Rahul Gandhi is Gay ,WikiLeaks Update US Embassy in Delhi Reports

Rahul Gandhi is Gay ,WikiLeaks Update US Embassy in Delhi Reports

who emerged as the youth icon after the Lok Sabha polls is the new gay icon. The lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender (LGNT) community voted overwhelmingly for the Congress hoping that young Rahul will fight for their cause too.

Well he is not married,hes old enough to get married by political-indian standards,he has never ever been reported to have a girl friend…he could be a closeted gay

Rahul Gandhi surfaced as a youth icon during the General Elections and what most people don’t know.

Rahul Gandhi Indian politician and member of the Parliament of India.

Rahul Gandhi represents the Amethi constituency.

Rahul Gandhi was born on the 19th of June 1970 in India, he was born to a Nehru Gandhi family. His family is one of India”s most prominent political families in India.

His political party is the Indian National Congress.

Rahul Gandhi is an activist, he asks for building connections to rural India and trying to democratize the hierarchical Congress party.

In the end of May 2009 Rahul Gandhi news about him being a Gay icon as many Gays and Lesbians in India voted for his favor.

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H.S.C PART - I (PRE-ENGINEERING) ANNUAL 2010

1st Year Pre Engineering Result Karachi, HSC Part 1 Results 2010

1st Year Pre Engineering Result Karachi, HSC Part 1 Results 2010.The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi will announce the results of the Higher Secondary School Certificate, part-I (Class-XI), science group annual examinations-2010 during the current month.

According to BIEK chairman Prof Anwar Ahmed Zai, the results of pre-medical and pre-engineering groups will be declared on Nov 26 and Nov 30, respectively.

Welcome to Intermediate Board of Education Karachi.

Board of Intermediate Education Karachi was established as separate entity in 1974 through the “Sindh Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education amendment act No. 20 of 1973.

This Board has the power to organize, regulate, develop and control IntermediateEducation. The controlling Authority of the Board is the Governor of Sindh or his nominee. The Chairman is the principal executive and academic officer of the Board, while the Secretary is the in charge of the academic and administrative Sector and the Controller of Examinations is the In charge of the Examination Section. The above officers and the Auditofficer are appointed by the Controlling Authority of the Board, while other officers are also appointed by the Board on the recommendation of the appointment Committee. In the year, 1974, there were only 17 officers and 113 officials, now we have 51 officers and 246 officials. With a view to performing various functions systematically there are Statutory and non-Statutory committees have been constituted.

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Geo436.com blog: House collapse kills 10; hurts 10 in Buner

Faisal Raza Abdi Exposed Saif-ur-Rehman & Shahbaz Sharif Audio Tape , Asif Zardari Jail Controversy

Sawal Yeh ha.Faisal Raza Abdi Exposed Saif-ur-Rehman , Shahbaz Sharif , Asif Zardari Jail Controversy

Sawal Yeh hai 21st November 2010 – Secret Tape By Faisal Raza Abdi

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Geo436.com blog: Gilani admits slow pace of Watan Card distribution

Geo436.com blog: Second day of Eid-ul-Azha being observed today

Geo436.com blog: Four dead in US drone attack in NWA

Geo436 MIRANSHAH: At least four people were reportedly killed in surveillance plane attack in North Waziristan Agency area near Miranshah, Geo News reported Saturday.

The US pilotless planes attacked at a vehicle with at least two missiles, reportedly killing four people on the spot.

According to Geo News correspondent, the vehicle is still on fire and no one is daring to approach the burning vehicle, as the US drones are still in the air and may fire more missiles.

The Geo News correspondent reported from the attack site that deceased of the US airstrike seemed to be ordinary citizens, not terrorists.

Geo436.com blog: Terrorism has devastated country: Taseer

Geo436 LAHORE: Governor Punjab Salman Taseer has said Thursday that though Islam does not allow extremism and terrorism yet so-called Muslims have brought our country close to complete destruction in the name of Islam, Geo News reported.

"Terrorism has wreaked devastation with country from all aspects," Taseer regretted. He was talking to a delegation comprising of clerics from different school of thoughts.

Extremism is one of the toughest challenges for our government as terrorists have placed security agencies and holy places like mosques, mausoleums and imam bargahs at their hit lists, he said

Previously, extremists were targeting precisely public places and markets, he said.

