Nato Must Stop Fleeing Taliban:Athar Abbas
RAWALPINDI PAKISTAN: Major General Athar Abbas, director general of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said that a cross-border flow into Afghanistan was hampering Pakistan’s campaign to crush the Taliban.
“We are at full stretch. I have to say that the border is a joint responsibility,” he said in a presentation to the Royal United Services Institute, a London think tank.
“Nato must stop the cross border flow.”
According to Maj Gen Abbas, there are now 821 Pakistan army checkpoints on the border, but just 112 Afghan army or Nato posts.
A senior official has said that al-Qaeda ” leaders are having great difficulty communicating and they have been denied freedom of movement.”
The official also claimed that factions within the Afghan Taliban had begun fighting the mainly Arab al-Qaeda operatives and their allies in recent weeks.
Defiant DSP Moves LHC Against Suspension
The suspended DSP filed a writ petition in Lahore High Court for initiating judicial inquiry against his seniors.
DSP Imran Babar requested in the application that judicial inquiry be initiated against the accused. He said that he was pressurized to release the held terrorists who belonged to Afghanistan.
He requested to halt his suspension till the completion of judicial inquiry. Talking to media, DSP said that he did not accuse SP CIA Umar Virk, and urged the public to move the court against police highhandedness.
SC dismisses NRO Beneficiaries’ Disqualification Plea
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan News: The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition to disqualify the NRO beneficiaries on Wednesday.
Advocate Syed Iqbal Kazmi has moved an appeal in the court to disqualify the NRO beneficiaries besides suspending their parliament membership.
The objections put by the Registrar office states that as the petitioner himself was not the affectee thus he was not eligible to move the court in this regard; moreover the said case is already sub judice in different courts.
Iqbal Kazmi said that he would again file the application after removing the objections.
SC dismisses NRO Beneficiaries’ Disqualification Plea was first posted on December 23, 2009 at 2:52 pm.
