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13 February 2007, Tuesday, 24 Muharram 1428
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Altaf praises party workers
City Council, others reject system of composite exams
Watchman gunned down; 2 killed in mishaps
Muttahida, PPPP in blame game over Sindh by-elections
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NWFP delegation hails Karachi uplift
2 blasts rock Quetta
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Storm brewing in NWFP could engulf entire country: Asfandyar
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Moderates give in to hardliners: Battle over mosques
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Bajaur barbers warned not to shave beards
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Militarisation of civil bureaucracy
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Pakistan debunks US commander’s statement
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Court issues notices for MMA legislators
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Ulema council urges arrest of Hangu killers
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Altaf praises party workers
KARACHI, Feb 12: MQM chief Altaf Hussain on Monday praised party workers for their untiring efforts which materialised in the win in the NA-250 by-election. In a statement issued from London, Altaf Hussain appreciated efforts of the party workers while talking to members of the Rabita Committee and other wings of the party at its headquarters, 90. Mr Hussain also praised the efforts of the party’s units, sectors, the labour division, the medical and legal aid committees and the Pakhtun-Punjabi organisation committee, the elders and women wings, ministers and others who played their due role in securing the MQM victory. Mr Hussain prayed for the soul of Muhammad Zafar of the Lines Area sector who died during the electioneering, ignoring his health condition.
City Council, others reject system of composite exams
KARACHI: The city council session has strongly condemned the proposed composite examinations system and demanded that the federal govt immediately withdraw the unilateral decision.The session, presided by Nasrin Jalil, passed a unanimous resolution on Monday. The opposition and treasury bench members also signed the resolution. The City Council demanded the restoration of the old exam system - separate exams for Class-IX and X. The session also demanded of the provincial govt to ensure the earliest withdrawal of the unjust decision as the examinations were only two months away and unrest prevailed among the students.The opposition and treasury benches had separately presented resolutions at the session. The PPP council members Shah Jehan strongly condemned the federal govt’s decision and demanded that if MQM, despite being a coalition partner of the current government, remains idle to undo the decision, it should detach itself from the provincial govt.Asif Siddiqi from Haq Parast said the composite exam system will encourage the use of unfair means and this will also endanger the career of students. Saeed Ghani, leader of the opposition, said the matter was directly linked to the future of Sindh.Meanwhile, the harsh-worded condemnation of the composite system by the City Council was accompanied by the resolve of the students and the parents to take ‘Direct Action’ against the dictatorial attitude of Dr Arbab Raheem and his Education Minister, Dr Hameeda Khuhro.The parents and the students talked to the News on Monday about their resolve to hold protest demonstrations against the decision at the Press Club, the CM House and the Governor’s House until the unpopular system was taken back. The parents were unhappy that the government was not taking the stakeholders into confidence.In a related matter, the Sindh Teachers’ Forum, University of Karachi, organised a talk titled, “The Contemporary Need of the Exam System in Sindh” on Monday and voiced their concern about the proposed examination system. Dr. Akhlaq Ahmed, Pro- Vice-Chancellor of the university cast doubts on the exam system and said that the decision should be taken only after the stakeholders were taken into confidence. Prof Pirzada Qasim, VC of KU had recently expressed his reservations about the system saying the majority of the populace were not contacted for its opinion.
Watchman gunned down; 2 killed in mishaps
KARACHI: A watchman of a local factory was killed on Monday. Muhammad Rafiq, 40, a watchman of a Lateef Hozri, was shot dead when unidentified people riding a motorcycle opened fire on him in the premises of the factory situated in Rizvia Society police jurisdiction.After hearing the fire shots, other factory employees rushed to the spot and saw Rafiq in a pool of blood. They immediately informed the police which took him to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital in critical condition, but he breathed his last on way to the hospital. The police said that the murder was a result of an old enmity.MISHAPS: Two people including a woman were killed in different mishaps. Ishtiaq, 35, was knocked down to death when a speeding vehicle ran over him near Numaish Chowrangi in Brigade police limits, while he was going on his motorcycle.Zubeda, 50, was killed, when she accidentally fell from the balcony of the fourth floor of her residence situated in Chandni Chowk within Garden police precincts, while she was hanging the clothes.Meanwhile, body of an unidentified 30-year-old man was found in Shershah police area. The area police took the deceased’s body to Civil Hospital for legal formalities. The MLO Civil Hospital said that the deceased died due to heart failure.
