Somebody â the shooter? someone who knows him? â left a message for the coppers at the Ponderosa Steak House in last night's shooting. Chief Moose says to call him... No further info...
Victim's still in critical condition. His spleen and parts of his pancreas and stomach had to be removed. The bullet seems to still be in there.
He and his wife were just passing through, stopped for gas and chow...
In case you haven't heard by now, the shell casing found in the truck a couple days ago was a bust — 7.62mm, not a .223.
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Source: Daily Islam, Translated by Jihad Unspun
In the central city of Logar Province, Pul Ilm, nine shops were destroyed in a bomb explosion. According to details, early yesterday morning at about 4:30 am, an explosion occurred in Pul Ilmâs video market which resulted in nine shops completely destroyed as well all the merchandise in the shops including TVs, VCRs and video cassettes. No casualties have yet been reported. Shopkeepers were warned some days ago in pamphlets that were distributed, calling on these shops to stop doing this sinful business or be ready to be punished. The Islamic concept of "sin" doesn't include destroying people's livelihoods or persons. It only applies to those things that might make a person smile...
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Source: The New International
Renegade Afghan warlord Padsha Khan on Friday vowed to continue his struggle against government forces despite a series of crushing defeats which have routed him from his prized eastern city of Khost. Of course he has to fight on. What do you expect him to do, get a job?
In his latest setback Khan was driven from the district of Nadir Shah, some 22 kilometres west of Khost, by troops under the command of provincial governor Hakeem Tanewal. The retreat comes a month after Khan's men were forced from Khost city where they had seized government buildings — the warlord's boldest statement since tribal leaders prevented him from taking power earlier this year. And enough of a slap in the face for the gummint to send troops to throw him out...
Khan, leader of the Pashtun Zadran tribe, told AFP he would return to reclaim his rightful position, claiming he still had popular support among the people of Khost who were victims of ethnic bias in the central government. That means they can't always have their way... Actually, it means he can't always have his way...
He said the dominant ethnic Tajik faction of the current Afghan transitional leadership under President Hamid Karzai was seeking to weaken Pashtun influence in the country by targeting them with military campaigns. They do that every time the Pashtuns attack anyone, even other Pashtuns. Da noive o' dem guyz!
The government of Karzai, himself a Pashtun, is struggling to exert power over much of Afghanistan where territorial disputes between heavily armed warlords continue to blight reconstruction in the war-shattered country. "This is a fight imposed on us by the central government and Karzai. We don't want to fight and it is the government of Karzai which wants to continue fighting in Afghanistan, especially in Pashtun-dominated areas." "Let us have our way and nobody gets hurt, hardly..."
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Where do these bozos get the money for the truck, the gas, the bullets, the sandals, the rags, etc.? Is Khost in the poppy region?
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Sure is... But I'd guess the money's coming from JUI and JI, across the border, ultimately originating in a combination of Saudi "charitable contributions" and Pak tax rupees. I don't think they've had time to make big money off the opium yet, and they're probably still fighting over who gets it.
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Officials said U.S. intelligence has determined that Al Qaida is supported by 12 financiers, most of them Saudis. We guessed that... And the number's about right. If there were more, there'd be more opportunity for dissension and leaks. As it is, this looks like it might be the finance office of the Learned Elders of Islam...
They said the Bush administration is sharing the findings with Washington's allies in NATO and the European Union. On Sunday, Treasury Undersecretary Jimmy Gurule begins a six-day visit to European countries to coordinate efforts to freeze assets of those deemed as terrorist financiers. The countries include Denmark, which holds the EU presidency, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg, Sweden and Switzerland, Middle East Newsline reported. "It is our first big break in understanding Al Qaida's financial network," an official said. "At first, the network was so big that we didn't think could find major channels of support. Now, we believe we have." That's not to say they've found every channel. There will be a larger number of smaller financiers, who think they're bigger fish than they are...
The officials said the new information has fueled a renewed effort to freeze the assets of those suspected of helping Al Qaida and satellite groups. They said the information could result in the blocking of finances of industrialists of leading Gulf Arab businessmen in Asia and Europe. So far, the United States and its allies have frozen $112 million, regarded as an insignificant portion of Al Qaida's network. Gurule did not identify the new targets and denied that he was carrying a "Saudi list." He said he will discuss "high-impact, high-value Al Qaida targets" with European allies. Many of those targets will be treasured depositors...
U.S. officials have acknowledged that Washington has not obtained sufficient support from EU states against terrorist financiers. They cited the EU's refusal to deem such groups as Hizbullah or the political wing of Hamas as terrorist organizations. Officials said the EU has also been slow in acting against targets deemed as terrorists. "We want to engage in a very specific level of information on these targets where we want the European Union to take action," Gurule said. "It goes beyond general statements and requests to specific people and entities we want authorities to act against." It'll be tough getting them to move, unless they see a threat to themselves. They don't give a fÀrt about the U.S. getting hit now and then...
But officials said most of the dozen financiers are Saudi bankers and businessmen who provide direct support to Al Qaida. The administration does not plan to confront Saudi Arabia with the new information. But officials said the United States plans to first form a coalition that will ensure that Europe will be off-limits to Saudi financing. It wouldn't make much sense to confront the Soddies with it, since these are probably also the guys who run Soddy Arabia...
On Friday, the Washington Post said Al Qaida has relied on human couriers to fly cash from Saudi Arabia to agents around the world. The newspaper said U.S. intelligence followed the couriers and helped identify the money trail. "In the next few weeks, you will hear cries of pain, mostly from Saudi Arabia," the senior official was quoted by the Post as saying. "If the Saudis don't take action against these people, we will at least make sure they cannot travel outside their home country and cannot do business as usual around the world." That'll take some doing, but if we can do it we can win the war a lot more quickly.
