Pregnant Pakistani woman stoned to death by her own family for marrying man she loved

A pregnant Pakistani woman was stoned to death by her own family in front of a Pakistani high court - for marrying the man she loved, UK Daily Mail reports

Nearly 20 members of the woman's family, including her father and brothers, attacked her and her husband with batons and bricks in broad daylight.

Farzana Parveen, who was three months pregnant, was killed before a crowd of onlookers in front of the high court of Lahore, police have reported. (Her corpse seen above) Continue...

 

Police official Naseem Butt said the 25-year-old had married Mohammad Iqbal, with whom she had been engaged for years against the will of her family. 

Her father had filed an abduction case against her husband, which the couple was contesting, her lawyer Mustafa Kharal said. 

Kharal said Parveen's relatives waited outside the court, which is located on a main downtown thoroughfare. 

As the couple walked up to the court's main gate, the family members fired shots in the air and tried to snatch her from Iqbal, he said. When she resisted, her father, brothers and other relatives started beating her, eventually pelting her with bricks from a nearby construction site, Iqbal said. 

Iqbal, 45, said he started seeing Parveen after the death of his first wife, with whom he had five children. 'We were in love,' he told reporters.

Mohammad Iqbal sits next to his wife Farzana's body

He alleged that the woman's family wanted to fleece money from him before marrying her off. 

'I simply took her to court and registered a marriage,' he said. 

Butt, the police official, said Parveen's father surrendered after the incident and called the murder an 'honor killing.'

One of Ms Parveen's in-laws wails over her dead body after the attack in Lahore, Pakistan

Culled from UK Daily Mail

LAWSA UNEC Continues Unbeaten Run: Match Report+Photos LAWSA ABSU vs LAWSA UNEC

 The football match between LAWSA UNEC and LAWSA ABSU billed to hold on Friday 23rd of May 2014 had been largely predicted by pundits to be a cracker.

The LAWSA UNEC team arrived ABSU Law Faculty at exactly 12:30 pm, the team was warmly welcomed by the ever amiable ABSU law students and officials, the team was subsequently addressed by the LAWSA ABSU Vice President who promised the team of a good beating.

The match which was heavily contested reached it's peak when Ubon Ubot scored for the away team from close range after a goal mouth scrabble. However the wonderful organization and interplay of the away team was disrupted when two key players of the away team Darlington and Pablo had to leave the pitch after being severely injured. 

The home team came to the second half a re-invigotrated team, perhaps because of a large influx of TEAM ABSU supporters(largely girls) who arrived the stadium en masse to cheer their team.

A highlight of the match however was when Ubon Ubot the scorer for the away team in retaliation for a bad tackle rammed his boot studs into the laps of one of the LAWSA ABSU players. A boiling fight was however avoided as the players tempers were calmed.

With the bad condition of the pitch and the scorching sun coupled with the increasing tiring of the away team, it was not long as the home team found the equalizer as a midfielder for the home team curled home a fine effort into the net of the away team.

The highly reputable coach of the away team employed all his magic including making certain changes but the match which was hotly contested ended in a draw.

FULL ENGLISH TRANSCRIPT OF BOKO HARAM LEADER ABUBAKAR SHEKAU'S LATEST VIDEO

FULL ENGLISH TRANSCRIPT of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau’s latest video. In it, he claims responsibility for abducting the Borno State girls.

"My brethren in Islam, I am greeting you in the name of Allah like he instructed we should among Muslims. Allah is great and has given us privilege and temerity above all people.

If we meet infidels, if we meet those that become infidels, according to Allah, there is no any talk except hitting of the neck. I hope you, chosen people of Allah, are hearing. This is an instruction from Allah. It is not a distorted interpretation, it is from Allah himself.

"This is from Allah on the need for us to break down infidels, practitioners of democracy, and constitutionalism, voodoo and those that are doing Western education in which they are practicing paganism.

"If you say, “I pledge to Nigeria my country,” it is wrong and act of paganism. For me, I pledge to Allah. my God, to be faithful to my Allah and you to your country. I to my Allah, I pledge to my Allah. To be faithful, loyal and honest to serve Allah. Are you saying what? To serve Nigeria? To Serve Allah? Loyal and honest to serve Allah? That is what I will say; this is what you are saying in your reading of Western education. With all your strength you said you will worship a land, this is what you people said.

"They are even saying that they would defend indivisibility of the country and its oneness. For me, I will defend only what Allah said and you are only defending country. This is our differences and that is where I detect that Western education is infidel. Allahuakubar. This is a message to Muslims to wage war against infidels who are not doing what Allah said. Those who are working that infidels and their act become our institutions in the world.

