PESHAWAR: Club-wielding activists from Imran Khan's political
party forcibly searched trucks for Nato supplies in northwest Pakistan
on Sunday in protest at deadly US drone strikes.
Around 100 workers from the former cricket star's Pakistan
Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI) party set up checkpoints in the northwestern city
of Peshawar on a main road leading to Afghanistan.
They stopped trucks and hauled drivers from their cabs to check their
paperwork, following a call by Khan at a rally on Saturday to block
supplies to Nato forces in Afghanistan in protest at the drone attacks.
The activists, carrying the PTI's green and red flag, broke open
truck containers to check their contents, an AFP reporter at the scene
said.
The PTI heads the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, of which
Peshawar is the capital. But authority for the highways lies with the
federal government, which has so far made no move to block Nato
supplies.
Muhammad Faisal, a senior police official, said the PTI activists' actions were illegal but he was powerless to act.
“The protesters are doing unlawful acts by checking documents and screening goods, they don't have authority,” he told AFP.
“But we can't take action against them because we have no
instructions from the government. If the government orders us, we will
stop this illegal activity.”
PTI activist Asghar Khalil told AFP they were heeding their leader's
call to action and would not stop until Washington promised to end drone
strikes.
Khan has long opposed the US campaign of drone attacks targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan's tribal areas.
He has intensified his rhetoric since a US drone strike killed Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud on November 1.
Khan says that attack was a deliberate attempt by Washington to
sabotage efforts towards peace talks with the militants, who have killed
thousands in a six-year campaign of violence.
“They are doing unlawful acts. They broke the sealing of my container
and forcibly examined the goods,” Faiz Muhammad Khan, a truck driver
transporting sanitary items to Afghanistan, told AFP.
“If they want to block supplies for Nato forces, they should stop it in Karachi or at the border.”
Later in the day, one of Khan's allies, the right wing
Jamaat-i-Islami party, led thousands in a protest against drone attacks
and the Nato supply line in the southern port city of Karachi, where the
shipments originate.
Pakistan is a key transit route for the US-led mission in landlocked
Afghanistan, particularly as Nato forces prepare to withdraw by the end
of next year.
Nato supplies were suspended on Saturday because of a major PTI rally, which was held on the route used by the trucks.
The drone strikes are deeply unpopular in Pakistan. Islamabad
publicly condemns them as counter-productive and a violation of
sovereignty, although previous governments have given their tacit
support to them.
The US regards the strikes as a highly effective tool in the fight against militancy.
Imran Khan says FIR means First Investigation Report. Till I last checked it was First Information Report.
— Abbas Nasir (@abbasnasir59) November 29, 2013
"President #PPP #KPK Khan Zada files FIR against #PTI workers who tortured #NATO truck drivers, ImranKhan also named in the FIR"
— BilawalBhuttoZardari (@BBhuttoZardari) November 26, 2013
JUI-S chief asks Imran to charge Obama in drone FIR
MARDAN: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq said on Sunday that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan should charge US President Barack Obama in the first information report (FIR) of the Hangu drone attack.
Talking to reporters at the Mardan Press Club, he said the federal government should order the Pakistan Army to shoot down the US drones. He said on November 29, 2011 the Defence of Pakistan Council had submitted an application against drone attacks in the Supreme Court, but the registrar rejected it saying Fata didn’t fall under the jurisdiction of the apex court.
The Maulana added that after the passage of the 18th Amendment all the areas of the country came under the jurisdiction of Supreme Court and the high courts. He added that on May 13 the Peshawar High Court (PHC) had given verdict against the drone attacks and the federal government should order the Pakistan Air Force to shoot down the drones in accordance with the PHC order. The JUI-S chief said his party would file a contempt of court petition in the Supreme Court against the federal government if it didn’t issue such an order.
“Now the chief justice of Pakistan should direct the federal government to ensure halt to the drone attacks after the Hangu strike as the drones can even target the Parliament, Lahore and some other city in the country,” he added. He said his party supported the blockade of Nato supplies by the PTI. He added that the JUI-S would support Maulana Fazlur Rehman if he had the courage to block the Nato supply routes.
Maulana Samiul Haq advised PTI chief Imran Khan to hold peace negotiations with the Pakistani Taliban. The JUI-S leaders including former deputy speaker of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Ikramullah Shahid and Hafiz Hussain Ahmed were present on the occasion.
MARDAN: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq said on Sunday that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan should charge US President Barack Obama in the first information report (FIR) of the Hangu drone attack.
Talking to reporters at the Mardan Press Club, he said the federal government should order the Pakistan Army to shoot down the US drones. He said on November 29, 2011 the Defence of Pakistan Council had submitted an application against drone attacks in the Supreme Court, but the registrar rejected it saying Fata didn’t fall under the jurisdiction of the apex court.
The Maulana added that after the passage of the 18th Amendment all the areas of the country came under the jurisdiction of Supreme Court and the high courts. He added that on May 13 the Peshawar High Court (PHC) had given verdict against the drone attacks and the federal government should order the Pakistan Air Force to shoot down the drones in accordance with the PHC order. The JUI-S chief said his party would file a contempt of court petition in the Supreme Court against the federal government if it didn’t issue such an order.
“Now the chief justice of Pakistan should direct the federal government to ensure halt to the drone attacks after the Hangu strike as the drones can even target the Parliament, Lahore and some other city in the country,” he added. He said his party supported the blockade of Nato supplies by the PTI. He added that the JUI-S would support Maulana Fazlur Rehman if he had the courage to block the Nato supply routes.
Maulana Samiul Haq advised PTI chief Imran Khan to hold peace negotiations with the Pakistani Taliban. The JUI-S leaders including former deputy speaker of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Ikramullah Shahid and Hafiz Hussain Ahmed were present on the occasion.
PESHAWAR, Nov 24: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has not yet come out of its pre-election populist approach and as a result Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s pressing socio-economic issues have suffered oversight by the provincial ruling coalition, according to political analysts.
Political scientists and activists, when contacted separately, said that PTI’s extreme position over a foreign policy issue had pushed to oblivion Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s actual issues, including rising unemployment, deteriorating law and order situation, growing price hike, dilapidated infrastructure, and failing social services delivery system.
