(SomaliNet) At least one person has been killed and seven more were wounded over night in bomb attack which targeted on a Hotel in Dolow district on the Ethiopian border with Somalia as larger military movement was continuing at Gedo region in south of Somalia.
Witnesses told Somalinet that unknown militant threw a grenade bomb at the hotel as the wounded were taken to nearby hospital in Mandhera on the Kenyan border with Somalia and Ethiopia. Soon after the incident, Ethiopian troops reached the area where they began investigations over who was behind the bnomb but no one was arrested for the attack.
It was the first bomb attack ever happened in Dolow, which was almost calm.
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A man in his early thirties was arrested for violating anti-terrorism law, British Police said on Saturday. The arrest of the 31-year-old man took place in Dundee city in Scotland, British Counter Terror Unit (CTU) said in a statement. The suspect has been taken to a security unit center for questioning, the statement added.
Planned elections in Pakistan could be delayed by up to a year after President Pervez Musharraf's imposition of emergency rule, the country's PM says. Shaukat Aziz told a news conference that the government remained committed to the democratic process. But he said parliament might change the date of elections planned for January, and gave no end date for the emergency.
Rights have been suspended, media has been restricted and hundreds of people arrested under the emergency decree. Mr Aziz said 400 to 500 "preventative arrests" had been made so far, and said the emergency, imposed by Gen Musharraf on Saturday, would last for "as long as is necessary". Small protests have started in the capital, Islamabad, where police and security forces are on the streets surrounding key sites.
ISLAMABAD: The government issued tough new changes in the media policy on Saturday stopping the media from criticizing the head of the state, military or judiciary or showing bodies of the suicide bombers or their victims.
In separate ordinances issued aftrer the imposition of the emergency, government issued guidelines for anchor persons and hosts of television channels.
Anyone who is issued a broadcast media license or a landing rights permission under this Ordinance shall not enter into an agreement with any foreign broadcaster to sell its air time or otherwise provide its air time to another foreign broadcaster without prior written permission of the Authority.
The ordinance says, that private channels would not be able to broadcast video footage of suicide bombers, terrorists, bodies of victims of terrorism, statements and pronouncements of militants and extremist elements and any other act which may, in any way, promote, aid or abet terrorists activities or terrorism.
Likewise, no anchor person, moderator or host propagates any opinion or acts in any manner prejudicial to the ideology of Pakistan or sovereignty, integrity or security of Pakistan.
Under the new powers to PEMRA, channels would not broadcast any programme inciting violence or hatred or any action prejudicial to maintenance of law and order.
Likewise, channels would not be allowed to broadcast anything which defames or brings into ridicule the Head of State, or members of the armed forces, or executive, legislative or judicial organs of the state. Channels would not be allowed to broadcast any program or discussion on a matter which is sub-judice in a court of law
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Yet the Maulana's illegal FM station continues to broadcast.
A single laser guided bomb would have taken care of this station.
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stopping the media from criticizing the head of the state, military or judiciary or showing bodies of the suicide bombers or their victims.
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The ordinance says, that private channels would not be able to broadcast video footage of suicide bombers, terrorists, bodies of victims of terrorism, statements and pronouncements of militants and extremist elements and any other act which may, in any way, promote, aid or abet terrorists activities or terrorism.
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Under the new powers to PEMRA, channels would not broadcast any programme inciting violence or hatred or any action prejudicial to maintenance of law and order.
I like it, we need a similar law here, drive the final nail in Moonbat Media.
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john frum: #1 Yet the Maulana's illegal FM station continues to broadcast.
A single laser guided bomb would have taken care of this station.
John, much has been made of the Perv's military foray defeats into Paks's Tribal Areas.
Has the Pak Army with all their assets and manpower been holding back as I suspect when conducting Mil-Ops against the Islamo-Rustics, Or has he and the General Staff lost support, ie command and control over the rank and file of his own Army?
thanksinadvance
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Perv has been holding back.
The scruffy looking fellows being captured are not regular Pak army. They are paramilitary troops recruited from the local areas, poorly equipped and trained.
The actual Pak army units that are trained and equipped to fight are on the border with India.
Perv has not moved them.
The Paks haven't even used a small fraction of the artillery and airpower they have.
When first line Pak troops actually engage with the Taliban, we'll know Perv is serious.
