A Smart Coup: Why One Last Military Intervention In Pakistan Remains A Possibility

Ahmed Quraishi

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—If it comes to a military-led intervention, both military officers and politicians will have to stay out of actual power. The army chief may not become a chief executive. The military might have to look into a new concept called the ‘Smart Coup’, where the military can bring capable Pakistanis to power with a firm executable plan of reform over five years, or more, fully backed by the military. There may not be time to put the plan to vote. It will have to be implemented. This would be the absolute last option. But we are nowhere near that right now. Gen. Kayani certainly has no such thing in mind according to people who have met him.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—”This was my first interaction with the soldier who commands the seventh largest military force on the face of the planet.”

With this catchy line, Dr. Farrukh Saleem began his brief and fascinating account of a meeting with General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.

On Feb. 10, 2010, Gen. Kayani met a group of Pakistani commentators and security analysts. The briefing was the third since the military began asserting Pakistan’s legitimate security and strategic interests in Afghanistan and the region.

On January 28 and 29, Gen. Kayani told NATO commanders in Brussels that Pakistan’s legitimate security interests will have to be respected.

Earlier, he told Adm. Mike Mullen, Gen. David Petraeus, and Gen. Stanley McChrystal that instead of worrying about appeasing India, Washington better start paying attention to Pakistan.

This is a major development in the eight-year US-led war in Afghanistan.

At one point, Mr. Saleem makes an interesting observation about Gen. Kayani’s cool demeanor.

“Yes, he has the capacity for abstract thought, cold rationality and coarse creativity – all in one,” he says. “And yet he inhales reconstituted tobacco. Yes, he uses a filter and a cigarette holder. Yes, he never takes deep puffs and, yes, he only consumes half a cigarette at a time.”

At another point, Mr. Saleem makes an interesting use of pun. Talking about the general’s smoking habits, he says the following: ‘He knows that some of the things that he is doing are wrong, but still won’t give them up.’

Probably it’s a polite reference to the conspiracy theories that fill the US and British media, or the Am-Brit media, about Pakistan, its military and its intelligence agencies. So some skepticism is natural.

But the best part of his column in The News International was this concluding paragraph:

“I can tell you that I came back both proud but with a painful realisation; proud knowing that our legions are being led by strategic minds and sad to have discovered the much too visible an intellectual gap between our top political brains in Islamabad and our strategic minds at work in Rawalpindi. And what does he think about our politicians? When it’s breezy, hit it easy.

Could it be that the army rules not through the barrel of a gun but because of their intellectual superiority? Could it be that the army rules because our politicians have failed to institutionalize politics? Could it be that the army rules because our political parties do not transcend individual human intentions? Could it be that the army rules because it has structures, mechanisms of social order along with strategic thinking?”

In essence, Mr. Saleem hit at the core reason why the Pakistani military intervenes every time politicians lead the nation to a dead end.

Most importantly, the above reasoning answers even a more important question: Why the military mounts successful interventions and why the politicians can’t muster the moral authority to resist them.

Pakistani politicians remain a chaotic, undisciplined and shortsighted bunch. Their parties are messy and loose groupings of special interests in their crudest form. Almost all of them have lifetime leaders who never give way to fresh blood. And they are not public institutions but private, family-owned affairs.

Since the return to democracy in Pakistan in February 2008, hardly any of the parties in government or opposition devoted any high-level party meetings to education, health, culture and sports. None of them has plans in place for running the country. Worse, none has any vision.

The best place in Islamabad these days to see this mess in action is the National Defense University. Since 2002, the NDU has been holding the annual National Security Workshop. This is a unique 6-week course. It brings together politicians, military officers, businessmen, lawyers, social activists and journalists. The group is taken through a virtual tour into the corridors of strategic decision making in Pakistan. The course ends with a weeklong exercise that sees the class divided into a Pakistani government and a shadow government, complete with their own secretariat and staff. On the last day, the two governments frame and deliver a policy plan to deal with a hypothetical strategic crisis confronting Pakistan. The plan has domestic, military and foreign policy components. Often, senior commanders from Pakistani military’s General Headquarters attend the last day’s presentations.

NDU officials, both civilian and military, have one observation that has been constant during the past eight years of national security workshops: Military officers, businessmen, social activists and journalists often show the best performance. Politicians come last. Most can’t even draft a single-page policy brief, or work with a PowerPoint presentation.

In essence, middle class Pakistanis – military officers, businessmen, social activists and journalists – fair better than the politicians, mostly a feudal landowning elite.

This gets blurry sometimes, but you get the general idea.

And middle class Pakistanis can’t make it to political parties, let alone to the federal and regional parliaments and governments.

Elections might change this, but certainly not in the foreseeable future. And Pakistan may not have the luxury of time.

If the national deadlock continues with mounting domestic instability due to massive corruption and mismanagement by our politicians, the military may have to contend with one last intervention. It would be the last because if the military failed this time to help set Pakistan on the right track, it could be a free fall after that because Pakistanis are getting increasingly restless with the existing decay. Social turmoil simmers just beneath the surface.

If it comes to a military-led intervention, both military officers and politicians will have to stay out of actual power. The army chief may not become a chief executive. The military might have to look into a new concept called the ‘Smart Coup’, where the military can bring capable Pakistanis to power with a firm executable plan of reform over five years, or more, fully backed by the military. There may not be time to put the plan to vote. It will have to be implemented.

This would be the absolute last option. But we are nowhere near that right now. Gen. Kayani certainly has no such thing in mind according to people who have met him. He wants democracy to work for the time being and he has proven this by resisting several opportunities to intervene over the past two years.

Pakistan is full of resources and opportunities, but it lacks good leadership and clean management. Even the bare minimum of these two commodities is not available in today’s Pakistan.

Books on political science and theory in Washington and London can’t help with this. Pakistanis will have to do what’s best for their homeland.

Zaid Hamid: Khilafat-e-Rashida | Episode 14

In this latest episode by Brasstacks, Zaid Hamid sheds some light on Khilafat-e-Rashida that how it was the greatest form of governance ever by human kind

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India Maoist rebels kill 24 troops in West Bengal

At least 24 troops were killed when armed Maoists attacked a camp of the paramilitary forces in India’s West Bengal state, officials said.

Nearly 50 rebels on motorcycles encircled the camp of the Eastern Frontier Rifles (ERF) at Silda village on Monday and started firing on it.

More fighters joined the assault on foot, firing from automatic weapons.

There has been a surge in Maoist violence in recent months

More than 6,000 people have died during the rebels’ 20-year fight for communist rule in many Indian states.

The Indian government recently began a major offensive against the rebels in several states.

Indian Prime minister Manmohan Singh has described the Maoist insurgency as India’s “greatest internal security challenge”.

The rebels now have a presence in 223 of India’s 600-odd districts.

Landmines

The camp was overrun by the Maoists after the troops put up brief initial resistance, district magistrate of West Midnapore district NS Nigam told the BBC.

