A brazen jewel thief in Halifax, England, attempted to steal a diamond ring worth more than £11,000 (US$21,484.31) — by concealing it in his butt! Ewwwwwwwww!
The thief, identified as 20-year-old Steven Buxton, convinced an employee of exclusive jewelry store Lister Horsfall that he had £300,000 (US$585,862.91) and was more than happy to spend £100,000 (US$195281.53) on an engagement ring. "My darling, please take this ring!"
"WHY DOES IT SMELL LIKE THAT??"
Buxton visited the jewelery store for the second time in three days on January 11, and requested to inspect a ring, worth £11,310 (US$22,086.17), in the window of the store. How loose were his jeans fitting?
He also asked to look at earrings to match and while the employeeÂ’s back was turned, he replaced the expensive ring with a cheap phony. Smoove move there, top job.
Prosecutor Paul Nicholson said, “It was superficially similar but not the same as the one she had been showing him. It was a different color, a different design and of course it had no ticket on it.” It was the same, only different.
The employee begged to differ with Buxton but he kept insisting that it was the real deal until the cops showed up. And his sphincter tightened a bit...
Buxton then admitted that he had hidden the diamond ring up his tushie along with a cheap silver metal ring. Who was THAT for?? The third runner up?
He told police that he had come to Halifax with two other men who had suggested the brilliant idea. Bradford Crown Court heard that on his earlier visit Buxton, of Lees New Road, Oldham, said he had £100,000 (US$195281.53) to spend. After looking at items worth up to £40,000 (US$78,134.64), he handed over false details to the employee.
He was given a docket containing the prices of a number of items and then left, saying he would return with a banker’s draft for the correct amount. Buxton, who admitted theft, has prior convictions for offenses of dishonesty including shoplifting over £400 (US$781.16) worth of groceries. He was got a nine-month jail sentence suspended for two years and was also sentenced to 100 hours of community service along with two years of supervised probation.
Stephen Wood, Buxton’s attorney, said, “He was not necessarily the prime mover or the brains behind this.” Oh, he was the brains BEHIND it, I just don't think he was the brains IN FRONT of it
The jokes will write themselves:
A landlady who swore at two lesbian police officers fondling in her public house - The Old Cock - has been cleared of a public order offence.
Nikki Hackett was accused of banging her fists on a table and telling the pair: "We don't want that ****ing thing or your sort in here." The womyn constables should have known they wouldn't be welcome at the Old Cock, but some patrons might want to watch.
Uncomfortable onlookers saw the pair passionately kissing each other during a night out in the traditional pub, prompting swift action from Mrs Hackett.
Magistrates' heard WPCs Nicola Stewart and Lisa Curchin, who claimed to be merely holding hands, had also provoked complaints from customers about their behaviour on 1 April last year.
Giving evidence during a trial at St Albans Magistrates' Court, assistant manager Rhian Roderick, said: "One of the ladies had her hand up the inner thigh of the other's short trousers. They were kissing passionately on the lips." Sheesh, porn mags pay good money for stuff like that.
She said she alerted Mrs Hackett after seeing the pair, who were sitting at a table with PC Stewart's sister and her boyfriend, kissing for more than five seconds, three or four times. Mrs Hackett admitted swearing at them when she asked them to stop, but denied banging her fists on the table or "using words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress". "'Ere, you pair! Stop that! Yer frightenin' the clientele!"
Magistrates heard that after she had spoken to the pair one had sworn back and threatened to head-butt her before storming out. A fan of French soccer as well.
Character witnesses speaking up for Mrs Hackett included Harpenden Deputy Mayor Michael Weaver, former police officer Peter Barrett and rival landlady Vivienne Artz. They said that in her 12 years at the pub in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, she had transformed it from a place with a reputation for under-age drinking, drugs and trouble to a respectable establishment which helped community events. Sean Minihan, defending, said: "Do you really think a woman with this experience in the licensing trade, dealing with a difficult pub and turning it around, would be bothered with two ladies holding pinky fingers? It buggers beggars belief." He said his client was entitled to ask people in her pub not to behave in a way that made other customers uncomfortable.