“Pakistan’s politics has always been issue based and political parties always try to make gains, and as a result real issues mostly go unnoticed,” said Dr AZ Hilali, chairman of the Department of Political Science, University of Peshawar. He said no one ever talked about unemployment, crimes, and socio-economic problems. PTI was not any different than others, he added.
“I have sympathies with Imran Khan, but his approach is benefiting a particular social class at the cost of people belonging to low income groups,” said the academician.
Aren’t American drone strikes and Nato supplies real issues of the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa? Addressing his party’s protest demonstration at Peshawar on Saturday, PTI chief Imran Khan said peace could not be restored in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa without stopping American drone strikes. He said 70 per cent industrial units in the province were non-functional because of the security crisis resulted by drone strikes.
Many think Mr Khan’s attempt to link the closure of industrial units with drone strikes is factually incorrect. The province has been struggling with a large number of sick industrial units since early 1990s after the federal government withdrew industrial incentive packages, rendering closure of units in Gadoon Amazai industrial estate.
Dr Ijaz Khan Khattak, a faculty member of the International Relations Department, UoP, does not agree with the PTI’s position on drone attacks.
“There does not seem to have gone some real thinking behind PTI’s slogans and its populist approach,” said Dr Khattak, adding “slogans do carry strong imprints, but compromises cannot be concealed.”
PTI, he said, had realised that it was not easy for its provincial coalition government to deliver, as the province had peculiar issues and little resource base.
The party, he said, knew well that Nato supplies and drone strikes were international issues that did not come under the domain of the provincial government. “PTI knows disrupting Nato supplies involves implications; Pakistan is legally bound to ensure the supplies to Afghanistan,” said the academician.
He said the party had come into power on slogans of ending corruption, improving social services, and restoring peace. “Perhaps, they have realised that they have not been able to deliver on any of the front so they have taken extreme positions on issues that do not come under the purview of a provincial government,” said Dr Khattak.
The Awami National Party, too, holds the opinion that PTI has lost the sense of direction, failing to overcome governance issues in the province.
“This is petty politics,” said Bushra Gohar, ANP’s ex-MPA. She said: “Governance has not been their strong point, the promises they made in the elections remain unfulfilled, and instead of getting serious about actual things they are holding music shows in the name of protest demos.”
She said PTI should tell the nation why did not provincial police cordon off the American drone strike scene in Hangu, who removed the bodies from the scene, and why had not the local police registered a case against the US ambassador to Islamabad after the Hangu drone strike?
Instead of blocking trade route that would create problems for people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, she said, the PTI should strive to change the country’s Afghan policy. “If they are sincere to what they are saying then they should hold a KP’s real issues succumb to PTI’s populist approach sit-in in front of the General Headquarters to press for changing the country’s policy,” said Ms Gohar.
She has reasons to believe that the PTI-led government was lacking in ensuring good governance.
She said the provincial government had not produced a fact-finding report about the Dera Ismail Khan jailbreak incident. Its two members of the provincial assembly, she added, were killed in terrorist attacks and the government had not produced any report about their killing as well. The provincial police, she said, could not go near to the Hangu drone strike site either. “They are trying to divert people’s attention,” said Ms Gohar.
Dr Hilali said PTI’s position had grave implications and political repercussions for the province in particular and the country in general. He said PTI’s stand against drone strikes was an old demand by Taliban. PTI, he added, had reconciled with the militants’ position.
“It is legitimising Taliban’s stand,” he said. “TTP chief and a killer of thousands of Pakistanis, Hakimullah, is being regarded as a martyr and those who lost lives to protect this country their sacrifices are being brought under question, this is hooliganism,” said Dr Hilali.
He said PTI and its allies were silent about the Kashmir issue and they had also ignored Pakistan’s demand for transferring the drone technology.
According to Dr Khattak, PTI is risking to slip to the right extreme position. “In view of the increasing political polarisation in Pakistan, PTI is pushing itself to the extreme right where it is likely to replace Jamaat-i-Islami,” said Dr Khattak.
http://dawn.com/news/1058450
PTI stole ANP slogan "Khpla Khawara Khpal Ikhtiar" by somewhat translating it into english 'our land, our way"
— salma jafar (@Chiltan) November 25, 2013
PTI activists search trucks for Nato supplies
http://dawn.com/news/1058267
Blocking NATO routes: K-P police register cases against 40 PTI workers
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) police registered cases against 40 workers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for manhandling trucks going through Nato supply routes, Express News reported on Monday.
On November 24, PTI supporters – as a protest against US drone campaign – had blocked Nato supply routes leading to Afghanistan.
PTI workers had staged a sit-in on the Ring Road near Chamkani where they checked hundreds of container.
In their quest to distinguish Nato trucks from regular cargo carriers, workers had broken the seals of dozens of containers for the inspection of goods and had brawls with the drivers in the process.
Protests
The call for a sit-in was earlier made by PTI chief Imran Khan, after his governing party in K-P passed a unanimous resolution against drones and set November 20 as the date of a rally.
In Nowshera, around 150 PTI activists led by K-P Assembly member Idrees Khan set up a protest camp near Khairabad Bridge where participants chanted anti-US and anti-Nato slogans.
A number of PTI activists in Kohat also staged a sit in at the Jarma Chowk on the Indus Highway to halt Nato supply trucks passing through the area.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/636730/blocking-nato-routes-kp-police-register-cases-against-40-pti-members/
@OmarWaraich TTPTI is barking at the wrong tree! #PervaizRasheed
— Murtaza Solangi (@murtazasolangi) November 24, 2013
So IK protests against the US yet KPK govt doesn't blame the US in the FIR once a buzdil always a buzdil
— Aseefa B Zardari (@AseefaBZ) November 23, 2013Man of the masses -- How many SUVs can you spot there -- PTI chief Imran Khan's motorcade from Islamabad to Peshawar pic.twitter.com/Z6ZJNP07ti
— omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) November 23, 2013
ایف آئی آر نا معلوم افراد کے خلاف کیوں درج کی گئی، آپ کی حکومت ہے سی آئی اےڈائریکٹر کے خلاف کیوں درج نہیں کی گئی، فاروق ستار ایم کیو ایم
— Wajih Sani (@wajih_sani) November 23, 2013
What? Condemn Taliban? Aur apne workeron ko marwa doon? Guess who?