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Pakistan's new Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar has over-ruled his predecessor Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry's order annulling emergency and cancelled all cases that were being heard by the Supreme Court, including legal challenge to President Pervez Musharraf's re-election in uniform.
Dogar, who was sworn in by Musharraf as the Chief Justice of the apex court shortly after the imposition of emergency on Saturday, said in a statement that the court had not passed any order against the Provisional Constitutional Order issued by the military ruler to suspend the Constitution and fundamental rights.
The order issued by Chaudhry and six other judges was the last act of defiance before they were removed from the Supreme Court by security forces. They also refused to endorse the Provisional Constitutional Order.
Dogar said the roster of cases issued by Chaudhry had been "cancelled" and a revised roster would be issued. Among the cases that have been cancelled is the legal challenge to Musharraf's re-election in uniform in the October 6 presidential poll.
The statement said that "those judges of the Supreme Court who are not invited to take the oath (under the PCO) would cease to hold office and cannot exercise any judicial or administrative power".
Dogar also removed the Supreme Court's registrar Faqeer Hussain from his office and sent him to the Law Commission. Dogar appointed additional registrar Sara Saeed as the acting registrar of the apex court.
Before his appointment, Dogar was part of the 11-member bench that was hearing petitions challenging Musharraf's candidature in the presidential election.
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So, like any tenure review committee basically.
Twenty first century technology trumped 20th century tactics as Pakistan's feisty media defied the military crackdown and conveyed the nation's turmoil and agony to the world.
Although Perves Musharraf's military junta shut down the country's cable news channels and free media, some outlets continued their broadcast over the internet, and when net access was denied, used their Gulf offices to provide updates.
The Urdu-language Aaj TV went bilingual in one webcast, so that, its anchor said, "we can tell the world what is happening in Pakistan."
The Pakistani diaspora and regional analysts also tapped into Al Jazeera, Indian news channels, and Indian websites, all of which provided wall-to-wall coverage of the developments.
Some Pakistani newspapers managed to update their websites and be read in the west despite the crackdown at home.
US channels were mostly asleep on the watch, as they tend to be on Saturday mornings. The domestic CNN cottoned on to the story only at 10 a.m EST, hours after it broke.
Thanks to the internet, news emerged soon after the emergency declaration that a majority of Pakistan Supreme Court judges had declared it illegal. Some of them, including chief justice Chowdhury, were reportedly arrested as a result.
The Supreme Court judges were required to sign a new provisional constitutional order mandating the state of emergency, but 6 of the 11 justices signed an order calling the declaration illegal, it was revealed.
As always, some of the US print media was ahead of the curve on the emergency issue based on select briefings from the administration. The New York Times had reported on Friday that the Bush administration had warned Musharraf against declaring martial law.
By the time Musharraf went on the live television past midnight Pakistan time for an hour long rant and whine, much of the sub-continent was asleep. But it was prime time in Europe and 3 pm in the United States, where Musharraf's patrons were tuned in to hear his latest explanation for subverting democracy.
Evidently aware that he had to explain his action to his benefactors, Musharraf switched to English about 40 minutes into his lament. But after a live telecast of the first few minutes which was in Urdu, CNN had lost patience and turned to domestic programming.
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Excellent. They won't defy Islamists, but they'll defy Musharraf.
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I oppose deference of major decisions to an unelected court. Judges are often dependents of either governments or special interests. In the infamous "Dred Scot" decision by SCOTUS, the Taney/slaver interest court, upheld return of escaped slaves because they said the negro was "an inferior sort of being," and not entitled to natural justice. "Dred Scot" divisions led to the Civil War.
I recall a mini scandal arising in the
'eighties after a former SCOTUS clerk cited several high court decisions, written on behalf of a member, as being of his own hand. Said clerk submitted same on an application for a Junior position at a law firm.
Pro-Taliban militants in Swat captured 120 security forces personnel on Friday night but freed them on Saturday after disarming them. We released them on Saturday because they agreed to return to their homes and not to fight with (their) Muslim brothers, a spokesman for rebel cleric Maulana Fazlullah told AFP.