Muttahida, PPPP in blame game over Sindh by-elections
ISLAMABAD: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement and the Pakistan People's Party-Parliamentarians (PPPP) got involved in a blame game, as the issue of by-elections to a National Assembly seat from Karachi and a provincial assembly seat in Jamshoro dominated the proceedings of the National Assembly on Monday.However, former prime minister Zafarullah Jamali cooled the emotions of rival sides and suggested that the matter should be referred to the relevant standing committee of the National Assembly.The government also faced an embarrassing situation, when one of its members, Amjad Warraich, pointed out the lack of quorum. However, instead of giving him the floor or making any count, the speaker adjourned the House.Earlier, the PPPP and the Muttahida exchanged hot words and hurled accusations of rigging in the Sindh by-polls against each other. The issue started when PPPP's Azra Fazal, Sherry Rehman and Fauzia Wahab moved three privilege motions . Azra Fazal, while showing pictures of bullet-riddled car, also alleged that Sindh Minister Altaf Unar made an attempt on her life.Another PPPP member, Nahid Khan, also claimed that attempts on her life were made at three polling stations in Karachi and warned of taking revenge. She also exchanged hot words with the speaker when he turned off her mike.Sherry expressed concern over a rise in the street crimes in Karachi. However, the speaker expunged her remarks on the protest of the Muttahida members. Sherry Rehman complained that security forces misbehaved with her when she went to cast her vote. Fauzia Wahab made similar complain.Muttahida’s Israrul Ibad abruptly disputed her claim, saying that the people remembered the three tenures of the PPP, when their prime ministers were called 'crime ministers'. This remark created pandemonium in the House as the PPPP protested.Dr Farooq Sattar said the whole election was monitored by print and electronic media and they reported nothing that was being alleged in the House. Jamali suggested the two sides to stop the blame game. "I have requested the Sher Afgan not to oppose the privilege motions," he said. Later on, Sher Afgan did not oppose the motions and the speaker referred them to the House privilege committee.
NWFP delegation hails Karachi uplift
KARACHI, Feb 12: A delegation of naib nazims from the NWFP on Monday said there had been a marked difference between present Karachi and that of a few years ago. The naib nazims of various union councils of Bonir of Tehsil Dagar, the NWFP, led by Tehsil Nazim Habibullah, called on Karachi Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil. City Council members Asif Siddiqi, Ahsan Siddiqi, Sher Afgan Khan, Imran Yusuf Zai, Nomanul Huq and District Officer Mohammed Zakir were also present on the occasion. The delegation observed that the speed with which development was taking place here had no example in the past. Nasreen Jalil pointed out that the city government was busy in service to people without any discrimination. She said more Pakhtoons were living here in Karachi than Peshawar. The government, she said, was paying special attention to the problems of Karachi and those living on hillocks were being provided water and other facilities. She said the nazim was especially focussing on city’s infrastructure and sewerage lines being laid in industrial area like Korangi where sewerage was non-existent altogether. Besides, Rs50 million had been provided to each town for sewerage projects. She said supply of 100mgd water through K-III project should have met the city’s water requirement, but steps were not taken for distribution of this additional water to city’s all areas and it was the present city government which was now taking these measures. Ms Jalil said six million gallon daily additional water would be supplied to Lyari and 3mgd to Defence while work was in hand to supply additional water to SITE as well. She told the visitors that at present 13 different agencies were looking after the civic affairs which caused problems in solving the problems. “It is imperative that all the civic agencies should be subservient to the city government and responsible before the city nazim,” she added.—APP
2 blasts rock Quetta
QUETTA, Feb 12: The provincial capital was rocked on Monday night when two explosions were heard with brief interval. According to police sources, unknown people fired a rocket around 11:30pm that landed and exploded in Pashtoonabd area. “The rocket hit the house of Abdul Aziz near Baloch Khan Chowk,” said a senior police officer. A portion of the house was damaged due to rocket explosion. Windowpanes of many houses were also smashed in the blast. “It was not known from where the rocket was fired,” said police. Another powerful explosion was also heard in Balock-5 of the Satellite town. Police could not find the place till late night.—Staff Correspondent
Storm brewing in NWFP could engulf entire country: Asfandyar
