Sex maniac Indians Rape and Kill An Australian Tourist
Muhammad Javed Iqbal
frequent assaults and rapes of tourist women. Two taxi drivers raped a
59 year old Australian woman and then killed her:
NEW DELHI: An Indian court sentenced two taxi drivers to death on
Monday for raping and murdering an Australian tourist in the nation’s
capital four years ago, court officials said.
Emelie Griggs, 59, had arrived in New Delhi on March 17, 2004, to
enrol in a meditation course, but was raped and killed by a taxi
driver and his associate shortly after she checked out of the airport
and took a taxi, police said.
The next day, her body, which had multiple injuries, was found in a
deserted field and police subsequently arrested the taxi drivers on
charges of rape and murder.
Both men were sentenced to death by a lower court, court officials and
a New Delhi Police spokesman said.
Frequent attacks on tourists have thrown an uncomfortable spotlight on
their safety in India, and prompted tourism officials this year to ask
police to provide better security.—Reuters
M. Javed Iqbal
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Tyrants:
Sending ripples in Pak society
EIGHT years have elapsed since Tehmina Durrani published her first
book, “My Feudal Lord”, sending ripples in Pakistan’s male-dominated
and women-baiting society. Like thousands of Pakistani women who have
silently and perpetually suffered pain and dishonour, Tehmina too had
undergone traumatic experience of a feudal society, motivated by
dogmas of religious fundamentalism. Thirteen years of married life
with a politically powerful man, 22 years older to her, bearing four
children and indignities heaped on her, had turned the young woman
into a rebel. Her divorced husband, Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar, a Chief
Minister and later Governor of Punjab, imprisoned by the military
dictator Zia, was in her own words “a tyrant, debauch and womaniser”.
Tehmina’s latest book — Blasphemy — has just hit the stands in
Pakistan and may soon be available in India. Eyebrows are being raised
at the book as, it is feared, that the well-researched and well-
documented novel, has the potential to turn her into another Tasleema
Nasreen or may push her into a Salman Rushdie-like situation. The work
reportedly exposes the moral degradation of the clergies — “Muslims”,
“Maulvis” and “Pirs” — whom she portrays as those following two hues
of Islam; one for haves and another for the have nots. One Islam is
disseminated by the rich and the powerful with the objective of
furthering their domination and the other is the real one, the
spiritual Islam, as expounded in the Quran.
The novel, perhaps, reflects her own exploitation at the young age by
“her feudal lord” and his other former wives who were subjected to
male monstrosity. She dedicated the first book to “six ex-wives of
Mustafa Khar who have silently suffered pain and dishonour, and seen
him get away with impunity. This time one of them is holding him
accountable”.
The plot of “Blasphemy” revolves round a 15-year-old girl who is
forced into marriage to a much older Pir and her subsequent trauma as
she undergoes torture and sexual perversion. The holy man has already
killed his two previous wives of tender age by sexual excesses.
Tehmina is, perhaps, questioning the practice of Islam in Pakistan in
her own way as she has herself seen and experienced. The exposure of
clerics rips open their moral and spiritual facade and their claim of
superiority over the people in general.
The clerics have yet to react to the book but the work has been fast
emerging as a big hit in Pakistan within barely three weeks of its
publication. Reports say that the book is in the fourth print and the
most sought after in bookshops and sold in grocery shops and petrol
pumps. Its Urdu translation is also on the way. Could it be that women
in Nawaz Sharif’s 100 per cent Islamic Pakistan have been breaking
through their oppressive silence. No longer are they prepared to
accept the virtuous role thrust upon them by society. Time has come
when they must speak out and “Blasphemy” is a living example.
An Afghan Pathan by descent, Tehmina is the grand-daughter of Sir
Sikankar Hyat. Her father, Wasim Duranni, was Managing Director of
Pakistan Airlines and Governor of the State Bank. He married Wasim,
who had come to be known as a legendary Pathan beauty. Tehmina was
married when she was barely 18. Three years later, she met the
charismatic Mustafa Khar just after he resigned as Chief Minister of
Punjab in 1974. Khar wooed the stunning beauty, as Tehmina was then,
and they divorced their respective spouses. She became Khar’s seventh
wife in 1975.
After Gen Zia-ul-Haq’s coup in 1977, the couple fled into self-imposed
exile in London. They spent nine years away from Pakistan. For her it
was a period of homelessness, frustration, insecurity and pain. Khar
was not an easy man to live with and shockingly he took the liberty of
romancing her sister, Adila.
Tehmina thought that life with Khar would be easy after returning to
Pakistan, but it was not to be so. Khar was arrested and charged with
conspiring to engineer a coup against Zia. She fought relentlessly for
his release. When Khar was released in 1988 just before the elections,
she was jubilant but destiny took another turn. Within three months it
became clear that Mustafa Khar had not changed as he was back to his
tyrannical ways. Tehmina was thoroughly disillusioned and realised
that Khar was not the man she could live with any longer.
Tehmina demanded a divorce and Khar agreed but put down the condition
that she should give up the custody of her children and foresake her
property right. She agreed and in a bid to settle scores with Khar
joined the Muslim League and wrote her first book “My Feudal Lord”.
Years of struggle has made Tehmina virtually a recluse but her
children understood the agony of their mother. Now only 45, she lives
with them. Her mission now is emancipation of women in Pakistan.
On Aug 11, 9:05 pm, Muhammad Javed Iqbal <kaleemjavediq...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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Pakis are crying for British while their SHARIA court order GANG rape
of a poor girl who commited no crime?
Many Pakis with teen age daughters run away from pakistan in order to
save the dignity of their daughters from Pakistani Mulla oriented
rapists.
These nasty uneducated Mullahs and Moulavis tell that Mohamed the
asshole and child rapist allow them to RAPE women and that is an
activity of Islamic god!
alec
We need emancipation from all religions that try to
control and brainwash the minds of people. Is there a religion that
gives humans the right to do and live as they see fit without
interfering in anyway with the human rights of others ? Do we need a
religion at all ? Whole nations are divided up into groups on
religious lines. I think it is time for man to give up his primitive
religious beliefs and start treating all humans as his brothers and
sisters setting aside dogmatism. I know this is as of now a far
fetched dream but with the advent of globalization I think it might
be possible to realize it. I believe anything is possible with God
and man.
alakeshwar
alakeshwar