What Salman Rush-Die & Taslima Nasrin Are Doing Is Like An Individual Going to the Market Place & Making Jokes About the Private Parts of His / Her Parents to the Utter DELIGHT of the Enemies of His / Her Parents. - AB Taslima Nasreen's Visa Extended PTI Thursday, February 01, 2007 17:29 IST http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1077387 NEW DELHI: Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen's visa has been extended by another six months till August 17 this year by the Union Home Ministry. MHA sources on Thursday said the six-month residential permit granted to her was due to expire on February 17 and it has now been extended by another six months. Nasreen, who had applied to the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) in December for a six-month extension of her visa, is interested in citizenship or permanent resident status in India. Initially, Nasreen had been granted a one-year residential permit in 2005. Presently staying in Kolkata on a Swedish passport, Nasreen has been living in exile for 12 years. She had to move to Sweden after she invoked the ire of fundamentalists in Bangladesh with her book 'Lajja (Shame)' in 1993, and had to leave Dhaka after a 'fatwa' was issued against her. Besides 'Lajja', Nasreen's four autobiographical books are banned in Bangladesh on grounds of containing anti-Islamic sentiments. In November 2003, the West Bengal government had banned the sale of her book 'Dwikhandito' but the ban was lifted by the Calcutta High Court in September 2004. Meanwhile, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) on Thursday urged Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil to immediately rescind the order extending Taslima's residential permit. Alleging that Taslima's writings were 'offensive' and 'sacrilegious', an IUML release said here that the party has lodged strong protest with the Union Home Ministry. AB [EMAIL PROTECTED] "For to us will be their return; then it will be for us to call them to account." (Holy Quran 88:25-26)
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