Triple Domki killings: SC suo motu case today

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ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court (SC) will hear today (Monday) the suo motu case against the killing of Baloch leader Akbar Bugti’s granddaughter. The court called Inspector General of Sindh Police and Advocate General to appear before the court today.

Meantime, wheel-jam strike is underway in Balochistan against the triple killings.

It should be mentioned here the apex court turned the plea of Balochistan Bar Association (BBA) into a petition against the killing of MPA Balochistan Bakhtiar Domki’s family and a driver and summoned Sindh’s IG and AG to appear before the court.

Domki’s wife, daughter and driver were gunned down in the wee hours on the morning of January 31 near the Gizri Bridge in Clifton.

The victims were riding their black Toyota Mark II car (ANR-353) when they were intercepted by killers who shot them dead at point-blank range.

The tribe’s spokesman said severe anger and agitation is found among the people of Domki clan over the assassinations. He demanded the Sindh government to immediately arrest the people responsible for the killings. TrendPK

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Arab monitoring head says violence dipped in Syria

CAIRO: The general who headed the Arab monitoring mission in Syria said on Monday that violence had dipped after the observers arrived, contradicting accounts by Syrian activists who have said the killing has continued unabated.

Sudanese General Mohammed al-Dabi was speaking a day after Arab League foreign ministers proposed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hand power to a deputy and set up a new unity government, after earlier efforts failed to end bloodshed.

“After the arrival of the mission, the intensity of violence began to decrease,” Dabi told a news conference at the Cairo-based Arab League, echoing a line other League officials have taken.

“Our job was to check what is going on the ground and not investigate it,” he said.

Syrian activists have been critical of the mission saying it has simply bought time for Assad without ending the violent 10-month crackdown on protests.

Dabi’s own appointment has also been criticized because of the Sudanese government’s rights record in Darfur and other areas of Sudan where there has been unrest.

“I assure that the heavy military equipment has been withdrawn from all cities…,” Dabi said.

Despite criticism over the monitors’ failure to end the bloodshed, the Arab ministers agreed to extend the mission, expand it and boost its technical and logistical support.

The extension was, however, overshadowed by Saudi Arabia’s decision to withdraw its own monitors and urge the international community to exert “all possible pressure” on Damascus.

“The mission’s role is monitoring and is not stopping the killing or stopping the destruction or otherwise,” Dabi said, adding that the monitoring mission was sent to check whether Syria was adhering to an Arab peace plan.

That plan included calling for withdrawing the military from residential areas, releasing detainees, giving free access to the media and opening dialogue with the opposition.

“On releasing detainees, statements we got were based on general reports from opposition sources saying 12,000 have been detained or so but when we audited them we found that those reports lacked solid information and could not be verified,” Dabi said.

Hundreds of Syrians have been reported killed since the unarmed observers began their work. At least three monitors have told Reuters of deep civilian suffering and complained that the Syrian government has shown no will to end the crackdown.

Countering those who have said the mission has been buying time for the Syrian government, Dabi said:

“I stressed (to Arab ministers) the necessity of bringing forward the peace process so that the national dialogue would take place simultaneously with the monitoring mission’s work.” AGENCIES

Mirza resigns and says Rehman hand in glove with killers

The former Sindh home minister, who has also resigned his party office, made the announcement at a news conference in Karachi. After recalling his personal affiliation with the Bhutto family and Asif Ali Zardari, placing hand on the holy Quran, Mirza said Rehman Malik is in connivance with killers. He claimed he has proofs to support his claim, and intended to hand over the evidence to COAS Gen Kayani, President Zardari and PM Gilani.

Mirza recalled one of the MQM leaders had said about him that a pimp would be acting as flamboyant as Mirza in the company of so many policemen. The ex-home minister said “now I have resigned as minister. I came here in official vehicle. Now I will go back in my private car. I will only keep the PPP flag. Now all such people see I, Mirza, is still as flamboyant”.

