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PPP for joint session on judges issue


By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, May 14: Taking a new position, the Pakistan People’s Party said on Wednesday the deposed judges would be reinstated through a resolution to be adopted by a joint session of the two houses of parliament.

“We are preparing a resolution to take it to the joint house (of parliament),” PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said at his first news conference after Monday’s decision by the Pakistan Muslim League-N to quit the PPP-led federal coalition cabinet on the issue of restoration of the judiciary.

Mr Zardari, who arrived from London on Tuesday night, declined to give any timeframe for presenting the resolution, saying “then you will start a countdown”.

The Murree Declaration, signed by Mr Zardari and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on March 9 said: “….. it was decided that the restoration of the deposed judges as it was on November 2, 2007, shall be brought about through a parliamentary resolution to be passed in the National Assembly within thirty days of the formation of the federal government”.

The PPP, which failed to reinstate the deposed judges within 30 days of the formation of the government under the Murree Declaration, is now taking a position which, according to political experts, is a deviation from the summit declaration which clearly stated that the resolution should be passed only in the National Assembly.

The PML-N gave a cautious response to the new development, saying it would respond only after seeking guidance from its legal experts on implications of the resolution being tabled in a joint session.

Talking to Dawn, PML-N secretary-general Senator Iqbal Zafar Jhagra said his party still believed that a simple resolution in the National Assembly was sufficient to restore the deposed judges. “However, we will see why the PPP is now insisting on a joint resolution,” he added.

Mr Zardari made it clear that all the present judges would be retained while the deposed judges would be reinstated. He said his party was committed to the Murree Declaration and the judges would have to be restored without disturbing any judge.

PML-N leaders while announcing the decision to quit the cabinet on Monday said their party was not in favour of retaining the judges appointed after November 3, 2007, by President Pervez Musharraf.

Mr Zardari said the PPP had differences with the PML-N only on one point. He said that other coalition partners -- ANP and JUI-F -- at the centre and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in Sindh had their own points of view on the issue of judges’ reinstatement.

The PPP co-chairman said Mr Sharif wanted reinstatement of the deposed judges through a notification and removal of other judges through de-notification. He said his legal experts had told him that if they tried to restore the judges through the use of police, the present judges could issue a stay order and there could be a constitutional crisis in the country. “I believe that two wrongs cannot make one right,” he said.

Mr Zardari clarified that there were only some 37 or 38 judges who would be restored and not 60 as being reported in the media.

He said he was still in contact with Mr Sharif and the PPP would remain in the Punjab government led by the PML-N. “We want reconciliation, but not minus Nawaz Sharif.”

Mr Zardari said that perhaps it was due to his own ‘political weaknesses’ that he had so far failed to convince Mr Sharif on PPP’s position on the judges’ issue and admitted that his party’s stance on retaining the PCO judges went against the spirit of the Charter of Democracy signed by PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto and Mr Sharif some three years back, for which it was paying a big political price.

He said he did not consider the judges’ issue a major problem of the country as being portrayed by the media, adding that the issues like wheat and grain were more important.

Mr Zardari did not respond when asked if the signing of the Murree Declaration was his political mistake. He defended his decision of reconciliation with the political parties which had supported and voted for a military dictator.

He said when he talked about punishing the judges for validating military takeovers, he meant the future judges. “In future, if a judge will validate a military takeover he will be taken to task along with the dictator,” he added.

When asked whether the PPP would appoint its own ministers to replace those of the PML-N who had resigned, he said he would meet Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday and could respond only after that meeting.

In response to a question regarding the UN probe into the assassination of Ms Bhutto, he said the prime minister had sought comments from the law ministry and the government would send a request to the UN this month. He said his party wanted to avenge Ms Bhutto’s murder by changing the system for which a major means could be the setting up of a truth and reconciliation commission as mentioned in the CoD.

About his meeting with US Ambassador Anne W. Patterson earlier in the day, Mr Zardari said the main concern of the US was the war against terrorism for which its officials kept on meeting Pakistani politicians only to know whether the coalition would survive and what would happen to the ongoing reconciliation process.

He said it should be remembered that Ms Bhutto had forced a military dictator to remove his uniform with the help of these outside forces.

Earlier, Mr Zardari presided over a meeting of party’s MNAs, MPAs, senators and members of the Central Executive Committee and Federal Council from Punjab to review the political situation in the province after the PML-N’s decision to quit the federal government.

Although the party has convened the meeting of its members only from Punjab, it was also attended by Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, Leader of the House in the Senate Raza Rabbani and Information Minister Sherry Rehman -- all from Sindh. However, the absence of senior vice-chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim from the meeting was conspicuous.

ANP president Asfandyar Wali also called on Mr Zardari and discussed the future strategy of the ruling coalition on the judges’ issue. They also discussed issues relating to the NWFP government.

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Azizuddin is home after 97 days



PESHAWAR, May 17: Militants released Pakistan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, Tariq Azizuddin, on Friday night after holding him in captivity for 97 days.

His release came after protracted negotiations between the government and militant leader Baitullah Mehsud, with tribal leaders acting as go-between. Mr Azizuddin was handed over to the military authorities in Razmak, North Waziristan, from where he was flown to the Army’s brigade headquarters at Zari Noor for debriefing.

