NAB to reinvestigate high-profile cases

Islamabad: The National Accountability Bureau (Nab) has chosen to reinvestigate all high-profile cases, incorporating those against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and previous president Asif Ali Zardari, regardless of the possibility that some of them have been mostly chosen by courts. The agency took the choice at a gathering expected here on Wednesday to remember break down if examinations directed into such cases had been reasonable or influenced by force or favouritism. Two debasement bodies of evidence against the Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah will likewise be reinvestigated under the directives of the Lahore High Court. Agency agent Ramzan Sajid said that Nab administrator Qamar Zaman Chaudhry had chosen to constitute a joined together examination group for cases which may have been part of the way chose by the responsibility courts of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. "The group will look anew into diverse parts of the cases to guarantee that they are energetically indicted." He cited the Nab boss as having said that the authority could manage the cost of no favouritism and might handle every case on legitimacy, independent of present or past position of a charged. Bodies of evidence against Mr Zardari and Prime Minister Sharif are additionally being tried in the courts of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Prior, Nab had framed an unique council to survey cases pending for more than three years. Got some information about the parts of the group, the agent said it contained authorities of diverse wings of the Nab. Sources in the authority told Dawn that a large portion of the colleagues had not been at one time included in examinations into high-profile cases. They said a percentage of the bodies of evidence against Mr Zardari had been part of the way chose and the primary charged in them had been cleared. Ppp guides trust Mr Zardari will additionally be cleared since he is just a co-blamed in these cases. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Tuesday tested the arrangement of Nab director in the Supreme Court because the guide of resistance in the National Assembly had not taken the Pti into certainty throughout the methodology of choice of Mr Chaudhry for the post. A few rounds in restriction parties see the Nab administrator as a "supporter" to Prime Minister Sharif and accept that he has been named under a 'tricky arrangement' between the governing Pml-N and the primary resistance Ppp which needs that bodies of evidence against Ppp guides won't be touched. The under-trial arguments against the Pm and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif incorporate the Hudaibya Paper Mills case, the Ittefaq Foundry (wilful credit default) case and a case identified with stakes past the known wellsprings of salary. The incidents in the cases were suspended sine kick the bucket by the responsibility court in 2001 when the Sharif siblings were estranged abroad. After their return, Nab documented a requisition to look for reviving of the cases in 2007 and a court permitted it to do so. Yet, the trials were suspended sine burn out in 2010 by the court which watched that these could be started if a requisition marked by the Nab director was submitted. On Friday, a court in Islamabad revived six arguments against Mr Zardari which had remained lethargic due to safety appreciated by him as the president. His five-year term as the president finished on Sept 8. The cases are identified with kickbacks and requisition purportedly appropriated from Sgs Psi Company for preshipment assessment, give of permit to Ary Gold bringing about colossal a misfortune to the exchequer, illicit delight and requisition in buy of Russian tractors under the Awami Tractor Scheme, unlawful grant of an agreement to Cotecna for preshipment examination, possessions past known implies and kickbacks from Sajjad Ahmad, a previous director of the Pakistan Steel Mills. Khurseed Shah Case: The two debasement bodies of evidence against Khursheed Shah to be reinvestigated were documented on the request of previous president Pervez Musharraf in 2002 however shut by Nab throughout by NAB during the PPP government

7 killed as tribal leader’s house attacked in Dera Bugti

Dera Bugti: Unknown attackers ambushed the house of a neighborhood tribal pioneer that killed seven persons, incorporating ladies and youngsters while five others supported wounds on Tuesday, Geo News reported. Consistent with the Levies sources, unidentified equipped men jumped into the house of tribal pioneer Tara Khan close Loti gas field range of Dera Bugti. The offenders opened aimless fire on the occupants, murdering seven persons incorporating two ladies and three kids while five others were harmed in the trap. The harmed were promptly hurried to the Sui Gas Hospital for medication. Tribal guide Tara Khan remained sheltered in the strike. Demands sources let that know examination has been commenced to discover the explanation for the occurrence.