He said Karachi doesn t belong to MQM. “The MQM only has partial mandate given by people s free will. The rest is taken from voters through coercion. The poor people who sit in front of a telephone set and listen to speech from London, do that under pressure, to save trouble to the families who are usually threatened of consequences.”

The former home minister expressed regret for his once remarks derogatory to the Mohajir community. He said he passed those remarks under rush of blood, being angry. He said he didn t mean to say all that for the community, as “I know there are good and bad in every community, every society. Neither are all Indians bad nor all Pakistanis. The same is true for every community. Only a handful of bad people are responsible for turmoil.”

Mirza said pakistan has the biggest threat from no one else, but Interior Minister Rehman Malik. He said Rehman Malik connived with MQM s Governor and freed murderers and killers to oblige them  so that they carry on killing spree for vested interests. He said Rehman Malik had been befooling the party leadership by distorting facts and creating imaginary fear scenarios by invoking non-existing threats to the government. To back his point, Mirza said: “Let s suppose, if I free a murderer who had killed 36 people, wouldn t the obliged killer kill 360 for me.”

He said Rehman Malik is a flat-faced, 100% liar. “I have asked him many a time to cut lying intensity by at least 50%,” Mirza said in a lighter tone far between his otherwise tense talk.

He said: “I risked life, property, family, children, everything by calling spade a spade because I love Pakistan, because I see my own children s faces in every dead body of the innocent killed in the city.”

Mirza said once MQM chief Altaf Hussain wrote a letter to then UK PM Tony Blair, urging him to play a role to disband the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). He claimed Altaf had written in the letter that the ISI would create many a Osama bin Laden if it were not disbanded. He said it is lamentable that the protector of the country s interests was conspired against in this manner.

The former home minister said MQM Kidmat-e-Khalq Foundation s ambulances were used in transporting arms and ammunitions and for throwing dead bodies in gunny bags in various localities to spread terror.

Mirza said  the MQM was running gangs of killers and extortionists (Bhatta Khors). He said some elements wrongly project me as extortionists, whereas I come from a wealthy, respectable family. He dared the media to expose if they know of his involvement in any corruption.

 

Ahmed Chanai was appointed Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) chief on calls and pressures from London. “I was pressured to appoint him as CPLC chief, but I only gave him a limited tenure of one year.” He later hgot involved in acting as a middleman and virtually selling police stations.

 

Mirza said Suteesh Anand, who was once kidnapped, was freed after “I had chipped in 5 million rupees to make 15 million rupees demanded in ransom. I did that because I feared God and I always thought that we got this government due to the grand sacrifice of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto”.

Mirza said journalist Wali Babar was also killed by MQM members. “Five murderers killed him. One of them is named Liaquat.”

While narrating a meeting with Altaf Hussain, Zulfiqar Mirza revealed under oath that Altaf had said the US had decided to dismember Pakistan and MQM supported it. Mirza also alleged that Altaf Hussain vowed not stop killing Pashtoons in this context.

Four more killed in Karachi

As per details, a political worker Aqeel was targeted by unidentified miscreants near Shumail Homes, Malir. Tension spread in the area after the killing.

Muntazir Ali, an employee of a private bank, was shot dead near City Station. A man was shot dead in North Nazimabad. Police recovered a body from Miran Naka, Lyari.

Pakistan orders inquiry into killing of five Chechens

QUETTA: A Pakistan provincial government on Thursday ordered an inquiry into the killing by security forces of five Chechens, including three women, after media said they had been unarmed.

The group was killed this week, with authorities saying they were al-Qaeda-linked suicide bombers.

Islamist militants have stepped up attacks in Pakistan after the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. special forces in the northwestern town of Abbottabad on May 2. Last week, 80 people were killed in twin suicide bombings at a paramilitary academy in the northwestern town of Charsadda.

On Tuesday, the paramilitary Frontier Corps and police gunned down five Chechens near a security checkpoint on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, saying explosives were strapped to their bodies and they were attempting to attack government forces.

But the media raised doubts over statements by security forces, with television footage showing a wounded woman waving her hand in the air before her death.

