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  • afzaalkhan says:

    This is really same old song & dance. Get caught and sacrifice one pawn, how abt PML – N reimburse the money paid to thier havaris by the Govt of Punjab?

    Dawn: Nawaz’s PRO resigns over payroll controversy

    LAHORE: Following media reports regarding PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif’s personal staff being on the payroll of Punjab government, one of Nawaz’s public relations officer has tendered his resignation.

    Rai Riaz had been serving as Nawaz’s PRO and was responsible for issuing official statements of the PML-N chief to the journalists.

    The PML-N claimed that Riaz was working as a consultant of Directorate General of Punjab Relations. Senator Pervaiz Rasheed also turned down accusations that some of the staff of Nawaz Sharif were being paid from the provincial exchequer.

    According to a clarification issued by the Directorate General Public Relations Punjab no employee of the directorate is performing duties for the former prime minister.

    It further stated that these officers perform duties on the instructions of the Punjab government to arrange media coverage of the foreign ambassadors and delegations on their meetings with the former prime minister.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    NYT: U.S. Admits Role in February Killing of Afghan Women

    After initially denying involvement or any cover-up in the deaths of three Afghan women during a badly bungled American Special Operations assault in February, the American-led military command in Kabul admitted late on Sunday that its forces had, in fact, killed the women during the nighttime raid.

    NATO military officials had already admitted killing two innocent civilians — a district prosecutor and local police chief — during the raid, on a home near Gardez in southeastern Afghanistan. The two men were shot to death when they came out of their home, armed with Kalashnikov rifles, to investigate.

    Three women also died that night at the same home: One was a pregnant mother of 10 and another was a pregnant mother of six. NATO military officials had suggested that the women were actually stabbed to death — or had died by some other means — hours before the raid, an explanation that implied that family members or others at the home might have killed them.

    Survivors of the raid called that explanation a cover-up and insisted that American forces killed the women. Relatives and family friends said the bloody raid followed a party in honor of the birth of a grandson of the owner of the house.

    On Sunday night the American-led military command in Kabul issued a statement admitting that “international forces” were responsible for the deaths of the women. Officials have previously stated that American Special Operations forces and Afghan forces conducted the operation.

    The statement said that “investigators could not conclusively determine how or when the women died, due to lack of forensic evidence” but that they had nonetheless “concluded that the women were accidentally killed as a result of the joint force firing at the men.”

    “We deeply regret the outcome of this operation, accept responsibility for our actions that night, and know that this loss will be felt forever by the families,” said Brig. Gen. Eric Tremblay, a spokesman for the NATO command in Kabul.

    The admission was an abrupt about-face. In a statement soon after the raid, NATO had claimed that its raiding party had stumbled upon the “bodies of three women who had been tied up, gagged and killed” and hidden in a room in the house. Military officials had also said later that the bodies showed signs of puncture and slashing wounds from a knife, and that the women appeared to have been killed several hours before the raid.

    And in what would be a scandalous turn to the investigation, The Times of London reported Sunday night that Afghan investigators also determined that American forces not only killed the women but had also “dug bullets out of their victims’ bodies in the bloody aftermath” and then “washed the wounds with alcohol before lying to their superiors about what happened.”

  • taukeer says:

    Am I surprised? Not for a moment. These b*****ds are responsible for more murders then one could imagine.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik’s press conference.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Shahid Afridi does a punjabi film scene ;)

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  • afzaalkhan says:

    CS Monitor: Wikileaks releases video depicting US forces killing of two Reuters journalists in Iraq

    Wikileaks, a nonprofit website, has released video from ‘military whistleblowers’ that appears to depict the 2007 killing of two Reuters journalists and nine other Iraqis. The US military had said at the time they were ‘hostile’ forces.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    LHC and subcourts under PML – N, SHC and subcourts under PPP and MQM welcome to independet judiciary.

    ARY: Court awards life terms to Afaq, Amir

    KARACHI: A local court Wednesday handed life term to Afaq Ahmed and Amir Khan, two leaders of Muhajir Qaumi Movement.

