Source: Daily Times
DUBAI (AFP) — The leaders of Pakistan’s ruling coalition held talks in Dubai Wednesday with their month-old alliance on the line amid a deadlock over the reinstatement of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf.
Former premier Nawaz Sharif flew to the Gulf emirate on Tuesday for talks with Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) leader Asif […]

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Source: Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: Kyrgystan is keen to help Pakistan in power shortfall as country has surplus electricity of one billion kilo watt, Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan, Dr Nurlan Aitmurzaev said on Tuesday.
Kyrgystan has inked an agreement to export it to Central Asian and South Asian Region of Electricity Market (CASAREM) including four countries, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan, Afghanistan […]

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In Memoriam HABIB JALIB

The great revolutionary Urdu poet of South Asia

Report & picture of activists - Daily Jang London 29 April 2008

Posted By: Pervez Fateh (South Asian Peoples Forum UK) - info@sapfonline.org

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Source: Reuters
By Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent
LONDON (Reuters) - Lawyers for former detainees are preparing to sue the British government and intelligence services for alleged complicity in abuse of terrorism suspects by the United States and Pakistan.
The cases, if they reach court, would be among the first anywhere to examine alleged wrongdoing by spy agencies in […]

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Why am I not surprised to hear this? *chuckles*
So our democratic, non-barbaric, pious, and ‘civil’ government has had the door slammed on their face by the T-Boys. Ha. Were you really expecting them to do otherwise? How silly of you.
There were basically four demands put forward by the T-boys to our kind government:
- Withdrawl of […]

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Source: Daily Times
KARACHI: Pakistan’s first telecommunication congress, TeleCON’2008, gets underway in Karachi from Tuesday (today) with arrangements complete to host the country’s premier telecommunication event in a befitting manner. Industry leaders from all over the country have arrived in the city to participate in the 2-day forum.
The congress is designed to discuss the emergence and […]

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Source: Bloomberg
April 28 (Bloomberg) — Darrell Hair will officiate in a cricket Test next month for the first time since he ordered Pakistan to forfeit a match against England in 2006.
The International Cricket Council said today that the 55- year-old Australian and Simon Taufel will umpire the second Test between England and New Zealand in […]

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Source: Times of India
AMRITSAR: In a major breather for Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner on death row in Pakistan, Islamabad on Monday further deferred his hanging by another 21 days.
Sarabjit was scheduled to be hanged on May 1, after president Pervez Musharraf had earlier deferred his hanging — initially scheduled for April 1.
The reason given […]

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Source: AGI
(AGI) - ISLAMABAD, 28 April. - The ‘gas diplomacy’ which was proposed by Mahmud Ahmadinejad has started to bear bear fruits: Pakistan has given the go ahead to the building of a pipeline which will connect Iran and India. The Iranian president visited Islamabad to organize a deal for another pipeline along the Karakoum […]

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Source: Herald Tribune
Shoaib Akhtar apologized to the Pakistan cricket board and the general public at a hearing Monday to appeal his five-year ban from domestic and international matches.
The fast bowler filed an appeal with the PCB earlier this month after being found guilty of repeatedly breaching its code of conduct.
The PCB subsequently formed a […]

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Source: The News
By Qudssia Akhlaque
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan’s removal on Friday has raised many questions as some link his unceremonious ouster to his strong dissent to the PPP-led government’s plan of approaching the UN for an independent international investigation into Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.
The Establishment Division on Friday issued two separate notifications dated 25 […]

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Source: Hindustan Times
Hopes are high that a request for clemency from the Indian government for death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh may be honoured by Pakistan. But so far, no decision has been taken, say officials.
Sarabjit’s family members, who finally met him at the Kot Lakhpat jail on Thursday, said they wanted to meet Pakistan Prime […]

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“Main Nay Kaha” is a satirical poem by the famous leftist poet Habib Jalib called “Musheer” (Advisor). Jalib wrote it in response to a conversation he had with Hafiz Jalandari during the time of Ayub Khan’s dictatorship. It remains just as fresh and valid today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPsr1RnEfWo

This poem has been put to music by Laal (Shahram Azhar […]

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Source: The Economic Times
PESHAWAR/ PAKISTAN: Four people were killed and 30 injured when a car bomb ripped through a police station in northwest Pakistan on Friday, ending a month-long lull in attacks, officials said.
The powerful blast in the city of Mardan destroyed most of the police station, wrecked a hotel and several shops, said local […]

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Source: Rediff News
The Pakistan Cricket Board will launch a new look Twenty20 domestic tournament next year on the lines of the Indian Premier League, offering franchises of city-based teams to sponsors and companies.
A senior official of the board said that this year’s Twenty20 competition, which has been delayed until August 10, would be the last […]

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Source: The Hindu
Islamabad (PTI): Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt’s next venture “Jannat”, which takes a close look at match fixing in cricket, is likely to be released in Pakistan on May 2.
Emraan Hashmi, who plays a leading role, is expected to attend the Pakistani premiere of the film. “Jannat” was initially slated for a May 16 […]

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Source: The emergency Times
Please find the transcript of Zardari’s interview with BBC below. Alternatively you can listen to it here: Listen 3 mins 35 secs
Summary:
Zardari accuses the CJ of playing politics. Mr. Zardari himself is known as 10% before the Nation while the CJ Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry is the Second most popular figure in history […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
The tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto has quite a number of conspiracy theorists lining up to offer their analysis, was it fate or destiny we may never know but some have gone to speculate it may have been the Bhutto curse where all members of the Bhutto dynasty are slowly eradicated, and in […]

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image courtesy of www.bhavane.com
In the world of cricket, getting ’smacked’, ‘hammered’, or ’slapped’ around for boundries is often heard of. What is NOT heard of that often is LITERALLY crossing over the ethical boundries and norms of professional behaviour to an extent that you ACTUALLY slap another player!
Indian’s hot-headed Harbhajan Singh, commonly known as ‘Turbanator’ has recently done just that. […]

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For a Nation every Individual is the star in the galaxy of its destiny. The story of Pakistan is the story of ambitious generals who are denying the people of their rights; therefore, today’s Pakistan is a baby who is deprived of mother’s milk. At the age of sixty, it should been as strong as a […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
An article written by Abbas Kassar in The Pakistan Weekly caught my eye which was titled Musharraf Threatens To Dissolve Assemblies If Judges Restored, it raises some serious concerns about the looming threat wielded by Musharraf and his right to exercise article 58-2(B) of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan. Quite simply utilizing this […]

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Source: Sify News
New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has informed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) that they would be sending a security delegation here sometime before three One-day International series in August.
PCB director cricket operations Zakir Khan told reporters here yesterday that ”According to the schedule, the first match will be held in Multan on August 24 […]

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Source: The emergency Times
Pakistan is close to clinching a peace pact with the Mehsuds, one of the most recalcitrant tribes in its tribal region bordering Afghanistan. “It’s now a matter of days before we have an agreement. The talks are in a very advanced stage,” a senior government official involved in the negotiations told Reuters. […]

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Source: AFP
Pakistan will purchase equipment from China to fight terrorist activity, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said.
China is one of the closest allies and largest arms supplier of Pakistan, which has been hit by a wave of suicide bombings in which more than 1,000 people have died in the past year.
“Pakistan has expressed the desire […]

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Up until yesterday, I had the feeling that Afridi was a lone ranger out in India having shouted out loud against the ‘unnecessary’ inclusion cheerleaders in the ongoing Indian Premier League and deeming it ‘distracting’. But not any more.
It seems like the Maharashtra government has indirectly joined the ‘Afridi-cause’ by condemning the ‘vulgar’ acts on […]

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