Govt stabbed MQM in the back: Altaf

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has lashed out at the PPP-led government for postponing the election on three constituencies of the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly and urged the judiciary to take notice of the `undemocratic, unethical and illegal act’.
Addressing a workers’ convention by phone from London on Sunday, Mr Hussain said that by `deceiving’ its true ally the government had started the beginning of its own destruction.
He asked the MQM’s coordination committee to complete consultations with workers and office-bearers within a week so that the party could finalise its future course of action.
The MQM had announced boycotting the AJK polls after elections on three constituencies were postponed. The workers’ conventions were held in various parts of Pakistan to seek their opinion in the wake of present circumstances.
Mr Hussain minced no words when he said that the government had stabbed the MQM in the back despite the fact that the party had supported it in even difficult times and nominated Asif Ali Zardari for the office of the president at a time when no one from the PPP was willing to suggest his name. “Was it the crime of the MQM that it had nominated Asif Zardari as president and had unconditionally supported Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at the time of his election?”
He said the MQM was forced to boycott the elections because of what he called dictatorial steps of the government and added that the government was hiding its `true face’ under the veil of democracy. “This veil should be removed so that people could see their real face.
Although they say they have learnt from their past mistakes but it seems they have learnt nothing,” the MQM leader said
He said the government had made the results of the Azad Kashmir elections unacceptable to the people of Pakistan.
Mr Hussain alleged that some PPP leaders had asked the MQM that if it did not give one seat of AJK assembly from Karachi to them then they would get the elections postponed. “I asked them as to why we give you a seat…have you arrested the killers of Benazir Bhutto,” he said sarcastically.
He announced that a `day of condemnation’ would be observed every June 26 in protest against the alleged illegal and unconstitutional acts of the government.
Mr Hussain asked those representatives of the government who had faith in democracy to raise their voice against this injustice.
He directed the MQM coordination committee to file petitions with courts with a pray to declare the elections null and void and order the authorities to hold it afresh.
He appealed to the chief justice of Pakistan, the chief justice of Azad Jammu and Kashmir as well as the chief justices of provincial high courts to “support the oppressed people against the decision of the present government”

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PPP poised to gain simple majority

MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistan People’s Party AJK appeared to have gained simple majority in the AJK Legislative Assembly as unofficial results for 36 of the 37 constituencies for which elections were held on Sunday poured in at late night.
But a private TV channel reported that the PPP leadership had decided to invite the Muslim Conference to form a broad-based government.
According to the channel, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani contacted AJK Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, the chief of the Muslim Conference.
Unofficial results showed that of the 29 constituencies in the AJK territory, the PPP had either won or was leading by a sizeable margin in 18, followed by the MC which had clinched victory in four and the PML-N which emerged victorious in four constituencies (two of them won by its chief organiser Raja Farooq Haider).
One independent candidate also emerged victorious, whereas results in one constituency, LA 17, Poonch-I, were being awaited. According to sources, the situation was tense in the constituency.
In the eight constituencies of Kashmiri refugees in Pakistan, the PML-N won in four, PPP in two and MC in one. An independent candidate also won a seat.
Polling in four constituencies of Kashmiri refugees has been postponed.
Prominent among the winners were Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan and former premiers Sardar Yaqoob Khan, Barrister Sultan Mahmood, Raja Farooq Haider.
PPAJK’s President Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, senior vice-president Chaudhry Mohammad Yasin, secretary general Chaudhry Latif Akbar were also among the winners. However, the defeat was of the party’s vice-president Khawaja Farooq Ahmed was shocking who had fallen victim to intrigues by some of leaders of his own party.
Losers included AJKLA speaker and PPAJK candidate Chaudhry Anwaarul Haq who was defeated by PML-N’s Chaudhry Tariq Farooq, despite having received the backing of AJK President Raja Zulqarnain Khan.
PML-N organising committee’s secretary Shah Ghulam Qadir, who had chosen Neelum Valley to contest this time, instead of his previous constituency in Rawalpindi, lost to PPP candidate Mian Abdul Waheed.
Elections were held amid serious objections raised over flawed electoral rolls and inadequate security arrangements which resulted in violence in several areas, leaving at least two persons dead and scores others wounded.
The Election Commission had postponed on Saturday polling in three of the 12 constituencies for Kashmiri refugees in Pakistan, citing law and order problems and a controversy over nearly 500 votes.
On Sunday, polling in another Kashmiri constituency in Lahore – LA 37 Valley-II – was also postponed by Chief Election Commissioner Khawaja Mohammad Saeed in the wake of serious law and order problems.
Elsewhere, polling began at 8 am but turnout which was low in the early hours picked up in the afternoon.
However, voters and polling agents were heard literally cursing the EC over flawed electoral rolls, which caused inconvenience not only to them but also to polling staff and led to altercations.
In many areas, the lists provided to presiding officers were either incomplete or did not match with the ones held by supporters of candidates outside polling stations.
Although polling in urban areas was by and large peaceful, severe clashes and even exchanges of firing were reported from rural areas, leading to suspension of polling in many stations. Most of the quarrels took place between supporters of PPP and PML-N.
In LA 25, Muzaffarabad-II, a man identified as Mohammad Bashir, reportedly a supporter of independent candidate Chaudhry Shahzad, died in hospital after having suffered stab wounds. Another man was injured in the clash. Police arrested five people from the area.
Another casualty was reported from LA 6, Bhimber-II, in an exchange of fire between PPP and PML-N workers for nearly an hour. The deceased identified as Raja Iftikhar was said to be a PML-N supporter.
However, AJK IGP Dr Tarik Ahmed Khokhar said he was ‘extremely satisfied’ over security arrangements made for the polls.
“Barring a few incidents, the whole process remained extremely peaceful, notwithstanding fears about large-scale violence,” he told Dawn.
EC Secretary Mohammad Younas Mughal told newsmen that polling in the four constituencies of Kashmiri refugees where election had been postponed for different reasons would be held next month.
Our Correspondent adds from Sialkot: PML-N candidate Chaudhry Muhammad Ishaq won by defeating PPP’s Chaudhry Shaukat Wazir Ali in LA-32 Jammu III, Sialkot.
According to unofficial results, Mr Ishaq bagged 24,407 votes against Mr Wazir Ali’s 18,101.
Muslim Conference candidate Sahibzada Hamid Raza got 7,510 votes.
Our correspondent adds from Attock: PML-N candidates were leading against their opponents in LA-35 Jammu & others-6 and Kashmir Vally-5 constituencies of Attock district.
EC spokesman for Attock Syed Zaigham Altaf told newsmen that according to unofficial results, PML-N candidate Raja Muhammad Saddique begged 1,475 votes while PPP aspirant Amin Chughtai got 647 and Sardar Abdul Razzak of the Muslim Conference 30 votes in LA-35.
According to unofficial results, of the 100 votes cast in Kashmir Vally-5, PML-N candidate Bashir Ahmed secured 42 votes while PPP candidate Abdul Salam Butt bagged 40.
Our Peshawar Bureau adds: A scuffle took place between supporters of the PML-N and PPP in the lone polling station in Peshawar set up for the LA-35, Jammu 6 constituency.
No untoward incident took place in other parts of the province.
Polling for LA-41 has been postponed.
Our Staff Reporter adds from Lahore: The AJK Election Commission postponed polling for LA-37 constituency after receiving reports of brawls between PPP and PML-N activists at various polling stations set up in the provincial metropolis.
Clashes were reportedly from polling stations in Qila Luxman Singh, Government Chishtia High School, Islampura, and Home Economics College in Misri Shah.
In Faisalabad, a clash between supporters of PML-N and an independent candidate left two people injured during polling for LA-38 constituency.
In Gujrat, police registered cases against 28 PML-N workers during polling for LA 34 in close contest between a PPP-PML-Q nominee and a PML-N candidate.

Today the government has started the destruction, Altaf Hussain

LONDON: MQM Chief Altaf Hussain has said that demand for workers seeking re-election in Kashmir dayrkryn, today's elections against the MQM activist courts kadruazh khtkhtayyn, we were rewarded hard to kasath tougher time in government, the government todayA large gathering of the scene offering was that the title of Karachi and Hyderabad and Lahore directly snagya. Altaf Hussain said that bullying 93 in Naseerullah Babar was current with the cmty stay prbarbartany were , kdaky, we're giving heart kasath prpthrrkh krhkumt, Chief Justice of Supreme Court and the Constitution and laws kanuts jhrlu elections brought into action, the PPP government is roguish, MQM plans to end state repression will never be fulfilled , Kashmiris and their democratic right to undermine democratic rights has been put on the dakh. Altaf Hussain said, but declined azadksmyrantkabat kumskuk bnadyagya, PPP and fought us khagyaap pralyksn kudydyn a seat, the leader of the MQM said that every difficult time in khaym kasath government did the killers bynzyrbhtuky kugrftarkrlya, azadksmyrkaaj kaalyksn prhuahy government power bill, it aurgyrayyny turprgyrqanuny elections are completed, he said the current government is not democratic dictatorship bdtrhy the MQM was kuksmyrantkabat yadtazh of the durrkh kramryt,Current government democratic traditions kajnazh removed, the Axis back knjrghunp kramryt the yadtazh said, next June 26 the day of condemnation turprmnayajayyga current government election boycott prmjburkya, he said kyasdrzrdary kusdart for namzdkrnahmarajrm was hkmranutyrtluaryn tyzkrluhmary chest ready Altaf Hussain said that the elections be held qrardykrdubarh banned, the government will look krzualfqaraly bhtuaurbynzyrky yearning soul, betrayed his alliance government, democratic fkrrkhny rise up against the government's bullying, Altaf Hussain, the Democratic qututhe MQM from the government becomes kind tukdaky aqtdarmyn today are not. 