“The Maoists then burnt down the camp and planted landmines on the entire length of the road leading to the camp. Reinforcements with night vision and anti-landmine vehicles reached the camp late at night,” Mr Nigam said.

At least 24 bodies have been recovered from in and around the camp and some of them are badly charred, he said.

The government has launched a major offensive against the rebels

The seriously injured troops were being taken to the state capital, Calcutta, for treatment. Officials said at least 12 soldiers were still missing.

It took four hours for reinforcements to reached Silda as there were landmines planted on the entire stretch of the road.

Police officials leading the reinforcements that reached Silda late at night said many of the paramilitary troops were shot dead by the rebels as they tried to escape the fire.

West Bengal’s police chief Bhupinder Singh said there were nearly 50 ERF troops in the camp when the attack took place.

The Maoists pulled out of Silda after looting a huge amount of weapons from the camp’s armoury.

Chief of the rebels’ military wing, Koteswara Rao – alias Kishenji – claimed responsibility for the attack.

He said this attack was the beginning of “Operation Peace Hunt”, the Maoist answer to the government “Operation Green Hunt” launched against the Maoists recently.

“We are looking for peace but we are forced to fight and kill the poor troops of the government forces. We will mourn the death of those killed but the government is responsible for their death,” Kishenji told the BBC by phone from an undisclosed location.

The Maoist leader warned of more such attacks unless Operation Green Hunt was stopped.

Earlier this month Home Minister P Chidambaram held a meeting of four Maoist-affected states – West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar and Orissa – in Calcutta.

He threatened to intensify Operation Green Hunt if the rebels did not start talks by abjuring violence.

The Maoists said they would agree to talks if four of their senior leaders now in jail were released and Operation Green Hunt was halted.

The government has not responded to that conditional overture.

Army won’t abandon tribals: Gen Kayani

ISLAMABAD – Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, on Monday assured the tribesmen of Waziristan Agency that the Pakistan Army would not abandon them and continue playing its role in rehabilitation of the displaced people and development of the area.

He held out these assurances while talking to notables of Mehsud and Wazir tribes during ground-breaking ceremonies of two major projects including Tank-Jandola-Sararogha-Makeen Road and Tank-Khajuri-Tanai-Wana Road. He also reviewed progress on quick impact projects for the rehabilitation of the displaced people.

These projects are being undertaken by the Pakistan Army, in consultation with local tribes and in coordination with the civil administration. The COAS emphasised the need for rapid development of the area to consolidate gains made through Military Operations.

General Kayani asked the local tribesmen to come forward and assume ownership of the development works being initiated in their areas.

Earlier, the COAS visited South Waziristan and met with Army Officers and Jawans participating in the Operation Rah-e-Nijat. He mixed up with officers and Jawans and praised their morale and professionalism.
Gen Kayani said that the officers and jawans of Pakistan Army made the operation successful by sacrificing their lives, adding the Army has complete support of the nation and the operation to be completed soon.

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Threats To Pakistan’s Strategic Nuclear Assets

Shahid R. Siddiqi

Indian explosion of its nuclear device in 1974 drew only a customary “show of concern” from the Western powers. But Pakistan’s nuclear program, initiated in response to the Indian acquisition of nuclear weapons, evoked immediate and “serious concern” from the same quarters. Ever since, Pakistan has been under immense pressure to scrap its program while the Indians remain uncensored.

That Western discriminatory attitude can also be seen by the religious color it gave to Pakistan’s bomb by calling it an ‘Islamic bomb’. One has never heard of the Israeli bomb being called a ‘Jewish Bomb’, or the Indian bomb a ‘Hindu Bomb’, or the American and British bomb a ‘Christian Bomb’ or the Soviet bomb a ‘Communist’ (or an ‘Atheist) Bomb’. The West simply used Pakistan’s bomb to make Islam synonymous with aggression and make its nuclear program a legitimate target, knowing full well that it merely served a defensive purpose and was not even remotely associated with Islam.

With India going nuclear soon after playing a crucial role in dismembering Pakistan in 1971 and enjoying an overwhelming conventional military superiority over Pakistan in the ratio of 4:1, a resource strapped Pakistan was pushed to the wall. Left with no other choice but to develop a nuclear deterrent to ward off future Indian threats, Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto declared: “Pakistanis will eat grass but make a nuclear bomb”. And sure enough, they did it. Soon, however, both he and the nuclear program were to become non-grata. Amid intense pressure, sanctions and vilification campaign, Henry Kissinger personally delivered to a defiant Bhutto the American threat: “give up your nuclear program or else we will make a horrible example of you’.

And a horrible example was made of Bhutto for his defiance. But he had enabled Pakistan to become the 7th nuclear power in the world. This served Pakistan well. India was kept at bay despite temptations for military adventurism. Although there has never been real peace in South Asia, at least there has been no war since 1971.

Ignoring its security perspective, Pakistan’s Western ‘friends’ refused to admit it to their exclusive nuclear club, though expediency made them ignore its ‘crime’ when it suited their purpose. But driven by identical geo-strategic interests in their respective regions and seeing Pakistan as an obstacle to their designs, Israel and India missed no opportunity to malign or subvert Pakistan’s program.

Due to its defiance of Indian diktat, Pakistan is for India an obstruction in its quest for domination of South Asia and the Indian Ocean region. Israel’s apprehension of Pakistan’s military prowess is rooted in the strength Pakistan indirectly provides to Arab states with whom Israel has remained in a state of conflict. Conscious that several Arab states look up to Pakistan for military support in the event of threat to their security from Israel, it is unsettling for Israel to see a nuclear armed Pakistan.

Israel can also not overlook the fact that Pakistan’s military is a match to its own. The PAF pilots surprised Israeli Air Force, when flying mostly Russian aircraft they shot down several relatively superior Israeli aircraft in air combat in the 1973 Arab Israel war, shattering the invincibility myth of Israeli pilots who believed themselves to be too superior in skill and technology. The Pakistanis happened to be assigned to Jordanian, Syrian and Iraqi air forces on training missions when the war broke out and, unknown to the Israelis then, they incognito undertook combat missions.

After successfully destroying Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981, Israelis planned a similar attack on Pakistan’s nuclear facilities at Kahuta in collusion with India in the 1980s. Using satellite pictures and intelligence information, Israel reportedly built a full-scale mock-up of Kahuta facility in the Negev Desert where pilots of F-16 and F-15 squadrons practiced mock attacks.

According to ‘The Asian Age’, London, journalists Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark stated in their book ‘Deception: Pakistan, the US and the Global Weapons Conspiracy’, that Israeli Air Force was to launch air attack on Kahuta in mid 1980s from Jamnagar airfield in Gujarat (India). The book claims that “in March 1984, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi signed off (on) the Israeli-led operation bringing India, Pakistan and Israel to within a hairs breadth of a nuclear conflagration”.