Taliban militants moved through Swat with rocket propelled grenade launchers and AK-47 assault rifles on Saturday, while others set up checkpoints on roads leading into and out of the area, searching for suspected Pakistani intelligence agents. We dont want to harm anybody, said Iftikhar Khan, a local Taliban commander. But if any operation is initiated against us, we will teach them a lesson.
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Does anyone really believe the troops were sent in to battle their "militant" brothers in the first place?
Within 15 minutes of their "capture" they were probably sharing roast goat and swapping fantastic tales of Johnny Jihad and the 1001 Infidels around a campfire.
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Law enforcement agencies on Saturday launched a major crackdown on lawyers and politicians across the country following the declaration of a state of emergency by President General Pervez Musharraf earlier in the day.
I'd like a bit of detail on that statement: are the maulanas and maulvis and other flavors of turbans included in that "politician" category? Or are we still doing business as the same old stand?
Police rounded up dozens of lawyers including Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Aitzaz Ahsan and Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) President Ahsan Bhoon, both of whom were arrested from their residences. Aitzaz was arrested under 3 MPO with the aim of detaining him for 30 days.
Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan said early on Sunday that he had been placed under house arrest, AFP reported. Police entered my house in Lahore and told me that I am placed under house arrest, they did not show me any detention order at all, Imran said.
Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Chairwoman Asma Jehangir was also placed under house arrest, a staff report adds. Several Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) activists and office-bearers were arrested in Lahore and Islamabad and quite a few escaped and went into hiding.
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"major crackdown on lawyers and politicians across the country"
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Actually there is a good case for the claim that civil authority is impotent as far as solving the Pakistan's problems. If Mushy at long last moves against Pashtos and Waziris, then this could work.
The police on Sunday arrested Hamid Gul, an outspoken former chief of Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's premier spy agency, during a small public gathering.
I am going to break a news that Former ISI chief Lt General (Retd) Hamid Gul has been arrested, said, the senior analyst of Geo Television Network Dr. Shahid Masood.
"It is not an emergency, it's martial law. One man has put the country at stake to save his rule," Gul said before he was pushed into a police van and whisked off.
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Imran Khan escapes arrest, flees home in Pak
Leading Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan escaped from his home in Lahore on Sunday hours after police put him under house arrest following the imposition of emergency rule by President Pervez Musharraf.
"He was detained along with eight supporters at the house. The supporters are at home but he has slipped away," a close relative told Reuters. Police are still outside the house.
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Gul, 2007 is a full blown Islamist w/ happy portfolio. sic, "Israel along with disaffected US Air Force Officers, *Did* 9/11."
Arnaud de Borchgrave interviews Hameed Gul former chief of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence. Sept 26, 2001. Link
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Unfortunately, arrest for the likes of Gul probably means confinement at his home.
The jihadis are simply too valuable for Perv to dismantle their operation.
He will try fine tuning, favoring one group over another, so that the infrastructure of terror remains intact and can be used at will against India and Afghanistan.
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He will try fine tuning, favoring one group over another, so that the infrastructure of terror remains intact and can be used at will against India and Afghanistan.
Which is why Musharref represents no sort of long-term solution in Pakistan. Old Patriot's proposal to partition Pakistan still stands as one of the only ways to dismantle what has become our world's Terror Central.
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"they did not show me any detention order at all"
I beleive the firearms the soldiers showed him that will shoot him if he leaves, is sufficient.
Again, the key will be the ISI - is he going to remove (by any means neccesary) those Islamists there, or will he continue to tacitly condone them?
So far, no signs of it.
Third world islamic nation with rampant fundamentalists - mix with Taliban and Nukes.
Scary recipe. We need to get the nukes controlled (by us), better yet get them OUT of there. If we cannot do that then we must render them inoperative by other than diplomatic means.
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The Chinese are really enjoying watching us squirm. I doubt they'll do much to help us in any regard in this matter, though I suspect they'll do anything for Perv, including taking the bombs into protective custody short term storage. Worked for Syria. For a while.
And we have to figure out how to keep Afghanistan supplied if Pak truly becomes the anarchy it aches to be.
This will lead to Turkey and Iran ratcheting up pressure on Iraq.
After India walked out on the nuclear deal, they're a weak reed. Howard's on the way out, Brown's got his troops on the way out and Sarkozy doesn't have any to send in we could work with.
I hate to say it but we're going to have to see a lot of Americans killed before enough Americans will support the kind of kinetics the situation requires.