"Suddenly you will hear somebody coming and be saying that there are no religious differences, where did you have that talk that there are no differences? Where did you get this talk because of Allah? Who told you there are no differences when Allah said there are differences in religion? What will you say about what Prophet said that the whites and the Jews will not trust you until you turn to their religion? This is what our leader said and you are telling us something useless.

"You are sitting down in the name of clerics with turbans; you are sitting with Christians thinking it is mediation. Saying it is development and progress, what progress after you have deviated from Allah? We will die killing and slaughtering them, if you meet infidels in battle field brethren, just harvest their necks; Allah said it and not Shekau. Harvest Jonathan’s neck, harvest Kashim’s neck, Allah said cut out Burabura’s neck, even in Ka’aba if some is doing Salat for so long as he is deviating from what Allah said, he is infidel. Cut out their necks until the time that you will get majority over infidels of the world. And you will get it, Allah said it, time will come that you will form majority over infidels, face to face.

"We will hold you as slaves, who told you there is no slave? They said human rights, stupid liars, when did you know human rights? You just come and lying in the name of Allah, Allah who created human doesn’t know rights until you stupid?

"I will marry out a female at 12; I will do same for a nine year old girl like it was done on my mother Aisha and wife of Prophet. You infidels of the world, you have met a trouble, we must follow Allah, and you should die with bitterness.

"Brethren cut out infidels from their necks, brothers you should capture slaves; just because I took girls in western school they are worried. I said they should even desert the school, they should go and marry. Nonsense, I am the one that captured your girls and I will sell them in the market. I have my own market of selling people; it is the owner that instructed me to sell. Yes, I will sell the girls people, I am selling the girls like Allah said until we soak the ground of Nigeria with infidels blood and so called Muslims contradicting Islam. After we have killed, killed, killed and get fatigue and wondering on what to do with smelling of their corpses, smelling of Obama, Bush, Putin and Jonathan worried us then we will open prison and be imprisoned the rest. Infidels have no value.

"It is Jonathan’s daughter that I will imprison; nothing will stop this until you convert. If you turn to Islam then you will be saved. For me anyone that embraces Islam is my brother. Stupid Jonathan, no matter your infidel status you will be surprise. Until the land is soaked with blood, you have never fought me but I am angry with you, this is what I said. We will kill and imprison and never get tired or you bring your trillion, there is nothing we can do with your money, if you know us you will not think that of us.

"Allah said he just give us work because if he likes, he will finish infidels, but Allah made us to fight you so as to taste our faith. Some of us that said we are believers; it is to see if we are sincere or just playing to gallery. This is what Allah does to taste us with difficulties and see our faith. Those that died working for Allah, they will not lose their deeds, and they will see it in heaven.

"May Allah make us killed in working for him, oh Allah make us to work for you. Oh Allah helps us to work for you, this is what I will tell my brothers to stand and work for Allah and Islam.

"What I will want you to know is, there is slavery in Islam, don’t be deceive about United Nations, it is useless thing and I call them United Nations of absurdity led by Ban Ki-moon. If not how can you say there is no slaves? Why are you slaughtering chicken? If someone say there is slave, what is wrong? Are daughters of slaves not slaves? It is Quran that said so, for example can you go into someone’s house with his wife and children and say they should leave the house? Locals will even say you are an oppressor and so, where is Allah and you? Where is Allah and you Jonathan and Obama? Where is Allah and Ban Ki-moon? And you are saying you are advocates of human rights. Humour sexual people like you, promoters of same sex marriage, animals knows rights more than them, even sheep doesn’t sleep sheep, but you keep a woman and a woman as husband and wife.

"See the time we are in and Obama will stand up and say it is their rights, see what we are facing. We said we will worship our Allah and stick to what he said, we left your sight and you are still fighting us. You think we will not worship Allah? Allah said his land is vast and only him will be worshipped. Go and form your own land, we are in Allah’s land and don’t know Nigeria. We don’t know Cameroon or Chad, I don’t know, I don’t have a country. Islamiyya is what I have, wherever I am is mind. This is what we know.