Presiding magistrate Penny Williams, said: "We don't believe the prosecution witnesses' versions of events. "They were in drink, and there were significant differences."
Speaking after the hearing a relieved Mrs Hackett, who had faced the possible loss of her licence and livelihood, said: "It has been very, very traumatic for me. I have nothing against gay people - some of my friends are gay - but I can't have my customers being made to feel uncomfortable by public displays of passion whether it be from gay or hetrosexual couples."
PC Stewart works for Hertfordshire Constabulary in the west of the county. Her partner, who became a police officer after the incident, works in Bedfordshire.
ABU SAIBA, Bahrain - A new wave of clashes between Bahraini police and protesters broke out Saturday night in the Shia village Abu Saiba, west of the capital Manama, after the authorities arrested a youth earlier in the day. Radhi Ali Radhi, who is in his early 20s, was arrested at his home on suspicion that he took part in a riot in the Shia village of Bani Jamarah earlier in the week where anti-riot police came under attack by Molotov cocktails.
Radhi was arrested Friday following a dawn raid, which provoked relatives and friends to organize a protest in front of the village entrance to demand his release. His family tried to see him at the police station but they were denied and turned away without being given a reason for his arrest.
The protest turned into clashes after police tried to disperse the crowds, after organizers failed to do so. Protesters burned trash and hurled stones and empty bottles at anti-riot police who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. At least two protesters suffered exhaustion following inhaling tear gas, but there were no reports of injuries among police.
“This was a peaceful protest and it would have ended peacefully had the police not intervened,” one organizer said.
A police official on the scene pointed out that Bahraini law prohibits holding protests without prior notice and following sunset. “They were given a five-minute warning to disperse and we had anti-riot police placed visibly at distance to encourage a peaceful end to this situation before they started hurling stones at police,” the police official said.
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OTOH, WND.com > NORTH KOREAN WOMEN made slaves in China. Are married off = sold to Chinese men. Many claim slavery and abuse at the hands of thier Chinese husbands or households. * In addition, btwn 50,00 - 70000 Christians are held in mainland gulags.
BHOPAL: A Madhya Pradesh company has duped many Muslims in the name of religion by promising profit instead of interest, which is prohibited in Islam, and then vanishing into the blue. Since interest is an offence in Islam, Wisdom director Mohammad Omar had convinced community members to invest in his company, which he said dealt with agriculture products and tractor financing, to earn profits.
"I invested Rs.80,000 in Omar's company over a year ago. Three months back when I asked him for my share of profit, he gave me a cheque that bounced. Later when I went to his office and residence, I found both the places locked," said Iliyas Hussain, who has lodged a police complaint.
Mohammad Abdul Rehman, who sold land to invest Rs.650,000 in the company, and Zahid Khan, who put in Rs.300,000, also visited Omar's office and residence but in vain.
"Investigations so far have revealed that Omar came here with his family from Rajasthan, rented a house and opened an office in the main MP Nagar locality. He then contacted the Muslim community and impressed people of rich families to invest before running away with their money," said D.S. Baghel, Shahjehanabad police station house officer.
"The police have recorded statements of the victims and are investigating the matter," he said.
This is not the first time that Muslims here were duped in the name of religion. Earlier, an investment company - Al-Fahad Investments Ltd - with a registered office in Mhow, Indore, and a corporate office in Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, run by one Hamud Siddique had soaked up millions of rupees. "Muslims are not in the mainstream...and the government, too, does not help them. Due to religious restrictions, they can neither take loans from banks to start some business nor can they give loans to anyone since both involve interest, which is an offence in Islam," Muslim religious leaders had said five years ago.
"Let the whole community join hands and invest our money at one such place where we would get profit (not interest) without violating religious barriers," the maulvis, imams, qazis and hajis had appealed then.
With branch offices all over India, including Noida, Aligarh, Lucknow, Ujjain, Ratlam and Burhanpur, Al-Fahad Investments had operated through maulanas and maulvis. The 10,000 to 15,000 families here who had put all their money, about Rs.500 million, in the company now find themselves without it. Some of the Bhopal gas leak victims also invested their compensation amounts awarded in damages following the world's worst industrial disaster that occurred in December 1984.