Governor appealed to people from all walks of lives to come forward and express unity to combat the greatest war ever fought against the menace of terrorism in the history of mankind.

Geo436.com blog: Karachi Bomb blast in CID office in Pictures

Karachi Bomb blast in CID office in Pictures in Gallery

Geo436.com blog: Bomb Blast in Cid Building Karachi Video

Bomb Blast in Cid Building Karachi Video.Suspected militants detonated a car bomb in the heart of Pakistan's largest city on Thursday, destroying a police investigation bureau and killing at least 10 people

Bomb Blast CID Center-Jinah Hospital footage

15 people were killed and more than 100 others sustained severe injuries when a powerful blast ripped through Central Investigation Department (CID) office located near the Chief Minister House and PIDC. CID building along with 10 other nearby buildings has completely demolished. Banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility of the attack.

According to CCPO Karachi, few unidentified persons reached outside the CID office and started indiscriminate firing at CID check post. Afterwards, a vehicle came and a power explosion occurred, the CCPO added. Ambulances and rescue teams rushed to the blast site and shifted the dead bodies and injured to Jinnah and Civil hospitals where emergency was declared. At least 60 injured have been transferred to Jinnah Hospital. Several people are still trapped under the debris of the buildings. A heavy contingent of police and law enforcement agencies arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area. Three suspected people have been arrested from the blast site.

Interior Minister Sindh Zulfikar Mirza has confirmed that 6 people have been killed in the blast. He said that the blast was similar to the explosion occurred in Marriot Hotel Islamabad.

Geo436 Karachi: Bomb Blast in Karachi CID Building Karchi Club near CM House PIDC Building occurred on 11 November 2010. It is one of the most sensitive area in Karachi and has been declared Red Zone. Its shock was felt even at Kms. Details are coming in. The bomb was in PIDC office from where int agencies were operating against terrorism.

Bomb Blast in Cid Building Karachi Video

Bomb Blast in Cid Building Karachi Video.Suspected militants detonated a car bomb in the heart of Pakistan’s largest city on Thursday, destroying a police investigation bureau and killing at least 10 people

Bomb Blast CID Center-Jinah Hospital footage

15 people were killed and more than 100 others sustained severe injuries when a powerful blast ripped through Central Investigation Department (CID) office located near the Chief Minister House and PIDC. CID building along with 10 other nearby buildings has completely demolished. Banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility of the attack.

According to CCPO Karachi, few unidentified persons reached outside the CID office and started indiscriminate firing at CID check post. Afterwards, a vehicle came and a power explosion occurred, the CCPO added. Ambulances and rescue teams rushed to the blast site and shifted the dead bodies and injured to Jinnah and Civil hospitals where emergency was declared. At least 60 injured have been transferred to Jinnah Hospital. Several people are still trapped under the debris of the buildings. A heavy contingent of police and law enforcement agencies arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area. Three suspected people have been arrested from the blast site.

Interior Minister Sindh Zulfikar Mirza has confirmed that 6 people have been killed in the blast. He said that the blast was similar to the explosion occurred in Marriot Hotel Islamabad.

Geo News Karachi: Bomb Blast in Karachi CID Building Karchi Club near CM House PIDC Building occurred on 11 November 2010. It is one of the most sensitive area in Karachi and has been declared Red Zone. Its shock was felt even at Kms. Details are coming in. The bomb was in PIDC office from where int agencies were operating against terrorism.

Geo436.com blog: Bomb Blast in Cid Building Karachi Video

Bomb Blast in Cid Building Karachi Video.Suspected militants detonated a car bomb in the heart of Pakistan's largest city on Thursday, destroying a police investigation bureau and killing at least 10 people

Bomb Blast CID Center-Jinah Hospital footage

15 people were killed and more than 100 others sustained severe injuries when a powerful blast ripped through Central Investigation Department (CID) office located near the Chief Minister House and PIDC. CID building along with 10 other nearby buildings has completely demolished. Banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility of the attack.

