Monthly Archives: June 2007

Who is telling the truth? - Tariq Butt

June 8, 2007 – 10:13 am

ISLAMABAD: Who told the whole truth and who held it back? Who should be believed and who shouldn’t be? Ordinary mortals are in a fix.
It is well-nigh impossible for them to decipher as to what is true and what is untrue in the three affidavits filed by Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Javed, CoS to President Musharraf, [...]

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Fog Facts - Huffington Post

June 8, 2007 – 10:03 am

This is a great piece from the Huffington Post on how the media can make things disappear even though it is public information.
Fog Facts are things that have been made public, but have somehow disappeared into the mist.
Thereby becoming invisible.
Here are some examples: seven of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers have phoned in to say they [...]

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Text of Affidavit of Chief of Staff to President - Hamid Javaid

June 8, 2007 – 9:58 am

ISLAMABAD, June 7 (APP): Following is the text of an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday by Lt. Gen. (retd) Hamid Javaid, Chief of Staff to the President.
“I, Lt Gen (R) Hamid Javaid son of Ch Muhammad Ashraf, presently working as Staff to the President of Pakistan, do hereby solemnly stale on oath [...]

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Intelligence Chiefs, COS to President deny CJP Claims in Affidavits to Top Court

June 8, 2007 – 9:54 am

ISLAMABAD, June 7 (APP): Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry wanted President Pervez Musharraf to dissolve the assemblies and hold elections under CJP, Director General Military Intelligence disclosed in an affidavit he filed in the Supreme Court Thursday.Besides DG Military intelligence, Major General Mian Nadeem Ijaz Ahmad, affidavits were also filed by the President’s [...]

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Text of Chief Justice’s affidavit - Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

June 8, 2007 – 9:53 am

AFFIDAVIT OF THE PETITIONER, MR Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry,
Chief Justice of Pakistan,
I, Mr Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, The Chief Justice of Pakistan (hereinafter referred to as the “deponent”) do hereby solemnly affirm and state on oath as follows:
That the deponent has filed the titled petition in this Hon’ble Court under Article 184(3) of the Constitution [...]

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Text of Affidavit of Director General - Military Intelligence

June 8, 2007 – 2:05 am

ISLAMABAD, June 7 (APP): Following is the text of the affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday by Major General Mian Nadeem Ijaz Ahmad, Director General Military Intelligence: Affidavit
I, Major General Mian Nadeem Ijaz Ahmad son of Late Mian Ijaz Ahmad, presently working as Director General, Military Intelligence (”DG
Ml”), do hereby solemnly state on [...]

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Shoot the Messenger - Dr. Shahid Masood

June 4, 2007 – 7:34 pm

An interesting commentary by Dr. Shahid Masood, one of Pakistan’s leading political analysts, in The News.

“The media’s power is frail. Without the people’s support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.” – Corazon Aquino
By playing into the hands of the establishment, the media wreaks havoc in the name of [...]

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Aircraft Scam - Warrants Issued

June 3, 2007 – 5:45 pm

Karachi
The Accountability Court has issued non-bailable warrants for three accused nominated by the National Accountability Bureau for causing loss to national carrier Pakistan International Airlines in an aircraft scam case.
According to Deputy Prosecutor General NAB Brig (retd) Shafaat Nabi Khan Sherwani, during probe into the B-747 aircraft scam it transpired that Daryus Cyrus Minwala was [...]

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Ifs and Buts of Separation of Power

June 3, 2007 – 5:41 pm

EDITORIAL (May 30 2007): There is a story in the books that once during the heady days of Ayub era Justice M.R. Kiani found himself sitting in the fourth row in a conference hall at a function presided over by President Ayub Khan. ‘How far away from power we are’, he nudged General Muhammad Musa, [...]

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Imam-e-Kaaba urges Lal Masjid to Shun Confrontation - Tariq Butt

June 3, 2007 – 5:36 pm

ISLAMABAD: Imam-e-Kaaba Shaikh Abdur Rehman al-Sudais has ardently appealed to the Lal Masjid administration to give up the path it has adopted for the past few months or the enemy would benefit from anarchy and chaos.
“I deeply regret and am surprised over their undertaking,” he said while talking to a group of senior journalists at [...]

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