MUZAFFARABAD, March 6: Azad Kashmir government (AJK) on Saturday accused the opposition of misusing the constitutional right to convene the Legislative Assembly session and ignoring constructive role for betterment of parliamentary system and progress of the region. The accusation came as the opposition submitted another requisition to convene the LA session only a day after it was prorogued sine die by the speaker amid a walkout by the opposition benches. Speaking at a press conference,…
Posts published in March 2010
By Maqbool Malik ISLAMABAD – Pakistani Security agencies have started investigations to find out whether the arrested Iranian terrorist Abdolmalek Rigi or his Jundallah outfit had connections with self-exiled Pakistani Baloch dissidents, who were allegedly involved in terrorism with aid of the Indian intelligence agencies. Well-placed security sources told TheNation on Friday that the probe had been launched after arrest of Rigi and his two other companions in a dramatic action, which was taken by…
Omer Farooq Khan in the Times Of India, Mar 6 PESHAWAR: All that the Pakistani Taliban wanted was money and that’s all they talked about, says Gurvinder Singh, one of the two Sikhs from Peshawar who were rescued after 40 days of captivity with the Pashtun-speaking terrorists. The Taliban beheaded the third abducted Sikh trader last month because their ransom demand wasn’t met. Gurvinder’s story blows the myth the Pakistani Taliban has built around itself…
MUZAFFARABAD, March 5: The combined opposition in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly staged a walk out on Friday in protest against the alleged partisan attitude of Speaker Shah Ghulam Qadir, who prorogued the session sine die in the absence of opposition citing its “indifference towards the agenda.” The session was requisitioned by the opposition to debate a host of issues, both political and administrative, and was convened by the speaker on February 25.…
by MUSHTAQ MUGHAL in the Nation, Mar 6 ISLAMABAD – President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani are heading towards yet another friction over choice of new president of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Chapter, sources told TheNation. According to sources, the two top leaders of the PPP are having difference over the replacement of the entire incumbent set up of the PPP AJK that has disappointed them…
ISLAMABAD: A petition seeking the declaration of the Gilgit-Baltistan (empowerment and self-governance) Order 2009 as ‘ultra vires’ of the constitution was filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday. The petition was filed by Shafqat Ali Khan – resident of Panyal tehsil in Ghizar district – under Article 184(3) of the constitution through Muhammad Ikram Chaudhry advocate, making the federal government the respondent in the case. The petition contended that the 2009 order was in total…
The kidnapping of three Sikhs and beheading of one of them in the troubled FATA has earned a bad name for the country, where the track record of treatment of minorities is already poor. According to ISPR, the military rescued two of the kidnapped Sikhs after an operation and has shifted them to safety, while some news reports suggest they escaped the Taliban captivity in the Chapri Feroz Khel area between the Orakzai and Khyber…
ISLAMABAD: Experts fear that the landslide-affected people of Atta Abad, Hunza may suffer losses due to a potential outburst of an artificial lake formed as a result of a massive landslide in Hunza River. These concerns were brought forward during a conference organised by Sungi Development Foundation and Gilgit-Baltistan Human Rights Advocacy Network (HRAN) at the National Press Club to understand and disseminate the correct picture of the natural disaster that hit and killed at…
By Zulfiqar Ali Khan HUNZA, Feb 28: Parts of a major bridge on the Hunza river on the Karakoram Highway have been submerged by an overflowing lake formed by a landslide on Jan 4. Sources told this correspondent on Sunday that the bridge, said to be the largest on the highway, had developed cracks and was closed, cutting off Gojal valley from the rest of the country. Experts are fearing that in the event of…