    Afaq Ahmed and Amir Khan were arrested in 2004 for involvement in the case.

    Local court judge Ubaid Ahmed announced life term sentences for Afaq Ahmed and Amir Khan for their involvement in murder of Farooque Ahmed, a Muttahida Qaumi Movement activist, in Landhi.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    This should ring alarm bells for Pak politicians. But alas! they too stupid to realize it.

    BBC: Kyrgyzstan in crisis as clashes escalate

    The government in Kyrgyzstan is struggling to retain power as deadly clashes escalate between police and thousands of protesters.

    Officials say at least 40 people died in the capital, Bishkek, as protesters stormed government and TV offices.

    The protesters are angry at rising prices and accuse President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of failing to curb corruption.

    Interior Minister Moldomusa Kongatiyev, who was believed to have gone to Talas to calm the situation, was reportedly severely beaten.

    Some reports said he had been killed by the mob, others that he was taken hostage, but there is no confirmation of his fate.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    US Congressman fear Guam might tip over and capsize – LOL

    • taukeer says:

      That is great news. May be next he will read Moses’s PBUH Tafseer.

      PPP issues ticket to “Dasti” for NA 178, the great scholar of Islam who declared in the Supreme Court on the issue of his “Degree” that he studied Hazrat Musa’s Tafseer! How the F*** do you expect a change from these morons?

      No I am not sounding like IK. There is need for a people’s resistance.

  • taukeer says:

    Pakistani’s threaten Indians with Sheeda Tali!
    “India Walo! Listen to us, if you do not call Pakistani players for next IPL then mind it that Sheikh Rashid is also unmarried” !!!!!!!

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Geo: DNA proves girl as Aafia’s daughter: Malik

    The baby girl found from outside the house of Dr Fauzia, turned out to be the daughter of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, detained in US on alleged terror charges, Geo News reported Saturday.

    Talking to media, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik revealed that the DNA test proved that the child is the daughter of Dr Aafia.

    Rehman Malik said Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani will hold negotiations over issue relating the repatriation of Dr Aafia.

    On this occasion, Dr Aafia’s daughter Fatima was accompanied with her cousin Aalia and Dr Fauzia.

  • taukeer says:

    Electricity and Hazara protest will kill Zardari and Nawaz Sahrif. I can see Raja Parwaiz hanging from a lamp post.

  • taukeer says:

    Who is Senator Talah Mahmood? Anyone.

  • taukeer says:

    Things continue to hot up in Hazara and I am sure it will have a spill over effect. I am sure MQM will be rubbing it’s hands with glee at the prospect of “Karachi Suba”. Great strategic game by MQM. Our Sab sey Bhari Zardari’s sindh card snookered.

    But I am sure some jiyalas will continue to celebrate his brain prowess probably because it is more then their own! No doubt Eik Zardari Sab Jiyalon per bhari!

  • afzaalkhan says:

    ARY: Abbotabad: Five killed in police firing at protesters

    ABBOTABAD: In a violent protest against renaming NWFP as Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province at least five persons were killed in police firing and 28 including former deputy speaker of National Assembly Sardar Mohammed Yaqub were injured in Abbotabad.

    Hazara Suba Action Committee protest against renaming of NWFP started at Fawara Chowk in Abbotabad, which turned in hide and seek between police and opponents of Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa. The protesters sieged Cantt police station and set it on fire. Police opened fire at violent protesters injuring several persons some of them said to be in critical condition.

    In the morning the protesters started hide and seek with police after shelling. They chanted slogans against the government and burnt tyres at Shahrah-e-Resham. The protesters also blocked the Murree Road near the grid station.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    How Abt CNN does same experiment in India? After all they brough nuclear bombs in Southasia and to quote they did in beacon house, as per cnn where military generals and officers son’s and daughter go which as per CNN are future leadership of pakistan lol

    CNN: In Pakistani school, nuanced views for new nuclear balance

    we wondered how Beacon House students would react to an old but influential film that President Reagan said helped persuade him to pursue nuclear peace. We invited them to watch “The Day After,” a 27-year-old film about a nuclear attack that changed the way a generation of Americans perceived the threat. Reagan said the movie depressed him, and now President Obama has carried on with Reagan’s legacy, making nuclear peace the centerpiece of his security summit in Washington.

