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India-Pakistan

Sindh authorities given one-month ultimatum to restore law and order

2024-04-07

[GEO.TV] The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Saturday give a one-month ultimatum to the provincial authorities to restore law and order in the province amid rising incidents of street crime in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, Geo News reported.
The directives were issued after SHC Chief Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi chaired a session on the law and order situation in Sindh earlier today.

Justice Abbasi ordered the provincial authorities to restore law and order across the province within a month. He also directed strict actions against "influential persons" who were involved in sabotaging the law and order situation.

The SHC chief justice also summoned a detailed report regarding the law and order in 15 days.

Following the SHC orders, Inspector General Police (IGP) Sindh Ghulam Nabi Memon said that the high court’s top judge was briefed on the situation and gave instructions. He added that the police department also gave a briefing to the high court regarding the implementation of previous court orders.

He admitted that street crimes were among key elements behind deteriorated peace situation in Karachi while bandidos of katcha (riverine) were also a big challenge to maintain law and order in other parts of the province.

"Discussions were also held on increasing patrolling of police contingents to curb street crimes in Karachi. There is a need to improve our criminal justice system, whereas, key points were also discussed regarding the interrogation process," he added.

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India-Pakistan

PTI's Haleem Adil Sheikh rearrested shortly after getting bail from Karachi ATC

2023-09-01

[GEO.TV] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) Sindh President Haleem Adil Sheikh was rearrested in a separate case shortly after he obtained bail from an anti-terrorism court in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
.

The police presented the PTI leader before an anti-terrorism court (ATC) after arresting him a day earlier from outside the Sindh High Court (SHC).

The law enforcement agency was seeking the physical remand of the PTI leader but the court rejected the plea and instead granted bail to Sheikh.

However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
as soon as the PTI leader left the court premises the cops from the Preddy Police Station arrested the PTI leader in a fresh case.

As per the police, a case was registered against Sheikh in the Preddy Police Station a day earlier for interfering in the matters of the state, rioting and assault on police. It added that in the complaint it has been contended that during the PTI leader’s arrest, a day earlier, the police were attacked with sticks.

Sheikh's arrest came a day earlier as he was reportedly suspected of involvement in the ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful protests triggered by the party’s chairman Imran Khan

...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders...
's arrest in the £190 million al-Qadir Trust on May 9.

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India-Pakistan

‘Victim of forced conversion’ records statement

2023-05-15

[Dawn] A woman, mother of five, was handed over to her brother’s family after she in a statement under Section 164 CrPC claimed that she and her children were kidnapped by her husband, Sudheer Odh, who forced her to convert.

The woman, Ms Shahida, stated before the second sessions judge of Jacobabad on Saturday that her husband was a cheat and had embraced Islam thrice in the past. Her two sons and three daughters, along with her brother and other family members, were present in court.

She said she and Sudheer Odh got married some eight years ago. "A few days back, my husband kidnapped me and my children at gunpoint from my brother’s home, subjected me to torture and forced me to convert," she further stated.

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India-Pakistan

Interior ministry cancels NOC of ARY News

2022-08-13

[DAWN] The Ministry of Interior has cancelled the no-objection certificate (NOC) of ARY Communications Private Ltd, citing "adverse reports from agencies" as the reason behind the decision, it emerged on Friday.

The notification issued by the ministry, dated August 11, to the Pakistain Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) reads: "The NOC issued in favour of M/S ARY Communications Private (Ltd). is cancelled with immediate effect and until further orders on the basis of adverse reports from agencies."

Reporting on the development, ARY News' English website called the cancellation by "the coalition government led by PML-N" an "economic murder of more than 4,000 media workers associated with the news channel". The report also called it a "a new move against the journalist fraternity", saying this was done without any notice.

"The channel’s administration condemned the suspension of its transmissions, saying the network is being victimised by the federal government," it added.

The decision from the Interior Ministry comes two days after the Sindh High Court directed Pemra and cable operators to immediately restore the transmission of ARY News, which had been suspended on orders of the government.

ARY News embroiled into a controversy after PTI leader Shahbaz Gill uttered "seditious remarks" against the Pakistain Army while talking to the TV channel earlier this week. Later on Tuesday, he was taken into custody at Banigala Chowk in the capital.

Gill was subsequently booked on charges of sedition and inciting the public against state institutions.

The ARY report published today also highlighted that the channel had issued a clarification that Gill’s statement was his personal opinion and had nothing to do with the channel’s policy.

