وحيدہ شاہ کا پولنگ عملے پر تشدد ،سپريم کورٹ نے از خود نوٹس لے ليا. 18 افراد کے قتل پر نو ٹس؟؟؟؟؟

اسلام آباد… سپريم کورٹ نے ضمني انتخابات ميں پي پي کي اميدوار وحيدہ شاہ کي جانب سے 25مارچ کو ہونے والے ضمني انتخابات ميں پولنگ عملے پر تشدد کا از خود نوٹس لے ليا ہے. چيف جسٹس افتخار محمد چوہدري نے دي نيوز ميں انيتا تراب کي جانب سے شائع ايک خط پر نوٹس ليا ہے جس ميں انہوں نے واقعے کا ازخود نوٹس لينے کا مطالبہ کيا تھا. چيف جسٹس نے 2 مارچ کو آئي جي سندھ، اليکشن کميشن اور وحيدہ شاہ کو طلب کر ليا ہے

بان کي مون کي کوہستان ميں مسافروں کے قتل کي شديد مذمت

نيويارک … اقوام متحدہ کے سيکرٹري جنرل بان کي مون نے کوہستان ميں بس سے مسافروں کو اتار کر قتل کرنے کے واقعے کي شديد مذمت کي ہے.ايک بيان ميں بان کي مون نے کہا کہ انتہا پسندي اور دہشت گردي سے پاکستان ميں کافي جاني نقصان ہورہا ہے. اقوام متحدہ دہشت گردي اور انتہا پسندي کے خلاف کوششوں ميں پاکستان کے ساتھ ہے. سيکريٹري جنرل اقوام متحدہ نے کوہستان کے واقعے ميں جاں بحق افراد کے لواحقين اور حکومت پاکستان کے ساتھ دلي تعزيت کا اظہار کيا ہے.

گلگت اور ہنزہ نگر ميں صورتحال بدستور کشيدہ

گلگت… کوہستان ميں دہشت گردوں کے ہاتھوں 16افراد کي ہلاکت کے بعد گلگت اور ہنزہ نگر ميں صورتحال کشيدہ ہے.جاں بحق ہونے والے 11افراد کي شناخت ہوگئي ہے جن کي نماز جنازہ آج ادا کي جائيگي. کشيدگي کي وجہ سے کرفيو کا سماں ہے.لوگ گھروں تک محدود ہيں ،سڑکوں پر ٹريفک نہ ہونے کے برابر ہے.جاں بحق ہونے والے 16افراد کي لاشوں کو ہيلي کاپٹرز کے ذريعے گلگت منتقل کيے جانے کے بعد ڈسٹرکٹ ہيڈکواٹر اسپتال ميں تمام لاشوں کا پوسٹ مارٹم کياگيا.اسپتال ذرائع کا کہنا ہے کہ ہلاک شدگان ميں11لاشوں کي شناخت ہوگئي ہے.جن ميں سے 3کا تعلق استور سے،ايک کا پاراچنار سے،ايک کا گلگت کے علاقے شروٹ سے،6کا تعلق ہنزہ نگر کے مختلف علاقوں سے ہے.شناخت ہونے والي لاشيں آج مرکزي انجمن اماميہ کے سپرد کي جائيں گي.جس کے بعدان کي اجتماعي نماز جنازہ اماميہ جامع مسجد ميں ادا کي جائيگي جس کے بعد ميتوں کو ان کے آبائي علاقوں ميں روانہ کرديا جائيگا.

Abbottabad: Razing of bin Laden's compound near finish, al Qaeda chief compound becoming history

ABBOTABAD:  Authorities on Saturday evening began tearing down the infamous compound of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden where he was hunted down by US commandos in a top-secret raid in May last year.

A private construction firm was hired to bulldoze the structure following the green light from the judicial commission investigating the circumstances that led to the US Navy SEAL raid, official sources told media .

“Workers are expected to pull down the building by 3am,” said an official source, adding that heavy machinery had been moved to Bilal Town, the neighbourhood next to Pakistan Military Academy where the structure is located.

Soon after a visit to the mansion by the Abbottabad commission members, the belongings of the Bin Laden family were moved to an undisclosed location in anticipation of its demolition.

