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Lahore women files petition seeking Pakistani citizenship for Indian husband

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Lahore, Sep.17 (ANI): A Pakistani woman has filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking Pakistani citizenship for her Indian husband.

Justice Mian Saqib Nisar admitted the petition filed by one Shazia Zia, and referred the matter to the High Court Chief Justice.

Zia, in her petition, said she has married an Indian national named Majid Ali, but the authorities have denied giving her husband a Pakistani citizenship despite repeated appeals.

She alleged that there was no legal justification for this refusal and submitted that it was gender discrimination which has no provision in the constitution

“A foreigner woman married a Pakistani man and got Pakistani nationality, but my husband is being refused the same,” The Daily Times stated the petition, as saying. (ANI)

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Now, unwed Malaysian couple to be whipped for trying to have car sex

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Shah Alam (Malaysia), Sep. 18 (ANI): Following the whipping episode of the Malaysian model who was sentenced for drinking beer, an unmarried couple is now being subjected to the controversial canning sentence under the country’s Sharia law for trying to have sex.

Mohammad Shahrin Abd Majid, 29, and his lover Nadiah Najat Hussin, 24, pleaded guilty to attempting to have sex in a car, were fined 5,000 ringgits or 12 months’ jail and ordered to be caned six times each, the New Strait Times Online reports.

Both Shahrin and Nadiah have paid the fine. On Wednesday, the Sharia High Court of Shah Alam granted a stay on the caning pending an appeal following an application by the couple’s counsel.

The Court has also advised both accused to marry as soon as possible.

The couple had claimed that they were to be engaged soon, and scheduled to be married in February next year.

“You are still young… after Hari Raya seek consent from both your parents to marry,” he said.

Shahrin and Nadiah would be sent to prison in order to receive the caning if their appeal gets dismissed.

Earlier, former Malaysian model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno hogged the international headlines when she was sentenced for canning under Sharia law for drinking beer at a nightclub. (ANI)

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Pak Army expresses reservation over new Af-pak policy

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Sep 17 (ANI): The Obama Administration has been informed by the Pakistan Army that the US’ new Af-Pak policy will yield negative results if it is applied in the same manner as it is being done in Afghanistan.

President Asif Ali Zardari during his visit to the USA will also advocate the same line of the army.

The army leadership communicated that there was a large difference between the situation in Afghanistan and that in Pakistan and if the US tried to implement the same policy in Pakistan than it would not only yield negative results but it will also affect Pak-US relations.

The military top brass, including Chairman Joint Chief of Staff Committee General Tariq Majid made it clear to the US leadership during the recent visit of Chairman US Joint Chief of Staff Committee Admiral Mike Mullen, Commander of the US Central Command General David Petraeus and Commander of the Allied forces in Afghanistan General Stanely McCrystal that the same policy for both Pakistan and Afghanistan US would not prove successful.

Sources said that the army has informed in written to the US administration about its reservations regarding its new Af-Pak policy, The News reports.

Army Chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and General Tariq Majeed have also reportedly advised Zardari to convince the US not to see Pakistan and Afghanistan from the same perspective and adopt a separate policy for Pakistan. (ANI)

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KNP to hold Black Day on Oct.22

September 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep.8 (ANI): The Supreme Council of the KNP held an important meeting in Luton on September 6, which was presided by the party Chairman Abbas Butt. The meeting discussed and analysed the current situation of the Kashmiri struggle and made important decisions.

The Supreme Council strongly condemned the government of Pakistan’s latest attempts to grab territory which is legal part of State of Jammu and Kashmir. The SC said Pakistani governments have never been sincere with the cause of Kashmir and always have formulated policies to snatch Kashmir; and have deliberately deprived people of their fundamental human rights.

The SC said people of Gilgit Baltistan deserve to have their basic human rights which have been denied since 1947; but no one should be allowed to implement their imperialist designs in name of giving rights to people of the region. The KNP leaders said, if Pakistani authorities were sincere they could have discussed the issue with the people of the region and given these rights without making the region a ‘province’ of Pakistan.

PPP government claims to advance rights of people and democracy, but their policies are designed to deprive people of basic rights and advance undemocratic and unconstitutional practises. They tried to make Pakistani Administered Kashmir a province after the Shimla Pact and they plan to make Gilgit Baltistan a province and pave way for division of Jammu and Kashmir.

KNP leaders said some people of Jammu and Kashmir hold Black Day on 27th October, as that is the day when Indian army landed in Kashmir. KNP leaders said in our opinion their wisdom is misdirected. We have to look at the root cause. Indian army came after the tribal invasion and subsequent ‘Provisional Accession’.

