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Nobody believes Serbia anymore that Mladić is not there, and if he is not in The Hague it’s because of Serbia, says EP Rapporteur for Serbia Jelko Kacin.
Deutsche Welle (DW) reports that Kacin is familiar with “views and messages†of the Hague prosecution which will be published in next week’s report.
Harry Potter star Emma Watson has revealed that she has faced ‘dark times’ due to a ‘voice in her head’. Worth more than 20 million pounds, the Harry Potter actress has proved box office magic but despite her youthful success the 20-year-old has had crippling doubts about her talents. “I’ve had dark times, this voice [...]
LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday said that those who looted the national wealth and then transferred the same to Swiss banks were responsible for abject poverty and unemployment in the country, factors which push many to commit suicide.
He came down hard on President Zardari who he said had embarked on a visit to Paris and London at a time when millions of people had become homeless and were struggling for life because of the worst-ever floods in the countryÂ’s history.
The chief minister was addressing a ceremony organised to mark the 133rd birth anniversary of Dr Mohammad Allama Iqbal under the joint auspices of the Nazria Pakistan Trust and Tehrik-i-Pakistan Workers Trust at Alhamra Art Centre.
AJK Prime Minister Sardar Attiq Ahmed Khan, Jamaat-i-IslamiÂ’s former amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed, former foreign minister Sartaj Aziz, CPNE President Khushnood Ali Khan, Professor Dr Perveen Shaukat Ali, Dr Rafiq Ahmed, Waleed Iqbal (the poet-philosopherÂ’s grandson) and Sahibzada Sultan Ahmed Ali were among the speakers.
NPT Chairman Majid Nizami and Col Jamshed Tareen were present, but they did not address, probably to allow more time to other speakers.
The hall was packed to capacity and the participants raised slogans during the speeches of some speakers, at times annoying them.
Mian Shahbaz SharifÂ’s speech was mainly a response to CPNE President Khushnood Ali KhanÂ’s address during which he had pointed out a case of suicide in the provincial metropolis because of non-availability of food, and skyrocketing sugar prices, holding the chief minister responsible for all problems of the people, as should be the case in an Islamic state.
The chief minister admitted that people were facing a number of problems, but at the same time made it clear that he was doing his best to mitigate their sufferings. He said no one should forget that corrupt practices by some people on the top had created a situation that the common man was not getting the kind of facilities he was entitled to.
Without naming former federal minister Habibullah Warraich, now under arrest, the chief minister said he had committed an irregularity of billions of rupees.
He recalled that he was mercilessly criticised by ‘musketeers’ whenever he tried to help out the flood victims, some of whom had been left with nowhere to go after the floods swept away whatever kind of houses they had.
He held the federal government responsible for the increase in the sugar prices, and said had the sweetener been imported in May, as advised by him through half a dozen letters to the prime minister, the price would not have gone beyond Rs 57 a kg.
He said he was the one who had opposed the governmentÂ’s plan to impose duty on the imported sugar, as such a step would have blighted the lives of common man. He said since he himself owned a sugar mill, aversion to import duty was against his personal business interest. However, he preferred to save the poor.
Corruption, the chief minister said, was responsible for most of the problems.
He said he was willing to reject power a thousand times, if the situation was to go on unchanged.
The chief minister recalled that he had restored the facility of free dialysis in government hospitals and set up a Rs 6 billion Punjab Education Endowment Fund to help the poor students continue their higher studies.
He said the enemies were trying to create confusion and chaos in the country, a conspiracy that could be frustrated through national unity.
A lady, Allen K Young, has slapped charges against the driver of a car and Google as she finds both of them responsible for the car hitting her when she was walking on a sideway.
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UNITED NATIONS (Agencies) – The 2007 murder of former premier Benazir Bhutto could have been averted if adequate security measures had been taken, a report by a UN-appointed independent panel said Thursday.
The 65-page report said that the inquiry commission believes the failure by Pakistani authorities to effectively investigate Bhutto’s death was ‘deliberate’. It added that the UN probe was ‘severely hampered’ by intelligence agencies and government officials.
The government of former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf was responsible for Benazir’s assassination, the UN report finds out.
Monitoring Desk adds: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations Hussain Haroon cancelled his scheduled Press conference at the UN after receiving the report of an independent panel into murder of Benazir Bhutto from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, reported a private TV channel.
