12-26-2007, 05:44 PM
<b>Pak journalist in spot over Amarinder, fatwa </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Chandigarh (PTI): As her "proximity" with former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh caused flutters, Pakistani journalist Aroosa Alam on wednesday said the relationship was only a friendship, and that she "is definitely not an ISI agent".
But the matter doesn't seem to be ending with that. As the Pakistani journalist addressed the media, Maulana Mabibur Rehman Shahi Imam, Jama Masjid Ludhiana, issued a fatwa in Ludhiana on wednesday calling for her social boycott by Muslims.
<b>The Shahi Imam said the tenets of Islam did not permit a woman to move about or keep company with any man other than her blood relations (father, mother and son). </b>
Only on Tuesday, Punjab's Leader of the Opposition and Congress leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal had said that Amarinder Singh should be concerned about her image vis-a-vis his relationship with the Pakistani journalist.
Clearly overawed by media coverage, Aroosa, who is president of the Islamabad chapter of South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), said: "I do not know how such a controversy (her relationship and the allegation of her being an ISI agent) was created."
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GS,
Here comes fatwa
But the matter doesn't seem to be ending with that. As the Pakistani journalist addressed the media, Maulana Mabibur Rehman Shahi Imam, Jama Masjid Ludhiana, issued a fatwa in Ludhiana on wednesday calling for her social boycott by Muslims.
<b>The Shahi Imam said the tenets of Islam did not permit a woman to move about or keep company with any man other than her blood relations (father, mother and son). </b>
Only on Tuesday, Punjab's Leader of the Opposition and Congress leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal had said that Amarinder Singh should be concerned about her image vis-a-vis his relationship with the Pakistani journalist.
Clearly overawed by media coverage, Aroosa, who is president of the Islamabad chapter of South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), said: "I do not know how such a controversy (her relationship and the allegation of her being an ISI agent) was created."
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GS,
Here comes fatwa