Israeli Terror

Dozens of Palestinians were arrested before dawn Thursday in an Israeli military incursion in the northern Gaza Strip, witnesses said. Israeli troops used loudspeakers to order residents of the Beit Hanun area aged 16 to 60 to gather in a square, and then took away about 60 of them, a witness said. The Palestinian Ramattan news agency said one of its cameramen was among those arrested. Witnesses said armoured military bulldozers destroyed farmland during the incursion. Meanwhile, a 29-year-old Palestinian civilian died of his wounds Thursday, one day after he was hit by Israeli gunfire in southern Gaza, the head of Gaza emergency services said.

- DAWN - Latest Stories; May 29, 2008

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Nuclear scientist Dr. A. Q. Khan criticizes Musharraf

Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the detained architect of Pakistan's nuclear program, rebuked Pervez Musharraf on Thursday, saying the country has “gone to the dogs” in the last 10 years. Speaking by phone from his Islamabad residence, he told Dawn News television that the test had proved skeptics in the west wrong that “we were not capable of doing anything.” Yet hopes Pakistan could then make progress in economic development after becoming “self-sufficient” in national defence had not been realized, he said. “This has not happened. The last 10 years, the country has gone to the dogs,” Khan said. “People are hungry. You see the (rising) prices and all.” Asked if he blamed Musharraf for the nation's problems, Khan said: “The team leader is to be responsible for the failure of the team but all those who were with him did not assert themselves and (did not) do a proper job.” He was of the view that the new government should be given time to cope with Pakistan's many problems. Dr. Khan told Dawn News that the restrictions on his movements had not been relaxed although he was allowed out of his house to visit the Academy of Sciences this month to mourn a former colleague. Khan said he was free to use the phone but soldiers still guard his house and “only a very few people have been allowed to come and see me.” He also said his health had deteriorated because of his detention, adding that he had suffered many illnesses including deep vein thrombosis and prostate cancer - for which he underwent surgery last year. AFP adds: Asked about Pakistan’s nuclear test, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan said most of the facts about it were widely known, but there would be further revelations. When asked what was yet to be revealed, he said: “They will be out, there are some things -- they will be out in time, when and appropriate time is there,” adding that there were certain subjects he could not talk about because of the “national interest.”

- DAWN - Latest Stories; May 29, 2008

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’نہ استعفےکا فیصلہ کیا،نہ ایساارادہ ہے‘ main koi ghairatmand hoon???

ایوان صدر کے ترجمان میجر جنرل (ر) راشد قریشی نے کہا ہے کہ صدر پرویز مشرف نے نہ تو اپنے عہدے سے استعفیٰ دینے کا فیصلہ کیا ہے اور نہ ہی وہ ایسا کوئی ارادہ رکھتے ہیں۔

جمعرات کو بی بی سی سے بات کرتے ہوئے انہوں نے کہا کہ صدر کے حکومتِ پاکستان سے اچھے تعلقات ہیں اور وہ قائم رہیں گے۔

انہوں نے بعض اخبارات میں شائع ہونے والی ان خبروں کو من گھڑت اور بے بنیاد قرار دیا جن میں کہا گیا ہے گزشتہ شب آرمی چیف سے ملاقات کے بعد صدر نے مستعفی ہونےکا فیصلہ کیا ہے اور کسی بھی وقت اس کا اعلان متوقع ہے۔

سابق وزیراعظم میاں نواز شریف کی جانب سے صدر پرویز مشرف کو ہٹانے اور ان پر غداری کا مقدمہ چلانے کے بیان پر راشد قریشی نے کہا کہ ان کا بیان تبصرے کے لائق ہی نہیں ہے۔

hahaha More entertainment on BBC :)

Asif supports move to oust Musharraf, claims Nawaz (but zardari to phir mukar jaye ga)

PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif said here on Wednesday that there was no justification for providing a safe exit to Pervez Musharraf and claimed that PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari had agreed with him to remove the former army chief from the presidency.

He said that Musharraf must be held accountable for abrogating the Constitution.

He announced that he would join the lawyers’ march if the pre-emergency judiciary was not restored.

Speaking at a function held here to mark the 10th anniversary of first nuclear tests, Mr Sharif said that during a meeting with him in Islamabad on Tuesday, Mr Zardari had agreed to work with him to oust Pervez Musharraf.

Urging the masses to be prepared for a decision greater than the one they had given on Feb 18, the PML-N leader said that had his party got a clear mandate he would have overthrown Musharraf the following day.

The former prime minister, who was ousted in a military coup on Oct 12, 1999, said he had forgiven Musharraf for the mistreatment and torture he had suffered at his (Musharraf’s) hands.

But, he said, he would not absolve Musharraf from the charges of devastating the country by selling it to foreign powers, carrying out what he called the Lal Masjid massacre, incarcerating nuclear scientist Dr A.Q. Khan and superior court judges and handing over innocent Pakistanis to American agencies in return for dollars.

“I have told Mr Zardari that I will ride the lawyers’ bus for Islamabad if the deposed judges are not reinstated,” Mr Sharif added.

He said his party had quit ministries for the sake of its principled stand on the judges’ issue and it was ready to go even further.

Urging the masses to be ready for a movement for deciding the fate of the country, he said that people had to prove that “they are a living nation”.

The fate of the country should be decided in Islamabad, and not in Washington or anywhere else, he added.

He said India had recognised Pakistan as an independent and sovereign nation when Islamabad detonated the nuclear devices. But, he regretted that an army dictator had pushed the country towards destabilisation, carried out massacre from Karachi to Khyber and given the nation the gift of suicide attacks and lawlessness.

Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Sirdar Zulfikar Khosa, Khwaja Saad Rafiq and other PML-N leaders spoke on the occasion.

Asif supports move to oust Musharraf, claims Nawaz: ‘No justification for providing safe exit’ -DAWN - Top Stories; May 29, 2008

we look forward to see u in the lawyers' bus Mr. Sharif... this act will pull crowds i m sure...

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Pakistan marks ‘decade of N-responsibility’

Pakistan hailed the 10th anniversary of its first nuclear tests on Wednesday, saying it marked a decade of “responsibility and restraint” by the Muslim world’s only atomic power.

The foreign ministry issued a statement marking the anniversary of the detonations on May 28, 1998, which were carried out in response to nuclear tests by India.

“It was a historic day in the nation’s quest for security,” it said of the tests.

“Pakistan has taken its responsibilities as a nuclear weapon state seriously. We have not relented in our pursuit for creating a peaceful global and regional environment,” it added.

Pakistan marks ‘decade of N-responsibility’ -DAWN - Top Stories; May 29, 2008

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Israel can have nuclear weapons, others cannt :)

’اسرائیل کے پاس 150 ایٹم بم ہیں‘ Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/regional/story/2008/05/080527_carear_israel_fz.shtml

امریکہ کے سابق صدر جمی کارٹر نے کہا اسرائیل کے اسلح خانوں میں کم از کم ڈیڑھ سو کے قریب جوہری ہتھیار یا ایٹم بم موجود ہیں۔ جمی کارٹر نے اسرائیل کے جوہری پروگرام کے بارے میں یہ دعوی ایران کے جوہری پروگرام کے بارے میں کیئے گئے ایک سوال کے جواب میں کیا۔ اسرائیل کے بارے میں عام خیال یہی ہے کہ اس کے پاس متعدد جوہری ہتھیار موجود ہیں تاہم اسرائیل اس بارے میں خاموشی کی پالیسی پر کاربند ہے اور امریکہ بھی اسرائیل کے جوہری پروگرام پر لب کشائی کرنے سے باز رہتا ہے۔