He was later flown to Peshawar for onward journey to Islamabad.

Mr Azizuddin had been kidnapped from the Khyber tribal region on Feb 11 while on his way to Kabul. Clean-shaven when kidnapped, he grew a long beard in captivity. “He had only a toothbrush with him,” said an official.

The official said that immediately after his kidnapping at the highway that links Pakistan with Afghanistan, he was taken to the remote Terah Valley, in Khyber tribal region, and then to neighbouring Orakzai Agency.

“He was not kept in Khyber for a single day. He was first shifted to Orakzai and after 15 to 20 days, taken to South Waziristan. The kidnappers drove him through Spinwam and Mirali, in North Waziristan,” the official said.

Mr Azizuddin’s last stay before his release was reportedly in Shaktoi, a small town in the Mehsud-dominated part of South Waziristan.

“The first couple of days were hard on him. But later his captors treated him well,” the official said.

He insisted that Mr Azizuddin’s kidnappers initially did not know who he was. “They just spotted a vehicle bearing a red registration number plate and thought that it was carrying someone important.

“It dawned on them later that the guy they were holding was an ambassador.”

The ambassador remained with the Taliban, although the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan — an umbrella organisation of militant groups — had denied it was holding him.

The militants released a video on April 19 in which the ambassador had appealed to the government to negotiate with the kidnappers for his release. In the video the ambassador had said that he was worried about his health due to a heart condition.

The official insisted that Azizuddin’s captors released him as a goodwill gesture following the prisoners’ swap between the militants and the authorities and the military pullout from the Mehsud part of South Waziristan.

“There has been no ransom paid and no special prisoner exchange in this case,” he maintained.

THE OTHER SIDE: Some sources, however, claim that the government had not only paid $2.5 million for his release, but also agreed to release three associates of detained Taliban commander Mansoor Dadullah.

The militants also wanted the release of former Taliban leader Mullah Obaidullah and Taliban commander Mansoor Dadullah, but the government made it abundantly clear that this was not possible, sources said.

Pakistani authorities have released 50 militants in return for the release of army and paramilitary personnel and some government officials.

The official who spoke to Dawn said the militants were still holding 20 to 25 paramilitary personnel and their release was still awaited. “But major hurdles have been cleared. The army has been pulled back, exchange of major prisoners has taken place and the ambassador released.

“Now the road has been cleared for signing of the peace agreement,” the official said.

Dawn understands that a 16-point draft agreement is ready for signing, but NWFP Governor Owais Ghani is awaiting a go-ahead signal from the federal government.

“We are ready when the federal government is ready,” the official remarked. “As soon as we get the green signal, we will go ahead,” the official said.

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Bush holds further talks in Egypt



Sunday, 18 May 2008


US President George W Bush is holding further talks with Arab leaders in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, on the final day of his Middle East tour.

He will meet Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad and Jordan's King Abdullah, but not Lebanon's PM as had been planned.

Mr Bush will later urge the leaders to reject Iran and Syria, whom he called "spoilers" impeding progress, in a speech to the World Economic Forum.

On Saturday, he stressed his commitment to securing a Middle East peace deal.

The president made the remarks after holding talks with his Egyptian counterpart, Hosni Mubarak, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

Reform call

In his weekly radio address, Mr Bush said that he would use his speech at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East on Sunday to again "make it clear that I believe we can get a [Palestinian] state defined by the end of my presidency".

He would also urge Arab leaders to bring about freer economic markets, enact political reforms, allow greater participation in society for women and young people, and "reject spoilers such as the regimes in Iran and Syria", he said.

"I will make clear that the only way to ensure true prosperity is to expand political and economic freedom," he added.

Mr Bush said his fellow leaders ought to "embrace the changes necessary for a day when societies across the Middle East are based on justice, tolerance and freedom" and "move past old grievances", thought to refer to Israel.

Before he arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Mr Bush was criticised by Egypt's state-owned newspapers for "appeasing Israel" and hardly referring to Palestinians during a speech in Israel during its 60th anniversary celebrations last week.

He therefore spent much of Saturday working hard to convince the Arab world that he is "absolutely committed" to a lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

"It'll be an opportunity to end the suffering that takes place in the Palestinian territories," he said after holding talks with Mr Abbas


"It breaks my heart to see the vast potential of the Palestinian people really wasted. They are good, smart capable people who when given a chance will build a thriving homeland," he added.

"I commit to you once again that my government will help achieve a dream, a dream that you have, and the truth of matter is, a dream that the Israelis have, which is two states living side by side in peace."

Mr Bush had dinner with Mr Abbas on Saturday night. In their brief comments to the media ahead of the meal, there was no suggestion from Mr Abbas that he was losing faith or patience with the US.

Mr Abbas said he was confident of Mr Bush's dedication to the goal of a final deal. The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, did not attend the meetings although he did send a delegation led by Defence Minister Ehud Barak.

The BBC's Christian Fraser in Sharm el-Sheikh says there is general acknowledgement among negotiators that there will need to be some heavy lifting to achieve the rather lofty ambitions set out at Annapolis in November.

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India to deploy Sukhoi-30 jets on Pakistan border


* Also planning to deploy Sukhois on its north-eastern front with China

NEW DELHI:
India has planned to progressively deploy its advanced Sukhoi-30MKI fighter aircraft along its western border with Pakistan, the Times of India reported on Sunday.