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It would be nice if some of these couriers would simply disappear, Gideon style, during their trips abroad, along with the untraceable megabucks they are carrying. If the Bush gang lacks the cojones to do this directly, as seems likely, they could always leak the necessary information to Mossad, or to Russian or Indian intelligence. We could credit the take to our financial aid commitments.
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Whaddaya want to bet that they give half to Al Queda and the other half is split evenly between the Nobel prize committee, The Guardian, The Independent and MoDo? Someone has to be keeping her - it can't be her logic and compositionn skills.
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President Mohammad Khatami told his hard-line opponents Sunday that unelected institutions, not an elected president, threaten to bring dictatorship to the country. We thought it was already there, but tell on, sirrah...
Khatami was responding to hard-liners who say his proposed presidential powers bill would promote dictatorship and undermine the supreme leader's power. Iran's appointed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say on all state matters. It would promote dictatorship by undermining the power of the divine-right dictator... Got it. That makes sense. Not much sense, but sense...
``A president who is elected by the direct vote of the people and according to the constitution has to respond to the nation, the parliament and the supreme leader, and can't bring dictatorship,'' he said in a speech to parliament broadcast live on state-run Tehran radio. ... trying to speak patiently and to use little words... Khatami's bill, submitted Sept. 24, stipulates that if the president deems a decision from an institution such as the judiciary to be a violation of the constitution, he can issue a warning to the head of that institution. If the official ignores the warning, he or she could be suspended from the civil service for up to one year. The bill is expected to be easily endorsed by the 290-seat parliament, or majlis, but would have to be ratified by the conservative Guardian Council to become a law. No date has been set for the vote in the majlis, but it's widely expected to take place soon. The Guardian Council can be expected to sit on the bill until two weeks after Hell freezes over...
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I hope they don't sit on it. I hope they reject it. I'd like to be able to take a vacation to visit a free Iran.
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Britain will begin calling upon reservists for possible military action against Iraq within ten days, according to a report in a British newspaper. Around 1,000 reserve troops will receive their call-up papers by the end of the month, the Sunday Telegraph said. âWeâve got to move on this by the end of the month to keep to the timetable,â the weekly broadsheet quoted a senior defense ministry official as saying. A timetable. I like that idea...
Civilian employers of reservistsâ need some two months notice to arrange cover, the paper said, adding that most of the part-time soldiers were likely to be specialist staff needed to supplement the armyâs under-strength medical service. The army is said to be particularly short of surgeons and anesthetists. Here's hoping all the injuries they get to treat are bumps, scrapes, and colds...
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Gee, we are getting close. And I haven't heard a peep out of Nancy Snyderman this time about how on earth the MASH units would be able to handle the thousand and thousands of maimed and brualised US forces...Remember her back in '91?
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In anticipation of a US strike on Iraq President Saddam Hussein has begun removing gold bars and valuable works of art from Baghdad to the remote northwestern town of Abu Kamul near the border with Syria. Several trucks laden with gold bars and artworks from museums in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul travelled under heavy guard to Abu Kamul, where they were met by Syrian and Jordanian businessmen, the Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag cited Iraqi opposition and Western intelligence sources as saying. European diplomats in Damascus confirmed "the traffic of heavy trucks between Syria and Iraq has increased sharply in the past few weeks â in both directions," the newspaper added. Looks like Sammy's expecting to jump to Syria when the going gets really tough...
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Good, then we can take the fight to Syria...hopefully he will move to the Bekaa next and then Tehran, then.........
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Sounds like a good excuse to me... We do need an excuse, don't we?
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Sounds to me like the plot for "Three Kings II - Return to Baghdad".
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday discussed with Iranian Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi the "consequences" of a US military strike on Iraq, the official SANA news agency reported. During the meeting Assad and Yunesi underscored the "importance of Syrian-Iranian coordination to face up to the consequences of an American strike on Iraq," the agency said. Since the consequences will probably lead to the fall of both regimes...
Yunesi arrived Friday in Damascus and is due to meet with other Syrian officials. Syria and Iran are firmly opposed to a US-led attack on their neighbour, notably because of possible refugee problems or uprisings by their sizeable Kurdish minorities. Iraq's Kurds say they want a federal set-up in any post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, and deny they are seeking independence, but their neighbours are still nervous. Even with a federal state, the Kurds will still be living in something approximating a liberal democracy. The Syrians and the Medes and the Persians are afraid it might be catching. If they're not, they should be...
Syrian Foreign Minister Faruq al-Shara reiterated his country's position in talks earlier Saturday with visiting Arab League chief Amr Mussa, saying an attack on Iraq was unacceptable after Baghdad agreed last month to an unconditional return of UN arms inspectors. It is necessary to "strengthen the role of the United Nations so that it becomes the framework and reference for solving international conflicts," Shara said, according to SANA. That way they can be talked about for year after year, with nothing ever being done. Ever.
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"Since the consequences will probably lead to the fall of both regimes..."
One can only hope.
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They are bound to fall. The question is when and at how great a cost. And the cost will be higher and higher the longer the UN insists on 'strenghtening its role'.
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Hahahahahaha. Is this real or an episode of Dharma and Greg? Shivaspeed? I haven't laughed this hard since, well, the last time I laughed this hard. Yes, by all means, let's not think of the world in terms of black and white. Let's instead think of it as a karmic orgasm.
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Stupid Idiot. Shiva is the Hindu God of destruction, death, and war.
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Being a female, I'll send that writer a very hearty Kali-speed in return. May she give him everything he so richly deserves.
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Yikes! This verbose, pompous, authoritarian moonbat is an even bigger freak than I thought, so far up the tree that other idiotarians and batshit appeasers should be mortified to share their cause with him.