— Abbas Nasir (@abbasnasir59) November 23, 2013
IK misleads Pakistanis that the Taliban want peace. Just listen to the latest statements of the TTP leaders-rejecting peace offer.
— zahid Hussain (@hidhussain) November 23, 2013
KP govt should disclose names of all those innocent children and others killed in Hangu attack.."Masoom bachay" is not a name..
— shahzeb khanzada (@shahzebkhanzda) November 23, 2013
"KPK main industries band pari hain, na bijli hai na kuch" - to bc tum log wahaan kya kanjar khana ker raye ho? isn't it "provincial" issue?
— Babbar Sherni (@mahobili) November 23, 2013
Blocking NATO supplies: TTP tips hat to Imran Khan
“No there is no question of ceasefire,” he said responding to a query regarding any chance of respite for peace.
“We are being attacked in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa where we are fighting a defensive war, so we will continue to hit the area from where we are targeted,” Shahid said.
But one thing is clear, Shahid said, “We are exacting revenge from security forces and not the public.”
Here he specified that the public did not include the ANP, PPP and MQM, the three leading secular parties of Pakistan that the Taliban will never pardon.
He said there was no question of dialogue with the government after the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud. “However, peace dialogue is possible if the TTP Shura and Mullah Fazullah decide.”
The way Nawaz Sharif is begging the US to stop drone strikes shows the lack of power of the government, Shahid said adding even a simple tribesman can ask the US to stop drone attacks.
Referring to Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawwar Hassan’s statement that Hakimullah Mesud is a martyr, Shahid said, “Hassan has rightly conveyed the feelings of the Muslims.”
Regarding the slain TTP chief, Shahid was adamant on revenge. “We know the killers of Mehsud. We will track them down,” Shahid said concluding, “Hakimullah would be avenged like Sheikh Osama and this is not just a threat.”
Published in The Express Tribune, November 23rd, 2013.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: The announcement by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan to block Nato supplies in protest against drone attacks is an appreciable step, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson said on Friday.
“Imran Khan has taken a welcome step,” TTP central spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid said while talking to reporters from an undisclosed location.“No there is no question of ceasefire,” he said responding to a query regarding any chance of respite for peace.
“We are being attacked in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa where we are fighting a defensive war, so we will continue to hit the area from where we are targeted,” Shahid said.
But one thing is clear, Shahid said, “We are exacting revenge from security forces and not the public.”
Here he specified that the public did not include the ANP, PPP and MQM, the three leading secular parties of Pakistan that the Taliban will never pardon.
He said there was no question of dialogue with the government after the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud. “However, peace dialogue is possible if the TTP Shura and Mullah Fazullah decide.”
The way Nawaz Sharif is begging the US to stop drone strikes shows the lack of power of the government, Shahid said adding even a simple tribesman can ask the US to stop drone attacks.
Referring to Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawwar Hassan’s statement that Hakimullah Mesud is a martyr, Shahid said, “Hassan has rightly conveyed the feelings of the Muslims.”
Regarding the slain TTP chief, Shahid was adamant on revenge. “We know the killers of Mehsud. We will track them down,” Shahid said concluding, “Hakimullah would be avenged like Sheikh Osama and this is not just a threat.”
Published in The Express Tribune, November 23rd, 2013.
Despite threats, KP still main beneficiary of US dollars
ISLAMABAD: Political rhetoric and threats to block Nato supplies through the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) apart, the USAID (US Agency for International Development) is completing a number of development projects worth over $500 million in the KP. This number is more than USAID has sponsored anywhere in Pakistan, credible figures show.
On Monday, the KP Assembly passed a unanimous resolution calling for blockade of Nato supplies in the province to protest the November 1 killing of outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud when a delegation of mutually acceptable religious leaders was to hold preliminary peace talks with the militants’ representatives. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has threatened to stop the Nato supplies on November 20 if the Nawaz Sharif government did not succeed in getting drone attacks halted by then.
However, neither the provincial assembly nor the PTI chief has talked about scrapping of the USAID funded projects in the KP, which are being executed with the cooperation and involvement of the provincial government.
While the KP and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) are the focus of such spending for obvious reasons, the Punjab government has been tactfully but politely averting the launch of USAID funded schemes in its province, an informed official told The News.
Some of the projects in the KP were started in 2007 while others in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013. They have varying periods of three to four, five and eight years for completion. The funding is part of the allocations under the Kerry-Lugar Bill, which was once seen as a sell-out by the previous federal government.
Some of the following projects are national programmes while others are confined to the KP alone. These include Pakistan Transition Initiative $102m; KP Reconstruction Programme $82m; Conflict Victims Support Programme $2.5m; Entrepreneur $1.8m; Firms 5.25m; Gomal Zam Irrigation Project $80m; Agriculture Policy Project $10m; Agribusiness Project $45m; Agricultural Innovation Project $30m; Power Distribution Programme $170m; Merits and Needs Based Scholarships $7m; Teacher Education Project $37m; The Deliver Project $100m; Fata-KP Health Programme $26m; Civil Society Support Programme $25m; Assessment & Strengthening Programme $19.5m; Water & Sanitation Programme $15m; and Municipal Services Programme $87.46m.
All these projects amount to $868m. Of this funding, more than $500m are being spent in the KP.The Pakistan Transition Initiative (2007-2015) is aimed at strengthening relations between government bodies and Fata communities through short-term, quick-impact projects. It engages villagers with the local authorities to identify and realise small-scale projects, such as paving streets and improving drinking water supply systems. It also enhances income generation opportunities through activities such as agricultural training for farmers and home-based skills training for women.
Under the Conflict Victims Support Programme, in-kind assistance is provided in the form of short-term relief, small business support and vocational training to civilian victims of the ongoing conflict in the Fata. The project improves the capacity of health facilities to respond to trauma victims.
The Agribusiness Project is intended to increase incomes and create additional employment opportunities in agriculture by introducing innovative technologies and building the capacity of farmers and processors in the Fata to improve production of various crops particularly higher value fruit and vegetable crops.