Another report claims that Israel also planned an air strike directly out of Israel. After midway and midair refueling, Israeli warplanes planned to shoot down a commercial airline’s flight over Indian Ocean that flew into Islamabad early morning, fly in a tight formation to appear as one large aircraft on radar screens preventing detection, use the drowned airliner’s call sign to enter Islamabad’s air space, knock out Kahuta and fly out to Jammu to refuel and exit.

According to reliable reports in mid 1980s this mission was actually launched one night. But the Israelis were in for a big surprise. They discovered that Pakistan Air Force had already sounded an alert and had taken to the skies in anticipation of this attack. The mission had to be hurriedly aborted.

Pakistan reminded the Israelis that Pakistan was no Iraq and that PAF was no Iraqi Air Force. Pakistan is reported to have conveyed that an attack on Kahuta would force Pakistan to lay waste to Dimona, Israel’s nuclear reactor in the Negev Desert. India was also warned that Islamabad would attack Trombay if Kahuta facilities were hit.

The above quoted book claims that “Prime Minister Indira Gandhi eventually aborted the operation despite protests from military planners in New Delhi and Jerusalem.”

McNair’s paper #41 published by USAF Air University (India Thwarts Israeli Destruction of Pakistan’s “Islamic Bomb”) also confirmed this plan. It said, “Israeli interest in destroying Pakistan’s Kahuta reactor to scuttle the “Islamic bomb” was blocked by India’s refusal to grant landing and refueling rights to Israeli warplanes in 1982.” Clearly India wanted to see Kahuta gone but did not want to face retaliation at the hands of the PAF. Israel, on its part wanted this to be a joint Indo-Israeli strike to avoid being solely held responsible.

The Reagan administration also hesitated to support the plan because Pakistan’s distraction at that juncture would have hurt American interests in Afghanistan, when Pakistan was steering the Afghan resistance against the Soviets.

Although plans to hit Kahuta were shelved, the diatribe against Pakistan’s nuclear program continued unabated. Israel used its control over the American political establishment and western media to create hysteria. India worked extensively to promote paranoia, branding Pakistan’s program as unsafe, insecure and a threat to peace. The fact is otherwise. It is technically sounder, safer and more secure than that of India and has ensured absence of war in the region.

The US invasion of Afghanistan provided another opening for Indo-Israeli nexus to target Pakistan’s strategic assets. This time the strategy was to present Pakistan as an unstable state, incapable of defending itself against religious extremist insurgents, creating the specter of Islamabad and its nuclear assets falling in their hands. Suggestions are being floated that Pakistan being at risk of succumbing to extremists, its nuclear assets should be disabled, seized or forcibly taken out by the US. Alternatively, an international agency should take them over for safe keeping.

Pakistan has determinedly thwarted the terrorist threat and foiled this grand conspiracy. The terrorists have either been eliminated or are on the run. Pakistan has made it clear that it would act decisively against any attempt by any quarter to harm its nuclear assets. But if the game is taken to the next level, the consequences would be disastrous for the region.

The Indo-Israeli nexus is losing initiative. But as long as the American umbrella is available Afghanistan will remain a playground for mischief mongers. It is now up to the US to walk its talk and prove its claim that it wants to see a secure and stable Pakistan. It must pull the plug on conspiracies to destabilize Pakistan.

Wataniya International Topup Receive Balance on Ufone and Warid from Kuwait

Kuwait based mobile phone operator Wataniya International is now offering international topup services. Now the mobile users in kuwait can send credit/balance to their loved one in Pakistan on Ufone and Warid network. The official procedure to send money from kuwait to Pakistan is mentioned below in the screenshot taken from wataniya website.

Information about the Charges. Wataniya will charge per outgoing Message: 10 fils

Top up amount:
* PKR 250 (KWD1.20)
* PKR 500 (KWD2.20)
* PKR 1000 (KWD4.30)
These conversations may changed based on currency rates.

Google busy fixing bugs to make Buzz better

Google is committed to improve its newly launched service Google Buzz . There were many reports and concerns over the Google Buzz auto follow mode. Where it was exposing your frequently emailed contacts without your emission. Google have already fixed this auto follow model. The other privacy concerns are geo-location and exposing your google name in your buzz profile which may make you valuable to spam. The resents steps taken by the Google including apologizes for buzz privacy issues indicate that Google is really busy in improving the Buzz and really want to take a huge share in the social media

Telenor Djuice International Pakka Dost

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Nokia and Intel Joins Hands to Create New Mobile OS

Nokia and Intel joins hands with each others to work on a new operating system for mobiles namely MeeGo - a new Linux based platform. Basically this a merger of Nokia’s Maemo OS which recently appeared in the N900 smartphone and Intel’s Moblin OS intended for netbooks. The new OS MeeGo is intended for smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle technology and for digital smart televisions. It is expected to be launched in the 2nd quater of 2010. You can find more details from the MeeGo official website link provided above. With the increaseing popularity of mobile devices all the big hands Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nokia, Intel etc are jumping into OS. Intrestingly most of these i.e Google Chrome, Apple’s IPad etc will be based on Linux/Unix

Nokia 3310 A SmartPhone with Video Camera

Let us recall our memories with Nokia 3310. It was once a very popular handset. See how it looks like with all the latest features.

Supreme Court of Pakistan suspends judges’ appointment notification

A 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan has suspended the notification of judges’ appointment hours after its issuance by the government on Saturday.

The special bench held a meeting soon after its formation by the Chief Justice of Pakistan and suspended the President’s decision of judges’ appointment, declaring it a violation of Article-177 of the Constitution. Justice Khwaja Muhammad Sharif and Justice Mian Saqib Nisar will continue to serve as Chief Justice of Lahore High Court (LHC) and senior judge LHC respectively, the bench said.

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry taking suo motto notice of the notification of judges’ appointment Saturday evening formed a 3-judge bench headed by Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan with Justice Raja Fayaz and Justice Jawad S. Khwaja as its members.

Meanwhile, Additional Registrar Supreme Court Qasi Sajid provided the details/ records in connection with judges appointment to the special bench.

Earlier, President Asif Ali Zardari elevated Justice Khwaja Sharif as SC judge and Justice
Saqib Nisar as Acting CJ of LHC through an official notification.

However, Justice Khwaja Sharif and Justice Saqib Nisar refused to accept the decision of the government.

Later, the special bench adjourned its proceeding till February 18.

The 5-member SC bench which had been constituted for taking up the case of delay in judges’ appointment will take the proceeding ahead.

Additional Secretary Law, Attorney Generals of Pakistan and the four advocate generals have been summoned.

Cyber Crime Website Owners Facing Cases for Music Piracy

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On complaint of GEO TV and Fire Records three website owners Najam Sahar, Yasir Hayat and Zeeshan Alam are facing cases for Music piracy. Earlier Mag4You.com have faced similar cases from Fire Records. Now a written complaint against two more websites funmaza.com and apniisp.com have also been registred.

Here is a Geo News Clip on this issue.

