[Dawn] The families of three suspected criminals on Wednesday gave a tough time to the police after the Lahore High Court dismissed their bail pleas.
In the first incident, Alam Sher and Talib Husain of Hafizabad, who are under trial for their involvement in robberies, appeared in the court for the hearing of their bail plea. The court rejected their bail plea and directed the police to arrest them.
Their families put up resistance and also scuffled with the coppers when the police tried to arrest them. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the police tossed in the clink them.
In the second case, Osama of Toba Tek Singh appeared in the court to get bail in a murder case, but the court rejected his plea. As soon as the court denied him bail, his family and friends tried to free him from the police custody.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the police tossed in the clink him and shifted him to the Old Anarkali Police Station.
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Culture, it's about culture. These people are not assimilated into our culture so they think this behavior is just fine.
TUNIS: Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid Sebsi said on Thursday his government would take a tougher line on allies of the ousted president, responding to calls to put more of them behind bars.
Thousands of people protested on Monday in the capital and provincial cities over what they see as the authorities failure to break with the legacy of Zine Abidine Ben Ali, the leader toppled in a revolution that inspired the Arab Spring.
The protests were sparked by the release of former Justice Minister Bechir Tekkari from prison and the news that Saida Agrebi, a friend of Ben Alis wife, had fled to Paris.
We recognize that they are slower in these cases ... The judiciary must take into account the expressions (of peoples will) and there should be a lot more speed, he said in a televised address to the nation. He said it was unfortunate that some people associated with Ben Ali were free and provoking public anger. Well take precautionary measures against them, Sebsi said without specifying the nature of those measures.
"The people have spoken! More kangaroo courts!"
He also said he had asked the Minister of Justice to take measures against any judges who may be involved in corruption.
Tunisia electrified the Middle East in January when mass protests forced Ben Ali to flee to Saudi Arabia. Tunisias revolution became the template for uprisings across the Arab world. However, caretaker authorities running the country have struggled to restore stability. Protests and strikes break out regularly.
Many of those who supported the revolution suspect Ben Alis allies of trying quietly to claw back power, in collusion with friends in the caretaker government.
In his speech, Sebsi denied this, saying his government was seeking to protect the revolution.
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[Iran Press TV] Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani censures the brutal crackdown of the UK police on protesters in the recent UK unrest, saying Western countries adopt dual attitude on human rights. ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
The recent events in Britannia and remarks by British officials who called protesters "thugs and hooligans" were a clear example of the West's "contradictory" attitude to human rights issues, Larijani said on Wednesday.
He highlighted the significance of making a revision in ties with Western countries which oppose the Islamic Theocratic Republic and with those who adopt contradictory stance on political issues and human rights.
It is necessary for Mohammedan countries, particularly Iran, to reconsider their interaction with Western countries to establish wise relations with the West.
The unrest in Britannia broke out on August 6 in the north London suburb of Tottenham, after a few hundred people gathered outside a cop shoppe to protest against the fatal shooting and killing of a black man, Mark Duggan, by the police.
Thereafter, violent protests erupted in major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol, contributing to Britannia's worst unrest since the 1980s.
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What 'brutal crackdown' are they talking about???
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Justice in ayatoiletistan? Last I heard, Basij elements disappear enemies in local forests. They also strike-break for ayatoilet companies. (The poorest of the top dozen "imams" holds $400,000,000 in personal wealth).
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Many Bloggers are claiming that the Chinese team + refs initiated the trouble by committing numerous acts of seemingly intentional fouls + other offenses agz the Georgies, both on the court as well as on the sidelines???
Iff this were a US Team in the US, it is argued that the entire Chinese team, includ Coach + Staff, would've been expelled for unprofessional conduct, + the game awarded/forfeited to the Georgetown Boyz???
[Dawn] The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar High Court here on Wednesday granted bail to six persons including a prayer leader charged with giving a girl in swara to rival family for settling a dispute.