It is stated that the Fata is inhabited by 3.17 million people belonging to various Pashtun tribes. It is the most underprivileged and underdeveloped part of Pakistan with the lowest literacy rate, (17.4% overall/3% of women), the highest rate of child morality under 5 years old (135 deaths per 1,000 live births) and the lowest per capita income ($250 per year). Exacerbating these development challenges is the conflict and violent opposition to the state authority that the area has endured for more than a decade in the post 9/11 episode.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-212708-Despite-threats-KP-still-main-beneficiary-of-US-dollars
ISLAMABAD: Political rhetoric and threats to block Nato supplies through the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) apart, the USAID (US Agency for International Development) is completing a number of development projects worth over $500 million in the KP. This number is more than USAID has sponsored anywhere in Pakistan, credible figures show.
On Monday, the KP Assembly passed a unanimous resolution calling for blockade of Nato supplies in the province to protest the November 1 killing of outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud when a delegation of mutually acceptable religious leaders was to hold preliminary peace talks with the militants’ representatives. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has threatened to stop the Nato supplies on November 20 if the Nawaz Sharif government did not succeed in getting drone attacks halted by then.
However, neither the provincial assembly nor the PTI chief has talked about scrapping of the USAID funded projects in the KP, which are being executed with the cooperation and involvement of the provincial government.
While the KP and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) are the focus of such spending for obvious reasons, the Punjab government has been tactfully but politely averting the launch of USAID funded schemes in its province, an informed official told The News.
Some of the projects in the KP were started in 2007 while others in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013. They have varying periods of three to four, five and eight years for completion. The funding is part of the allocations under the Kerry-Lugar Bill, which was once seen as a sell-out by the previous federal government.
Some of the following projects are national programmes while others are confined to the KP alone. These include Pakistan Transition Initiative $102m; KP Reconstruction Programme $82m; Conflict Victims Support Programme $2.5m; Entrepreneur $1.8m; Firms 5.25m; Gomal Zam Irrigation Project $80m; Agriculture Policy Project $10m; Agribusiness Project $45m; Agricultural Innovation Project $30m; Power Distribution Programme $170m; Merits and Needs Based Scholarships $7m; Teacher Education Project $37m; The Deliver Project $100m; Fata-KP Health Programme $26m; Civil Society Support Programme $25m; Assessment & Strengthening Programme $19.5m; Water & Sanitation Programme $15m; and Municipal Services Programme $87.46m.
All these projects amount to $868m. Of this funding, more than $500m are being spent in the KP.The Pakistan Transition Initiative (2007-2015) is aimed at strengthening relations between government bodies and Fata communities through short-term, quick-impact projects. It engages villagers with the local authorities to identify and realise small-scale projects, such as paving streets and improving drinking water supply systems. It also enhances income generation opportunities through activities such as agricultural training for farmers and home-based skills training for women.
Under the Conflict Victims Support Programme, in-kind assistance is provided in the form of short-term relief, small business support and vocational training to civilian victims of the ongoing conflict in the Fata. The project improves the capacity of health facilities to respond to trauma victims.
The Agribusiness Project is intended to increase incomes and create additional employment opportunities in agriculture by introducing innovative technologies and building the capacity of farmers and processors in the Fata to improve production of various crops particularly higher value fruit and vegetable crops.
It is stated that the Fata is inhabited by 3.17 million people belonging to various Pashtun tribes. It is the most underprivileged and underdeveloped part of Pakistan with the lowest literacy rate, (17.4% overall/3% of women), the highest rate of child morality under 5 years old (135 deaths per 1,000 live births) and the lowest per capita income ($250 per year). Exacerbating these development challenges is the conflict and violent opposition to the state authority that the area has endured for more than a decade in the post 9/11 episode.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-212708-Despite-threats-KP-still-main-beneficiary-of-US-dollars
احتجاج اگر سپلاءی روکنے کے لیے ہوتا تو میں خود جاتا جیسا پشاور دھرنا میں گیا تھآ
مگر یہ صرف فوٹو شوٹ ہے اور اپنی گھٹیا کارکردگی چھپانے کی کوشش
1. جب خیبر پختونخواہ حکومت سپلایی ایک ایگزیکٹو آرڈر کے ذریعے روک سکتی ہے تو کیوں نہیں روک رہی صرف اس لیے کہ پانچ سو ملین ڈالر کی امداد کا مسلہ ہے
2. خیبر پختونخّواہ حکومت اگر احتجاج نہیں کر سکتی تو دو ہفتے قبل عمران نے کیوں کہا تھا حکومت جاتی ہے تو جایے ہم سپلایی روکیں گے
