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Muhammad Zai Khan
ISLAMABAD: DG Operations and Planning Major Gen. Tahir Ashraf and the parliamentary leader of Awami National Party Haji Adeel Khan exchanged harsh words in the meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production.
The meeting presided by Chairman standing committee Lt. Gen. (r) Javed Ashraf Qazi here in the Parliament House on Tuesday.
The exchange of harsh words began when Haji Adeel asked about the distribution of food items by the Army among the flood affectees.
Major General Tahir Ashraf said that they did not come in the meeting to organize their ‘postmortem or accountability’ by someone on which the ANP leader said that the country was not under martial law rule that Army Generals were showing ‘such attitude’.
The Secretary Defence Lt. Gen. (r) Athar Ali interfered...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
10,000 Chinese troops in Gilgit-Baltistan
NEW YORK: Well known South Asia specialist and writer Selig Harrison, who has a long been a critic of Pak policy, has made a startling disclosure in his latest article in the New York Times, which has almost gone unnoticed in Pakistan. He says Pakistan has decided to hand over Gilgit-Baltistan to China and up to 10,000 troops of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army have moved into the area.The article, published on Aug 26 in the opinion pages of the NYT, says a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China.Selig Harrison, who is director of the Asia Programme at the Center for International Policy and a former...
Monday, August 30, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Terry Glavin: Telling lies about Aisha
Among the many defining features that unite the left and the right wings of reactionary isolationism in the rich countries of the world, abject moral squalor is perhaps the most noticeable and repulsive. It thrives by a cunning parasitism that requires of its ruling-class host only an acquiescence to its self-flattery as “the anti-war movement.” All it requires of the rest of us is to be complicit in the lie.
In this way, moral leprosy has metastasized, and like so many undead zombies, “anti-war activists” require nothing but their own pathological solipsism to survive, and only a steady feed-supply of lies and deceptions to corrupt every debate...
Monday, August 23, 2010
ANP leader's brother shot dead in Karachi
The Member of National Assembly of the Awami National Party, Pervez Khan's brother shot dead near airport, SAMAA reported Monday.
The deceased, Asif Jan was the account officer in the District Government.
“It is time to call the army. Our workers and leaders are being targeted. The civil government in Sindh has not taken appropriate measures therefore the army should be called according to the constitution,” demanded ANP leader Haji Adil Khan.
Adil Khan while talking to SAMAA tv said that Muttahida Qaumi Movement, on the one hand, oppose the army operation in Karachi against the criminals, while party chief, Altaf Hussain, support martial law in the country.
“It is vital that Karachi city should be deweaponized.”
Haji Adil said that more than 100 ANP workers have been targeted in...
Friday, August 20, 2010
Pakistan accepts India’s offer, appeals for more aid
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi appealed to the international community to provide more and immediate aid to cope with the humanitarian crisis due to the floods.
Moreover, Pakistan has decided to accept flood aid from its neighbour India, saying the offer was a “very welcome initiative” as both countries look to improve their tense relations.
Foreign Minister Qureshi told India's NDTV television in an interview broadcast Friday that Islamabad would take India's offer of five million dollars which was made last Friday.
“I can share with you that the government of Pakistan has agreed to accept the Indian offer,” Qureshi said from New York,...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Losses worth Rs8b to K-P livestock sector
An official of the livestock department said that 15 districts were affected by the devastating floods in the province, which affected approximately 427,000 animals in 11 districts of the province,
while reports of the four remaining districts which included Dir Upper and Lower, Shangla and Kohistan, were still awaited.
The officials claimed that the death of thousands of animals has also affected milk production, adding that they needed at least Rs195 million for the treatment of sick animals, and for food purposes.
He said that at least 135,000 cattle head had died in the floods, adding that the poultry industry was also greatly affected as 550,000 hens were also killed.
The official further claimed that direct losses to the livestock sector stood at Rs5.23 billion, while indirect losses...
Saturday, August 14, 2010
BLOOD SHEDING OF PUKHTOON
There were killings in Bajour a couple of weeks ago of a prominent doctor and his staff because the was administering Polio vaccination shots, which the locals believed had something to do with the Wests desire to control the last know true muslim population in the world.
Then came news that barbers in Bajour were threatened not to shave the beards of people who want to do so or face dire consequences.
A couple of months back bombs went off in Dir in front of a cassette store for selling the sweet melodic voices of women and were told to stop this business.
Where do you think we pakhtuns are headi...
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Kalabagh Dam would have caused more flooding: experts
Former IRSA chief says dam is not a flood-control project
* ANP says dam would have done immense harm to KP, Sindh
By Iqbal Khattak
PESHAWAR: The Kalabagh Dam – had it been built – would have caused flooding rather than averting it, a former chairman of the Indus River System Authority (IRSA) said on Wednesday, while responding to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's recent statement about the dam.
"The dam's effect on floods would have been contrary to what the prime minister claimed," said Fatehullah Khan Gandapur, who headed IRSA from 1993 to 1998.
The KP leadership has criticised the PM's statement, and Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain termed the project "a dead horse". "Kalabagh dam is not a flood-control project," Gandapur said while talking to Daily Times on...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
In Their Eyes
Alphonse Lamartine (21 October 1790 - 28 February 1869), a French writer, poet and politician said:
"If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and souls. . . his forbearance in victory, his ambition, which was entirely devoted to one idea and in no manner striving for...
khyber pukhtoonkhwa flood
KP should get 95 percent of foreign aid: Mian Iftikhar
* Provincial information minister complains KP being ignored
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\08\10\story_10-8-2010_pg7_10
Staff Report
PESHAWAR: The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa called on the federal government on Monday to divert 95 percent of foreign aid to the flood-devastated province.
Expressing anger at the response to floods in the province, provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said the federal government is not taking the flood devastation in the province “seriously”. He said the Centre should divert 95 percent of aid it gets from the international community to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
“It is important to note where flood devastation has been much and major chunk of international aid should...
Monday, August 9, 2010
ANP chief's sister escapes attempt on life
The sister of ANP Chief Asfandyar Wali escaped a murder attempt in Peshawar on Monday.
According to reports, attackers fired shots at the ANP Chief’s sister when she left her clinic. She sustained bullet injuries on her hand and has been shifted to the hospit...
Friday, August 6, 2010
bomb blast at lakki marwat
At least five people have been injured including a former MNA in a hand-grenade attack in Sarai Norang area of Lakki Marwat district on Friday.
According to some sources, an unidentified man riding on a bicycle hurled a hand-grenade near an under-construction petrol station. However, other sources said that the explosive device was planted on the bicycle.
The injured also include a former MNA Nasir Muhammad Khan and have been shifted to Civil Hospital Nor...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Sifwat Ghayur
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber attacked a vehicle carrying the Chief of Pakistan’s Frontier Constabulary in Peshawar on Wednesday, killing him and two others. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.
Rescue workers frantically tried to extinguish fires that engulfed several cars in the minutes after the attack near a major market in the city.
Sifwat Ghayur, the head of the Frontier Constabulary, was killed in the attack along with his driver and bodyguard, said Abdul Rahman Khan, a local police officer. The explosion also injured 14 other people, he said.
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the killing...
Sunday, August 1, 2010
flood in pakhtoonkhwa
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has waived provincial taxes in calamity hit areas and urged the centre to exempt affected people from federal taxes as well.
Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that people were not in a position to pay taxes consequently the provincial government waived off all taxes.
“The disaster has left people completely destitute. They have lost each and everything and they are not in a position to pay taxes. Therefore the provincial government should appeal to the federal government to waive off all taxes,” he said.
If federal government did not...
