Lahore—Chief Capital Police Officer Lahore,
Pervez Rathor has said that India was involved
in both the attacks on Munawan Police Training
Center and Sri Lankan Cricket team in Lahore.
Talking to media persons here on Friday, he said
that the joint investigation team had traced out
several evidence regarding both the attacks,
which indicated involvement of Indian hand in
both the incidents.
Islamabad —The National Assembly on Friday
authorised the speaker of the House to
constitute a committee to quash controversial
amendments from the constitution in light of the
Charter of Democracy (CoD).
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan
presented a motion in the National Assembly,
adopted unanimously, allowing the speaker to
consult all political parties and form a
committee which will take steps to finalise the
recommendations of the CoD.
The move of Swat Taliban to gain a foothold in
Buner district, must be viewed with utmost
seriousness by the NWFP provincial
administration, the federal government and by
Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters. The
aggression and expansionist designs of this
extremist group, is a brazen violation of the
agreement signed by TNSM with the NWFP’s
provincial government. This Taliban aggression
needs an immediate response, to evict the rebels
from Buner. After sensing low morale and
inaction of the provincial administration, and
Peshawar’s lack of determination to maintain
government writ in Swat, Fazalullah insurgents
are acting as the new conquerors of the
undefended districts in the province.
Rawalpindi—Police arrested four suspects in
Sihala on Friday, after an Indian national
arrested earlier in the day confessed to
planning an attack on Police College Sihala.
They were seized on a tip off by the arrested
Indian. Interrogation of the four arrested was
underway The earlier arrest was made in the
jurisdiction of Police College Sihala, near
Rawalpindi.
Islamabad—President Asif Ali Zardari has
stressed the need for introducing new technology
to avoid duplication of votes. He was
talking to Chief Election Commissioner Justice
Retired Hamid Ali Mirza who called on him here
on Friday. The President suggested that a
parliamentary Committee consisting of all
political parties should be formed to look into
the matter. He said a mechanism should also be
devised to expedite the electoral appeals which
are usually delayed.
Peshawar—The Government of NWFP and the
Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariah-e-Mohammadi (TNSM),
the two major stake holders of the Nizam-e-Adl
in Swat, while declaring categorically that the
peace deal was intact, have asked the president
of Pakistan to wet the peace pact without
further delay. The members of the provincial
Task Force on Swat and representatives of the (TNSM)
on Friday held two rounds of talks at Amandara
in Malakand Agency and agreed to keep intact the
peace deal rejecting speculations about its
failure.
Islamabad—Pakistan Electric Power Company has
experienced dip of 300 MW in power generation at
Kot Addu powerhouse because of hurdle in fuel
supply as a ship carrying 50,000 tones of
furnace oil has got delayed by two days, a
senior official told Pakistan Observer. In the
wake of delay by two days in arrival of a ship,
fuel supply has tumbled by 50 percent, which is
why PEPCO is facing the power deficit of 300 MW
in Kot Addu power generation. “This has
increased the power deficit to 1600 MW in the
whole system of PEPCO.”
