Political victimization license of transport company of brother of former opposition leader Ch Zaheeruddin cancelled

Pakistan Muslim League (PML) Central Information Secretary Senator Kamil Agha has said that license of Taimur Travels transport company of former Town Nazim Akhtar Ali Khan, brother of former opposition leader in Punjab Assembly and PML Punjab General Secretary Ch Zaheeruddin, has been cancelled and in order to stop him from working heavy contingent of police has been deployed.

He has termed it as worst action at the instance of PML-N MNA Talal Chaudhry and sought justice from the judiciary.

In a statement issued here today (Wednesday), Kamil Ali Agha said that Talal Chaudhry and Munnay Khan get extortion (bhatta) from transporters of Faisalabad and they have occupied government bus stand also but Ali Akhtar’s company was not paying extortion to them due to which this act of victimization has been taken against Taimur Travels.

He said there are four bus stands on one road out of which Taimur Travels is the oldest company which was providing travelling facilities to the people. He said in this manner two birds have been killed with one stroke, after closing down of Taimur Travels, its entire business will go to bus stand of Munnay Khan, henchman of Talal Chaudhry, from where Talal Chaudhry and Faisalabad administration get benefits because of this reason local administration is playing in the hands of Talal Chaudhry and Taimur Travels is being targeted for victimization in flagrant violation of all rules and regulations.

Ch Parvez Elahi Address at Enthusiastic PML Workers Convention 2017

Entire nation should offer collective prayer like for rain for ouster of the rulers, patients are told to come to hospital bringing cot, bed, medicine from home: Address at enthusiastic workers convention

Pakistan Muslim League (PML) senior central leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Ch Parvez Elahi has said the nation will get riddance of incompetent rulers if whole of opposition is united, for their ouster entire nation needs to arrange for offering collective “dua” like was done for rain. Addressing a very big quite enthusiastic Workers Convention in Gujranwala today, he said that during our tenure even poor patient was taken to the hospital on ambulance where free medicines were provided to him even injecting costing up to Rs 10 thousand was also given free, but now the patient is told to come to the hospital along with cot, bed and medicines from home. He said that there are neither beds nor medicines in the hospitals now, patients are breathing last lying on cold floor, Shehbaz Sharif has not been able to start our established 1122 Service even after ruling the Punjab for 15 years, we had provided free education up to matric, undertaken unparalleled works for welfare and well-being of the people of all fields including farmers and workers and provided revolutionary facilities, our established Wazirabad Cardiology Hospital is not being allowed to become functional due to personal ego by Shehbaz Sharif due to which so far more than 8 thousand persons hailing from Gujranwala and adjoining areas have died due to heart attacks, Shehbaz Sharif “suffers from blood pressure on seeing plaques of my tenure, he should remove plaques of my name but should not block projects of peoples’ welfare because our plaque is in the heart of the people”, if overhead bridge was being constructed in Lahore instead of Gujranwala it would have been completed long ago, Punjab allocated budget is being spent on show off and dollars making projects in Lahore.   Continuing, he said that N-League has the greatest enmity with the farmers, Kisan Package was announced in the name of Patwari Package, “I earnestly appeal to every Pakistan to stay away from N-League in the next election otherwise even future generations will not forgive them.” Ch Parvez Elahi asked the opposition to brush aside personal ego and go together unitedly and Almighty Allah will bless them with “barkat in their work”, N-League will run away and prestige of opposition will be enhanced. He pointedly stated that whichever scheme was started during our tenure is still functional, we were providing job opportunities to ten lakhs people every year, Shehbaz Sharif had started 9 schemes all of which have failed, Nandipur power Project, Bahawalpur Solar Power Project and Sahiwal projects all have failed, what other cities of Punjab will get from Orange Line, people do not need show off projects like jangla bus, they need medicines in hospitals and education in schools, N-League people are involved in Panama Case, all those who were mentioned in this case had resigned but they are sticking to the chair for last six months. He said that we had started Sialkot-Lahore Motorway on which two foreign universities were also to be established which were shifted to India because of their incompetency, incompetent Chief Minister has put Punjab under heavy debt of Rs 2000 billion. Paying rich tributes to active colleagues, he said that our party needs workers like Zain Ali Bhatti. The Convention was also addressed by Tariq Bashir Cheema, Ch Zaheeruddin and Khawaja Waqarul Hassan while those seated on the stage on this occasion included Muhammad Basharat Raja, Zain Ali Bhatti, Bao Rizwan, Mian Imran Masood, Tanveer Azam Cheema, Col (R) Abbas, Hussain Elahi, Zubeida Ehsan, Irfan Ehsan, Ch Zulfiqar Pappan, Haji Shakir Mobeen, Ch Nasir Inayat Sira advocate, Engineer Shehzad Ali and other party leaders. Earlier on arrival at the venue Ch Parvez Elahi was enthusiastically welcome by chanting of loud slogans and showering on flower petals. Convention participants kept raising repeatedly slogans of Ch Shujat Hussain, Moonis Elahi, Pakistan Muslim League Zindabad and Go Nawaz Go. Venue of the convention was packed to capacity and large number of women were also seated on nearby houses roofs

