Pakistani Woman, Khadija Noor, Jailed For 2 Years in India After Crossing Border For Love Released On Bail
New Age Islam News Bureau
23 March 2025
• Pakistani Woman, Khadija Noor, Jailed For 2 Years After Crossing Border For Love Released On Bail
• On Khartoum front line, Sudan women medics risk all for patients
• 39% Muslim women take on earning roles: Survey
• Indian-origin woman charged with murdering 11-year-old son after Disneyland trip
• Gujarati father, daughter shot dead in US store, 1 arrested
• Women Should Fearlessly Take On Greater Roles - Dr Wan Azizah
• Afghan women call on Trump to prosecute Zalmay Khalilzad
• Mystery shrouds Mansehra schoolgirl’s death on campus
Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau
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Pakistani Woman, Khadija Noor, Jailed For 2 Years After Crossing Border For Love Released On Bail
Mar 22, 2025
Khadija Noor from Pakistan, who fell for Hyderabad’s Syed Haider on Instagram, travelled via Dubai and Nepal before attempting to enter India through Bihar’s Bhittha border.
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Sitamarhi/Patna: Khadija Noor from Pakistan set out on a journey to be with her love, but it turned into a legal ordeal that kept her in jail for nearly 2 years and 7 months. She was finally released on conditional bail and ordered to stay in Sitamarhi, Bihar, until the case hearing was completed.
Khadija Noor, a resident of Faizabad, Pakistan, fell in love with Syed Haider from Hyderabad, India, through Instagram. Determined to be with him, she embarked on a journey from Pakistan to Dubai, then to Kathmandu, Nepal, before attempting to enter India through the Bhittha border in Bihar.
However, on August 8, 2022, as she was crossing the Nepal-India border, SSB personnel detained her. At the time of her arrest, she was 24 years old, and her passport listed her father's name as Ishak Mohammad. Although she had a Nepal tourist visa issued by the Nepal Embassy in Islamabad on July 29, valid for 30 days, it did not grant her entry into India.
After being taken into custody, SSB personnel handed her over to the police, and she was later sent to jail. Though she secured bail from the Sitamarhi Civil Court on October 18, 2022, she remained in custody due to a lack of legal sureties and paperwork delays. Her case eventually reached the Patna High Court.
On March 19, 2025, Khadija Noor was finally released after Syed Haider and his brother from Hyderabad stepped in as guarantors. However, the court imposed strict conditions:
What started as a social media romance on Instagram turned into a complicated legal battle for Khadija Noor. Her journey from Pakistan to India for love ended with a long stay in jail and an uncertain future as she awaits the final verdict of her case.
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On Khartoum front line, Sudan women medics risk all for patients
March 22, 2025
Khansa Al-Moatasem, head of the nursing team at Al-Nao hospital in Omdurman, speaks during an interview on Thursday. (AFP)
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OMDURMAN: When fighting first gripped the Sudanese capital in April 2023, quickly overwhelming Khartoum’s hospitals, Dr. Safaa Ali faced an impossible choice: her family or her patients.
Nearly two years into the war between the regular army and the Rapid Support Forces, she is one of the last remaining obstetricians in the capital, risking her life to give Sudanese women a shot at safe births.
We find strength in our love of our country, our passion for our work, and the oath we swore,” she said in a war-damaged delivery room.
“We find strength in our love of our country, our passion for our work, and the oath we swore,” she said in a war-damaged delivery room.
She is one of a cohort of doctors, nurses, technicians, and janitorial staff who met in the last hospitals in Omdurman, Khartoum’s sister city just across the Nile.
Their operating theaters were turned into battlegrounds, their hospitals bombed, and their colleagues killed where they stood. Yet through bombs and bullets, they turned up for their patients every day.
For months, medical personnel have been subjected to routine accusations from combatants that they have been collaborating with the enemy or failing to treat their comrades.
“Health professionals were attacked, kidnapped, killed, and taken hostage for ransom,” said Dr. Khalid Abdelsalam, Khartoum project coordinator for medical charity Doctors Without Borders, or MSF.
Nationwide, up to 90 percent of hospitals in conflict zones have been forced shut, according to Sudan’s doctors’ union, which says at least 78 health workers have been killed since the war began. By October, the World Health Organization had recorded 119 attacks on health facilities.
Despite repeated attacks, Khansa Al-Moatasem heads the 180-person nursing team at Al-Nao, Omdurman’s only hospital functioning throughout the war.
After the RSF stormed the nearby maternity hospital early in the war, Dr. Ali, who serves as the hospital’s director, steeled her nerves and went to the paramilitary forces herself.
“I met their field commander and told him this was a women’s hospital, only for them to storm it again the next day with even more fighters,” she recalled.
Eventually, the hospital was forced to close its doors after its ceilings collapsed, its equipment was looted, and the walls of its delivery rooms were left riddled with bullets.