    Before they screened the movie, we asked these adolescents, the majority of whom are the daughters and sons of military officers, about their views on nuclear weapons.

    Curious and attentive, 13-year-old Fatima Ahmed was the first to utter categorically that having nuclear weapons was “important for every country” and that she was gratified Pakistan had already developed them.

    “If some country declares war on us, they will not declare war because they know that we have nuclear weapons,” added her 11-year-old classmate, Zakaria Amjad.

    As the movie rolled, the students were riveted, especially as the nuclear missiles were launched from American bunkers in a thunderous chorus. They took in every minute, just like tens of millions of students had in classrooms throughout North America in the 1980s. As doomsday loomed in the U.S., the Beacon House students recoiled, their reaction seemingly no different than the generation before them.

    Some said the movie had changed their minds about nuclear weapons.

    “Before, I used to think that it did have many advantages, but now after watching all the destruction in this movie, I think that nuclear (weapons) aren’t that good,” said Lyba Khan, 13.

    “I thought that it could be used for defense, but after I saw the movie, I think it wreaks havoc with the country,” said Sultana Bassi, 13.

    So far, so predictable. But following those comments, there were insightful calculations made and expressed by some of the other students.

    “Nobody wins, it’s a lose-lose situation,” said Saadullah Zia, 13. But when asked whether Pakistan should keep its nuclear weapons, he added: “Some of the countries right now have it, so if we give it up, nothing will happen. Instead, India will be more powerful than us.”

    These students have grasped all too well the dilemma of the nuclear arms race. The Cold War might as well be the Ice Age to these Pakistani students. The political and strategic calculations have changed dramatically, just as Clinton had noted.

    These students are barely teenagers, but they are the future leaders of Pakistan, and they offered some remarkable reflections on the movie.

    “It’s waking us up. It’s telling us that we can all die in a glimpse of an eye, if one atomic bomb is used in our country,” said Fatima Taj, 13, before adding that she still would not like to see Pakistan give up its nuclear weapons.

    Academics write about it, but here, these students are living it: The nuclear surge. It’s the tipping point where for all the best intentions of advocates or a thought-provoking film, the balance of nuclear terror has changed.

    As 13-year-old Anam Minto honestly and bluntly observed, “I don’t think that this movie changed my opinion, and it made me think that we should have nuclear weapons.”

  • afzaalkhan says:

    BBC: Pakistan ‘army air strike kills dozens of civilians’

    At least 73 civilians were killed when an army jet bombed a remote village in Pakistan’s tribal region of Khyber, a local official has told the BBC.

    He said the incident took place on Saturday but news was slow in being reported because of the inaccessibility of the region.

    The jet was involved in operations against Taliban militants in the nearby Orakzai tribal region.

    Officials have reportedly already paid compensation to families of victims.

    The military insists most of those killed were militants, but local sources say many civilians have also been killed.

    Gagging order

    Military spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas told Associated Press news agency on Monday that those killed in the Pakistan army air strike were attacked because it had intelligence that militants were gathering at the site.

    He denied civilians had died and said the victims were initially reported to be suspected militants, AP said.

    Local officials have paid compensation amounting to more than $100,000 (£65,000) to the families of those killed, an unnamed official told the Associated Press news agency.

    The BBC’s Orla Guerin in Islamabad says this is a strong indication that local authorities, at least, believe a tragic mistake has been made.

    The injured have been moved to hospitals in the nearby city of Peshawar. They are being treated under strict guard.

    Police prevented a BBC correspondent from interviewing the injured at the Hayatabad medical complex in Peshawar.

    Other reporters have also been denied access.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Very good article.

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  • taukeer says:

    How about Karachi Suba? Or shall we call it Suba Jinnah Pur?