A single bench comprising Justice Fazle Haq Abbasi allowed bail petition filed by the six accused directing them to furnish two sureties of Rs100,000 each.
Earlier, their bail petitions were dismissed by the court of additional district and sessions judge and judicial magistrate.
Mohammad Zaman, Idrees Khan, Khan Mast, Laes Khan, Riaz Khan and a prayer leader Maulvi Mohammad Kareem were locked away few days ago by officials of Badabher cop shoppe after an FIR was registered against them under section 310-A of Pakistain Penal Code, which prohibits giving of females to rival families for settling feuds.
The said case was registered after publication of a story in a local newspaper wherein it was alleged that a jirga had been planning to give a girl to a rival family in marriage to settle a dispute.
The said dispute had allegedly originated after a woman of the area eloped with the brother of the girl. The said girl was already engaged to her cousin. Police alleged that a jirga was convened to discuss the issue and it was decided that the girl should be given in swara to resolve the issue. The jirga was in progress when local police raided the area and locked away the six
accused.
Advocate Syed Abdul Fayyaz appeared for the petitioners and contended that the petitioners were falsely implicated in the case as no offence had taken place. He argued that no nikkah had taken place between the alleged victim and the boy from the rival family.
The counsel pointed out that section 210-A of PPC was applicable when females were given for settling dispute originated out of a murder and not ordinary cases.
He added that the alleged victim was an adult and she had herself appeared before the court and recorded her statement wherein she stated that she was never given in swara.
He stated that police had registered FIR merely on the basis of a newspaper report, which was an injustice to them. He argued how the petitioners could be locked away for an offence which had never taken place.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... a two-member bench of high court set aside the death sentence awarded to a person for killing his sister and brother-in-law and remanded his case back to the trial court.
The bench comprising Chief Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan and Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth directed the trial court to record statement of a doctor, who was member of a medical board that examined the mental health of the appellant, Abdul Rauf.
The appellant had killed his brother-in-law Mohammad Arif and his sister apparently in the name of honour in the limits of Takhte Nusrathi cop shoppe in Karak district on Nov 25, 2007.
Advocate Farhana Marwat appeared for the convict and contended that the trial court had erred while not considering the testimony of the doctor. She said that the convict was suffering from mental ailment at the time of occurrence.
She added that at the time of trial the doctor stated that he was a mental patient but now he was fit to stand trial. She added that the appellant had a history of psychiatric ailment and the medical board had also admitted that fact.
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"A preemptive strike would be particularly likely in the early phases of our expansion because a civilisation may become increasingly difficult to destroy as it continues to expand. Humanity may just now be entering the period in which its rapid civilisational expansion could be detected by an ETI because our expansion is changing the composition of the Earth's atmosphere, via greenhouse gas emissions," the report states. Shouldn't we then accelerate our "civilisational expansion", greenhouse gases be damned? Space colonisation would make us more 'difficult to destroy' as they admit.
"Green" aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet. "These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems. It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets," the authors write. ManBearPigs Truly 'Green Aliens' would have limited their own growth and thus never have developed any technology that could threaten us over interstellar distances.
Someone is getting desperate here. Watching a TV series jumping the shark may be entertaining in its own way, but the meltdown of once proud institutions is only a sad sight.
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...the meltdown of once proud institutions is only a sad sight.
Not so fast. The NASA-affiliated author explains himself here. His excuse is that the sun ate his homework, and the dog was in his eyes. I mean! -- NASA didn't fund the study. It was a lark that he did with some friends.
It sounds as if he started it when he was elsewhere, and took up his current job before publication, and it didn't occur to him NOT to put NASA down as his affiliation. (There are procedures for dealing with this circumstance; you'd think he'd have known them.)
Long ago, if you sent out a paper giving NASA as your affiliation, you had to get an in-house peer review. This was true even if it was being sent to a peer-reviewed journal. (In fact, you might have had to have two in-house reviewers, not sure.) If this was not done he might be in trouble with NASA; and if it was done he has nothing to explain.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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