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Dunya News-28-05-2012-ButtAmezian & Loadshedding
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
We will contest the elections against Bilawal, says banned Peoples Amn Committee head Uzair Baloch
KARACHI: For a man who has been a Bhutto loyalist election after election in Lyari, a crackdown sanctioned by the Pakistan Peoples Party government has inspired ire the likes of which no one could have expected.
Uzair Baloch, who took on the mantle of the powerful Rehman Baloch aka Dakait’s group after his death, has been a central figure in the neighbourhood, which has been a traditional constituency of the PPP. But as the bullets flew between the police and resistance for a fifth day, Uzair’s anger took a nasty turn:
“We will oppose Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari if he contests the election from Lyari.”
Uzair said that he was affiliated with the Pakistan Peoples Party no more and in the next polls they would stand against it. “We are really tired of supporting imported candidates in our area,” he said. For him, Bilawal was neither mature nor conversant with the dynamics of the area’s politics. “How one can assume that a boy will bring about change if he doesn’t even know the language of the people,” he asked.
And now, he is seeing which other party to join and stresses that he has been approached by many and even independent groups.
The operation
As far as the operation to ostensibly cleanse Lyari of ‘criminals’ is concerned, Baloch said that he along with his people would resist to the last breath.
Had Dr Zulfiqar Mirza still been home minister the people of Lyari would never have faced this. “I have many things to disclose, which I will share with media later on,” he said.
Uzair dwelt on the amn committee, which he said was the brainchild of Zulfiqar Mirza and President Asif Ali Zardari who wanted to control crime and start social work in Baloch- and Sindhi-dominated areas of Karachi. “The task was given to Rehman Baloch,” he explained before going on to allege that he was killed on the instigation of Nabeel Gabol and other elected MPAs of the area.
The problem was that crime went down 70% when Rehman Baloch aka Dakait took an initiative against street crime in Lyari and Malir. According to Uzair, this did not go down well with elected representatives who were patronising criminals. Rehman Baloch had to be tackled. For his part, however, Nabeel Gabol said that criminals had been relying on blackmail politics. “We will not let 10 per cent of criminals to rule Lyari,” he said. “Every day they blackmail the government, demanding a quota for jobs and budgets for different schemes,” he added.
“None other but the PPP will win again from Lyari. The people of Lyari will elect Bilawal Bhutto if the party nominates him,” he added.
He refuted Uzair’s stance that President Zardari had drummed up the PAC. “It was a gang of criminals who had taken the initiative to make PAC for their own interests. The PPP has nothing to do with it.”
PPP MPA Saleem Hingoro, who also belongs to Lyari, said that during a meeting with President Zardari at Bilawal House all of the elected representatives of the area had endorsed an operation. And now, not just Lyari, but an operation would be started in other volatile areas of Karachi as well.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 2nd, 2012.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Ghinwa Bhutto: Bush Threatened Us, But Zardari Has Taken Pakistan To The Stone Age
Ghinwa Bhutto, the chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party-SB, says Pakistan’s present rulers are a ‘mafia’, and suggested the media won’t provide coverage to her son and daughter, the real heirs of the Bhutto family, or to other new political faces because the media fears the wrath of the government of President Asif Ali Zardari.
In an interview with the online news portal The News Tribe at Zulfiqar Bhutto’s old house in Clifton, Murtaza Bhutto’s widow said most of the new voters will vote for Imran Khan’s PTI in the next elections but she doubted there will be any major change on the political landscape of Pakistan. She accused most of Pakistan’s political parties of being ‘establishment parties’, but she appeared to exclude PTI from this label. She criticized Khan for what she said was his failure to offer land reforms that would challenge the feudal elite. When asked if a hidden ‘force’ was promoting PTI, Bhutto said Pakistanis were flocking to PTI because they want change.
When asked if her son, ZAB Jr., the direct grandson of Pakistan’s former prime minister, would run in the next elections and challenge Zardari’s son, Bilwal, she said: “There is no comparison of Zulfiqar and Fatima with Bilawal, Asifa and Bakhtawar because both sides represent two different classes. My children represent the poor, while they represented the rich.”
Bhutto said she strongly opposed reopening the US, NATO supply line through Pakistan to Afghanistan.