NAB chairman appointment challenged in SC

Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pti) executive Imran Khan has recorded a request against the 'sketchy errand' of director Nab in the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday here, Geo News reported. Sources said all confirmation of close ties between the new executive Nab and the top Pml-N authority throughout the previous thirty years and his associations with Ppp initiative have been made part of the Pti appeal. Pti pioneer and veteran Supreme Court push, Hamid Khan will be the heading direction in this appeal. The request administers that the arrangement was unconstitutional and names the organization and Nab director as gatherings in the case. Senior lawful specialists and beat authorities of the law service say there is solid proof with respect to the past behavior of the new director, which could be put forth under the watchful eye of the summit court. Legitimate masters say that according to law, the president delegates executive Nab in interview with the leader and Leader of the Opposition yet there is no understanding regarding what ought to be carried out if huge bodies of evidence are pending against both the Pm and pioneer of resistance in the Nab. Law service authorities say that the peak court might clarify this focus in the present case as in past two judgments the zenith court had more than once alluded to interview with the Chief Justice of Pakistan in some clumsy scenarios. Recently selected executive is additionally confronting a scorn of court case. Consistent with law service authorities, lawfully this couldn't be an obstruction in such errand yet forethought ought to be carried out while making such enormous and delicate arrangements

Pakistan supports Saudi Arabia rejection of UN seat

Islamabad, October 26: Pakistan has supported Saudi Arabia's rejection of its non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council, praising its call for reform, the foreign ministry said Saturday. Saudi Arabia declined the seat as a show of anger over the failure of the world forum to end the war in Syria and resolve the Palestinian issue, Xinhua reports. "Pakistan fully understands the imperatives and compulsions which led to their decision not to join the Security Council after being elected to its non-permanent seat for the term 2014-2015," the ministry said. A statement of the foreign ministry said Pakistan agrees with the Saudi government that there should be forward movement and progress on all issues including Syria, Palestine and other long-standing issues like Kashmir. "The Government of Pakistan has always supported all efforts to ensure a peaceful resolution of disputes and is confident that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will continue to play its role in the maintenance of international peace and security," it said. "The council should be equitable, fair and democratic nature," the statement said.

Time to respond decisively to Pakistan shelling: BJP

Srinagar : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday said the time has come for India to respond decisively to Pakistan's ceasefire violations in Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing a press conference here, the party's national spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said: "For the past two months, whatever Pakistan has been doing on the Line of Control and the International Border is unacceptable. In two months, there have been 200 violations by Pakistan. "Time has come when we should give a befitting reply to Pakistan. There are also political ways and means to restrain Pakistan from doing this." Javadekar said that when Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah were visiting the International Border (Oct 22), Pakistan was still raining shells there. "They have killed and injured our jawans. This is not tolerable. "Pakistan's politics is Kashmir-centric while according to us the only issue that needs to be resolved is stopping Pakistan-aided terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. "Pakistan gives covering fire to encourage infiltration. Our soldiers were beheaded and ambushed... there was a terror attack in Samba. These are absolutely unacceptable. "Terrorism and talks cannot go together," he said. Replying to a question on Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's Oct 24 remark at an Indore rally that, singed by the riots in Muzaffarnagar of Uttar Pradesh, many Muslim youths were in touch with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Javadekar said: "For campaigning he is free, but he is not free to insult Muslims." "When he said those who started and helped clashes in Muzaffarnagar had links with ISI and would like to go to Pakistan, it is an insult to Indian Muslims. "Indian Muslims have made a deliberate and conscious decision to be part of India. They have no sympathy for Pakistan," he said. Replying to another question on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement that he is ready to go to CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) if they wanted (to question him in the coal block allocation case), Javadekar said: "The CBI is under the administrative control of the PMO." "This is another way of getting a clean chit from the CBI as it was given to Lalu Prasad and Mayawati (ex-chief ministers of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, respectively). "It was not the government, but our complaint which the CVC (Central Vigilance Commission) forwarded to the CBI that started the coalgate investigations. "Seventeen billion tonnes of coal were given to 140 private companies causing a loss of Rs.50 lakh crore to the people of the country," Javadekar said.

Despite rebuff, Nawaz Sharif seeks US intervention in Kashmir

Washington : Despite a rebuff from both India and the US, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Tuesday once again sought to draw Washington into the Kashmir dispute ahead of his meeting with President Barack Obama. "Given its relationship with India, US has capacity to do more to help Pakistan-India resolve their disputes, including Kashmir," he said in an address to the US Institute of Peace, a US Congress funded federal institution, on the eve of his meeting with Obama. "Pakistan appreciate the constrictive role US is playing between Pakistan and India," Sharif said asking US to do more, repeating the comments he had made Sunday in London on way to Washington. US had rejected out of hand Sharif's call for Washington to get involved to resolve the Kashmir issue even before he landed here Sunday with a senior administration official saying that "On Kashmir, our policy has not changed an iota." While it encouraged a dialogue between the two countries, "the pace, scope, and character of India and Pakistan's dialogue on Kashmir is for those two countries to determine with each other," the official repeating the oft-repeated US stand. India too has rejected any third party intervention in Kashmir with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid making it clear that the matter can be discussed only under the 1972 Shimla Pact.