[DAWN] TWO death-row prisoners got a last-minute reprieve in the early hours of Thursday. But whereas in Shafqat Husain's case it was civil society's vocal campaign that earned him a brief stay of execution, far more covert forces are clearly at work behind Saulat Mirza's eleventh hour respite.
Many individuals on the verge of being sent to the gallows -- a punishment that Dawn does not support under any circumstances -- would conceivably have the desire to unburden themselves.
Not many, however, have been provided the opportunity to indulge in such a cathartic exercise on national television as did the MQM worker, convicted in 1999 for multiple murders, on late Wednesday night.
Mirza's sensational revelations, which have sent convulsions through Pakistain's fourth largest political party, were followed by the announcement that his execution had been stayed for 72 hours.
Saulat Mirza had already articulated the substance of his 'confession' in a statement before a Joint Investigation Team some years ago, the video of which is in the public domain.
This time around, there are explicit details that have brought not only Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... but some of MQM's most prominent names into the dragnet. It is the latest salvo in the concerted push to tighten the noose around the party that controls much of the country's largest city and its financial hub.
Last week's raid on Nine Zero and recent allegations by the Rangers of MQM's culpability in the deadly Baldia fire have unfolded against rising tensions between the law-enforcement agency and the party, which maintains it is being unfairly singled out in the ongoing counterterrorism operations in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... .
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... the latest development raises several questions: how did a camera find its way into the death cell? Why this modus operandi, especially when there are other ways of going after Death Eaters taking refuge? Why now? What is the long-term objective?
There is no legal value in a 'confession' not made in a magistrate's presence. Moreover, the situation -- a condemned prisoner looking for any way to delay the inevitable -- was conducive to manipulation. But in the eyes of the establishment, no stranger to Machiavellian tactics, there is perhaps considerable political mileage to be gained.
What that is, is open to speculation, but the wholesale discrediting of the party is surely only part of it. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... while it is an open secret that the MQM employs heavy-handed tactics to maintain its grip on a city where politics and criminal networks often overlap, such an approach to bring it to account is in the long run likely to exacerbate the ethnic divide in Karachi, deepen the sense of persecution, and augur ill for peace in the metropolis.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... even as the deep state orchestrates the MQM's 'remaking' to its current requirements, both the central and the Sindh governments appear to be taking a back seat. By doing so, they do themselves and the democratic project no favours.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/20/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
#12
Iran's "checkmate" will be real the day they test a LRBM = ICBM wid Nuke Warhead, perhaps via NORTH KOREA ...
You know, CHINA???
* TOPIX > CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: "NO PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN OUR LIFETIME", but NOT because of BIBI = Israeli PM Netanyahu.
YuuuP.
Can thank the Bammer + OWG Globalist US-N-ONLY-THE-US "[Self] Retreat is World Peace".
Neo-Persianist NUCLEAR IRAN now, Post-Nuclear Middle East Neo-Ottoman NUCLEAR TURKEY 2030-2050, espec iff the ISIS + aligned = Global Nuclear Jihad is still around.
Besides simultaneous-occurring Solar Flares + Earth-hitting Geomagnetic Storms, Solar Eclipse, + Sring Equinox, etc, we have TYPHOON "BAVI" splitting into two separate [Sub] Storms ala Chelyabinsk + Nostradamus CHIEN, i.e. the TWIN SWORD/SWORD OF BOTH HEAVEN AND HELL".
"NONE SHALL SE THE POWER OF ASIA ["Perse = Persia/Iran?] DESTROYED UNTIL THE SEVEN/SEVENTH HOLDS THE LINE".
"We weren't the only Battalion there - there were others in the Valley, but somewhere out there was an entire [Enemy] Regiment".
* FREEREPUBLIC, DRUDGE, RUSSIA TODAY, ETC. > NORTH KOREA PREPARED TO USE NUKES "ANYTIME" IT FEELS THREATENED BY US - DPRK AMBASSADOR TO UK | NORTH KOREA ENVOY ADMITS COUNTRY HAS NUCLEAR MISSLES/ICBMS.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > JAPAN'S KYODO NEWS: US WARY OF NORTH KOREA'S MISSLE DEVELOPMENT, CAN TEST-LAUNCH AN ICBM AT "ANYTIME".