Remote Chinese region hit by 5.3 quake

BEIJING: A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck China’s Tibetan-inhabited region of Qinghai Sunday afternoon, the US Geological Survey reported, in an area hit by a devastating quake last year.
The epicentre of the quake was in Yushu prefecture and struck at a depth of 24.8 kilometres (15.4 miles), the USGS said.
Yushu was the site of a 6.9-magnitude earthquake in April 2010 that left nearly 2,700 people dead and more than 12,000 injured, according to state news reports.
The region, situated on the remote Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, is largely inhabited by ethnic Tibetans.
Calls to Yushu government offices on Sunday were not immediately answered.
Xinhua news agency said the epicentre of the quake was about 185 kilometres south of Gyegu town, which was flattened by last year’s earthquake that left more than 100,000 people homeless.
China Central Television said the earthquake was felt strongly in the region, but did not immediately report damages or fatalities.
The quake was not an aftershock related to last year’s temblor, it added.
According to the China Earthquake Network Centre, the quake measured a magnitude of 5.2.

Govt to consolidate data about terrorists

ISLAMABAD, June 25: Despite repeated claims by Interior Minister Rehman Malik that all possible measures are being taken to counter terrorism, the government is yet to formulate a consolidated databank on terrorists.
The issue was discussed at a recent meeting of civilian and military law-enforcement agencies, especially those working on terrorism, and they agreed to rope in the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) to create and maintain such a databank on a fast-track basis.
According to sources, it emerged during the meeting that various government departments at the national and provincial levels were maintaining data on terrorists for their own use and the information remained fragmented in the absence of a central authority.
Therefore, at the time of need, it becomes very difficult to check the identity of a suicide bomber or terrorist on a speedy basis whether he or she is a Pakistani national or a foreigner. It is a common problem faced by the law-enforcement agencies.
The meeting unanimously approved a proposal for managing consolidated data on terrorists on modern lines under a central authority. The function may be performed by a proposed national counter-terrorism authority (Nacta).
Under the plan, Nadra will have separate databanks on Pakistanis and foreigners suspected or found involved in terrorist
activities.
The practice is common all over the world where one authority manages such information, making it easier for investigators who here have to reach out to many agencies to check identity of terrorists.
The participants recommended reactivation of Nacta on an urgent basis with adequate funding to implement its strategy.
They called for building consensus among stakeholders to make stringent laws on the subject and discussed the creation of a special anti-terrorism force.
The Nacta Ordinance introduced in 2009 is yet to be tabled in parliament, pending approval of the cabinet.
The Federal Investigation Agency’s former director general Tariq Parvaiz was appointed the first chairman of the authority by the interior minister but he resigned after seeing no progress on the ordinance over a year.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had decided at a meeting of chief ministers, chief secretaries and security officers held on July 5 last year after the Data Darbar bomb blasts that Nacta would be reactivated.
The authority was to act as a research organisation and the European Union had pledged 15 million euros for it.
Preparation of a draft to provide a legal cover to it was started. However, discussions and input from various political parties over a year resulted only in a decision to make the prime minister its chairman with the interior minister as vice-chairman.
According to media reports, the Punjab government had expressed reservations over placement of Nacta under the interior ministry and suggested that it should function under the prime minister.
Former FIA DG, Malik Javed Iqbal, who was recently indicted in a contempt of court case, is the new head of Nacta. The Supreme Court questioned his role in investigating the National Insurance Company scam.

