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PPP-PML (N) talks on reinstating judges fail
Pak journalist shot by wife
Stabbed Indian student stable
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Political will needed to solve problems: Ban New York, April 30 The current global food crisis presents a "huge chance" to governments around the world to address the "root problems" of the poorest, United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has said, even as he warned of serious consequences the problem could lead to.
Pak frees Indian prisoner
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PPP-PML (N) talks on reinstating judges fail
Dubai, April 30 PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari held talks for seven hours in Dubai but were unable to sort out their differences on modalities. At the end of the talks today, senior PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told reporters, “we hope the issue of the deposed judges will be resolved as progress has been made in the talks.” He said a decision has been delayed till tomorrow “due to legal matter”. Khan also said a delay of a day or two in resolving the issue should not matter. Khan said the talks would continue tomorrow. Both parties also agreed to keep their coalition intact. Zardari had earlier said both parties had agreed to restore the judges. “Both the parties have agreed to reinstate the judges and the coalition was as strong as ever,” Zardari told reporters in Dubai where he met Sharif to sort out the deadlock over the differences in reinstatement of judges. According to sources, the PML (N) leaders have made it clear to Zardari that they could announce to quit the government after tomorrow evening, the deadline for restoration of judiciary. The coalition partners had agreed to finalise modalities for restoring the judges in 30 days of assuming power. The deadline expired today, forcing Sharif to fly to Dubai last night for in-camera talks with Zardari, who had two days of inconclusive talks with PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif. Before leaving for the talks, Sharif said his party insisted on restoration of judges by an executive order whereas PPP was in favour of a constitutional package. This package must be delinked from restoration of judges, Sharif said. He also ruled out any compromise on the issue, saying the restoration of judges “is a matter of Pakistan’s survival”. At the same time, he said “We want this coalition to remain intact and we want dictatorship in Pakistan to be finished forever.” In Islamabad, Supreme Court Bar association president Aitzaz Ahsan said the legal fraternity is willing to give the PPP and PML-N some more time to reinstate the judges even though the deadline has expired. Sources said the talks ran into rough weather over two issues the PPP’s decision to link the restoration of the judges to a constitutional package for judicial reforms, and the tenure for deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry once he is restored. Meanwhile, opposition PML-Q leader Chaudhry Sujat Hussain met President Pervez Musharraf. Sources said Hussain briefed the president on his party’s strategy in case the coalition splits. —
PTI
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Pak journalist shot by wife
Senior Journalist Khalil Malik and his wife were found shot dead on Wednesday reportedly after a fierce feud. The police said Malik was shot by his wife Saira, who later committed suicide. Saira was Malik’s third wife and the couple were facing months of troubled relationship, the police said. Malik had shifted from print journalism to electronic media about five years ago and had also acted as speechwriter for former premier Shaukat Aziz. He had four children from first wife. Saria was also a TV journalist whom he married about a year ago. The police said they responded to a phone call from Maliks’ servant Obaid-ur-Rehman, who reported hearing gunshots. Inspector Mussarrat Ali Khan said on reaching the crime scene, they found the bedroom door locked, which had to be broken open. Inside they found the bodies lying in a pool of blood. A 30-bore pistol was also recovered from the room, he said. Officials said Malik’s body was dispatched to his hometown of Talagang for burial after the postmortem while that of his wife was being sent to her ancestral village Shika in Attock. Information minister Sherry Rehman visited Malik’s residence and promised full probe into the incident.
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Melbourne, April 30 “His condition is stable and he has been taken off the critical care list,” said Rod Jackson Smith, media manager for Royal Melbourne Hospital where Jalvinder Singh (23) was admitted in a critical condition yesterday. Jalvinder, who was lying injured on the roadside for over two hours, was found at 6 am, near a hotel in Clifton Hill, in a critical condition. Last night, the police released video images of the attack and arrested one 45-year-old Parish Charles. Taxi drivers protest
Protesting against the incident, dozens of cabbies today blocked a busy intersection here, disrupting vehicular movement. Shouting slogans against the Victoria police, some among several hundred drivers took off their shirts in a freezing morning today, media reports said. Accused is ‘HIV +ve’
Parish Charles, accused of stabbing Jalvinder, is HIV +ve and has no recollection of the incident, a court has heard. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Charles appeared in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday and was charged with two counts of intentionally causing serious injury, recklessly causing injury, assault and car theft. His lawyer Rob Melasecca told the court that Charles had HIV, mental and other health issues and did not know why he was in the court. —
ANI
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Global Food Crisis
New York, April 30 Delivering a lecture jointly organised by the UN Office at Geneva and the UN Institute for Training and Research, Ban said the world had both resources and the knowledge to deal with the problem, and what was needed was political will (to pursue the solution). "It is a huge chance to address the root problems of the world's poorest people, 70 per cent of whom live as small farmers.If we help them -- if we offer aid and the right mix of sound local and international policies, (the solution will come)," he said.
— PTI
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Pak frees Indian prisoner
Karachi, April 30 The teenager will return tomorrow morning as the Sindh government has withdrawn all cases against him, the Daily Times said today. “He will be flown home on a PIA flight and will be accompanied by a doctor and officers of the Indian High Commission,” the Daily Times quoted Zahid as saying. Zahid is also hopeful that with his release, more minors will be let off as a first positive step by the Pakistani authorities. The teenager was caught while fishing in the Pakistani waters early February. He was found sick in just a week and his condition deteriorated further. Fishermen from both countries are regularly arrested for straying into each others’ territories.
— IANS
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