Pindi Protest: Youth Being Misused For Vested Interests, Says Rehman

Referring to the Barah Koh and Faizabad protests, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has alleged that some politicians are trying to exploit the youngsters for their vested interests and directed Chief Commissioner Islamabad to take strict action in this regard.

Talking to media in Islamabad outside the National Assembly, Rehman noted that people have been brought from outside the twin cities to exacerbate the situation.

He said that action would be taken against the policemen who opened fire the other day on the mob.
He vowed to take the real culprits to task.

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Pindi Protest: Youth Being Misused For Vested Interests, Says Rehman was first posted on March 19, 2010 at 2:26 pm.
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Finance Advisor Dr Abdul Hafeez Calls On Prime Minister Gilani

ISLAMABAD PAKISTAN : New Finance Advisor Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has met Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday.

PM Gilani congratulated Dr Shaikh on his appointment as the new finance advisor. It may be reminded that the notification of his appointment was issued on Thursday.

Moreover, the Finance Ministry today briefed Dr Shaikh about future planning and economic challenges of the country.

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Finance Advisor Dr Abdul Hafeez Calls On Prime Minister Gilani was first posted on March 19, 2010 at 3:08 pm.
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Fourteen Hours Of Load Shedding Announced In Balochistan

QUETTA PAKISTAN : Fourteen hours of load shedding has been announced in various rural areas of a Balochistan province.

According to the report, KESCO Chief Shafiq Khattak said fourteen hours load shedding will be carried out in various rural areas of Balochistan.

He said KESCO was facing 858MW power shortfall and it required 1200MW power. Explosions of power transmission tower for the last three years have caused loss of Rs 200 million, he added.

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Fourteen Hours Of Load Shedding Announced In Balochistan was first posted on March 19, 2010 at 3:12 pm.
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FIA Police Arrested Militant Commander In Karachi

KARACHI PAKISTAN : FIA police arrested Timar Girah’s militant commander Hassan Khan from Karachi.
Militant commander was arrested from Jamshed Town area of Karachi nine days before.

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FIA Police Arrested Militant Commander In Karachi was first posted on March 19, 2010 at 5:28 pm.
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Power Crisis Has Worsened In The Country

ISLAMABAD PAKISTAN : The power crisis has worsened in the country as a fault developed at Guddu transmission line caused prolonged power shutdown in various districts of Baluchistan.

Unknown persons blew up a power transmission tower at Kolpur Dasht in Baluchistan causing power breakdown in Quetta and other districts of the province, power company Quesco officials said. The power supply to Qalat, Khuzdar, Mastung, Noshki, Kharan, Chaman, Ziarat, Qila Abdullah and adjoining area has also been suspended.

The tubewells in the area have also been closed due to the power supply disruption.

The repair of the tower will take at least 12 hours, the company officials said.

An angry mob protested against unannounced load shedding before KESC complaint centre at Gulshan Hadeed phase II in Karachi. The infuriated protesters tried to break the gate to enter forcefully in the office and thrown burnt tyres at the complaint centre.

The police reached to the office and held talks with the protesters who later dispersed from the area.

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Power Crisis Has Worsened In The Country was first posted on March 19, 2010 at 5:37 pm.
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President’s Dual Offices: LHC Defers Hearing Till March 29

Lahore High Court put off the cases against President Zardari for holding dual offices and using Governor House for political activities till March 29.
A bench comprising Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry, Justice Iftikhar Hussain, Justice Umar Ata, Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman and Justice Ijazul Ahsan heard the case. Advocate AK Dogar told the court that its against the constitution for president to hold the post of chairmanship of a political party simultaneously.

He added that he has made the Governor House his political camp and requested the court to stop this. The Attorney General did not attend the proceeding.
Giving the AG the last chance, LHC adjourned the hearing.

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President’s Dual Offices: LHC Defers Hearing Till March 29 was first posted on March 19, 2010 at 5:41 pm.
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Hike In Fares:Protesters, Police Clash Continues In Rawalpindi

The protest held at Bhara Kahu, Rawalpindi the other day, against rise in public transport fares continues today engulfing Faizabad area too.

The demonstrators took to roads early morning and blocked Murree Road.
Police resorted to baton charge, teargas shelling and aerial firing to disperse the angry protesters and managed to reopen the blocked road.

The protesters pelted stones at the police making the latter to recede; the situation, however, turns vice versa at times.

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Hike In Fares:Protesters, Police Clash Continues In Rawalpindi was first posted on March 19, 2010 at 11:53 am.
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CJ FSC Refuses To Administer Oath To Newly-Appointed Judges

Chief Justice Federal Shariat Court (FSC) Justice Agha Rafiq has refused to administer oath to newly-appointed judges of Federal Shariat Courts. Sources said that the CH FSC took this decision due to having disagreement regarding the appointment of judges in the said courts.