Funmaza.com alongwith many others pirated music websites e.g songs.pk is a creation of arcDegz

Blog Plagiarism and Illegal Threats

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Blog plagiarism ? Have you ever faced illegal threats ? what is this all about ? first we have to look about the some definitions of the plagiarism and blogging then we can understand the concept of Blog Plagiarism.

Plagiarism itself is not a legal term as such however it have been used several time in lawsuits. The word plagiarism itself can be defined in several way from copying the entire work of some body and publishing it in your name or claiming this to be yours or by borrowing someone else’s original ideas. The underlying seriousness of offense varies with reference to the context or on whether the whole content is copied as such or some one have borrowed or not an idea. The coping of ones original work word by word or without permission is an offence but regarding borrowing an idea or two persons are working in similar area independently there arise few questions

1. Can Idea Be Stolen?

2. Is there any possibility that more then one person think alike?

3. What about general news items?

4. What about different general topics?

Now I will discuss these in some details. Yes Idea can be stolen but some time it is very difficult to prove the theft of an idea. And some time without steeling an idea two person contribute in a similar area as human brain may think alike and more then one person may think on a similar topic, area or concept. For example these days many world economist are thinking alike to find a solution to the global recession. Many scientist are working hard to find a cure to the cancer etc.Some time if there is a breaking news around then every one have the right to explain or write on this in his own style this does not mean they are committing plagiarism e.g If we look at these two news items Google is soon launching orkut aaps, Microsoft is going to buy Yahoo. So more than one news agency, person may be working on these news with or without telling their internel resources within these organizations.

Some time if there are current issues being faced by the world, country or any specific area e.g Global Recession (worlwide) , Long March (Pakistan) , Restoration of Judges (Pakistan), Peace Talks (India and Pakistan) , Social Media (World Wide and Locally) so any intellectual or writer can pick any of these topics and can explain his/her own ideas on the issue and can put forward his/her own suggestions , can writenews columns but this does not mean that some one have patented these open topic, current issues that only one person can write on this and others can not as if they do they will commitplagiarism.
Now let us come to the concept of blogging. What is a blog and what is blogging all about? Blog is defined as “A website that displays in chronological order the postings by one or more individuals and usually has links to comments on specific postings” or it can also be defind as “(WeBLOG) A Web site that contains dated text entries in reverse chronological order (most recent first) ” or Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic.

The above definitions indicate a blog is not a classified research journal (although you may publish research items), nor a news paper (although you may publish news items) but is more a kind of web diary or digital diary where any person can put his own thoughts, his own personal collections and experiences, share his knowledge , can bookmark items of his interest and can do a log more. So in a way there are not strict regulations as for a propernews paper or a research journal for your formatting and writing styles.

Now let us come to the point of Blog Plagiarism what is this all about? As we have discussed above plagiarism is copying ones work and pretending as it is your same is true for Blog Plagiarism i.e by copying the entire set of articles , posts or a single post, article from ones blog and claiming it as your own work. Many people are committing this by using some online automatic tools i.e feedpress plug-in for wordpress or soft wares like auto-blog etc. As a results RSS feeds from others blogs are being copiedword by word from one blog to an other blog. Google and other search engines have realized these problems and now such kind of content copying is being discouraged in terms of search engine rankings.

As many bloggers have common areas of interest most of the time these are working on related topics knowing or without knowing ther bloggers work. eg. How to install windows on a new machine?, What is Linux copy command? I am a Big Fan of Web 2.0 Technologies and many other related topics. As I have mentioned earlier blogging is not a kind of very classified code of writing so it is not essential to perform a review of literature before writing a blog.

So any one can post any thing at any time . If some one has not copied the entire word to word post of others either by RSS feed parsing or manually and have writtenhis own blog without coping any thing from any where else he is not committing the act of Plagiarism. There may be chance that since you are woking in a similar area some time you may receive illagle threats by other shameless bloggers. These shameless bloggers consider internet as their personal property and think that no one else have right to expresshis own point of view on a particular area of intrest. We all should condemn such bloggers.

rel=”nofollow” tag a message for search engines

The nofollow tag is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that do not follow this link and do not give it any credit in terms of ranking influence.
its usage is very simple like Link

This tag was introduced by Google to fight the spames and now is being respected by other search engines as well. This tag rel=”nofollow” help search engine that to distinguish between links which are trusted andthe other whic are not to assigne rank and other seo influence .Google does not count these links as backlinks which are assigned by this method.

This tag is important for forums, blogs and link selling as you may or may not wish to give a backlink credit to an untrusted or unknown site.

USB Heating Gloves Hands Warmer in Winter

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You are on an airport or outdoor and it is very chilly morning, want to check your email or to do some computing stuff. It is difficult to get your hands out of the pocket, why not give USB heated gloves a try ?

Yes this gadget is avilable in the market in different colors and designes at different stores. These are basically fingerless gloves which provide heating powered from USB. After five minutes, the internal heating pads warm up by 10 degrees.

Student rules: ‘nanny state’ promoting ‘house wife’ concept

New changes in Immigration law will affect thousands of students unnecessarily without having an impact study. Alan Johnson announced that on 10 February , that from 3 March 2010 a) student can only work 10 hours during term time; b) can not bring their wives if studying under 6 months courses; c) even if the spouses are allowed to come, they cannot work. I feel that previously students could come to UK, and first learn English and later could enrol on to better courses of their choice especially students from subcontinent India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri lanka, china where English is not their first language.

Previously students could come to UK, and first learn English and later could enrol on to better courses of their choice especially students from subcontinent India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri lanka, china where English is not their first language. Now if you have not acquired GCSE standard English, your doors to Britain for studies are closed which to me is unjust and discriminatory.

Since when in the world English has become the measuring table for a licence of learning. People may have a command in their own language but canlearn English in order to acquire the learning in their very discipline i.e science, arts, and design and return home to revert to their normal way of life. All students come and work during their vacations and part time during their term time. This enable them to seek work experience and on some occasions meet their expenses as education in universities is a very expensive business and overseas students for each fiscal year are required to pay over £5000-10,000 every year depending on each university or college and restricting to 10 hours work would mean that all the avenues ofpart time work are closed. It will allow genuine students to be either in breach of law and or remain under the carpet or survive in lesser money which is in this day and age is impossible ad unworkable.

There should be relaxation of work as well as tighter regulations to curb institutions who facilitate bogus admissions. Currently UKBA has no system at all. They have closedthousands of colleges which should not have been allowed to cater international students at first place, first UKBA allowed them to function and sponsor thousands of overseas students and later closed those institutions and did not offer any policy for those students who are already in the system after genuinely payingthousands of pounds fees thus putting them on streets due to no fault of their own. I think tighter regulations to have a check and balance between college, home office and students is desirable but changing policies and rules every 15 minutes is not a solution and labour govt should not take big decisions at the eleventh hour. Sponsorship system is not going to work. It will fail like the old work permit system failed where Thousands were sponsored by dubious Indian IT employer companies which closed down the moment those students entered UK market, which never could handle shortage of IT staff but figures showed the entry ofthousands of IT workers on work permits.