KARACHI: The law and order situation in the NWFP had worsened and that a storm was brewing which could also engulf other parts of the country, cautioned Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan. The situation is worse than what it was in 1971, during the fall of Dhaka, he said. “We are going downhill without any brakes.” He added that in Peshawar two DIGs were killed within a month — a level that even the perennially crime-hit city had not seen.Speaking at the Karachi Press Club’s Meet-The-Press programme on Monday, the ANP chief claimed that Pervez Musharraf had ignited the fire by stating, during his European visit, that the Taliban were more dangerous than Al-Qaeda. Khan said that Pakhtoons were Taliban and Taliban were Pakhtoons — “That means if you want to curb terrorism, kill all Pakhtoons”, he remarked.He said Pakistan forces were not finding the real extremists but they had banned secularly-oriented people from going in those areas. Khan claimed that Baitullah Mahsud, a key Taliban leader in South Waziristan, held an open conference in Waziristan 10 days ago, where names of the suicide bombers were announced and US$3000 to $5000 (Rs180,000 to 300,000) were distributed among their next-of-kin. He said he did not know who had provided the money but felt that the government should have taken action. They allowed Maulvis but stopped me from going to Bajaur, he said. His party, he said, a liberal, moderate, democratic and secular party had won the by-election in Bajaur.Afghanistan and Pakistan will only become prosperous if conditions in both countries remain peaceful, and, “without a peaceful Afghanistan you cannot have a peaceful Pakistan.” He said they had opposed the partition of the sub-continent, and then Pakistan in 1971. The ANP will be the first to oppose the division of Pakistan if the situation worsens. He said, the conditions that had emerged after the Balochistan bombing did not go in the country’s favour. There was resistance in Makran, which is not influenced by any of the three Baloch leaders, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, Nawab Khair Bux Marri, and Sardar Attaullah Mengal.
Moderates give in to hardliners: Battle over mosques
ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: Religious elements started rebuilding a mosque the city administration had demolished to widen a road after the government on Monday acquiesced to their demand not to raze any mosque in the city for any reason. Triumphant hardliners distributed sweets to celebrate the government’s surrender which, however, failed to persuade the clergy controlling the Lal Masjid to end its confrontation with the government. Maulan Abdul Rashid Ghazi, administrator of Madressah Hafsa for girls of the Lal Masjid, announced at a press conference that his students would not end their occupation of the Children’s Library until the government met all their demands. That means reconstruction of the six mosques demolished over the years and providing legal cover to 76 other mosques declared by the Capital Development Authority as “unauthorised”. Madressah Hafsa girls, who initiated the confrontation by occupying the Children’s Library on January 21, said they would allow its child members in from Tuesday but would vacate it only after the government had met the demands. Initially the government fumed and took a tough posture against the religious forces but gradually it climbed down as the religious elements toughened their stand and became menacing. Minister for Religious Affairs Ijazul Haq took part in the reconstruction of the Hamza Mosque on the Murree Road. Most of the “unauthorised” mosques had been built during the rule of his father, Gen Ziaul Haq. The decision to allow reconstruction of Masjid Ameer Hamza was made under an agreement reached between the local administration and Wafaqul Madaris, a supervisory body of seminaries. The Religious Affairs Minister along with a delegation of the ulema of Wafaqul madaris called on Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao to apprise them on the new development. The government also formed a nine-member committee to discuss issue vis-a-vis illegal construction of madressahs and mosques on encroached state land, to decide such issues in accordance with ‘Islamic precepts’ and refer their recommendations to the authorities for implementation. The members of the committee are: Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Chaudhry Muhammad Ali (convener), CDA’s Member Planning Brig Nusratullah, Additional Deputy Commissioner (general), Deputy Director Auqaf (ICT), Khateeb of Imdadia mosque, F-6/4, Maulana Zahoor Ahmed Alvi; Khateeb of Khulfa-i-Rashideen mosque, G-9/2, Maulana Nazir Ahmed Farooqi Hazarvi; Khateeb of Darus Salam mosque, G-6/2, Maulana Muhammad Sharif; Wafaqul Madaris deputy secretary Qazi Abdul Rashid; Khateeb of Masjid Syedna Hassan, G-9/4, Maulana Zameer Ahmed Sajid; Khateeb of Masjid Ahle-i-Hadith, G-6/1, Maulana Abdul Aziz Hanif; and Khateeb of Masjid Asna Ashri, G-6/2, Allama Akhtar Abbas. The demolition of Masjid Ameer Hamza was stated to be the bone of contention between the government and Ulema and due to this confrontation the girl students of Madressah Hafsa occupied children library on January 21. Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao while talking to the delegation led by Wafaqul Madaris president Maulana Salimullah Khan on Monday expressed satisfaction over the dialogue process between the Islamabad Administration and the Ulema.