The panel first handed over the document to the UN Secretary-General after complying with Islamabad’s request for a two-week delay. Pakistani government said last week it had asked that the release, initially scheduled for March 30, be delayed so that input from Afghanistan, the United States and Saudi Arabia could be included.
On Wednesday, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told a Press briefing that the panel headed by Chile’s ambassador to the UN Heraldo Munoz would formally present its report to UN chief Ban Ki-moon Thursday afternoon.
“The Secretary General then intends to transmit it to the government of Pakistan, and he will also share it, for information purposes, with the members of the Security Council,” the spokesman added.
Munoz and one of the other panel members, Indonesian ex-attorney general Marzuki Darusman, were to give a Press conference late Thursday to provide details of the report.
According to the TV channel, security has been put on high alert throughout Pakistan on the eve of release of UN report into Benazir’s assassination.
According to Google, it was a software bug, not hackers that caused web pages with Google’s corporate information to appear in Chinese and other languages.
– Google officials say a problem with certain corporate Web pages
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Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna has said here that Pakistan’s Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) continues to play a disruptive role in Afghanistan.
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ISLAMABAD – Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that the judiciary should accept responsibility for the failure of democracy in the country where one elected prime minister had been hanged and the other thrown out of the government.
He passed these remarks during the hearing on Monday of a petition seeking regularisation of services of two Sindh High Court judges.
During the proceedings, the chief justice observed that the Supreme CourtÂ’s decisions in Maulvi Tameezuddin down to Tikka Iqbal cases were wrong and regretful. He said if the judiciary had stood firm in those cases, the November 3, 2007 mishap would have never happened.
He further remarked that the judiciary would have to put its own house in order.
Justice Iftikhar The Chief Justice said the case was of immense importance and going to decide the future of democratic order in the country.
Headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, a 14-member larger bench is hearing the petition filed by Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) seeking regularisation of services of two SHC judges, Rashid Kalhoro and Zafar Sherwani.
Comprising no PCO judge, the bench will also review the SC judgement in Tikka Iqbal case validating the imposition of emergency in the country on November 3, 2007 and sacking of over 60 judges of the apex judiciary. The same bench will also hear today (Tuesday) Barrister Akram SheikhÂ’s petition against the PCO judges.
The chief justice also issued notices to the federation, provincial law secretaries and secretary human rights in this regard on Monday.
The judgesÂ’ case has a direct link with the SC decision in Tikka Iqbal case, as the same case provided basis for the then chief justice Abdul Hameed Dogar to deny confirmation to the two SHC judges. The SC judgement in Tikka Iqbal case
said the judges sacked after imposition of emergency were “past and closed transaction”.
Justice Iftikhar said imposition of emergency was not only an issue of 60 or so judges but was also a subject of the supremacy of the Constitution.
Former president SHCBA Rasheed A Rizvi is pursuing the case on behalf of the association. He read out the texts of the emergency order and the presidential speech that followed it.
At a point in the speech when the then Army Chief and President Pervez Musharraf had expressed that he was in favour of independent judiciary, Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday exclaimed, “Independence of judiciary through detention of judges!” “What was their fault?” the CJ also asked.
Justice Ramday further remarked that a single person involved state institutions, including the Armed Forces, in an unlawful action for his personal gains, which, he said, was the greatest damage even done to the country. He also regretted that no judgement of the Supreme Court was cited in the Tikka Iqbal case.
Justice Sarmad Jalal Usmani remarked that all those persons who had advised and drafted the emergency order should also be brought to justice.
At a point in the emergency proclamation order, Musharraf had levelled allegations against the SC bench hearing the petition against his bid to contest presidential election in uniform saying that the bench was using delaying tactics in disposing of the case and was, thus, creating uncertainty in the country.
To this, Justice Ramday observed that the said bench heard the case even on Saturday and Sunday and a member of the bench could join the wedding ceremony of his daughter only on the last night. He lamented the fact that no member of the bench hearing Tikka Iqbal case responded to the allegations levelled against the apex judiciary.
Justice Javed Iqbal said the judges were also loyal citizens of Pakistan and could not even think of creating uncertainty in the country. Instead, Musharraf wanted to have decision of his own choice, he added.
