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What Is The Most Elusive And Sought After Commodity In Business Today?
January 11th, 2011 |
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Law to monitor agencies sought
January 11th, 2011 |
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ISLAMABAD – The year of 2011 would be the year of recovery of missing persons, remarked Justice Javed Iqbal while heading a three-member bench that was hearing a suo moto case of missing persons on Monday.
Additional Advocate General (AAG) for Pakistan, K.K. Agha, presented the report of the Inquiry Commission. He said that without permission of the Federal Government the report could not be made public. He, however, said that according to the report 134 persons had been released in eight months. The report also suggested that Parliament should legislate in order to curb the practice of enforced disappearances.
The court has ordered the Federal Government to submit a report regarding the implementation of measures suggested in the CommissionÂ’s report to redress the missing persons issue.
In April 2010, the apex court had decided to give the Government a chance and, therefore, advised it to constitute a commission for hearing of missing personsÂ’ cases. The aggrieved families were directed to cooperate with the commission. The Federal Government respecting the courtÂ’s order formed a 3-member Inquiry Commission including Justice (Retd) Kamal Mansoor Alam, President, Justice (Retd) Fazal-ur-Rehman (Member) and Justice (Retd) Nasira Iqbal (Member). The commission after hearing the aggrieved families suggested for almost eight months some measures to curb the practice
of enforced disappearance.
Justice Javed Iqbal inquired from the AAG whether responsibility was established in disappearances and what action was taken against the responsible persons. Hashmat Habib Advocate informed the court that some missing persons were kidnapped by the state agencies. He said there should be some sort of legislation as proposed in the report, and Chuadhry Ikram hurriedly added particularly to the intelligence agencies.
The Judge said that there should be some tribunal for the hearing of missing person cases.
The AAG said, “Nothing is dodged in the report and it is very courageous.” He said that after 9/11 certain steps were taken outside the law, but no legislation was done to stop enforced disappearance.
Chairperson of Defence of Human Right (DHR) and Public Service Pakistan, Amina Masood, informed the court that though the report had been prepared five months ago, they had not been supplied copy of it. She said, “We have been living in agony for more than five years.”
Justice Jillani remarked as the Attorney General is the principal law officer of the court therefore he should advise the Government to do some legislation to resolve the issue of missing persons.
Amina Masood said that they had pinned hope to the Supreme Court as many people were recovered due to the courtÂ’s interest. She said that the chronic cases like that of Faisal Faraz and Masood Janjua were still pending. Men and boys are still being kidnapped in the presence of thousands of people, she added.
She also supplied her report of missing persons to the court. According to the report, a total of 281 persons are missing. Out of them 164 are in Punjab, 70 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 18 in Balochistan, 15 in Sindh, 9 in FATA and 5 in AJK. She regretted that not a single penny as compensation was given to the affected family. Amina said many commissions were formed in the past but did not prove fruitful. On one hand people are released but with much faster pace people are picked up.
The AAG replied that the Government wanted to regulate missing persons issue. Agha said that he had received the copy of report the previous day (Sunday) and wanted to study thoroughly, therefore needed some time to study it. The court therefore adjourned the case till next Monday.
Agencies add: Terming contents of the report classified, the AAG said that he received the report overnight and could not go into its contents completely.
He said he would require time to consult the Federation on the issue of fixation of responsibility.
Justice Javed in response to it observed that there should be a permanent body to regularly monitor such cases. He also referred to the report submitted by the Judicial Commission seeking a law to monitor agencies.
Work goes on at Antwerp as White Knight sought
October 5th, 2010 |
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A video here from the ‘Welcome to Flanders’ website, which has put up some shots of the Opel factory in Antwerp, just 24h after the GM division announced it had ended its search for an industrial investor.
The Flanders government has apparently been involved in the discussions to find a bidder for the plant, that currently employs around 1,300 people, but the site’s future looks increasingly gloomy.
Opel has set a 31 December deadline for closure of the factory and estimates it will manufacture around 10,000 Astras between now and then.
Compromise sought with western countries
August 23rd, 2010 |
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Serbia will accept talks, but not a drastic change to its UN General assembly Kosovo resolution, MFA sources said in Belgrade today. The United States and the EU have been increasing their diplomatic offensive, while media reports place the forthcoming visit of German FM Guido Westerwelle in that context.
Spanish backing sought over EU ambition
May 27th, 2010 |
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Serbia has asked Spain for support to getting a green light in June for forwarding its candidacy for European Union membership.
The request also concerns the start of ratification of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA), Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Božidar Äelić told Tanjug in Madrid on Thursday.
