This time it is a woeful Rs.5 Lakhs. The All India Ibtehad Council (huh?) can obviously not match the resources at the command of the terrorist-minister, Haji Yakoob Qureshi who announced a 51-crore reward to perform an act of terrorism piety. Therefore

…a little-known conservative Muslim group on Friday offered a Rs 5 lakh bounty for the head of controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen.

President of the All India Ibtehad Council, Taqi Raza Khan ordered the elimination (qatal) of the exiled novelist. The decision, he said, had full approval of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (Jadid), a splinter group set up four years ago in Bareilly. Jadid means new.

Three days have elapsed since the announcement but not one word of reproach from our secular media because it’s too much to expect our Islamic government to act–it is busy surveying the country for fertile spaces to carve out the mini-Pakistans of the future.