3. جس دن سپلایی چلا ہی نہیں رہی اس دن دھرنا دینے سے ہم امریکہ کو کیا پیغام دے رہے ہیں ؟
4. طورخم کی سپلایی روکنے کا دعوی کرنے والے یہ بتایں جو چمن سے سپلایی جا رہی ہے اس کا کیا کیوںکہ سپلایی کا ستر فیصد حصہ تو وہاں سے جاتا ہے
5. اگر عمران خان اور منور حسن سچ میں قوم کی ترجمانی کر رہے ہیں تو کب پانچ سو ملین ڈالر کی امداد واپس کریں گے ؟
6۔ اگر عمران خان اتنا ہی اینٹی امریکہ ہے تو ڈرون کی ایف آی آر "نا معلوم " افراد کے خلاف کیوں درج کروایی جا رہی ہے کیا ہم نہیں جانتے کون ڈرون اڑاتے ہیں اور بم گراتے ہیں ؟
خدا کے لیے یہ شعبدہ بازی بند کریں اور جنہوں نے 2005 میں امریکہ سے یہ معاہدے کیے وہ معاہدے منظر عام پر لاییں جن تک وزیر اعظم سمیت کسی سویلین کی رسایی نہیں
مگر یہ صرف فوٹو شوٹ ہے اور اپنی گھٹیا کارکردگی چھپانے کی کوشش
1. جب خیبر پختونخواہ حکومت سپلایی ایک ایگزیکٹو آرڈر کے ذریعے روک سکتی ہے تو کیوں نہیں روک رہی صرف اس لیے کہ پانچ سو ملین ڈالر کی امداد کا مسلہ ہے
2. خیبر پختونخّواہ حکومت اگر احتجاج نہیں کر سکتی تو دو ہفتے قبل عمران نے کیوں کہا تھا حکومت جاتی ہے تو جایے ہم سپلایی روکیں گے
3. جس دن سپلایی چلا ہی نہیں رہی اس دن دھرنا دینے سے ہم امریکہ کو کیا پیغام دے رہے ہیں ؟
4. طورخم کی سپلایی روکنے کا دعوی کرنے والے یہ بتایں جو چمن سے سپلایی جا رہی ہے اس کا کیا کیوںکہ سپلایی کا ستر فیصد حصہ تو وہاں سے جاتا ہے
5. اگر عمران خان اور منور حسن سچ میں قوم کی ترجمانی کر رہے ہیں تو کب پانچ سو ملین ڈالر کی امداد واپس کریں گے ؟
6۔ اگر عمران خان اتنا ہی اینٹی امریکہ ہے تو ڈرون کی ایف آی آر "نا معلوم " افراد کے خلاف کیوں درج کروایی جا رہی ہے کیا ہم نہیں جانتے کون ڈرون اڑاتے ہیں اور بم گراتے ہیں ؟
خدا کے لیے یہ شعبدہ بازی بند کریں اور جنہوں نے 2005 میں امریکہ سے یہ معاہدے کیے وہ معاہدے منظر عام پر لاییں جن تک وزیر اعظم سمیت کسی سویلین کی رسایی نہیں
ہنگو: خیبر پختونخوا حکومت کا کارنامہ، ہنگو میں ہونے والے امریکی ڈرون حملے کی ایف آئی آر ’نامعلوم‘ افراد کے خلاف درج کرلی۔
ایکسپریس نیوز کے مطابق جمعرات کو ہنگو کی تحصیل ٹل میں ہونے والے ڈرون حملے کی ایف آئی آر تھانہ ٹل کے ایس ایچ او فرید خان کی مدعیت میں درج کی گئی ہے، جس میں قتل، اقدام قتل اور دہشتگردی کی دفعات شامل کی گئی ہیں۔ ایس ایچ او کے مطابق زور دار دھماکے کی اطلاع پر ٹل کے علاقے افغان مہاجر کیمپ پہنچا تو وہاں معلوم ہوا کہ ایک مدرسے پر ڈرون حملے کے نیتجے میں 6 افراد ہلاک اور متعدد زخمی ہوگئے ہیں۔ ایس ایچ کا کہنا ہے کہ مقامی افراد سے ملنے والی اطلاعات کے مطابق مرنے والے افراد کا تعلق افغانستان سے ہے اور وہ حملے سے ایک دن قبل ہیں یہاں آئے تھے جن کے نام نور اللہ، حمیداللہ، احمد جان، گل مرجان اور عبدالرحمن ہیں۔ ان کا کہنا تھاکہ جب میں موقع پر پہنچا تو کوئی لاش یا زخمی موجود نہیں تھا اطلاع کےمطابق انہیں تدفین کےلئےافغانستان منتقل کردیاگیا تھا۔ پولیس نے عینی شاہدین کے بیانات اور شواہد کی بنیاد پر ایف آئی آر درج کر کےتفتیش شروع کردی ہے۔
واضح رہے کہ جمعرات کو ہنگو کی تحصیل ٹل میں ایک مدرسے پر ہونے والے امریکی ڈرون حملےکے نیتجےمیں 6 افراد ہلاک اور متعدد زخمی ہوگئے تھے۔ اس سے پہلے پاکستان کے قبائلی علاقوں میں متعدد ڈرون حملے ہوچکےہیں تاہم خیبر پختونخوا میں یہ پہلا حملہ ہوا تھا۔
اسپیکر اسدقیصرنےورکرزویلفیربورڈمیں منظورنظرافراد بھرتی کرانےکی سفارش کی،ذرائع
— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) November 18, 2013
پشاور:اسپیکرنے سرکاری لیٹرپیڈ پر سابق وزیرصنعت و محنت کو بھرتی کیلیےسفارش کی،ذرائع
— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) November 18, 2013
پشاور:تبدیلی کا نعرہ لگانے والی تحریک انصاف کی جانب سے میرٹ کی خلاف ورزی
— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) November 18, 2013
پشاور: جیونیوز نے خط کی کاپی حاصل کرلی
— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) November 18, 2013
خط میں سپرنٹنڈنٹ سمیت 4 درجہ چہارم ملازمین،20 اساتذہ اور دیگر آسامیوں کیلیےکہا گیا
— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) November 18, 2013
تبدیلی کا نعرہ لگانے والی تحریک انصاف کی جانب سے میرٹ کی خلاف ورزی
— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) November 18, 2013
پشاور:اسپیکرخیبرپختونخوااسمبلی نےوزیرمحنت کوخط بھیجنےکی تصدیق کردی
— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) November 18, 2013
پشاور:اپنےحلقےکےلوگوں کونوکریاں دلانےکی سفارش کی تھی،اسدقیصر
— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) November 18, 2013
پشاور:جن لوگوں کی سفارش کی ان میں سےصرف کلاس فورملازمین کوبھرتی کیاگیا،اسدقیصر
— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) November 18, 2013
Imran Khan: The Rebel and the Statesman
Stuck in a groove: Imran Khan addresses the media after the church bombing in Peshawar.
Imran Khan’s most appealing
characteristics as an outsider politician trying to smash the status quo
have also been his biggest weaknesses, now that he finally has a
measure of responsibility. Two incidents, completely unrelated in how
Khan probably viewed them, need to be seen in conjunction as an
illustration of how Imran the rebel has failed to mature into Imran the
statesman. As President Zardari was about to leave office, the new prime
minister, Nawaz Sharif, hosted a lunch for him to which he invited
everyone in the political arena, including Khan. However, the PTI
leader, who had made a name for himself by denouncing the corruption and
misrule of the PPP and PML-N, declined the invitation. This would have
been fine as an act of protest politics signaling himself as a new kind
of politician, but recently, when asked why he was in contact with Hafiz
Saeed, the chief of the Jamaatud Dawa, Khan said, “If I, as a
politician, share a stage with a violent organisation, what’s wrong with
that?”