Raees Ahmed Ansari, who had taken voluntary retirement from the Bharat Heavy Electricals a few months ago, said: "I invested Rs 845,000, the money I got after my retirement," adding that he also invested Rs.300,000 following the advice of Rashid Mian, an imam of the Aam Wali Masjid. "He told me that if I put my money in Al-Fahad, the company would invest in business and make me a partner," he added.
However, the police are yet to track down Hamud Siddique.
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LOL! What maroons. I may have to setup a multi-level goat-marketing scheme.
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No wonder they're so poor, no loans either for them, or by them, a sure formula for poverty.
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"Muslims are not in the mainstream...and the government, too, does not help them. Due to religious restrictions, they can neither take loans from banks to start some business nor can they give loans to anyone since both involve interest, which is an offence in Islam," Muslim religious leaders had said five years ago.
These religious leaders take a verse from the koran that bans usuary and apply it to the banking sector. This is not by accident. They wish to isolate the community from the mainstream and garner the resources for themselves. They will of course blame the Indian government for not helping them and demand assistance, which they can pocket.
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"instead of interest, which is prohibited in Islam"
So Islam perpetually turns back the clock on human rights, technological advancement, AND financing. Can anyone possibly wonder why it produces such backward societies?
NEW DELHI: World's largest retailer Wal-Mart may be upbeat over its grand foray into India despite political hurdles, but its high-profile brand name may take a miss at the front-end retail stores in the country. According to sources close to the US firm, the hundreds of retail outlets that Wal-Mart plans to open in India in Partnership with Bharti over the next five years might not carry the Wal-Mart name at all.
A Wal-Mart spokesperson in India said the front-end stores would be 100 per cent owned and operated by Bharti, while the US firm would focus on back-end operations like logistics and other supply chain management. As for branding of the front-end stores, the spokesperson said it was for Bharti to decide.
When contacted, a Bharti official said the company was conducting consumer research and evaluating options at present and a decision regarding the brand name would be taken in due course of time. However, sources indicated that the US major was open to the idea of giving the Wal-Mart brand a miss at the front-end store level, as it might further fuel the political opposition centred on concerns about a foreign company impacting the home-grown small retail stores.
Bharti group is likely to unveil the strategic roadmap for the business on Monday, while a high-profile team of the US giant, which could also include its CEO Michael T Duke, is also expected in India next week.
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The real Indian PM was written to the official PM..
Sonia writes to PM: Tread cautiously on FDI in retail
The caution came in the form of a letter from her to PM Manmohan Singh, asking the government to take into account the implications that these transnational giants could have on neighbourhood kirana stores, a business news channel reported on Monday.
"I have received suggestions from many quarters about the desirability to first study the possible impact of transnational supermarkets on livelihood security of those engaged in small scale operations... I thought I would convey this to you so that you may consider having the relevant issues properly examined before further decisions are taken," the channel quoted Gandhi as saying.
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Muslims protest against FDI in retail
Just when they appeared to have weathered class-based protests, economic reforms are facing a new kind of opponent: a community-based mobilisation led by Muslim clerics.
A move seems to be on to organise the clerics to protest against SEZs and FDI in retail saying that they marked a serious threat to the existence of "15 crore poor of the community".
Haji Yaqoob Qureshi, estranged minister in Mulayam Singh Yadav ministry, who rose as community leader after offering Rs 51 crore booty on the head of theDanish cartoonists, was the chief guest, as Maulanas and community leaders lectured the gathered youngsters from madrassas on the threat of FDI.
Speeches harped on the theme that SEZs and FDI in retail, as symbolised by the moves by the US giant Wal-Mart to enter India, marked a real threat to the livelihood of small Muslim traders who account for quite a big share of the community's population.
The appeal against FDI is being fused with anti-US sentiment among Muslims to mobilise the community. Shabbir Ahmed, who teaches in a madrassa, said if US companies were allowed entry, they will not only kill small retailers but also create social behaviour which leads to troubles.
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Paul Bosland recalls taking a bite of a chili pepper and feeling like he was breathing fire. He gulped down a soda, thinking, "That chili has got to be some kind of record."