Sources said that security forces, who were standing guard at the compound, handed its control to the civil administration before its demolition started at around 8.30pm.

Witnesses said troops blocked access to the compound, brought heavy machinery and barred journalists from taking pictures or coming close to the site. As workers started demolishing the structure in the glare of floodlights, local residents were asked to remain indoors till the structure was razed.

The triple-storey house, built over an area of 38,000 square feet and worth Rs85 million, has been under the control of the security forces and police since the May 2011 raid.

Two months ago, the authorities had detained the Danish ambassador, his wife and their security officer for visiting the area. During the last 10 months, more than eight Pakistani and foreign journalists were also detained for taking photographs of the compound.

“They should have razed it much earlier to spare us frequent questioning and surveillance,” said local resident Iqbal.

“The area people will now heave a sigh of relief,” added Tariq, another resident of Bilal Town. “At least the Bin Laden chapter is closed for us now.”

Two cops, ‘outlaw’ killed in Abbottabad clash

ABBOTTABAD: Two cops and an alleged outlaw were killed in an exchange of fire in the Mir Alam town in the limits of the Mirpur Police Station on Wednesday, police sources said.

The sources said that the Rider Squad including police constables Sardar Haroon and Waheed were on routine patrol when they came across some suspected persons and stopped them for body search. They said that one of the persons opened fire on the cops and triggered an exchange of fire.

Both the cops were critically injured and an outlaw was shot dead on the spot. The cops died on way to the hospital. District Police Officer Abbottabad Karim Khan told The News that the outlaws were stated to be four in number and some of them were also injured in the shootout. The bodies were shifted to the Ayub Medical Complex. The identity of the slain outlaw could not be ascertained. The police cordoned off the area to capture the fleeing outlaws but there was no word about any arrest.

ايبٹ آباد : مين بازار ميں پانچ گودام اور پانچ دکانيں جل کر خاکستر

ايبٹ آباد … ايبٹ آباد کے مين بازار ميں ايک ہوٹل اور مٹھائي کي دکان کي بالائي منزل ميں اچانک آگ بھڑک اٹھي، جس نے جلد ہي ديگر عمارتوں کو اپني لپيٹ ميں لے ليا.ايبٹ آباد کے مين بازار ميں منگل کي رات آٹھ بجے ايک مقامي ہوٹل اور مٹھائي کي دکان کي بالائي منزل ميں آگ بھڑک اٹھي جس نے ديکھتے ہي ديکھتے ملحقہ دکانوں کو بھي لپيٹ ميں لے ليا.آگ بجھانے کيليے مقامي رضاکار اور فائر بريگيڈ کے عملے نے موقع پر پہنچ کر آگ بجھانے کي کوششيں شروع کيں.آگ زيادہ اور گلياں تنگ ہونے کے باعث آگ بجھانے ميں پريشاني کا سامنا کرنا پڑا.تقريبا دو گھنٹوں کي کوششوں کے بعد آگ پر قابو پاليا گيا، تاہم اس دوران کپڑوں اور جوتوں کے پانچ گودام اور پانچ دکانيں مکمل طور پر جل گئيں.واقعے ميں کوئي جاني نقصان نہيں ہوا.

Mehran Bank Scandal and Nawaz Sharif PML (N)

Mehran Bank Scandal and Nawaz Sharif PML (N)

 

Jan 31 2012 Expensive govt land on Murree Road allotted illegally

ISLAMABAD: Government land costing billions of rupees on the Murree Road has allegedly been allotted.
While widening the Murree Road in 1998-99, the then Punjab chief minister, who also holds the post now [Shahbaz Sharif], had decided to allot alternate land instead of financial compensation to some of the affected persons.
Working swiftly, the Highways Department first got transferred six acres of land on the main Murree Road owned by the Agriculture Department in their own names and then transferred it illegally to fake victims.
The Revenue department had also declared the allotment illegal six years back. After probe, it was learnt that land was provided to Raja Abdul Latif without any legal justification ignoring the legal claimant Zia Rashid.
Likewise, Raja Shafqat, son of Raja Mohammad Siddiq, was also allotted land while the actual claimant, Mohammad Hashim Khan, son of Haji Manzoor Hussain, was ignored. Two other real claimants Mohammad Usman and Jamila Akhtar were also not included in the list.