According to CCPO Karachi, few unidentified persons reached outside the CID office and started indiscriminate firing at CID check post. Afterwards, a vehicle came and a power explosion occurred, the CCPO added. Ambulances and rescue teams rushed to the blast site and shifted the dead bodies and injured to Jinnah and Civil hospitals where emergency was declared. At least 60 injured have been transferred to Jinnah Hospital. Several people are still trapped under the debris of the buildings. A heavy contingent of police and law enforcement agencies arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area. Three suspected people have been arrested from the blast site.

Interior Minister Sindh Zulfikar Mirza has confirmed that 6 people have been killed in the blast. He said that the blast was similar to the explosion occurred in Marriot Hotel Islamabad.

Thecurrentaffairs.net:Karachi: Bomb Blast in Karachi CID Building Karchi Club near CM House PIDC Building occurred on 11 November 2010. It is one of the most sensitive area in Karachi and has been declared Red Zone. Its shock was felt even at Kms. Details are coming in. The bomb was in PIDC office from where int agencies were operating against terrorism.

Geo436.com blog: CID Karachi Building Bomb Blast CCTV Footage Video

CCTV footage-Bomb Blast CID center-PIDC karachi by GEO NEWS.At least 18 people have been killed and 115 others sustained injuries in a powerful blast at CID building located near Sindh Chief Minister House in a very sensitive area of the metropolis, Geo News reported Thursday.

The powerful blast brought caused severe damage to the targetted building of Central Investigation Department (CID) located in the most sensitive area of the metropolis.

Six terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi had been brought in the CID building yesterday for investigation after their arrest.

Banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan took no time in claiming responsibility of the attack.

Gunshots were reportedly fired just before the occurrence of the blast, sources said.

Ambulances are ferrying the wounded to nearby hospitals where emergency has been declared.

Hospital sources put the number of injured brought in at over 115.

A number of houses located near Civil Lines were also damaged while the powerful shock wave released by the blast also shattered windowpanes of a number of surrounding buildings.

Office of DSP Saddar was also partially damaged as a result of the blast.

Sindh Home Minister, Dr.Zulfiqar Mirza who reached the site of the blast said the attack appears similar to the one that targeted Marriot Hotel in Islamabad. He said two craters have been caused by the blast.

He also said that a truck packed with explosives slammed into the CID building causing the massive blast.

Heavy machinery has been made available at the blast site to remove the rubble.

President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani have expressed shock on the tragic incident and condemned it in the strongest terms.

Both of them have ordered high level inquiry into the deadly attack in the heart of Karachi – the biggest city of Pakistan.

Geo436.com blog: Breaking News Powerful explosion rocks Karachi, 19 martyred

News Alert KARACHI: A powerful blast occurred near Sindh Chief Minister House. At least 19 people including police personnel have been martyred while more than 130 others injured Thursday evening.

Emergency has been imposed in city's hospitals.

Law enforcement agencies have cordoned off the area.

Several buildings in the area were damaged.

The blast took place in front of Sindh CM House, inside the office of Crime Investigation Department (CID).

Geo436's reporters on the scene saw dozens of motorcycles and vehicles destroyed and windowpanes of buildings were shattered up to 2 kilometers away.

Police said nature of blast was yet not known.

Sources said that terrorists entered the CID building and attempted to release their seven aides who were arrested last day.

Police officials told Geo436 that blasts took place when a truck hit the CID buildings.

The administration of Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) has appealed people to donate blood for the victims of blast.

Several people lying under the debris of the destroyed buildings and houses near CID office.

Police officials confirmed that terrorists attempted to release detained terrorist Iqbal Bajori. It is not confirmed yet that either Bajori managed to escape or includes among the injured.

TPO Saddar said that about 1000 kilogram explosives were used in the blast.

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has directed the authorities to present blasts report immediately.

Ahmed Chinoi, CPLC head, told Geo436 that Karachi is on the target of the terrorists. "It is the most powerful blast in the history of Karachi. A powerful explosion in the red zone area indicates security lapse," he added.

Sindh IG Babar Khattak told Geo436 that the CID office was attacked by the terrorists from two sides before the explosion.

"Firing between the terrorists and security men continued for about five minutes."

He said there was no high profile activity taking place in the CID office.

Khattak told Geo436 that police officials have been deployed outside the hospitals where injured are being treated.