Finally, I do feel that it is unjust that UKBA allow a student to bring a family and then disallow his family to work. This will mean promoting the concept of ‘house wives’ culture. According to new rules applicable from 3 March 2010,international students can only bring their wives if they are enrolled on a course for over 6 months period but their wives will not be entitled to work unless highly qualified (tier 1 & 2 ) themselves, that will promote a culture of housewives which is nonsense to me as hundreds of overseas soldiers at Sandhurst , Engineers, doctors, judges from abroad visit UK on shorter 6-12 weeks courses which gives them an opportunity to bring their spouses, and taste British culture. Students who are enrolled on their professional or post graduate courses normally bring their families and if they have no children , the spouses work in order to pass time, or bit of extra help in the house, learning English, or in order to get accustomed to the atmosphere.

These new rules are but a shameful reverse gear towards a ‘nanny state’ where everything legal will be banned and all ‘illegal acts’ will be indirectly and discreetly carry on. Govt have failed to announce an amnesty for thousands who are working in the system and contributing in black economy. Lack of disciplined policy promoted fraud including identity and theft, and because there is no coherent policy how to tackle ‘illegal working’ people are exploited to work for pound or two an hour at London’s restaurants, hotels, clearing and cleaning outlets. UKBA is closing its eyes because they do not wish to go home empty stomach or who will clean their rubbish if these aliens are sent back. So they are in the system, without documents, and are allowed to be properly exploited.

I think general amnesty for all those who are in the system for over 5 years without criminal records is a way out . Due to looming security threat no one can support anyone who is remaining illegally in UK without even the documentation. If that figure is over 500,000 that worries me and strict scrutiny of every one not in the system so that UKBA could put all at sundry on the system logging entry & exit. It must promote Britain as a safer tourist place in Europe and a place of excellence for study for highly intellect individuals who have lust for knowledge, learning and experience. These cheap tactics of work or not work is degrading the country’s name into dust. Prime Minister must snub his Immigration poodles and should come up with logical solutions not illogic unworkable election specific tactics in the run up to election in May.

Barrister Amjad Malik, is a Chair Association of Pakistani Lawyers (United Kingdom)

NRO Order, CJ Or 18th Amendment Barrister Amjad Malik

16 December 2010 Supreme Court order on NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance) has shattered the ruling govt which was standing on the 4 pillars of this barter orchestrated by military & Pentagon , USA &UK and (PPP) Pak people party leadership which is clutching and hanging on to a straw now. Instead of whole heartedly, understanding the tenacity of situation and implementing the order by realigning politically based on reality, the leadership went for hit and run ditto of their predecessor General Musharraf who sacked the chief justice who was considering a petition on his Presidential election in military uniform.

Same is the case with PPP govt which is willing to lock horns with the judiciary and is willing to wipe out the whole political democratic dispensation if the buck comes to shove and the issue comes to their govt’s fall. They do not wish to leave as corrupt but be drummed out with a bang as victims and history tells victims reappear in Pakistani politics. Govt is in between rock and a hard place, either to digest, accept and implement the order of 17 superior court judges and sack a few loyalists who are wanted by NAB enquiry or stall the matter, seek refuge under political dispensation and chalk out a settlement with its foes and get the gunners out of the ring, though a wishful thinking devoid of public sentiments.

Chief Justice is losing patience and role of military establishment will be very crucial who will ultimately decide in a situation where court orders are stalled by politicians putting institutions at risk of collapse. People have seen such situations in the past. Vibrant media and pro active judiciary with civil society and loaded lawyers are not going to allow a political slaughter of judiciary especially in a situation where army is stretched and wishes to wait and see from the back room. Public mood will be very important as to which way the tide turns. 18th amendment will give an opportunity of a necessary barter to those who have received a yellow card but still there is no concrete results in the offing and any once issue my act as a stumbling block in the talks and constitutional amendment remains a matter of academic exercise.

Judiciary however, has suffered due to lack of compliance on their orders and no apparent explanation and or reasons and if they remain patient and did not enquire sooner as to steps towards implementation then all orders will start meeting the same fate, non compliance by default.

If judicial decision are delayed in such a way that it frustrate the ultimate goal of justice than that ‘delay means defeating the justice’ and that what exactly is happening in Pakistan. Several petitions are coming before the top judges for action than sombre quietness but I must say that CJ must be mindful as those under his sword may like to offer a sacrifice to hispolitical opponents to effect a settlement and in such a situation one judge may become a victim of circumstances and General Musharraf’s establishment will be very pleased if that stage arrives as they will kill two birds with one stone, revenge and retribution. Time is of the essence and smooth running of the institutions is dependent on fair and impartial judicial decisions, where government is accountable to parliament and good governance remains a hall mark of the executive which is so far missing in this equation.

Whether order of the court is implemented, or political settlement change the goal post before judges strike down the corrupt ministers with the ink of their pen will be seen in a few months but one thing is sure that spectacle will be interesting, and bloody. Stubbornness of some has brought the system to a near collapse and looking at public anger, frustration due to shortage of food, gas and electricity, I thinkgovt is sitting on a pylon where there is a little margin of error between implementation of the order and erecting a timely political settlement through 18th amendment. Any indirect effort to oust the top judge out of the ring will meet with a bad luck and a price so do or die is a must spectacle.

Barrister Amjad Malik is a Chair Association of Pakistani Lawyers (United Kingdom)

10 February 2010

Bannu twin blasts toll climbs to 15; curfew imposed

The death toll in Bannu twin blasts has mounted to 15 including 9 policemen while over 30 police personnel have been injured Thursday, police source said.

A blast ripped through Bannu police line 2, one kilometer from Bannu central market that injured several policemen, police said.

The second blast occurred at the same site where rescue and relief activities were underway. It killed 15 people including 9 police personnel and injured over 30 others including DPO Bannu Iqbal Marwat.

DMS District Headquarters Hospital Bannu told Geo News that 5 bodies were brought to the facility out of which 9 were clad in police uniform. Other bodies also appear to be those of policemen in civvies, he added.

Dr. Hafeez said the condition of DPO Bannu is in critical condition and that medical treatment is being provided to him.

Curfew has been imposed in Bannu following the deadly blasts.

Ufone introduces “Awaz Email”, the first service of its kind

Ufone recently launched the first of its kind “Awaz Email” which allows users to send a voice message to any email address anywhere in the world. By launch of this innovative service, Ufone the leader in innovation has once again taken the telecom industry by storm.

The customers only have to dial 4412 from their Ufone and record the message they wish to send. This interactive voice recorded service gives the customer the option to listen to the message before it is sent and if required the message can be changed before sending. For customer convenience an SMS is sent to the sender after the message has been confirmed to reply with the recipients email address, after which the sender will get a confirmation SMS that the Awaz Email has been sent.