According to the daily, the Indian Air Force has planned to deploy its most potent fighter jets to counter threats from Pakistan, which is in the process of obtaining F-16 aircraft from the United States and JF-17 Thunder jets from China. It has also planned to station aircraft at several bases on its north-eastern front with China.

Presently, India has positioned its Sukhois only at Pune, Jodhpur and Bareilly. They are also operated from the airbases in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Halwara.

India is expected to get fresh deliveries of the aircraft soon. The newspaper reported that the process to identify important airbases to station more squadrons was also underway.

Thus far, India has received 60 jets out of the total of 230 aircraft contracted from Russia at a cost of $8.5 billion. As many as 140 of the jets would be produced in India under licence by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). The government has directed HAL to complete the project by 2013-2014, in view of a shortage of fighter squadrons.

The number of fighter squadrons in India is down to 32 from the “sanctioned” strength of 39. The Indian Air Force is also facing “poor serviceability” of its fleets consisting of MiG-21, MiG-27 and Jaguar aircraft.

The newspaper quoted Western Air Command (WAC) chief Air Marshal PK Barbora as saying, “Our assets have to be distributed all over the country in line with our operational thinking. After the east, the planning is to base Sukhois in our area of responsibility.”

As many as 18 important airbases, including Srinagar, Leh, Thosie, Awantipur, Ambala, Amritsar, Halwara and Nal are under the control of the WAC. However, several of them require new squadrons to maintain their operational readiness. The Halwara airbase houses the old and accident-prone MiG-23s, which are being phased out.

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Wattoo resigns from PML-Q



LAHORE:
Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) vice president Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo resigned from his party after being appointed as the adviser to prime minister and being granted federal minister status, Aaj television reported on Sunday. The channel reported that Wattoo called on PML-Q President Shujaat Hussain in Lahore and submitted his resignation in person. It quoted Wattoo as saying that he believed in tolerance and humility in politics, adding that he and Shujaat had discussed the political situation, as well as the prevailing crises currently facing the country. The channel said that the PML-Q president had accepted Wattoo’s resignation and appointed former NA speaker Ameer Hussain as the new vice president of the party.

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Jaipur blasts aimed at derailing India-Pakistan ties: Manmohan



NEW DELHI:
The recent bombings in the Indian city of Jaipur were aimed at disrupting newly formed peaceful ties with Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday.

“There is no doubt that terrorist elements have many objectives,” Manmohan said in response to questions about last Tuesday’s blasts, The Times of India newspaper reported on Sunday.

One of these objectives is to “prevent normalisation of relations with Pakistan”, he was quoted as saying. “We have to be mindful of these nefarious designs.”

The premier was addressing reporters in the state of West Bengal at the end of a two-day visit to Bhutan.

Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is to visit Pakistan next week for the first official talks between both the countries since a new government took office in Islamabad.

The multiple bombings in the historic city of Jaipur left 61 people dead and another 90 wounded. Indian authorities have repeatedly suggested blame would eventually fall on Islamic militants.

Indian officials have in the past blamed Pakistan-based extremist groups for a spate of bombings that killed hundreds in India since 2005. Pakistan denies any role in the bombings.

While government officials haven’t named any suspects in the Jaipur blasts, media reports have quoted police as saying they are investigating possible links between the attacks and the Bangladesh-based extremist group Harkatul-Jehad-i-Islami.

A previously unknown militant group calling itself the Indian Mujahideen also claimed responsibility, saying it planted bicycles packed with explosives on the city’s crowded streets.

The claim of responsibility was made in a pair of videos and an e-mailed document. Authorities said they were investigating the communications to determine their authenticity.

During his Pakistan trip, Mukherjee is to hold talks reviewing the three-year dialogue between the former enemies, focusing on border disputes, trade, cultural relations, counter-terrorism and fighting drug trafficking, India’s External Affairs Ministry said.

India and Pakistan have fought three wars in the six decades since both gained independence from Britain, but relations have improved since they embarked on a peace process in 2004.

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Bush apologises over Quran shooting

George Bush, the US president, has apologised to Iraq after an American soldier used a copy of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, for target practice.

Bush also promised to put the staff sergeant, who has been sent home from his unit in Iraq, on trial, the Iraqi prime minister's office said in a statement on the AFP news agency.

"The [Iraqi] prime minister ... expressed resentment and anger of the people and the government of Iraq and the American president ... apologised to the Iraqi people," al-Maliki's office said in the statement.

The incident is reported to have occurred on March 11 in Radhwaniya, near Baghdad, when the unnamed staff sergeant shot into a copy of the Quran and wrote an expletive inside it.

US military commanders in Iraq held a ceremony on Monday to formally apologise and presented a new copy of the Quran to tribal leaders in the area where the incident took place.

The news came as several Afghan lawmakers walked out of the parliament in Kabul on Tuesday, apparently in protest against the incident, witnesses said.

'Heinous crime'

Lieutenant General Lloyd Austin, the top US commander in Baghdad, also told Iraq's prime minister and vice-president in separate meetings that the US viewed the matter seriously and that the soldier had been sent home.

