Karachi rally attackers in police remand

By Ghayasuddin

KARACHI: The Anti-Terrorist Court on Saturday approved police remand for the five culprits involving in shooting at the Yaum-e-Ali procession near Empress Market.

Barkat Khan, Ibad, Muhibullah, Qaseem Khan and Naseeb Khan were arrested when they started firing on the procession. Police informed the court that the investigation was underway, therefore, the police requested a remand. The arrested men would be presented before the court on September 06. SAMAA

LHC takes suo mo notice of Faisalabad killings

LAHORE: Chief Justice Lahore High Court (LHC) took suo mo notice of killing two persons under police custody. Both were arrested under charges of blasphemy.

Chief Justice LHC Khawaja Sharif has directed the RPO Faisalabad to submit record of investigations in the court on July 21.

Sajid Emanuel and Rashid Emanuel were arrested under blasphemy law clause 295 in Faisalabad. Religious tension mounted in the area when both were shot dead by unknown persons.

NATO not winning Afghan hearts and minds: poll

LONDON: NATO is failing to win hearts and minds in Afghanistan, according to a poll released on Friday showing most people in Taliban heartlands view foreign troops negatively and believe the Taliban should join the government.

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Obama to sign Wall Street reform bill on Wednesday

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will sign sweeping regulatory reforms of Wall Street into law on Wednesday, the White House said.

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Australian PM announces Aug. 21 elections

CANBERRA: Australia’s first woman Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who has led the country for three weeks, on Saturday called a general election on Aug.

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5,000 arrested in Asian soccer gambling raids

LONDON: Interpol said that more than 5,000 people were arrested and almost $10 million seized across Asia in an operation targeting illegal soccer gambling.

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CJ sees Constitution as lacking sans intra-party polls

ISLAMABAD: The appointments against vacant positions for judges should be made only through advertisement, AK Dogar Advocate said Monday.

A 17-judge larger bench heard the constitutional petitions filed against the 18th Amendment.

Talking to media outside the court, Advocate AK Dogar said the rights of political workers have been encroached upon through abolishing the elections within the political parties, adding how can Law contain it seeing the same has been banished from the Constitution.

On this, the Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry, while giving his remarks, said command of the Constitution regarding intra-party elections would be whittled down to nothing as parties’ elections were put to an end.

Advocate AK Dogar of Lawyers’ Forum said the Executive and the Legislature work for rule of Law; while, judiciary has been put aside from these pillars of the state, adding the previous method for the appointment of the judges was bogus.

He demanded the vacancies for the judges should be advertised, so that all the lawyers could have opportunities.

Earlier, AK Dogar completed his arguments against 18th Amendment. Subsequently, another petitioner High Court Bar Rawalpindi President Zulfiqar Naqvi was asked to put forward his arguments.

He said he without a demur supports the arguments of Hamid Khan Advocate and Ikram Sheikh Advocate in the case.

Supreme Court (SC) adjourned the hearing of case till tomorrow.

334 suspects arrested in KA, Nowshera, Charsadda search operation

PESHAWAR: Law enforcement agencies arrested 334 suspected persons during search operation in Khyber Agency, Nowshera and Charsadda search operation.

FC sources said security forces started search operation in Sipah area of tehsil Bara of Khyber Agency on Monday. This is an ancestral area of Mangal Bagh, a commander of outlawed outfit Lashkar-e-Islam. At least 334 suspected arrested in the operation and shifted to FC fort for investigations.

In Nowshera, law enforcement agencies imposed curfew in Azakhel camp and started search operation. Three suspected persons were arrested and large cache of automatic weapons recovered during operation. Ten more suspected arrested in Chirat, Sheikhi, Sateen Kanay and Lakrai areas in Nowshera.

On the other hand, 14 suspected persons arrested in Mandani area in North Hasht Nagar in Charsadda.

6 dead in Mexico in floods caused by Alex

MEXICO CITY: Authorities say the death toll in Mexico from flooding caused by former Hurricane Alex has risen to six.

Nuevo Leon state Civil Defense Director Jorge Camacho said Friday the victims died in and around the northern city of Monterrey.

The city was hit by heavy rain on Thursday that swelled the Santa Catarina river, which is normally dry.

The flooding damaged bridges in Monterrey as well as railway tracks in the region.

Alex hit Mexico”s Gulf coast on Wednesday as a Category 2 hurricane before weakening into a tropical storm while moving inland. It dissipated on Thursday.

Alex had earlier battered Central America, causing flooding and rock-slides that killed two people in Guatemala and two in El Salvador.

Maldives extends MPs” house arrest

COLOMBO: A Maldivian court has extended the house arrest of two key opposition lawmakers amid a dragging power struggle between the country”s president and parliament, an official said Saturday.

The High Court agreed late Friday to a government appeal to keep the two MPs under house arrest for two weeks, the official said, adding that police were investigating them for allegedly trying to bribe independent MPs.

MPs Abdulla Yamin and Qasim Ibrahim, leaders of smaller opposition parties, were arrested by police on Tuesday shortly after a political crisis erupted when the cabinet resigned en masse.

President Mohamed Nasheed and the opposition-controlled parliament are at loggerheads over how to run the atoll nation of 330,000 Sunni Muslims two years after the Indian ocean state held its first multi-party elections.

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