Hoti says govt to help flood-affectees build houses

Chief Minister Khyber-Pakhutnkhwa Amir Haider Khan Hoti Wednesday said the flood-affectees will be provided financial assistance besides Watan Cards with the help of Federal Government to build houses. Addressing a ceremony held here for distributing Watan Cards among flood-hit people of Nowshehra, Amir Haider Hoti said in the first phase the cards have been issued to 40,000 affectees and as many cards will be disbursed in the second phase. He said NADRA has been directed to set up four distribution centres for issuing Watan Cards. The Chief Minister advised the flood-stricken people to exercise patience so that incidents of stampede can...

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Pakistan: Imran Farooq murder linked to rows within MQM party

The Scotland Yard investigation into the murder in London of the leading Pakistani politician Dr Imran Farooq has been told that rows within his own party may have led to his assassination. Farooq, 50, was stabbed to death earlier this month during an attack in which he was also beaten near his home in Edgware, north London. Farooq was a senior figure in Pakistan's MQM (Muttahida Quami Movement) party, and was in exile in London at the time of his death. The murder is being investigated by Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism branch because of the political dimension to the killing. Sources say intelligence suggests his death was linked to rows...

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Nato copters violate Pak space, kill five

At least five people were killed and nine others injured when Nato forces’ helicopters crossed Pakistani frontiers and pounded Kurram Agency area. According to sources, two Nato helicopters violated the Pakistani border and shelled in Kurram Agency area at 5am this morning and turned back to Afghanistan. An Afghan Police commander Haq Yar Khan confirmed that Nato helicopters trespassed Pakistani border and attacked in Kurram Agency area, killing at least five people and inuring scores others. The Afghan Commander said the action was undertaken after the allied forces of Nato forces were attacked in Afghanistan province of Paktia, adding the...

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Justice denied and delayed

 “I wonder if our fiercely independent chief justice has any time to spare from his judicial activism to look into the huge backlog of cases that has built up over the years, and the impact it has on our society and our economy.” As the Supreme Court struggles valiantly to deal with such knotty issues as Musharraf’s controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance and the 18th Amendment, its backlog of pending cases has grown to 17,500. But compared to the provincial high courts, where some 150,000 cases are awaiting judgment, it is a model of efficiency. Going down to the lower courts, a recent news item in this paper informed us that some 1.1 million cases are clogging the system. One reason the Taliban takeover of Swat last year was initially welcomed by many locals was that they...

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Report cites irregularities in defence spending

ISLAMABAD: A report formulated by the Auditor General has said that Rs2.5 billion was lost in 2009-10 due to “commonly occurring irregularities” in various departments of the armed forces and ministry of defence. The Auditor General Report 2009-10, which was submitted to parliament on Friday, said Rs801.06 million was lost due to violation of rules, Rs809.54 million due to unauthorised expenditures and Rs379.84 million due to non-recovery of dues. The irregularities were persistent in nature as they occurred almost every year. The other major causes for the wastage were blockage of funds, unjustified payments and weak management of contracts,...

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Defence budget hike

A report in this newspaper yesterday suggests the defence budget has been quietly hiked by an astonishing 25 per cent, from the budgeted figure of Rs442bn to over Rs550bn. As usual, neither the government nor the military has seen fit to divulge any details, making it difficult to comment on the need for such an extraordinary increase. Surveying the landscape of Pakistan and assessing the security situation, however, provides some clues. For one, the army has been very active in the flood rescue and relief efforts, costly activities that could not have been budgeted for earlier this summer. For another, the military operations against militant...

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Dr. Afia jailed for 86 years by US court

US court has issued 76 years sentence to Dr. Afia Siddiuqi on seven counts, “I want no bloodshed over my conviction and sentence,” Dr. Afia who was present in court said after the announcement of the sentence. Dr fauzia sister of Dr affia siddiuqi announced Dr afia movment should be strated soon.politcal and islamic leader's of country condems the sentence of u.s court and said that this will make confrontation between the people of the two countrie...

