ISLAMABAD, March 17: The Supreme Court of Pakistan observed on Wednesday that it had the jurisdiction to proceed with a case relating to the appointment of the chief justice of the AJK Supreme Court.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday said it was not concerned about a restraining order issued by Azad Kashmir’s apex court to the chairman of the AJK Council.
The bench was hearing petitions by Justice Syed Manzoor Hussain Gillani of the AJK Supreme Court seeking directives for …

The Daily Times, Nov 2
NEW DELHI: When India’s central bank admitted discovering 400,000 fake notes in its currency reserves, many here woke up to the scale of the country’s counterfeit money problems.
Worse still, the embarrassing admission related to a survey from the last financial year to March 2009 and authorities say the problem has since got worse.
Police and the central bank have observed a tripling in the value of notes detected or seized in raids in recent years and authorities are convinced the source of the deluge is a …

MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 1: Three policemen were injured on Tuesday when shots were fired by three suspicious persons who later disappeared in the nearby forests bordering Bagh and Poonch districts, police and residents said.
The accused, sporting beards and wielding automatic weapons, hidden under shawls, were spotted by the residents of Kothiyan village in dubious condition and they immediately informed the Chitra Topi police post about their presence.
When a police party, comprising head constable Idrees and constables Zahid and Rashid, reached the village, the accused fired at the police resulting …

By Abbas Ali
GILGIT-BALTISTAN is a simmering cauldron of discontent. The continued deprivation of political, economic and human rights is driving the people of this strategic northern end of Pakistan to desperation. They have been fighting for their rights not just since 1947, when they won liberation from Dogra rule, but since Dogra occupation of 1848.
A brief review of history will be in order to understand the current hostile attitude of the people towards the current political set-up in Gilgit-Baltistan. The British left the Gilgit Agency on July 31, 1947, …

Washington—The United States is installing radiation detectors at Pakistani ports to check proliferation of nuclear material and weapons of mass destruction to and from the country, a top US official on nuclear security has said.
“We do work with Pakistan with the Department of Homeland Security, on Secure Freight Initiative, in putting radiation detectors in their ports. One port is done. Karachi is the second port. We’re negotiating that type of work”, said Thomas D’Agostino, the Under-Secretary for Nuclear Security.
Also Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, D’Agostino refrained from giving …

If you are worried about shrinking public space for smoking, move over to China. The Communist government in Gongan county in Central China has turned smoker friendly. Just to mop up more revenue. ‘Smoke or face fine’ is the decree to government employees.
More than 350 million people smoke in Gongan. One million of them die of smoking-related diseases every year.
The ‘puff more’ dictum has something to do with inter- county tax structures. Gongan cannot levy taxes on cigarettes from neighbouring Hunan province, which are preferred by the locals. Hunan cigarettes, …

There are no short cuts to victory over terrorism in Pakistan tribal belt with many terror outfits directly liked with ISI says, Robert Denwar, this week’s guest writer, while making out a strong case for linking any aid to Pakistan with an overhaul of the ISI and to deepening of democracy in that country. Patience, persistence and long term policy frame should be the new watch words for the West, argues the London based commentator

By Farooq Ganderbali
Defying all predictions and trampling the boycott call given by the separatist leaders, a large majority of Kashmir has voted for the success of democracy. This majority which has been suffering for no reason of their and they had been overshadowed by the vociferous voices of few. But when their turn came for making a change they defied all restrictions not only for themselves but for future generations also.
There has been unusually strong turnout in the first phase of elections for a new state government. Queues of hundreds …

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