Suicide Bomber Kills 40 In Pakistan Mosque, 100 Wounded

By STAFF Writer
August 19, 2011

At least 40 have been killed and 100 others injured in Peshawar, Pakistan after a suicide bomber struck a mosque during Friday prayers in the holy month of Ramadan.

So far no group has claimed any responsibility of the attack, but previously the Islamist militants like the Taliban had targeted mosques.

The mosque where the attack took place is in Ghundi, a village in the Khyber tribal region in the tribal belt of Pakistan. The region has been a Islamist militant's base for long and multiple operations have been waged by the Pakistani army at pacifying the region.

About four hundred people gathered for prayers in the Sunni mosque in afternoon.

The TV footage showed heavily damaged building, and scattered prayer caps, prayer mats and shoes across a blood-splattered floor.

According to village people, there were no security at the mosque which made easy for the suicide bomber to walk in undetected.

Since two bombings in mid of June this year, the attack appeared the deadliest.

Pakistani Taliban and the affiliates of the group stage such attacks frequently in Pakistan to oppose the alliance of Pak government with the United States.

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Iran Woman Stoning Case Invites International Outcry

By MALILA Harris

IRAN NEWS - Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, the Iranian woman whose death sentence by stoning shook the international world and incited global outcry against the horrible executions.

It is reported that in the recent times only Iran executed this harrowing punishment, and not in any Islamic country where Islamic sharia law is practiced. The press reports say at least five people were executed by stoning in recent years allegedly for adultery and fornication.

"It's actually not very widely used across the Middle East and Islamic world... even in Iran," said Malcolm Smart of Amnesty International.

The right activists blamed that stoning mostly singles out women. They call it an abhorrent punishment and against the law of humanity.

The 43-year-old Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, who was a mother of two, found guilty by the Islamic court for extra martial sex. However, the case is still under review though the sentence has already put a fear quotient in the family.

Her son, Sajjad feared that she might be executed after the end of Ramadan.

Under the international pressure and outcry within home, the government is delaying the execution. However, two radical islamic rebellions - The Taliban in Afghanistan and the Shebab in Somalia are smoothly implementing the terrible punishment.

The extrajudicial "honour Killing" stoning is not only prevalent in Muslims but continues among non-Muslims in conservative societies such as Pakistan, Iraq and India.

In Iraq a minorty Kurdish Yazidi 17-year-old girl was stoned to death because she eloped with her Sunni Muslim boyfriend.

In India last May, an eloped Hindu couples from different castes were captured by relatives of woman's family and eventually stoned to death.

In traditional Islamic law stoning explicitly embedded as a legal punishment, implementing on crimes adultery or sexual misconduct. According to an Islamic website, in the teachings of Mohammed it is mentioned that the prophet himself stoned the married adulterer and adulteress to death. According to them, this is enough evidence to make the punishment proven and authentic, and certainly not debatable.
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