Geo436.com blog: News Alert Blast in CID building in red zone

 KARACHI: A powerful blast in CID building near PIDC has rocked the buildings in the surrounding area, Geo436 News reported Thursday.

The powerful blast brought down the whole building of Central Investigation Department (CID) located in the most sensitive area in the central area of the metropolis.

A powerful shock wave released by the blast also shattered windowpanes of a number of surrounding buildings.

Banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility of the attack.

Office of DSP Saddar was also partially damaged as a result of the blast.

Geo436.com blog: Jamali, Nawaz meeting today

Geo436 LAHORE: PML-N chief Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif and Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali are scheduled to meet today (Thursday) at Raiwand farm, Geo News reported Wednesday.

The two former prime ministers are meeting after the unification of four leagues' factions under the chairmanship of Pir Pagara.

Jamali has sent a special message for the meeting upon which Nawaz Sharif invited him on Thursday.

Geo436.com blog: By-polls on PB-15 Musakhail on Thursday

Geo436 QUETTA: The by-elections of PB-15 Musakhail are being held on 11th November, Thursday.

Thirteen candidates are in the run to contest the elections; sources said adding that 68 polling stations have been established for the 76,278 registered voters in the constituency.

At least 30 polling stations have been declared sensitive.

Heavy contingent of law enforcement agencies personnel have been deployed around the polling stations and in the area to avert any eventuality.

Geo436.com blog: CM chairs meeting regarding prices of essential commodities

Geo436 KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Wednesday presided a high level meeting at the CM House here regarding controlling the prices of essential commodities including sugar in the province of Sindh.

An official statement said that he took serious notice of hoarding, black marketing and illegal profiteering of sugar and directed all District Coordination Officers (DCOs) to take stern action against those involved in such acts.

Chief Minister Sindh warned that it is the responsibility of all DCOs and their sub-ordinates officers and staff to be vigilant and careful about price hike and illegal profiteering so that common man is not affected.

Syed Qaim Ali Shah added that DCOs are incharge of their respective districts as far as price control cells are concerned.

He further stated that it is the prime duty of government and its agencies to ensure proper and prompt control of prices of essential commodities.

Chief Minister Sindh strictly directed the DCOs to take prompt action against persons involved in hoarding, black-marketing and profiteering.

He further directed to challan those hoarders, black-marketers and profiteers and be apprehended under price control act and hoarding and profiteering law, for which EDOs / DDOs and inspectors will launch action with immediate effect.

Chief Minister Sindh also directed that all DCOs should remain present tomorrow in their offices at 2 p.m. and that he will hold video conference meeting with them to enquire for action so far taken in this regard.

The meeting discussed various measures for controlling the price of sugar and making arrangements of supply of the same in markets.

It was decided that Sindh Government will take 70,000 tons of sugar from the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) on emergent basis and will be brought in the markets through genuine dealers to consumers at the rate of Rs 61 per Kg. It was also decided that all DCOs will furnish their requirement/demand immediately and give details about disbursement.

The meeting was further decided that similar measures will be made for other commodities i.e. vegetables, pulses, eatable items etc.

It was also decided that role of Market Committees will also be activated for prompt supply and maintenance of reasonable prices so that poor people are provided food items and eatable commodities on reasonable prices.

The meeting was attended among others by Sindh Agriculture Minister Syed Ali Nawaz Shah, Sindh Minister for Supply and Prices Shoaib Bukhari, Chief Secretary Sindh Ghulam Ali Pasha, ACS (PD) Ishaq Lashari, Provincial Secretaries of concerned departments, Administrator/DCO Karachi Fazal ur Rehman, Secretary to C.M. Abdul Kabeer Kazi, Special Secretary to C.M. Dr. Atta Muhammad Panhwar and others.

Geo436.com blog: Senate passes Sacked Employees Reinstatement Bill 2010

Geo436 ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Wednesday passed The Sacked Employees Reinstatement Bill 2010 with majority.

Nawabzada Ghazanfar Ali Gul, Advisor to the Prime Minister moved the bill to provide relief to persons in corporation service or autonomous or semi autonomous bodies or in government service who were dismissed, removed or terminated from service [The Sacked Employees Reinstatement Bill, 2010].

Opposition members opposed the bill and demanded to refer it to the concerned standing committee for further discussion on it.

