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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Indian magazine suing Veena for Rs 250m


The magazine defended the cover of its latest issue which shows nude picture of Veena with the initials of ISI on her arm. The magazine s December issue has yet to hit news stands. But a preview of the cover on its website triggered a media frenzy which intensified when actress Veena Malik denied posing nude and accused FHM of doctoring her image. The magazine says that Veena allowed publication of her nude pics on the cover under an agreement. It said that the Pakistani actress is constantly changing her statement in the media. The editor of FHM India, Kabeer Sharma, said that he was mystified by Veena’s allegations that pics were morphed or taken without consent. He said not the shoot came under an agreement and Veena was shown the pics before publication. He said she was very excited about her pics to be published on the cover. "Maybe she is facing some kind of backlash, so maybe that s why she is denying it. "We have not photoshopped or faked the cover," Sharma said.

Twin Afghan shrine blasts kill 58, injure more than 150


Twin blasts at Afghan shrines on the Shiite holy day of Ashura left at least 58 people dead on Tuesday, a day after an international meeting in Germany on furthering efforts to end the Afghan war. "A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in the Abu-ul Fazil shrine," Kabul police said in a statement. A security official speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP that it was believed the bomber arrived with a group of Shiite pilgrims from Logar province, south of Kabul. Shiites were banned from marking Ashura in public under the Taliban who ruled Afghanistan until 2001. This year, there are more Ashura monuments around the city than usual including black shrines and flags. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either of the blasts from the Taliban or other insurgent groups operating in Afghanistan. The attacks came shortly after a major conference on Afghanistan s future, held in the German city of Bonn, 10 years after talks there which put in place an interim government after US-led troops ousted the Taliban. However, Pakistan and the Taliban - both seen as pivotal to any end to the bloody strife in Afghanistan -- decided to stay away from the talks, undermining already modest hopes for real progress. The 10-day Ashura ceremonies, which began on November 27 but peak on Tuesday, mark the slaughter of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, near Karbala by armies of the caliph Yazid in 680 AD. Tradition holds that the revered imam was decapitated and his body mutilated. His death was a formative event in Shiite Islam. Sectarian violence periodically flares between Shiites, who beat and whip themselves in religious fervour during Ashura, and Sunnis, who oppose the public display of grief. On Monday, at least 28 people were killed and 78 wounded in a wave of bomb attacks in central Iraq against Shiite pilgrims making their way to Karbala.