Mingora—A 17-year-old screaming, burqa-clad girl
was whipped by Taliban fighters in Swat for
coming ‘out of her house with another guy who
was not her husband’, a two-minute video shot
through a mobile phone showed.
Islamabad—As the flogging of a young girl in
Swat sent a wave of shock, anguish and anger
across the country, President Asif Ali Zardari
has strongly denounced the ghastly act and
called for a report from the government and
apprehending those involved in the heinous
crime.
Baden (Germany)—President Barack Obama says his
Afghanistan war strategy does not envision NATO
troops in Pakistan. Obama said, however, that
NATO and U.S. military leaders must find a way
to work together to deal with that region. Obama
also said Friday that the United States cannot
be effective in Afghanistan if the country does
not address what is happening across its border
with Pakistan, but NATO troops should not cross
the border.
Karachi — Federal Minister for Information and
Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira has indicated a
significant move under consideration for
separation of government and party posts.
Besides the political activists and the elite,
workers, rich and the poor have assembled in
Garhi Khuda Bux on the eve of death anniversary
of their hero Shaheed Zulfikar Bhutto besides
the top brass in the government to pay homage to
their leader.
Islamabad—Pakistani security agencies have taken
extra-precautionary measures to avert any
terrorist attack and for the first time taking
support of technical gadgets to track the
suspected movements.
By Syed Yousuf
Raza Gilani, Prime
Minister of Pakistan
The holy Quran ordains that martyrs never die.
Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, thus, lives through
the annals of history, through his deeds and
through his political philosophy and still
refreshes our minds like the morning breeze
three decades after he was put to gallows. The
courage he demonstrated and initiatives he took
in the late 1960s and early 1970s in convulsing
the roots and demolishing the cliché ridden
hackneyed system that was based on the
exploitation of a whole of the people by a
handful of men, led him to emerge as the most
towering political person of the recent history.
