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Pakistan itself invited UN working group, NA told

Posted: September 18, 2012 in Articles, Current Affairs, UK News, World Affairs
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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Wednesday said the United Nations human rights team is visiting Pakistan on the government’s invitation.

She told the National Assembly that the team had also visited as many as a dozen countries and another 91 countries had invited it.

She, however, said the team was not mandated to conduct any investigation in the missing persons’ issue. She told the House that Pakistan had its own mechanism for protection of human rights.

“The commission on missing persons is working. The Supreme Court has taken suo motu and the government is all sincere in protection of human rights,” she added.

Khar said the working group was mandated to engage with the governments to promote human rights.
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Canada to curb activities of ‘pro-Khalistan’ extremists

Posted: September 18, 2012 in Current Affairs, UK News, World Affairs
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Canada today assured India that it would do everything possible to curb the activities of ‘pro-Khalistan’ extremists from its soil as the issue figured prominently during talks between External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and visiting Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird.

Ottawa also offered to supply natural gas to India and reassured New Delhi of its commitment to fast-track the remaining procedures for the implementation of the civil nuclear deal signed between the two countries in June 2010.

Addressing a joint press conference with Krishna after the talks, Baird said India and Canada were on the same page as far as the fight against extremism and terrorism was concerned. He acknowledged that Krishna had raised with him reports of pro-‘Khalistan’ groups regrouping in Canada and their events being attended by even Canadian leaders.

“We have taken note of that (India’s concerns)…our government will do everything possible to control radical extremism,” he said.

Baird pointed out that whenever incidents of anti-India activities came to the notice of his government, it had taken appropriate action. The government was also trying to sensitise Canadian officers about the sensitivity of the issue so that they could act with better understanding.

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Pakistan, India ease visa curbs

Posted: September 14, 2012 in Articles, Comunilism & Terrorism, Current Affairs, UK News, World Affairs
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ISLAMABAD: Replacing a 38-year-old restrictive visa regime, Pakistan and India on Saturday signed the much-awaited liberalised visa agreement to ease restrictions on visitors from both the countries and to ensure time-bound visa approvals and boost trade.

The new visa agreement will facilitate multiple-entry and police reporting-free visas for businessmen, allowing them to visit five cities instead of three. It will also introduce for the first time group tourist, pilgrim visas and visa on arrival for those over 65 years of age.

Business visa has been separated from visitor’s visa.

The new pact was signed between Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna at the Interior Ministry. The new visa agreement was supposed to be signed in May during the home/interior secretary-level talks held in Islamabad but got postponed after Pakistan wanted to sign it at political level. The old visa regime was signed in 1974.

Under the new agreement, diplomatic visa (Category-I) will be issued within a period not exceeding 30 days of application. The visa will be valid for the place and duration of assignment and special permission shall be sought for visiting other places. Diplomatic visa (Category-II) will be granted to high-ranking dignitaries holding diplomatic passports and there will be no special mention of the visit.

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Taliban mock US blacklisting of Haqqani network

KABUL: The Taliban denounced Saturday US moves to blacklist the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network as a terrorist organisation, saying it would have no impact on operations and was indicative of US defeat in Afghanistan.

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In a statement released through micro-blogging site Twitter, it said there was “no separate entity… in Afghanistan by the name of Haqqani”, adding that the network’s founder and its fighters were totally loyal to Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar.

The militia, which is leading a decade-long insurgency against Nato troops and the Afghan government, claimed previous terrorist designations against its members had no impact on operations and said “this latest announcement will also be ineffective”.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday she would press ahead with the Haqqani blacklisting, which will make it a crime in the United States to provide the network with any material support, and freeze any of their property or interests in the US.

The United States blamed the Haqqanis for a June hotel attack just outside Kabul, the 2011 siege on the US embassy and, in 2009, the deadliest attack on the CIA in 25 years.

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Suicide bomber kills 6, mostly children, outside NATO forces headquarters in Kabul, reports say

KABUL — A suicide bomber killed at least six people, most of them children, in one of the Afghan capital’s highest-security zones when he detonated his explosives Saturday not far from the walled headquarters of NATO-backed military forces, witnesses and officials said.

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No foreign troops were among the dead, the military coalition said. Reports conflicted over how the bomber entered the area, but it is readily accessible via a street closed to most vehicles but frequented by pedestrians and cyclists.