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Judge orders deportation of Pakistani party chief

The head of the Quebec branch of a Pakistani political party is facing deportation after the Federal Court of Canada ruled he belonged to an organization that committed terrorism. The judge upheld the deportation of Mohammed Kashif Omer, a resident of Montreal, on the grounds he is a member of the Mothaidda Quami Movement, or MQM. It is the second time this year Canadian courts have ruled the MQM party meets the legal definition of a terrorist organization. Mr. Omer is one of dozens of Pakistanis whom Canadian immigration authorities are trying to deport because of their involvement in the MQM. Despite being blamed for the kidnapping, torture and murder of its political rivals in Pakistan, the MQM has opened a Canadian branch called MQM-Canada. Members of the group have worked on Conservative...

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ANP decides to boycott Sindh Assembly session

Awami Natioanl Party (ANP) Sindh President Shahi Syed on Tuesday said that the party has decided to boycott the upcoming Sindh Assembly session. He also demended to hold election under the supervision of Army adding that Sindh Labour Minister Amir Nawab has been instructed to stop attending his office. Addressing a press conference at Mardan House, he said decision to delay by-poll for PS-94 confirmed that the provincial administration has failed to maintain law and order in the city. PS-94 by-polls were supposed to take place on September 22. However, after the murder of Dr Imran Farooq, the Sindh government requested the EC to delay the...

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14 shot dead in Karachi

Two more persons were killed and two more injured in Liaquatad firing in wake of the fresh spate of targeted killings that began on Sunday in the metropolis pushing the total death toll to 14. The incident took place, when people coming back after attending funeral of Tanvir Abbas killed yesterday, were attacked by unknown gunmen near Liaquatabad Dak Khana. Two people were killed and as many sustained injuries. The injured were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. The entire area came under grips of fear following the incident while enraged people resorted to rioting resulting in a traffic jam. The total death toll has mounted to 14 in the current unrest in the ci...

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France claims Mullah Omar's presence in Pakistan

PARIS: Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar is based in Pakistan and everyone knows it, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner claimed Tuesday, calling on Islamabad to do more to help end the conflict. "It's not a secret for anyone, everyone knows that Mullah Omar is in Quetta, if he's not now in Karachi," Kouchner told French lawmakers. "Taliban leaders have been given shelter in Pakistan. I'm not revealing anything," Kouchner said, telling parliament's foreign relations committee why Afghanistan has called on Pakistan to help negotiate a peace de...

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WASHINGTON DIARY: Feudal-mullah alliance —Dr Manzur Ejaz

The combination of rising mullah shahi and feudalism has produced the most corrupt and inhumane systems in human history. From mediaeval Europe to India to modern Pakistan, the feudal-clergy alliance — in most cases the clergy was the feudal — has devastated social development The last time I checked the history books, it was clear to me that the British gave lands to our feudals. I had to check it again during the last week and I did not find anything contrary to my previous assessment. The cause for doubting my own recollection of history was due to an e-mail response to one of my articles from a reader. The reader had serious problems with my emphasis on abolishing feudalism and enforcing a strict land reforms programme. The reader asserted that the land was given to the feudal class...

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United States is selling $60-billion worth of aircraft to Saudi Arabia

The Pentagon is reportedly all set to notify the US Congress over selling up to 60 billion dollars worth of sophisticated warplanes to Saudi Arabia, and could add another 30 billion dollars worth of naval arms in the biggest deal designed to counter the rise of Iran as a regional power. According to the BBC, the deal would apparently represent the largest single US arms sale ever approved. Pentagon spokesman Col Dave Lapan said Congressional notification was expected within "the next week or so" but declined to comment on details of the proposed package. However, defence officials have indicated that the US would allow Saudi Arabia, the...

