Governor Balochistan, Jamil Bugti’s arrest warrant issued

Staff Report

SEHWAN: The Additional Sessions Judge of Sehwan has issued arrest warrants for Balochistan’s Governor Zulfiqar Magsi and a son of Nawab Akbar Bugti, Jamil Bugti.

According to details, there is a case registered in Sehwan, against the Governor of Balochistan and the son of Nawab Akbar Bugti for an illegal hunt of birds in the area.

After ignorance of repeated summons for appearing in court by both the accused, the additional sessions judge issued arrest warrants for them today.

Zulfiqar Magsi and Jamil Bugti had been accused in the case of Sehwan session court for violating restrictions and illegally hunted birds in the area. SAMAA

Governor Balochistan, Jamil Bugti’s arrest warrant issued

Staff Report

SEHWAN: The Additional Sessions Judge of Sehwan has issued arrest warrants for Balochistan’s Governor Zulfiqar Magsi and a son of Nawab Akbar Bugti, Jamil Bugti.

According to details, there is a case registered in Sehwan, against the Governor of Balochistan and the son of Nawab Akbar Bugti for an illegal hunt of birds in the area.

After ignorance of repeated summons for appearing in court by both the accused, the additional sessions judge issued arrest warrants for them today.

Zulfiqar Magsi and Jamil Bugti had been accused in the case of Sehwan session court for violating restrictions and illegally hunted birds in the area. SAMAA

Brown, Cameron win as experts hint coalition govt

LONDON: Britain was plunged into political limbo on Friday as the opposition Conservatives came top in a knife-edge general election but failed to deliver an immediate knock-out blow to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Both former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and opposition leader David Cameron clinched success in their constituency.

While Conservative leader David Cameron insisted Brown had lost his mandate, key allies of the prime minister indicated his party would bid to cling to power in a deal with the third party, the centrist Liberal Democrats.

Brown”s de facto deputy Peter Mandelson said Labour would “obviously” be prepared to consider such an alliance while another senior cabinet minister, Welsh Secretary Peter Hain, said the prime minister was entitled to have first shot at trying to form a government.

Brown himself also appeared to indicate he wanted to stay in power, raising the possibility of several uncertain days of horse-trading.

Exit polls showed the Conservatives were in line to win around 305 seats — 21 short of an overall majority of 326 in the 650-seat House of Commons — against 255 for the Labour party and 61 for the Liberal Democrats.

If confirmed, the forecast would leave Britain with a so-called “hung parliament”, where no one party has a clear majority, for the first time since 1974.

The Conservatives had won 147 seats, Labour 120 and the Liberal Democrats 23 — on target to be far short of the breakthrough predicted for Nick Clegg”s party during the election campaign.

More than 45 million voters were eligible to cast ballots, with observers predicting turnout could be as high as 70 percent after an unusual campaign transformed by the first televised leaders” debates in a British election.

Britain plunged into election deadlock

LONDON: The Conservatives won most seats in a landmark general election but Britain was left Friday with a hung parliament as the party failed to land a knock out blow against Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Plunged into the kind of political uncertainty the country has not experienced since 1974, Conservative leader David Cameron insisted his centre-left rival had lost his mandate to govern.

But the prime minister”s key allies indicated Labour, which has ruled since 1997, would try to cling to power by seeking a deal with the centrist Liberal Democrats.

With 35 of the 650 seats still to be counted, the Conservatives had 290 lawmakers compared to 247 for Labour, meaning it was impossible for the Tories to win the 326 seats they need to govern alone in the House of Commons.

The Liberal Democrats had just 51 — a disaster for the third party after what had seemed a strong campaign.

Brown”s de facto deputy Peter Mandelson said Labour would “obviously” be prepared to consider an alliance with the Liberal Democrats that would allow it to remain in power for a fourth term.

“Obviously we would be prepared to consider that,” Mandelson told Sky News.

He also hinted at offering to meet a key Liberal Democrat demand to change the country”s first-past-the-post voting system, saying it was “on its last legs”.

But Mandelson poured scorn on suggestions that Brown should stand down. “I think that would be rather a surprising thing to happen… I don”t think it would help matters if he were suddenly to stand aside,” he said.

Another senior cabinet minister, Welsh Secretary Peter Hain, said he believed Brown would try to form a “progressive majority” with the Liberal Democrats, stressing it was his constitutional right to try to do so.

But senior Conservative figure Michael Gove told BBC radio a pact between Labour and the Liberal Democrats would be “a coalition of the defeated”.

Brown also appeared to indicate he wanted to stay in power, raising the possibility of several uncertain days of horse-trading.

“The outcome of this country”s vote is not yet known but my duty to the country coming out of this election is to play my part in Britain having a strong, stable and principled government,” he said, before returning to the prime minister”s Downing Street residence.