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India-Pakistan

Hindus protest girl’s ‘abduction’ in front of Zardari House in Nawabshah

2022-07-14

Love jihad or just making off with a portable womb?

[Dawn] Members of Hindu community marched on main roads before staging a protest in front of Zardari House in Nawabshah on Tuesday in protest against what they believed was abduction of a community girl.

Police claimed Shrimati Kareena had eloped with a Moslem boy for love and had contacted marriage with him in a Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
court.

The protesters rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against police and demanded former president Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
Asif Ali <q>Ten Percent</q> Zardari

...former president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in...
intervene to help them recover the girl, who was allegedly kidnapped in Unnar Muhalla, Qazi Ahmed town, six days ago.

But Nawabshah SSP Ameer Saud Magsi said that Shrimati Kareena had not been kidnapped she had eloped with Khalil Rehman Jono of Meer Mohammad Jono village and had married to him in a court in Karachi.

He said that Asghar Jono, father of Khalil, had been arrested after registration of FIR under Section 365-B on a complaint lodged by Sundurmal. Khalil and his father Asghar were nominated in FIR, he said.

The SSP shared a nikahnama purportedly of Shrimati Kareena and Khalil Rehman Jono and said the girl would be produced in Sindh High Court. The girl would decide to go wherever she wanted, he said.

Hindu Panchayat vice president Lajpat Rai rejected the SSP’s claim and said that police had registered an FIR but were rescuing the kidnapped girl. A delegation of Hindu community met the SSP but he had not helped them, he said.

Manomal, another Panchayat leader, said that the kidnapped girl was under pressure to change religion and was not being produced in any court.

He appealed to Asif Ali Zardari to help the Hindu community in the recovery of the girl. When the protestors reached close to Zardari House, police stopped them from advancing to the former president’s residence and persuade them to end the protest over assurance the girl would be produced in court.

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India-Pakistan

Man acquitted in Daniel Pearl’s killing moved to Pakistan safe house

2021-03-23

[IsraelTimes] Police say Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh, who was on death row for 18 years before being acquitted of murdering the US journalist, transferred for safety reasons.

A Pak-British man who was on death row for 18 years before his acquittal in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl was transferred Monday to a government safe house for security reasons, police said.

Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh

...also in our archives as Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and Ahmed Omar Sheikh. He spent nearly two decades in various Pak government safe houses, protected from being either hanged or transferred to the U.S. for his not-minor role in Israeli-American Daniel Pearl’s heinous murder. He’d been a brilliant but violent lad, growing to be a violent and possibly brilliant man who hit all the jihadi hotspots at their peak: the London School of Economics, Bosnia during their little war, running Al Qaeda’s Afghan training camps, then jailed by India for kidnapping Western tourists in Kashmir for Pakistan’s ISI. He and two Harkat-ul-Mujahideen emirs were traded for the passengers and crew of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999, after which he wandered down to Karachi to hang with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s (KSM) gang. This may yet turn out to have been a fatal error...

was handed over to the Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Counter-Terrorism department amid tight security, a police brass hat Suhail Sukhera told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

Sheikh was moved to his home city of Lahore from the southern port city of Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
. Sukhera provided no further details and only said Sheikh was being kept at a well-guarded place.

Sheikh was acquitted by the Sindh High Court in April 2020 and since then Pearl’s family and Pakistain’s government have been fighting a legal battle to overturn the acquittal. Washington has also expressed its concern over the acquittal of Sheikh.

Sheikh has been in jug despite his acquittal under a special law allowing the government to detain people deemed a security risk.

The transfer comes more than a month after Pakistain’s Supreme Court ordered Sheikh moved to a safe house from a special jail cell for inmates sentenced to death.

Authorities say Sheikh will not be allowed to leave the safe house.

So it’s just like bring in a nicer prison. I can live with that.

Pearl disappeared on January 23, 2002, in Karachi where he was investigating links between Pak terrorist groups and Richard C. Reid, dubbed the "shoe bomber." Reid had attempted to blow up a flight from Gay Paree to Miami with explosives hidden in his shoes. Sheikh was convicted of helping lure Pearl to a meeting in Karachi, during which he was kidnapped.

Pearl’s body was discovered in a shallow grave soon after a video of his beheading was delivered to the US consulate in Karachi. The Pentagon in 2007 released a transcript in which Khalid Sheikh Mohammad

...Mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. He was captured in Faisalabad, Pakistain in 2002 and interned at Guantanamo...
, the alleged criminal mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, said he had killed Pearl.

