UN Report on BB’s death

Musharraf may not be directly responsible for BB’s death, but he’s certainly responsible indirectly. All he had to do was to provide her with more security, but him and Q government completely failed when it came to this. It was in their interest if there was no BB. They did not kill her, but they watched her get killed and did not do anything to stop it. We can say that they used terrorists to get rid of BB.

Zaradari must be the luckiest man when it comes to accidents. The accidental death of Benazir made him president of a country with the help of sympathy vote. I still wonder, despite Benazir’s death, how many people would have voted for him if they knew that Zardari would become President of Pakistan. This is going to be a significant factor in future elections.

SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Cursor

UPDATE: For working example using AdventureWorks visit : SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Cursor – Sample Cursor Part 2

This is the simplest example of the SQL Server Cursor. I have used this all the time for any use of Cursor in my T-SQL.
DECLARE @AccountID INT
DECLARE @getAccountID CURSOR
SET @getAccountID = CURSOR FOR
SELECT Account_ID
FROM Accounts
OPEN @getAccountID
FETCH NEXT
FROM @getAccountID INTO @AccountID
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
PRINT @AccountID
FETCH NEXT
FROM @getAccountID INTO @AccountID
END
CLOSE @getAccountID
DEALLOCATE @getAccountID
Reference: Pinal Dave (http://www.SQLAuthority.com),

Funny Pakistani Wedding

For France, burqa is a jail & an export

Paris: Fashion week in Paris, and after a display of pink and purple mini-dresses in an elegant apartment near the presidential palace, an assistant wheels out a rack bearing two very different creations: black abayas.
The billowing gowns, usually worn with a veil, have been made for the Saudi market by Paris-based couturier Adam Jones. As France considers banning full facial veils such as the niqab and the burqa, which President Nicolas Sarkozy has said “is not welcome here”, the fact that it is a major exporter of couture abayas may seem odd.
But that is just one of the many contradictions exposed by the latest clash between secularism and religion in the home of Europe’s largest Muslim community. “If someone tells me, ‘design an abaya,’ why not, I’m proud of that. It’s just a garment,” designer Stephane Rolland, who has made many abayas for Middle Eastern clients, said backstage after his fashion show in Paris.
When asked about the broader debate whether veils are a sign of subservience and should be outlawed, his confidence wavered. “I don’t want to speak about religion, that’s a different subject. But I don’t want to cover the woman—alas, I don’t want to think about that,” he said before turning away.
While French designers are wooing Saudi clients in airy showrooms, across town in the workingclass neighbourhood of Belleville the picture is very different. “If you wear the veil, you get insulted and attacked all the time, you get called a terrorist,” said Ikram Es-Salhi, 20-year-old student.
Es-Salhi wears a long brown veil that covers her head and body but leaves her face open. She would like to wear the full niqab, but it is banned at her college. She already switched from her preferred course of study, nursing, to sociology as nurses are not allowed to wear veils.
Many feminists not only in the West see the veil as an expression of a spreading ideology that wants to hide and silence women, undoing years of struggle for women’s rights.
However, mayors from various French cities have said more veiled women are turning up at wedding ceremonies or at schools to pick up their children, refusing to bare their faces even for identification.
Meanwhile, the powder blue Afghan burqa, a tent-like garment that covers women from top to toe, is in fact rare in Paris, and even the niqab is not often seen. At Zeina Pret-A-Porter, the shopkeeper says very few customers buy it.
From the outside, the full niqab presents an impenetrable black front. From the inside, the gauze allows a limited view of the world.
But even those who find the garment odious do not necessarily believe a ban on them is the best way to get rid of it. REUTERS

HIDDEN FACTS: As France mulls banning the niqab and the burqa, the fact that it is one of the biggest exporters of couture abayas may seem odd

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Afghan women attacked at protest against sex law

A group of some 1,000 Afghans swarmed a demonstration of 300 women protesting against a new conservative marriage law on Wednesday. The women were pelted with small stones as police struggled to keep the two groups apart.
The law, passed last month, says a husband can demand sex with his wife every four days unless she is ill or would be harmed by intercourse—a clause that critics say legalizes marital rape. It also regulates when and for what reasons a wife may leave her home alone.
Women activists scheduled a protest on Wednesday attended by mostly young women. But the group was swamped by counter-protesters—both men and women—who shouted down the women’s chants.
Some threw gravel and stones at the women, while others shouted “Death to the slaves of the Christians!” Female police held hands around the group to create a protective barrier.
The government said the Shia Muslim family law is being reviewed by the Justice Department and will not be implemented in its current form. Governments and rights groups across the world have condemned the legislation with President Obama calling it “abhorrent.”
Though the law would apply only to the country’s Shia Muslims— 10-20% of Afghanistan’s 30 million people — it has sparked an uproar by activists who say it marks a return to Taliban-style oppression. The Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan from 1996-2001, required women to wear all-covering burqas and banned them from leaving home without a male relative.
Shia Muslim backers of the law say that foreigners are meddling in private Afghan affairs, and Wednesday’s demonstrations brought some of the emotions surrounding the debate over the law to the surface. AP

FIGHTING FOR RIGHTS: Women’s rights activists protest against a new law that legalizes marital rape in Kabul on Wednesday

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