Ishaq Dar said that the ordinance has been promulgated at least for five times which is a declaration of mistrust on democratic system.

Prof Khursheed Ahmad while opposing the bill termed it against the provisions of law.

Zafar Ali Shah was of the view that the passing of bill would harm the supremacy of the parliament.

Tahir Hussain Mashhadi backing the government”s point of view said that those employees would be reinstated who were politically victimized.

Dr Abdul Malik said that if they oppose the bill, it would mean opposing the poors urging to form consensus to shun all contradictory points.

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said that the government should listen the demand of opposition and refer it to the concerned standing committee.

Raza Rabbani said that whenever the government talks about the rights of poor, some people try to sabotage the environment of reconciliation.

He said that the sacked employees were kicked out from their jobs without any show cause notice.

He demanded not to refer the bill to the standing committee as it has already been passed by the committee as well as the National Assembly.

Leader of the House in Senate, Syed Nayyar Hussain Bokhari said that there was no case on any sacked employee rather they were politically victimized and targeted.

He said the demand of sending the bill to the standing committee just to delay the process of passing it.

However, the House passed the bill with majority.

The bill would provide relief to persons who were appointed or reinstated in corporation service or autonomous or semi autonomous bodies or in government service during the period from the November 1, 1993 to the November 30, 1996 and were dismissed, removed or terminated from service or given forced golden handshake during the period from November 1, 1996 to October 12, 1999.

Geo436.com blog: Gondal refutes Nisar”s allegations

Geo436 ISLAMABAD: Minister for Food and Agriculture Nazar Muhammad Gondal has said that unnecessary hue and cry was being raised by certain quarters over petty issue of stoppage of his and Babar Awan”s car by the security persons when the route was imposed for VIP movement.

Gondal said that when he reached the spot the route was already imposed there and the traffic was stopped for the time being.

The vehicle in which he was travelling was also parked at the roadside without the interference of any security man, Gondal said.

He said the country was passing through the conditions of terror threats and it comply on every law abiding citizen including ministers to cooperate the security agencies to avoid any untoward happening.

Gondal said that he had no knowledge as which personality was travelling at the place of route adding he only learnt it when the leader of opposition delivered an emotional speech in the National Assembly the next day.

Normally when there is route traffic from all the directions is stopped for some time the minister said and added that he did not deem it fit to make situation an issue of his personal prestige or protocol.

Gondal said that he was surprised over the revelations made by the leader of opposition in the National Assembly.

He said that it is absolutely untrue that an exchange of hot words took place between the federal ministers and the security men.

The vehicle of Law Minister Babar Awan found its place few steps ahead of my car because there was no excess due to blocked traffic.

Gondal said that all the parliamentarians including the ministers have to get the back cabins of their cars thoroughly checked by the security staff at the entrance of parliament house.

Geo436.com blog: SC hears Adiala Jail case, calls Punjab CS, AG

Geo436 ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court (SC) has called Attorney General of Pakistan and Punjab Chief Secretary for a clear-cut answer in a case regarding 11 prisoners who went missing from Adiala Jail of Rawalpindi, Geo News reported Wednesday.

A three-member SC bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry heard the case of Adiala Jail's missing prisoners, who were exonerated from four terrorism cases.

Attorney General of Pakistan Maulvi Anwarul Haq told the court these prisoners are not under the custody of country's spy agencies.

When Chief Secretary of Punjab tried to read out his report on the prisoners, the CJ Chaudhry cut him short, saying the matter is highly important; if needed, this report would be taken up.

The CJ said it was stated in a Special Branch report presented in the last hearing that these prisoner were lifted by the spy agencies.

The CJ Chaudhry remarked that no ambiguity should be spawned in the case and both the AG and Chief Secretary of Punjab should submit a clear-cut answer by this afternoon.

Geo436.com blog: LHC moved against sugar price hike

Geo436 LAHORE: The hike in sugar prices has been challenged in Lahore High Court (LHC), Geo News reported Wednesday.

The plea filed by Azhar Siddique at the LHC, said Prime Minister and Punjab Chief Minister are responsible for the raise in sugar prices; hence, they should be called to account for the same.

The petition also demanded setting up of a monitoring authority to keep the prices of daily usage commodities under check.

