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ARY: Appointments of Justice Ramday, other judges challenged
Post-retirement adhoc appointment of Supreme Court Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday has been challenged in Lahore Registry of the apex court.
Petitioner Barrister Zafarullah in his plea argued that Justice Ramday was retired from Supreme Court at 65 and district and sessions judges Ahmed Farooqui and Naseem Akhtar were also retired after reaching to the age of superannuation, however Justice Ramday reappointed as Supreme Court judge and the two retired district judges as high court judges, which is violation of the merit as it stops new appointments on the vacancies.
The petitioner pleaded for stopping reappointments of the retired judges and appointments of new judges on merit.
chor chori se jaey hera pheri se na jaey shame shame corruption par bhashan aur chori ki bijli lolz
Austin Plane Attack Highlights Double Standards
Seema Ahmad
A week ago, Joseph Stack flew his plane into an IRS building in Austin. It is shocking that there wasn’t non-stop news coverage of the tragic event. After all, the image of shattered buildings and a smoke-filled sky is forever ingrained in the minds of Americans after the attacks of 9/11.
Instead, the news of the day was dominated by the Conservative Political Action Conference and Tiger Woods’ impending apology.
And although some reporters discussed the incident, it quickly became apparent that the intentional flying of an airplane into a government building would not dominate the news. Stack was not Muslim which meant there would be no hysteria and inflammatory rhetoric about the Austin attack.
This act wouldn’t be politicized to marginalize certain groups as “soft on terror.” It wouldn’t result in draconian policy measures to expand government surveillance or to use racial profiling.
There wouldn’t be a round-up of all middle-aged men who had expressed outrage at this country’s tax regime. There would be no expectation for tax protestors to condemn Joseph Stack or risk the questioning of their patriotism. In fact, newly elected Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) discussed Stack’s actions in terms of popular frustration with government and a desire for “transparency” and “accountability.”
Yet when violence is perpetuated by Muslim extremists, the results are completely different. Fear is fanned by those who stand to benefit from it pressuring some Muslim organizations dedicated to American pluralism to defend their integrity by repeatedly explaining that the world’s 2 billion Muslims are not represented by one individual’s act of violence.
To examine the motives or mental state of terrorists is to risk being called a “terrorist-sympathizer.” Legal and social norms are compromised all too often and we operate on prejudice masquerading as policy. Although the Obama administration has taken some courageous steps to reverse this trend and pursue a more balanced rhetoric, it has not been able to fully implement polices that restore American ideals of justice and equality.
Joseph Stack committed a horrific act. So did Nidal Hasan when he went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood military base. And although the threat of Al-Qaeda and Islamic extremism is serious and real, it is problematic that the media only inquires about religion, organizational affiliation, or ideology when Muslims are involved.
In the news coverage that only lasted a day or two, few have asked, “Who was Joseph Stack?” And yet, tax-protester violence is not new.
Right-wing extremist groups — sometimes religiously inspired — have a history of aggression in this country. Take anti-abortion groups that supported the death of Dr. Tiller or anti-semitic members of Posse Comitatus who refuse to pay taxes and have killed or threatened federal officials. In addition, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report in April of 2009 on the rising threat of right-wing extremism. It may be that Stack has no affiliation with these groups, but the public inquiry should be made.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seema-ahmad/austin-plane-attack-highl_b_478062.html
Does this means ISI has cut deal btween US and Hizb-e-Islami against talibaan?
Geo: Over 80 die as Hezb and Taliban clash in Afghanistan
KABUL: Nearly 80 people were killed in bloody clashes between rival Islamist groups in northern Afghanistan.
The fighting between Taliban rebels and militants loyal to the Hezb-i-Islami insurgent group erupted early Saturday in Baghlan province where both factions are active, said provincial police chief Mohammad Kabir Andarabi.
Citing local sources in the region, the police chief said the battles took place in the Jangal Bagh area. The interior ministry confirmed the clashes but was not able to give casualty figures.
