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Musharraf banned for life
Ex-Prez, Malik blame each other for Benazir killing
Boston bomb contained traces of woman DNA
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Taliban want to ‘end democratic system’
Flags and posters of political parties dot a Quetta street. — AFP
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Musharraf banned for life
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday banned former military ruler Pervez
Musharraf from politics for life. The court gave its ruling in response to an appeal by Musharraf against rejection of his nomination papers by an election tribunal.
The papers had been filed for the National Assembly seat in Chitral and had earlier been accepted by the returning officer.
Musharraf also wanted to contest from Karachi, Islamabad and Kasuri but his papers were rejected at both stages — returning officers and election tribunals. A four-member larger Bench, headed by PHC Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan, ruled that since Musharraf had abrogated the Constitution twice, he could not be allowed to contest elections for either the National Assembly or the Senate. Justice Khan said that Musharraf had imposed an illegal emergency and targeted the judiciary. Therefore, the court was imposing a lifetime ban on the retired General, barring him from contesting polls for the national and provincial assemblies as well as the Senate.
Bugti case An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday allowed the Balochistan police to question Musharraf in the case pertaining to the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Khan Bugti. Bugti was killed in a military action in the mountains of Dera Bugti on August 26, 2006 while Musharraf was President as well as army chief. |
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Ex-Prez, Malik blame each other for Benazir killing
Former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf and ex-interior minister Rehman Malik have blamed each other for providing inadequate security to Benazir Bhutto at the time of her death.
She was killed in a terrorist attack on December 27, 2007 after addressing a public rally at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi.
Both have recorded their statements with the FIA joint investigation team probing the murder case.
He denied having ordered the washing of the crime scene soon after the incident or preventing the postmortem examination on the body. He said Benazir was also herself responsible and would have been alive if she had not stood up in the vehicle to wave at a group of people greeting her with slogans. The investigators asked Malik why he had slipped away from Liaquat Bagh in the back-up vehicle after learning about the blast that killed Benazir. In his statement, Malik placed the responsibility of providing security to Benazir Bhutto on former President Musharraf. Malik told the investigation team that he had met Musharraf several times and had written numerous letters seeking security for Benazir Bhutto. Malik added that the former ruler and the government did not provide adequate security to Benazir Bhutto. He denied the charge that he had run away from the scene after hearing about the blast. Musharraf in 14-day judicial remand An anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi on Tuesday ordered a two-week-long judicial remand for the retired General in the Benazir Bhutto murder case. Meanwhile, an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi rejected Musharraf’s plea for the reconstitution of a joint investigation team. —
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Boston bomb contained traces of woman DNA
Boston, April 30 The findings, reported by the US media, have raised the possibility of involvement of a woman in the Boston Marathon twin blasts, which is blamed on two Chechen-origin brothers. The US authorities have arrested Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, on charges of using weapons of mass destruction, while his elder brother Tamerlan, 19, was shot dead by the police. "Investigators have found female DNA on at least one of the bombs used in the Boston Marathon attacks, though they haven't determined whose DNA it is or whether its presence means a woman helped the two brothers suspected in the bombings," The Wall Street Journal said quoting US officials. "No one should expect that the investigation is over," an investigator was quoted as saying by Fox News, according to which this raises the possibility of the involvement of a woman. Meanwhile, federal investigating authorities yesterday searched the Rhode Island home of parents of Katherine Russell, the widow of Tamerlan, and the nearby family of a man identified as his mysterious mentor. Federal authorities took a sample of Russell's DNA on Monday in Rhode Island, where she has been staying with her parents, The New York Times reported. Federal agents are looking into possible links between dead Tamerlan and a Canadian boxer-turned-jihadist killed by Russian troops in 2012, the CNN reported. "William Plotnikov and six others died in a firefight with Russian forces in the southwestern republic of Dagestan in July 2012, while Tsarnaev was visiting the region,"it said. "Twenty-three-year-old Plotnikov had been born in Russia, but his family moved to Canada when he was a teenager," CNN reported. Plotnikov's body was prepared for burial by a local imam on July 14. Tamerlan flew out of Dagestan two days later, arriving in New York on July 17. Since 2000, Dagestan has witnessed clashes between Islamists and security forces that has claimed hundreds of lives. Investigators are looking into the possibility that he left because of Plotnikov's death, CNN said quoting its unnamed source. — PTI
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Taliban want to ‘end democratic system’
Islamabad, April 30 The Taliban's aim is to "end the democratic system", Mehsud said in a letter sent to the media. As part of this campaign, the group would hinder elections in the country, he said. The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban is now solely focused on the May 11 general election and Taliban fighters have been directed to target senior politicians and party leaders while continuing their battle against security forces, Mehsud said. Mehsud claimed his group had already achieved success as the government had invited them to hold peace talks. "We have succeeded politically after we were asked to negotiate by the government," he wrote. — PTI
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The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday banned former military ruler Pervez
Musharraf from politics for life. The court gave its ruling in response to an appeal by Musharraf against rejection of his nomination papers by an election tribunal.
The papers had been filed for the National Assembly seat in Chitral and had earlier been accepted by the returning officer.
Musharraf also wanted to contest from Karachi, Islamabad and Kasuri but his papers were rejected at both stages — returning officers and election tribunals.
Islamabad, April 30
