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US President Barack Obama has declared that the US combat role in Afghanistan is winding down just as it has already ended in Iraq. We can see the light of a new day on the horizon, he said at the end of a secretive trip to the war zone on the anniversary of Osama bin Ladens death. Our goal is to destroy al-Qaeda, and we are on a path to do exactly that, Obama said in a speech on Tuesday to America broadcast from Bagram air base halfway around the world. He spoke after signing an agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai setting post-war promises and expectations. With two armoured troop carriers as a backdrop, Obama made his remarks in the midst of his endeavor to win re-election as US president and commander in chief. He said that he will keep up the steady withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and that there is a clear path to fulfi ll our mission after more than a decade of military involvement there. My fellow Ameri-cans, we have traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war, he said. Yet here, in the pre-dawn darkness of Afghanistan, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon, he said. The Iraq War is over. The number of our troops in harms way has been cut in half, and more will be coming home soon. Obamas unannounced visit in the midst of his 2012 re-election campaign appeared aimed at showing US voters he is pursuing a strategy to wind down the war. He was also seeking to reassure Afghans that Wash-ington was not abandoning them in the face of a continuing Taliban insurgency. Most US and NATO troops are due to leave in 2014. Earlier in the day, Obama and Karzai signed a strategic partnership accord that charts the future of US-Af-ghan relations beyond the end of the NATO combat mission in the country in 2014. The partnership spells out the US re-lationship with Afghanistan beyond 2014, covering security, economics and governance. The deal is limited in scope and

essentially gives both sides political cover: Af-ghanistan is guaranteed its sover-eignty and promised it wont be abandoned, while the US gets to end its combat mission in the long and unpopular war but keep a foothold in the country. The deal does not commit the United States to any specifi c troop presence or spending. But it does allow the US to potentially keep troops in Afghanistan after the war ends for two specifi c purposes: continued training of Afghan forces and targeted operations against al-Qaeda. The group is present in neighboring Pakistan, but has only a nominal presence inside Afghanistan. The US president, making only his third trip to Afghanistan since taking over as commander-in-chief in 2009, arrived at 17:50 GMT. Obamas last trip in December 2010 lasted only a few hours when he fl ew into Bagram air base, outside Kabul, to meet US troops but he did not meet with Karzai. Ties between Kabul and Washington have strained since last May amid a series of bloody massa-cres and incidents by US troops against Afghan civilians as a 130,000-strong US-led NATO force fi ghts a fi erce Taliban in-surgency. The last of the remaining 87,000 American troops in the country are due to pull out by the end of 2014, some 13 years after a US-led campaign in late 2001 to oust the Taliban regime accused of harbouring bin Laden.Source: Al-Jazeera

Syrian security forces have kept heavy weapons in cit-ies in breach of a UN-brokered cessation of hostilities, but the government and opposition both have commit-ted truce violations, a top UN offi cial has said. The 24 unarmed military observers now in Syria have seen Howitzer guns, armoured personnel carriers and other weaponry in cities, Herve Ladsous, the UN peacekeep-ing chief, told a press conference on Tuesday at UN headquarters. Ladsous insisted, however, that the moni-tors were having an effect in cities where they have been allowed to go. Withdrawing weapons and troops from Syrian cities was a key part of a six-point peace plan agreed by President Bashar al-Assad and UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan. Syria has told the UN that weapons have been pulled back. Regarding the heavy weapons, yes, our military observers do see a number of APCs, for instance, they see a number of Howitzers and other military equipment in most places where they are, Ladsous said. Syria has told the monitors that the armoured carriers have been disarmed but this has not been verifi ed, Ladsous added. Ladsous, a UN under-secretary, said that government forces and opposition groups have broken the truce. All the parties need to take further steps to ensure a cessation of violence in all its forms, he said. The important fact is that viola-tions do come from both sides, he said while refusing to say whether one side had committed more breaches. A separate UN offi cial said on Tuesday that more than 34 children have allegedly been killed in Syria since the truce offi cially took hold last month. Since a truce was agreed on April 12 ... and despite the deployment of United Nations ceasefi re monitors, more than 34 children have allegedly been killed, Radhika Coomar-aswamy, the special envoy for children and armed confl ict, said in a statement. I urge all parties in Syria to refrain from indiscriminate tactics resulting in the killing and wounding of children, The UN also said on Tuesday it was accelerating the deployment of 300 unarmed ceasefi re observers to Syria to ensure all are on the ground by the end of May to monitor both sides compliance with Annans six-point peace plan. We have 24 observers on the ground and I fully expect this

