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Archive for August, 2010

Citizens’ appeal to the SC.

Circulation requested
Signed copy is attached
Citizens’ appeal to the Supreme Court.
Essential politicos’ record should be made public.
Once done, other groups should be included.
17 July 2010
 
Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
Honorable Chief Justice
Supreme Court of Pakistan.
 An appeal by the citizens of Pakistan:    Request to scrutinize the 5-years tax returns, declaration of assets and the foreign nationality of parliamentarians and the president  
Your Honour,
 
Now that a large number of parliamentarians have been shown to have fake degrees, three other equally important aspects of  our law makers  need to be ascertained to ensure that the requirements of the Constitution are upheld.  These are: (a) tax returns ; (b) full declaration of assets; and (c) the dual nationalities (Article 63C of the Constitution).
 
Like the fake degrees, the Election Commission also failed to scrutinize these three essential  requirements.  We therefore  request the Supreme Court  to order the Commission to  scrutinize all Parliamentarian including the President for their past 5 years

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Floods in Pakistan: A great humanitarian crisis

My dear friends, I turn to you when I’m desperate.  I just got back from Pakistan cutting short a Reality TV shoot up in Northern Pakistan where I witnessed the destructive force of nature at close quarters.  The devastation is unprescedented.  This is a crisis for the whole humanity which if not dealt with properly by the citizens of the world will have far reaching spiritual, political and economic repercussions.  I beg you to help.

A GREAT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS: FLOODS IN PAKISTAN

Pakistan disaster is the worst in the UN’s history. The United Nations has rated the floods in Pakistan as the greatest humanitarian crisis in recent history with more people affected than the South-East Asian tsunami and the recent earthquakes in Kashmir and Haiti combined.  Maurizio Giuliano, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said: “This disaster is worse than the tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake and the Haiti earthquake.” The comparison illustrates the scale of the crisis facing Pakistan as its inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy battles to mitigate the effects of the flooding. The disaster zone stretches from the Swat Valley in the north, where 600,000 people are in need of help, to Sindh in the south. Billions of pounds will be needed to rebuild affected areas but western nations have pledged only tens of millions in aid. Radical Islamic groups are jockeying to fill the vacuum left by government incompetence and relative international indifference.

CLEAN DRINKING WATER IS AN IMMEDIATE NEED. PEOPLE CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT FOOD AND SHELTER BUT NOT WITHOUT WATER.  BEING FORCED TO DRINK CONTAMINATED WATER OPENS UP MYRIAD OF WATER-BORNE ILLNESSES WHICH CAN TURN THISINTO AN EPIDEMIC.  PLEASE DONATE GENEROUSLY TO HELP US PROVIDE LIFESAVER JERRYCANS WITH BUILT-IN FILTRATION SYSTEM WHICH MAKES ANY WATER SOURCE DRINKABLE

LIFESAVER jerrycan is the ideal solution for the provision of water in humanitarian disasters like the Haiti Earthquake and Pakistan Floods.

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LETTER TO EDITOR :Courts & Floods

LETTER TO EDITOR
August 9th, 2010
 
 
A private TV channel showing the havocs played by the floods in Sindh also showed a commendable brave act worth emulating by all. The defiant and determined villagers of a small area built a long mud embankment (Bandh) on their own on self help basis that stopped the flood waters in its tracks at their gates and thus saved them precious lives, cattle and properties. However, an ex-minister and a politician at the calamity site disclosed that about 25 persons from a nearby area had obtained stay orders from the court against construction of  any dykes on their lands, with the result the floods inundated their area and they suffered a lot of damage to their cattle and properties. They too would have been spared the loss had the courts not granted them the stay orders.
 
I am no legal expert, but is there no mechanism to vacate such stays by some local authority in the overall public interest, if emergently required?
 
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
30, Westridge-1,
Rawalpindi 46000
Tel: (051) 546 3344

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Kashmiri Americans Protested Against Human Rights Violations

Kashmiri Americans Protested Against Human Rights Violations

Washington, D.C., August 8, 2010.  Kashmiri Americans held a peace rally in front of the Embassy of India to record their protest against human rights violations and reminding Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India that his promise of zero tolerance has not seen the light of the day.  The demonstration was highly impressive and reverberating with the slogans of

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Why a New Party like Rifah might Succeed as the Old Parties Atrophy but refuse to fade out?

When the 1973 Constitution was being drafted there was a consensus in the country that the

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