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Year 2  Issue 15  Thursday, 25.10.12

Hajj Mubarak Labbaik Allahumma Labbaik

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Malala’s attacker arrested, was freed in 2009

(O God, here I am answering your call) The alleged organiser of the Taliban shooting of 14-yearold Malala Yousafzai was captured during a 2009 military offensive against the hardline Islamist group but released after three months,

Arrests made in shooting of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala

More than three million pilgrims, including two million from abroad, including More than 25,000 British Hajj Pilgrims are taking part in the spiritual event Haj 1433

Groups of pilgrims have started the move from Madinah and other parts of the Kingdom to Makkah and Mina, chanting Labbaik Allahumma Labbaik (O God, here I am answering your call). Haj must be performed at

least once in their lifetime by all Muslims capable of making the expensive, difficult journey - a duty that applies equally to Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims at a time of tension between Islam’s Continued on page 11 >>

NYPD paid me to ‘bait’ Muslims, informant of Bangladeshi descent claims

The main suspect in the shooting of Malala Yousufzai, the teenage activist who spoke out against the Taliban, has been identified, Pakistani police say. And a group of men who allegedly facilitated the attack against the schoolgirl have been arrested, police said Wednesday. Atta Ullah, a 23-year-old from the

Swat district where Malala was attacked, was identified as the main suspect. Ullah was studying for a masters in chemistry, police say. The Taliban-heavy Swat Valley is in the northwestern part of Pakistan. The suspect’s fiancée, mother and brother have also been arrested. Continued on page 4 >>

The story does not end “ Hina will be next after Malala”

“Another school girl from Swat threatened by Taliban” A red cross marked on Hina Khan’s residence.

A paid informant for the New York Police Department’s intelligence unit was under orders to “bait” Muslims into

saying inflammatory things as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent

people attending study groups on Islam Report. Shamiur Rahman, a 19-year-old Continued on page 5 >>

Following the deadly attack on activist Malala Yousafzai a few weeks ago, another schoolgirl from Swat, Hina Khan who was a pioneer in raising her voice publicly against Taliban atrocities in the Malakand Valley, is now also claiming to be

on the Taliban’s hit list. What has been further worrisome for her Continued on page 4 >>


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