If I were Noam Chomsky, I would e-mail him, try to persuade him that Bush is God and Baghdad should be flattened. Mark would probably buy it and switch sides, coming as it would from an Ultimate Authority, and if Gnome threw in enough florid cosmic bullshit. Good thing Chimpsky is too busy kissing Fisk's ass.
A bomb has exploded in a vegetable market in Pakistan, injuring at least five people, including a child. The market in the town of Kamra near Attock city, about 70 kilometres west of the capital, Islamabad, was busy with Sunday shoppers. Nine people were injured last week in a series of parcel bomb attacks in the southern city of Karachi. Correspondents say Islamic militants were suspected of carrying out that attack, angered at the Pakistani authorities' support for the US-led war on terrorism. What they're angered about isn't what's important. What's important is the fact that they're angry at something. You can't blow things up if you're not angered about something. This only applies to Islamists, by the way; I'm angered at Catholic priests buggering young boys, but I've yet to blow up a church. I haven't seen anyone else do it, either, outside of Islamists.
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India's right-wing Hindu leader, Bal Thackeray, who is being investigated over calls for Hindus to form suicide squads, has insisted his remarks were not aimed against Muslims, only against terrorists. The difference is subtle, but it's there... You just have to look closely sometimes.
Police in the western Indian city of Bombay are investigating claims of inciting hatred against Mr Thackeray, who heads the far-right Hindu political party, the Shiv Sena. Shiv Sena is the Hindoos' answer to the Muslim fundos. Their philosophy is to be just as evil and uncivilized as their enemy...
Speaking to journalists, Mr Thackeray said he did not regret his speech on Tuesday calling on Hindus to be ready to give their lives. He also wrote an article in his party's paper, saying Hindus had no option but to confront Islamic militants and, as he put it, make the supreme sacrifice. Sounds good to me. That eliminates both of them — kinda the "we only kill each other" school of religious intolerance...
He said he would not seek bail if arrested. Not unless he's stuck in jug with a 6'3" mujaheddin named Mahmoud who thinks he has a nice butt...
When asked whether retaliatory violence was his only answer to attacks by terrorists, Mr Thackeray said he could not think of any other solution. "Duh... Nope. Can't think o' nuttin'..."
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Shiv. Short for Shiva.
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The Election Commission hearing rigging complaints was informed on Saturday that at a polling station in Jacoabad, from where a joint candidate of Sindh Democratic Alliance and National Alliance Saleem Jan Mazari was contesting the turnout, remained as high as 313 per cent. The total number of registered votes in the polling station, according to official gazette, was 273, whereas the results announced by the Election Commission showed that 855 votes were polled there. Don't forget to vote early and often!
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Somewhere in a bunker, Sammy's hitting his election advisor... "And you said I couldn't get over 100%!"
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Dubai a haven for Pak renegade babus.
July 09, 2004 01:55 Hrs (IST)
Islamabad: Dubai has become a haven for scores of Pakistani politicians and bureaucrats, who are on the run to avoid prosecution in various corruption and criminal cases in their home state.
The politicians are not only carrying out their political activities from Dubai but are also raking in millions through business empires established in collaboration with Arab partners, a Newsline Magazine report said.
Some of the prominent politicians who have made the Gulf their home in recent years are : Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Nusrat Bhutto, Fazal Pechuho and Mir Munawar Talpur, brothers-in-Law of Asif Zardari, Liaquat Jatoi, former Chief Minister of Sindh, Jam Mashooq, son of Muslim League Leader Jam Sadiq Ali and Saleem Shahzad and Aminul Haq of the Mutihada Quami Movement(MQM). Several Pakistan Muslim League (PML) leader like Abu Baker Shaikani have also set up factories in the UAE, The Magazine reported.
Benazir Bhutto lives in Dubai along with her mother. Dozens of Party workers visit her every week from Pakistan to discuss Party affairs. The Former Prime Minister has been charged in several corruption case and her husband is in jail for the past few years in this connection.
Mir Talpur and Fazal Pechuho were whisked away to Dubai in a boat and both of them are running businesses there. In fact reports state that Asif Zaradari had asked them to take care of his family and assets in Dubai.
Several other Pakistan Peoples Party(PPP) Leaders, who have moved their assets from Pakistan to set up corporate ventures in the United Arab Emirates are Haji Muzzafar Shurja, and Sarfarza Gebol, whose business includes a luxury hotel in Muscat.
Liaqat Jatoi has also found refuge in Dubai. He made his way to Dubai Via Iran and is running a hotel business there.
Jam Mashooq Ali,who is wanted in several corruption cases in Pakistan, has also settled in Dubai. His powerful connections in the Gulf came to his rescue which enabled him to flee Pakistan in a special plane owned by an Arab Sheikh.
The MQM leaders are engaged in spare parts business in Dubai. They have also been awarded catering contracts.
Jailed prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's family has a well established business in the Gulf.
Saifur rehman, who heads a leading construction company in Qatar, is a business partner of the Sharifs.
Other politicians settled in Dubai include former Sindh Minister Salim Jan Mazari who was wanted in Japanese students kidnapping for ransom case during PPP government and Raja Sain,eldest son of Pir of Pagaro and the Jatois.
Other than politicians, there are numerous bureaucrats living lavishly in the UAE, including A. R. Bughio, Nayyer Bari and Hussain Lawal.
The magazine quoting officials said these politicians and bureaucrats have moved 90 per cent of their assets to the Gulf.
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PPP for disqualification of Laleka for fake graduation degree .
Wednesday September 10, 2003 (1450 PST)
ISLAMABAD, September 11 (Online): Pakistan People's Party has appealed to the chief justice of the Supreme Court to take action against the legislators who contested general elections on the basis of fake degrees.
"The Chief Justice of Pakistan should order for early disposal of the cases through which the fake degrees have been challenged", said Mir Imran Bajarani, member of PPP central working committee while addressing a press conference here Wednesday.