  • taukeer says:

    I think there should be following provinces

    1. Potohar
    2. Central Punjab
    3. Bhawalpur
    4. Hazara or Kohistan (Sounds beautiful)
    5. Abaseen
    6. Khayber (FATA)
    7. Upper Sindh
    8. Lower Sindh
    9. Quetta
    10. Gawadar
    11. Qalat
    12. Hunza (Gilgit Baltistan)

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Indian team starring sachin dancing on Pak wins of WC T20.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    @taukeer

    Problem with urdu speaking and I being one of them, (actually am karaila opaar se neeem charha , urdu speaking and delhi wala) they did the same crap that muslim of spain did in algiers. When Barbaroosa RA rescued them and brought them to north africa, instead of making compromises and assimilate in their muslim bretherns they started to regard the locals as culturally inferiors and start pinning for same christians neighbors who had colluded with ferdanand and kicked them out of spain. Culture become imp. When GM Syed said anyone who enetered sindh b4 54 is sindhi and others are not, he was still trying to make urdu speaking part of sindh and trying to make alliance with them against Punjabis abadkaar who came in ayub era. Sindh without Upper sindh cant be viable economically, the port and bussineess centre are in karachi and hyderabad. Plus seat of govt and all the uni. This will reinforce sindh nationalist argument that creatiion of pak is to keep sindh down. Creating provinces on the basis of pure administratuon will work, but like NWFP divisiion on language basis is unreal and will create more problem. Urdu speaking dominant area i.e upper sindh has no claim legitimate or otherwise on seperate province they were refugee and unlike the urdu speaking who established themselves in Punjab and NWFP they didnt assimiliate.

    Also if u cut sindh, sindh can some how ssustain itself with industry, agricculture and get access via makran to ports. What will Karachi do if Sndh cuts off water and wheat supply.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    NS and SS coming to abottabad. This will be a test if NS succeed here then he has to take down khyber-pakhtunkhuwah and ANP.

  • taukeer says:

    They are saying what I have already said. JH already ahead of them. Shows he has leadership qualities.

  • taukeer says:

    Our angutha chaap leaders don’t know some basic principals of constitutional amendment.

    Amendment Committee recommendation can be amended or rejected during the following stages of amendment.
    a. National Assembly
    b. Senate

    To incorporate an amendment to the committee recommendation you need just simple majority.

    If at this stage the Senate does not give 2/3 approval of the 18th Amendment then it has to go back to the National Assembly and has to be voted upon again.

    I am amazed all these democrazy key thekedar don’t know some of these basic facts.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    ARY: Sardar Mehtab resigns from MNA seat

    Muslim League (Nawaz) member National Assembly Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan has sent his resignation from the parliament seat to party chief Nawaz Sharif.

    Sardar Mehtab has said he has decided to resign over Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa issue.

    Sardar Mehtab and Capt. Safdar didnt vote for the Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa clause of 18th constitutional amendment.

    “I was elected MNA on party ticket so as I have sent my resignation to party,” he said.

    • taukeer says:

      Great guy. Right move. He needs to take a firm stance and continue to boycott the “Parliament”. After all there is no place for a principled man in this “Parliament” which has distinct “honor” of including members who have studied “Hazrat Musa”‘s tafseer.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    BBC broke this story and there wasn’t even a single qts raised in Pak media, now all of a sudden Kiyani came out acknowledging and apologizing. All the time media was reporting terrorists killed.

    GEO: Army Chief grieved over Tirah killings

    Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani extended apology to Kokikhel tribes on the killings of citizens in Pak Army’s action on April 10, Geo News reported Saturday.

    According to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Army Chief expressed deep grief over the killings of citizens belonging to Kokikhel tribes.

    Also, he directed to take up measures to avoid such incidents in future.

    It should be mentioned that at least 63 people were killed in an action by Pak Army in Tirah Valley on April 10.

  • taukeer says:

    There has been plenty of talk about this incidence in the international press. What do you expect Tatto army. Karaey key tatto aur kiya karen gey.