Suicide bomber in wheelchair kills two in Iraq

BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber in a wheelchair attacked a police station north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing two people and wounding 17, nine of them policemen, officials said.
“A suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest at the entrance to a police station, killing two civilians and wounding 17 people, including nine policemen in Tarmiyah,” a town north of Baghdad, an interior ministry official said. A defence ministry official confirmed the report.
“The suicide bomber came up to the entrance in a wheelchair,” said Colonel Tawfiq Ahmed al-Jenabi, chief of the town’s police, who added he did not know if the attacker was genuinely handicapped.
Meanwhile, two people were wounded by an improvised bomb that exploded next to a convoy transporting Mohammed Ahmed al-Obaidi, mayor of the town of Al-Riyadh in the restive northern province of Kirkuk.
Obaidi, who escaped unhurt and spoke to AFP after the attack, lost a foot in a similar bombing in June last year.
Twenty-four people were killed on Thursday in three separate attacks in Baghdad, including 21 in a triple bombing at a crowded market, and an American contractor working for USAID whose convoy was hit by an improvised bomb.

Polling for AJK Legislative Assembly elections concluded

MIRPUR: Kashmiris living in AJK as well as different parts of Pakistan on Sunday casted their votes to elect a new AJK Legislative Assembly.
Voting took place in 37 out of 41 electoral constituencies including 29 of AJK and 8 out of all 12 meant for Pakistan-based Jammu & Kashmir refugees in a partially peaceful and smooth manner, officials said.
Elections were postponed in three constituencies including LA -30 (Jammu-I) and LA-36 (Kashmir valley-I) due to worsening law and order situation in Karachi and in LA-41 (Kashmir valley-6) following challenging of voters list related to Khyber PakhtunKhawa province in the court of law.
Similarly, polling in electoral constituency of LA-37 (Kashmir valley) in Lahore was postponed following violent clashes between the workers of PPP and PML-N at the beginning of polling on Sunday morning, AJK Elections Commission sources told APP when contacted.
The polling started at 08:00 a.m and continued till 05:00 p.m without any pause in line with the schedule set by AJK Election Commission.
“There was complete peace and we performed our duties independently without any unrest from any quarter including candidates or their supporters during the polling,” Presiding Officer of the Polling Station set up at Industrial Rest House in the Mirpur city constituency said.
He said, during polling, computerized National Identity Card in original were required to be produced by the voters as the proof of their identification in line with the directives of AJK Election Commission.
The voters were seen moving to the polling stations on their own, however, female voters, in some constituencies, were seen moving through the vehicles belonging to various candidates.
Para-military troops were posted at the sensitive polling stations in all the electoral constituencies to assist the civil administration and police to maintain law and order situation.
A thumping majority of a total of 30,39,926 eligible registered voters (both male and female) moved to 4351 polling stations to exercise their right of vote to elect their representatives for AJK Legislative Assembly, the AJK Election Commission sources said.
Strict security measures were adopted by local administrations in all the electoral constituencies to deal with any untoward incident effectively.
Over 700 polling stations were declared sensitive where extra para-military troops were deployed to assist the local police for dealing with any eventuality.
The polling agents of various candidates and polling staff deployed at various polling stations while talking to batkhela-movies. expressed their complete satisfaction over the voting process.

The destruction of the govt has begun: Altaf Hussain

KARACHI: MQM Chief Altaf Hussain said that selecting Asif Zardari as President of Pakistan was a mistake. He said that if the MQM was to seperate from the government, then the tenure of the ruling party would come to an end.
“The destruction of the government has begun today,” said the MQM chief.
In a telephonic address to general workers of the MQM in Karachi, Altaf Hussain said that the current democratic government is trying to fool the people of Pakistan.
“The current government is worse than any dictatorship,” said the MQM chief.
“MQM has supported the government through difficult times. The current government has buried democracy,” he said.
Altaf Hussain also called upon the Kashmiri people to boycott the elections in Azad Kashmir.
He also called upon the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Chaudahry to take notice of the unconstitutional and illegal steps being taken by the government.
The MQM chief stated that the elections in Azad Kashmir should be held again.

