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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Chairman OF PPP (Bilawal) Will Contest From Lyari During Next Election

President Asif Ali Zardari declared on Monday that his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who is PPP chairman, will contest coming general elections from party’s stronghold of Lyari.
He made the announcement at a high-level meeting which he presided over at the Presidential Camp Office at Bilawal House, before his flying to Dubai.
Sources said that the meeting also mulled over making Lyari a new district as it reviewed the development works in the area.
Sources said that President Zardari informed the meeting that Bilawal would come to Pakistan in September this year and thereafter will remain in contact with the people and elected representatives of Lyari by holding regular meetings. He would also oversee the development projects and other matters related to the neighborhood , which had remained a stronghold of the party since its inception in 1967. Zardari said that he himself will hold meetings with the people of Lyari as well after two to three months.
Nabeel Gabol, a scion of Gabool family that had been residing in Lyari, is the sitting MNA from the neighborhood. However, after the worsening of law and order, Nabeel Gabool left the area. Nabeel Gabool’s uncle Abdus Sattar Gabool was elected MNA from Lyari in 70s during ZA Bhutto’s first tenure. Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari also won elections from the area.
Selecting Lyari for launching Bilawal’s political career is meaningful because it is safe constituency where no PPP candidate has ever lost any election. Though politically safe for the party, the neighborhood is a volatile area where campaigning for elections and meeting the voters door to door would be difficult proposition.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik, provincial ministers and legislators from Lyari and high officials attended the meeting.
During the meeting President Zardari ordered for formulation of a policy under which compensation and plots would be given to the heirs of those who lost their lives in the violence during three and half years.
The meeting reviewed the progress of the ongoing projects, including roads, sewerage system, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University, flyovers and water supply schemes. President Zardari underlined the need for strict compliance on projects, proper utilization of funds and early completion of these schemes to benefit the people of Lyari. In a briefing on Lyari development package, the president was told that Rs2.8 billion have been spent during last three years.
Meanwhile, President Zardari presided over a meeting to discuss the law and order in Karachi and decided to take a number of steps to improve the situation. It was decided that permanent police posts would be set up in the troubled areas of the city where large number of people lost their lives to targeted killing.
President Zardari directed immediate induction of 40 ACP’s (Armoured Personnel Carriers) which could be used by the law enforcers in the province. The president also directed the Federal interior minister to call more FC troops if need be, besides the one thousand soldiers already called-in recently.
Later, Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and Interior Minister Rehman Malik hold a follow up meeting to review the decisions taken in the Bilawal House meeting.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Obama Wants To Avoid "Reckless and Irresposible" Default

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President Barack Obama called on Republican and Democratic leaders on Monday night to reach a fair compromise on raising the debt ceiling to avert a "reckless and irresponsible" national default.
In an address to the nation, Obama spelled out the severe economic consequences of a default or even a credit ratings downgrade resulting from failure to strike a deal on raising the $14.3 trillion debt limit and reducing the budget deficit. "Defaulting on our obligations is a reckless and irresponsible outcome to this debate.We would risk sparking a deep economic crisis one caused almost entirely by Washington," Obama said.
He appealed for compromise to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion and share the burden of cuts evenly across society as the clock ticked toward an Aug. 2 deadline to raise US borrowing authority so the nation can pay its bills. The deadlock over dueling and divergent debt plans presented by Democratic and Republican leaders, highlighting the ideological gulf in the divided Congress, has raised the risk of a credit ratings downgrade and national default.The stalemate is rattling investors worldwide, sending stocks and the dollar down and pushing gold to a record high, but falling far short of the panicky sell-off some politicians in Washington had feared after weekend talks broke down.
Obama warned that a first default in U.S. history would directly affect the lives of ordinary Americans, because the government would not be able to pay bills that include monthly Social Security checks, veterans' benefits, and government contracts with thousands of businesses. "I have told leaders of both parties that they must come up with a fair compromise in the next few days that can pass both houses of Congress, a compromise I can sign," he said. "The American people may have voted for divided government, but they didn't vote for a dysfunctional government," added Obama.
He chastised some Republicans for insisting on a "cuts-only" approach and opposing White House calls for the country's wealthiest companies and individuals to give up tax breaks. In his response, the top Republican in Congress, House Speaker John Boehner, reiterated his party's objection to the plan proposed by Obama. "The sad truth is that the president wanted a blank check six months ago and he wants a blank check today. That is just not going to happen," Boehner said.
It was Obama's seventh address to the nation since he took office in 2009. Obama has used previous addresses to deal with major national issues like the war in Afghanistan and the killing of Osama bin Laden