"There are slaves in Islam, you should know this, Prophet Muhammed took slaves himself during Badr war. He killed many and because of this, I will also kill Obama, if I catch him. I will kill Jonathan, if I catch him. Just like you want to catch me and kill me. Do you think I will Allah’s work? I am not mad; it is you that is mad. You are placing 50 million booty on the person that catch me, you don’t know that there people that we are slaughtered in the cause of Islam, I am no one. I know my religion well and not illiterate. I am nothing if Civilian JTF kills me. Even a small person can kill me. I am working for God and will die in it, no one can stop me. You killed Mohammed Yusuf, are you not saying he is even better than Shekau? Even if you kill me, other fighters will rise better than me, I am nothing and worthless before God who I am working for. That is Islam you don’t know.

"Like Prophet did, even if I catch slave, I will hold and say I am the owner. There is no President in Nigeria. No President in Nigeria, no President in the world only Islam. Why would you arrest people and keep them in prison? What is the reason? You are doing yours, should we not do Allah’s own? Any infidel is a sheep to be sold, Jonathan, if I catch you, I will sell you, Obama, Bush I will sell you for peanut. Infidels doesn’t have value, I am the most expensive, don’t be agree, I have no doubt it will have, the only way this stop is your conversation. I will cut and not eat your meat; neither will I drink your blood.

"Let me tell you prominent people who worked for Allah and authored several books were slaves, and you come here saying we are selling girls, are you their manufacturer? You are nothing, it is the owner that authorizes the sell, and you are suffering people you gave people holding arms without food. It is Bush and Obama that are talking about rights.

"It is a lie, in fact you suppose to wash and re-wash a plate Christian eats food before you eat as Muslims. You know all these things and you are contradicting Islam. And you come joining hands with Bush, and Obama. You are laughing, I am talking about King of Saudi Arabia, and they are his advisors. Our own people are those in Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan and Mali. Our own are those who will stand and say Quran to be followed. I will not fear anyone.

"You are seen me black, I am for Allah; you are deceiving people that they are Arabians. No matter what you think, I will not follow anyone except Allah; I will not model anyone except Prophet. Brethren stand up and never allowed yourself to be cheated. You came deceiving people with democracy and Abraham Lincoln, Aminu Kano, Tafawa Balewa are all infidels because it was constitution that they promoted. If you like you should understand or deliberately refused. May Allah help us to do what is in Quran.

"How can you call Allah when you have followed Obama, I am not Boko Haram, I am Jamaatu Allus sunna lil daawati wal Jihad. I don’t care what you call me, you are in trouble. I am against government of the people by the people. I am for government of the people by Allah. I will not worship what you are worshipping, you are worshipping democracy and because of that you are tracing to kill us. What is even your religion, communists like you. Everything you say NATO, you thought we don’t know, England, France, Germany, China, all communists.

"All those clerics are to be killed for following democracy, all of them are infidels. I will tell Muslims what Allah wants them to do. We are anti-Christians, and those that deviated from Islam, they are forming basis with prayers but infidels.

"All those with turbans looking for opportunities to smear us, they are all infidels. Betrayers and cheats like them. Like Israel people, Rome, England they are all Christians and humour sexual. People of Germany like Margret Thatcher. Ndume are all infidels.

"Saminu Turaki said he is representing mediation, enter our hand and see mediation. All of them are infidels. Here is what Bush once said and we will repeat it here. He said all the fights going on in Iraq and Afghanistan are Christian war, crusade, it is a known issue. And that they will crush Afghanistan, today I will say my own. To the people of the world, everybody should know his status, it is either you are with us Mujahedeen or you are with the Christians. The likes of Obama, Lincoln, Clinton, Jonathan, Aminu Kano. They are your fathers of democracy, the likes of Tafawa Balewa. It is Usman Dan Fodiyo that is our own.

"We know what is happening in this world, it is a Jihad war against Christians and Christianity. It is a war against western education, democracy and constitution. We have not started, next time we are going inside Abuja; we are going to refinery and town of Christians. Do you know me? I have no problem with Jonathan. This is what I know in Quran. This is a war against Christians and democracy and their constitution, Allah says we should finish them when we get them.

"It was in this land that they cleaned defect with Quran in Maiduguri, in university they did same. They are cheating Islam and deceiving. I support not Abraham Lincoln, Ban Ki-moon, and any unbeliever. This war is against Islam. God will not leave us. You are dying because of money and I will die believing in Allah."

FFK Accuses Sanusi Lamido Of Sponsoring Boko Haram

"Nigerian's don't want to accept the ugly fact that there are some key individuals, who some of them still literally worship and rever, that are the ones actually encouraging, fueling and funding Boko Haram and that are waging war against our people" Femi Fani Kayode writes in a new article titled 'The Haramites of Boko'. Quite an interesting read. Find it below...