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India-Pakistan

Pearl case accused moved to new premises

2021-02-07

[Dawn] The Sindh government on Saturday moved Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh,

...also in our archives as Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh and Ahmed Omar Sheikh. He’s the Pakistani-Brit who has spent nearly two decades in various Pak government safe houses, protected from being either hanged or transferred to the U.S. for his not-minor role in Israeli-American Daniel Pearl’s heinous murder. He’d been a brilliant but violent lad, growing to be a violent and possibly brilliant man who hit all the jihadi hotspots at their peak: the London School of Economics, Bosnia during their little war, running Al Qaeda’s Afghan training camps, then jailed by India for kidnapping Western tourists in Kashmir for Pakistan’s ISI. He and two Harkat-ul-Mujahideen emirs were traded for the passengers and crew of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999, after which he wandered down to Karachi to hang with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s (KSM) gang. This may yet turn out to have been a fatal error...

the prime accused in the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl, and his four associates

...Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil, and Salman Saqib. Saud Memon, accused of providing the place where Pearl was held before his death, died mysteriously in 2007, while Qari Hashim Ali was freed in 2014 when the court ruled there was not enough evidence to hold him. I wonder who the fourth protected man is...

from jail to a newly-built facility inside the prison, sources privy to the development said.

That’s one way to keep American ghosts from wandering off with him one dark night.

The move came in line with the Supreme Court’s orders last week that authorities must move Sheikh from a death cell in the Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Central Prison to a government rest house.

"All the suspects have been moved to the newly-built rest house inside the prison," said a source, citing a notification issued by the Sindh home department. "They would be allowed to see their families

..I believe Mr. Sheikh acquired a wife and daughter between being returned from Indian imprisonment and the murder of Daniel Pearl, in addition to the relatives he acquired by birth...

at the rest house though they would not enjoy any internet and telephone facility. The families of the suspects have also been offered space in Qasr-e-Naz" — a federal government owned building in the city.

The apex court had also directed the authorities to ensure complete security of the rest house, and allowed Sheikh’s family access to him from 8am to 5pm, while hearing a petition filed by the accused against his detention despite the high court’s orders. The SC had taken up an appeal moved by the Sindh government against the Sindh High Court’s Dec 24, 2020, order declaring illegal the provincial government’s June 29, 2020, notification of placing all accused on the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorist Act of 1997 pursuant to Section 11-EE with an observation that none of the accused was "enemy alien" as contemplated under Article 10(9) of the Constitution and as such their detention under this provision was found to be illegal.

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India-Pakistan

Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed sentenced to 15 years in jail in terror financing case

2020-12-26

[OneIndia] Mumbai terror attack criminal mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed

...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
was on December 24 sentenced to 15 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistain in one more terror financing case.
Til a Sindh High Court releases him and refunds his losses
Mumbai terror attack criminal mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed was on December 24 sentenced to 15 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistain in one more terror financing case.

The court also imposed 200,000 Pak rupees fine on him. Saeed, 70, has already been convicted for 21 years imprisonment in four terror financing cases of late.

Now, Saeed will have to undergo collective imprisonment of over 36 years in five terror financing cases at the Kot Lakhpat Jail Lahore.

His punishment will run concurrently in these cases.

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India-Pakistan

US 'deeply concerned' at SHC order to release men charged in Daniel Pearl case

2020-12-26

[Dawn] The US State Department on Friday expressed its reservations after the Sindh High Court (SHC) ordered that the four men charged in journalist Daniel Pearl's abduction and murder case be released immediately, terming their detention illegal.

In a message on Twitter, the state department said it was "deeply concerned" at the Dec 24 ruling of the SHC to release "multiple faceless myrmidons responsible for the murder of Daniel Pearl".

"We have been assured that the accused have not been released at this time," the statement added.

It said the department will continue to monitor any developments in the case and will continue to support the Pearl family "through this extremely difficult process" while honouring the legacy of Daniel Pearl as a journalist.

The statement came a day after the SHC struck down a preventive detention order issued by the Sindh government to keep four men behind bars after their convictions by a trial court were set aside around eight months ago in the abduction and murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl.

The bench also barred the federal and provincial authorities from placing the men under any preventive detention order without prior permission of the SHC. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
their names were placed on the no-fly list and they were also directed to appear before the court whenever summoned.