* RUSSIAN INSIDER > MORALES: "BOLIVIA READY FOR WAR WID US". EVO MORALES CALLS FOR UNIFIED RESISTANCE OF LATIN AMERICA AGZ US AGGRESSION.
[Daily Caller] Fox News host and former White House press secretary Dana Perino said on "The Kelly File" that the Champ regime is signaling to terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah that it is "open season on Israel" with its comments that their support for the Jewish nation at the United Nations was in jeopardy.
#3
the Champ regime is signaling to terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah that it is "open season on Israel She's right. Throw ISIS into that mix as well--they're up in the Golan Heights. Champ is trying to foment a war.
#5
Dale-----a very telling video. Thank you for posting it.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
03/20/2015 10:37 Comments ||
Top||
#6
Good luck with that!
Genesis 12:3
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee:
Zechariah 12 3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
14-12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
#10
Thank you. I must give credit to my friend who happens to be Jewish. We have been concerned about the election with O playing his American political games over there.
[DAWN] IN a Middle East already unstable due to multiple crises, the victory of Benjamin Netanyahu's rightist Likud party in the Israeli elections bodes ill for chances of a just peace deal for the Paleostinians.
Due to the Likud triumph, Mr Netanyahu will most likely be asked to form a government in Tel Aviv. Yet if his past record is anything to go by peace for the Paleostinians and stability in the wider region will remain elusive.
In 2014, Mr Netanyahu presided over the Israeli rampage in Gazoo, ostensibly carried out in reaction to rocket attacks from the impoverished strip. As per independent figures, over 2,000 people were killed due to Israeli aggression, the majority of them civilians.
Also, under Mr Netanyahu's watch the expansion of illegal settlements on Paleostinian land has continued unabated; over 350,000 Israelis are said to be living in these controversial communities in the West Bank, while a similarly large number are to be found in occupied parts of Jerusalem.
The Israeli leader has also been clear in his opposition to the two-state solution: while the Paleostinian leadership has stated it would work with any Israeli government that supported Paleostinian statehood, Benjamin Netanyahu has said this is not a possibility.
Hence the grinding of the peace processor -- already in tatters -- is likely to stay that way. Mr Netanyahu's jarring words and actions have managed to alienate many of Israel's usual supporters in the US and Europe, with the White House terming his election rhetoric as 'divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... '.
The Likud victory has indeed reflected the mood of the Israeli electorate. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... those world powers that have influence in Tel Aviv must counsel restraint to Benjamin Netanyahu.
By no means should diplomatic efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear question be torpedoed by Israel. It should also be assured that atrocities such as the Gazoo episode are not repeated.
Above all, the world must press Israel to honour the two-state solution that would allow the Paleostinians to live in peace and with dignity in their own land.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/20/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11123 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
#1
Funny how the President echoes the Pakistainians and Paloestinians.
[PJMedia] It's time to have a national conversation about one of the most sensitive, controversial issues in American culture, the stain on our national honor: Coffee. American coffee is now and always has been revolting, and it behooves us to look deep into our souls to understand why we overpay for muck at Starbucks. There's a sucker born every minute, and he's almost certain to be American. We are boosters, enthusiasts, tent-evangelicals, fly-by-nighters, snake-oil salesmen and honky-tonkers as a people, and get swindled every time. Now, to tell a man that his coffee is disgusting is just a tad less offensive than explaining that his wife really is a shaved chimpanzee. Next to one's spouse, nothing gets under our skin and into our soul like coffee. It's the one thing we ingest daily for which there is no substitute, and without which the day hardly seems worth enduring. To get snookered over coffee is a sad thing to admit, but we have to start our great national dialogue somewhere.
#4
Let's indeed talk about percent of population vs violent crime stats. I suspect that those rich enough to live in gated communities or virtual 'gated' towns never have or had family members who've been victims of such crime and thus have no understanding that regardless of the censorship of the MSM race relations have been seriously impacted and not in the manner they 'wish'. Reality eventually gets around mugging fantasy. It also undermines the 'guilt industry' sold by the Left. If there is any guilt, let it be carried by those who supported slavery and segregation and discrimination*, the Donks.