This, in a nutshell, is everything that is so irksome about Imran
Khan. When it comes to the democratic parties in the country, those who
have suffered violence at the hands of those Imran is ready to mingle
with, he is the purest man around. Imran doesn’t want the taint of their
corruption – which is admittedly very real – to rub off on him. But he
has no problem associating with those who have essentially declared war
on the state. Imran Khan sees nothing wrong in engaging with the
mastermind of the Mumbai terrorist attacks but he draws the line at
those who have Swiss bank accounts.The realities of governance have not been kind to Imran Khan and the PTI. They promised the nation the skies, but seem to be sinking in quicksand. The main problem seems to be that the party and its chairman still consider themselves as outsiders who are being barred from assuming their rightful offices by the powers-that-be. They were comprehensively defeated in the Punjab by the PML-N but still cry themselves hoarse over rigging, either because they don’t want to accept the loss or, even more alarmingly, they can’t imagine people voting against them. The rigging mantra is still being voiced even though no one outside the most die-hard Insafian believes it anymore. The PTI is indignant since it has only been given one province to govern, when it has a sense of entitlement that makes it feel that the whole country should be theirs to run.
Even in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the one province where it actually has to deal with the realities and compromises of power, the PTI has refused to evolve. The party fell in love with its own pre-election rhetoric and believed it had been voted into power on the basis of its promise to solve the province’s, and indeed the country’s, problems within 90 days. They ignored the trend in Khyber Pakthunkhwa, where new parties are given an opportunity after old ones fail. In 2002, the MMA took over not because their puritanical platform had mass appeal but because they were the only new option. Similarly, the ANP were voted into power in 2008 because of the much-documented failures of the religious alliance. The PTI’s electoral victory was simply a continuation of the trend, since the ANP’s brazen corruption had alienated voters in the province.
The PTI doesn’t seem to realise, though, that it has been given this position of responsibility in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa because of the lack of other options, rather than its own dazzling appeal. It has resolutely stuck to its naïve pre-election rhetoric on the overarching problem of militancy, blaming it entirely on drone strikes and the lack of negotiations with the TTP. Even as militants struck a church in Peshawar after Sunday Mass, Imran Khan kept singing the same tune. The TTP already knows that the PTI is the mainstream party most vocal in its opposition to US drone attacks and military operations in FATA. Still, there has been no respite in Khyber Pakhtunkwa – if anything the militant strikes have only grown in number and brazenness. The constant attacks, whose casualties have included PTI ministers in the provincial government, should have been enough to wake Khan up to the reality of what we face. Instead, he has demonstrated the stubbornness which many suspected would be his undoing, and kept harping on about US culpability and the need for talks.
Imran has been no less rigid on the national level, preferring to sabotage chances at constructive engagement in order to maintain the outsider position. It was this inclination of his that led to delays in the All-Parties Conference on terrorism, as Khan refused to change his schedule for the summit. That his schedule included cavorting with British royalty for an elephant-rights charity in London did not seem to dissuade him. Denouncing such moves for consensus may have worked when Imran and his parties had scant representation in parliament and could afford to be critical without presenting viable ideas of their own. Now it just makes him look clueless.
Imran Khan may have set an arbitrary 90-day deadline to achieve tangible change, but his voters will have to be a little more patient than that. Yes, he has got off to a terrible start in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which only confirmed the worst fears of his critics, but he has another four years to learn and grow. During his campaign, many may have thought that he offered an alternative for dealing with the TTP, but that has now been exposed as denialism and appeasement. The outsider pose of rejecting what the mainstream parties in the country suggest will no longer convince people who have seen the reality of PTI governance. Imran Khan will have to evolve fast or he may soon become extinct.
http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2013/11/imran-khan-the-rebel-and-the-statesman/
ISLAMABAD, May 12: PTI chairman Imran Khan may climb down over his words of going solo in the National Assembly if he wants to become leader of opposition after shattering of his dream to become prime minister after Saturday’s polls.
In other words, he will have to negotiate with the PPP or the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, that if the two parties also decide to sit on the opposition benches, to gain their support to get the opposition leader’s office.
The PTI chairman, in his election campaign and interviews, has said in clear-cut words that he would not join hands with the PPP, the PML-N and the MQM – the parties which remained in power at the centre or in provinces during the past five years. He even once said that he would prefer to sit on the opposition benches if he had no option but to form the government with the support of any of these parties.
Mr Khan is being presently tipped in TV talk shows as the future opposition leader, but the number of seats the parties have bagged so far, according to unofficial results, clearly shows that if the PTI chairman stands by his words and does not negotiate with the PPP or the MQM, then he cannot get that position, according to the assembly rules. In this case, the office can be attained by a joint nominee of the PPP and the MQM.
The Rule 39(2) of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the National Assembly 2007 says: “After the ascertainment of the leader of the house, the speaker shall inform the members about the date, time and place for submission of a name for the leader of the opposition under their signature.
“The speaker shall declare a member as leader of the opposition having the greatest numerical strength after verification of the signatures of the members.”
The rule was amended in 2007 when the speaker of the 2002 National Assembly, Chaudhry Amir Hussain, did not appoint any member as the opposition leader for a whole year since there was no mention of a timeframe to do so.
A controversy arose when Mr Hussain declared Maulana Fazlur Rehman of the defunct Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) opposition leader despite having the support of lesser members than those of another opposition alliance – the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) – using his discretionary powers to appoint any member for the post who according to his own assessment enjoyed the support of the majority of opposition members.
Now the speaker no more enjoys discretionary powers and is bound to seek nominations for the office in writing from the members sitting on the opposition benches.
When contacted, members from both the PPP and the MQM said it was too early to make any comment on the issue since the results of the elections were still incomplete. They said they could not make any comments without discussing the issue in their parliamentary party meetings.
The PTI chairman in his speeches and interviews criticises almost all the leaders of other parties – be it the PML-N, the PPP, the JUI-F or the MQM. During his campaign, he not only accused the previous cabinet members in the PPP-led coalition government of committing huge corruption, but also declared that he would not take oath from President Asif Ali Zardari if elected as prime minister.