The launch of this service has given customers all over Pakistan a well deserved change and will allow all to make their messages more personalized than ever before.

Mr. Akbar Khan Chief Marketing Officer Ufone said, “Over the last two years Ufone has made a mark as a leader in innovation within the telecom industry by introducing new and out of the box innovative products and services”. He added, “At Ufone we look to be way more aggressive in the year ahead and promise to bring a smile to all by providing our valued customers with more exhilarating and ground-breaking services”.

Mrs Pakistan World 2010 off to London, England to Revive the Arts

Tahmena Bokhari, Mrs Pakistan World, 2010 joins other speakers in London, England on February 16th to encourage Muslims to reclaim their artistic and cultural heritage. Children in certain Muslim homes are increasingly discouraged from participating in drama, art and music. A conference organised by British Muslims for Secular Democracy (bmsd) and supported by the British Council will address this problem and the consequences. “Free Muslims: Autonomy and Creativity” challenges those who seek to close down theMuslim mind by claiming Islam forbids artistic expression, leisure and cultural activities.

This is aligned with Ms. Bokhari’s overall message that we must work to develop positive and healthy communities around the world. Having a personal passion for the arts, as she hobbies as a photographer, fashion designer, painter and writer, she firmly believes that creative outlets are a necessary part of a healthy life. She has also used art in providing forms of therapy as a social worker with her clients and children in countries such as Pakistan and Cambodia. This premise of thisconference is also insync with the motto of the Mrs. Pakistan World organization on building a modern Pakistan. Ms. Bokhari believes that developing these outlets in all countries, but especially in places like Pakistan, can be a method of redirecting youth from violence and involvement with gangs and terrorist groups.

Professor Tahmena Bokhari commented that, “A sign of healthy children and communities around the world is access to positive outlets for emotional and physical energy, such as the creative arts including poetry, literature, painting, dance, music and so on. Creativity is considered to be a divine blessing in Islam. Islam furnishes us with numerous examples ofMuslim creativity, from calligraphy in the Golden Age to Sami Yusuf’s debut album ‘al-Mu’allim’. We must ensure fourteen hundred years of Islamic contributions to art, culture, literature, and history are not pushed aside in favour of a hardline interpretation of theMuslim faith.”

The bmsd Conference is taking place at the SOAS Brunei Gallery in central London on 16th February 2010 from 10am to 2pm.

NUML Registrar Brigadier (retd.) Obaidullah Ranjha resigns

Brigadier (retd.) Obaidullah Ranjha, the Registrar of National University of Modern Languages, has stepped down here on Wednesday.

Brig Ranjha tendered his resignation to the university’s Rector Prof Aziz Ahmed, who accepted it in the best interest of the university.

Earlier in the day, the NUML Registrar appeared before the four-member inquiry committee and apprised the committee of details about thrashing of Professor Tahir Malik.

He was accused of thrashing and assaulting Professor Tahir Malik. The move angered the students and other professors, who staged demonstrations and demanded his ouster from the varsity

Google Launched Google Buzz in Gmail a Social Networking Tool

Google have launched a new social networking tool in Gmail in the name of Google Buzz. The official Google blog has introduced this product yesterday. Here is a selection from Google official blog

We’ve blogged before about our thoughts on the social web, steps we’ve taken to add social features to our products, and efforts like OpenSocial that propose common tools for building social apps. With more and more communication happening online, the social web has exploded as the primary way to share interesting stuff, tell the world what you’re up to in real-time and stay more connected to more people.

With the introduction of this new product Gmail has become a social tool. This not a first social media attempt by Google. They have already tried Orkut, but all Google’s efforts in social media did not gained a major success, Orkut is only popular in a limited number of countries.

With Buzz Google is trying to catch Face book and Twitter users. Interestingly Face Book have recently announced that it may start a full email serves as well.

Microsoft Won 23 Domain Names In UDRP complaint

The PC giant Microsoft have won 23 domains in a UDRP complaint. These domains were registred in June 2008 bu somebody with name “nonamo”

Here is the list of domains seized by Microsoft

1. windows7addon.com
2. windows7antivirus.com
3. windows7compatible.com
4. windows7features.com
5. windows7firewall.com
6. windows7freeware.com
7. windows7hardware.com
8. windows7patch.com
9. windows7place.com
10. windows7plus.com
11. windows7portable.com
12. windows7recover.com
13. windows7reviews.com
14. windows7screensaver.com
15. windows7security.com
16. windows7servicepack.com
17. windows7stuff.com
18. windows7virus.com
19. windowsforgamers.com
20. windowsforgames.com
21. windowsvistaplace.com
22. windowsvistavirus.com
23. xbox362.com

Grand Cognates to Ms Naseem Hameed

Our National Pride, daughter of the great soil of this great country ; Ms Naseem Hameed stood gold medalist in 100 meter race in South Asian Games being held in Dacca. She has accomplished a tremendous job for thecountry . She deserves to be decorated with a prize of grand medal of Rs. 5000000/- along with a free reasonable residence at least and this must be done if the President & PM of this unfortunatecountry are having an iota of human sense!!!

AFTAB ALAM ADVOCATE (HIGH COURT)

Nokia is planning for Symbian Tablets

The Symbian Foundation, the organisation behind the Symbian mobile operating system has announced it’s only a matter of time before a Symbian tablet makes it to market. If you are planning to buy an iPad it may be worth waiting few months and look at the alternates and decide which one is best.

Youtube Access Restricted in Pakistan

There are reports from different ISPs users in Pakistan for the inaccessiblity of youtube. You can find reports about this on the herdictweb . This may be a temporary technical error of a restriction imposed by the Govt. of Pakistan.

Shiv Sena’s war with SRK still not over?

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan may have bought peace with the Shiv Sena seeking reconciliation with Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray, however, the Sena is not ready to back off just yet over the actor’s controversial remark on the inclusion of Pakistani cricketers in the third edition of the IPL.

Reacting to SRK’s olive branch, Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday (February 6) said that it is now upto Party supremo Babasaheb Thackeray to take a call on the issue. Speaking to a bunch of reporters he added that the party will do what his father instructs them to do.

On Saturday, SRK stuck to his comments on Pakistani players in IPL saying that there was nothing “anti-national” and ruled out meeting Shiv Sena supremo on his own to sort out the controversy.

“I have not said anything that is anti-national or anti-Indian. I stand by what I said and I would like to say that may be the group has misunderstood me. There is no other reason because I have not said anything I should feel sorry about,” Khan, who arrived here after a whirlwind promotional tour of New York, London and Berlin, told reporters.

“I think what I said has been misconstrued. I am pro good relationship with countries. I think we all are…,” he said.

Asked if he would go to Thackeray’s home ‘Matoshree’ to explain his position, Khan said he had gone to the “senior” leader’s residence whenever he was called.

