Tabkiq....... can anyone enlighten me, does the name have anything to do with, or mean "student of religion" or similar.......? (I dont suppose it means "Taleban" ........ ? I may be wrongly informed but does this (Taleban / Talibani) not from Afghanstani language or similar meaning, such as student of religion, or reader of religious studies..... Political or Religious, perhaps a combination of both, in these regions one means the other, not unlike siamese twins, they cannot be parted..... one cannot exist without the other. Is Goa now to cope with this too? Or AM I BLEATING UP THE WRONG TREE? If only I was wrong (& I hope, sincerely that I am BARKING...... up the wrong tree) ............. But I doubt it.......... John Monteiro --------------------------------------------------- Goa Pradesh Congress Committee vice-president M K Shaikh belongs to an old Muslim Goan family. But moderates like him are becoming increasingly anxious over the recent attempts to introduce a more rigid form of Islamic practice in Goa............ But a watchful edginess remains over attempts by the Tabliq sect to gain control of the Margao Masjid. The Sunni Jamat controls 17 mosques and the Tabliqs three.
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