“We have intelligence reports that 60 fighters, 40 Hezb-i-Islami and 20 Taliban have died so far,” Mr Andarabi said.
“Our reports indicate that up to 19 civilians were also killed.”
The Taliban is the main militant group behind an increasingly deadly insurgency to topple the Western-backed Government of President Karzai and force out about 121,000 US and NATO troops stationed in Afghanistan.
Smaller militant outfits were also battling the government and foreign troops, either joining forces with the Taliban or waging their own insurgency.
Hezb-i-Islami, an Islamist faction loyal to former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, is the second-biggest militant group.
Mr Andarabi said four Hezb-i-Islami commanders surrendered to the government following the clashes and more could follow.
Murad Ali Murad, an army general, said Afghan security forces sent reinforcements to the area and said his initial reports suggested 50 militants were killed in the fighting.
Qazi Burhaan, who calls himself a Hezb-i-Islami commander, said that fighting erupted after Taliban militants snatched some of his men. He said they lost one fighter and killed 15 Taliban.
Afghanistan is gripped in an insurgency launched after a US-led invasion toppled the Taliban in late 2001.
The Taliban and Hezb-i-Islami differed in the past over their policies, with Hekmatyar saying he was open to peace talks with the Afghan Government and the US as long as foreign troops left the country.
The Taliban leadership, however, ruled out any talks with either the US or Mr Karzai’s Government.
This is the mail I received from a Pakistani American Scientist I know personally.
No doubts Americans are seriously planning to leave Iraq…..But what they are leaving behind…A crime on humanity.
Being a Physicist, while serving General Electric Electronic Systems Department (Military) and later NASA’s JSC, I had to deal with Radiation Effects on Electronic Systems, Devices and Safety related to Humans, since early eighties to protect Military/Space Systems, and also served on the Radiation Safety Committee at NASA/JSC –Safety-Reliability and Quality Assurance Division from early 90’s till my retirement in September 2002.
During my early graduate studies I heard some horrible stories from a UNESCO Visiting Professor, Frank Barendregt (from Holland) at Univ. of Karachi during 1955-57. And later when I had NSF/US-AEC Summer Scholarship for University Teachers to study the use of Radio-Isotopes at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA during the summer of 1963. The knowledge gained led my curiosity to know more on this subject till this day. I received first shock after learning the horrible things done to U.S. Citizens by scientists at Los Alamos National Labs by injecting them Uranium and Plutonium without their explicit consent, when the documents were unclassified by Clinton’s Energy Secretary, Hazel O’Leary (93-97). Eileen Welsome after sifting through these declassified documents, described these experiments (pages 253-263) published in her book, “PLUTONIUM FILES.”
Later in 1997, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark with the help of Rosalie Bertell, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Jay, M. Gould, Manuel Pino, Michio Kaku, and an Iraqi Dr. Ashraf El-Bayoumi published a book “Depleted Uranium – Metal of Dishonor: How the Pentagon Radiates soldiers and Civilians with DU Weapons.” It was a shocking revelation when LIFE magazine on its cover had a picture of U.S. Gulf War Veteran and the story about his children affected by DU made headlines. This did not end there, but, more revelations came about when a German Scientist, Dr. Siegwart-Horst Guenther of the Austrian Yellow Cross International systematically studied the evidence of possible Gulf war Syndrome inside Iraq and the high incidence across the country of abnormal births ( their photographs have been posted on the Web, which look like monster fetuses). A report of Baghdad DU Symposium – U.S. used DU in Bosnia Internal Danger of DU was also published in abovementioned book by Ramsey Clark et al.
This is very serious crime committed against humanity, since the half-life of Depleted Uranium is 4.2 Billion Years. This means a ticking cancer bomb was planted in that region and Balkans which will kill innocent civilians and animals for Billions of years, with cancers and all sorts of tumors.