Since army forces recaptured much of Omdurman in early 2024, a semblance of normality has slowly returned, but hospitals have continued to come under attack.
As recently as February, Al-Nao was rocked by RSF shelling as its exhausted doctors raced to treat dozens of casualties from RSF artillery fire on a crowded market.
Those hospitals that still function have been forced to rely increasingly on the help of volunteers from the local Emergency Response Rooms. The neighborhood groups are part of a grassroots aid network delivering frontline aid across Sudan but mainly comprise young Sudanese with few resources.
But since November 2023, she has been training teams at the small, overwhelmed hospital, “where hardworking young people were struggling since the start of the war,” Abdelmajed said.
She said the work was often harrowing, but the honor of serving alongside such dedicated volunteers “has made this the highlight of my career.”
Source: Www.Arabnews.Com
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2594517/middle-east
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39% Muslim women take on earning roles: Survey
Mar 23, 2025
Hyderabad: A randomized survey done by a city-based NGO taking the Telangana govt caste census into account, has revealed that 39% Muslim women work to make a living for the households. In households where male earning member is indisposed or jobless the women work participation is nearly 90%, the survey revealed.
Another changing scenario as per the survey is that 45% of the women questioned in a sample of 3,000 said they are now getting encouragement to work but mostly prefer working from home.
The survey conducted by Helping Hand Foundation (HHF) as part of the Ramzan assessment of the principal minority community in Telangana, also revealed that majority of the men in the bottom end of the pyramid are auto-drivers, semi-skilled workers like plumbers, and electricians, informal labour in hotels and function halls and as street hawkers.
There is negligible participation in construction work, it said adding that the participation as gig workers is showing an upward trend within the community members.
"Poor Muslims in Telangana particularly in Hyderabad need development more than welfare in reducing the burden of high health and education expenses that will bring stability and savings," said Mujtaba Hasan Askari, HHF managing trustee.
He said Muslim population as per the recent caste census of Telangana gov has been capped at about 45 lakh. In the urban settlements of Hyderabad, Muslims roughly constitute about 30% to 35% of city's population. The survey focussed on the bottom 70% of the Muslim population, earning less than 15,000 per month.
"Single bread-earners and multiple dependents, negligible dual income households, particularly both husband and wife working models, low levels of migration to other metros for better living are some of the key features of many households. Many Muslim households are moderate on govt entitlements like ration cards, and other govt welfare schemes," the survey report stated. Literacy levels in both men and women in this segment is low. A family in urban settlement spends 800 at an average per month per child for education.
With poor health, particularly non-communicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease, chronic kidney disease and cancer taking a huge toll on every one in three households, the health care costs are going up significantly. An average family spends 2,000 to 8,000 per month on health care needs.
Source: Times Of India
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Indian-origin woman charged with murdering 11-year-old son after Disneyland trip
Mar 23, 2025
An Indian-origin woman accused of killing her 11-year-old son in a California's Santa Ana hotel room has been charged with murder. Saritha Ramaraju, 48, was accused of slitting her son's throat after they went on a vacation to Disneyland during a custody visit. Additional charges include a felony enhancement for using a knife.
If found guilty of all charges, she could receive 26 years to life imprisonment, according to Friday's statement from the Orange County District Attorney's Office, California.
"Ramaraju, who moved out of state after divorcing the boy’s father in 2018, was staying with her son at the La Quinta Inn, in the 2700 block of Hotel Terrace, in Santa Ana for a custody visit. During the visit, she bought three-day passes to Disneyland for herself and her son," the statement read.
On March 19, when she was due to return her son to his father and check out, Ramaraju contacted emergency services at 9.12 am, confessing to killing her son and attempting suicide through pill consumption.
Police discovered the deceased boy in the motel room surrounded by Disneyland merchandise. Evidence suggested the child had been deceased for hours before the emergency call. A kitchen knife, purchased the previous day, was found in the room. After hospital treatment for ingesting unknown substances, Ramaraju was arrested on Thursday.
“The life of a child should not hang in the balance between two parents whose anger for each other outweighs their love for their child,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. “Anger makes you forget who you love and what you are responsible for doing. The safest place for a child should be in their parents’ arms. Instead of wrapping her arms around their son in love, she slit his throat and in the cruelest twist of fate removed him from the very world she brought him into.”
The deceased child was identified as Yatin Ramaraju by NBC Los Angeles. The report revealed ongoing custody disputes between Saritha Ramaraju and Prakash Raju since the previous year. She had claimed he made unilateral decisions regarding medical care and schooling, also alleging substance abuse issues.
Court documents showed Prakash Raju originated from Bengaluru, India. Following their January 2018 divorce, he received custody while she maintained visitation rights.