In April, the high court had acquitted all the appellants of the charges of murder and kidnapping for ransom and only found main accused Ahmed Omar Sheikh guilty of abducting the slain journalist and sentenced him to seven-year imprisonment. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the sentence had been completed as the convict had already spent around 18 years in detention.

The Supreme Court is hearing the appeals of provincial government and the parents of the slain journalist against the SHC’s order.

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India-Pakistan

Court orders release of man charged in Daniel Pearl killing

2020-12-24

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A provincial court in Pakistan on Thursday ordered the release of a British-born Pakistani man charged in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.

The Sindh High Court’s release order overturns government detention orders that Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh,

... a busy lad, the brilliant, violent Pakistani-Brit hooked up with the jihadi crowd at the London School of Economics, dropping out to join the jihadis in Bosnia — reportedly on orders from MI-6. After a break to run Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, he was jailed in India in 1994 for kidnapping four Western tourists in Kashmir on orders from Pakistan’s ISI. In 1999 Saeed Sheikh and two leaders of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen were traded for 155 passengers and crew of a hijacked Indian Airlines flight diverted to Kandahar, after which he wandered down to his Al Qaeda buddies in Pakistan...

the key suspect in Pearl’s slaying, should remain in custody. Sheikh was acquitted earlier this year of murdering Pearl, but has been held while Pearl’s family appeals the acquittal.

"The detention order is struck down," said Faisal Siddiqi, the family’s lawyer. He said Sheikh would be freed until the appeal is completed, but would return to prison if the family is successful in overturning the acquittal.

However, Siddiqi said the Sindh provincial government is appealing the order to release Sheikh.

Sheikh’s lawyer Mehmood A. Sheikh, with whom he is not related, called for his client’s immediate release.

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India-Pakistan

Appeal opens against reversal of Briton’s conviction in Daniel Pearl killing

2020-12-02

[IsraelTimes] Pak court to hear case against Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, initially sentenced to death for Jewish news hound’s 2002 kidnapping and beheading.

An appeal against the controversial acquittal of a British-born man convicted of murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl opened at a Pak court on Tuesday.

A Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
court sparked outrage earlier this year when it overturned the 2002 murder conviction of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh,

and acquitted three other men connected to the case.

That’d be Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil, and Salman Saqib, about whom nothing else seems to be known. Saud Memon, accused of providing the place where Pearl was held before his death, died mysteriously in 2007, while Qari Hashim Ali was freed in 2014 when the court ruled there was not enough evidence to hold him....

Pearl’s parents and prosecutors lodged an appeal at Pakistain’s Supreme Court in May, putting the release of the four men on hold.

"The case has finally opened, it will be decided whether they should be convicted or acquitted. The case is heading to a final verdict," Faisal Siddiqui, the lawyer representing Pearl’s parents, told AFP.

The appeal, which has been repeatedly postponed in recent months, will hear opening arguments in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday.

Sheikh had been on death row for Pearl’s murder but was acquitted in April by the Sindh High Court which instead sentenced him to seven years for kidnapping — paving the way for him to walk free after already serving 18 years.

Three co-defendants who were serving life sentences in connection to the case were acquitted.

Pearl, who was Jewish, was South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal when he was kidnapped in Karachi in January 2002 while researching a story about Islamist hard boys.

A graphic video showing his decapitation was delivered to the US consulate nearly a month later.

Prosecutors said Sheikh lured Pearl into a trap by promising to arrange an interview with an Islamic holy man who police believed was not involved in the conspiracy.

Pearl’s killing stirred international condemnation of Pakistain’s military government just as it was remaking its image after years of backing the Taliban
Taliban

...Arabic for students...
in neighboring Afghanistan.

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India-Pakistan

Sindh High Court orders to shift Arzoo Raja to shelter home after medical reports declare her a minor

2020-11-10

[DAILYTIMES.PK] After the medical reports determined Arzoo’s age to be around 14-15 years, Sindh High Court has ordered authorities to settle her at a shelter home.The court bench, comprising of two members Justice KK Agha and Justice Amjad Ali Sahito, heard the case on Monday, in which Arzoo’s reports by the medical bench were shared, declaring her underage. The bench was informed that the case is now registered under the Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act 2013.
Arzoo Masih is the 13-year-old Christian girl forcibly converted to Islam and married to a 44-year-old.
According to reports, upon inquiry, Arzoo denied being forced to convert to Islam, and expressed the desire to live with her 44-year old husband.
However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
the SHC ordered authorities to shift her to a shelter home where only those people will be allowed to meet her who she wants to see.

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