* let's talk about the systematic exclusion of highly qualified Asians from the UC system on going today by that same Vast Left Wing Conspiracy.
#6
Wonder what response you'd get if you asked your local barrista why the black illegitimacy rate is over 70%, and what that meant for the stability and economic future of the black community.
Somehow I don't think that's the conversation they're looking for.
In the drive-through line during the morning rush.
"Never mind all those honking horns, what about race?"
Posted by: Steve White ||
03/20/2015 10:14 Comments ||
Top||
#9
Silly me. I thought we were talking about coffee. I want it black with no sugar. I don't care if it tastes like battery acid as long as it contains enough of the active ingredient. Coffee is one of the few things that McDonald's does well but I can afford an extra buck so if I feel like going to Starbucks, dammit, I will. In my neighborhood there is a Starbucks on every corner. There is a Starbucks counter inside the super market so I can drink espresso on sleepy Sunday afternoons when Mrs. Uluque forces me to go shopping with her. If you aspire to that kind of lifestyle then you might have to work for it like I did. I don't worry about neighborhoods that don't have these amenities. Let them worry about themselves. I don't want to know what the kid behind the counter thinks about anything and I have no spare change for the bum outside the door. I just want my coffee. Can we leave the politics out of it?
#11
The beloved Angkar congratulates you, comrades, for these confessions, so necessary to the progress of each.
Your Starbucks barista, Pol Pot,
Thinks workers are cool, but you're not:
"Your tender pseud hands
And ironic Ray-Bans
Have earned you a free double shot."
#12
I know Starbucks was mocked for the lack of people of color in their ads for this idiocy, but what is the demographic of starbucks hiring in general? I suspect it does not match the spectrum of colors in America and I'd like to know.
[WND] Franklin Delano Roosevelt is not the man to quote in support of the market economy. He was, after all, the president who gave America the assault on free-market capitalism known as the New Deal. He also capitulated to communism at Yalta, 70 years ago. There, in February of 1945, he and Winston Churchill met with Josef Stalin, a genocidal butcher who dwarfed Adolf Hitler, to divvy up the world.
By the time "The Big Three" convened in the Crimean city, the region had long been subdued and decimated by the Bolsheviks. In November and December of 1920 alone, Crimea had been the site of a massacre of 50,000 souls. Kulaks, Cossacks, Ukrainians; priests, White Guards, socialists, nobles, Mensheviks and bourgeoisie: Entire groups had been branded as counterrevolutionaries-by-class, designated as sub-humans worthy of extermination. That is if the Reds' revolutionary utopia was to come into being, which it did. I often tire of Mercer's Bush bashing, but she is the daughter of a prominent Rabbi and she most certainly understands the threat to Israel and the world.
#2
OK. Stalin was a bad guy and Roosevelt was a fool. No argument there. But it's a very tenuous link to a couple breakaway eastern Ukrainian provinces. And what are we supposed to do about it, let Obama lead us into WWIII? Is there a term for this particular kind of propaganda?
I'm willing to allow that Obama is an even bigger fool than Roosevelt. Putin is a bad guy too. But if you want to confront Putin, Iran is the place to do it. Hmmmm. Don't see Obama getting all worked up about that. Let's see...we let Iran have nukes and we fight Russia over a couple of eastern Ukrainian provinces that don't mean jack squat to us. Is that what the writer is saying?
And, oh by the way, the whole time this is happening we let the Chinese have our jobs. Let them make our computers. Let them bully and threaten our allies in the Western Pacific. Let them bully and threaten us in the Western Pacific. Is that what the writer is saying?
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.
[DAWN] TWO death-row prisoners got a last-minute reprieve in the early hours of Thursday. But whereas in Shafqat Husain's case it was civil society's vocal campaign that earned him a brief stay of execution, far more covert forces are clearly at work behind Saulat Mirza's eleventh hour respite.