He had also dubbed the MQM as a “terrorist” party in his several speeches and interviews. Political observers believe that it will be interesting to see whether Imran Khan will sacrifice the office of the leader of opposition for the sake of his commitment and credibility or will show flexibility and make a compromise to get the slot which is considered to be the second most coveted office in the National Assembly after the prime minister.
http://dawn.com/news/1011064/imrans-dilemma-in-acquiring-opposition-leaders-slot
پشاور:صوابی میں پولیس چوکی پرفائرنگ، 2 اہل کارجاں بحق، پولیس
— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) November 17, 2013
پشاور:مسلح افراد نے پولیس چوکی کو بھی آگ لگادی، پولیس
— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) November 17, 2013
قومی وطن کا جوابی وار، عمران کے سفارشی خطوط پر بھرتیاں منظر عام پر لانے کا فیصلہ
پشاور: قومی وطن پارٹی نے کرپشن کے الزامات کے تحت پارٹی کے2 وزرا کو معزول کرنے پر شدید ردعمل کا اظہار کرتے ہوئے تحریک انصاف کے سربراہ عمران خان کے سفارشی خطوط اور وزیراعلیٰ پرویز خٹک کی جانب سے دباؤ ڈال کر غیرقانونی بھرتیاں کروانے کے اقدامات کا پردہ چاک کرنے کا فیصلہ کیا ہے۔
وطن پارٹی کے دو وزراء کی اچانک برطرفی کی خبریں میڈیا پرچلنے کے بعد اس وقت عجیب صورت حال پیدا ہوگئی جب سکندر شیرپاؤ نے وزیراعلیٰ پرویز خٹک سے رابطہ کیا،وزیراعلیٰ نے فیصلے سے لاعلمی کا اظہار کیا اور معلومات کیلیے سکندر شیرپاؤ سے مہلت مانگی،قومی وطن پارٹی کے ذرائع کے مطابق وزراکی برطرفی کا فیصلہ بنی گالہ میں عمران خان نے کیا اور مزید عمل درآمد کیلیے پرویز خٹک کو احکامات بھجوائے،اس پیش رفت کے دوران قومی وطن پارٹی کے سربراہ آفتاب احمد شیرپاؤجو بیرون ملک ہیں کو بھی آگاہ کیاگیا، تحریک انصاف کے فیصلے کے فوری بعد قومی وطن پارٹی کے ممبران اسمبلی اور وزرا وطن پال ہاؤس حیات آباد پہنچنا شروع ہوئے جہاں ابتدائی اجلاس میں فیصلہ کیاگیا کہ پارٹی کو بدنام کرنے کیلیے جو طریقہ اپنایاگیا اس کا بھرپور جواب دیا جائیگا اور تحریک انصاف کے سربراہ کے ہاتھ کے لکھے ہوئے وہ سفارشی خطوط منظر عام پر لائے جائیں گے ۔
جو انھوں نے قومی وطن پارٹی کی قیادت یا وزراکو اپنے لیٹر پیڈ پر لکھے اور جن میں انھوں نے قومی وطن پارٹی کے وزرا پرغیرقانونی امور کی انجام دہی پر زور ڈالا،اس کے علاوہ میڈیا کو ان ٹیلی فون کالز کی تفصیلات سے بھی آگاہ کیا جائیگا جن کے ذریعے انھوں نے مبینہ طور پرغیرقانونی لکڑی سے بھرے ٹرکوں کو راستہ دینے کی سفارش کی اورکوہستان و چلاس کے جنگلات میں منظور نظر افرادکو غیرقانونی کٹائی کیلیے فری ہینڈ دینے کا مطالبہ کیا،ذرائع کے مطابق آج ہونے والی گرماگرم پریس کانفرنس میں ان 160افرادکی فہرست بھی میڈیا کے سامنے پیش کی جائیگی جو غیرقانونی طور پر وزیراعلیٰ پرویز خٹک کے دباؤ پر محنت و افرادی قوت کے محکمے میں ایک ہفتہ قبل بھرتی کیے گئے۔
علاوہ ازیں پرویز خٹک کے صاحبزادے کی مبینہ غیرقانونی سرگرمیوں کاپردہ بھی چاک کیاجائیگا،صوبائی حکومت کیخلاف ’’چارج شیٹ‘‘ کی تیاری کاکام بھی رات گئے تک جاری رہا ،مذکورہ صورتحال کے حوالے سے ’’ایکسپریس‘‘ سے خصوصی بات چیت کرتے ہوئے سکندر شیرپاؤ نے کہاکہ ہم نے صوبے کے عوام کے مفاد میں تحریک انصاف کا مشکل وقت میں ساتھ دے کراس کو حکومت بنانے کا موقع فراہم کیا، شروع دن سے ہم نے پوری نیک نیتی کے ساتھ تحریک انصاف کاساتھ دیا اور ساتھ چلنے کیلیے جائز و ناجائزدباؤ بھی برداشت کیا مگرجس بھونڈے طریقے سے وطن پارٹی کو بدنام کرنے کی سازش تیارکی گئی اس کا بھرپورجواب دیا جائیگا، سابق سینئروزیرآج دو بجے پریس کانفرنس میں پارٹی کے آئندہ لائحہ عمل کا اعلان کریں گے۔
پشاور: قومی وطن پارٹی نے کرپشن کے الزامات کے تحت پارٹی کے2 وزرا کو معزول کرنے پر شدید ردعمل کا اظہار کرتے ہوئے تحریک انصاف کے سربراہ عمران خان کے سفارشی خطوط اور وزیراعلیٰ پرویز خٹک کی جانب سے دباؤ ڈال کر غیرقانونی بھرتیاں کروانے کے اقدامات کا پردہ چاک کرنے کا فیصلہ کیا ہے۔
وطن پارٹی کے دو وزراء کی اچانک برطرفی کی خبریں میڈیا پرچلنے کے بعد اس وقت عجیب صورت حال پیدا ہوگئی جب سکندر شیرپاؤ نے وزیراعلیٰ پرویز خٹک سے رابطہ کیا،وزیراعلیٰ نے فیصلے سے لاعلمی کا اظہار کیا اور معلومات کیلیے سکندر شیرپاؤ سے مہلت مانگی،قومی وطن پارٹی کے ذرائع کے مطابق وزراکی برطرفی کا فیصلہ بنی گالہ میں عمران خان نے کیا اور مزید عمل درآمد کیلیے پرویز خٹک کو احکامات بھجوائے،اس پیش رفت کے دوران قومی وطن پارٹی کے سربراہ آفتاب احمد شیرپاؤجو بیرون ملک ہیں کو بھی آگاہ کیاگیا، تحریک انصاف کے فیصلے کے فوری بعد قومی وطن پارٹی کے ممبران اسمبلی اور وزرا وطن پال ہاؤس حیات آباد پہنچنا شروع ہوئے جہاں ابتدائی اجلاس میں فیصلہ کیاگیا کہ پارٹی کو بدنام کرنے کیلیے جو طریقہ اپنایاگیا اس کا بھرپور جواب دیا جائیگا اور تحریک انصاف کے سربراہ کے ہاتھ کے لکھے ہوئے وہ سفارشی خطوط منظر عام پر لائے جائیں گے ۔
جو انھوں نے قومی وطن پارٹی کی قیادت یا وزراکو اپنے لیٹر پیڈ پر لکھے اور جن میں انھوں نے قومی وطن پارٹی کے وزرا پرغیرقانونی امور کی انجام دہی پر زور ڈالا،اس کے علاوہ میڈیا کو ان ٹیلی فون کالز کی تفصیلات سے بھی آگاہ کیا جائیگا جن کے ذریعے انھوں نے مبینہ طور پرغیرقانونی لکڑی سے بھرے ٹرکوں کو راستہ دینے کی سفارش کی اورکوہستان و چلاس کے جنگلات میں منظور نظر افرادکو غیرقانونی کٹائی کیلیے فری ہینڈ دینے کا مطالبہ کیا،ذرائع کے مطابق آج ہونے والی گرماگرم پریس کانفرنس میں ان 160افرادکی فہرست بھی میڈیا کے سامنے پیش کی جائیگی جو غیرقانونی طور پر وزیراعلیٰ پرویز خٹک کے دباؤ پر محنت و افرادی قوت کے محکمے میں ایک ہفتہ قبل بھرتی کیے گئے۔
