come forward and spoken
to Dawn News about the incident. He claimed that the incident took place two weeks ago."
-- "Shaukat said the allegation against and the treatment meted out to the girl
was actually a punishment against her for refusing a marriage proposal."
-- "The man who proposed to marry her joined the ranks of the Taliban after
the rejection and this was how he took his revenge from the 17-year-old girl"
-- "When asked about the reaction of the people who had witnessed the
whole episode, Shaukat said the people in Swat are so scared that no one has
the courage to stand up and speak out against the Taliban and their verdicts."
(Pakistan) NWFP: Chand is not the only Swat woman victim
-- "the Taliban spokesman in Swat who defended the public flogging in several
interviews on Friday is also named Muslim Khan. He apparently mixed up the two
incidents of public lashing of women in Swat on Taliban orders by saying that the girl
videotaped during her canning was convicted of having illicit relations with her father-in-law.
That incident happened in Ser-Taligram village in Charbagh tehsil while the videotape is of the girl belonging to Kala Killay in Kabal area."
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=170821
-- Around 25 publicly flogged in 2 years by Taliban
-- Girl's flogging did not take place in Swat: TTP
http://www.geo.tv/4-4-2009/39039.htm
(Pakistan) Activists for human rights light candles for flogged girl in Swat
http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/news/largeImages/SWAT_L.jpg
http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=143324
(Pakistan) FATA: Canadian woman's captors say tomorrow's deadline final
-- Gumnam Mujahideen-e-Islam state that Jihad Unspun's Beverly Giesbrecht aka Khadija Abdul Qahaar says that she is Canadian spy
-- They state: "Under the Islamic laws, her punishment is death."
-- "despite being charged as a Canadian spy, the Taliban were ready to set her free if they were paid two million dollars"
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=170689
(Afghanistan) Overtures to Taliban endanger women's rights: activist
-- Orzala Ashraf of the Afghans Women's Network: "It was very disappointing to
hear the president of Afghanistan and most of the speakers this morning not
discussing the importance of women's rights enough, when it comes to the reconciliation part of Afghanistan's development"
http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE52U4A720090331?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
(Afghanistan) Karzai: Controversial women's law to be reviewed
-- "Karzai said he ordered the Justice Ministry to review the law, and
if anything in it contravenes the country's constitution or Shariah law, 'measures will be taken.'"
-- "The United Nations Development Fund for Women has said the law 'legalizes the rape of a wife by her husband.'"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562905176&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Saudi Arabia) Fighting the Winds of Change in Saudi Arabia
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