Mufti Muneeb urges govt. to deal blasphemy issue without pressure

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KARACHI: The renowned religious scholar Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman has urged the government on Sunday not to take any pressure on the blasphemy issue.

Addressing the press conference, he said that some organizations which work against the blasphemy law use the shelter of human rights and minority rights. Trend Pk

Writer Mumtaz Mufti’s 15th death anniversary today

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KARACHI: Today marks the 15th death anniversary of Mumtaz Mufti. He was a distinguished Urdu writer of Pakistan. He transformed from Liberalism to Sufism and was a recipient of Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 1986. He died on October 27, 1995.

Mumtaz Mufti was born in Batala, Punjab (India), on September 11, 1905. He was the son of Mufti Muhammad Hussain and his first wife Sughra Khannum.

He became a civil servant under British rule and started his career as a school teacher. Soon after partition, he migrated to Pakistan with his family.

Mumtaz Mufti started writing Urdu short stories while working as a school teacher before partition.

In the beginning of his literary career, he was considered a non-conformist writer with liberal views who appeared to be influenced by Freud. His transformation from Liberalism to Sufism was due to his

Ruet-e-Hilal committee meets Wednesday

ISLAMABAD: The meeting of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee for sighting of moon of Ramazan-ul-Mubarak 1431 Hijri will be held on Wednesday (August 11).

The committee will meet under the chairmanship of Mufti Munib-ur-Rehman in the building of Pakistan Meteorological Department, Main University Road, Gulshan-e-Jauhar, Karachi.

Twilight falls sharply but makes it to $161M

LOS ANGELES: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is waning at the box office but still has gotten off to a blockbuster start with $161 million in its first five days.

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Spain set for final push at World Cup

DURBAN: A month in South Africa has brought Spain full circle.

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Mufti Munib condemns Lahore attack

KARACHI: President Tanzeem- ul- Madaris Ahle-Sunnat Pakistan, Mufti Munib-ur-Rehman Sunday, condemning attack on Data Darbar, the shrine of Hazrat Syed Ali Hajveri at Lahore called for need to devise an effective strategy and future course of action in the light of realties.

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Strike Across Sindh Today

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazlur Rehman) and Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatm-e-Nabuwat (TTKN) jointly called for a complete strike today throughout Sindh against the killing of Mufi Saeed Ahmed Jalalpuri and his associates.
In a joint press conference, chief JUI-F Karachi chapter Qari Usman and TTKN leaders demanded the government to immediately book the assailants and bring them to justice. They appealed to the people of Sindh not to open businesses and stay at homes on Saturday in protest of target killing of religious scholars.
Amir TTKN Karachi chapter Mufti Saeed Ahmed Jalalpuri, his son Mufti Huzaifa Jalalpuri, Mufti Qamar Zaman and Mufti Atiq ur Rehman were gunned down Thursday by unidentified assailants in Gulzar-e-Hijri area of Karachi.

New TTP Chief Hakim Ullah Mehsud Died: Sources

ISLAMABAD: Sources on Tuesday has revealed that Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Hakim Ullah Mehsud is also dead, Aaj News reported.

Sources told Aaj News that interview given to BBC in the name of Hakim has actually the voice of his brother.

According to the sources, the motive behind hiding the news of Hakim Ullah’s death was to save banned TTP from conflicts.

Earlier reports said that during the Shura meeting of banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for the nomination of Baithullah Mehsud’ s successor, fierce clash had been reported between two faction of Taliban Groups, resultantly two nominees Hakim Ullah Mehsud and Mufti Wali-ur-Rehman were killed.

According to media, Shura meeting of TTP was going on at some unidentified place in South Waziristan for the nomination of deceased Baithullah Mehsud’s successor, during which Mufti Wali-ur-Rehman and Hakim Ullah Mehsud exchanged hot words with each other, that later turned into cross-firing against each other, resultantly 4 people were reported to be kill including Hakim Ullah and Mufti Wali-ur-Rehman.

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New TTP Chief Hakim Ullah Mehsud Died: Sources was first posted on September 1, 2009 at 1:39 pm.
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Mehbooba Mufti Throws Microphone at Held Kashmir Assembly Speaker

SRINAGAR: There was ruckus in the Assembly of Indian occupied Kashmir on Monday with legislators of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stalling the proceedings by shouting slogans against the Indian government over the Shopian murders.

The PDP legislators gathered near the speaker’s podium and Mehbooba Mufti even tried to fling a microphone at the speaker.

The incident occurred after PDP leaders started raising slogans over the Shopian incident in which two women were raped and murdered in May.

Led by party president Mehbooba Mufti, PDP legislators started shouting slogans like “Produce the killers of Shopian” as the assembly session began.

After repeated requests by the speaker failed to restore order, he ordered the dismissal of the PDP MLAs from the floor of the House. The MLAs, however, refused to leave and police officials had to forcibly escort them out of the assembly.

Pandemonium continued in the assembly till the PDP legislators were taken out of the House.

Mehbooba Mufti later accused the Speaker of using “unparliamentarily” language and acting more like a “ruling NC worker” in the House.

Mehbooba Mufti said, “I took on the Speaker as he was ordering PDP MLAs out.”

“We did nothing wrong. Speaker was at fault, she added.

PDP MLAs led by Mehbooba Mufti are now staging a sit-in dharna outside the assembly.

Meanwhile, the bail applications of IoK police officers Javed Iqbal Mattoo and Rohit Baskotra, arrested in connection with the sensational Shopian murder case, will come up for hearing on Monday at a court in Shopian.

The pleas of the two officers were moved on Sunday before the sessions court by senior Supreme Court lawyer Asim Mehrotra who flew into Srinagar to argue the case on behalf of Mattoo and Baskotra.

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Mehbooba Mufti Throws Microphone at Held Kashmir Assembly Speaker was first posted on July 27, 2009 at 3:05 pm.