“I have been there so often. Yes, I would like to go and have drink with him. But on this matter, I don’t see…there is no reason for going and asking…but if my stand needs to be explained to someone, I have already done it. I don’t think there is an issue on that front,” Khan said.

Unfazed by Shiv Sena’s attack on him, SRK had a dig at the party and stuck to his stand of pitching for inclusion of Pakistani cricketers in Indian Premier League. “I don’t know what the issue is all about…I don’t know what I am supposed to retract. Am I supposed to retract the fact I’m an Indian but I don’t want anyone to come to my country,” Khan had earlier said referring to sharp reaction from Sena on his remarks about the inclusion of Pakistani cricketers on the IPL tournament.

The Sena had threatened SRK by saying that they would disrupt the screening of his movies, if the actor did not take back his remarks on Pakistani players.

UK lawyers have demanded withdrawal of Dr Afia’s Case

UK lawyers have demanded withdrawal of Dr Afia’s Case declaring the conviction

unsafe and has demanded for a public enquiry on Dr Afia’s treatment from US President

APL ( Association of Pakistani Lawyers), a team of Pakistani origin lawyers, Solicitors, Barristers, Judges in UK, held an emergency session of its executive and in their 6 February 2010 communiqué addressed to Barrack Obama, The President of USA and Foreign Secretary, Senator Hillary Clinton Has demanded that Govt. of United States must consider withdrawing charges against Dr Afia Siddiqui and her repatriation to Pakistan forthwith.

APL Chair, Barrister Amjad Malik referred to their earlier letter to President Obama where they welcomed his election and wrote “America needs to offer hope to the community of nation and revitalize its efforts to jointly consult with the world if it ever desire to come closer to victory on its drive against extremism. No doubt, 9/11 was the most tragic and most condemnable attack on civilization by criminals and proportionate use of force, revival of United Nations role, protecting the sovereignty of independent nations, joint intelligence sharing mechanism and collective wisdom is the key to defeat this menace”.

He said , In this light of the above we have a cause to write to you on behalf of the Pakistani & Muslim community on the issue of Dr Afia Siddiqui’s Conviction which may result in a stumbling block between US-Pak people to people contact and relations between two states. Dr Afia was kidnapped and kept at Bagram Airfield without the aid of a lawyer, doctor and or consulate access for years and her being a female, Muslim women that has the potential to charge the mood of the public.

Mr. Malik wrote, USA is already making efforts to bridge the gap between the people of Pakistan and US Administration and Dr. Afia’s conviction will wipe out all efforts and this decision seems to have dictated through fears than the facts and law. Dr Afia is demonized as ‘Al-Qaeda’ lady or in official circles as ‘the grey lady of Bagram’ without substance of her association or affiliation as Association with Al-Qaeda itself is a criminal offence and that avenue has not been pursued. Under the circumstances she may never get a fair trial from the jury due to 9/11 as in built prejudice against the perpetrators of the 9/11 makes it impossible to allow a fair hearing against anyone who is allegedly portrayed by media or through whisper campaign to be an associate of that outfit no matter how much it is denied. Though, we agree that USA has failed to prove or at least bring it open the limits of her engagements

Chair of APL proposed 5 resolutions of demands:

“Resolution of Demand:

1. Govt of United States must consider withdrawing charges against Dr Afia Siddiqui and her repatriation to Pakistan forthwith; or

2. Govt of United States must consider Presidential pardon for Dr Afia Siddiqui as she has been missing and or confined allegedly since 2003 and there is no account of her missing time in Bagram airfield and her conviction is unsafe considering the state of mind and or issues of serious allegation(s) of torture and maltreatment; or

3. Govt of United States must consider appealing this decision as it is unsafe as post 9/11 putting people of New York in a position of jurors to find a question of guilty/not guilty of a person who is highly publicised as allegedly associated with internationally notorious outfit (AL-Qaeda) is unreasonable and rules of natural justice and norms of Art.6 of the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 has not been met. looking at the case of Brown v Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954) where so rightly Supreme Court gave decision against segregation of white and Black children in the public state school solely on the basis of race because that segregation was against the principle of equal protection of law guaranteeing Fourteenth Amendment, at this juncture based on the past knowledge, I am sure, USA can ensure justice with Muslim minorities (its a test case in that scenario); There is overwhelming evidence of making this conviction unsafe i.e lack of DNA / finger prints evidence of her linking to the rifle, her unlawful presence at Bagram as the account of her arrest is not credible, discrepancies between the accounts of Interpreter, and other two witnesses, and no empty shells of the bullets fired were presented at court all makes the conviction unsafe; and these questions must be put to rest which questions the prosperity of US criminal justice system to be fair to Muslims post 9/11 as is the case in UK where many convictions were overturned by superior courts declaring them unsafe and excessive;

4. Govt of United States must consider prisoner exchange with the Govt of Pakistan as in the past many prisoners from Pakistan has been shifted to USA without judicial oversight, on the similar approach Dr Afia Siddiqui must be returned to Pakistan to remain in Pakistani custody whilst the issue of her case (withdrawal/appeal and or pardon) are considered at home in USA as she has already spent many years in confinement and her return would ease her sufferings and will avoid hampering United States effort to increase people to people contact and efforts to winning the hearts and minds of the Pakistani people.

5. Govt of United States must consider setting up a commission to adjudicate the questions of true facts surrounding Dr Afia’s arrest, allegations of torture and mal treatment at Bagram airfield, and the issue of extra judicial and extra territorial confinement and imprisonment at Bagram where there are allegations that CIA paid huge monies to Pak officials for making successful arrests and Gen. Musharraf accepted that fact in his book, (in the line of fire). Dr Afia is a female, Muslim lady from Pakistan who is a highly educated (PhD from Brandeis University 2001) and has been either bought via CIA and or arrested in dubious circumstances at Pakistan and or Afghanistan; she has been strip searched, allegedly maltreated, interrogated mostly without lawyers , proper examination of a female doctor, and or consulate access at Afghanistan and has been shifted to USA without her consent. How come she was shown to be at Bagram in 2008 when people had knowledge of her whereabouts as prisoner no 650 prior to that date makes it desirable to settle the facts once for all to ease the people of Pakistan as this is the kind of material if remain uncertain acts as prima facie fodder for radicalisation which needs to be put at rest through proper enquiry. Incidents like Abu Gharib force APL to say that the allegation of such nature may not be easily refuted without an independent oversight or an enquiry”.

“We hope our representations are given due weight in the interest of public in order to promote rule of law, justice and true accountability of the forces and in order to fill the gaps between ancient civilizations who are at a crossroad to mend fences and be friends”, expected Barrister Amjad Malik.

The Presidential Correspondence Team on 6 Feb has responded as following, “Dear Friend,Thank you for your message. On behalf of President Obama, we appreciate hearing from you. The President has promised the most transparent administration in history, and we are committed to listening to and responding to you”.

Warid telecom pakistan is not being sold off

Recently there have been misplaced news items in certain section of the press that warid telecom pakistan may be up for sale because of the shrinking interest of the sponsors relating to the market conditions in pakistan.