KNP Supreme Council said, ‘It was the Pakistani tribesmen supported by the Pakistani government of the time which violated the Standstill Agreement and invaded parts of the State territory. It was these tribesmen which contravened the State sovereignty and killed thousands of innocent Kashmiri men and women. It was because of this unprovoked and unjustified attack on our sovereignty which seriously threatened life, honour and property of people that the Maharaja was compelled to seek help from India.

KNP leaders said we have serious issues with India on their Kashmir policy, as we believe Kashmir is not their internal part; but as for the Black Day is concerned we should have Black Day on 22 October because this is the day when our troubles and miseries started.

KNP SC has decided to take a lead on this matter and hold a BLACK DAY on 22 October; and in this regard various responsibilities have been given to Dr Shabir Choudhry and Nawaz Majid who will liaise with other like minded people and parties. The meeting was addressed by ZubairAnsari, Nazam Bhatti, Nawaz Majid, Asim Mirza, Abbas Butt and Dr Shabir Choudhry.

Earlier KNP held an Iftar Party in which more than eighty people were present; among them were leaders and political activists of various Kashmiri parties who spoke against the new package for Gilgit and Baltistan and condemned designs of Pakistani government. In the meeting pro Pakistan and nationalist leaders were present, and they all strongly spoke against this new package and demanded that it must be taken back.

A unanimous resolution was passed which strongly criticised the new package and demanded from government of Pakistan to withdraw it as it will seriously damage our struggle for right of self determination. The resolution fully supported fundamental rights of people of Gilgit Baltistan; but added that the State of Jammu and Kashmir is one political entity and it must not be divided. (ANI)

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Jon’s family expresses dismay over verdict, say he has been victimised

September 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, Sep.1 (ANI): The family of Indian-born fashion designer Anand Jon has reacted with dismay to the 59-year sentence handed over to him by a US court for sexually assaulting aspiring models. They claimed that Jon has been “victimised” and that facts have been overlooked in the case.

The designer’s mother Shashi Jon said, “He is not capable of doing anything like this.This was beyond my belief that Anand has been taken in and arrested on charges of molestation”.

Defending 35-year-old Anand, his sister Sanjana said, “The fact that Anand is an Indian citizen and that he is being victimised is completely overlooked. So there is nobody questioning anything that we are facing there”.

“Every piece of evidence that is medical shows that nothing ever happened. There is no medical evidence that showed that anything ever happened,” she told TV channels.

Their family’s lawyer Majid Memon said, “It is very sad that this young boy, a celebrity from India, has to be left like this and being now convicted and sentenced to suffer for the whole of his life.”

Times Now quoted Memon as saying that all the girls alleging rape or molestation don’t have a “scratch on their body to suggest that there was any resistance or any violence by the accused.

Moreover, the complaints have been lodged weeks and even months after the incidents. So definitely this is a very dubious kind of a charge and unfortunately Anand was left alone and there was hardly any help.

Jon’s mother and sister will now move for an appeal,” Memon said.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Wesley today announced that Jon must serve 14 years in state prison-before he begins to serve a 45-year-to-life sentence.

The designer has been featured on the television show “America’s Next Top Model” and worked with such celebrities as Paris Hilton and Mary J Blige. (ANI)

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Nizami urges Pak teachers to promote two-nation theory among kids

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Lahore, Aug 24(ANI): Pakistani journalist and Chairman Nazria Pakistan Trust (NPT) Majid Nizami has urged teachers in Pakistan to indoctrinate the new generation with the idea that Hindus and Muslims belong to two separate nations.

Nizam said the practice could only be defended by the two-nation theory.

Addressing the eighth ideological workshop for teachers organised by the NPT in collaboration with Punjab Education Department here on Saturday, Nizami said that Pakistan was created and has survived due to its ideology.

“If we consider Muslims and Hindus one nation, then there cannot be any justification of Pakistan,” The Nation quoted Nizami, as saying.

“Hindus are idol worshippers and we are idol- killers and this is the difference,” he added.

Nizam further said that East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) was separated due to stupidity and expressed a desire to see it back again with Pakistan. (ANI)

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Pak can never be “coerced” to compromise on nuclear issue: Gen. Majid

June 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, June 19 (ANI): Stressing that the country’s nuclear assets were the cornerstone of its deterrence, Pakistan Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman (CJCSC) General Tariq Majid has said that the country could not be pressurized to compromise on the nuclear issue.