It was a crushing night for the Lib Dems after a surge of support Clegg attracted during the campaign failed to translate into winning seats.

The party actually looked set to finish with fewer lawmakers than at the last election.

Clegg admitted: “This has obviously been a disappointing night for the Liberal Democrats. We simply haven”t achieved what we had hoped.”

He gave no indication of which party he would support.

Cameron tried to grab the momentum for the Conservatives by insisting Britain was crying out for “new leadership”.

“We have to wait for the full results to come out, but I believe it is already clear that the Labour government has lost its mandate to govern our country,” he said after winning his seat.

“What is clear from these results is that the country, our country, wants change. That change is going to require new leadership.”

Some commentators said the only solution to the deadlock might be fresh elections.

“The more we hear of the different permutations of who might work with whom after tonight, the more I feel there is only one certainty: we”ll be having another general election before too long,” The Guardian newspaper said.

The uncertainty had an immediate effect on the pound, which plunged to its lowest level against the dollar in more than a year on Friday.

One notable political casualty was Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson, who lost his House of Commons seat after a sex and cash scandal involving him and his wife.

But he will stay on as Northern Ireland”s leader due to his seat in the British-ruled province”s assembly.

High-profile Labour losses included former interior minister Jacqui Smith, who was caught up in an expenses scandal after claiming for porn films for her husband. She lost her seat in Redditch, central England, to the Conservatives.

The polls were marred by a number of protests by voters prevented from casting their ballots in cities including London, Leeds and Sheffield because they were still queuing at 10:00pm (2100 GMT) when polling stations closed.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw said legal challenges could not be ruled out, while the Electoral Commission watchdog said it would carry out a “thorough review”.

Dubai names five more suspects in Hamas killing

DUBAI: Dubai police have named five new suspects in the killing of a senior Hamas militant at a luxury hotel in the Gulf emirate, bringing the total number to 32, an Arabic news channel reported on Friday.

Police said two of the new suspects in Mahmud al-Mabhuh”s assassination in January held French passports, another two travelled on British passports, and the other, a woman, had an Australian passport, the Dubai-based channel said. It gave the names in Arabic.

International police agency Interpol has already issued arrest notices for 27 suspects wanted by Dubai in connection with the killing of Mabhuh, a founder of the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, who was found dead in his Dubai hotel room on January 20.

Arrest warrants issued over storming of Thai parliament: PM

BANGKOK: A Thai court on Thursday issued arrest warrants for seven people involved in the storming of parliament a day earlier, including one anti-government protest leader, the prime minister said.

“Once leaders who prefer violence are arrested, we believe we can pursuade other protesters to leave the protest site,” Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told reporters, referring to a mass rally in Bangkok”s commercial hub.

The seven people targeted by the arrest warrants include Arisman Pongreungrong, a Red Shirt leader who also stormed an Asian regional summit in the resort city of Pattaya last year, forcing it to be cancelled.

Court Issues Arrest Warrant of Rehman Malik

KARACHI, Pakistan News: The Accountability court has issued arrest warrants of Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday.

Accountability court judge Mir Muhammad Shaikh has issued the warrants in NAB reference. Earlier, NAB had filed a petition in Rawalpindi accountability court for the restoration of references against 19 persons including Rehman Malik.

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Court Issues Arrest Warrant of Rehman Malik was first posted on December 18, 2009 at 2:18 pm.

Court Issues Arrest Warrant of Rehman Malik

KARACHI: The Accountability court has issued arrest warrants of Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday.

Accountability court judge Mir Muhammad Shaikh has issued the warrants in NAB reference. Earlier, NAB had filed a petition in Rawalpindi accountability court for the restoration of references against 19 persons including Rehman Malik.

Grenade Blast Near School in Quetta

QUETTA, Pakistan: Grenade Blast Near School in Quetta, A hand grenade explosion occurred near girls’ school at Munnu Jan Road in Quetta. According to DIG Operations Shahid Nizam Durrani, two teachers sustained injuries in the blast.

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Grenade Blast Near School in Quetta was first posted on November 7, 2009 at 1:33 pm.

Court Issues Warrant of Parvez Ashraf

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: Court Issues Warrant of Parvez Ashraf, A local court here on Saturday issued arrest warrant of Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Parvez Ashraf and others and ordered the police to present the accused before the court on Nov. 21.

On Saturday, local court’s judge Justice Rai Afzaal Kharal ordered the police to arrest federal minister, PPP leader Shahzad Kausar Gilani and others and present them before the court on continuous absence from the proceeding.

It was the fifth time the warrants have been issued in the case of the accused including Ashraf, the channel added.

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Court Issues Warrant of Parvez Ashraf was first posted on November 7, 2009 at 1:38 pm.