On the PPP campaign against the fake degree holders, seated in the parliament, he said that under the directives of party chairperson, Benazir Bhutto he was engaged in collecting the details about the lawmakers who won the election under government patronage on the basis of fake degrees.
He regretted that fake degrees of those legislators were accepted who showed readiness to support government. Abdul Sattar Lalika and Salim Jan Mazari are among heavy weights of the ruling party who are sitting in the parliament with fake degrees, he pointed out.
He informed that his rival, Salim Jan Mazari, filed his nomination papers with fake degree. How ironical it is that Mazari mentioned his educational qualification as intermediate when he filed his nomination papers in 1997 and the degree he submitted alongwith his nomination papers in general elections 2002 is shown to have been issued in 1997, he indicated.
Giving details of his campaign on tracing the cases of fake degrees, he said that " I proceed to London to probe into fake degree awarding process. An office is set up in a room of a building at London where fake degrees are issue. Degree is given within a week at the cost of 3 to 10 thousands pounds, he hinted.
Besides Salim Jan Mazari, MPA from Badin, Ali Bakhsh Shah comes second in the line of the provincial assembly members who obtained fake degrees from London, he disclosed. Election Commission should declare all the parliamentarians holding fake degrees, he demanded.
Israeli troops arrested at least eight suspected militants in the West Bank yesterday, continuing a crackdown on the Palestinian uprising despite calls for calm from Washington. Four soldiers were injured in the pre-dawn swoop that centred on the city of Nablus when they blew up the door to a wanted man's house. "Ow!... A little less plastique in the next one, Moshe!"
The Palestinians detained belonged to President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction and Hamas. Who else is there anymore?
The sweeps came as Israel eased its hold on several West Bank cities, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon returned from Washington talks and U.S. envoy William Burns set off to the Middle East with a peace plan in his pocket. I think this is his first trip that hasn't been punctuated by a wave of bombings back home...
"The U.S. is absolutely committed to doing everything that we can on the Palestinian issue and on the broader Arab-Israeli issue," Burns said in Cairo. "At the moment, this involves letting the Israelis clear out the rats' nests while we make pious noises."
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (1929-2002?) was dismissive of his glaring absence from the itinerary of touring US envoy Williams Burns, but acknowledged he had not yet seen a US-backed roadmap for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Asked to comment on the fact that Burns, making a regional tour to discuss the latest blueprint for resolving the conflict, would not meet him, Arafat said: "I don't need to meet anyone. I am president Yasser Arafat." "I'm in charge. I'm not an ineffectual old fool. Really I'm not..."
He said so far he and his ministers had not seen the plan, a new initiative led by a diplomatic quartet grouping the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations, which aims at securing an independent Palestinian state by 2005 living side by side with Israel. "We have read about it in the media," said Arafat, whose replacement both Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and US President George W. Bush have called for, dubbing the veteran guerrilla leader turned Palestinian Authority chairman an obstacle to peace. That's like dubbing a bullet in the forehead a headache...
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Islamic groups in Indonesia have decided to play a larger political role in the country in order to limit accusations against Islam in Indonesia, sources close to the Indonesian Mujahideen Council (MMI) told IslamOnline. I haven't seen that one before. Sounds like an analog to the MMA in Pakland...
The source, known as âthe Sheikhâ, said the Islamic groups will follow the steps of the Laskar Jihad or the Jihad Force (JF) that disbanded itself on Wednesday last week, with several members joining its leader in forming a garrison an Islamic school in Java. Meaning they're going to get out of the overt terror business for awhile and into the subversion business...
The Sheikh, a scientist close to detained Islamic leader Abu Bakar Basyir - who is the chairman of the MMI - told IslamOnline that three top politicians in the country has activated a mechanism that would bring the Muslim groups to abandon what he called âextreme acts, such as flag burning or the burning of American or Jewish targets in this country.â That would include Mr Vice President and Mr Speaker, and Mr Vice Speaker, I'd guess...
He added that it was high time Islam played a greater political role and urged the Muslim parties and groups to ally into one coalition of Islamic parties and movements in order to face the 2004 general and presidential elections. Like they did in Pakland...
The Sheikh said Basyir knew he would be arrested after the Bali blasts, adding that the aging leader warned other Islamic groups that âthe Indonesian government was under intense pressure to arrest popular and outspoken Islamic radicals and so called extremists in order to please the rest of the world that Indonesia is doing the right thing in the war against terror... Basyir now risks being sent to the US... for questioning and jailing since the directive to arrest him illico presto came from Washington and was given to the investigators who went to visit Omar Al-Faruq, the CIA agent captured and sent back to the US in June this year,â the Sheikh added. The "CIA agent" story already seems to be the party line. I wonder if anybody's buying it in Indonesia?
âRemember, the U.S. has linked Basyir to the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and has also said he was high on the list of suspected terrorists, right on top of the name of Osama Bin Laden,â the Sheikh said. Normally, they do things like that when they have evidence. Otherwise we tend not to hear about preachers in garrisons religious schools on the other side of the world until it's too late...
He dismissed the claims by the Indonesian government that there will be a backlash by local extremist groups after the arrest of Basyir. Does that mean they've written him off? Or is he really "sick," maybe from the effects of The Black Pill. If so, wonder if it was volunatarily administered? Of course, if he kicks it, our side can claim that God struck him dead for his sins. That should play well among the rubes...
Immediately after the bombing the Islamic Defender Front (FPI) saw its leader Habib Rizieq Shihab detained at police headquarters. The governmentâs latest move is the arrest of Abu Bakar Basyir. Other leaders close to Basyir, the JF and the FPI are also the target of arrest under the grounds that they cooperated with their leaders to create chaos and treason in Indonesia. That does represent a turnaround...