But Tariq al-Hashemi, Iraq's vice-president and the top Sunni Arab in the government, told Austin that "the feelings of bitterness and anger cannot be eased unless there is a deterrent punishment", according to a statement by al-Hashemi's office.

The incident was earlier strongly condemned by al-Hashemi and the Association of Muslim Scholars, which represents many of Iraq's mosques.

"This heinous crime shows the hatred that the leaders and the members of the occupying force have against the Quran and the [Muslim] people," the association said.

It added that it held both the US military and Iraqi government responsible for the incident.

Colonel Bill Buckner, a US military spokesman, said the military viewed the incident "as both serious and deeply troubling," but said it was an "isolated incident and a result of one soldier's actions".



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Pakistan slips to 127 on Global Peace Index


LONDON:
Iceland is the world's most peaceful country, while Iraq is the most violent, an annual study said on Tuesday. Pakistan has slipped to 127, indicating it has become more violent over the past year.

Countries in the bottom five also include Afghanistan, Somalia, and Israel, according to the Global Peace Index (GPI), which welcomed a slight improvement overall in peacefulness. "The world appears to be a marginally more peaceful place this year. This is encouraging, but it takes small steps by individual countries for the world to make greater strides on the road to peace," said GPI founder Steve Killelea

The index, which was launched last year, lists 140 countries in terms of a variety of factors reflecting both domestic peacefulness and international relations. Factors range from levels of violent crime to UN deployments overseas, and from political instability to risk of terrorist attacks. On these grounds, Iceland rates the best, followed by Denmark, Norway and New Zealand, while Japan is the highest member of the Group of Eight (G8) leading industrialised nations in the rankings.

At the bottom of the heap is war-scarred Iraq in 140th position, still in turmoil more than five years after the US-led invasion to topple dictator Saddam Hussein. The index's authors say their rankings are of great practical use for businesses and investors.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...-5-2008_pg7_29


GDP estimates for current fiscal year finalised at 5.7pc


ISLAMABAD:
The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) has achieved a growth of 5.7 percent after increasing from $143.9 billion in fiscal year 2006-07 to $170.8 billion in fiscal year 2007-08, Daily Times learnt on Tuesday.

The National Accounts Committee (NAC), which met to conduct a final review of all economic indicators and to gauge the performance of various economic sectors, revealed that the annual GDP growth target of 7.2 percent and the downwards-revised target of six percent had not been reached in the current fiscal year. According to an official privy to the meeting, the meeting identified the ongoing political crisis, the law and order situation, unprecedented increase in oil and food prices and the poor performance of the agriculture and manufacturing sectors as the primary factors that impacted economic growth.

He said that the NAC had finalised its estimates of GDP growth based on the performance of economic sectors after incorporating the performances of the services and financial sector. On the per-capita income of the country, he said that it had increased from $878 in fiscal year 2006-07 to $1,027 in fiscal year 2007-08, showing an increase of 16.9 percent or $149.

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The estimates of overall industrial growth also witnessed a major decline, settling at 4.63 percent by 2007-08, against the growth exceeding 8 percent achieved in 2006-07, mainly owing to severe energy shortages. Within the industrial growth sector, large-scale manufacturing (LSM) growth witnessed a decline in the current fiscal year and achieved only 4.84 percent growth against 8.8 percent growth in the previous financial year.

Meanwhile, the services sector projection showed a growth rate of 8.16 percent in 2007-08, against 7.96 percent in 2006-07. Small-scale manufacturing also grew by 7.51 percent in 2007-08 against 7.7 percent growth in 2006-07. The construction sector achieved a higher growth of 15.16 percent during the current financial year, but was down 2.04 percent from the previous year’s growth of 17.2 percent.

The transport and communication sector is estimated to show a growth rate of 4.42 percent during the current fiscal year, against a growth of 5.8 percent in the previous year. Wholesale and retail trade achieved 6.37 percent growth in 2007-08 against 7.1 percent growth in the last fiscal. The financial and insurance sector also achieved higher growth in the outgoing fiscal year as it stood at 17.04 percent in 2007-08 against 18 percent in the previous fiscal. Public administration and defence achieved higher growth, which stood at 10.8 percent in 2007-08 against 6.9 percent in 2006-07. Social services grew by 9.4 percent in the current fiscal against 8.5 percent in the previous fiscal.

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Pakistan offers to share nuclear technology with Bangladesh


DHAKA: Pakistan has offered to help Bangladesh with their first proposed nuclear power reactor. Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh Alamgir Babar said that Pakistan was ready to share nuclear technology for civilian purposes to help tackle the massive energy crisis. Babar said Pakistan’s offer was “on the table” and it was for Bangladesh to decide whether the country wanted to discuss it, the Daily Star newspaper reported Tuesday. Bangladesh Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Chowdhury has already discussed nuclear energy co-operation with Russia and China after the International Atomic Energy Agency recently cleared Bangladesh to use nuclear power for civilian use. Russians showed willingness to help Bangladesh during Chowdhury’s Moscow visit last month. Pakistan is the latest country to make such an offer that would be viewed with interest by the strategic community. online

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...-5-2008_pg7_33


Attack on US likely from Pakistan-based Qaeda


WASHINGTON: The next near-term attack on the US would most likely come from Al Qaeda forces regrouping in Pakistan along the Afghanistan border, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen told the US Congress on Tuesday. The US reimburses Pakistan for military strikes against terrorists in the region, but the area remains largely ungoverned. “It’s a very difficult problem because this is sovereign territory” belonging to Pakistan, Mullen said.

