Babar says loot sale of edu institutes on in Punjab

Federal Law Minister Babar Awan on Sunday deplored that students and teachers are being roughed up on the streets in Punjab, adding that whenever Nawaz hints at the prevalent corruption he talks about Punjab.

Addressing the party workers at Lahore, Babar said that efforts are being made to create a hegemony in the educational institutes of Punjab. A loot sale of educational institutes is on in the province. Nawaz Sharif is right when he says that Punjab needs to work on its governance methods, the minister maintained. He wondered that why the PML-N chief is keeping mum at the ongoing economic exploitation of the poor in the province. He called upon Nawaz to announce the date for holding of local bodies polls, adding that the next general elections would evince that who has public support. As many as 745 petrol pumps are closed in Punjab, he told the gathering and urged Nawaz to support the PoL dealers, but added that, instead he only supports his government. Our reconciliatory policy should not be mistaken as cowardness or weakness, the minister warned the rivals, ours is party that defends public, he added. Hinting at the Sharif brothers spacious Raiwand residence, Babar said that all roads in Lahore lead to the royal palace.

President Zardari signs Sacked Employees Reinstatement Bill

President Asif Ali Zardari has signed into law the Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Bill 2010 during a special ceremony held here at Presidency on Monday, trendpk.Com Reported.

The signing ceremony was attended among others by federal ministers, members of parliament, federal secretaries and representatives of reinstated employees.

The bill was passed by National Assembly on October 7 and Senate on 10 November.

Addressing the gathering on the occasion, the President said he is pleased to have signed the bill and congratulated all the workers who have thus been reinstated in their jobs through an act of the parliament. He also felicitated parliament for passing the law and also the Minister for Labor and Manpower and all those who made it possible.

The President said, it is an auspicious day for all of us as today we have fulfilled yet another promise and commitment made by our Shaheed leader and the government with the workers.

He said worker and labour is the backbone of the countrys economy and Pakistan Peoples Party and that is why from the day of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, PPP has kept welfare of workers and labourers uppermost in its mind. He also said that Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto had promised the sacked employees of different organizations that they would be reinstated into their jobs.

Baba Zaman to install Hazara signboard

Staff Report

ABBOTABAD: Leaders and activists of Movement for Hazara Province will march toward Barian, the border town of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where they will set up a signboard inscribed with “Welcome to Hazara Province.”

Baba Haider Zaman, the convener of the movement, will lead the rally.

After installation of the Hazara board, Baba Zaman and other prominent leaders including former federal ministers Gohar Ayub and Amanullah Khan, will address the gathering.

It may be mentioned here that Hazara belt is demanding a separate province after renaming North West Frontier Province (NWFP) to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Trend Pk

Protests marred Musharrafs political convention

Hundreds of PML-N activists protested against Pervez Musharraf in Manchester and marred the political convention of newly formed APML. Those who raised slogans were expelled out of the gathering. Pervez Musharraf said that the miscreants were paid to create disturbance. He further said that these protests would not deter him from his path.
Protesters gathered in Manchester to express their anguish and anger against him with placards and banners in their hands. They also threw shoes on Musharrafs big sized portraits. They raised slogans against him. President of PML-N England Chapter Zubair Gul said that Pervez Musharraf betrayed the Kashmiris and that he should be trialed for high-treason. He announced that Musharraf would not be spared of strong protests anywhere in UK. After this, some people also protested inside the convention but were soon expelled out of it.
Pervez Musharraf reacted by saying that he would not deter an inch from his path and would continue with his aims. He said that the miscreants were paid for marring the whole convention but he was least bothered. Nawaz Sharif should not react emotionally; its just the start of the game, he added.Earlier, Pervez Musharraf said that he should have remained COAS for five years more. He rejected the notion that he had opined of Kashmiri militants been trained in Pakistan.
In an interview to an Indian channel, Musharraf said that NRO was his blunder, whereas he regretted confrontation and mishandling with the judiciary. He censured terrorist attacks inside India.
Musharraf said he was near to framing an agreement for the solution of Kashmir. He said Manmohan Singh was agreed on a four-point plan to resolve the issue. He further added that he is not ashamed of his remarks for Nawaz Sharif, in which he sarcastically called him a Clear-Headed man.

UK needs global military force post-Afghan: Fox

LONDON: Speaking to a meeting of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think tank, Fox said pulling British troops from Afghanistan before 2015 would boost militants everywhere, because only by then would British forces, working with the U.S.-led coalition, have achieved their security aims.

Fox told the gathering in Geneva of military officers and strategists that British defence planners conducting a review of military priorities had to take account of the possibility that its forces might have to intervene again elsewhere in the world.

“We’re going to have a long-term battle against transnational terrorism and it will pop up in a lot of different places over a long period and we are going to have to face up to that,” he said.

One of the lessons of recent British defence history, he added, was that combat troops should not be deployed

Shoania wedding reception ends

SIALKOT: Shoaib and Sania wedding reception ended with some mismanagement here today.

A large number of guests attended the gathering held at Hockey club of Pakistan. Shoiab”s brother-in-law Nasir Malik could not attend the ceremony.

Stage was beautifully decorated with sixteen different types of flowers at a cost of Rs 2 million by a Lahore based firm.

Shoaibs”s friend and fans beard the whopping expenditure of Rs 5 million spent at the reception.

Security was heightened inside and outside the club.

ANP flays critics of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa

KARACHI: The Awami National Party-Sindh chapter has lashed out at the opponents of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa by calling them as agents of establishment.

Addressing the gathering, ANP Sindh President Shahi Syed said ANP, PPP and PML-N all have secured votes from the Hazara belt and it is a unanimous decision made by all these parties to rename NWFP as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

“ANP has neither any issue with any political party and nor it is making any claim of ruling Sindh,” he said.

Sindh belongs to Sindhis, Punjab to Punjabis, Balochistan to Balochs and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to Pakhtuns, he said, terming those who are criticizing the new name hypocrites, who are playing at the hands of establishment.

Syed described the 18th Amendment and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as big achievements of this government.

French Defence Chief Meets COAS

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan News: French Defence Chief Meets COAS, French Chief of Defence Staff General Jean-Louis Georgelin has called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ashfaq Parvaiz Kayani at Army Headquarters, here on Wednesday.

Issues of mutual interest and cross border terrorism were discussed in the meeting.

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French Defence Chief Meets COAS was first posted on December 23, 2009 at 4:42 pm.

Three-day Ban on Pillion Riding in Punjab

Pakistan News: Slashing the five day ban, Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif directed three-day ban on pillion riding from 8 till 10th of Muharrum-ul-Harram.
The CM called for utilization of all resources to promote religious harmony and added proper monitoring to enforce the pillion riding ban.
Earlier, speaking in another gathering, the CM directed to jazz up the demolition drive against illegal plazas in Lahore, and said that no influence or approach would be entertained in this regard.
He also gave directives to initiate a crackdown against wall chalking across the province.

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Three-day Ban on Pillion Riding in Punjab was first posted on December 23, 2009 at 4:48 pm.