KARACHI -- Attar [also called ittar] has been a popularly used and loved fragrance for centuries.
He established his attar business in the subcontinent and before the creation of Pakistan.
Years later in 1950, his son Raees Ahmed Ansari, who had migrated to Pakistan and settled in Karachi, opened his attar shop which became the first centre of attar sale in Karachi.
Fakhruddin Attar. Attar has been indicted along with his wife, Dr.
The government estimated that 100 girls were mutilated based on Fakhruddin Attar telling investigators that Nagarwala treated girls at the clinic for "problems with their genitals" five or six times a year.
If convicted, Fakhruddin Attar, 53, and Nagarwala, 44, (http://michiganradio.org/post/feds-say-100-girls-could-be-victims-genital-mutilation-case) face up to life in prison for conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in the criminal sexual activity.
The distillation and making of attar appears to have been introduced from Persia into the town of Kannauj.
Jain of Pragati Aroma Distillery, whose family has been into the attar business for seven generations.
Home to over 250 perfumeries, many of which are on the brink of extinction, at first it seems like the whole of Kannauj seems to be engaged in one or other process of making attar. One can observe trained hands (and noses!) busily sorting through freshly plucked flowers, mixing the right amount of water and oil, maintaining a certain temperature and sapping oil out of a mop.
Faced with the shortage of sandalwood trees in Southern India from which sandalwood oil is extracted, the
attar industry in Kannauj has been fighting the serious threat posed by modern cheap chemical perfumes.
The allegation of the offer to Mr Attar for Nathalie -echoing the plot of the film Indecent Proposal where Robert Redford plays a wealthy bachelor who offers a poor, newly-married couple one million dollars if he can spend one night with the wife -was 'ridiculous', he said.
But mother-of-three Mrs Attar, aged 35, who gave evidence when she was seven months pregnant with her fourth child, claimed he had tried to destablise her marriage and that he twice sexually harassed her -once with a kiss on the lips and on another occasion by touching her breast.
Accompanied by his wife, Rina, who has been at his side throughout the case, the Rabbi added: 'And I want to thank the real heroine Nathalie Attar who has been vindicated.'
Mrs Attar caught his eye after she took the job of teaching his children at his swish home in the centre of the wealthy Jewish area of Hendon, north London.
He sent a handwritten note to the couple after becoming besotted with Mrs Attar.