The Guinness Book of Records agreed, confirming recently that Bosland, a regents professor at New Mexico State University, had discovered the world's hottest chili pepper, Bhut Jolokia, a naturally occurring hybrid native to the Assam region of northeastern India.
The name translates as ghost chili, Bosland said. "We're not sure why they call it that, but I think it's because the chili is so hot, you give up the ghost when you eat it," he said.
Bhut Jolokia comes in at 1,001,304 Scoville heat units, a measure of hotness for a chili. It's nearly twice as hot as Red Savina, the variety it replaces as the hottest. By comparison, a New Mexico green chili contains about 1,500 Scoville units; an average jalapeno measures at about 10,000.
The Bhut Jolokia variety has potential as a food additive in the packaged food industry, Bosland said. It could be pickled while green, dehydrated and used as seasoning. Because the heat is so concentrated, food manufacturers would save money because they'd use less. "This isn't something you'd pickle whole and eat, but it could replace dehydrated jalapeno as an additive," Bosland said.
A member of NMSU's Chile Pepper Institute who was visiting India sent Bhut Jolokia seeds to NMSU for testing in 2001. The plant doesn't produce fruit easily, so it took a couple of years to get enough for field testing, Bosland said. He then grew Bhut Jolokia, Red Savina and habanero peppers under controlled settings and found that Bhut Jolokia had significantly higher Scoville ratings. Those findings were confirmed by two independent laboratories.
Bhut Jolokia seeds are available through the Chile Pepper Institute. Hot pepper aficionados take this very seriously. Some keep "family strains" of pepper plants, and claim that connoisseurs can tell the difference.
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For this chili, they're better off switching the Scoville units to a Richter-based logarithimc scale. Come on, a million? A Habanero is about 50,000 Scovilles; I barely use them anymore, they're just a tad too hot for me since I turned 40...
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It's all about the "mix" you use. In my "Death Chili" (it was first called that by some friends of mine who sampled it at a local pub and the name stuck) I use habaneros, serranos, and jalapenos together in quanity for the jalapenos and then diminishing in quantity as I add the additional peppers.
The peppers are added after the meat, beans, and tomatoes have been on the boil for a little while (I also try to use at least 2-3 types of meat - lean hamburger, a london broil cut into thin strips and slices, and sometimes a small amount of hot italian sausage (not very often though, I find it gives the chili a flavor too reminscent of my spaghetti sauce).
I never add sugar, but do use a lot of chili powder, a small amount of garlic, some dried mexican peppers, and some salt and pepper (not too much - the mix has its own natural sweetness which can be overwhelmed by salt or garlic). Canned and uncanned tomatoes are also used in the mix. I never add carrots, but do add in a whole white onion.
I use canned red kidney beans so that adds in some sugar and gives the mix its sweetness. The entire mix also has to have exactly the right color as well (I like it to be dull red almost the same color as spaghetti sauce).
Takes me about 4 hours to fix up a batch. Then its sit back, grab a bowl and a beer, and let the sweatin' begin.
I've been plannin' on fixin' up a batch recently too.
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Oh, as to flavor - Death Chili is the kind that sneaks the heat up on you. You take a bite, savor a sweet meat, tomato, and bean goodness at first and then about 10 seconds or so later - POW! The heat starts on the back of the tongue and moves forward until it engulfs your whole head, you break out in a sweat, take a swig of beer, and pick up the spoon for another bite because the flavor is still in your mouth with the heat, but it's something you just want more and more of.
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I am growing some of those right now. I plan on replacing the habaneros in my Satan's Toejam hot sauce with Bhut Jolokia and calling it Satan's Earwax.
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(not very often though, I find it gives the chili a flavor too reminscent of my spaghetti sauce).
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I am growing some of those right now. I plan on replacing the habaneros in my Satan's Toejam hot sauce with Bhut Jolokia and calling it Satan's Earwax.
Nooooooooooooooooooooo!
Without the real DTJ I will become weak and listless, more so than usual.
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I have a habanero picante recipe that is a bit like working with tear gas--gloves, cloth mask and glasses are a must.
First run about 20 habanero peppers and a white onion through a meat grinder. Grinder reduces vapor hazard. Thoroughly pre-rinse grinder parts before running through dishwasher.