Moonis Elahi Hails SC Proceedings on Child Maid Case

The talk of the town, "a minor girl maid brutally beaten by the judge and his wife" case has inspired the poor people of the country. It is normally known that the rich and powerful are above the law in this country and the poor people are the ones grilled by the law enforcers whenever there is a case of law breaking. As the media and social media widely condemned the inhumane treatment of the minor girl maid at the judge's house, the Suo Moto taken by the incumbent Chief Justice is widely appreciated. Moonis Elahi said the move to protect the poor maid will give hope to the people and it will strengthen the trust of people in the system.

It was reported that the parents of the girl had stated on media that they weren't forced not harassed by the powerful judge's family but they have decided to forgive him and will not proceed with any investigation. They had decided to train their child to work with more care in future and that the masters weren't guilty. This didn't convince the SC or the CJP Nisar who said proper investigation be done and the culprits be apprehended. Moonis Elahi appreciated the latest notice to confirm the relativity of the girl's parents to identify if they are the correct people to forgive the judge who is the main accused.

Japanese Citizen Commits Suicide in Multan

A Japanese citizen allegedly committed suicide by jumping off a hotel building in Multan on Thursday, police said.

The man, later identified as Okumura Katfumi, jumped to his death from the third floor of a hotel situated in Multan's Tariq Road area, City Police Officer (CPO) Multan Ahsan Younas said.

The Japanese citizen was staying in the hotel as he was working on a project in Dera Ghazi Khan. Some 15-20 people from China and Japan are also staying in the same hotel.

Police shifted the man's body to Nishtar Hospital for postmortem.

The CPO said forensic evidence was collected from the incident site and an investigation into the death has been started.

Sources in the area told DawnNews a suicide note allegedly penned by Katfumi was found from the spot and it read: "I am very sad."

Additional reporting by Tariq Saeed Birmani.

MUET Clerk Had Naila and Other Girls Objectionable Pictures, Videos

DADU: Police picked up on Wednesday a clerk working for the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET) for interrogation over the mysterious death of Naila Rind, who was found hanging from a ceiling fan in her room in Marvi hostel 11 days ago.

A team of Jamshoro police led by inspector Agha Tahir, SHO of Jamshoro town police station, raided a residential colony near MUET and arrested Agha Babar Pathan who was said to be a close friend of Anis Khaskheli.

Police took into custody Pathan’s laptop and mobile phone and found pictures of late Naila in addition to many video clips and pictures of the university’s female students saved on the gadgets’ data storage.

Khaskheli was the first to be arrested after the Naila Rind death hit headlines and became a high-profile case. He was arrested on the basis of mobile phone record of late Naila, a final-year student in the Sindhi department of Sindh University.

Like Pathan, police had found pictures of late Naila besides a large collection of video clips and photos of several other girls, most of them students of the university, on the suspect’s laptop and mobile phones.

Jamshoro SSP retired Captain Tariq Wilayat said that police laid hands on Pathan on the basis of information gleaned from Khaskheli. Police were closely investigating all the aspects of the case and its investigation of mobile phone and laptop data of the arrested suspects was in progress, he said.

He said that statements of three more wardens of Marvi hostel namely Mahjabeen, Zakia and Nusrat Talpur had been recorded and data of mobile phones of chairman of Sindhi department Anwar Figar Hakro, Marvi hostel’s provost Anila Soomro and warden Mahjabeen had been sought to help in the probe. He said that other staff members of the girls’ hostel and the Sindhi department would also be investigated.