The daily Dawn on Thursday quoted witnesses as saying that the suspects were unarmed, had put up no resistance to the security forces and appeared to be about to surrender.

“The chief minister has ordered an inquiry after media reports raised doubts about the whole incident,” a provincial government spokesman told Reuters, referring to the head of the province.

Two officials of a bomb disposal squad which searched the bodies after the shooting told Reuters that they found no explosives strapped to the bodies of the Chechens.

“They were unarmed and had no suicide jackets or explosives with them,” one of the officials said.

“Five valid and two expired Russian passports were found in a ladies’ handbag lying with the bodies,” the second official said.

A witness earlier this week said the five had got out of a vehicle and were chased by police before they were shot.

Pakistan’s commitment to fighting militancy has come under intense scrutiny after discovery of the al Qaeda chief near a military academy in the military town not far away from Islamabad.

Pakistan’s tribal areas along the Afgfhan border has been described as a global hub for militants, including Arabs and Chechens inspired by Al Qaeda.

A decade after federal forces drove separatists out of power in Chechnya in the second of two wars, the North Caucasus are plagued by near-daily violence, where rebels want to carve out a separate Islamic state with Sharia law. While Chechnya now rests on a shaky peace, neighbouring regions are at the heart of a growing Islamist insurgency.

U.S. issues travel alert after bin Laden killing

WASHINGTON: The U.S. State Department on Sunday warned Americans worldwide of “enhanced potential for anti-American violence” following the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

“Given the uncertainty and volatility of the current situation, U.S. citizens in areas where events could cause anti-American violence are strongly urged to limit their travel outside of their homes and hotels and avoid mass gatherings and demonstrations,” the State Department said in a statement.

Furore in US over Osamas death

Euphoria engulfed the United States soon after US President Barack Obama announced the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. A large crowd of people gathered outside the White House gates on Pennsylvania Avenue, waving flags and dancing in jubilation.

They sang the “Star Spangled Banner” in unison and chanting “USA USA USA” and “Na na na na — na na na na …Hey hey goodbye” in reference to Osama bin Laden.

The crowd is swelling by the minute. People are running to join the group with American flags and there is lot of dancing and cheering. As the news was finally confirmed, families of those who died in the 2001 attacks spoke through tears of their relief that Bin Laden had finally been killed.
Bush has called the killing a “momentous achievement”. He said, “The fight against terror goes on.”

Former US secretary of state Conoleezza Rice said, “The demise of Osama Bin Laden is a tremendous victory for the American people.”

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said US had kept their promise after the 09-11 attacks to capture or kill Bin Laden.

KRC protests against killing, extortion in Lyrai

KARACHI: Hundreds of people under the banner of Kacchi Rabita Committee (KRC) blocked Mauripur road protesting against the killing of a man and extortion in the area Saturday.

The protests and sit-in has created traffic jam in various areas of the city. Women, children and aged people blocked the road since morning.

Imran was killed while seven others wounded last night in Moosa Line area of Lyari and area people and KRC blame Lyari’s gangsters are behind the crime.

Pak ready to co-operate Iran in fight against terrorism: Malik

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said on Monday that Pakistan will co-operate every country including Iran to curb the menace of terrorism.

Malik said this while talking with media persons in a photo exhibition of the founder chairman of Pakistan Peoples’ Party, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

He strongly condemned the killing of university teachers in Tehran bomb blast. He further said that his country would fully co-operate Iran to fight against terrorism, if it is required.

“The investigation team will go to Saudi Arabia to probe into corruption during Haj arrangements”, he added. Trend Pk

Pak ready to co-operate Iran in fight against terrorism: Malik

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said on Monday that Pakistan will co-operate every country including Iran to curb the menace of terrorism.

Malik said this while talking with media persons in a photo exhibition of the founder chairman of Pakistan Peoples’ Party, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

He strongly condemned the killing of university teachers in Tehran bomb blast. He further said that his country would fully co-operate Iran to fight against terrorism, if it is required.

“The investigation team will go to Saudi Arabia to probe into corruption during Haj arrangements”, he added. Trend Pk

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