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Politics of change through amendments

The federal law minister says the constitutional bill restoring the judges is ready and may be presented in parliament before the budget session. He is quite outspoken about the articles that will clearly outlaw military rule in the future and slap the treason act on judges who legitimise a military takeover through taking a fresh oath under a constitution-postponing provisional constitutional order (PCO). But he is not forthcoming over the modality that his party is going to adopt to restore the judges who were fired on November 3, 2007. After the bill is placed in parliament, the question of the arithmetic of passage will have to be faced.

The National Assembly will also have to pass an act expanding the Supreme Court from 17 to 27 judges, followed by an amendment designating new tenures in office and age of retirement. This is the tough part and the PPP will have to take the PMLN on board.
Will the PMLN go along?
The speculation is that the PPP will jiggle the tenure system to avoid living under Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for too long despite the fact that he has gone and called on Mr Asif Ali Zardari in a gesture of what his fellow-judges have called “not so subtle” reassurance.

Will the PMLN leader Mr Nawaz Sharif agree?
There is evidence that he did agree to the proposal of raising the number of judges to 27 but he balked later when he was told that that Justice Chaudhry would either be excluded through the “minus-one” formula or made to retire after being reinstated through the device of a newly fixed tenure. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani seems to have opened the floodgates of wild speculation by saying there can’t be two chief justices in the Supreme Court. Is this a pointer to the “minus one” formula or the “retirement on arrival formula”?

One can say, although not with great certainty, that Mr Nawaz Sharif stands midway between the radicalism of the lawyers’ movement and the constitutionalism of the PPP. He will probably agree to retain the 2007 PCO judges along with the old 2000 judges provided Justice Chaudhry is accommodated. The lawyers’ movement has been speaking from many mouths but there seems to be consensus over rejecting any solution that retains the PCO judges as well. Their view is that the PCO judges are illegal and must be told to go home. The PPP points to the cases decided by the PCO judges that have become a part of law and therefore will not call them illegal.

The PPP is indirectly appeasing the PMLN by amending wholesale the articles that empower the President, allow him to appoint military chiefs and the chief election commissioner, and dismiss the National Assembly and the government in power. He will be the sort of president that President Leghari had become after the PMLN threw out Article 58(2)(b) after the 1997 elections. Will this not suffice to assuage the passion for revenge of the PMLN whose leader, Mr Sharif, was overthrown by General Musharraf, then kept out of the country and maltreated when he tried to re-enter Pakistan?

The main reason behind the PMLN’s support to the lawyers’ movement has been the objective sought by the latter: removal of the illegally elected president in 2007 by a parliament that was not supposed to do it. Will Mr Sharif simply accept a de-fanging of President Musharraf? We hope so. The PMLN is crucial for the PPP because of the two-thirds majority in the National Assembly and the Senate it requires to change the Constitution. But what if the PPP indirectly communicates to the PMLN that it can make up the numbers through the PMLQ if it is not willing?

There are clear signs that the PMLN sets some store by cooperation with the PPP and would like not to rock the boat and cause it to flounder and fall. In the disturbance caused by the appointment of Mr Salmaan Taseer as governor of Punjab, what came to the fore finally was the PMLN’s unwillingness to destabilise the system. It wants to be a part of the lawyers’ movement but will face the moment of decision when the lawyers reject the constitutional amendment. Which side of the binary of change will win: the “quick-change” radicalism of the lawyers’ movement or the “slow change” constitutionalism of the government? The best thing would be for parliament to win because it is, after all, the only authentic voice of the people.

Oil hits twice record high over $135 within 24 hours

The price of oil rocketed to a record high $135 a barrel. This rise occurred second time within 24 hours.
Reasons are;
“Fundamentally, the crude prices are being supported by concerns over gasoline supplies ahead of the US driving season and on increased demand for diesel from China as they look to boost supplies ahead of the Olympics and after last week’s earthquake,” said Sudden analyst Nimit Khamar.

Oil prices are also surging because of a weak dollar, which makes commodity prices in the US currency cheaper for foreign buyers.

Speculators are additionally diving into the crude oil market owing to geopolitical unrest in oil-producing nations, notably Nigeria and Iran, and in response to OPEC’s unwillingness to increase production, analysts added.

The market was digesting the latest weekly snapshot of energy inventories in the United States the world’s biggest consumer of oil.

The US Department of Energy said that crude stockpiles had slumped by 5.4 million barrels last week.

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Sindh PML-N leader Tariq Khan shot dead


KARACHI:
A leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N was shot dead at Shaheed-i-Millat Road on Friday night.

Tariq Khan, vice-president of Sindh PML-N, was driving alone when the assailants on motorcycles intercepted him near the Medicare Hospital and shot him several times in his chest and neck, killing him instantly, as he was coming from the Sharfabad area.

“I was checking vehicles in Bahadurabad when shots were fired … We took him to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in our patrol vehicle,” said Inspector Zubair Mehmood, SHO of the New Town police station.

Tariq Khan was in his early 40s.

“We suspect that Mr Khan was being followed,” SP of Jamshad Town Javed Baloch said.