Activists of Sindh United Party took out a rally here on Wednesday in protest against load-shedding of gas in residential areas of the city.

SUP leaders Mohammad Khan Channa, Niaz Hussain Panhwar and Baban Khan Surhio who led the rally said that SSGC officials of Dadu zone had given illegal gas connections to hotels, factories and influential persons which had caused reduction in the gas amount and its pressure, leading to long hours of load-shedding.

They said that when consumers complained about it, the SSGC officials started sending them heavy and inflated bills.

They warned they would continue the protest if the problems were not resolved.

Meanwhile, special teams of SSGC raided several places in the district and found 25 illegal connections in Khairpur Nathan Shah, Dadu and Mehar towns and sent complaints to the police stations concerned for the registration of FIRs. 

Published in Dawn, January 12th, 2017

First Time in Pakistan - Transgenders Will be Counted in Census

For the first time in the history of Pakistan, the country's transgender community will be included in the national population census. 

The Lahore High Court on Monday instructed the federal government, National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and the interior ministry to include the transgender community in the census while hearing a petition filed by a transgender individual Waqar Ali in November 2016.

Ali in his petition had called for the enforcement of the community’s fundamental rights, including enrolment in the upcoming census and issuance of national identity cards specifying their gender.

A deputy attorney general from the federal government was present in court during the hearing and assured the court that the transgender community will indeed be part of the upcoming census.

Ali's petition, filed through Advocate Sheraz Zaka, had pleaded that the transgender community in Pakistan has been marginalised, citing an event witnessed in Sialkot where a transgender was tortured.

Pakistan's sixth population census will begin on March 15, 2017.

Source: Dawn News

PTI Counsel To Contact NAB to Reopen Hudaibiya Paper Mills Case

Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, during a hearing of the Panamagate case on Monday, advised Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) counsel Naeem Bokhari to file a reference with National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry to reopen the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case.

The judge was presiding over a five-member bench of the apex court when he said, "We can call the chairman of NAB and ask him why he did not fulfil his responsibilities."

Justice Khosa was referring to a case in which now Finance Minister Ishaq Dar had submitted a handwritten statement to a magistrate in 2000 alleging that the Sharif brothers had used the Hudaibiyah Paper Mills as a cover for money laundering during the late 90s.

In 2014, an accountability court judge had rejected an application filed by NAB requesting the reopening of the Hudaibiya Paper Mills and Raiwind Assets references.

Read more: Sharifs used paper mill to whiten money, Dar told court in 2000

As per a NAB investigation report on the Hudaibiya Paper Mills reference in 2014, the Sharif family had allegedly deposited ill-gotten money in bank accounts opened in other people’s names and used it to pay off loans of their companies.

The court observed that NAB had not given proper opportunity to the Sharif family to join the investigations and justify their assets.

Read more: Sharif cleared in two corruption references

Justice Khosa also admonished Bokhari for steering the focus of the case away from the London flats towards the Hudaibiya Paper Mills.

"First in the case you spoke about the London flats. Now, you have jumped towards the confessional statement of Ishaq Dar," he noted.

Justice Ejaz ul Hasan, too, pointed out to the counsel that his arguments had failed to make clear whether or not Maryam Nawaz is a dependent of her father.

Bokhari told the court that the London flats were bought under Maryam Nawaz's name between 1993 to 1996. He added that at the time of the transaction, Maryam Nawaz was underage and had no source of income.

The advocate alleged that Maryam Nawaz was made the beneficiary as a smokescreen, whereas the PM is the real owner of the flats.

He told the apex court that, in a similar manner, the PM set up mills in Jeddah and Dubai by using benami transactions.

Justice Khosa pointed out that the burden of proof lies with the PTI since they claim to have the evidence. 

He added that it was the party's responsibility to show how the companies were bought, who made them and where the money came from.

Justice Khosa told Bokhari that if the Supreme Court sends the references regarding the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case to NAB, it will no longer be able to hold hearings on the Panamagate case in accordance with Article 184.

He further advised Bokhari that the responsibility was upon him to either separate the two cases or ensure that they are heard simultaneously.

Justice Ejaz ul Hasan, however, advised the advocate that if the two cases are joined, the Panamagate case will become 'muddy'.

Source: Dawn News