Warid telecom pakistan categorically and unequivocally denies such reports and impressions. Warid telecom pakistan is not being sold off rather is on course with its expansion plans with the continuing focused view to extend quality services to its loyal customers to whom it is deeply grateful.

Warid telecom pakistan also extends sincere thanks to its business partners for their support and professional contribution.

Bashir Tahir

Breaking News Several casualties feared in Karachi blast

Several people were killed and injured when a powerful explosion occurred in a public vehicle plying on Sharah-e-Faisal of Karachi, media reported Friday.

According to Geo News, the blast occurred in a mini bus near Nursery stop towards FTC.

The ambulances have been dispatched towards the blast site. The ambulances are being shifted to the hospitals.

Police and other rescue workers have arrived on the spot. The road leading to Saddar has been blocked and the blast site has been cordoned off

Dr. Aafia guilty of murder attempt

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui has been proven guilty by American court and all the allegations on Aafia have been proved.
The federal district court in New York under the Judge Richard Berman and 11 other members of the jury conducted the hearing on the case for twelve days. Eight woman were members of the jury.
The biggest allegation against her was attempting to murder US agents with an army rifle and shot at the US agents while she was detained for questioning in Afghanistan. None of the Americans was injured but Aafia, was shot. Nine witnesses were presented to the jury of whom six were present in the room at the time of shooting. American army captain Schneider and Afghan national police officer Bahsir were present during the case.
A lawyer fighting her case said that Aafia would appeal for a review of the verdict since the decision was unfair. He also said that there was no allegation on Aafia being linked to any act of terrorism however the jury tried to establish a connection between Aafia and terrorist organization.
Aafia reacted violently to the verdict and said that the American system of justice is not fair. She said that the decision has been taken by Israel.

Emotions will not help the case, says Dr. Aslam
Speaking to Dunya News American journalist Dr Aslam Abdullah said that Dr Aafia’s supporter should control their emotions. Emotions will not help the case. Pakistan government will not take any action. The government has sold the country and it is due to the criminal negligence of the government that today Pakistan is confronting so many challenges.
Aslam also said that he has expectations from Human right groups. However the human rights groups cannot influence on the decision but can contribute positively towards the review of the case. Support for terrorism by some groups in Pakistan has been a factor that Aafia has been proven guilty.
Aslam aslo pointed that “No one spoke clearly on Aafia and sketchy details were presented regarding her family and her education”.
Aslam said the Pakistani government will not do anything to help in the review of the case. He said that he cannot make any comments on how to prove Aafia’s innocence since he is not a lawyer or a politician.

We will not ask for mercy from Non Muslims, says Fauzia Siddiqui
Dr Fauzia siddiqui said to the media that “We are agreeing with the will of the Allah”. “Allah wanted to show to the world that American justice system is weak and corrupt”. She said that “This is the beginning of the end for America”. Fauzia said that Government lawyer did not contacted her since the verdict has been announced. She said that “We prayed to Allah and thanked him.”
Answering to a question she said that “I would have been satisfied by the government efforts if Aafia would have been here standing next to me since she is not here so I am not satisfied with the government.” She also said that we continue our fight. Our morale is high. Dr. Fauzia was refered to several Quran verses.

I am thankful to the media, says Aafia’s mother
Aafia mother was smiling. She said that she is very happy and proud on the role of the media, she is also happy that her daughter has been chosen to slap on face of America. She claimed that “Today would mark the beginning of American downfall”. Aafia’s requested all to stay calm and said not to protest on the roads and appealed not to cause any damage to public or private property. Although the world may assume that we would be in a somber mood but I have attained new strength after this decision.
She repeatedly said that “Write my words that the decline of America starts today”. I knew the decision in advance. She also said that “If the government would have acted responsibly then we would have not seen this day.”
Aafia’s mother also said that “I am thankful to the entire nation.” “I have trained Aafia that she would never lose hope or faith”. Aafia will never bow to the non Muslim demands. She accused Hussain Hakkani of making fake claims on Aafia’s return. She said that Allah would take revenge from Shah Mahmood. She also said that “We would not ask for mercy from non Muslims”.

Failure of foreign policy to be blamed, says Talha Mahmood
Senator Talha Mahmood said that only foreign policy is to be blamed. He said that “I do not think its not a good message from America. Demands of justice have not been full filled. Highest form delegations should be sent to USA and present a strict stance to the US government. He said that US and NATO image would not improve. Talha also said that delegations have been formed in the past as well but there were no results. The case has not been politicized entirely but the main flaw was in handling the case. All witnesses have been favoring Aafia but the decision was pre decided. Trial was just a fake show. The world has witnessed the poor American justice. Hakkani did not take up the issue seriously and I cannot comment as to what he did. Pak has made big sacrifices and no one has given these sacrifices. The nation would not accept this gift of the America.

New Ovi Maps with free navigation races past 1 million downloads in a week

ESPOO, 3rd February, 2010 – Nokia has today announced that since the launch of the new version of Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation, on Thursday 21 January 2010, there have been over 1.2 million downloads with over 20% coming from China.

“We’re averaging a download a second, 24 hours a day,” said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia. “When we announced free walk & drive navigation we knew it would be a game-changer. The number of people now using their Nokia for navigation, and as a result looking for more location-aware software, is growing faster than even we predicted.”

The success of the new version Ovi Maps is a key part of Nokia’s strategy to lead the market in mobile maps, navigation and location-based services. By leveraging its investment in NAVTEQ, Nokia has been able to remove the costs associated with navigation for drivers and pedestrians and is quickly activating a massive user base to which it can offer new location features, content and services.

“This is great news for our 3rd party application developers. Within a matter of days there is an installed base of more than 1 million active users all potentially hungry for new and innovative location-aware apps,” continued Anssi Vanjoki. “For the operators too there is a growing opportunity to sell more data-plans and a complete navigation package to existing and new customers.”

As of 31 January 2010 the top five countries downloading the new version of Ovi Maps were: China, Italy, UK, Germany , Spain . The top five most popular Nokia devices installing the download where: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia N97 , Nokia 5230 and E72.

According to research firm Canalys, the number of people worldwide using GPS navigation on their mobile phones was approximately 27 million at the end of 2009. By the end of February 2010 Nokia estimates that it will have already grown this installed by almost 8% and it expects to grow it further as more smartphones are added to the compatible devices list and it’s marketing campaigns kick-off around the world.

From next month all new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will include the new version of Ovi Maps, pre-loaded with local country map data, with high-end walk and drive navigation and access to Lonely Planet and Michelin travel guides at no extra cost.

Ovi Maps covers more than 180 countries with car and pedestrian navigation for 74 countries, in 46 languages, and traffic information for more than 10 countries. There are over 6000 3D landmarks for 200 cities around the world. Lonely Planet and Michelin guides have information on more than 1,000 destinations globally.