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NS - You've read into this the worst case scenario, could you be more negative on your spin and not be a donk plant?
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Frank, what's not realistic? Or even probable? Bottom line, Pak land is sort of like Saudi. Right now we have to keep the lid on it, distasteful as that may be, cause we can't juggle that many balls.
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NS, I was too harsh, and I apologize for the juvenile jab (still pissed off from my Chargers' non-appearance at MN), however, the Chinese have been making entreaties for Port concessions in Pak, I don't think this helps them, short or long-term
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Frank, I don't blame you for being ticked. I sure am. It's a helluva spot you've got us in Ollie.
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I concur with NS's albeit grim scenario. The scenario of radical Islam with access to nuclear weapons ranks as one of the very worst possible. Equally if not more revolting is how most of the Western world calmly accepts such a repellent notion.
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john frum's observation of the real Pak troops on the Indian border is what concerns me. He is more concerned about playing the great game with India, while the interior of Pak is rotting out before our eyes.
I think that Pak is going to crater, rapidly or slowly remains to be seen, but it will continue on its downhill slide into anarchy.
This is going to get real ugly, and there will be serious chain reactions.
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the "he" in the above comment meant Musharraf. PIMF
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Reported on NPR this afternoon: our military leaders do not want funds for the Pakistani army jeopardized during the current emergency. Secretary Rice wants General Musharref to set new elections as soon as possible. It appears Nimble Spemble's cynical view is more realistic than my hopeful view yesterday.
Gen Musharraf administered oath to Justice Dogar under the new Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) at Presidents House. Three other SC judges have taken oath under the new PCO. They are justices Nawaz Abbasi, Faqir Muhammad Khokhar and Javed Buttar.
New PHC CJ: Meanwhile, Justice Talat Qayyum Qureshi took oath as chief justice of the PHC under the PCO, Akhtar Amin reported from Peshawar.
Six judges of the PHC including former CJ Justice Tariq Pervez Khan refused to take oath under the PCO. Justice Khan told Daily Times he didnt take the oath because the SC had declared the proclamation of emergency unconstitutional. There were reports that seven more judges of the PHC had taken oath under the PCO at Governors House.
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When it comes to naked power grabs, even Hillary has to be envious of Perv's talents.
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Countdown to American moonbats speculating that President Bush will declare martial law before November, 2008 in 3...2...1...
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Iffy wanted to be an agent of change - it just wasn't the change he was thinking of...
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He's blind, thus the cross-eyed appearance
"...Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American Pakistani blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the judge wasn't going to look at the twenty-seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us."
Militants said yesterday they captured two police stations and 120 security forces in a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan that has increasingly fallen under the control of Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked extremists, bringing further embarrassment to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government.
A flag was hoisted over one of the buildings after it was abandoned by officers in the scenic Swat valley, once a popular tourist destination now plagued by fighting between paramilitary forces and Islamic militants, said Sirajuddin, who goes by one name, speaking on behalf of the insurgents. Hours later, militants took control of another police post six miles to the north, said Mian Rasool Shah, a Taliban commander, claiming his men had convinced 60 officers to leave and then locked the doors to prevent the looting of weapons.
No government official was immediately available to comment on the claims, which came a day after extremists paraded dozens of men described as surrendered government troops before journalists. They like the 120 security forces who allegedly defected after being surrounded by militants overnight were later released, Sirajuddin said.
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DIR: Unknown militants on Friday bombed the house of a Scouts official at Mula Gujar in Wari Tehsil of Dir Upper district for taking part in the ongoing operation against Maulana Fazlullah and his followers in Swat district. The unknown militants threatened the soldier of further action if he did not stop fighting against the militants.
The blast at Mula Gujar took place on Thursday night at 8 p.m. Some unidentified assailants blew up a portion of the house of Scouts official, Saadat, son of Najmuddin, to punish him for participating in action against the rebellious supporters of the cleric in Swat.
The militants in Swat have reportedly resorted to singling out soldiers and police cops combating them in the Swat district, which has aroused concern among the local political leaders and religious scholars. The elders of the district have expressed fears regarding the spillover of the Swat unrest to their area despite the fact that people there had no soft corner for Fazlullah. The administration has also been extra cautious vis-à-vis the law and order situation since the start of the operation and requested the Frontier Constabulary inspector general to do away with two checkpoints at Darora and Wari by Scouts for keeping an eye on suspects, as it feared the presence of force could trigger attacks in the area.