Informed sources say there is a rift in the regime of Megawati Sukarnoputri and that both the speaker of the National Assembly (MPR) and the Vice President Hamza Haz who are considered strong Islamic elements in the government, could be targets too. That would be the place to start, wouldn't it?
The Sheikh who lives outside Indonesia currently, said he was just a close friend of Basyir during school days and never joined any organizations in his life. âI lead a simple life, and I do not condone bombings, however I do not believe Basyir was involved in any of the extremists activities in this country,â he said. "Nope. Nope. I'm just a simple cleric. He's just a simple cleric, too. We're both simple..."
Basyir want to prove to the Indonesian government that he has nothing to do with violence in Indonesia and that such violence will continue while he is being detained because the authorities are targeting the wrong group in the fight against terrorism. Or because his gunnies demand he be sprung...
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The MMI is an umbrella organisations for all the Jihadi groups that what Shariah law introduced in Indonesia.
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nternational University of America,London
"Beware"
I was shocked to learn that anyone can purchase a degree, Bachelorâs or Masterâs from online dubious universities without having to complete the course of study for as much as 3000 pound sterlings.
Some of our unscruplous politicians grabbed this golden opportunity and bought their way into the august house such as National Assembly of Pakistan.
Corruption is always linked to third world countries like Pakistan. however, In this "SCAM" of selling fake degrees, entities belonging to countries like USA, Canada, UK & Great Britain are involved.
International University of America is one of such dubious online university conferring degrees to individuals without verifying their previous record of education. IUA has issued Bachelors degrees to people who have not even finished high school.
IUA claims that they are operating in Australia, Great Britain, Canada and USA, it is further claimed by this university that degrees awarded by them are recognised/accredited by the departments of education in all of the above mentioned countries, which is totally misleading and incorrect.
Some of the Parliamentarians have alreday been disqualified for producing dubious/fake degrees acquired from such universities and cases of others are being proceeded in the Election Tribunals constituted by the Election Commission of Pakistan.
IUA does not exist in the United States of America, Canada and Australia. It was operating from a flat in London but since the official inquiry has begun, IUA has shut down their operation and moved from their previous address. IUA has also closed their web site to avoid legal repercussions.
The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan too does not recognise this university or qualifications awarded by them.
This article is purely in public interest so that innocent education seekers are not robbed and fraudsters brought to the book.
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Saleem Jan Mazariâs degree challenged
By our correspondent
SUKKUR: A Pakistan Peopleâs Party-Parliamentarian (PPPP) leader on Friday challenged the graduation degree of Saleem Jan Mazari, an MNA from Kashmore in Jacobabad district.
Imran Khan Bijarani, a member of the PPPPâs central committee, said that he had sent a memorandum to the Election Commission of Pakistan, in this regard. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, he said that along with the memorandum, he had also sent a letter from the concerned authorities in the USA, UK, and Australia that there was no university named the International University was registered in the education sector in the USA, UK or Australia; therefore it could not issue any degree.
He said that it was also verified from all the cities and the education department of Pakistan that such a university had been never registered with the education department. He said that after such verification, Saleem Jan Mazari, who claimed himself a graduate of that university, had no right to sit in the national assembly. Bijarani demanded of the Election Commission of Pakistan to cancel the membership of Mazari and conduct by-election for the seat.
Living in fear
By Imdad Soomro
24 Apr 2003
The Hindu communities in Sindh are victims of the terrible law and order situation which remains under the control oflocal influentials, writes Imdad Soomro.
Khahi, a city near Shikarpur, once a business hub of the Hindu community in Sindh, is now deserted. "The city was known for its flourishing business of cotton and cloth materials, when the local businessmen used to trade with the neighbouring cities of Jacobabad and Sukkur," reminisced an 80-year-old resident of the area. Along with this one time peaceful city there are many others nearby, inhabited by the Hindu community, which have lately been targeted by dacoits, patharidars and robbers, forcing most to leave their ancestral homes and property for safer areas.
For the residents of upper Sindh, especially Hindus, these are terrible times. In the hub cities of this community - Jacobabad, Thul, Kashmore and Shikarpur - you will find a majority of the community all set to leave their native cities. "Most of us want to shift to bigger cities now," says Bacha Ram Sewhani, a naib president of the Hindu panchayat Jacobabad. He was robbed a week ago in the middle of the city. Having lived for centuries in Sindh, the Hindu community now feels victimized. "Only in the last four months, some 25 people of our community have been kidnapped in the Thul, Kashmore and Kandhkot talukas of Jacobabad district," says Ramesh Laal, a rice mill owner.
For safety, the Hindu business community living in these areas relies on, and is at the mercy, of the sardars. It was disclosed that the Hindu businessmen pay dunn (a sort of ransom) to the influential sardars of the area. "We have no other way of protecting ourselves except to pay dunn to the sardars of several tribes," confessed Laal.
In Thul, almost 80 per cent of the business conducted by Hindus is carried out in collaboration with the sardars. Many sardars also receive financial assistance from Hindu seths during elections, this serves as a reciprocity that also ensures their security.
Last year, a Hindu seth Ashok Kumar of Rohri was kidnapped by a dozen dacoits and released only after a deal was struck with an influential of the area. "We possess no weapons, and have no strong baradari (tribe). How can we be protected without the cooperation of local sardars?" questioned a young Hindu seth who wishes to remain anonymous.
Though the law and order situation has affected everyone living in the area, it is particularly bad for the Hindu community because it has left their homes and businesses vulnerable. "They are both socially and financially insecure," says Eshaware Laal, president of the Hindu panchayat in Sukkur. But he sees hope and feels optimistic about the joint electorate system. "We will have elected representatives who will surely address the grave dangers we are facing," he adds.
