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SC
validates emergency, sacking of judges by Mush
Sharif rebukes Boucher for ‘advice’ on Pak
‘Pak troops have sole right to take action’
SAARC adopts action plan on climate change
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Fetters on Sobhraj’s love story
US for UN sanctions on Mugabe
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SC validates emergency, sacking of judges by Mush
Islamabad, July 4 The apex court detailed its views in a 26-page judgment on a petition seeking a review of its earlier validation of the emergency. A 13-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Abdul Hamid Dogar refused to take back an earlier judgment in favour of Musharraf. The judgment also made observations about the deposed judges, the lawyers' movement and the media. The apex court quoted Attorney General Malik Qayyum’s argument that the deposed judges had "transgressed constitutional limits" and brought the functioning of the government to a near standstill. It said Musharraf's actions had become "inevitable" to save the country from "chaos and anarchy". Referring to speeches made by deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the bench said his utterances on the rule of law made a "mockery of the Constitution and the law of the land.” Former premier Nawaz Sharif's PML-N party, a key partner in the ruling coalition led by the Pakistan People's Party, has been pressing for the ouster of judges of the Supreme Court, who were appointed by Musharraf during the emergency.
— PTI
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Sharif rebukes Boucher for ‘advice’ on Pak
Former premier and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif rapped US assistant secretary of state Richard Boucher for urging Pakistanis to focus on other pressing issues instead of the fate of President Pervez Musharraf.
"This is our internal matter and we do not need any advice from outside on the issue," Nawaz Sharif said while talking to the media at the Islamabad Airport before leaving for London. “What we have to do with Musharraf, who is an unconstitutional President, is our internal matter. The US or any other country has no right to tell us how we should tackle this issue,” Nawaz said. Boucher at a press conference on Wednesday said, "Musharraf is not an issue or problem which Pakistan is facing right now". He emphasised on focusing on issues like food, the energy crisis and militancy. Nawaz complained that despite being major partner in the ruling alliance, the government did not consult the PML-N before taking key decisions, including the ongoing operation in the Khyber Agency and increase in the petroleum and gas prices. He said top leadership of the coalition during a high-level meeting had agreed to adopt a policy of dialogue in the tribal areas after a comprehensive briefing by army chief, General Kayani. "I do not know what caused the change in the policy," he said. He maintained that all important matters should be discussed in the National Assembly. Nawaz also expressed disappointment over the government's failure to restore the deposed judges, saying he had impressed upon the PPP co-chairman to give top priority to resolve the issue. To a question about the lawyer community's strategy to stage another long march, he said the PML-N would continue its support for the lawyers' movement. Nawaz Sharif is visiting London to take care of his wife who was hospitalised last month. Media reports said Asif Zardari is likely to travel to London from Dubai this weekend for a meeting with Sharif to remove the growing misgivings between the two allies.
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‘Pak troops have sole right to take action’
Reacting strongly to the statement of US joint chief of staff Mike Mullen regarding the US’ right to strike targets inside the Pakistani territory, the foreign office has said that no body has the right to take action inside Pakistan in the war on terror. "Pakistan has once again clarified that on the Pakistan side of the border along Afghanistan, it is the Pakistani troops who have the sole responsibility to take action against the terrorists," foreign office spokesperson Muhammad Sadiq said in a weekly briefing. Sadiq said that on the Afghan side of the border, the Afghan National Army (ANA), the ISAF and the US army could take whatever action they wanted against the terrorists. He said the Afghan government had requested Pakistan to launch an inquiry into the beheading of two of its citizens by Pakistani Taliban in the country's tribal region. Pakistan has asked Afghanistan to share information about Afghans killed in Bajaur Agency by the militants, Sadiq said. The spokesperson said that Pakistan's nuclear assets were well-protected and it had international safety standards. "No government of the world has told Pakistan that its nuclear weapons were unsafe," he said. Sadiq said Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani would lead Pakistan's delegation to the 15th SAARC summit scheduled to be held in Colombo on August 2-3. Foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi would lead Pakistan's delegation to the council of minister's two-day meeting beginning on July 31 in Colombo, he said.
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SAARC adopts action plan on climate change
Dhaka, July 4 “The SAARC region is most vulnerable to climate change and thereby seriously affecting our agricultural production, crippling our vital infrastructures, diminishing our natural resources and limiting our development options for the future,” said a joint declaration issued at the end of the three-day regional meeting here.The ministers said the region needed more technology to fight climate change, while developed countries needed to reduce their carbon emissions apart from raising a special fund as suggested after the Bali conference. The six action plans prioritised in the meeting included capacity building for clean development mechanism (CDM) projects, exchange of information about disaster preparedness, exchange of meteorological data and mutual consultation in international negotiations. Environmentalists have warned that SAARC members Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will be among the worst affected in the world by the climate change. — PTI
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Fetters on Sobhraj’s love story
Kathmandu, July 4 Sixty-four-year-old Sobhraj has been ‘engaged' to Neha, alias Nihita Bishwas, and plans to marry her when he is released from the Nepal prison, where he is languishing since
September 2003. Nicknamed the 'bikini killer' and 'serpent', Sobhraj has been accused of luring young women and killing many of them. He has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a district court in July 2004 on charges of murdering an American and a Canadian tourist in Kathmandu in 1975. Meanwhile, the jail administration has restricted the open display of love between Sobhraj and his young lover in front of prisoners and jail staff. The administration has now forced Sobhraj and his lover to go indoor. “He can meet people, but there must be some norms that has to be followed,” a jail staff said. A Nepali language daily, 'Naya Patrika', said Nihita even complained to the director general of the Jail Management that she had been barred from spending private moments with her lover. “We have restricted such acts inside the jail but we have allowed Nikita to bring food for him,” he was quoted as saying by the Nepali daily.
— PTI
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US for UN sanctions on Mugabe
United Nations, July 4 The resolution also asked the 15-member body to impose an arms embargo against Zimbabwe and a travel ban targeting Mugabe, the central bank governor and 10 other
officials. Washington said it expected the resolution to be voted next week.
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