Addressing convocation at the National Defence University (NDU) here, General Majid said Pakistan is determined to retain its deterrence at all cost.

“Coercion, direct or indirect, can’t force us to compromise on this core interest,” The Daily Times quoted General Majid, as saying.

He rejected the fears about the country’s nukes falling into the hands of extremists, saying that some anti-Pakistan forces were trying to malign its picture on the international stage by raising such concerns.

“A vicious campaign has been unleashed to malign and discredit Pakistan by spreading disinformation about the security of its nuclear assets,” General Majid said.

He claimed that Pakistan has put forth the best international security arrangements for its nuclear facilities, and that it would not hesitate to take action to ensure their safety.

“As the system conforms to international best practices and has the capacity to meet all challenges, there should be absolutely no doubt. Pakistan would not be deterred from taking any action whatsoever in ensuring that our strategic assets are jealously safeguarded,” General Majid added.

General Majid also rejected international calls to hand over the details of its nuclear establishments to certain foreign agencies.

“No foreign individual, entity or state has been provided or shall ever be provided access to our sensitive information and insinuations to the contrary are plain mischief and need to be contemptuously dismissed,”he said. (ANI)

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Fears about Pak nukes falling into extremists hands ‘unfounded’: General Majid

May 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, May 27 (ANI): Pakistan Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman General Tariq Majid has said that the country’s nuclear weapons are in safe custody and the world wide concerns about it being falling into the Taliban’s hands are ‘unfounded’.

General Majid assured a US delegation here that Pakistan’s nukes were absolutely safe and that there is an immaculate multilayered security arrangement guarding the country’s nuclear assets.

“Based on the pillars of responsibility and restraint, Pakistan has developed and operationalised an immaculate nuclear weapons’ security regime which is multilayered, has stringent access controls, material control and accounting procedures,” The Dawn quoted General Majid, as saying.

He asserted that the Pakistan Army is committed to root out extremism from the country, and its sacrifices are much more than any other country involved in the war against terrorism.

“We as a nation have sacrificed more than any other coalition partner in this war,” General Majid said.

Fears about extremists, particularly the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, establishing their control over Pakistan’s nuclear weapons has heightened in the recent past, but Islamabad has consistently rejected the concerns terming it as ‘malicious propaganda’ being carried out against it by the some countries. (ANI)

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Two brothers killed Mosul shooting

May 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Baghdad – Two brothers, one of them a policeman, were fatally shot on Monday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said.

Police said the pair were gunned down in the district of al-Arabi, in eastern Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad – which remains among the most dangerous areas of Iraq, despite a series of security pushes by Iraqi and US forces.

Monday’s deaths follow a US shooting in Kut, the capital of the predominantly Shiite province of Wasit, southeast of Baghdad, on Sunday, which killed the wife and brother of a local dignitary.

The killings sparked angry protests from Iraqi officials, who said the raid had been carried out without Iraqi approval, in violation of the agreement governing the presence of US forces in Iraq.

The US military said soldiers began shooting when “an individual with a weapon came out of the house” of local notable Sheikh Ahmed Abul-Sada, whom they had come to arrest.

The dead were subsequently identified as Abul-Sada’s wife and brother. Abul-Sada was released later on Sunday.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in a statement read on Baghdad’s al-Iraqiya Sunday, demanded that the US military “transfer those responsible for this crime to the courts.”

Under the terms of the US-Iraqi agreement governing the presence of US soldiers in Iraq, the US military may undertake operations only with the approval of the Iraqi government.

“These soldiers committed a crime, and killed an innocent family in cold blood, without the knowledge of the central government,” said Majid al-Zamili, a Shiite member of the Iraqi parliament.

He said that the local provincial council, which has considerable control over security arrangements in the province, had decided to boycott cooperation with the US forces “until the US forces provide a clear explanation of the attack.”

Colonel Richard Francey, the officer in charge of US forces in Wasit, apologized for the deaths at a news conference on Sunday, but the US military insisted that the raid had been authorized by the Iraqi government.

At a news conference Sunday, Major General Mohammed al-Askari, a spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Defence, said the ministry had ordered the detention of Iraqi soldiers for allowing US troops into the city. He said the ministry had also asked the US military to open an investigation into the raid. (dpa)

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Terror Raids Based On ‘Very Real’ Threat

April 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

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Police have arrested 12 men in parallel raids in Manchester, Liverpool and Clitheroe in Lancashire.

Witnesses in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, described what they saw.

One woman who lives next door to a terraced house where two men were arrested said she saw a man being hauled down the street by officers.