The first shocking incident of kidnapping occurred in the year 2000 near Kashmore, in which 12 women including two from the Hindu community, were kidnapped by the gang of the notorious dacoit Kamal Fakeer Shaikh. As a matter of respect to women, it is widely believed that even dacoits in Sindh bow their heads before the women and never allow gang-members to insult them. Paro Chandio, a renowned dacoit during General Zia's time, was well known for his treatment of women. He held them in the samerespect as that of a mother or sister. He also helped finance several poor families with their daughters' marriages.
In the Kashmore kidnapping incident all the Muslim women were released but the two young Hindu women of Thul were kept in the panahgah (hiding place). The Sukkur divisional administration during the time, reportedly intervened and 'pressurized' the then PML MPA Sandra Saleem Jan Mazari and Chief Sardar Sunder Khan Sunderani who went into the forest for the girls' recovery.
"The Hindu women were freed after paying a heavy ransom," an insider disclosed. This was the first ever incident of its kind in the history of such dacoities, that have taken place in Sindh and they caused anguish to the Hindu community throughout Sindh. "I have only one remorse and feel guilty that those women were kept in my hiding place," confessed Kamal Fakeer, who was arrested recently in Thatta district. While talking to local reporters he exposed that it was not him who kidnapped the women, but another gang had been responsible for the kidnapping and they had handed them over to him (Fakeer). After the frightening incident, many families opted to migrate to India to their relatives and many others left for Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur. "There are visa problems these days, but once they are resolved we will have no other alternative but to leave," said Kishan Laal, general secretary Hindu panchayat, Jacobabad. He alleged that it is the sardars who foster these dacoits and criminals. "But the locals and neighbours are our friends and they are there with us in trying times,"he maintained. "Cases of robberies and kidnappings have increased nowadays," said Babu Maheesh, president of the Hindu community and a businessman. "The administration and police are cooperating with us but we still face great difficulties." He said everyone suffers from the difficult situation of law and order in these parts of the district but the Hindu community has beenparticularly targeted.
There is a need for mutual support and understanding of the local influentials if peace is to prevail otherwise the situation could worsen.
KARACHI, Jan 25: The condition of graduation for contesting in the national and provincial assemblies' elections will put a large number of politicians in Sindh out of the political arena.
Although the decision has been welcomed by people from all walks of life, except the urban-based political parties including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Jamaat-i-Islami, almost all the leading political parties, including the PPP and the PML, have criticized the government's decision.
According to the PPP, there is no guarantee that a graduate member of the parliament will be a sincere representative of the masses than a non-graduate.
A spokesman for the party, citing examples of the well-known social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi, asked how could he be a member of the assemblies after imposition of the condition, despite his being a renowned sympathizer of the people.
A Jamaat-i-Islami spokesman welcomed the decision but opined that the minorities would be the ultimate looser due to the restoration of joint electoral system and because of the condition of graduation to be a criterion for contesting the polls. However, lauding the decision, the spokesman said it should have been taken much earlier, as there must be some set standards for the public representatives.
"There is no match between the two members - the under-matriculate and the highly qualified one," he added.
A survey shows that besides the PPP stalwarts, the graduation condition will put a large number of independent politicians in Sindh in an awkward situation.
The political bigwigs of Thatta - Eijaz Ali Sherazi and the incumbent Nazim of Thatta, Shafqat Ali Shah Sherazi, more than two-time elected MNAs Babu Ghulam Hussain Memon and Ghulam Qadir Malkani - will not qualify the condition, while the heavyweight and the ever-winning candidate from Dadu, Kotri and Sehwan, Malik Asad Sikandar is also a non-graduate.
According to observers, Malik Asad Sikandar will suffer more as his brothers are so young that he will have to place his friend Pir Bux Khaskheli in the forefront.
Twice-elected MNA from Dadu, Haji Mohammad Bux Jamali, is too a non- graduate politician.
Sardar Babul Khan Jakhrani, Agha Ghulam Ali Buledi, Sardar Sher Mohammad Bijarani, Hakim Ali Sundarani, Sundar Khan Sundarani,Mir Mehran Khan Bijarani Sardar Manzoor Khan Panhwar, Sardar Saleem Jan Mazari and Ali Nawaz Shehlani - the heavyweights of Jacobabad district - are also non-graduates, leaving the political field open for , Naseer Khoso, Muqeem Khoso, Mir Imran Khan Bijarani, Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, Eijaz Jakhrani, Sudham Chand and Mir Hassan Khoso to show their muscles.
The political field in Shikarpur district is also open for the new-comers as the bigwigs of the district, Sardar Himmat Kumario, Babul Khan Bhayyo, Moulana Abdullah Pahor and Siraj Shah Amroti, are reportedly non-graduates. The linchpin of election politics of Ghotki district, Sardar Ali Gohar Khan Mahar, is also a non-graduate, while Ahmed Yar Shar, Raheem Bux Bozdar and Mian Mitho also do not qualify the new condition.
A similar situation is being witnessed in district Sukkur as Ghulam Mustafa Bozadar, Maulana Murad Halejvi also fall in the list of non-graduates.
Come to the Khairpur district, where Abdul Qadir Jeelani, Bashir Bhaban, Faqir Bakht Heesbani, Mohammad Ali Bhaban and Pir Gul Shah also fall in the category of non-graduates, clearing the way for Qaim Ali Shah, Ghous Ali Shah, Zafar Bilal, Javed Shah, Pervez Ali Shah, Naeem Kharal, Manzoor Wassan, Sadruddin Shah and Raja Sain to continue their politics without any hurdles.
The hard-boiled and time-tested politicians of Mirpurkhas and Tharparkar districts - Noor Mohammad Shah Jeelani, Mir Hayyat Talpur, Khair Mohammad Bhurgari, Ghulam Mohammad Khaskheli, Ghulam Mohammad Lat, Gul Mohammad Memon, Jadam Mangrio, Arbab Amir Hassan, Arbab Ataullah, Syed Mardan Shah - also do not qualify the condition.
