Warning: Undefined array key "rbname" in /data/rantburg.com/www/rantburg/pgrecentorg.php on line 14
Hello !

India-Pakistan

Important PPP leaders likely to join PTI

2015-07-01

[NATION.PK] [NATION.PK] Key leaders of Pakistain People's Party (PPP) from 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.... have decided to join 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). Sources said former federal minister Nazar Muhammad Gondal, former provincial minister Ashraf Khan Sohna, former state minister Samsam Bukhari, former MNA Chaudhry Tariq Anees and Arif Lashari have decided to join PTI. Sources said the decision was taken after the PPP leadership failed in addressing the reservations of the said disgruntled leaders. The leaders have also expressed reservations over the current policy of the party, the sources added.

Link

India-Pakistan

Indian firing claims farmer's life in Sialkot

2014-07-22

[DAWN] SIALKOT: A farmer was killed and four others, including three women, were maimed in unprovoked shelling by India in villages on the Sialkot Working Boundary in the small hours of Sunday. Expect an Indian counterclaim and a gunfight in Poonch or someplace like that next week. Pasrur Assistant Commissioner Tauqeer Ilyas Cheema told news hounds that the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) fired several shells in Harpal, Thathi Khurd, Theekariyaal, Jarwal and Charwah villages when people were having their Sehri. One of the shells hit the house of Mohammad Iqbal, 45, in Thathi Khurd, killing him on the spot. Forty-five-year-old Zahida Ansar, wife of another farmer Mohammad Ansar, their daughter Rabia Ansar, 17, and son Nouman Ansar,19, and another woman Azra were maimed when shells struck their houses in Harpal. Rescue 1122 officials took the injured to the Combine Military Hospital in Sialkot, where their condition is said to be critical. "A civilian embraced martyrdom and four others were maimed when Indian BSF resorted to unprovoked firing in Charwah and Harpal sectors overnight and today," military officials said. Pakistain Rangers effectively responded to the Indian firing, the official added. The shelling by Indian forces continued for about two-and-a-half hours till 3.30am. The Pasrur assistant commissioner said dozens of houses and cattle sheds were damaged and about half a dozen animals killed. Officials of the Chenab Rangers said their prompt and effective response silenced the Indian guns. The Indian shelling caused harassment and panic among the residents of border villages. Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... local MNA Chaudhry Armughan Subhani and MPA Chaudhry Tariq Akhtar Subhani strongly condemned the shelling and said Indian forces had targeted the civilian population. It was the fifth incident of Indian shelling on Sialkot border villages over the past four days. On Wednesday, a farmer was maimed by the Indian shelling in Charwah sector.

Link

India-Pakistan

Hundreds of opposition workers arrested

2007-11-17

Hundreds of political workers were arrested on Friday across the country for protesting against the emergency rule and suspension of the Constitution. In Gujranwala, police arrested over 200 Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) workers and roughed up several for taking out a rally in connection with the long-march. Hundreds of PPP workers led by party divisional president and MNA Imtiaz Warraich took out the rally, but police baton-charged and tear-gassed them and arrested over 200 participants, according to a PPP press release. Warraich, PPP Lahore divisional president and MNA Chaudhry Manzoor, MPA Ijaz Samaa, MPA Khalid Bajwa, Malik Tahir Akhtar, MPA Lala Shakeelur Rehman, Sheikh Iqbal, PPP Sialkot President Zahid Bashir, Babar Ghumman, Malik Shumail, Tariq Gujjar, Amer Tufail, Fazl Abbas, Chaudhry Tariq and Abdullah Virk were among those arrested, the release added. More than 100 Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) supporters were arrested outside various mosques in Karachi on Friday, but police denied these arrests. The JI’s Sarfaraz Ahmed told Daily Times that more than 100 MMA and JI activists had been taken into custody. Police chief Azhar Ali Farooqui denied the arrests. In Peshawar, police arrested four Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leaders and three Awami National Party (ANP) activists from separate rallies on Friday. JUI-F NWFP General Secretary Maulana Shaujaul Mulk, former ministers Asif Iqbal Dudzai and Amanullah Haqqani and JUI-F NWFP Information Secretary Abdul Jalil Jan were arrested from a rally staged by Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) activists. Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, including MMA provincial naib ameer Mushtaq Ahmed Khan, evaded arrest. At a rally in the Hashtnagri area, police arrested three ANP activists Yasir Zaman, Mohammad Zaman and Alamgir Khalil. JUI-F’s maiden rally: The JUI-F workers and leaders took to the streets in Peshawar for the first time to protest against the emergency rule. After Friday prayers, the JUI-F protesters started a march from Markazi Darul Qura at Namakmandi but police stopped them near the Cinema Road. The PPP women’s wing workers in Peshawar also protested against the state of emergency and suspension of the Constitution.

Link

Warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$T in /data/rantburg.com/www/rantburg/pgrecentorg.php on line 132
-3 More