  • taukeer says:

    Continuing LOADSHEDDING PROTEST

  • afzaalkhan says:

    But But, i tot TTP are loyal pakistanis and fighting against USA :P

    Dawn: Militants release video of former ISI officers

    Videos of two former ISI officers, who went missing last month, were released by unknown militants in the tribal areas of Pakistan on Monday.

    Col (retd) Amir Sultan, widely known as Col. Imam and Squadron Leader (retd) Khalid Khawaja went missing in the tribal areas last month while they were accompanying a journalist to assist him with a documentary on militants.

    In the video, both hostages introduced themselves as former ISI officers.

    They claimed that they were visiting the tribal areas following an advice by former Army Chief General Aslam Baig and former DG ISI Lt.General Hamid Gul.

    However, Khawaja also mentioned the name of a serving ISI official, Colonel Sajjad and said that he visited the area on his direction.

    The militants have demanded the release of at least two arrested Taliban leaders in Pakistan’s custody for the release of the two officers.

    The demand was made through an email which also contained the footage of the two officers.

    The militants have threatened that if Mullah Kabir and Mullah Mansoor Dadullah were not released, the officers would be killed.

    The unknown militants who sent their email late Sunday night also mentioned that they would issue another list of their demands soon.

    • taukeer says:

      “TTP” are loyal Pakistanis! What f***ing planet have you been on? This proves their RAW connection. BTW it seems that they are held by a criminal gang rather then a “main stream” TTP group. It might involve the real Taliban to be involved. Remeber I predicted Baitullah Masood’s demise when he crossed some lines. This subgroup might just have done that with this video. I wont be surprised if the American’s were involved. Too many juicy targets in sight!

  • taukeer says:

    KURD ass licking! Listen to him in Asma Sherazi’s programme. He has obviously not looked at the details of the 18th Amendment.

  • taukeer says:

    Akram Sheikh comes out swinging and hits doggy Aeitzaz Ahsan for a six!

  • jazoo says:

    @taukeer

    I am afraid AA position seems closer to be constitutional.
    What Akram Sheikh says about 13th and 14th amendments is not clear what he meant for.
    I hope anyone here does know if these amendments are court judgments or passed by parliament.

  • taukeer says:

    @jazoo I think AA is just a bitch. Just hand him the money and get him to say anything. I am sure the court will decide whether it has jurisdiction or not and I am sure it is Akram Sheikh’s right to go to the court with an appeal. AA is trying to badger the court into submission before it has had the opportunity to decide on the matter especially when he indirectly threatens the court with the power of 17 Crore awam! Where the f*** were the 17 crore awam when his leader was strung up like a common criminal. Legitimacy is a very precious commodity but then AA wont know that. This parliament (like Bhutto or Nawaz Sharif before it) has lost it’s legitimacy especially as more and more of them continue to have to eat their shoe after acknowledgement of their scholarship of Hazrat Musa’s Tafseer!

    I am looking for the entire content of the 18th Amendment.

  • taukeer says:

    I have a number of solution for Load shedding in line with some of the solutions being proposed.
    1. Everyone should go on Summer holidays.
    2. If AWAM can’t fly off to europe to keep Altaf Bhai company in view of the suspended flights they could go to Charsada and benefit from the cooling effect of Bacha Khan’s Pukhtoon Khaw. (Please beware of the fires on Hazara streets on the way light by a couple of miscreants. Bacha Khan and Ghandhi Jee will be along to extinguish these with a bit of pot imported from across the durand line.)
    3. All marriages should be put off till Rental power projects have been completed.
    4. AWAM should consult AA and Kurd before contemplating any other move in view of the “Success” of “Lawyers Movement” lead only by AA and Kurd.

  • jazoo says:

    @taukeer

    What AA says is in constitution
    But Hafiz Pirzadah probably had a better argument…This Assembly is not making the constitution..its amending so amendments must not challenge basic principles set in original constitution.