Don Will Expose The Names Of High Ranking Mafia, If Protected

An underworld don, involved in the multi-billion car theft trade in the country, has volunteered to name and expose the powerful mafia players who, according to him, include several police officials, Excise Department personnel, private businessmen and some political figures. But the don fears for his life for which he is seeking protection. Muhammad Hasan, alias Major Muhammad Hasan, against whom there are more than 100 cases of car theft registered in different police stations of Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and different cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, however, does not trust anyone but Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to make disclosures, which he insists would be vital to launch a decisive crackdown against the mafia.
He also assured that if he was attached with a team of honest and upright police officers by the chief justice, he would help the authorities recover hundreds of stolen vehicles freely plying on the roads of Pakistan. “If I make the disclosure without protecting myself and my family, I would be either killed by the police in a fake encounter or would become the victim of other influential players of the mafia,” he said while conveying the information to a reporter through a source from Jamrud Jail in Khyber Agency where he is presently locked up.The jail authorities, when contacted, confirmed Hasan was in their custody but did not know his criminal background. A jail official said Hasan was handed over to them by the Bara police. However, Hasan said he was a missing person for one year after he was taken into illegal custody by the Hayatabad police and had been recovered only after his family approached the Peshawar High Court.
He volunteers to disclose everything before the chief justice in return to his and his family’s protection from the mafia, whom he termed as “too powerful and too dangerous”. He has a long list of police officials in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Mardan, Peshawar, Charsadda, etc, who, he alleged, have been or are hand in glove with the car lifters mafia, but he is not prepared to uncover them at this stage. He also knows how and where the vehicles are disassembled or tampered. He is also prepared to unveil the top buyers of stolen vehicles and their safe havens.
Hasan was reluctant to disclose the names of the mafia to the reporter, but assured that he would name each and every player once he was called by the chief justice. When probed, he said the mafia players included senior police officials and other well-connected people. “Disclosing their names at this stage would mean my death,” he said and hoped that the court would protect him and accept him as an approver to eliminate the car-lifting mafia. Hasan’s criminal record is confirmed by the in-charge inspector of the Anti-Car Lifting Cell, Islamabad, Abdul Majeed, who confirmed that he was one of the leading car thieves of the country. Abdul Majeed said Hasan’s area of operation was the Punjab, Islamabad and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He disclosed that initially he was based in Rawalpindi, but later moved to Mardan.
Majeed revealed that in 2006, Hasan was caught by the police and admitted to have stolen 190 vehicles, a large number of which were recovered. Majeed apprehended that Hasan had already been killed in a police encounter but insisted that these were unconfirmed reports. Hasan, besides approaching a newspaper, has already sent his appeal to the chief justice, interior minister, chief ministers of the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and IGPs of the two provinces.He said he got into this illegal business after he was wrongly implicated by police in a car theft case and was sent to jail where he developed acquaintance with criminal elements, including the car mafia. Hasan said he was recognized as one of the top dons of car-lifting groups in Pakistan and claimed to have been paying two to four million rupees a month to police officials. “I am regarded as a don in this particular brand of underworld mafia. I have escaped several times from police custody, face more than hundred cases, earned a lot of money, toured several foreign countries but now want to expose everyone in this business because I do not want to continue with this life full of sins,” he said, adding by volunteering to help the state to get rid of the car-lifting mafia, he wanted to undo his wrongs and would like to help the people get back their stolen vehicles.
In the recent years, car-lifting cases saw a phenomenal increase and more than 60,000 vehicles were stolen only in 2009 while this number is feared to have increased in 2010. The car-lifting illicit business involves tens of billions of rupees and, according to Hasan, there are parties, which can pay advance money to car lifters and their dons like Hasan for to be stolen vehicles. He said that without the connivance of the police, the mafia simply cannot operate. He said that despite all precautionary measures taken by the car owners, a car lifter could steal any vehicle within a few minutes. The most reliable anti-car lifting system is the tracker system, which he said is disabled with jammers costing only Rs6,000. He said he had been mostly interested in Land Cruisers, Prados, Lexus, and other luxurious vehicles and claimed that most of the these vehicles stolen from Islamabad was his work.
About the change of his mind, he said that he recently read the Holy Quran, which had transformed him. He said he wanted to leave the underworld, but the mafia would not let him do that. He said he belonged to a respectable family of Rawalpindi, but had been pushed into this evil life by the police. According to Hasan, the mafia is extremely powerful and well organized. Seeking protection for himself and for his family from no less than the chief justice, he reminded that one of his jail friends, Imran Goga, had approached Chief Justice Chaudhry in 2005 against Adiala Jail official corruption and misuse of power. The chief justice took action and ordered a probe, but later Goga was ruthlessly beaten besides having being attacked with a sharp knife through his fellow jail inmates to teach him a lesson for approaching the chief jusitce. Goga, according to Hasan, received multiple cuts on his body.
The Newspaper confirmed from the archives the fact that Chief Justice Iftikhar had ordered the Punjab Prisons IG Sarfraz Mufti to submit a detailed report within two weeks on allegations made by Goga, then an under trial prisoner. The newspaper reports said on that occasion Justice Iftikhar had also ordered the IG Prisons to inform the Supreme Court as to why officials of the Punjab Prisons were not transferred even after serving at one prison for 15-16 years whereas, according to the law, prison officials should be transferred every three years.