Bajaur barbers warned not to shave beards
KHAR, Bajaur Agency: Barbers in a tribal town have stopped shaving off beards after pro-Taliban militants warned them it was un-Islamic, residents and local officials said on Monday. The move in the troubled Bajaur Agency bordering Afghanistan comes amid concerns about the “Talibanisation” of the tribal belt. Residents told AFP that some 20 barber shops at the bazaar in Khar, the main town in Bajaur, had hung out signs saying: “We will not shave off beards.” They took the decision after they received hand-written Pashto language leaflets saying that cutting off beards was against Sharia, they said. “You should desist from shaving off beards. If this warning is violated you will be responsible for the consequences,” the letter read.
Militarisation of civil bureaucracy
The country’s civilian bureaucracy is experiencing its militarisation in a unique fashion with retired generals becoming the virtual masters of their fate.For the first time in the history of the country’s civil services, almost every key aspect of the bureaucracy’s service matters has gone into the hands of retired generals. From their initial appointment to early, mid-career and senior level training, promotions and even the civil services’ reform agenda is decided by ex-servicemen.“This is unprecedented,” a senior civilian bureaucrat said on condition of anonymity. However, the government claims that this has happened by default and not by design. Initial induction into the elite civil services groups and services is made through the Central Superior Services competition by the Federal Public Service Commission, whose chairman is a retired general—Lt-Gen (retd) Shahid Hamid.Although Hamid is not the first ever FPSC chairman, this is for the first time that the FPSC has three ex-servicemen as its members. As recently reported by The News, for the first time in the history of Pakistan, the FPSC panel, interviewing the successful candidates of the CSS 2006 written examination, is dominated by retired generals.The panel includes chairman FPSC Lt-Gen (retd) Shahid Hamid, Lt-Gen (retd) Syed Abdul Ahad Najmi, Rear Admiral (retd) Muhammad Nashat Raffi and Saiyed Mohib Asad, who retired as a BS-22 police officer. Except Asad, none of the committee members has any experience or understanding of the country’s civil services but will have the final say as to who amongst the CSS competitors deserves to be inducted in the civil services.Those CSS competitors declared successful by the FPSC and later inducted in different services/groups of the civil services on the basis of merit and provincial/regional quota are sent to the Civil Services Academy, Lahore, for one year joint training.The Civil Service Academy (CSA), Lahore, is headed by Maj-Gen (retd) Sikandar Shami. He is the first ever director-general of the CSA, coming from the Army. The CSA provides the civil servants the basics of the civilian bureaucracy.Shami was previously director-general of the National Institute of Public Administration (Nipa), Lahore. Nipa is a civil service training institution that offers the mandatory for promotion course to BS-19 officers. Without doing Nipa, an officer could not be promoted to BS-20. Shami handled Nipa quite strictly, on military lines, which was the reason that a number of officers had declined to join Nipa Lahore and preferred to go to Peshawar, Quetta, or Karachi.All the provincial headquarters have one Nipa each. Peshawar Nipa is also headed by a retired general, Maj-Gen (retd) Akbar Saeed Awan. Nipa Karachi, too, is led by a retired militaryman, Maj-Gen Khalid Naeem, while Nipa Quetta is led by an acting officer of the District Management Group (DMG), who happens to be a retired major, Shahryar Khan.Not only that the ex-servicemen are the master trainers in Nipas for the mid-career officers, it is also a general, Lt-Gen (retd) Javed Hasan, who is the principal of the Pakistan Administrative Staff College (PASC), Lahore.To become eligible for promotion to BS-21, it is mandatory for government servants to attend either the civilian PASC or the military training institution called National Defence College (NDC). The NDC always remained under the military; however, this is for the first time that the PASC is led by a retired general.Lt-Gen (retd) Javed Hasan is not only the principal of the PASC, but is also the Rector of National School of Public Policy (NSPP), which was set up a few years back to train and equip the civil servants with the right skills to enable them to effectively do their jobs. The NSPP authors had never thought that a retired general would run the institution.Under General Hasan, a retired brigadier, Shahid Kardar, is already working as his key subordinate in the NSPP while two retired brigadiers have also been notified to further