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| Pak Tourism Minister Hugs Frenchman - Gets Fatwa'd |
| 2007-04-10 |
| Islamabad, 10 April (AKI/Asian Age) - An unofficial Taliban styled Sharia (Islamic) court in the heart of the Pakistani capital Islamabad has issued a fatwa (religious decree) against the federal minister for tourism Nilofar Bakhtiar for hugging a French man at a tourist resort in Normandy (France). Last week, after completing a successful para-jump from an aircraft, the minister joyfully hugged her French partner. Bakhtiar toured France on the invitation of Alpine Club and visited a number of resorts in a bid to attract tourists for Pakistan. Bakhtiar said that the reports of her hugging a French man had been misrepresented. The minister had carried out the jump to raise funds for earthquake victims in Pakistan-administered-Kashmir. In its first fatwa since being established in Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) last Friday, the Sharia court condemned what it called an un-Islamic act of Bakhtiar with the French man "during her para-jump adventure in France". |
| Posted by:mrp |
| #4 >But wait a minute, she's the federal minister for tourism? How big of a tourist industry does Pakistan have?< I think the fact that the minister is a woman speaks volumes about the size of the tourist industry. |
| Posted by: Omiting the Younger9947 2007-04-10 19:56 |
| #3 The smart thing for this gal to do would be to apply to the Phrench for asylum and never go back to Pakistan. (Yeah, I know, it's France. But it's gotta be better than Pakiwakiland.) But wait a minute, she's the federal minister for tourism? How big of a tourist industry does Pakistan have? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-04-10 15:18 |
| #2 Thanks for the link; now I know where to go for the latest livestock reports. |
| Posted by: mrp 2007-04-10 11:31 |
| #1 Relevant Hadith. Hugging members of opposite sex |
| Posted by: Delphi2005 2007-04-10 11:02 |