New York Hotel Maid Speaks Out Against IMF Chief

The New York hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her said in an interview published on Newsweek's website on Sunday that he appeared as a ‘crazy man’ and attacked her when she entered his room. Nafissatou Diallo also gave the news magazine and ABC News permission to identify her by name. The magazine interview marks the first time the 32-year-old Guinean immigrant to the United States has publicly spoken to the media since she shocked the world with allegations that Strauss-Kahn emerged naked from the bathroom of his luxury suite on May 14 and forced her to perform oral sex. "I want justice. I want him to go to jail," she said in excerpts from the television interview released on Sunday. "I want him to know that there is some places you cannot use your money, you cannot use your power when you do something like this," Diallo said.
One of Diallo's attorneys, Douglas Wigdor, told she has come forward to let the world know she is not a "shakedown artist or a prostitute." "She's being attacked and she thought it was important to put a name and face to her account," Wigdor said. She also plans to file a civil lawsuit soon, which means her name would become public, he added. It further reported Diallo also acknowledged "mistakes" but said that should not stop prosecutors from going forward. "I never want to be in public but I have no choice," she told, adding "Now, I have to be in public. I have to, for myself. I have to tell the truth.
"Diallo, who Newsweek said had agreed to be photographed for next week's edition, said she saw Strauss-Kahn appear naked infront of her when she opened the door to his suite. He was like "a crazy man to me," she said. "You're beautiful," she reported Strauss-Kahn as saying, and said he attacked her despite her protestations.
DENIES ALL CHARGES Strauss-Kahn, 62, has repeatedly denied all the charges against him. In a statement on Sunday, his lawyers called the interview a last-ditch effort by the maid and her lawyers to extract money from the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
She is "the first accuser in history to conduct a media campaign to persuade a prosecutor to pursue charges against a person from whom she wants money," lawyers Benjamin Brafman and William Taylor said.
"Her lawyers and public relations consultants have orchestrated an unprecedented number of media events and rallies to bring pressure on the prosecutors in this case after she had to admit her extraordinary efforts to mislead them."