    • afzaalkhan says:

      @jazoo

      U finally nailed it. This assembly has no constitutional mandate or powers as they didn’t seek. If they wanted to amend constitution then fresh election should have been called. Even PPP and allies admit that elections were rigged. As per SC decision regarding Nov 3rd emergency since the act was illegal all subsequent acts should have been illegal, but SC decided to allow elections result to stand, that still doesn’t empower the parliment to amend const.

      AA & Kurd right when they say elected parliment can amend the constitution, but they can’t modify the core principal of constitution. e.g judges selection – since its pertains to independent judiciary, ergo SC has every right to review any constitution amend and decide if it conflicts with core principal.

      If an elected parliment (elected under free and fair election) tom decides to make Pakistan secular then it will violating the core principal of Constitution and thus that amend will be thrown out.

      • jazoo says:

        @afzaalkhan

        SC probably does not have philosophical jurisdiction whether elections were rigged or fair….An Assembly emerged as a result and functioning.
        What imo SC can do…it may break the plaintiff case in two parts one do they have jurisdiction to hear a case in violation of article 239 under perception a certain clause of amendment violating the basic principles set by original constitution.
        Plaintiff probably would give an argument that name of the country could not be changed to “Secular republic of Pakistan’ or authority of Quran and Sunna even the amendment passed with full house i.e. more than 2/3rd.
        So imo plaintiff easily wins the first part.
        The second part should be merit of amendments either its really violating the basic principles set by original constitution or not.
        I have strong feelings first part would qualify SC to hear these amendments and Aitezaz probably would eat the grass.

  • taukeer says:

    Come on guys I have been making the exact same arguments. AA and Kurd are wrong and the 18th Amendment can be struck down because it violates some of the core principles laid down in the constitution which can only be amended by a constituent assembly.

    A friend of mine has an interesting solution for Load shedding. Just work every other day instead of every day!!!!

  • jazoo says:

    I found something which would make Aitezaz more proud
    The section 6 of article 239 was not part of original constitution.
    It was amended by a dictator Zia-ul-haq in 1985.

    I am sure Sc would also throw section 6 of article 239 from constitution.

    Article 239 originally read:
    “239
    (1)
    A Bill to amend the Constitution shall originate in the National Assembly and when the Bill has been passed by the votes of not less than two-thirds of the total membership of the Assembly it shall be transmitted to the Senate.
    (2)
    If the Bill is passed by the Senate by a majority of the total membership of the Senate it shall be presented to the President for assent.
    (3)
    If the Bill is passed by the Senate with amendments, it shall be reconsidered by the National Assembly; and if the Bill as amended by the Senate is passed by the Assembly by the votes of not less than two-thirds of the total membership of the Assembly, it shall be presented to the President for assent.
    (4)
    If the Bill is not passed by the Senate within ninety days from the day of its receipt the Bill shall be deemed to have been rejected by the Senate.
    (5)
    The President shall assent to the Bill within seven days of the presentation of the Bill to him, and if he fails to do so he shall be deemed to have assented thereto at the expiration of that period.
    (6)
    When the President has assented to or is deemed to have assented to the Bill, the Bill shall become Act of Parliament and the Constitution shall stand amended in accordance with the terms thereof.
    (7)
    A Bill to amend the Constitution which would have the effect of altering the limits of a Province shall not be passed by the National Assembly unless it has been approved by a resolution of the Provincial Assembly of that Province passed by the votes of not less than two-thirds of the total membership of that Assembly.”
    This was substituted by P.O.No. 14 of 1985 Art. 2 and Sch. item 48 (with effect from March 2, 1985) by:

