Posts published in April 2012

MUZAFFARABAD, April 23: Leader of the opposition in AJK Legislative Assembly and PML-N AJK chapter president Raja Farooq Haider on Monday announced to file a disqualification reference against Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed for his alleged remarks against the superior judiciary of Pakistan. “Mr Majeed has used highly objectionable language against the honourable judges of the apex court which is unbecoming of a person holding the office of prime minister. “In doing so he has…

By Fazal Khaliq In The Express Tribune, April 21 BISHAM: As their strike entered the sixth day on Friday, transporters demanded assurances of protection from the government to resume supply of goods to Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B). Apart from bloodshed and large-scale destruction of personal and public property, several trucks and oil tankers were looted and their drivers brutally beaten following the sectarian violence in G-B earlier this month. In reaction, the Trucks and Oil Tankers Owners’…

By Shabbir Mir In The Express Tribune, April 21 GILGIT: Famous mountaineer Hassan Sadpara has resigned from his honorary post in the police department to protest against an explanation letter issued to him for speaking to the media about his manhandling by security officials. Addressing a press conference called on Thursday evening in Skardu, Sadpara claimed to have been manhandled at Skardu airport when he tried to meet President Asif Ali Zardari during his visit…

LONDON (AFP): Britain’s Labour Party on Sunday suspended peer Nazir Ahmed over reports that he offered a #10 million ($15.9 million, 12.1 million euros) bounty for the capture of US President Barack Obama. “We have suspended Lord Ahmed pending investigation,” a Labour spokeswoman said. “If these comments are accurate we utterly condemn these remarks which are totally unacceptable. “The international community is rightly doing all in its power to seek justice for the victims of…

ISLAMABAD – Majlis Wahdat-ul-Muslimeen (MWM) ended the eight-day long sit-in in Islamabad after talks with Interior Minister Rehman Malik late Friday night. The interior minister assured the MWM leaders that a judicial commission would be constituted to investigate the sectarian killings in Chilas and Gilgit. Dialogue between Rehman Malik and the religious leaders of the MWM lasted for four hours, during which the minister agreed to meet all demands and promised a strict action against…

ISLAMABAD: Even eleven days after the worst ever violence hit the once peaceful Gilgit-Baltistan following the massacre of at least 23 men and women at Chilas on April 3, there is no one in the regional government to come up with accurate figures of how many are still missing and what exactly the death toll is. The Governor Pir Karam Ali Shah and Chief Minister Mehdi Shah have stayed away from their people as well…

GILGIT, April 14: Police claimed on Saturday to have traced the man who had thrown a hand-grenade on protesting activists of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamat at Etehad Chowk on April 3. “We have traced the culprit who threw a hand-grenade on the protesters and conducted raids to arrest him, but he has changed his hideout,” SP Gilgit Wasil Khan told Dawn, adding that the man was also wanted in some other cases. He declined…

ISLAMABAD – Majlis Wahdat-ul-Muslimeen (MWM) ended the eight-day long sit-in in Islamabad after talks with Interior Minister Rehman Malik late Friday night. The interior minister assured the MWM leaders that a judicial commission would be constituted to investigate the sectarian killings in Chilas and Gilgit. Dialogue between Rehman Malik and the religious leaders of the MWM lasted for four hours, during which the minister agreed to meet all demands and promised a strict action against…

GILGIT, April 14: Police claimed on Saturday to have traced the man who had thrown a hand-grenade on protesting activists of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamat at Etehad Chowk on April 3. “We have traced the culprit who threw a hand-grenade on the protesters and conducted raids to arrest him, but he has changed his hideout,” SP Gilgit Wasil Khan told Dawn, adding that the man was also wanted in some other cases. He declined…

ISLAMABAD: Even eleven days after the worst ever violence hit the once peaceful Gilgit-Baltistan following the massacre of at least 23 men and women at Chilas on April 3, there is no one in the regional government to come up with accurate figures of how many are still missing and what exactly the death toll is. The Governor Pir Karam Ali Shah and Chief Minister Mehdi Shah have stayed away from their people as well…