MUST READ:Senator Iyabo Obasanjo's Letter to Boko Haram

Senator Iyabo Obasanjo has accused those in President Goodluck Jonathan’s inner circle of
being a hindrance to the resolution of the crisis posed by the Boko Haram insurgency.
In an open letter to the Islamist sect, whose leadership she credited with
“more sense,” Senator Obasanjo, however, faulted the insurgents for betraying the true essence of
revolutionaries in directing their venom against the lower class.
Dr. Obasanjo in the 860-word letter particularly cringed at the abduction of hundreds of school girls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, saying their crave for sexual gratification is no excuse for the abduction.
While noting her surprise that more armed groups have not risen against the state given the social
and living conditions of the majority of the population, she wrote:
“I am moved to write about the current state of affairs in Nigeria. My first inclination was to write
to the President but since all letters to him seem to elicit only open derision and even more
stupidity from his inner circle, I have decided to address my letter to a group also currently
causing Nigerians a lot of pain and agony that may actually have more sense than the country’s
leadership.
Dear Boko Haram
“The fact that you have taken arms against the Nigerian state is no surprise. The question should
be why haven’t more young people organised themselves against the state?
“Even the fact that your motto, ‘Against Western Education’ is in a way reasonable given the fact
that your leader, martyred by the Nigerian state had university education and found no reasonable
employment but had to resort to thuggery for politicians to survive, as the story goes.
“He, like millions of Nigerian young people and college graduates, seeing a blighted future are
doing anything to survive.
“They have become opportunistic desperados, almost sub‑human as the stepping on and trampling on each other to death at the
Immigration employment debacle indicates.
‘Where you’re wrong’
“Where I think you have gotten it wrong are in two areas, if you can pardon my giving you some
unsolicited advice.
“First, your victims are becoming more and more the people you should be attracting to your side.
Take the Nyanya bus massacre.
“The people that live in Nyanya are usually the clerks, messengers and other lowly office workers
that live out in relative slums compared to the rest of Abuja and take public transportation to
work to receive monthly salaries they barely get by on.
“Consult any written work of successful revolutionaries be it French, Russian, Cuban or
even the more recent uprooting of communism in Eastern Europe, to succeed you need the people
to be on your side. Right now you are not achieving this.
“You are targeting the group you need most. This does not make for a successful revolution but you
are making yourselves into nuisances to the people and in the end while the state, including its
military machine may not be able to conquer you, your downfall will be alienating these potential
allies, i.e. the oppressed and down-trodden.
“Secondly, the abduction of girls. It must be hard to stay in the bush as all male revolutionaries
fending for yourselves with no sexual gratification.
Cuban example
“But again, reading up on past bush
revolutionaries like the Cuban, for example, indicates that they were able to convince some
women to go voluntarily with them into the bush.
“Somehow, revolutionary zeal does not include sexual abstinence and cooking and cleaning by
yourselves.
“Reading must be hard for you since you hate education but the past is a good guide to the
future and if you can’t read, you are done for in organizing or succeeding in most endeavours as
most things have been done before and reading up on how it was done can only serve as good guidance.
“The parents of the girls you abducted are just trying to give their daughters a chance at having
successful lives. Without an education there is very little anyone can achieve in this early 21st
century.
“I know living in the bush; it must still seem like the dark ages but the truth is that even with the
lack of jobs and opportunities for young people in Nigeria currently, it is still better to be educated.
“An educated university graduate who was selling food from a food cart ignited the Arab Spring
which was spread by use of the internet which is hard to use if you are not educated.
“There are writings, videos and stuff you post on the internet which I haven’t seen. But think of it,
you can only post and use the internet because some of you have some education.
“But in the end you have no control over the distribution of your advertising and recruiting
information because as you may know, the internet is really part of the western system you despise.
Why you’re succeeding
“The truth is that you have succeeded because the Nigerian state has failed to provide jobs and
opportunity for its young people who you can now easily recruit. By disrupting education, you are
adding to the burden of the people.
“You may say, but how about our religious issue?
Let the truth be told, just as there are indigenous southern Muslims, there are indigenous northern Christians even from your epicentre in Borno
State and just as you are zealous for your religion, I don’t see them giving up their religion either.
“The reasonable solution to this impasse would be for you to advocate for everyone to be able to
practice their religion as they see fit with respect for each other’s beliefs.
“Remember, a couple of centuries ago, all of our ancestors below the Sahara were all animists
worshipping various ‘gods.’
“This ‘One God’ — us against them situation — is a relatively recent one in our human history and
you will be advised to let the originators fight it out and let your people be.”