His view was endorsed by a local PML-N leader at the JPMC.

A large number of his party workers gathered at the hospital and forcibly brought his body back from the hospital’s morgue to the emergency ward.

Rowdy party workers made his postmortem, a legal formaility, impossible. They later put his body into an ambulance. They even bickered over the size of the ambulance and demanded a bigger vehicle.

The moment his body emerged, enraged party workers started firing in the air, creating panic.

PML-N Sindh’s president Saleem Zia condemned the murder and termed it a cowardly act.

“Tariq Khan’s killing is a part of an unending pattern of terrorism in the city. It is a message for democratic and political forces in Karachi.”

He announced a three-day mourning across the province and called for an independent and result-oriented inquiry and quick arrest of the killers.

Sindh police chief Dr Shoaib Suddle formed three investigation teams headed by DIG East A.D. Khwaja, DIG Investigation Ghulam Qadir Thebo and DIG CID Saud Ahmed Mirza, respectively.

A spokesman for the Sindh police chief said that Dr Suddle had assured the PML-N leadership of ‘full police cooperation’ and a prompt investigation to apprehend the killers.

A million-rupee reward was announced by the Sindh police for providing any information leading to the arrest of Tariq Khan’s killers.

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Aitzaz withdraws poll papers

RAWALPINDI: Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan withdrew his nomination papers to contest the NA-55 seat in the upcoming by-election on Friday. Barrister Gohar Ali withdrew the papers on behalf of Aitzaz from Returning Officer Khalid Mehmood Ranjha. Aitzaz had announced he would withdraw from the election at a press conference on May 18, saying he wanted to focus fully on the movement for the restoration of the deposed judiciary.

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200 Pakistani troops sent on Liberia peace mission

LAHORE: A batch of 200 Pakistani troops left the country for a United Nations (UN) mission to Liberia on Friday. Brigadier Muhammad Imran Zafar bid the troops farewell at Allama Iqbal International Airport and instructed them to perform their duties diligently to maintain the image of the Pakistan Army. He said that the performance of Pakistani troops under various UN peacekeeping missions had earned them worldwide recognition and their professionalism and dedication served as a role model. He said that the Pakistan Army’s peacekeeping contingents had already rendered services in Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast and had helped to stabilise the situation.

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China, Russia sign nuclear deal


BEIJING: China and Russia on Friday signed a one-billion-dollar deal to expand a nuclear energy facility in the Asian nation, a Russian official said.

“We have completed negotiations on the construction of a uranium enrichment factory,” Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom, told reporters in Beijing.

He was speaking during a visit to Beijing by new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is on his first foreign trip since taking office this month.

The deal will include construction of a fourth block of a nuclear facility that enriches uranium in China as well as the delivery of partially enriched Russian uranium, Kiriyenko said.

“The contract is worth more than one billion dollars, about 500 million dollars for construction and another 500 million for delivery of uranium,” Kiriyenko said.

China has been seeking to expand its use of nuclear power, which accounts for less than two percent of its total energy production.

The fast-growing economic power is highly dependent on coal, which is blamed for worsening pollution and proved risky when supplies were cut off by severe snowstorms during the winter. Russia has been competing with Western nations and Japan for a slice of China’s nuclear power market.

French nuclear giant Areva last year sealed a deal to deliver two advanced reactors for eight billion euros (12.6 billion dollars).

Russia’s first 1,000 megawatt nuclear reactor in the eastern city of Tianwan in China went into commercial operation in June last year after numerous delays, while a second went into operation in September.

Russia supplies fuel for both reactors in accordance with earlier agreements.

Russian official says talks on for construction of two more 1,000MW reactors at Tianwan facility

Kiriyenko said that Russia and China were also in talks on the construction of two more 1,000 megawatt reactors at the Tianwan facility. The original contract, signed in 1997, was worth 3.3 billion dollars.

Separately, China and Russia on Friday condemned the United States’ plans to set up a missile defence system, which Washington says is crucial to protecting the security of it and its allies.

“Both sides believe that creating a global missile defence system, including deploying such systems in certain regions of the world, or plans for such co-operation, do not help support strategic balance and stability, and harm international efforts to control arms and the non-proliferation process,” Russia and China said in a joint statement. “It harms the strengthening of trust between states and regional stability. In this respect (the two sides) express their concern,” it said. The statement was signed in Beijing by Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

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99 Indian prisoners return home



Sunday, May 25, 2008
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LAHORE: Ninety-nine Indian prisoners, who were freed from Pakistani jails on Friday, were handed over to the Indian authorities at the Wagah border on Saturday.

Of 99 prisoners, 96 were fishermen, who were arrested after they strayed into the Pakistan's territorial waters.

They came to Wagah in two buses as they travelled from Karachi to Lahore by road. Three civilian prisoners, hailing from Jammu and Kashmir, were also released from the Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore, after they were given travel documents by the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.

The three prisoners were identified as Pervez Ahmed from Kashmir, Mangal Singh from Jammu and Shabuddin from Poonch. Pervez was rounded up by the Pakistani security officials in 1992 while Mangal Singh was arrested in 1997 and Shahabuddin in 1991.

All the Indian prisoners were happy over their release. They said that the security officials of both the countries should keep in mind the plight of their families, as they had to struggle hard to make both ends meet while fishing, fearing they might be arrested by security officials of both the countries.