Then cover with boiling vinegar, with 1 tsp salt per pint, and seal in a large glass jar. Let sit for two weeks.
After aging, add 1 cup grain alcohol then blender. Bottle in small glass containers.
Highly addictive. Friends will approach you, hold out the empty bottle and just say, "More."
Variations include using different vinegars; different salts, like sea salt or potassium salt; different liquors, such as high-test saki, vodka, and tequila.
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Good Lord, #11 'moose - have you ever considered bottling it for sale?
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I once grew a huge crop of beautiful looking Habaneros in my back yard one very hot summer. I took a ripe one inside to check it out. Big mistake. I didn't use Moose's precautions, just cut out a 1 cubic millimeter of it to taste. Wonderful flavor, combination of flowers and lime juice, 10 seconds later my mouth exploded in flames. My mother sitting 25 feet away started coughing. I started coughing. Our eyes started running. We evacuated the house, tossed out the offending Habanero, and opened all the windows to air it out. It was like a tear gas attack.
I threw out the whole crop.
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i used too work at a grocery store where we [ayed a guy too eat a whole habanero. It didn't wqork out too good for him the following 2 days when he didn't show.
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I use canned smoked habaneros to make salsa and even then the vapors are enough to make everyone in the room cry, Omolurt Elmeaper6990 excepted.
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Just to be pedantic: Scoville Capsaicin Chart
200,000 to 300,000 Scoville Units includes Habanero peppers.
The "Red Savina" Habanero has been tested at over 577,000 Scoville units!
Around 16,000,000 Scoville Units is Pure Capsaicin.
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Good Lord, #11 'moose - have you ever considered bottling it for sale?
I hear NASA is considering it for rocket fuel...
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I learned some very valuable lessons making that picante. One was how truly DUMB young men can be.
Taking a sample habanero to a coffee shop, I was showing it around when a 16-17 year old boy asked me how hot it was.
Now if I had said it wasn't hot at all, here, try a bite, wild horses couldn't have made him touch it.
But in all honesty I said, "Son, this is the hottest pepper I know of. It will burn your head clean off and will leave a charred stump. In less than five minutes, you will be in the restroom washing your mouth out with hand soap."
Before I could say another word, like that he might try by nibbling the tiniest bit off the end, he GRABBED that whole pepper, SHOVED it into his mouth, CHEWED it up a bunch of times, and SWALLOWED that sumbitch.
Bad idea.
All the older men at the table froze, as if someone had drawn a gun.
I will hand it to that young fella, he managed to hang at least 30 seconds before he took off to the restroom at a full run.
Maybe five, ten minutes later, that poor, red faced, crying, foamy mouthed young man reappeared at the table, somewhat the worse for wear.
"When does it stop?", he burbled.
"It does", I replied.
Then he had to run back to the restroom.
I didn't have the heart to tell him what was going to happen in about a day or so.
Bled for a week. Took three transfusions to recover.
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LOL--Sounds like one of those occasions when you wish your toilet came with a seat belt!
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Habaneros and contacts don't work so well. Not that I've had first-hand experience, twice as it were... makes my eyes water just thinking about it.
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MADONNA's DADDY TO MADONNA + Sibs > Well, kids, BBBBBUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRPPPPPP, there goes the Solar Cycle = Sun. WND > Joseph Farah's G2 BULLETIN > SOLAR STORMS MAY WIPE OUT CELL PHONES. Solar storms to intensify btwn now and Year 2010 - POSSIBLE CATACLYSMIC EFFECTS.
The Indian government is planning to set up a network of cradles around the country where parents can leave unwanted baby girls.
The Indian version of the American baby dump 'safe haven' laws.
The minister for women and child development, Renuka Chowdhury, told BBC News the cradles would be "everywhere".
It is the latest initiative to try to wipe out the practice of female foeticide and female infanticide. A girl child is often viewed as inferior to a boy. A bride's dowry can also cripple a family financially.
Research for the year 2001 showed that for every 1,000 male babies born in India, there were just 933 girls. Research published last year estimating that the number of female abortions was as high as 500,000 a year was disputed by the Indian Medical Association.