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Pakistan's military President Pervez Musharraf imposed sweeping curbs on the media early on Sunday after declaring emergency rule in a bid to reassert his authority.
Dawn's got the same stories we ran yesterday up on their front page. Daily Times hasn't yet put up the new day. It won't surprise me if they go a couple days without anything new.
Official state news agency Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) said Musharraf issued rules prohibiting media from broadcasting or publishing statements ridiculing him, top government officials and the military. He also stopped media from carrying statements from Islamist militants or their pictures, APP reported.
That kinda uses up all the news topix in Pakistain, doesn't it? Except for the occasional karo kiri or Qazi's latest heart problem.
Speaking to the nation on state-run Pakistan Television, Musharraf had earlier accused some television channels of adding to political uncertainty in the country. The media has flourished in Pakistan since Musharraf seized power in a military coup in 1999, but it has been highly critical of his moves since he tried to sack the country's chief justice in March. Musharraf has now taken steps to rein in the media.
As a dictator, Perv actually hasn't been very dictatorial. He's more an oligarch than a dictator.
Under the ordinance, an offender could be sentenced to up to three years in jail or fined up to 10 million rupees ($167,000). "(It) prohibits projection of anything that is based on sectarianism, ethnicity or racism, that defames, and brings into ridicule or disrepute the Head of State, or members of the Armed Forces or executive, judicial or legislative organs of the state," APP said. Shortly after imposition of emergency rule, all private news channels were taken off the air.
Do tell. If you go to church this morning, light a candle for Najam Sethi.
Followup: Daily Times has its new edition out, just a bit late. Don't forget that candle for Sethi.
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I wonder if he modeled the ordinance on the University of Delaware speech code.
Women not allowed to shop without male relatives
As reported in Daily Pakistan, the local Taliban threatened women shopping in the very busy Main Khel Bazaar in Kohat. Hand written letters threatened shopkeepers, saying that they shouldnt let women sit on the sofas in their shops. The letters also commanded women not to roam the bazaars without a mehram (male relative). The local police brushed these threats aside as a joke, not to be taken seriously.
Kashmiris struggle is for political freedom, not jihad
In an interview with Daily Pakistan magazine, Dr Mufti Ghulam Sarwar Qadri said that fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan was a jihad because Russia forcefully tried to capture Afghanistan. Kashmir can only be solved by the government of Pakistan. People cant form jihadi organisations and jump into Kashmir. Their acts, which are morally wrong, give India an excuse to oppress Kashmiris. Kashmiris are not waging jihad for Islam, but are struggling for political freedom.
Stock market bullish after presidential election
As reported in daily Express, stock market brokers consider the election of President Musharraf for the next five years a good omen, and expect that the stock market index may cross the psychological barrier of 15,000 points if present economic policies continue for the next five years. The ex-chairman of the Lahore Stock Exchange, Syed Asim Zafar, said that Pakistani stock markets are attractive for foreign investment because of the presence of a large profit margin.
Muslim ummah suffering because of extremism
According to Daily Pakistan, the chairman of Awami Tehreek, Dr Tahir ul Qadri, speaking to journalists in Shehr e Ihtikaf, said that Osama bin Laden has endangered the Muslim ummah, and extremists are spreading atheism. He said that suicide bombing is forbidden in Islam, and it is not serving the Muslim ummah, rather it is causing great difficulties for them. He also said that in the national interest, Musharraf should reconcile with Nawaz Sharif.
Ghazi brothers created fitna
In an interview with Daily Pakistan magazine, Dr Mufti Ghulam Sarwar Qadri said that the Lal Masjid crisis was not jihad, but fitna, which the Ghazi brothers created. The kidnapping of Chinese citizens and other people is not jihad. He said that Muslims should not harm other Muslims or non-Muslims. He said that the ulemas obligation is to spread the message of Islam. Forcing Islam on others is not the job of the ulema. Jihad is the obligation of the government, and the government alone.