the top-level appointments of ex-servicemen in the top civilian training entity.For senior level promotions in BS-20 and BS-21, it is the high-powered Central Selection Board (CSB) that recommends promotions. Interestingly, the CSB is headed by a retired general as well. FPSC Chairman Lt-Gen (retd) Javed Hamid is also the CSB’s chairman.The recent “no-confidence” of the secretary cabinet over the General Hamid’s promotion strategy and his dependence on intelligence reports has already made headlines. The prime minister, while appreciating the cabinet secretary’s concerns, has already asked the Establishment Division to propose a system where the officers could have the right to defence against negative intelligence reports.There is yet another retired general, Maj-Gen (retd) Asif Ali Bukhari, who heads the Civil Services Reforms Unit (CSRU), which is responsible for the civil service reforms in the country. The unit will also serve as secretariat to the cabinet committee on civil service reforms, which oversees government’s comprehensive civil service reform programme. The CSRU is responsible for formulating and presenting technical recommendations in order to support civil service reform through outsourcing technical studies and organising seminars/workshops by involving all the stakeholders at the provincial and national level to develop consensus on various aspects of civil service reforms. Bukhari has almost completed two years as head of the CSRU but none of his reform idea has so far been implemented by the government.
Pakistan debunks US commander’s statement
ISLAMABAD: In an angry rejoinder, Pakistan on Monday said that crossing the Pak-Afghan international border was too serious an issue to be determined by a junior commander of the US army. US army’s Colonel John W Nicholoson, Commander of the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, asserting a right to self-defence had stated on Sunday that the American forces in eastern Afghanistan have launched artillery rounds into Pakistan and his forces are not required to get approval from Pakistan. “I am surprised that there is so much focus on a statement made by a colonel-level official. In the fight against terrorism it is cooperation that would help,” Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam told a weekly press briefing. To a volley of questions, the spokesperson questioned the US army’s statement of crossing into another country while violating the international border. “This (Nicholoson statement) is not correct and the ISPR has already denied it. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has himself clarified this issue and apologised for the incursions (of January 22),” she added. This is not the first time that when a visiting US dignitary is in Pakistan, unfriendly statements are heard from US officials. A similar situation arose during the visit of the Assistant Secretary of State, Richard Boucher when accusations were made against Pakistan as Boucher walked in to meet President Musharraf. The spokesperson said that so far no decision has been taken by the government to give up the option of mining the Pak-Afghan border to deter militants from crossing over. She was asked to respond to media reports in which Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri had told the media in Munich that Pakistan had given up the idea of mining its border with Afghanistan. “I do not know what the foreign minister has said but so far no decision has been taken not to mine the border. The decision (to fence and mine) was taken at a very high level meeting where the Pakistan army was tasked to work out the modalities for fencing and mining the Pak-Afghan border. Consequently, the armed forces made some recommendations and on its basis the president said that in the first phase fencing would be carried out selectively in the NWFP and in Balochistan,” she explained. In this regard she said that the government was also ready to look into an alternative ideas from the international community for better monitoring of the border. As a follow up of the visit of the Canadian foreign minister, a seven-member Canadian team is presently in Pakistan meeting experts from different agencies. Pakistan was open to good proposals to meet its specific requirements. Complete normalisation of ties with India would depend on progress on the Kashmir issue. She was responding to a remark by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in which he talked of making Amristar a hub of trade and development which would also benefit Pakistan. “Whether Amristar is made a hub for trade is India’s internal decision. He was talking about the salutary affect on Pakistan-India relations if relations were better and there was greater trade. Our position is that we have trade relations with