“Under the current circumstances, NATO supplies should not be restored. What have the Americans offered to Pakistan? We believe that the conditions of alliance with the Americans are totally unfair for Pakistan. We should not allow them to attack the people of Pakistan and we should demand halt in drone attacks. I think in the current relationship, Pakistanis are treated only as servants,” she said.
She launched a scathing attack on the government of President Asif Ali Zardari.
“What have they performed? They haven’t done anything. We have gone back to the Stone Age. There is no industry, there is no cash, there is no law and order, people have no treatment, they have no hospitals working and they have no schools. George Bush only threatened us of the Stone Age but Pakistan Peoples Party’s government has actually done that,” Bhutto said.
She said her party has some following in Sindh and Balochistan and she wanted to expand the party’s reach to other provinces but that she was holding back because of the bad security situation.
She sent a message to the students of the universities of Sindh, Karachi, Balochistan, Punjab and Peshawar and asked them to enter politics to change the system.
Friday, April 20, 2012
جب رياست قانون توڑتي ہےتومسئلےحل نہيں ہوتے،نفرتيں بڑھ جاتي ہيں، عمران خان
چيرمين تحريک انصاف عمران خان
ڈاکٹر عامر عزيز اور ڈاکٹر عافيہ صديقي کواٹھانے پر آواز بلند کي، عمران خان
لوگوں کو اٹھانا اور غائب کرنا ظلم ہے،چيرمين تحريک انصاف
کئي لوگوں کو لاپتا کيا گيا اور پھر ان کي لاشيں مليں، عمران خان
جب رياست قانون توڑتي ہےتومسئلےحل نہيں ہوتے،نفرتيں بڑھ جاتي ہيں، عمران خان
جو بلوچي رہنما ملک سے باہر بيٹھے ہيں وہ ہم سے بات کريں، عمران خان
ہم جو بھي وعدہ کرينگے اسے مر کربھي پورا کرينگے ، عمران خان
ہم کسي وزير يا رکن اسمبلي کو ترقياتي فنڈز نہيں دينگے ،چيرمين تحريک انصاف
ايم اين اےياايم پي اےکونہيں براہ راست بلدياتي نمايندوں کوفنڈزدينگے،عمران خان
پوليس کا محکمہ ايسا بنائيں گے جو سياسي دباؤ سے آزاد ہو، ايسي پوليس سے کراچي ميں بھي امن قائم کرينگے ، عمران خان
بلوچستان ميں ايف سي نہيں بلکہ پوليس کے ذريعےامن لائينگے ، عمران خان دہشتگردي کيخلاف امريکي جنگ سے نکل آئينگے ، عمران خان
ہماري جماعت کبھي کسي کي غلامي نہيں کريگي،چيرمين تحريک انصاف
افغانستان کا سياسي حل ڈھونڈنےميں امريکا کي مدد کرينگے ، عمران خان
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Geo Reports-Bangladesh Tour Cancelled -19 Apr 2012
Bangladesh cricket team's tour of Pakistan has been cancelled following a stay order issued by the Dhaka High Court
Dawn's Magazines editor Murtaza Razvi found dead
KARACHI: Murtaza Razvi, the Magazines editor at Dawn, was found dead at a studio in an apartment in Defence area of Karachi on Thursday morning.
UPDATE: We are in the process of verifying details of the nature of the death.
His body was found by his wife and artist Shahid Rissam in the latter’s studio. Razvi’s body has been shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for an autopsy.
He was reported missing by his wife when he did not come home on Wednesday night.
The studio where he was found dead has been sealed by the police.
Razvi is survived by his wife and three daughters.
He was a well-known columnist and political analyst who served as as a resident editor for Dawn, Lahore from 2005 to 2007.
He also authored two books, ‘Musharraf: the years in power’, a political biography of former president Parvez Musharraf, as well as ‘Ordinary People’ which comprised interviews with ordinary citizens of Pakistan about history, society and culture.
Razvi holds a master’s degrees in Ancient Indian and Islamic History from the University of Punjab, Lahore and Political Science & International Relations from the US.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Message for President Zardari From Pakistani Nation
Message for President Zardari From Pakistani Nation
Do you have any ??????