The petition also solicited filing cases against those involved in throwing up the sugar prices with ten-year imprisonment and fine worth crore of rupees as their punishments.

Geo436.com blog: Iran has proposed dates for new nuclear talks: US

Geo436 WASHINGTON: Iran has formally proposed dates for new negotiations with the major powers over its nuclear program, the United States said Tuesday, adding it hoped to resume talks as early as this month.

EU chief diplomat Catherine Ashton, who has been spearheading the drive for a new round of negotiations, proposed last month that a first meeting should be held from November 15 to November 18 in the Austrian capital Vienna.

Ashton”s office had notified the United States that it had received a formal response from Iran”s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters in Washington.

“Iran has proposed a couple of alternative dates,” Crowley said. He did not specifying when exactly but said the United States hoped negotiations would begin “as early as the end of the month.”

Nuclear talks between Iran and the so-called P5+1 — Britain, China, France, Russia, Germany and the United States — have been deadlocked since October 2009 when the two sides met in Geneva.

“I would expect there would be consultations within the P5+1 in the next day or two,” Crowley said, adding that Ashton and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would speak on the phone either Tuesday or Wednesday.

Iran said on Sunday that it wanted the talks to be held in Turkey, but Crowley suggested there could be multiple meetings and multiple venues.

“If we are successful in getting the process going, not just one meeting but a series of meetings and a serious engagement on the nuclear issue and other issues, we can envision that there would be many potential locations for this series of meetings.”

Iran has insisted the talks be held on a package of proposals for global nuclear disarmament that it announced before negotiations broke down, but world powers insist the focus should be directly on its nuclear program.

The deadlock has already led to fresh UN and EU sanctions against Iran, which were followed by several other unilateral punitive measures by other nations, including the United States.

Geo436.com blog: I’m ready to rejoin Pak team if PCB ensures security

Geo 436 LONDON: British interior ministry has issued a temporary identity card to Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Zulqarnain Haider after getting his finger prints here on Tuesday. The card will be valid until final decision in his case.

Sources said that any decision regarding Zulqarnain will now be made by the British interior ministry.

Zulqarnain Haider, who fled from Dubai to London because he said he feared for his safety after being ordered to cooperate with bookmakers, said on Tuesday he was not seeking political asylum.

Zulqarnain told Geo News that he had been interviwed by British police, the border control agency and the International Cricket Council”s Anti-Corruption and Security
Unit.

“The border agency has taken my fingerprints and isued me a temporary stay,” he said.

“I had no intentions of applying for political asylum at this stage and, if the Pakistan government is ready to give me assurance of security for me and my family, I am ready to return to Pakistan.

“I have no issues playing for Pakistan again provided the Pakistan Cricket Board wants me to play.”

Earlier Zulqarnain said he was retiring from international cricket since he and his family were “constantly getting threats”.

He left the team”s hotel in Dubai before the fifth and final one-day international against South Africa.

“I was told to cooperate or I would face lot of problems,” he said.

“This person approached me while I had gone out of the hotel for dinner. He told me cooperate with us and you can make a lot of money.

“He said, ”If you don”t cooperate you will no longer be part of the team and we can make life very difficult for you”.”

Geo436.com blog: Waziristan’s Taliban abduct VC Ajmal: TTP

Geo436 KOHAT: A vital commander of outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan said his outfit is not involved in kidnapping of Ajmal Khan, Vice Chancellor of Islamia College University Peshawar, Geo News reported Tuesday.

Tariq Afridi, Taliban Commander for Darra Adamkhel and Khyber Agency, said this in an interview.

He said the TTP abducted Kohat University of Science and Technology's Vice Chancellor Lutfullah Kakakhel some days back, who was released after demands were met.

He said Lutfullah was released after the government had set free 50 of their accomplices and paid the ransom money.

Afridi said he received reports that Ajmal was lifted by Waziristan's Taliban.

Geo436.com blog: Indonesia awaits Obama homecoming

Geo436 JAKARTA: US President Barack Obama makes a much-delayed homecoming of sorts to Indonesia on Tuesday, seeking to engage Muslims and cement strategic relations on the second leg of his Asia tour.