At another point, he said Musharraf imposed emergency when he realised that he would not be allowed to contest presidential elections in uniform. He said some judges read the writing on the wall while others did not.
At this, the CJP Justice observed, “Those who had not read the writing on the wall joined us.”
Rasheed A Rizvi said the 7-member SC bench in Tikka Iqbal case revived the ‘doctrine of necessity’ already buried by the 9-memebr bench of the same court in Sheikh Liaqat case. He further said President Zardari on March 21, 2009 while reinstating CJ Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had recognised that he was de jure chief justice while Abdul Hameed Dogar was de facto one.
Later on, the case was adjourned till today (Tuesday).
ISLAMABAD – Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that the judiciary should accept responsibility for the failure of democracy in the country where one elected prime minister had been hanged and the other thrown out of the government.
He passed these remarks during the hearing on Monday of a petition seeking regularisation of services of two Sindh High Court judges.
During the proceedings, the chief justice observed that the Supreme CourtÂ’s decisions in Maulvi Tameezuddin down to Tikka Iqbal cases were wrong and regretful. He said if the judiciary had stood firm in those cases, the November 3, 2007 mishap would have never happened.
He further remarked that the judiciary would have to put its own house in order.
Justice Iftikhar The Chief Justice said the case was of immense importance and going to decide the future of democratic order in the country.
Headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, a 14-member larger bench is hearing the petition filed by Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) seeking regularisation of services of two SHC judges, Rashid Kalhoro and Zafar Sherwani.
Comprising no PCO judge, the bench will also review the SC judgement in Tikka Iqbal case validating the imposition of emergency in the country on November 3, 2007 and sacking of over 60 judges of the apex judiciary. The same bench will also hear today (Tuesday) Barrister Akram SheikhÂ’s petition against the PCO judges.
The chief justice also issued notices to the federation, provincial law secretaries and secretary human rights in this regard on Monday.
The judgesÂ’ case has a direct link with the SC decision in Tikka Iqbal case, as the same case provided basis for the then chief justice Abdul Hameed Dogar to deny confirmation to the two SHC judges. The SC judgement in Tikka Iqbal case
said the judges sacked after imposition of emergency were “past and closed transaction”.
Justice Iftikhar said imposition of emergency was not only an issue of 60 or so judges but was also a subject of the supremacy of the Constitution.
Former president SHCBA Rasheed A Rizvi is pursuing the case on behalf of the association. He read out the texts of the emergency order and the presidential speech that followed it.
At a point in the speech when the then Army Chief and President Pervez Musharraf had expressed that he was in favour of independent judiciary, Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday exclaimed, “Independence of judiciary through detention of judges!” “What was their fault?” the CJ also asked.
Justice Ramday further remarked that a single person involved state institutions, including the Armed Forces, in an unlawful action for his personal gains, which, he said, was the greatest damage even done to the country. He also regretted that no judgement of the Supreme Court was cited in the Tikka Iqbal case.
Justice Sarmad Jalal Usmani remarked that all those persons who had advised and drafted the emergency order should also be brought to justice.
At a point in the emergency proclamation order, Musharraf had levelled allegations against the SC bench hearing the petition against his bid to contest presidential election in uniform saying that the bench was using delaying tactics in disposing of the case and was, thus, creating uncertainty in the country.
To this, Justice Ramday observed that the said bench heard the case even on Saturday and Sunday and a member of the bench could join the wedding ceremony of his daughter only on the last night. He lamented the fact that no member of the bench hearing Tikka Iqbal case responded to the allegations levelled against the apex judiciary.
Justice Javed Iqbal said the judges were also loyal citizens of Pakistan and could not even think of creating uncertainty in the country. Instead, Musharraf wanted to have decision of his own choice, he added.
At another point, he said Musharraf imposed emergency when he realised that he would not be allowed to contest presidential elections in uniform. He said some judges read the writing on the wall while others did not.
At this, the CJP Justice observed, “Those who had not read the writing on the wall joined us.”
Rasheed A Rizvi said the 7-member SC bench in Tikka Iqbal case revived the ‘doctrine of necessity’ already buried by the 9-memebr bench of the same court in Sheikh Liaqat case. He further said President Zardari on March 21, 2009 while reinstating CJ Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had recognised that he was de jure chief justice while Abdul Hameed Dogar was de facto one.
Later on, the case was adjourned till today (Tuesday).