NOTE: Both Ionizing Radiation as well as Non-Ionizing (Electromagnetic) radiation has ill effects on GENES, and there is no such thing as SAFE DOSE, beyond which effects such as Tumors and Cancers of various kinds are triggered. The Recent introduction of Total Body Scanners either use backscattered X-Rays or Millimeter waves to construct body image. Both X-rays and millimeter waves are known to cause harm, (as shown with respect to millimeter waves used as mob control weapon by CBS-News 60Minutes in which the burning sensation under the skin had to make the narrator duck quickly and signal to turn off the Ray-Gun).
Recently President Obama has opened another can of worms by letting Nuclear Industry enthusiasts build more Nuclear Reactors for “Green” Power generation. U.S. already has more than 70,000 tons of Nuclear (Radioactive) Waste and no-where to put it. If stored in the deep underground tunnels the containers will eventually rust or breakdown by creating porosity, leaking the radioactivity into the drinking water underground creating more tumors and cancers. Moreover, the life of a nuclear reactor is about 30 years, after which it become like an unsafe grave-yard, subsidized by tax-payers. Power generators using Fossil fuels pour Greenhouse gases (Carbon dioxide, etc.) into the atmosphere, whereas, Nuclear reactors contaminate by pumping radioactive wastes into the earth, which will eventually contaminate water table underground, totally unsafe for human consumption (containing radioactive waste components, some of whose half life is more than a billion years. It would be ticking radiation bomb eventually increasing the rates of Cancer in human beings as well as animals.
Neither the Nuclear industry nor the government tells the public the truth about serious hazards posed by RADIATION both on earth and in SPACE, [even to passengers flying in aircraft at 30,000 feet altitude by high-energy Cosmic Rays & Solar Protons hitting the metallic body of the aircraft (that produce the secondary neutrons inside the aircraft), increasing with altitude, which maximize at 60,.000 feet, even at lower attitudes of 30,000 feet, and more so for those aircraft flying through Polar Routes (sometimes due to bad weather or to save fuel). I learnt about these hazards while serving on the Radiation Safety Committee of NASA and also through Professional Courses offered by IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conferences (NSREC) – specially about presence of neutrons inside a commercial airliner (like sitting close to nuclear reactor) during NSREC 1998). Based upon this knowledge and coupled with Flight Duration (as these effects are cumulative over time) FAA gave an advisory to Airlines Crew Member to reduce their flying hours, to prevent ill effects by radiation and most of all ensuing Law-Suits.] Space Radiation poses a very serious problem for Astronauts travelling to MARs, one way duration ~ 6 months). An event called Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)[perform Google search to know more about it] about which our CREATOR, warned us through Qur’an [Surah Ar-Rahman #55: Ayats # 33 O ye assembly of Jinns and men! If it be ye can pass beyond the zones of the heavens and earth, pass ye! Not without authority shall ye be able to pass!; # 35 – On you will be sent a flame of fire (to burn) and a smoke: No defense will ye have [this refers to Solar Flares and more so about CME’s which occur randomly according to 11 year Solar Cycle (the next predicted within during 2010 – 2012).
REFERENCES:
1. “PLUTONIUM FILES: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War,” by Eileen Welsome, published by Dial Press, Random House, New York 1999. ISBN 0-385-31402-7.
2. “Depleted Uranium – Metal of Dishonor: How the Pentagon RADIATES soldiers & civilians with DU weapons, by Ramsey Clark et al. (names mentioned above); 2nd Edition, published by International Action Center, New York 1997 and 1999. ISBN 0-9656916-0-8.
3. “Challenge to Genocide: LET IRAQ LIVE, Sanctions are Genocide,” by Ramsey Clark & others,” and published by International Action Center, New York 1998. ISBN 0-9656916-4-0.
4. “THE FIRE THIS TIME: U.S,. War Crimes in The Gulf,” by Ramsey Clark (former U.S. Attorney General), and published by International Action Center, New York 1992 & 1994. ISBN 0-9656916-8-3.