Source: Times Of India
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Gujarati father, daughter shot dead in US store, 1 arrested
Mar 23, 2025
Ahmedabad: The tragic deaths of a father and daughter in a Virginia shooting have sent shockwaves through the Gujarati community in the US and Kanoda village in Mehsana. Pradeep Patel, 56, was shot dead on the spot, while his 24-year-old daughter, Urmi, succumbed to her injuries two days later. Police have arrested a man in connection with the incident, though the motive remains unclear.
Chandu Patel, a leader of the Kadva Patidar community in Kanoda and Pradeep's uncle, said the family first learned of the horrific attack through media reports. "They had just opened their store at around 5am on March 20 when a man entered and began shooting. Both Pradeep and Urmi were hit. The accused, identified as George Frazier Devon Wharton, has been arrested," he said.
Relatives in Kanoda said the Patels had moved to the US in 2019 on visitor visas and eventually settled there, managing convenience stores run by the Gujarati Patel community. They had taken over their current store just four months ago after working at another store about 75km away. "The family includes Pradeep's wife, two daughters, and a son. While both daughters are married into families from Gujarat, his son works in Canada. Urmi got married three years ago," said Pradeep's brother, Ashok Patel. "It is likely that their last rites will be performed in the US."
Family members believe the assailant was lurking near the store and opened fire as soon as the father-daughter duo arrived. Pradeep's cousin owns a store nearby.
This incident adds to a growing number of attacks on Gujaratis in the US. Just recently, Mainank Patel from Vadodara was shot dead in North Carolina, prompting the community to launch a crowdfunding campaign to support his pregnant wife and daughter.
Source: Times Of India
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Women Should Fearlessly Take On Greater Roles - Dr Wan Azizah
23/03/2025
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 (Bernama) -- Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, the wife of the Prime Minister, has urged women to step forward with confidence, and take on greater roles in national development, serving as agents of change for a more prosperous
society.The Member of Parliament for Bandar Tun Razak emphasised the need for more women who are courageous, visionary, and wise in leadership, to navigate today's world.“History has shown that women have played a pivotal role in
shaping Islamic civilisation. For instance, Saidatina Khadijah was
not only the wife o Prophet Muhammad SAW, but also a successful businesswoman and a key supporter of the Islamic dakwah.
“The same applies to Saidatina Aisyah, a renowned scholar and hadith narrator, whose knowledge has served as a reference for generations. Women's leadership in Islam is not confined to the
Source: Www.Bernama.Com
https://www.bernama.com/en/general/news.php?id=2405303
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Afghan women call on Trump to prosecute Zalmay Khalilzad
by Ahmad Azizi
23 Mar 2025
KABUL, Afghanistan — A coalition of Afghan women’s groups has called on President Trump to pursue the prosecution of Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. envoy to Afghanistan, accusing him of betraying American values and facilitating the Taliban’s return to power.
In an open letter addressed to Trump, the women alleged that Khalilzad “betrayed” American values and “transformed the Taliban from a terrorist group into a legitimate force” through his role as the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation. They argued that his actions directly contributed to the oppression and suffering Afghan women now face under Taliban rule.
“He repeatedly claimed that the Taliban had changed and would honor their commitments — claims that have now been proven false,” the letter states. “Afghanistan has become a safe haven for terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda and ISIS, while women are subjected to killings, brutal laws and systemic repression.”
The letter, signed by more than a dozen women’s organizations and protest movements — including the Afghan Women’s Lantern Movement for Freedom, the Afghan Women’s Justice Movement and the Bamyan Women’s Social Council — urges the United States to hold Khalilzad accountable in a court of law.
“As direct victims of this betrayal, Afghan women are witnessing the catastrophic consequences of Khalilzad’s policies,” the groups wrote, calling for what they described as a fair and transparent legal process.
The letter further claims that Khalilzad’s diplomatic efforts not only caused a humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan but also posed a broader threat to global security.
Khalilzad, who led negotiations with the Taliban under both the Trump and Biden administrations, has not publicly responded to the letter.
Source: Amu.Tv
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Mystery shrouds Mansehra schoolgirl’s death on campus
March 23, 2025
MANSEHRA: As mystery surrounded a schoolgirl’s death on campus in the Hilkot area here on Saturday, the police began an investigation.
“We’re trying to ascertain what exactly happened to the girl,” additional SHO of the Battal police station Shujaat Hussain Shah told reporters.
Mehrun Nisa Naseem complained to police that her 14-year-old eighth-grade daughter went to the Government Middle School Hilkot in the morning but at around 1230 noon, she was informed about her death.
“A teacher informed me over the phone that my daughter’s body is lying in the school’s backyard, so I rushed therewith my family members and found the body in a pool of blood,” she said.
Source: Www.Dawn.Com
https://www.dawn.com/news/1899657/mystery-shrouds-mansehra-schoolgirls-death-on-campus
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