They urged both the governments to make earnest efforts to demarcate their maritime boundaries. They said that India and Pakistan should also return the seized fishing boats and nets of the arrested fishermen, as they could not earn their livelihood without them.


BD to plant 100m trees




Sunday, May 25, 2008

DHAKA: Disaster-prone Bangladesh announced on Saturday that it would plant 100 million trees to create a “natural fence” against frequent floods and cyclones.

The head of the country’s military-backed government Fakhruddin Ahmed launched the project in the capital, Dhaka, saying the trees would “fight storms, tidal surges, floods and droughts” in a “natural way.”

He appealed to all Bangladeshis to build “a wall of trees in the coastal belt as a strong deterrent to disaster.” “Our main weapon to face these disasters is tree plantation,” he said. Impoverished Bangladesh has suffered numerous natural calamities that have been occurring more frequently in recent years due to global warming, environmentalists say.

The intensity of the storms have also risen in the low-country country where 40 per cent of its 144 million people live below poverty level.

The trees will be planted over the next three months during the rainy season, deputy environment minister Raja Debashish Roy told AFP. “It’s the country’s biggest-ever planting programme. We’ve undertaken it to protect our natural calamity-prone country from frequent cyclones and floods that has been exacerbated by climate change,” he said.

Last summer the country was hit by two major floods while a cyclone tore through its coastal districts in November, killing at least 5,000 people and leaving tens of millions homeless and desperately short of food.


Militants kill US ‘spy’



Sunday, May 25, 2008
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PESHAWAR: Tribal militants led by Maulana Hafiz Gul Bahadur in North Waziristan Agency late Friday executed another Afghan national on the charge of spying for US forces in Afghanistan.

The Afghan national, 35, was identified as Gul Payo, resident of Baghe Saro village in Afghanistan’s restive Khost province. Sources told ‘The News’ that Gul Payo was captured in North Waziristan a few days ago while spying for US forces in Afghanistan.

“During interrogation, he accepted all charges against him and said that he was sent by US troops to keep them informed about militants’ activities and timing of crossing the border into Afghanistan,” said a militant commander wishing not to be named.

A Taliban court, he said, awarded death penalty to the bearded Afghan national. He said according to the court order, the “Afghan spy” was executed Friday night and his body was left on main Spinwam Chowk on Thall-Mirali Road in North Waziristan.

Also, militants left a Pushto-language letter with his body in which they accused the slain Gul Payo of working for Americans. The political administration handed over body of the slain Afghan national to his cousin Gul Saadat in Mirali. Gul had come from Khost to receive the body and later took it to his native town.

Militants have already set up Islamic courts in Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber, Orakzai, North and South Waziristan agencies where Taliban clerics are deciding people’s disputes under Islamic law. Militants’ spokesman Maulvi Omar said the government had allowed them run their Islamic courts after the government abolished Frontier Crimes Regulation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.



Saudi inflation hits 10.5pc



Sunday, May 25, 2008


RIYADH: Annual inflation in Saudi Arabia accelerated to a 27-year high of 10.5 per cent in April from 9.6 per cent the previous month, fuelled by rents and food prices in the world’s largest oil exporter.

The cost of living index for the largest Arab economy was 115.2 points on April 30 compared with 104.3 points a year earlier, government data showed on Saturday.

The rental index, which includes rents, fuel and water surged 16.9 per cent, with rents soaring 20.4 per cent, while food and beverages cost surged 16 per cent, according to the data.

Like most of its neighbours in the world’s biggest oil-exporting region, Saudi Arabia pegs its riyal currency to the dollar, which has fallen to record lows against the euro and a basket of major currencies this year.

Domestic factors, such as rents, play a role in stoking inflation, but the main driver is the currency situation, said Mary Nicola, Middle East economist for Standard Chartered bank in Dubai.

“Now that food prices are rising globally and Saudi is a net importer of food, that’s having a negative impact on it,” Nicola said.

Last year, Saudi Arabia imported 960,000 tonnes of rice, making it the world’s sixth-biggest rice importer, according to US Department of Agriculture data.

Price rises are plaguing the Gulf Arab region, where economies are surging on a near six-fold increase in oil prices during the last six years.

Dollar pegs force the Gulf States; except Kuwait, to track the US in cutting interest rates. With the dollar tumbling this year to record lows, some imports have become more expensive.

“We expected inflation to increase largely because of the weakening dollar and the growth in money supply; the dollar is weakening and there is no monetary tool to mitigate the effects of inflation,” Nicola said.

“The increase in rents could be largely attributed to the growth in money supply,” she added.

Annual money supply in the kingdom has been accelerating until it reached at least a 14-year high in February, a trend that has prompted the central bank to raise bank reserve requirements three times since November to 12 per cent from 7 per cent. Money-supply growth, however, eased to 23.04 per cent in March



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Proposed package of constitutional amendments unveiled: Musharraf should walk away: Zardari


* residential powers to be transferred to PM
* Third time bar on presidential election
* Reinstated judges to take fresh oath
* NWFP to be renamed Pakhtoonkhwa
* No disqualification for criticising army, judiciary
* Government servants can’t contest elections
* Minorities will get representation in Senate


By Zulfiqar Ghuman

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) wants President Pervez Musharraf to quit rather than be impeached, PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari told a press conference after a PPP central executive committee meeting on Saturday.