Justice Agha has suggested to appoint Habib Ullah Shakir, Roshan Ali Raisani and former deputy attorney general Raja Arshad as judges. However, President Zardari approved the suggestion of Habib Ullah Shakir but included the names of Ismail Bhutto and Mumtaz Mehfooz.

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CJ FSC Refuses To Administer Oath To Newly-Appointed Judges was first posted on March 19, 2010 at 12:06 pm.
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British Child Reaches Home

Smiling and in high spirits, a five-year-old British boy — who was boarded a flight home from Pakistan on Thursday after being reunited with his overjoyed father following a 12-day kidnapping ordeal — has reached home.
Sporting a new hair cut, Sahil Saeed kicked around a football on the lawn of the British high commissioner’s residence in Islamabad, joined by a little girl playmate, and was smothered in hugs and kisses from relatives.
Smiling and waving as he was cuddled by his relieved father, Sahil seemed in high spirits and gulped down a drink brought out by a member of the household staff, television footage showed.
The emotional reunion came after his father, Raja Naqqash Saeed, flew back to Pakistan to collect his son and return him to Britain, days after the boy’s uncle dropped off a 110,000 pound (168,000 dollar) ransom in Paris.
“I am completely overjoyed that I have been reunited with my son after such a long ordeal,” the father said in a statement released by the high commission. “Sahil is doing well, is in good spirits and can’t wait to return to the UK to see his Mum, his family and join his friends back at school,” he added, thanking British and Pakistani authorities for assisting in his son’s return.
The father, son and an uncle took off for Manchester aboard Pakistan International Airlines flight 701 at 3:15 pm (1015 GMT), PIA official Mohammad Imran told.
Saeed’s mother Akila Naqqash, who spoke to her son by telephone from her home in Oldham, northern England, promised him a “big party” on his return.
The ordeal began when Sahil was snatched at gunpoint from his grandmother’s house in the town of Jhelum, about 100 kilometres (65 miles) south of Islamabad, in the early hours of March 4 at the end of a family holiday.
Pakistani authorities, helped by British officials, launched a hunt for the boy, and 12 days later Sahil was recovered safe and sound in a field not far from Jhelum as the focus of the investigation switched to France and Spain.
British High Commissioner Adam Thomson said he was “thrilled” that Sahil was back with his father. “This brings to an end a long period of terrible anxiety and uncertainty. I wish them all the best as they rejoin the rest of their family back in the UK,” he said in a statement.
A Pakistani man and a Romanian woman, who have been charged with murder and are awaiting trial, were among five people arrested by police Tuesday.
The couple travelled from the northeastern Spanish town of Constanti, which has a large Pakistani community, to Paris, where they collected the ransom and returned to Spain, where they were arrested.
Another Pakistani man was also arrested in Constanti while French police detained two family members of the man who went to Paris for being accomplices. They had put up the couple at their Paris apartment.
The authorities made the arrests once they were informed that Sahil had been recovered in Pakistan and was safe, said the head of the Spanish police’s economic and violent crime unit, commander Serafin Castro.
Police found nearly 104,000 pounds and over 3,000 euros in the couple’s flat in Constanti as well as several mobile telephones, including one used to make calls to the boy’s father in Paris, and a new computer.
Castro said the kidnapping began when four men armed with grenades and Kalashnikov rifles stormed the house in Jhelum and tied up all the family members as well as the driver of a taxi booked to go to the airport, before leaving with the boy.
British PM thanks Pakistan over boy’s release
Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday thanked Pakistan for helping to secure the release of a five-year-old British boy after a 12-day kidnapping ordeal, a private TV news channel reported.
“People of course are very, very happy that this potentially tragic story is ending as Sahil is coming back to our country today,” he said, referring to Sahil Saeed, who was flying home after being reunited with his father. “I think we have got to recognise the exceptional role played by Greater Manchester Police and thank the Pakistan government,” he added, speaking in the child’s home town of Oldham, near Manchester in northern England.

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British Child Reaches Home was first posted on March 19, 2010 at 12:08 pm.
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Top Leadership Discusses Strategic Dialogue With US

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani jointly called on President Asif Ali Zardari at the Aiwan-e-Sadr on Thursday.

Matters relating to strategic dialogue with the United States and war against militants were discussed during the meeting.

Earlier, the PM Gilani said that the forthcoming Pakistan-USA Strategic Dialogue needs to cover full spectrum of relationship to establish confidence of the people. He asked for mutually developing a periodic review mechanism/regime to monitor the decisions taken in the strategic dialogue so that there is visible impact in areas of relevance to ordinary people as well as efforts to fight terrorism.

The PM was addressing the second session of the high level meeting to develop a comprehensive, coherent and well coordinated approach for the forthcoming Pakistan-USA strategic dialogue scheduled on March 24 in Washington. The meeting was held at the Prime Minister House.

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Top Leadership Discusses Strategic Dialogue With US was first posted on March 19, 2010 at 12:13 pm.
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