India and complete normalisation of relations depended on progress on the core issue of Kashmir,” she said. There is no visible progress on the Siachen issue with experts from both countries expected to meet at the earliest. However, to a query about the latest defence buying spree by New Delhi the spokesperson said that whether India spent $10 billion in this regard was an internal issue of that country. However, widening the symmetry of conventional weapons certainly did not help. The inaugural session of the Pakistan-US Joint Committee on Science & Technology is being held in Washington on 13-14 February 2007. Prof Dr Atta-ur-Rahman, Chairman, Higher Education Commission/Adviser to the Prime Minister on Science & Technology would be leading the Pakistan side. The US side would be led by Dr Arden L Bement, Director National Science Foundation. The Joint Committee meeting is part of the ongoing Pakistan-US S&T Dialogue agreed during President George W Bush’s visit to Pakistan in March 2006. In a follow-up to of the joint statement issued by President Musharraf and President Bush on March 4, 2006, separate structured dialogues were initiated in the fields of energy, economy, education, and science & technology. The joint statement, inter alia, commits the two sides to build capacity in Pakistan and work towards increased cooperation in science, technology and engineering. Both sides also agreed to improve the quality, relevance, or capacity of education and research at Pakistani institutions of higher education in the field of science and technology. It was further agreed to enhance institutional capacity of Pakistan in the areas of environment through exchange of experts and developing linkages and collaborative projects with relevant US institutions. APP adds: Regarding India’s handing over of Jinnah House to Pakistan, the spokesperson said there was no such indication yet. Earlier, the spokesperson offered condolences over the death of the Editor daily Post.
Court issues notices for MMA legislators
ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: The Supreme Court on Monday served notices for a third time on 68 legislators on petitions challenging seminary sanads (degrees). Sixty-six of the legislators belong to the MMA and two to the PML-Q. They include six senators, 30 MNAs and 32 MPAs. One of the MNAs, Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani, has died. The notices were served through respective speakers and the Senate chairman. Led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, a three-member bench took up the issue in petitions filed by Dr Aslam Khaki and Maulvi Iqbal Haider as well as an appeal by Mufti Ibrar – an MNA belonging to the MMA who was disqualified by an election tribunal. None of the mentioned legislators ever appeared in person or was represented through a legal counsel whenever the case was taken up. "We will examine all cases according to the law and our conscience to lay down the criteria," the chief justice observed before deciding to take up the matter again on March 12. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Sher Afgan appeared before the court and said he would represent his ministry. In his petition filed in 2003, Dr Khaki had sought a declaration that the MMA members who held the sanad ‘Shahadat-e-Alimiya Fil Uloomul Arabia Wal Islamia’ from unrecognised madressahs or had not passed additional subjects of Islamic Studies and Arabic at the bachelor’s level as required by the HEC equivalence criterion were not eligible to become members of parliament.
Ulema council urges arrest of Hangu killers
PESHAWAR, Feb 12: The Sarhad Ulema Council has asked the NWFP government to take action against the criminals involved in the killings of Shia mourners in Hangu in 2006, collect Rs20 million fine from the attackers, pay compensation to the bereaved families, withdraw bogus cases against Shia mourners, expel Afghan refugees from the district and set up army and Forntier Corps check-posts in Hangu. Addressing a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club on Monday, SUC chief Allama Khursheed Anwar Jawadi said the Shia community had been a target of killings since 1980s, but the killers remained unarrested. He said Afghan refugees, who had been a permanent source of trouble all over the country, had moved into areas around Hangu. He said this year, the same terrorists, who had been roaming free since 1980, had once again unleashed terror in Bannu, Tank, Dera Ismail Khan, Kohat, Peshawar and Hangu. Allama Jawadi demanded of the government to arrest the killers, pay compensation to the victims, expel Afghan refugees and make the high court findings public, otherwise they had no option but to launch a protest against the government.
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