New model sought for Kosovo participation
April 20th, 2010 |
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According to B92’s sources, a new way of having Kosovo participate at all regional and international conferences is currently being sought. Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić will be meeting on Tuesday in Belgrade with his Turkish and Spanish counterparts Ahmet Davutoglu and Miguel Angel Moratinos to discuss this issue.
Google Broadband Sought by Topeka, Boulder, Other U.S. Cities
March 4th, 2010 |
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Google plans on testing one or more high-speed broadband networks in a select number of midsized U.S. cities, and has asked interested municipalities to provide information about their communities that will allow Google to make its decision. That has led Topeka, Kan., to change its name temporarily to Google, and other towns such as Grand Rapids, Mich., to launch massive social networking campaigns. Google, however, is choosing to keep its decision-making process under wraps.
– Pop quiz: What do the cities of Topeka, Kan.,
Boulder, Colo.,
Aspen, Colo.,
Park City, Utah,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
and an increasing number of U.S.
cities have in common? They are all either competing or mulling over whether to
compete for a contract to test-market a Google broadband service. T…
Transcu says CEO’s shares sought by Singapore sheriff for debt
January 2nd, 2010 |
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Transcu Group said yesterday Singapore’s sheriff sought to seize shares in the company owned by Chief Executive Officer Akihiko Matsumura to satisfy a debt of $15.7 million he owes to Bellezza Club Japan Co.
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Non-Binding “Sham Agreement” Reached At Copenhagen. “Rich Countries … Sought to Bribe and Bully Developing Nations”
December 18th, 2009 |
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An agreement – of sorts – was reached at Copenhagen.The Copenhagen Accord is not legally binding and – apparently – does not specify either target emission reductions or monetary contributions of various countries. Here is a copy of the actual Copenha…
Life term sought for US student
November 22nd, 2009 |
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Italian prosecutors on yesterday demanded life imprisonment for American student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the 2007 murder of Briton Meredith Kercher. “I was Meredith’s friend,” Knox said, her voice choked with emotion, shortly afterward. “I didn’t hate her.” The
Rana sought to sneak in people into US: FBI
November 4th, 2009 |
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Pakistani-born-Canadian citizen, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who was arrested by the FBI on charges of plotting terror attacks in India and elsewhere, sought to illegally sneak in people into the US.
Federal prosecutors told a Chicago court on Tuesday that Rana communicated with a Lashkar-e-Taiba leader in this regard and provided him the loopholes in the [...]
Hugh Jackman’s looks most sought after by men
October 8th, 2009 |
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Aussie actor Hugh Jackman has toppled Brad Pitt as the star most men wish to look like.
According to a leading Hollywood surgeon, 40-year-old Jackman, who regularly tops sexiest male polls and was named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive last year, has now become popular with men.
“Hugh Jackman just passed Brad Pitt in my list of [...]
Aid sought by hacked blogger
August 10th, 2009 |
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A Georgian blogger at the centre of a co-ordinated attack against Facebook and Twitter has asked Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to hold an inquiry.
The blogger, known online as Cyxymu, said he was targeted for "telling the truth about the Russian-Georgian war".
The attack forced down Twitter for two hours on 6 August, and Cyxymu now wants Mr Medvedev to find the culprits.
Despite the blogger’s claims, security researchers have said they doubt the attack was state-endorsed".
As well as Twitter and Facebook, search giant Google and blogging platform Live Journal – all sites where he the blogger holds accounts – were also affected by the attack.
In his letter to Mr Medvedev, the blogger, whose real name is Georgy, appealed for an investigation into the attack, during which the affected websites were bombarded with data requests until they crashed.
"Your special services are able to trace the persons involved in this case and organisers of this attack," he wrote.
"And your court, the most humane court in the world, is able to find and punish them. "
‘Big surprise’
He also said that last week’s denial-of-service attack was not the first against his blog.
In October 2008 his blog at mylivejournal.com was hit and did not function again until May this year.
In his letter, Georgy said that "the entire world is speaking of the Russian hackers working for the Russian Federation government".
Those hackers were able to prevent millions of people gaining access to world famous social networking sites merely "to block one blogger" because of his "unpleasant and unacceptable" position, he suggested.
Georgy has posted a series of videos and blog entries criticising Russia for its conduct during the five-day conflict with Georgia a year ago over its disputed region of South Ossetia.
Last week he expressed his surprise at the fallout from his blogging, saying: "It’s a big surprise to me that my blog has meant that 250m people have not been able to enter Facebook."
However, Graham Cluley of security firm Sophos told BBC News last week there was no suggestion the attack against the blogger was state-endorsed.
"It was almost certainly an individual who took objection to his blogs," Mr Cluley said.
"They took internet vigilantism into their own hands to try to blast him off the web, but in the process blasted Twitter off instead."
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