Burqa-clad militants kill 7 police in Pakistan siege

PESHAWAR: At least seven policemen were killed Saturday when militants in suicide vests, some of them clad in burqas, laid siege to a police station in northwest Pakistan, police said.
Up to eight militants attacked Kolachi police station near the border with South Waziristan tribal district, using guns and hand grenades to take a group of policemen hostage in an attack that also left five militants dead and seven more police wounded.
“Seven of our policemen were martyred in the attack,” regional police chief Imtiaz Shah told AFP.
Shah said the siege began when attackers dressed in women’s burqas took out guns at the station’s main gate and killed policemen deployed there.
The militants then damaged the boundary wall with hand grenades, enabling more rebels to follow them into the building.
About 17 policemen were on duty at the time and were taken hostage by the militants once they ran out of ammunition, the police chief said.
As security forces were called to the scene and cordoned off the police station, two of the attackers detonated their suicide vests, while three others were shot dead by security forces, Shah said.
“About two to three attackers are left now, and security forces are trading fire with them as they have left the police station building,” Shah said.
 in the attack.
Khan said that since the police station was close to the lawless tribal belt, it was likely that the attackers had come from there. A security official confirmed the attack and casualties.
Television footage showed thick black smoke billowing from the roof of the fortress-like police station and security forces and police firing at militants.
Nearly 4,500 people have been killed across Pakistan in attacks blamed on Taliban and other extremist networks based in the tribal belt since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007.

Lebanon: Hezbollah capture of the 3 U.S. spy claims

Beirut: Lebanese Hezbollah organization mujudtyn rhnmahsn Nasrallah claimed that American spies have been caught. Speech TV in Beirut during the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrullah, the company said the three CIA agents were arrested khnathakh grftardu their agents were protected by the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. nsra be good five months before the company said a detective involved in the organizational activities and military capabilities kyagyatha but there was no danger, nor to their Information about the organization was sensitive. He accused Israel of using the CIA agents involved in the Hezbollah, in Beirut, U.S. Embassy spokesman Hassan Nasrallah said the allegations were dismissed by the Sea These are baseless allegations against c ia and not in accuracy. 

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Punjab: 90 million ID cards will be a period of thirty June kuktm

Lahore: Punjab 90 million ID card expired three June kuktm will make the NADRA renewal fee of fifty percent increased. Identity cards to the large number Expiration kaanksaf General mnyjrnadrakrnl retired mhmdaqbal the talking was.. He told ID cards After fifty fysdazafy tjdydfys of Rs 200 to Rs 300 has been upgrade. myaadktm massacre by General Manager NADRA NIC bnaskyn huldrpaspurt will not be eligible to vote in elections, nor will they

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Karachi hot and dry weather across the country ....The long and unannounced load shedding is due toserious problems. Sindh urban has not reducedthe intensity of heat. Hyderabad, Nawabshah,Larkana, Jacob Karachi and Sukkur, including theintense heat engulfed. In the meantime, 14 to 16hours long and the load shedding civilian lifeboring have. South usmal eastern Balochistan heatintensity further increased. last day astemperatures fall in the relative temperaturereached 46. on the other hand is a continuingseries of unannounced ludsydng. Multan insouthern Punjab, Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh,Layyah, Lodhran, Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan,kanyua Ltd. and Vehari in the season dry andwarm. electricity load shedding period, as therelationship is. urban areas 10 rural areas 12-hournon-announced load shedding the karrubarzndgykumatl and kept. kybrpktunkua territories summerload shedding for several hours while wrapped in a user's problems.

Suspension seats for Kashmir's speech against the MQM auٴt

Karachi: Karachi Kashmir independentsuspension seats against the MQM arkaan walkfrom the Sindh Assembly has auٴt. Sindh AssemblySpeaker Nisar Khuhro's presided over the meetingbegan. During the meeting in Karachi Azad Kashmir suspension seats, members of theMQM's deputy parliamentary leader of MQM inSindh Assembly Faisal Sabzwari auٴt speech wassitting in the chair. auٴt speech, talking to the mediathat Pakistan Faisal Sabzwari PPP, MQM wanted to either withdraw from the election to be set.Faisal Sabzwari the Election Commission and thepoor law and order situation in Sindh to the exactrequirements of democratic elections to bepostponed and profits MQM baykat anddemocratic rights of assembly is used. themembers of the PPP in Sindh Assembly, JamMehtab, Ayaz Soomro, Murad Ali Shah andmembers of the MQM symzakrat failed to bring themeeting back .

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Nora's Ark playing political mafia, Imran Khan

Lahore:   PTI chief Imran Khan has said that theMafia is playing little charade. "Governmentprevention htauٴ country 'movement from Lahore toMultan rhaysga minutes before departure Talkingto media that Zardari: Imran Khan kakhnathaNawaz Sharif is playing together and little charadeto hide aurkrpsn are supporting each other. He said that the Supreme Court against Presidenttakes no action if Nawaz Sharif and other partiesthat support democracy in the guise of protecting ,transparent elections in the presence of thePresident of the Supreme Court is not expected to be requested gyrjanbdaranh elections. kakhnathaImran Khan's PTI party in the upcoming generalelections will not stop the road