5. “The True Cost of CONFLICT: Seven Recent Wars and Their Effects on Society,” Edited by Michael Cranna, The New Press, New York 1994. ISBN 1-56584-268-5.
6. “MELTDOWN: [The Secret Papers of The Atomic Energy Commission] THREE MILE ISLAND, CHERNOBYL . . . WHERE NEXT? By Daniel Ford ( former Executive Director of the Union of Concerned Scientists0, A Touchstone Book, published by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, 1982, 1984, and 1986. ISBN 0-671-63449-6.
7. “The NEW Nuclear DANGER: George W. Bush’s Military-Industrial Complex,” by Dr. Helen Caldicott, The New Press, New York 2002. ISBN 1-56584-740-7.
8. “SECRET FALLOUT: Low-Level Radiation From Hiroshima to Three-Mile Island,” by Ernest Sternglass [Introduction by George Wald, Nobel Laureate – Physiology & Medicine], McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York 1972 and 1981. ISBN 0-07-061242-0.
9. Perform Google search about Coronal Mass Ejections and Van Allen Radiation Belts around the earth to learn more about Radiation hazards posed by CME’s (to Satellites and Power systems & Transmission Lines on earth) and Van Allen Belts in Space.
Bashir A. Syed
Retired Aerospace Scientist
Member: APS, AAPT, IEEE (NSRE & NPPS), UCS, ASES and ISES.
Fulbright, NSF/US-AEC & NASA Scholr
ARY: CRC finalizes recommendations
Parliament’s Constitutional Reforms Committee has finalized its recommendations on proposed constitutional amendments and will start reviewing the final draft of the package from tomorrow, ARY NEWS reported.
The committee in its meeting held here Wednesday finalized its proposals and wind up its work on the most of the contentious issues, including the subjects of provincial autonomy and renaming of NWFP.
The committee decided to handover the collection of taxes on products to the federation and sales tax on services to the provinces. It was also agreed to carry out the management of the seaports by the Council of the Common Interests.
The consensus on the renaming of NWFP, one of the most contentious issues on which Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Awami National Party have locked horns, will be achieved outside the committee, the CRC members decided.
The committee will start Thursday reviewing the draft of the proposed Constitutional Package that will later be tabled before the Parliament, the channel added.
MQM continues with blood bath in Karachi while calling SS Taliban Sympathizer – LOL
ARY: Four killed in Karachi taxi firing
At least four people were killed and two others injured when unknown gunmen opened fire on a taxi here at Tipu Sultan Road, ARY NEWS reports Wednesday.
SSP Aamir Farooqui told reporters that two unidentified bike riders opened firing on a yellow cab, killing three on board and injuring three others, including a passerby.
The attackers easily managed their escape despite the firing by a traffic warden deployed at a nearby roundabout and a police mobile parked near the crime-scene.
The dead bodies and the injured were shifted to Jinnah Hospital where one of the wounded succumbed to the injuries, raising death toll to four. The deceased were identified as Sohail Anjum Advocate, Khurram, Shaifq and Yamin.
Two injured who received bullet wounds have been admitted in JPMC emergency ward where their conditions were out of danger, medical officials said.
Sohail Anjum Advocate was a legal advisor of Afaq Ahmed, the detained chief of Mohajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi). Afaq, along with his colleagues, has long been facing various charges of kidnapping and murder in local courts.
The deceased who were reportedly retuning from Karachi Central Prison after meeting with their clients were said to be associated with a political party.
Firing and target killing incidents often take place in the economic hub of the country, leaving behind dozens of innocent people and political activists dead.
So Nawaz Sharif aur CJ ki asliat aaj Khul gaye.
Shame on both of them.
I blame ANP too, the way they had gone making their demand was bound to cause this. Zardari knowing fully well backed them. Im reserving judgement till whole thing come out. Ganja should learn to give clear and open press conference instead of treating press conf as corner meetings.