    “239
    Constitution amendment Bill
    (1)
    A Bill to amend this Constitution may originate in either House and when the Bill has been passed by the votes of not less than two-thirds of the total membership of the House it shall be transmitted to the other House.
    (2)
    If the Bill is passed without amendment by the votes of not less than two-thirds of the total membership of the House to which it is transmitted under clause (1), it shall be transmitted to all the Provincial Assemblies.
    (3)
    If the Bill is passed with amendment by the votes of not less than two-thirds of the total membership of the House to which it is transmitted under clause (1), it shall be reconsidered by the House in which it had originated; and if the Bill as amended by the former House is passed by the latter by the votes of not less than two-thirds of its total membership it shall be transmitted to all the Provincial Assembles.
    (4)
    Subject to clause (5), if the Bill transmitted to the Provincial Assemblies under clause (2) or clause (3) is passed by each such Assembly by a majority of the total number of its members present and voting, it shall be presented to the President for assent.
    (5)
    A Bill to amend the Constitution which would have the effect of altering the limits of a Province shall not be presented to the President for assent unless it has been passed by the Provincial Assembly of that Province by the votes of not less than two-thirds of its total membership.
    (6)
    No amendment of the Constitution shall be called in question in any court on any ground whatsoever.
    (7)
    For the removal of doubt, it is hereby declared that there is no limitation whatever on the power of the Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) to amend by way of addition, modification or repeal any of the provisions of the Constitution.”
    This was substituted by the present text through the Constitution (Second Amendment) Order, 1985 (P.O.No. 20 of 1985) Art. 3 (with effect from March 17, 1985.

  • jazoo says:

    Whats more laughable they remove the name of Ziaul Haq under 18th amendment and they are going to defend the same amendment by his induction.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    this Paji adeel, is spouting same crap that JSSF and MQM along with nationalist leaders always vomit. Why these parties are even allowed to take part in politics, once a traitor always a traitor, ANP showing its full colors.

    http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1100919063&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20100422

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  • taukeer says:

    NS should join ANP as junior partner. Haji Adeel will be good company and I don’t think he needed to bother with the third time restriction.
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  • afzaalkhan says:

    Wat a slap by Orya Maqbool Jaan to Paji Adeel. BTW this raja Dahir and other so called heroes of paji adeel are also heroes of MQM and JSSF. This i can attest too specially MQM who use every means to badmouth abdali, mohd. bin qasim etc and praise the likes of raja dahir.

    http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1100921223&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20100424

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  • afzaalkhan says:

    Makhdoom Javed Hashmi zindabad.

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    • taukeer says:

      What have I been saying? This man has leadership potential. Nawaz Saharif’s “leadership” is dead. There is need for a new leader. Javeed Hashmi will be that leader. He does not have the baggage of making deals with Mush or Zardari and I am sure he will have more then two brain cell that our “dear” leader NS has.

  • taukeer says:

    WE NEED KALABAGH DAM SOON

    The cost of fossil fuel is going to render generation of electricity so expensive that a common man won’t be able to afford electric supply for daily use. Here is a graph showing the gap in oil supply and demand. You can imagine what will happen to the price of oil in the next few months as the western economy emerges out of recession.

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  • afzaalkhan says:

    Justice for NS is different from the rest of us. No wonder NS has left the country. SC should take sumoto action ;)

    ARY: Court verdict on Sharifs references reopening put off

    RAWALPINDI: Accountability Court Rawalpindi put off the verdict with regard to restoration of references against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif and his family.

    Accountability Court-II special judge Wamiq Javed postponed announcement of the judgment for the third time and adjourned the hearing till May 03.

    The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) submitted in the court that the corruption references against the Sharif family in Hudaibia Paper Mills, Ittifaq Foundries and Raiwind assets should be re-opened.

    The NAB counsel, through an application, had requested the court to revive the references including the loan default by Ittefaq Foundries, tax default by Hudaibia Paper Mills and
    accumulation of assets at Raiwind.

    • taukeer says:

      Jis Ke Lathi us key Bhains! The lower courts are in dire straights. I have personal experience of the judicial system now! I tell you it is impossible for anybody to obtain justice unless you have the “muscle power” to obtain it.

      • afzaalkhan says:

        always been like this, just have gotten worst and thats my whole problem with SC, they gotta start fixing the system, directing lower courts to pick up slack not every case should be heard in SC

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Daily India: Indian diplomat arrested for spying for Pakistan

    New Delhi, Apr.27: An Indian woman diplomat has been arrested here after confirmation was received of her passing on sensitive information to Pakistan.