The committee approved unanimously a proposed 62-point constitutional reforms package seeking transfer of executive powers from the president to the prime minister. “We intend to walk him away, rather than impeach him away,” Zardari said, adding that his party had never accepted Musharraf as a constitutional president.

Law Minister Farooq H Naek told journalists that the proposed amendments included changing the name of the NWFP province to Pakhtoonkhwa (Article 1), considering a validation of the suspension or abrogation of the Constitution by a judge as high treason (Article 6), no more than two full terms as president for any individual, minorities representatives in Senate (one each from the four provinces and the federal capital) increasing the strength of Senate to 105, and transfer of executive powers such as appointment of services chiefs, provincial governors, high court and Supreme Court chief justices, auditor general and attorney general, to the prime minister.

The proposals also include a fresh oath for reinstated judges and a ban on government servants from contesting elections.

Naek said the proposed amendments would prohibit individuals from holding two public offices, repeal the clause of disqualification over criticism of judiciary and army, make consultations with political parties mandatory before appointment of caretaker setup, shorten the concurrent legislative lists giving provinces more autonomy, increase provincial representation in the Council of Common Interest and obligate at least two meetings of the council every year, make the National Economic Council more effective and obligate National Finance Commission meetings after three years instead of five.

Zardari said the proposed reforms package would be shared with the PPP’s coalition partners and “political forces inside and outside the parliament”.

“This is not sacrosanct document. It is open for debate,” Zardari said. The PPP co-chairman said his party believed in dialogue and not in confrontation. “We will also talk to the Presidency and to the lawyers community through Aitzaz Ahsan.” “Once this package is tabled in parliament, then the lines will be clearly drawn that (show) who is with who.” Asked if the ISI was opposing a UN-led probe into Benazir’s killing, he said: “They may do some tricks, but they cannot tell me what to do.”

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* Article 58 (2b) will be abolished

* Power of appointing armed forces chiefs, chief justices will be transferred to PM

* Validation of suspension or abrogation of Constitution by a judge will be high treason

* Consultation with political parties will be mandatory before appointing caretaker setup

* Provincial representation in the CCI will be increased, will meet twice every year

* National Economic Council will be made more effective

* National Finance Commission will meet every three years instead of five



Rice hopes for common ground with Pakistan to counter terror


* US secretary of State says terror war is not just about army action


WASHINGTON: United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that she hoped to find common grounds with Pakistan in dealing with terrorism.

The top US diplomat said Washington respected the new Pakistani government’s decision to try the course of agreements with tribesmen but was worried that militants had violated such pacts in the past.

Rice told the BBC in a joint interview with her British counterpart that the US understood that “fighting terrorism is not just about military action. One does have to be able to deal with irreconcilables through military action, but of course, you also have to win the hearts and minds of the people...

“But to say that one is concerned is simply what friends do.”

Regarding Kabul’s reaction to Pakistan’s approach, Rice said the Pakistani government did not want to create circumstances in which terrorists could get breathing space.

Her British counterpart David Miliband reaffirmed his country’s support for the new Pakistani government. “It’s got to be what the Pakistani government calls a multi-pronged strategy,” he said. app



‘Qaeda growth in FATA troubling’


WASHINGTON: A Pentagon report said on Friday that the growth of Al Qaeda safe havens in the Tribal Areas is “troubling” and it may take Pakistan several years to turn around the situation. The report to Congress by the United States Department of Defence said Pakistan increased troop levels in the areas by 30,000 last year, and made “significant and costly” efforts. It made no reference to the new Pakistani government’s negotiations with militants. afp


Mehsud vows jihad in Afghanistan


KOTKAI: Top Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud vowed on Saturday to continue fighting NATO and US-led forces in Afghanistan regardless of negotiations for a peace deal with the Pakistan government. Mehsud told a group of journalists that he wanted to stop fighting the Pakistan Army, but made no commitment about halting attacks in Afghanistan. “Islam does not recognise frontiers. Jihad in Afghanistan will continue,” Mehsud said. reuters


President and Chaudhrys mull counter-strategy


By Muhammad Bilal

ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday discussed a strategy to counter any move to impeach him with Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and PML-Q Punjab President Pervaiz Elahi.

Sources privy to the meeting, which was held at President’s Camp Office in Rawalpindi, said that the Chaudhrys assured the president that they would stand by him and ensure that no such move succeeds. “They [Chaudhrys] informed the president that the PPP can’t pass the constitutional package unilaterally ... it is not possible for the coalition government to pass any bill from the Upper House of parliament without taking the PML-Q into confidence,” sources said.

According to Online, the president also underscored the need for promotion of restraint and tolerance in politics, saying that all the political forces would have to unite to counter the challenges facing the country.

Earlier, talking to reporters at his residence, Shujaat warned PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari against pursuing a confrontation with the Presidency. He said the system based on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) could collapse if Zardari does not act wisely.

Commenting on recent statements attributed to Zardari, Shujaat said there had been tremendous pressure on President Musharraf against issuing the NRO. “It would be better to cease such talk,” he said in response to Zardari’s statement that there was great pressure on him to impeach the president.


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