Aiyla Malik cast her vote in burqa
As reported in daily Express, national assembly members, Shaukat Aziz and others were stunned when a minister, Yar Mohammad Rind, refused to bring his wife Aiyla Malik to cast her vote in the National Assembly in the presence of other members. After all the members left the assembly, Yar Mohammad Rind brought his wife Aiyla, in burqa, to cast her vote. Pakistan TV was prohibited from showing her picture.
Boggle.
Miandad criticises Mohammad Yousuf
According to daily Express, ex-cricketer Javed Miandad criticised Mohammad Yousufs decision to play for Pakistan while he had a contract with the Indian Cricket League. He said that as a Muslim, Mohammad Yousuf should have honoured his contract, and that even a verbal commitment is binding upon a Muslim. He asked what message we were giving the world by ignoring transparency and principles?
Wife divorced for watching male TV anchor alone
As reported in daily Nawa-e-Waqt, a Saudi Arabian national divorced his wife for watching a male anchor on television alone, according to the Saudi newspaper Al Shams. The Saudi national remained unnamed. In Saudi Arabia, men can divorce their wives without approaching the court.
Lashkar e Islam against long moustaches
As reported in daily Express, the organisation of the Afridi tribe, Lashkar e Islam, gave a one week deadline to every male to cut their long moustaches off. The Lashkar warned that if anyone tried to escape the area, his house would be burned down. The Lashkar termed long moustaches against both Islam and tribal traditions.
Buddha sculpture under attack in Swat
As reported in daily Khabrain, a 2,200 year old statue of Buddha was blasted with gunpowder, destroying its head and other parts. According to an Archaeology Department spokesman, this sculpture is the second largest in Asia, after the destruction of the Bamayan sculptures by the Taliban. Swat was the centre of the Gandhara civilisation and has hundreds of Buddhist monuments and sculptures.
Islam doesnt order women to cover their faces
In an interview with Daily Pakistan magazine, Dr Mufti Ghulam Sarwar Qadri said that according to the Holy Quran, Hadith and the ulema of Fiqa Hanafia, Islam doesnt order women to cover their faces. He said that he gave his book to Qazi Hussain Ahmad, who changed his views after reading it. Qazi was convinced that women should cover their faces in the light of Maulana Maudoodis books.
Benazirs statement changed judges verdicts
Famous columnist Haroon ur Rashid wrote in daily Express, that famous negotiator Mohammad Faisal disclosed on Tehran TV that Pakistani judges who were hearing the case against President Musharraf for holding two offices changed their decisions after Benazir Bhuttos statement regarding her willingness to provide access to Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan. The upper echelons of the government were anxious that if the president was disqualified from running for elections, then anarchy would prevail in Pakistan.
Nawaz Sharifs vendetta against Shahid Nadeem
In daily Express magazine, Ajoka theatre member and writer Shahid Mahmood Nadeem said that in 1997, when Nawaz Sharif became prime minister and came to record his speech at the Lahore PTV station, he was standing to welcome him, as the General Manager of PTV Lahore. Sharif stepped down from his car and asked did you write, Zard dopahr? Nadeem said Yes, and Sharif stared at him and said that he should prepare to face the consequences. Nadeem thinks he had been briefed by famous journalist Nazir Naji, who was accompanying Sharif.
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BAGHDAD Elements of the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 11th Iraqi Army Division entered the Abu Hanifa Mosque in the eastern Adhamiyah neighorhood of the Iraqi capital in an early morning operation and detained 12 individuals, including two known terrorists who were using the mosque as a base.
The captured terrorists are suspected of improvised explosive device emplacement, kidnapping, murder of Iraqi civilians and attacks against Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition Forces throughout Baghdad. They are also known to have links with al-Qaeda, said Capt. Phillip Dow, a staff officer with the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, the U.S. unit responsible for security in the area.
The operation was a result of tips received from local citizens. After concerned residents relayed the information that the terrorists were inside the mosque, the Iraqi Army moved in, backed by U.S. Soldiers from the 3-7 Cav., 2nd BCT, 82 Abn Div., who secured the perimeter.
After requesting proper permission to enter the mosque compound, the Iraqi Army element came under fire inside the building and had to return fire, wounding one of the insurgents. Iraqi Army troops pursued the attackers throughout the mosque compound, eventually detaining the 12 insurgents.
U. S. Soldiers who were securing the outer cordon also came under smallarms fire and grenade attacks during the operation, but suffered no injuries.
