WASHINGTON: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Pervaz Kayani Thursday said progress in Pakistan will no longer be subject to foreign aids as soon as the prevailing energy crisis gets addressed, Geo news reported. Addressing the Pakistani community, gathered here at Pakistani embassy in Washington, General Kayani said both Pakistani army and public are gallantly bent upon in wiping out terrorism from country. Joint efforts from army and public have helped government send in international community a better image of Pakistan, he added.
Written on March 26, 2010 | Posted in
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PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami Naib Amir Siraj ul Haq said Thursday that the ongoing visit of high-level Pakistani delegation to the United States for holding strategic talks would be considered a failure if it failed to secure the honorable release of Dr. Aafia Siddiqi from the US detention. Addressing a press conference here, Haq said that Pakistani nation wants honorable return of Aafia, not the US aid. He said that Pakistani should push for resolution of Aafia’s issue during the visit. If they return empty-handed, the visit would be declared a failure, he commented. The JI leader said that national decisions were being made at the US embassy instead of Parliament due to US meddling and the weak government.
Written on March 25, 2010 | Posted in
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GENEVA: The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday narrowly passed a resolution condemning Islamaphobic behaviour, including Switzerland’’s minaret building ban, despite some states” major reservations. The resolution, which was criticised by the United States as “an instrument of division”, “strongly condemns… the ban on the construction of minarets of mosques and other recent discriminatory measures.” In a November referendum Swiss citizens voted to ban the construction of new minarets, a move that drew criticisms worldwide. These measures “are manifestations of Islamophobia that stand in sharp contradiction to international human rights obligations concerning freedoms of religions,” said the resolution. Such acts would “fuel discrimination, extremism and misperception leading to polarization and fragmentation with dangerous unintended and unforeseen consequences,” it charged. Some 20 countries voted in favour of the resolution entitled “combating defamation of religions”, 17 voted against and eight abstained. The resolution also “expresses deep concern … that Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism.” It “regrets the laws or administrative measures specifically designed to control and monitor Muslim minorities, thereby stigmatising them and legitimising the discrimination they experience.” Putting forward the resolution on behalf of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, Pakistan’’s ambassador Zamir Akram said that the specific references to Islam, the only religion mentioned in the text, “reflect the existing regrettable situation in some parts of the world where Muslims are being targeted.” Babacar Ba, who represents the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, also told reporters that the resolution was a “way to reaffirm once again our condemnation of the decision to ban construction of minarets in Switzerland.” “This initiative that breaches religious freedom and rights of Muslims to build their places of worship as they wish to,” he added. However, the European Union pointed out that the concept of defamation should not fall under the remit of human rights because it conflicted with the right to freedom of expression, while the United States said free speech could be hindered by the resolution. “The European Union believes that reconciling the notion of defamation with discrimination is a problematic endeavour,” French ambassador Jean-Baptiste Matte said on behalf of the bloc. Eleven Danaher, US ambassador to the UN also slammed the resolution as an “ineffective way to address” concerns about discrimination. “We cannot agree that prohibiting speech is the way to promote tolerance, and because we continue to see the ”defamation of religions” concept used to justify censorship, criminalisation, and in some cases violent assaults and deaths of political, racial, and religious minorities around the world,” she said. “Contrary to the intentions of most member states, governments are likely to abuse the rights of individuals in the name of this resolution, and in the name of the Human Rights Council,” added the US envoy.
Written on March 25, 2010 | Posted in
International
Most of users are concerned regarding unknown emails sent by some one from african countries. In emails, they say that they need to transfer a huge amount of money to your bank account and they want to give you 50% share as well. I almost daily receive such kind of junk emails in different Urdumaza.com [...]
Written on February 5, 2010 | Posted in
Mobile Tech,
News
I didn’t write for so long, i tried to write, but i couldn’t find one topic to write on. Because we only write if we think that it can bring some change or atleast have an effect. But I am sure, 17 caror nation is effect-free now. Anyways, according to new study by US RESEARCH [...]
Written on June 28, 2009 | Posted in
News
20 paisa tax on sms suggestion has been withdrawn by government after widely criticised by young generations. And we also like to thank you all the members of this blog and viewers who wrote comments and condemned this cheap step by our government, and at the same time , we are happy that government realized [...]
Written on June 22, 2009 | Posted in
Mobile Tech
Brig Imtiaz reveals 30-year-old secret, By Rauf Klasra
ISLAMABAD: As the nation celebrates the eleventh anniversary of
Pakistan’s nuclear tests today (May 28), a shocking 30-year-old secret
has been exposed.
It reveals how a young woman college lecturer, feeling betrayed after
a romance with a nuclear scientist of the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant
(KANUPP), had
given a lead to the Inter-Services Intelligence [...]
Written on May 28, 2009 | Posted in
Pakistan Nuclear Weapons
Question : from where did taliban came ? and from where they are getting money, weapons.
Taliban is constantly being funding from US, India and USSR, as pakistanis, we are alone. No body is ready to help us. Taliban are attacking our army. We have a history of depending on US but not this time, USA [...]
Written on April 26, 2009 | Posted in
Politics