A six-member committee consisting of officials of the Revenue and Highways departments in the light of a detailed report of tehsildar Rawalpindi had ruled that all bogus allotments may be cancelled and the land illegally allotted maybe got vacated. The committee had also ruled that the genuine affected persons may be given alternate lands elsewhere.

The Punjabi Taliban and PML (N)

Punjab, with Lahore as its bustling capital, contains half of Pakistan’s population. The provincial government is in the hands of the conservative, mildly Islamist party of a former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif. In a speech in March his brother, Shahbaz Sharif, who is chief minister, pleaded with the Taliban to leave Punjab alone as his administration shared their ideology of keeping out “foreign dictation” (ie, Americans). Officials bristle at comparisons between Punjab, which is moderately well run, and the lawless tribal areas.

It is correct to say that there has been no territorial takeover by extremists in any part of the province, nor any enforcement of Islamic law. However, Punjab functions as an ideological nursery and recruiting ground for militants throughout the country. Distinctions between the Taliban in the north-west and older jihadi groups in Punjab have broken down. The federal government says Punjabi groups have been responsible for most of the big terrorist attacks in the province.

Punjab’s minister of law, Rana Sanaullah, went on the campaign trail in February with the reputed head of Sipah-e-Sahaba, for a by-election in the southern town of Jhang. The two rode through the streets in an open-top vehicle. The minister says that he was just trying to bring the group into the mainstream. Jhang is Sipah-e-Sahaba’s headquarters; the group makes little effort to hide its presence there.

Another outfit, Jaish-e-Mohammed, is based in Bahawalpur, also in southern Punjab, where it has a huge seminary. Former members of both organisations are integral parts of the Pakistani Taliban. Another group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for the devastating attack on Mumbai in 2008, also has Punjab as its home. “The Punjab government is not only complacent, there is a certain ambivalence in their attitude” towards extremists, says Arif Nizami, a political analyst based in Lahore. “They compete for the religious vote bank.”

Students Protest Corruption of Sharifs

Recent agitation against the Punjab government on the intermediate result fiasco, underscores the growing wedge between the youth and a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) desperate to woe the younger generation. The protests could not have come at a worse time for the Sharif’s, who are trying to mobilise the public against the federal government. Following the cancellation of the intermediate exams at four Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) centres in Punjab, students and the youth have raised fingers at the credentials of the Punjab Chief Minister (CM) to mount an anti-corruption campaign against the federal government. The failure of the online examination system across Punjab has sparked anger that now risks the 28 October rally by the Sharif brothers against the federal government, Pakistan Today learnt on Sunday.

Students have asked on what grounds are the Sharif brothers taking out a rally against corruption when the education boards in their own province had become the hub of corruption. While the Punjab CM was visiting education institutes to garner support, the cancellation of Inter-1 result at four BISE boards, including Lahore, Gujranwala, Multan and Faisalabad, sparked rage amongst students who chanted slogans against Shahbaz and Nawaz Sharif and set Punjab government advertisements on fire. After his Inter result was cancelled, student Wasif Ali said,

“Everytime I find the Punjab CM criticising corruption by the federal government, I want to ask him: what happened at the four BISE boards, Mr CM?”
– Wasif Ali

“Is it because of his love for education that no permanent education minister has been appointed in Punjab,” he said, “the education ministry has failed due to its incompetence and the CM should not expect the youth to turn up at his rally.”

“The parents of female students are sitting on roads and chanting slogans against the Punjab government but his government has ordered police to beat up students protesting for their rights. Why should we join him in the rally?” Kashif asked. Another intermediate student, Adeel Ahmad said it was ironic the PML-N was holding a rally against corruption when the CM himself was supervising corruption in Punjab. “While Shahbaz has rightly suspended the BISE Chairman and Controller, no action has been initiated against the man behind the fiasco, BISE It Consultant Dr Majid Naeem, who is related to a PML-leader,” Adeel said.

He said it was common knowledge that Dr Majid had corruptions cases registered against Majid, who had been terminated from Punjab University on corruption charges. He said the fact that the PML-N was turning a blind eye to Majid’s corruption, showed their hypocrisy.