Lt. Col. Jeff Broadwater, commander of the 3-7 Cav, 2nd BCT, 82 Abn Div., said he and Col. Adel, commander of the 1/1/11 IA Battalion, considered all tactical options before requesting permission to conduct the operation because of the religious significance of the mosque.
Iraqi officials close the second main headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Solution party in Sulaimaniyah 'due to its PKK links'.
The closure comes as officials from the northern Kurdish administration on Saturday closed the party's main office in Irbil, a northern Iraqi city that serves as capital to the government of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region. "The authorities in Irbil have closed our office without an explanation. The security forces came to the office and made official lists of the materials and equipment in the office and ordered everyone to leave,'' said Faeq Goolpie, a security official with the party.
Turkey had urged the party's closure, saying it is a front organization for the PKK. The move comes amid today's promises by the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, vowing to support Turkey's strong measures against the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK).
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Ma'an Israeli tanks and jeeps invaded the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem and the neighboring refugee camp of the same name at dawn on Saturday. Tulkarem residents said the gunfire was "intense" when Israeli forces roamed the streets. Palestinian fighters fought responded to the attack. Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigades detonated a bomb near one Israeli tank. Israeli forces withdrew from the area in the early morning. No arrests or injuries were reported.
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Fatah al-Islam's spokesman Abu Salim Taha named the perpetrators of the Feb. 13 twin bus bombings in Ain Alaq north of Beirut that left three people killed and 23 others wounded.
Abu Taha identified the executors as Abu Omar al-Hijji, a Syrian who was killed at the beginning of the Nahr al-Bared fighting, and Mustafa Siyor, also a Syrian who is in police custody.
The daily As Safir, which carried the report, said the Lebanese army's intelligence bureau was capable of "drawing a complete pyramid" of the al-Qaida-inspired Fatah al-Islam terrorist group. Citing unnamed sources, the paper said Abu Taha presented "all the facts" related to bank robberies designed for financing his group. After 50 days of investigation, Abu Taha also named Fatah al-Islam's financial coordinator as Abu Ritaj, possibly a Saudi, whose lineage goes back to al-Qaida.
Taha presented a list of Fatah al-Islam names who are largely Syrian. The report said 70 Fatah al-Islam members are Syrian, 50 Saudis, another 50 of various Arab nationalities, in addition to about 20 Palestinians, 10 Jordanians and others from Afghan, Chechnya and Serbia.
Bomb blasts tore through two buses in Lebanon on February 13, 2007, killing three people and injuring 23 in the Metn region east of Beirut, as the deeply divided nation prepared to commemorate Hariri's murder two years ago. The blasts, which occurred minutes apart, tore through two buses traveling on a busy commuter road. A higher death toll was averted because passengers from the second bus had rushed out to help the victims of the first explosion.
On March 14, 2007, four Syrians held by the Lebanese authorities confessed to bombing the two buses. Security officials said that the ring leader of the plot was a Syrian, Mustafa Sayour, who had confessed to planting the bombs.
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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
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(SomaliNet) At least one person has been killed and seven more were wounded over night in bomb attack which targeted on a Hotel in Dolow district on the Ethiopian border with Somalia as larger military movement was continuing at Gedo region in south of Somalia. 
A man in his early thirties was arrested for violating anti-terrorism law, British Police said on Saturday. The arrest of the 31-year-old man took place in Dundee city in Scotland, British Counter Terror Unit (CTU) said in a statement. The suspect has been taken to a security unit center for questioning, the statement added.
Pro-Taliban militants in Swat captured 120 security forces personnel on Friday night but freed them on Saturday after disarming them. We released them on Saturday because they agreed to return to their homes and not to fight with (their) Muslim brothers, a spokesman for rebel cleric 
President Gen Pervez Musharraf appointed Justice 
Pakistan's military President Pervez Musharraf imposed sweeping curbs on the media early on Sunday after declaring emergency rule in a bid to reassert his authority.
Women not allowed to shop without male relatives
BAGHDAD Elements of the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 11th Iraqi Army Division entered the Abu Hanifa Mosque in the eastern Adhamiyah neighorhood of the Iraqi capital in an early morning operation and detained 12 individuals, including two known terrorists who were using the mosque as a base.