The Taliban asserted responsibility for the attack, saying it was carried out in response to the U.S. announcement Friday that it would designate the Taliban-allied Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization, freezing the group’s assets in the United States, among other sanctions.

The bomber, described by Kabul police as 14, detonated his explosives about 150 feet from the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force, the coalition made up mostly of U.S. troops.

Several sensitive facilities — including a CIA station, the Italian and Spanish embassies and an installation of the Afghan spy service — abut the street. Their entrances are heavily guarded, but no security barriers to the street itself were in place even a few hours after the noonday blast, when a reporter visited the scene.

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Blasphemy: 52 ‘murdered’ in 2 decades in Pak

Fifty-two persons have been extra-judicially murdered on charges of blasphemy in various parts of Pakistan since 1990, the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) has said in its latest report.

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The report titled: ‘Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan; Historical Overview’, said that ever since the introduction of stringent amendments in blasphemy laws under General Ziaul Haq’s rule, more people suffered from communal clashes than ever in the sub-continent. The number of blasphemy-related incidents shot up during Zia’s rule, during which 80 cases were reported to the courts compared to only seven such cases during the British rule from 1851 to 1947.

Since 1987, more than 247 blasphemy cases were registered or raised, directly affecting the lives of some 435 people.

Of these 52, 25 were Muslims, 15 were Christians, five were Ahmadis, one was Buddhist and one was Hindu.

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VIEW: Punjabi Hindus: forlorn and on the path to extinction

Posted: September 14, 2012 in Articles, Comunilism & Terrorism, Current Affairs, UK News, World Affairs
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Most of them in the religious garb are defying and violating the Sufi masters. To me it is nothing less than a rape

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Just as a piece of paper knows not where it will land when blown and tossed around by the strong winds, we too, for some reason, can end up in a place we had no plans of going to. That is exactly what happened when we left home to go to Pakpattan but ended up in Malikahans. Gulshan Dyal, who was visiting from the US, wanted to go to Pakpattan to pay homage to Baba Fareed and get his blessings.

On the way, someone suggested to visit Waris Shah’s mosque and shrine since it was on the way. Personally, I did not really care to see this shrine or the mosque, and I had my own reasons for that. Firstly, many years ago as a producer of a TV film, I had seen Waris Shah’s shrine and his beloved Bhagbhari’s quarters.

Secondly and most importantly, I have never been drawn to or was ever interested in bowing and praying in front of these shrines of bricks and stones. Whatever our Sufi saints and poets wrote and sermonised was actually to enlighten mankind. Unfortunately, after their demise, instead of believing in and practicing their teachings, people thronged to their tombs and shrines to worship and ask for blessings.

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Joint statement on Pakistan-India talks

ISLAMABAD: A meeting between Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna was held in a cordial, candid and constructive atmosphere at the Foreign Office on Saturday.

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According to a joint statement issued following the meeting, the ministers reviewed the status of bilateral relations and expressed satisfaction on the holding of meetings on the issues of counterterrorism (including progress on Mumbai trial) and narcotics control; humanitarian issues; commercialal and economic cooperation; Wullar Barrage, Tulbul Navigation Project, Sir Creek, Siachen, peace and security, including confidence building measures; Jammu and Kashmir and promotion of friendly exchanges.

The ministers noted that the dialogue process is guided by the commitment of leadership of the two countries, expressed at the highest level, to find peaceful and mutually acceptable solutions to all outstanding issues and to build a relationship of trust and all round cooperation between Pakistan and India.

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Girls’ school blown up in Mohmand

GHALANAI: Unidentified men blew up a government girls’ primary school in Khazeena area of tehsil Safi in Mohmand Agency late on Friday night.

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According to sources, the attackers blew up with explosives, the school in Zeenat Kor area and fled. No loss of life was reported as the school was empty at the time of the blast. The political administration officials cordoned off the area.

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Apple iPhone 5’s design thrills its partners, but may cost users

The iPhone 5 has plenty of new features to keep Apple fans happy. But there is one feature Apple unveiled on Wednesday that is likely to annoy many: a new connector on the phone’s base.

The Lightning port, as Apple calls it, is smaller and shaped differently from the old one, instantly rendering obsolete the millions of spare charging cords, docks and iPhone-ready clock radios that its customers have accumulated over the years

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