Bushra Majid, 33, a housewife, said: “I opened the door and four or five policemen were on top of a man. They were dragging him along the street and he had no shoes on.

“They shouted at me, ‘Get inside. Get inside’. There was a policeman on each corner of the street. They were dressed in black and had machine guns.

“I heard lots of noise inside the house, like people running up and down the stairs.”

The mother-of-four said the house next door was rented and there were always people coming and going.

“There were about six or seven men living there for the last six months.

“Some were aged 45 to 50, others were aged in their 20s. They used to go to the local al Falah mosque daily.”

Witnesses at Liverpool John Moores University said two Asian men in their mid to late-20s were held by armed police outside the main library on Maryland Street.

They described how the suspects were stopped as they walked past the main entrance and ordered to lie on the ground.

Students were held inside the library for up to 30 minutes as the two men were searched by officers before being taken away.

Craig Ahmed, 24, a business student from Maghull, Merseyside, said: “Suddenly there was all shouting and commotion outside so I went to the window and saw about eight police officers.

“One of them was armed and was pointing his gun at two men who were ordered to lie face down on the ground. “For about half an hour they held the men on the floor. The police were shouting things at them but I couldn’t hear what was being said.

“They looked like students, one was wearing tracksuit bottoms and a hooded top and the other had a Puffa-style jacket on.

“The library Tannoy came on telling everybody inside to stay away from the windows and not to go outside.

“They said it was for our own safety and people inside were getting quite stressed about it. There was talk that they had a bomb and it spread like wildfire around the building.

“After some time the police then searched a satchel belonging to one of the men and a carrier bag belonging to the other one. The two men were then searched as they were on the ground and cuffed and taken away.”

In Clitheroe, Lancashire, up to 100 officers swooped on the Homebase store and arrested two security guards as stunned work colleagues looked on.

Police simultaneously raided the nearby Brooklyn Guest House in Pimlico Road where the two men were staying.

An eyewitness said: “About 50 vehicles filled the car park and the police stormed in and quickly brought the two men out.

“They seemed to know who they were looking for. It looked a well planned operation.”

Adam Howard, who lives opposite the guest house in Pimlico Road, said he was shocked at the arrests.

He said: “I saw about 15 officers go in the front and the back of the house. It was a bit of a shock. You don’t expect this to happen in a market town.”

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LeT militant arrested in Anantnag

April 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Srinagar, April 1 (ANI): Security personnel arrested a Laskkhar-e-Toiba militant in Mohripora Achabal in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday in a joint operation of Anantnag Police, 162 Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force and 36 and 187 Rashtriya Rifles.

A pistol, one pistol magazine and two hand grenades were recovered from the arrested militant.

Acting upon tip off Anantnag Police, 36 RR, 187 RR and 162 Bn CRPF raided a house of Majid Margay, son of Raheem, a resident of Mohripora, falling under the jurisdiction of Police Station Achabal and arrested one Lashkar-e-Toiba militant.

The arrested militant’s name is stated to be Bilal Ahmad Koley ,son of Ahmad Koley, a resident of Kokernag. (ANI)

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People express disgust at Pak authorities for delay in clearing travel papers

March 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Poonch (Jammu and Kashmir), Mar 19 (ANI): People residing in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) has expressed their disgust at Pakistani authorities for long delays in clearing travel papers and allied permits.

Eighty-three people crossed the Line of Control (LoC) on Wednesday. Among them only two went to PoK from Indian side while 41 came to India.

All the travellers had complaint against the Pakistan Government for late verification of papers for crossing the LoC.

“I submitted my form two years back and got it verified now. I had nine people along with me but only I could return back. These verification works should be done within 15 days to one month otherwise it gets very late for those who have been left behind,” said Gulzar Bibi.

The travellers also complained that even in emergent situations the verification is not done in time.

“We had to wait for a long period. My uncle’s health is deteriorating and I wanted to be with him on his last days. Sometimes people die while waiting for their loved ones. Therefore I appeal to both Indian and Pakistan’s government to make this procedure easier where we can visit and leave within eight days,” said Mohammad Rafiq, a resident of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).

In response to these complaints the Divisional Commissioner of Rawalkot, Shouket Majid said that the procedure was being made easier now.

“It takes some time for the verification of the documents as it passes through eight agencies. Secondly the procedure is becoming much easier now. I would like to say that if one has such trivial complaints then it should not be generalized,” Majid said.

Launched in June 2006, Poonch-Rawalakot is the second bus service between the two neighbouring countries.

The transport link has made it possible for members of the divided families of Kashmir to meet each other after decades. (ANI)

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