Dollar Fell To Low Price Against The Yen In Asia

The dollar fell to a fresh four-month low against the yen in Asia on Monday, dragged down by the impasse in US debt negotiations amid a growing risk of the world's biggest economy defaulting. The dollar fell as low as 78.12 yen in early trade, the lowest level since March 17 when the greenback slid to the 76-yen range, prompting intervention from Japan and its G7 counterparts.It recovered to 78.36 yen by 0220 GMT in Tokyo against 78.52 yen in New York late Friday.The euro rose to $1.4391 from $1.4357 and to 112.81 yen from 112.69 yen after a new eurozone bailout plan for Greece and other measures were seen to reduce the risk of a flaring-up of the debt crisis.
Attention is now on developments in the US, where Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are divided over how to cut the nation's deficit and raise the debt limit as an August 2 deadline looms. President Barack Obama met Democratic congressional leaders Sunday, aiming to map a path forward, but no progress was made.
Finance and business leaders have warned that failure to raise the US debt ceiling would send shock waves through the fragile world economy. Obama has predicted a default would trigger economic "Armageddon"."The dollar met with speculative selling against the yen in thin early trading amid uncertainty over the US debt-limit debate," said Sumino Kamei, senior analyst at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ."Considering the tremendous impact a US debt default would have on financial markets, the main scenario is that Washington will avert default in the end. But fears persist," Kamei said.
Dollar selling is likely to continue even if an agreement is reached, as this would not fundamentally change the reality of growing US debt, Daisuke Uno, chief strategist at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp, told.But the euro is unlikely to get a major lift as there are signs that the eurozone economy is slowing, Uno said."While the euro is relatively firmer versus the dollar amid the US debt standoff, its topside is capped by lingering concern over (the) eurozone sovereign debt problem," Kamei said.
Following the yen's rise, Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda said he would "continue to closely monitor market movement.

Indian Supreme Court Has Ordered To Provide Cheapest Foods To The Poor

The Indian Apex Court has interrupted boldly in the government governance, administration and preparation of policies for the last one and a half year that is exemplary. The Judges ordered the concerned department to provide cheapest food items to the poor. They also fought against the social sect system.and did not exempted even army chief. This way judges determined to uproot the corruption from the society.
An important tool the apex court has against the evil is that of" Public Interest Litigation". In India under this law any body (even third party) can sue the government or private company if clue of some crime is found. At present 250 cases of the sort are in the court for hearing.
Last year under the public interest litigation law, a poor Muslim filed a writ against Manmohin government that it was not providing foods to the poor on cheaper rates. Due to the importance of the case this case directly reached to the apex court. Judges quickly heard the case and ordered the government to supply 50 tons of foods in the poor districts. In addition court also ordered the government to increase the amont of money given to the poor below line of poverty because it was too low. It is worth mentioning that free or cheaper food is provided to those Indians who are living below the poverty line.
During the hearing of the case justice Dilver Bhandari gave remarks that" We can not afford two Indias. On one side government wants to show the world that we have strong economy and on other side millions of hungry and poor Indians are living in famine conditions". .

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Spider Man Arrested

The Amazing Spider-Man' villain Rhys Ifans has been arrested after pushing a female security guard while at Comic-Con to promote the upcoming blockbuster, the San Diego Police Department says.
Ifans, best-known for his role in Notting Hill was said to have become angry on Saturday (Melbourne time) when a member of his entourage was denied entry to the hall where he was due to begin the movie's Comic-Con panel, as they did not have the correct credentials.
The Welsh actor, who "smelled of alcohol", then "shoved" the guard to let them pass through to the hall, a police spokeswoman said. "He was abusive, belligerent and aggressive, and shoved a female security guard," Lieutenant Andra Brown. "He was verbally abusive to all around security, the police department and the USA."
Ifans, who plays the dual roles of Dr Curt Connors and The Lizard in the film, was allowed to participate in the panel, but afterwards the guard made a citizen's arrest. He was subsequently issued with a citation for misdemeanor battery and was then released.
The San Diego City Attorney was now set to determine whether to pursue charges against the actor. Sony Pictures, which will distribute the latest Spider-Man movie, said Ifans "deeply regrets the incident."