Obama is flying from India, the world’s largest democracy, to Indonesia, its most populous Muslim-majority nation, mixing diplomatic symbolism with a search for new export markets to boost the lagging US recovery and jobs growth.

The president will return as an adoptive favourite son, after spending four years in Indonesia as a boy with his late mother, though he will have little time for tourism in the middle of a nine-day, four-nation tour of Asia.

Obama, whom Indonesians remember as “Barry”, will hold talks and share an official dinner with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, with economic and security issues topping the agenda.

The next day, Obama will

Geo436.com blog: Couldn’t compromise dignity of country: Hairder

Geo 436 LONDON: Pakistani wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider, who disappeared from Dubai on Monday, had appeared in a hotel at Heathrow airport later on the day.

Talking to Geo News, Zulqarnain said he could not compromise dignity of his dear motherland so he decided to leave the national cricket team.

He said that he was receiving life threats in response to his match-winning performance in fourth ODI against South Africa and according to him, someone threatened him to fix 5th ODI through threatening SMS on his cell number.

He, however, ruled out blaming any player being behind the threats, responding to a question that if he might want to name any player of the team.

"I was forced to starving after demise of my mother so I can again face such tough situation," he revealed.

Hero of the fourth ODI against South Africa in Dubai, Zulqarnain Haider said, he believed in Allah, adding that Pakistan was his dear motherland and he could never sell out her dignity.

He dismissed revealing exact location of his whereabouts, saying: "I can assure you that I am safe and sound, not arrested but cannot tell where I am hiding for sake of protection of my life."

Immigration officials in UK proved kind to me and proposed me to hire services of a counselor but I have yet to reach a decision, he said.

However, he was short of money to take legal advice or hire services of a lawyer, according to him. He was not sure of his future.

He looked worried about his family, saying that his family too received threats so he wanted his family to join him in London soon.

Zulqarnain also appealed to government for provision of protection to his family back in Pakistan.

Geo436.com blog: Car bombs in south Iraq kill 28

Geo436 KARBALA: Three car bombings in mainly Shiite southern Iraq, two of which targeted Iranian pilgrims visiting holy cities, killed at least 28 people on Monday, police and military sources said.

The attacks came as Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political rivals bickering over an elusive power-sharing deal that has left Iraq without a new government for eight months held a first day of all-party talks without a breakthrough.

Twin bombings in the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala targeting Iranians killed at least 18 people, 10 of them pilgrims from Iran. Police and local officials said the attacks also wounded 58 people, mostly Iranians.

In Karbala, a suicide bomber pulled up his booby-trapped vehicle alongside a bus carrying pilgrims from neighbouring Iran then detonated his payload, police officials said.

The explosion killed 10 people, four of them Iranians, and wounded another 42, hospital officials said.

The bomber struck in the northern part of Karbala through which traffic headed to the city”s tightly-guarded shrines passes on the way down south from Baghdad.

Another car bombing targeted three buses in Najaf carrying Iranian pilgrims, police said. A bomb blast killed eight people, six of them Iranians, and wounded 16 others, said Khaled Jashani, a member of Najaf”s provincial council.

About 1,500 non-Arab pilgrims a day from predominantly Shiite Iran visit the faith”s holiest shrines in Karbala and Najaf as well as in the capital of Iraq, a country with a Shiite majority.

In the southern port city of Basra, a car bomb in a crowded market killed at least 10 people and wounded 30, a military officer said. The attack targeted a popular shopping district full of stores and cafes.

The attacks came as Iraqi Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political rivals met in the Kurdish city of Arbil, northern Iraq.

Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said last week that the surge of violence, including a hostage-taking by Al-Qaeda gunmen at a Baghdad church which left 46 worshippers dead on October 31, was due to the failure to form a government.

“The attacks and explosions … are due to the constitutional and political vacuum and the delay in the formation of the government, which gave the terrorists the opportunity to attack civilians,” he said.

In two attacks in northern Iraq on Monday, gunmen killed two policemen at a checkpoint near Mosul and an improvised bomb exploded outside a grocery store in Khalis, Diyala province, killing one person and wounding three.

Geo436.com blog: Iran nuke cooperation insufficient: IAEA

Geo436 UNITED NATIONS: The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said Monday that Iran has still not given proof that its atomic program is peaceful and that he is seriously concerned about North Korea”s nuclear work.

