Man used penis to assault female police officer The court heard Marium Varinauskas had been drinking heavily A man who assaulted a female police officer with his penis has been fined. Marium Varinauskas, 28, tried to strike the officer on the head with his penis when she was called out to his flat, but she got out of the way. Lithuanian Varinauskas admitted a charge of assault at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and was fined £600. The court heard he had been drinking heavily and could not remember committing the offence at his home in Aberdeen. Police were called to his … Continue reading A man who assaulted a female police officer with his penis has been fined.

The Taliban’s chief military commander was in secret talks with Hamid Karzai’s family just weeks before his arrest by Pakistan intelligence officers, it has been claimed. By Dean Nelson in Delhi and Ben Farmer in Kabul telegraph.co.uk Afghan President Hamid Karzai is said to have held secret talks with the Taliban Photo: EPA The Afghan president was furious about the seizure of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Karachi last month as the men had been negotiating, according to his aides. Diplomats have claimed at least one of Mr Karzai’s brothers held talks with the Taliban’s number two at a private … Continue reading Drugs deal… Hamid Karzai held secret talks with Mullah Baradar in Afghanistan

Artists and academics regularly refused UK entry, say campaigners Visa system is preventing overseas professionals from promoting or selling their work, according to a dossier of cases Owen Bowcott guardian.co.uk, The Patiala Pipe Band were refused entry to the UK. Photograph: Wattie Cheung/Camera Press Artists, authors and academics from overseas are regularly being refused permission to enter the UK under the government’s points-based visa system, according to a dossier of cases to be presented to Downing Street tomorrow. Writers have been prevented from attending their book launches, painters deported for carrying their own works and a Pakistani band banned from … Continue reading Mullah Jeremy Oppenheim of the UK terrorist group UKBA says NO!

Punjab khappay? Posted by Nadeem F. Paracha  According to many emails that I received after posting a blog in the wake of the terrible bomb attacks in Lahore last week, I was ‘spreading politics of ethnicity.’ I don’t know exactly what made these folks think this way, but the accusation does smack of an attitude demonstrated by many of my fellow countrymen when they are asked certain thorny questions regarding ideology and religion: they at once either label the questioner as being ‘anti-Islam’ or ‘anti-Pakistan.’ I am not the only writer in this country who has faced this kind of … Continue reading Wanting to kiss a mullah will get you raped!

An Israeli exercise in hubris By Irfan Husain dawn.com The ongoing row between Washington and Tel Aviv serves to show that the tail can wag the dog only for so long. After a while, even the most indulgent of uncles will stop handing out blank cheques to a spoiled nephew. The public — and unprecedented — rebukes emanating from the Obama administration will probably subside soon. But the underlying tension over the housing activities being carried out in blatant disregard for international law in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank will linger.Privately, Obama is said to be seething over … Continue reading Americans must stand up to Likud extremists!

Encountering fundamentalism —Nizamuddin Nizamani Extremist Islam is encroaching deeper into the Thar Desert and almost all district and tehsil headquarters of Sindh and Balochistan, where large numbers of seminaries, with new buildings and equipped with every kind of infrastructure, have been erected during the last few years Lethal suicide blasts in Lahore on March 13, 2010, which killed more than 60, including seven soldiers, shows the resilience and capability of the fanatics to strike in highly secured zones in the urban areas. Previously, they have attacked several security offices in Lahore, Rawalpindi and other cities in the Punjab and the … Continue reading Extremism in Islams name is encroaching deeper?

Fighting in the dark —Meher Bokhari Last year alone, innumerable incidents made a mockery of the Punjab government and its denial. The truth is, there is no dearth of facts. The tragedy is, there is no visible action being taken to address the evil, which now resides within “What world am I bringing my child into?” I didn’t have the answer to my four-month pregnant friend’s panicked question, but it is still ringing at the back of my mind. Friday night was possibly the most terrifying and confusing night for the citizens of Lahore. Alarm and bewilderment rushed through the … Continue reading PML-N Playing games with our childrens future?

CARTE BLANCHE: Pakistan’s new national game —Mehmal Sarfraz The Ministry of Sports has passed a decree that in view of the current sports crisis, it has been decided that to boost the morale of the general public we should have something that we excel in as our national game In the past week we have seen quite a flurry of activity on the sports front in Pakistan. First there was the whole cricket controversy where we saw the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) dishing out all sorts of lifetime and-years-long bans, levying heavy fines on players and what have you. Then … Continue reading Pakistan’s new national game ?

Blasphemy in a human world —Sikander Amani Whether you like it or not, the notion of blasphemy, or of ‘defamation of religion’, creates a hierarchy of beliefs which is simply incompatible with the plurality of the world, and the very right to hold a belief The Minister for Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, recently announced the revision of the Blasphemy Law. For anyone remotely familiar with the outrageous abuse of this law, which has more often than not been used to target non-Muslims for persecution, personal scores or political vendettas. This is very welcome — and long overdue — news. For anyone … Continue reading BLASPHEMY! – The word that takes away power from The Creator and gives it to the Mullah, Priest, Rabbi……..

US military targets Israeli ‘intransigence’ By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON – The crisis touched off by last week’s announcement of Israel’s plans to build 1,600 new homes for Jews in Arab East Jerusalem during a high-profile visit by United States Vice President Joseph Biden appears to be escalating rapidly. Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to Washington and a historian who has written widely on ties between the two nations, called the growing contretemps “the worst [bilateral] crisis in 35 years” in a teleconference with other US-based Israeli diplomats on Saturday night, according to a number of published accounts. Twenty-four hours later, the … Continue reading Southern Baptist Mullahs put US troops at risk in Middle East