The Jatoi family of Naushehro Feroze seems to be lucky as all the active political figures of the area, including Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, his sons and nephew are educated. Syed Zafar Ali Shah, Murad Ali are also highly-educated personalities of their constituencies, while Rahmatullah Beehan and Raza Mohammad Dahri are reportedly non-graduates.
Ghafoor Nizamani, Bashir Halepoto and Mir Allah Bux Talpur of Badin district also fall in the list of non-graduates, paving the way for Fahmida Mirza and other new-comers, while Abdus Sattar Bachani and Latif Mangrio are also non-graduates.-PPI
JACOBABAD: A two-member European Union delegation visited Jacobabad and heard complaints of PPPP candidates and minority leaders.
NA-208 candidate Mir Sajjad Hussain Jakhrani complained against PML-QA candidate Illahi Bux Soomro of forcing the district administration to change the loyalties of the their supporters.
PPPP N-A 210 candidate Mir Imran Ali Khan Bijarani accused the government of supporting PML-QA candidate Saleem Jan Mazari. Bijarani complained that in his constituency, the rules and regulations of the Election Commission of Pakistan are being neglected.
It is clearly defined in an election commission order that private people cannot man the polling stations but the government, just to provide support to the PML-QA candidate, had appointed 19 private people as presiding officers, he said.
Bijarani complained also that Grade-17 officers are being made polling agents while Grade-11 officials are being appointed as presiding officers.
Bijarani said display of weapons in the election campaign is prohibited but PML-QA candidate on NA-210 has been completely neglecting the rules and despite repeated complaints to police against Mazari no action is being taken.
Independent candidate of minority for PS-14, Sirichand Bhawnani and PPPP NA-210 candidate, Mir Imran Ali Bijarani also met the European Union observers.
SUKKUR, Feb 7: Kandhkot Taluka Nazim Mir Imran Khan Bijarani has urged the officials of executive agencies to ensure quality and required standard of work in various development schemes of the city.
He was speaking at a meeting of the officials of education, health, public health engineering and other departments in his office on Wednesday, to review the progress of the schemes.
Mr Bijarani said that he would personally monitor the schemes to check the transparency of the work.
Later, the Taluka Nazim, accompanied by officials, also inspected various localities and met the people to know about their problems.-APP
Our Sukkur Correspondent adds: The Zila Nazim, Sukkur, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, Naib Zila Nazim, Iqbal Dawood, and the Taluka Nazim, Salehpat, Samo Khan Bhambhro, jointly held open kutcheries at different villages of Taluka Salehpat and received complaints from the people relating to the shortage of irrigation water, distribution of Zakat funds to Mustahqeen and issued on-the-spot orders to solve the public grievances.
The Zila Nazim advised the growers to form associations in order to ensure the maintenance of lift machines of the irrigation channels and transformers, recovery of the Wapda bills and area wise water rates on self-help basis.
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Saleem Jan Mazariâs degree challenged
By our correspondent.
SUKKUR: A Pakistan Peopleâs Party-Parliamentarian (PPPP) leader on Friday challenged the graduation degree of Saleem Jan Mazari, an MNA from Kashmore in Jacobabad district.
Imran Khan Bijarani, a member of the PPPPâs central committee, said that he had sent a memorandum to the Election Commission of Pakistan, in this regard. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, he said that along with the memorandum, he had also sent a letter from the concerned authorities in the USA, UK, and Australia that there was no university named the International University was registered in the education sector in the USA, UK or Australia; therefore it could not issue any degree.
He said that it was also verified from all the cities and the education department of Pakistan that such a university had been never registered with the education department. He said that after such verification, Saleem Jan Mazari, who claimed himself a graduate of that university, had no right to sit in the national assembly. Bijarani demanded of the Election Commission of Pakistan to cancel the membership of Mazari and conduct by-election for the seat.
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ADP wins all seats in Sukkur, Ghotki.
By Our Correspondent.
SUKKUR, Aug 2: The Awam Dost Panel, backed by the Pakistan People's Party, won all the seats of Nazim and Naim Nazim of Sukkur and Ghotki districts in the fourth phase of the local bodies polls held on Thursday.
ADP won all the seats of Nazims and Naib Nazims in Sukkur, Rohri, Pano Aqil and the Salehpat taluka. The Awami Ittehad Panel, led by Taj Shaikh, could not capture even a single seat. In Ghotki, the Maher group, which was backed by the top PPP leadership, including Nisar Khuhro, captured three seats out of five, while two seats of Ubaro and Daharki were won by the Lund tribe.
Nasir Shah of the ADP was elected the Nazim of the Sukkur district. He defeated Taj Shaikh, the leader of the Awami Ittehad Panel (AIP). Shaikh polled 372 votes while Shah secured 530 votes. Iqbal Pakwala was elected Naib Nazim of the Sukkur District. Pakwala. He defeated Sardar Haji Khan Chachar of the Awami Ittehad. Syed Kazim Ali Shah of the ADP was elected the Nazim of the Sukkur city. Shah, who defeated Hanif Memon of the AIP, secured 257 votes while Memon polled 112 votes.
In the Rohri taluka, ADP's Qasim Ali Shah won the seat of Nazim by polling 126 votes. His rival, Mohammad Ali Shaikh the of Awami Ittehad polled 80 votes only. In the Salehpat taluka, ADP's Summo Khan Bhambhro was elected Nazim and Niaz Mohammad Maher Naib Nazim. They obtained 30 votes each to defeated their rivals, Pervaiz Shah and Bahadur Shambhani of the Awami Ittehad, who polled 28 votes each.
