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Five US nationals caught few months ago in Pakistan now charged by court
Posted by K. Shahzad in National on March 18th, 2010
Five individuals who born in US and their families belong to different countries traveled from US to Pakistan few months ago, they were suspected to be involved in planing the violence against local forces in problem areas of Pakistan where the militants are hiding. They were also suspected to be helping the banned extremist group in the country.
They were taken into custody in December and held into custody for long time involving the several extensions of their initial investigation period. Several individuals were busy investigating the matter and finding any proofs of weather they are innocent or not. Initial plan was to take them in custody for few days, free them up and send them back soon if they are found innocent but it didn’t happen mainly because they were found involved in some illegal activities.
Now a Pakistani have laid seven charges against them, which include the charge saying ‘these men were planning an attack in Pakistan or an allied country’ and ‘they were reaching out the Militants in problem areas of Pakistan and were going to help them financially’. Similar five more charges are laid against them.
However the men in custody fully deny all of the charges laid against them and told that they were here for some charity work in areas which are fully destroyed because of the on going clash between Pakistan security forces and the hiding militants.
Court was adjourned till 1st of March, afterwords the evidences against these suspects will be presented in the court. If the court finds them guilty, they can have the punishment ranging to the life imprisonment at maximum. In other case deporting them to United States may be taken into consideration.
US drone aircraft attacks North Waziristan killing ten people
Posted by K. Shahzad in National on March 16th, 2010
US drone aircraft attacked North Waziristan to target militants on Tuesday. Ten people reportedly killed in the attack. The studies conducted on the US drone attacks on Pakistani areas show that these kind of attacks have not been successful to pin point the militants and one in each three killed people is an innocent civilian. Same is the reason for growing anti American sentiments in the country.
Pakistani people and Government already demanded that if US really want to make a contribution towards the restoring peace in the country by taking out militants, they must transfer the drone technology instead of taking control of things themselves on Pakistani soil and let the local forces plan and perform the controlled operations making sure that no civilians are hurt during the process.
Pakistani forces already used Jet Aircrafts to target the hiding culprits in those areas but no civilian causalities are reported in that case. Obama will have to take a decision here and will have to stop invading the country, even if he is doing this to help, there much other thing which can be done in this regard but invading the country’s airspace without the willingness of locals is not very much helpful. Also Pakistan Air force and forces are fully capable of taking any of these down easily but we Pakistanis are looking to keep the things on dialog.
On other side if US recognizes us as the front line state in war against terror or their partner in this war, they will have to respect the feelings of Pakistani Public and will have to act accordingly so that they don’t lose in our support in what they are doing in our region.
Presidency and Supreme court differences continue, Latest on appointment of senior Judges
Posted by K. Shahzad in National on February 14th, 2010
President house, Islamabad
There are few vacant positions to be filled in few superior courts of Pakistan. Different choice are being thought to put in the vacant positions. Lately President Zardari came in with his choices of judges to put in the vacant positions and these choices included Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif for supreme court from his current designation of chief justice Lahore High court, also the appointment of Justice Mian Saqib Nisar as acting chief justice for Lahore high court.
But these last orders from Zardari didn’t lasted more than few hours and the Chief Justice Iftikhar constituted a three people bench. Soon followed the decision from this bench tell the orders by presidency as unconstitutional and the decision suspended the orders.
Despite the fact that its the elected government but the things are not changed much, in this so called democratic age the government still seems to be dictating things to entities like Judiciary which must independent without any doubt.
Why these differences are continuing to grow, answer is that every one is not doing their own business and trying to involve the jobs of each other for just personal gains. Things will just be much better the other way.
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Chief Justice of Pakistan urges other institutions to recognize their role in providing justice
Posted by K. Shahzad in National on February 10th, 2010
He said that its the wrong assumption that only the courts are responsible for providing the justice to people. Chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chudhary said on Tuesday that three institutions which are legislature, executive and judiciary can only provide justice if they are working together towards same goal. He added the good governance only comes into existence when the above mentioned three institutions are dedicated to provide justice to the people and collaborating with each other perfectly.
He was quite right in what he said, the decisions only from the judiciary does not matter unless they are not properly followed by the other institutions. Also providing justice is not the responsibility of judiciary, the role of other institutions is evident.
Unfortunately in our country it is not the case, if we see what was happening over last few months, the situation was that several decisions from judiciary were coming but the government seem against it, specially the decision related to petroleum product prices which resulted in clash between the government and the judiciary.
Also the most recent corruption charges by the supreme court, people were concerned about either the NAB will do its part up to the required level and will act upon unbiasedly towards their role specially because of many suspects sitting in the countries governance.
Also another concern is that either the decisions from the courts are also truly unbiased or not. The point is every institution have to work together without being biased to any person or entity while providing the justice to the people of Pakistan.
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Petroleum product sales on halt, prices hit the top
Posted by K. Shahzad in National on February 6th, 2010
Prices hit the top, may not be technically correct because you can expect more from current administration but one thing for sure, this is gonna be hurting the economy much more. Also unlike the last the last government which was giving subsidy this one is earning lots of bucks per gallon. If one is sure that the money is going into the national reserves and being used correctly this sounds much fair. But there is no info ever released where this all money going. Is it being used for the betterment of people of Pakistan.
The news here is that the petroleum prices increased, petrol price increased Rs. 6.10 per litter similarly prices of other products also increased similarly. Diesel which used to be half of petrol or even less reached on equal levels. Also the CNG load management plan is in effect which also makes the things worse.
The petroleum product sales hit the halt across the country when the petrol pumps stop selling in protest to the increased price. CNG already closed in some cities, people facing the real difficulties.
When the prices of fuel increase, the prices of each and every thing increases because of the increase in transportation costs, this price hike was totally unnecessary considering the fact that the government still getting profit on current price. The reasons told are the degradation in rupee value, again who is responsible for that? Certainly the current administration.
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