Govt policies causing rise in inflation: Nawaz
PML-N Patron Nawaz Sharif on Monday underscored the need of unity to resolve all the issues facing the country.
Talking to media at Rajanpur, the chief of his own faction said that the wrong government policies are causing rise in inflation. There is no margin of the RGST in the presence of corruption, he asserted. He maintained that dams should be build to check flooding in future.
He said that no dam was built in Musharrafs 8 years rule. He said that 75 percent work could have been done regarding the building of dams, but no such thing initiated. He vowed to set up modern villages for the flood affectees, adding that a good life standard is a revolution in itself. He said he would be glad to attend the dinner hosted by President Zardari in honour of the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
India involved in terror in Balochistan, Waziristan: Wikileaks
December 9, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under Breaking News
Wikileaks revealed in its latest cables that there were enough evidences of Indian involvement in Waziristan and other tribal areas of Pakistan as well as Balochistan.
ISI Chief General Ahmad Shuja Pashas extension in services was termed as a good omen in one such cable and it was added that his further presence on the scene would enhance the agencys abilities to combat anti-terror war.
An earlier cable did rule out any direct or indirect involvement of ISI in 26/11 under Pashas command while Mumbais dossier, based on prime accused Ajmal Kasabs confessional statement was termed funny and shockingly immature. Wikileaks leaks further reveal that a cable from Kabul termed Afghan President as the patron-in-chief of the Afghan drug mafia.
The cable, citing certain verified UNODC figures stated that Karzai was living on the mercy of Afghani war lords who, with the passage of time had transformed into the drug lords. The cable stated that there was an annual drug trade of 3 trillion US Dollars from Pakistan while the Karzai administration was keeping the mum over the same. Another cable stated that Indian involvement in Afghanistan was increasing considerably and all was going on with the consent and knowledge of President Karzai and his administration.
The cable further reads that growing Indian influence and presence in Afghanistan was focused towards Pakistan and China both simultaneously. Another cable stated that Karzai was counting a lot on drug money to contests the last presidential elections. Another cable also elaborated gross irregularities in Afghan Presidential polls last year.
Wikileaks reveal that a cable sent from a US Mission in India termed former Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor as an incompetent combat leader and rather a geek.Another cable sent to Washington termed Hindutva brotherhood in general and Shiv Sena in particular, as ticking time bombs with regard to militancy and terrorism. It was suggested that fund raisers like Hindu Students Council of America etc should be banned to raise funds as they were generating funds for the Hindu militant outfits under the garb of charity. Another file dubs Hindutva Brotherhood as a far bigger threat to regional and global peace that Taliban, Al-Qaeda and LeT and the later three were declared as peanuts if equated with Hindutva Brotherhood and Sangh Parivaar and Washington was urged to take up the issue with New Delhi.
While the leaks of Wikileaks continue to give shocks and awes to the many global leaders and has exposed as to how safe, secret and secure the state of the most sensitive affairs of the Unites States’ government is, a careful and in-depth study of some out of the quarter million secret cable files.
Nawaz voices strident support to SC
Pakistan Muslim League Patron Nawaz Sharif has vowed all-out consistent support to the Supreme Court to uphold rule of law in the country.
Talking to media in Lahore on Friday, Nawaz called for removal of all the NRO beneficiaries in case they do not resign.
Replying to a question vis-a-vis President Zardaris indemnity, Nawaz said that, Only the Supreme Court could decide about it and nothing could be said until that.
The PML-N chief deplored that many big criminals got indemnity under NRO. In answer to a question about courts rulings, he said the judiciary has been restored after great sacrifices, and added the government should implement SC orders at all costs.
Huge sacrifices have been rendered for the restoration of judiciary, Nawaz maintained and lamented that I did not know that the judiciary has to face such fate after its reinstatement.
Nawaz reiterated that he would not move an inch from his principled stance regarding judiciary and other issues and pledged to make others do the same.
Politics or no politics, I will stick to my guns about judiciary, Nawaz said. He called upon the government to give at least Rs0.1million each to the flood affectees.
Govt has implemented all SC orders except Swiss cases: Kaira
Federal Information Minister Qamaruz Zaman Kaira, while talking to Dunya News, said that Nawaz Sharif should come to the Parliament through democratic means. He claimed that the incumbent government has implemented all the SC orders except Swiss cases. He termed PMs call in which he asked the NRO beneficiaries as principled. He said the people who have been granted bails could not be termed as convicts. He maintained that only the parliament is authorized to amend the Constitution. He said that those who are against the immunity enjoyed by the President should move a motion in the Assembly. He said that under Article 248, the President could not be prosecuted.
South Korea to take ship sinking case to UN
South Korea would take the case of its torpedoed warship by North Korea to the United Nations, President Lee Myung-bak’s office announced.
The Cheonan sank in waters near the Northern Limit Line on March 26, killing 46 sailors. An international team of investigators, which included three Canadian naval experts, concluded last week that a North Korean submarine torpedoed the ship.
They reportedly recovered torpedo parts at the site of the explosion that match the design in a book published by North Korea for the purpose of arms sales.
North Korea has vehemently denied the allegations, calling the investigation a enormous fabrication in a commentary Sunday in the North’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper President Myung-bak is poised to make a speech about how the country plans to proceed in light of the findings on Monday, a spokesperson from his office told South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency. In that speech, Myung-bak is expected to announce he will take the matter before the UN. He called for the systematic and resolute countermeasures against North Korea so that it cannot repeat this reckless provocation.
Sharif brothers in Hunza, announce Rs100m for affectees
PML-N Patron Nawaz Sharif and brother Shahbaz Sharif Monday announced a Rs100million relief fund for the Hunza lake affectees.
Both the leaders, who are on Hunza visit to express solidarity with the IDPs, pledged all-out support for the people of Hunza and Gilgit-Baltistan in such an hour of need.
They also said that medical staff and doctors would reach the affected areas in next 72 hours to help out the locals.
ST. Patrick s Day History
Saint Patrick’s Day is a yearly holiday celebrated on 17 March. It is named after Saint Patrick (circa AD 387–461), the most commonly recognized of the patron saints of Ireland. It began as a purely Catholic holiday and became an official feast day in the early 1600s. However, it has gradually become more of a secular celebration of Ireland’s culture.
It is a public holiday on the island of Ireland (both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland) and widely celebrated by the Irish diaspora in places such as Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, and Montserrat.
St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years. On St. Patrick’s Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast—on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage.
Pakistan Ulema Council Announced 3 Day Mourning On Hyderi Killing
PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Ulema Council, condemning the killing of founder-patron of outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba Allama Ali Sher Hyderi, Monday announced to observe three-day mourning across the country.
Talking to Geo News, Central Secretary Information of the council Naseerud Din said Allama Hyderi was the patron-in-chief of the banned outfits Sipah-e-Sahaba and Millat-e-Islamia.
He founded another organization, Ahle-Sunnat-wal-Jama’at after the killing of Maulana Azam Tariq and banning of Sipah-e-Sahaba and Millat-e-Islamia, of whose, he was patron-in-chief.
Naseerud Din said Ulema Council’s President hafiz Tahir Ashrafi and other office-bearers condemned the incident in the strongest words and held the incident of Hyderi’s killing a conspiracy to exacerbate the situation of communal harmony.