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ستا لیونے تشو سرونو باندے راج نہ غواړی زما دَ زړونو بادشاهی خواخہ دا تاج نہ غواړی چہ محبت نہ کوی کانړے دے یراگی ترینا دا یو ټوکلے حقیقت دے هډوجاج نہ غواړی ... ما دَ غربت پہ لاس گنډلی جامی اولیدلی چی دَ کفن غوندے تنړی نہ غواړی کاج نہ غواړی پہ جوندانہ کی اباسین غوندی تیزی پکار دا دا زندگی لکہ دَ واورے سوړ مزاج نہ غو...

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munda dam to be built on river swat

The report that expressions of interest will be invited for consultancy services for the design and preparation of tender documents for the Munda dam has resulted in optimism that work on the dam could begin soon. The delay in undertaking controversial dam projects for which a national consensus has not been reached is understandable. But procrastination in projects for which there is a consensus — as in the case of Munda dam proposed to be built on the River Swat — is not. The project has been in the pipelines for over a decade. It has already been approved by the various relevant national forums, including parliament. But attempts several years...

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Blast targeting Kohat police colony kills 21

Twenty-one people were killed and 70 wounded in a bomb attack targeting police residential quarters in Kohat on Tuesday, Geo News reported Tuesday. "Twenty-one people have been killed and 70 wounded, and there were women and children among the injured," a senior police official said. "It was a big explosion. I am on site and can see the smoke. Several people have been wounded," he said. "It was a car bomb blast, we are investigating whether the car was parked or was exploded by a suicide bomber," Khalid Khan, Commissioner Kohat said. Rescue workers were facing difficulties as electricity was suspended after the blast. The law enforcement personnel have cordoned off entire area. Police said a nearby police residential complex had also been severely damaged and houses had collapsed, trapping...

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Taliban bomb girls’ school near Peshawar

The Taliban bombed another government girls’ high school in the Landi Arbab area of Peshawar on Monday, police and local residents said. Local residents told Daily Times that terrorists planted the explosives around the school during load shedding, which had exploded at 2am. According to police officials, the blast damaged the walls and windows of the school but the institution’s watchman remained safe. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Minister Sardar Hussain Babak said that the number of schools destroyed due to the massive floods and terrorist attacks had risen to 2,000 and Rs 5 billion would be required for their reconstruction. Babak said that the floods had damaged around 900 schools in the province out of which 226 had been completely destroyed. The provincial education minister said that...

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Fourteen killed, 34 injured in Lakki Marwat explosion

PESHAWAR: A suicide car bomber killed at least fourteen people and injured 34 in an attack Monday on a police post in northwest Pakistan, a police official said. “A suicide attacker drove his bomb-laden vehicle into the back of the police post” in Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, not far from tribal areas that are a stronghold of the Taliban, local police chief Gul Wali Khan told AFP by telephone. Police said the blast destroyed the police station building and damaged a nearby administrative build...

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Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson appeals for flood affectees

UNITED NATIONS: Professor Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi on Friday joined Pakistani Ambassador to the UN Hussain Haroon in appealing for international help to meet the huge challenge posed by the worst-ever floods in Pakistan, warning that the country could face a humanitarian crisis if the world did not come to its aid in a big way. “What you are seeing now is the tip of iceberg, the worst is yet to come,” Ambassador Haroon told a press conference at the UN Headquarters in New York with Professor Rajmohan Gandhi on his side. Gandhi came from Chicago where he teaches at the University of Illinois. Professor Gandhi said that the terrible natural disaster afflicting Pakistan called for stepped-up financial and material help for the millions of “brave”...

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Pakistan Taliban say their bomber kills 43 Shiites

QUETTA, Pakistan – A suicide bombing claimed by the Pakistani Taliban killed at least 43 Shiite Muslims at a procession in southwest Pakistan on Friday. The assault sharply drove up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country battered by massive flooding. To the northwest in Pakistan's restive tribal regions, two suspected U.S. missile strikes killed at least seven people in an area controlled by one of the main groups battling Americans in neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistani intelligence officials said. Two other militant bombings left at least two people dead and several wounded on a day convulsed by the violence that threatens the stability...

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