"We will have cradles strategically placed all over the place so that people who don't want their babies can leave them there," Ms Chowdhury told the BBC News website.
The cradles could be in places as diverse as the local tax collector's office, or where local councils meet. Ms Chowdhury said parents would be able to leave their babies secretly. The important thing was to save their lives.
She said she assumed that most of the babies left under the "cradle scheme" would be girls. "They will be collected and put into homes," she said. "There are plenty of existing homes and we will be adding some more also."
Problem is that they'd end up looking a fair bit like the Chinese orphanages; any little girl who manages to survive to her teen years would end up in the sex trade.
In 1994, India banned the use of technology to determine the sex of unborn children and the termination of pregnancies on the basis of gender. However, campaigners say many clinics still offer a seemingly legitimate facade for a multi-billion pound racket and that gender determination is a highly profitable business.
Experts say female foeticide is mostly linked to socio-economic factors. It is an idea that many say carries over from the time India was a predominantly agrarian society where boys were considered an extra pair of hands on the farm.
In a separate development, police in the central state of Madhya Pradesh say they have recovered some 390 bones of babies or foetuses from the grounds of a Christian missionary hospital in the town of Ratlam after a tip off. "The question of female foeticide and infanticide is part of our investigation, as is illegal abortions," Superintendent of Police Satish Saxena said, Reuters news agency reports.
Last November a Japanese hospital announced plans to set up a "baby hatch" allowing mothers to anonymously drop off their newborns so they could be put up for adoption. The drop-off at Jikei Hospital in southern Japan will consist of a small window in an outside wall, which opens on to an incubator bed, officials say. Once a baby has been placed inside, an alarm bell will alert staff.
Baramulla, Feb. 18 (PTI): The wait for marriageable women to find suitable grooms in the Kashmir Valley is getting longer, with the 17-year-old insurgency in the region creating a dearth of bachelors.
Until some years ago, most parents ensured their daughters were married off by 25. Now, this has stretched to as late as 35 years and the women - who are also usually the breadwinners of their families - are becoming an increasingly visible group.
Aneesa Shafi, Head of Department of Sociology at the University of Kashmir, says "the valley has lost thousands of its young men - all of marriageable age - in the last 17 years. This has created a dearth of suitable grooms. The institutions of family and marriage are the worst hit.
"With many youth getting involved in militancy and their future becoming uncertain, it is difficult for parents to marry their daughters to them," she points out.
What was earlier a social stigma - having an unmarried girl at home - seems to have become a norm in the valley.
With traditional society seeing rapid changes, not just in its politics, but also its social and cultural fabric, these women have learnt to accept their new roles.
Ghazala Gul, a post-graduate student at University of Kashmir, says, "For girls in the valley, 30 to 35 is the normal age of marriage. I will marry only after my future is secure."
Shafi says, "the priority of these women has changed in the last decade-and-a-half. Marriage is no longer on top of their agenda. It is careers and money which drive these women, who want a secure future."
She also blames late marriages on the region's changed economy. "The tourism industry, which employed a majority of youth, has been crippled. A lot of these youth have lost their livelihood."
Nusrat Andrabi, an educationist and the only woman member of the Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Waqf board, said "many families lost their sole bread-earner, and women had to take up the responsibility of feeding the family. The roles changed and women now have a greater responsibility of not just cooking, but also running the show."
"This dramatic change in the lifestyle of women has exposed them to the outside world. They are taking interest in politics and bureaucracy."
Andrabi says, "marriage has taken a back-seat and more and more girls are enrolling themselves for higher studies to secure their future."
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go figure, women are the breadwinners whilst the boyz spend their time seething and plotting (and dying)
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The average jihadi survives 4-6 months after crossing the LOC.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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ABU SAIBA, Bahrain - A new wave of clashes between Bahraini police and protesters broke out Saturday night in the Shia village Abu Saiba, west of the capital Manama, after the authorities arrested a youth earlier in the day. Radhi Ali Radhi, who is in his early 20s, was arrested at his home on suspicion that he took part in a riot in the Shia village of Bani Jamarah earlier in the week where anti-riot police came under attack by Molotov cocktails.