In the Pano Aqil taluka, Ali Gul Maher and Amanullah Kalhoro of the Awami Ittehad captured the seats of Nazim and Naib Nazim by defeating ADP's Shahnawaz Maher and Saleemur Rehman Kalhoro, who polled 113 votes each.
Ali Gohar Khan Maher of the Mahar group was elected Nazim in the Ghotki district. He polled 401 votes while his rival, Khalid Khan Lund, took 360 votes. In Ghotki taluka, Sardar Khan Ghoto of the Maher Group was elected Nazim. He obtained 157 votes to defeat his rival, Mir Farooq Sundrani, who polled 46 votes.
Mir Chakar Khan Bozdar of the Maher group polled 82 votesand was elected the Nazim of the Mirpur Mathelo taluka. His rival, Mir Nazir Ahmed Lund of the Lund group bagged 80 votes in neck-to-neck contest. The seats of Nazim and Naib Nazim of Daharki and Ubaro talukas were won by the candidates of the Lund group.
In Daharki, Mia Shafiq of the Lund group defeated Dadan Khan Maher by obtaining 73 votes. His rival, Dadan Khan Maher, got only 49 votes. In Ubaro, Jam Shafiq Dahar of the Lund tribe defeated Maher group' candidate Zia Chachar by polling 97 votes. Chachar secured 66 votes.
JACOBABAD: The ADP, led by former federal ministers Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani and Mir Imran Khan Bijarani has captured four Nazim seats of Taluka Kandhkot, Kashmore, Jacobabad and Garhi Khairo against the one seat in Thul which was captured the by Awami Ittehad, led by Sardar Muqim Khan Khoso.
The main fight between Sardar Muqim Khan Khoso of Awami Ittehad and Shabbir Bijarani, son of Mir Hazar Bijarani, remained undecided for the district Nazim of Jacobabad as both can not achieve 51 per cent votes.
There will be run-off election now on the Nazims seat of Jacobabad. The election authoritties said the election will be held on Aug 8. According to the unofficial result, Shabbir Ali Bijarani captured 695 votes while Sardar Muqim Khan Khoso obtained 673 votes. Awam Dost Panel candidate Haji Abdul Rauf Khoso and Zahid Chachar elected Nazim and Naib Nazim for Kashmor Taluka, they captured 143 votes while their rival Asghar Panhwer and Liaquat Lashari of the Awami Ittehad has taken 116 votes.
In Kandhkot Taluka, Mir Imran Khan Bijarani of the Awam Dost Panel got elected Nazim by securing 210 votes and his rival Mir Tahir Hussain Khoso of the Awami Ittehad captured only 160 votes. In Jacobabad Taluka, Sardar Mumtaz Jakhrani and Munir Pathan of the Awam Dost Panel declared successful as Nazim and Naib Nazim by securing 143 votes, while Awam Dost Panel candidate got only 16 votes.
In Thul Taluka, Awami Ittehad candidate Haji Muhammad Yousuf Khoso and Babu Abdul Qadir Burro elected Nazim and Naib Nazim, respectively, and secured 184 votes. They defeated the Awam Dost Panel candidates, Ghulam Akber Banglani and Imdad Sarki, they had bagged 152 votes. In Garhi Khairo, Ali Nawaz Shaleani already declared Nazim unopposed.
ISLAMABAD: Discontentment is simmering among members of the Pakistan Peopleâs Party-Parliamentarians (PPPP) over a meeting of Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani with Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali.
Party sources told Daily Times that the party leadership has taken note of the meeting and âthe party will seriously take up the violation of party discipline with Mr Bijarani.â
The fresh wave of discontentment has engulfed parliamentarians after the party leadership failed to take action against Mr Bijarani for violating party discipline vis-Ã -vis contacts with top government functionaries.
Mr Bijarani, a member of the National Assembly, held a meeting with Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali at Prime Minister House last Saturday without prior authorisation from the party leadership.
âThis is sheer discrimination of the party leadership that disciplinary action is taken against a party member of the National Assembly (Zafar Warraich) who simply invites the chief minister to his daughterâs wedding and he is so haunted by the party that he has to resign from the National Assembly,â said a PPPP parliamentarian at the request of anonymity.
âOn the other hand, a member of the National Assembly is so daring as to call on the prime minister, but no disciplinary action is taken against him,â said a PPP parliamentarian.
Another parliamentarian from the party said that, âsuch actions (meeting with the PM) only bring into focus the inconsistencies of party policiesâ.
Sources said that the issue of the meeting of Mr Bijarani with Premier Jamali was brought to the notice of Chairperson Benazir Bhutto on the same day and she took this violation extremely seriously.
âBenazir Bhutto has advised the local leadership of the party to take up this issue with Mr Bijarani and it is expected that President PPPP Makhdoom Amin Fahim will make a final decision about how to deal with those who violate party discipline,â sources added.
A homemade bomb exploded near a Roman Catholic church Sunday night in Zamboanga, killing one person and injuring 12. Witnesses said Sunday's bomb was concealed in either a box or a tin can and placed in a bicycle taxi. The vehicle was parked near a gate to Fort Pilar - a century-old shrine and church, which also has a park with several stalls selling food and religious items, such as candles. The Radio Mindanao Network identified the one death as a Filipino marine corporal assigned to guard the shrine's gate. He died from wounds while being taken to hospital, the report said. Although the church was packed with worshippers, the crowd was not as large as in past Sundays because of a drizzle and the threat of more deadly bombings that have caused jitters among the city's population of 600,000. If you're going to make war on infidels, church is the best place to get them. There's less chance that they'll be armed.
The bombing came after twin blasts tore through two department stores last Thursday in Zamboanga, a predominantly Christian port city about 530 miles south of Manila. Those explosions killed seven people and injured more than 150. Zamboanga is, of course, chock full of Muslims, a fair percentage of which are homicidal...
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