علاوہ ازیں پرویز خٹک کے صاحبزادے کی مبینہ غیرقانونی سرگرمیوں کاپردہ بھی چاک کیاجائیگا،صوبائی حکومت کیخلاف ’’چارج شیٹ‘‘ کی تیاری کاکام بھی رات گئے تک جاری رہا ،مذکورہ صورتحال کے حوالے سے ’’ایکسپریس‘‘ سے خصوصی بات چیت کرتے ہوئے سکندر شیرپاؤ نے کہاکہ ہم نے صوبے کے عوام کے مفاد میں تحریک انصاف کا مشکل وقت میں ساتھ دے کراس کو حکومت بنانے کا موقع فراہم کیا، شروع دن سے ہم نے پوری نیک نیتی کے ساتھ تحریک انصاف کاساتھ دیا اور ساتھ چلنے کیلیے جائز و ناجائزدباؤ بھی برداشت کیا مگرجس بھونڈے طریقے سے وطن پارٹی کو بدنام کرنے کی سازش تیارکی گئی اس کا بھرپورجواب دیا جائیگا، سابق سینئروزیرآج دو بجے پریس کانفرنس میں پارٹی کے آئندہ لائحہ عمل کا اعلان کریں گے۔
Shah Farman drawing parallel of TTP with Hazrat Ali and Hazrat Ayesha battle. Wonder y PTI can't send sensible ppl. They have many
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Land grabbing: PTI MNA accused of desecrating ancient graves during hospital construction
Graves of that era are said to be still in existence. Some of those have caved due to lack of preservation, added the naib nazim. According to Khan, the land is marked as a graveyard in the revenue record of Patwar Circle.
Jadoon won NA-17 Abbottabad-I on a PTI ticket after defeating Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz’s senior leader Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan.
After winning the elections, he started using the land for meetings and last week, at a public gathering, announced he would construct a modern hospital on said piece of land, stated Khan.
Construction workers started levelling the land on Saturday, desecrating the graves, shared the former naib nazim. He pointed to remains of bodies which had been allegedly exposed during the excavation process.
Local elder Haji Muzaffar Khan maintained the land with ancient graves falls under the purview of The Antiquities Act 1975 and those violating it were punishable both under Islamic Law and the Criminal Procedures Code. Riasar Khan Jadoon, another local elder, threatened to use force to stop construction on the graveyard if the government failed to stop the MNA.
One of Jadoon’s associates, Dr Zaheer, told The Express Tribune the land which was being levelled has no graves.
MNA Jadoon brought the property from its owner a few years ago and was constructing a state-of-the-art hospital, said Zaheer. Turkic graves remained unharmed as they were far from the stretch of land which the hospital is going to be constructed on, he added.
Azhar Jadoon was not available for comments when contacted.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 28th, 2013.
ABBOTABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA from Abbottabad, Dr Azhar Jadoon, has been accused of illegally occupying a graveyard and desecrating ancient graves in Dhamtor village on Nathiagali road.
At a news conference at the graveyard on Sunday, Dhamtor union council former naib nazim Pervez Khan claimed land measuring 63 kanals was earmarked for a graveyard. When the Turkic people were ruling Hazara and Kashmir in the 14th century, they buried their dead there.Graves of that era are said to be still in existence. Some of those have caved due to lack of preservation, added the naib nazim. According to Khan, the land is marked as a graveyard in the revenue record of Patwar Circle.
Jadoon won NA-17 Abbottabad-I on a PTI ticket after defeating Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz’s senior leader Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan.
After winning the elections, he started using the land for meetings and last week, at a public gathering, announced he would construct a modern hospital on said piece of land, stated Khan.
Construction workers started levelling the land on Saturday, desecrating the graves, shared the former naib nazim. He pointed to remains of bodies which had been allegedly exposed during the excavation process.
Local elder Haji Muzaffar Khan maintained the land with ancient graves falls under the purview of The Antiquities Act 1975 and those violating it were punishable both under Islamic Law and the Criminal Procedures Code. Riasar Khan Jadoon, another local elder, threatened to use force to stop construction on the graveyard if the government failed to stop the MNA.
One of Jadoon’s associates, Dr Zaheer, told The Express Tribune the land which was being levelled has no graves.
MNA Jadoon brought the property from its owner a few years ago and was constructing a state-of-the-art hospital, said Zaheer. Turkic graves remained unharmed as they were far from the stretch of land which the hospital is going to be constructed on, he added.
Azhar Jadoon was not available for comments when contacted.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 28th, 2013.
صوابی دھماکےمیں ڈی ایس پی زین خان معمولی زخمی،گاڑی کونقصان،پولیس
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نوشہرہ:صوابی جہانگیرہ روڈپرڈی ایس پی ہیڈکوارٹرکی موبائل کےقریب دھماکا،پولیس
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