    Madhuri Gupta, a second secretary with the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, was arrested here on Sunday after being called back by the Ministry of External Affairs for consultations related to the XVIth SAARC Summit.

    Gupta was produced before a court on Monday and remanded to police custody for four days.

    A private television channel quoted sources in the ministry as saying that Gupta, 45, had been leaking sensitive and strategic Indian Government information to Pakistan for the past two years.

    They said they had been monitoring the activities of Gupta, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS)-B grade officer, for the past year, and added that over the past six months, the surveillance had been raised to a higher level.

    The channel said the issue was not so much about the arrest of the diplomat, as it was about Pakistan being successful in planting a mole in the Indian diplomatic mission in Islamabad.

    Gupta, who was a specialist interpreter in Urdu, was posted in the media and information wing of the high commission

    The Ministry of External Affairs has said that it will brief the press here in the evening.

    As of now, Gupta is being interrogated by personnel of the Intelligence Bureau and the Research and Analysis Wing (R and AW).

  • afzaalkhan says:

    ARY: Supreme Court cancels LNG contract

    ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Wednesday cancelled the LNG contract awarded in last February.

    The Supreme Court took suo motto notice of the case after a newspaper claimed that the Ministry of Petroleum ignored the lowest bidder in awarding a contract of 3.5 million tons of LNG import.

    A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry declared the February 9 contract of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) ineffective and ordered renewed bidding of the contract.

    The apex court said that the process of awarding the contract was not transparent and also ordered action against those involved in irregularities.

    Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, the lawyer of GDF-Suez, the company who was awarded the contract, has said he sees the court judgment in positive light and if any mistakes made in the contract will be corrected.

  • taukeer says:

    Former ISI official Khalid Khwaja found dead in NW

    DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A former Pakistani intelligence officer abducted by an alleged militant group last month was found shot dead Friday in a northwest tribal region, officials said.

    Khalid Khawaja went missing in late March along with another ex-intelligence official known as Col. Imam and a filmmaker. There was no word on the fate of the two others.

    Khawaja’s body was found on the road between Miramshah and Mir Ali, the two main towns in North Waziristan. Local TV channels broadcast a picture of what appeared to be Khawaja’s body.

    He had been shot in the head and chest, and a note attached to his body accused him of being an American spy, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be named by media.

    The men were first reported abducted in late March. Soon after, a previously unknown militant group calling itself the Asian Tigers claimed to be holding the men in a video delivered to local media. Any demands they had were not made public.

    Khawaja was known to be sympathetic to the militants cause, often appearing on television speaking in defense of suspected extremists.

    He has claimed to be close to Osama bin Laden in the early days of the Afghan resistance to the Soviet Union.

    Recently, he has spoken up in defense of five young American terror suspects on trial in Pakistan.

    He also filed a petition in a Pakistani court to stop any attempt by Islamabad to extradite recently arrested Afghan Taliban leaders, including the movement’s No. 2 Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.—AP

    • afzaalkhan says:

      This is clear indication of TTP been controlled by RAW. These morons must be quashed.

      • taukeer says:

        “Hakimullah-Mehsud-no-longer-running-Pakistani-Taliban-Pentagon”. Proof? Remember how reliable the info on WMD in I-rak and the “Doddgy” dossier were!

        Hakimullah Mehsud no longer running Pakistani Taliban: Pentagon

        The Pentagon today said that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is no longer running the terrorist outfit, even as news reports from that country claimed that he is still alive. It has been widely believed that Hakimullah, who had succeeded Baitullah Mehsud, was killed in a drone attack early this year.
        “I can also tell you that I certainly have seen no evidence that the person you speak of is operational today or is executing or exerting authority over the Pakistan Taliban as he once did,” Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters at a news briefing.
        “I don’t know if that reflects him being alive or dead, but he clearly is not running the Pakistani Taliban anymore,” Mr. Morrell said in response to a question if Mehsud was dead or alive.

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