Iran again insisted to a nuclear debate at the UN General Assembly however that it is only working on civilian energy. The West has accused Iran of seeking a bomb.

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano told the UN assembly: “Iran has has not provided the necessary cooperation to permit the agency to confirm that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.”

Iran must carry out “full implementation” of IAEA and UN Security Council resolutions which have imposed four rounds of sanctions over Iran”s refusal to halt uranium enrichment.

However Iran hit back in the debate. “Claiming that ”Iran has not provided the necessary cooperation” is incorrect and misleading,” said the Islamic Republic”s deputy ambassador Eshagh al-Habib.

He called the UN Security Council sanction resolutions “illegal.”

Iran is “determined to exercise the inalienable right to nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.” The diplomat added though that Iran is ready to start new talks with the six international powers — Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States — on its nuclear drive from November 10.

“We are waiting to see the goodwill of the other parties and their real intention for meaningful and successful talks,” he said.

Geo436.com blog: Pakistan lose final ODI, series to South Africa

Geo 436 DUBAI: All-rounder Jacques Kallis scored a brilliant half-century and took three wickets to guide South Africa to a commanding 57-run win over Pakistan in the fifth and final one-day international here on Monday.

The 35-year-old scored 83 – one of four half-centuries in the innings – to steer South Africa to an imposing 317-5 before he took 3-30 to dismiss Pakistan for 260 in reply, giving South Africa a 3-2 series win.

Pakistan, hoping to win their first-ever bilateral series win over South Africa, were cruising along nicely with openers Mohammad Hafeez (59) and Shahzaib Hasan (39) gave them a robust 82-run start in their quest for their third best-ever chase in one-day cricket.

But Kallis derailed Pakistan”s innings with a triple strike in as many overs, removing Hasan, Younis Khan (three) and Mohammad Yousuf (three) off 13 balls to make his opponents struggle from 82-0 to 96-3.

As if his batting and bowling were not enough, Kallis took a well-judged catch at long-on off fellow paceman Dale Steyn to dismiss Hafeez in the 23rd over.

Umar Akmal (60) and Abdul Razzaq (39) briefly threatened during their fiery 60-run sixth wicket partnership before South Africa wrap up the innings in the 45th over.

Akmal hit three sixes and one boundary during his 71-ball knock.

The series deciding match, after both teams won two matches each, started on a dramatic note when Pakistan wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider went missing from the team hotel and did not come to the ground.

Pakistan Cricket Board later said they will launch an inquiry into Haider”s case after he, without informing team management, reportedly reached London after receiving threats from persons unknown.

It was Kallis who built South African innings after Graeme Smith won the toss and decided to bat.

Kallis propelled the total during his 95-ball innings, adding an invaluable 121 with AB de Villiers (61) for the third wicket and another 61 for the second wicket with Hashim Amla (62).

Kallis, who scored a brilliant 66 in the first match, hit four boundaries before he cut leg-spinner Afridi straight into the hands of Wahab Riaz in the 39th over.

When Kallis reached 81, he completed 11,000 one-day runs in his 307th match. He became the sixth batsmen to score 11,000 or more runs in 50-over format of the game.

India”s Sachin Tendulkar (17598), Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya (13428), Australian Ricky Ponting (13082), Pakistan”s Inzamam-ul-Haq (11739) and Indian Sourav Ganguly (11363) were the others to cross the 11,000-run mark.

Graeme Smith (14) and Amla started at brisk pace to take their team to 37 inside five overs, when Akhtar removed the South African skipper, caught by Afridi.

Amla, when on 23 reached 1,000 one-day runs in 2010, hit eight boundaries and a six to reach his tenth fifty. He hit one more four before holing out to Afridi after his brisk 47-ball knock.

De Villiers hit five boundaries during his 72-ball knock.

Jean-Paul Duminy (59 not out) and Johan Botha (28 not out) put on a rapid-fire 89 off just 65 balls for unfinished sixth wicket stand, as none of the Pakistani bowlers could stop the run-flow, with Akhtar conceding 77 runs in seven overs.

Duminy hit eight boundaries during his 41-ball knock.

The two teams now play the first of two Tests in Dubai from November 12. The second Test starts in Abu Dhabi from November 20.