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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->He proved that a horoscope trap is a more enduring way of collecting intelligence than a honey trap. He is no more. It is a pity he did not record his memoirs as the spy who read horoscopes.

There was a small station in South-East Asia where only the US and India had consulates in the late 1960s. The Indian consulate was headed by this horoscope-reading officer and the US consulate by an officer from the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA
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During college days, guys used this trick to hold girls hand. Every other guy was palm reader. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->


<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->'RIYADH: Clerics in Saudi Arabia have warned Arab media against publishing "forbidden" horoscopes, which are hugely popular despite a clerical ban. "This is astrology, which is forbidden and is considered as a form of magic," a committee of senior Saudi clerics said in a statement published on state news agency SPA late on Saturday. "The committee reminds Muslims and journalists in particular that it is their obligation to take advice from God, His Prophet and the clergy," it said, adding that all schools of Islamic law forbid such practices. "Believing that a certain star can be the cause of happiness or misfortune is a superstition from the pre-Islamic age...," the prominent clerics said.'

'Saudi-owned newspapers based in London such as Asharq al-Awsat and al-Hayat have started publishing horoscopes in recent years and fortune tellers appear on Saudi-owned television stations based outside the kingdom,' the report continued. '"Many Saudis don't know their birth date on the Christian calendar so they don't care about horoscopes, but the new generation is obsessed by them," the editor of a popular Saudi daily told Reuters. He did not want to be identified. "It's blatantly un-Islamic, we won't do it," he added."
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Lot of Muslim Pakistanis are in vedic Astrology. They do all type puja to appease stars/Devatas as recommended by astrologers. I know, lot of them do fasting on Tuesday (for Lord Hanuman) and Monday for Shiva and take all type of precautions for Sade Sati. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->