Friday, October 12, 2012

Pakistan - Over 50 ulema and muftis of the Sunni Ittehad Council issue fatwa against Malala attack, declare the US Enemy of Pakistan.


Pakistan - Over 50 ulema and muftis of the Sunni Ittehad Council issue fatwa against Malala attack, declare the US Enemy of Pakistan.(TE).More than 50 ulema and muftis of the Sunni Ittehad Council issued a collective fatwa denouncing the attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, terming the attack “un-Islamic,” reported Express News on Thursday. The fatwa declared that the murder of innocent people is tantamount to killing entire humanity. The fatwa observed that US drone attacks could not be made an excuse for carrying out attacks on Muslim brethren, and added that the US is an enemy of Pakistan and Islam. 
The edict further declared that Islam does not forbid women from obtaining education. 

Malala attack: Swat police arrest three key suspects.
The arrest of the suspects was announced by the District Police Officer (DPO) of Swat, however, he did not reveal any names. The suspects were moved to an undisclosed location for further investigations. The DPO said that the mastermind of the attack, Attaullah, will also be arrested soon. Interior Minister Rehman Malik had earlier claimed that the attackers had been identified. Malala Yousafzai, 14, who won international recognition for a blog about the horrors of life under the Taliban and a campaign for the right to an education, is the highest-profile target of militants in Swat for more than three years.Read the full story here.

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