Federal and local authorities stepped up security in New York City on May 2 as a precaution on the anniversary of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Ladens death one year ago. On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was killed in a covert US operation in the early morn-ing of May 2 in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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Pakistans decision to keep key supply routes into Afghan-istan closed since Pakistani soldiers were killed by US air-craft in November 2011 have held up thousands of tonnes of equipment, the Pentagon said, and could signifi cantly degrade withdrawal operations from Afghanistan. In a bi-annual report to Congress, the Defence Department said overall insurgent attacks declined in 2011 for the fi rst time in fi ve years, even though violence increased in areas surrounding the Talibans southern stronghold of Kanda-har, a region where the US efforts have been focused since 2009. Overall, the Pentagon said, violence in Afghanistan decreased by nine percent in 2011 compared to 2010. The military statistics, released selectively, showed the United States moving from us essentially losing the war to us making important progress and seeking to consolidate those gains as foreign troops withdraw, a senior Defence Department offi cial told reporters. Yet the report said that long-term and acute challenges remain in Afghani-stan, including insurgents ability to renew their fi ghting power in Pakistans tribal areas and the limited capacity of Afghan President Hamid Karzais government. The reports conclusions are unlikely to extinguish doubts

about whether the Obama administration can establish a stable, secure Afghanistan as Western nations press ahead with plans to withdraw most combat soldiers by the end of 2014. The US offi cial, speaking on condition of anonym-ity, said the evolving state of the Taliban, al Qaeda, and other terrorists would be clearer this fall, after the summer fi ghting season. The Obama administration is due to pull the last of its 33,000 surge troops from Afghanistan by this fall, leaving around 68,000 US soldiers there. More than 10 years after the Taliban government was toppled, the Afghan insurgency remains a resilient and determined enemy, the Pentagon said, likely to use high-profi le attacks like the 18-hour siege of Kabul on April 15 to shake public confi dence. As the NATO force grows smaller, the Western strategy now hinges on its ability to transform an inexperienced, ill-equipped Afghan army into a professional fi ghting force that can face off against insurgents alone. The Defence Department reported that more Afghan police units were considered capable of operating with minimal Western support, even though local forces remain hindered by attrition, poor leadership and inadequate management. A year after al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a unilateral US raid in Pakistan, the Pentagon said the group had been degraded, but the group retains a small presence in Afghanistans Kunar and Nuristan provinces. The Obama administration also continues to grapple with what the Pentagon described as selective counterinsur-gency operations by the Pakistani government, which US offi cials have long complained refuses to help the US hunt down Taliban terrorists whose interests may align with its own. Source: reuters

The gun battle between the Lyari gangsters and police entered fi fth day , reported by Daily times.On condition of anonymity, a resident said the gangsters were running their own ambulance service and hospital to facilitate their accomplices. He said the gangsters had directed people to vacate their homes, located in high-rise buildings especially in Afshani Gali and Cheel Chowk, adding that the gangsters were planning to establish their post at the rooftops of the said buildings. Deputy Superintendent of Police Nasir Lodhi said Cheel Chowk and Afshani Gali areas had been echoing with heavy gunshots since Monday. He claimed to have killed a notorious gangster, Tariq Siyah Paat, at Afshani Gali. The Sindh government had announced Rs 500,000 head money on his arrest. A police source said the gun battle be-tween the gangsters and police further intensifi ed when po-lice commandos marched towards Gul Muhammad Lane

and Sukhi Lane to set up a police checkpost on Tuesday. The gangsters fi red fi ve rockets at Cheel Chowk, killing police constable Muhammad Tufail. The gangsters also hurled grenades at a hotel in the Napier Police precincts, injuring 10 people. In Kalakot Police precincts, former international boxer, Javed Jan, was killed in Gabool Park area. The de-ceased, who represented Pakistan internationally, was killed by a stray bullet. Separately, an Airport Security Force (ASF) offi cial, Aziz Ba-loch, sustained bullet injuries in the same area. Another man, Hassan Muhammad, was also injured in Bihar Colony area. A police source said the gangsters had fi red 18 rockets and pelted the police with several grenades in various parts of Lyari. The CID team, headed by SSP Chaudhry Aslam, claimed to have taken control of a den owned by Taj Muhammad Taju. The team also claimed to have recovered Balochistan

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By: Imaad AliHealth offi cials in Fiji say at least seven people have died from the disease leptospirosis since widespread fl oods in January.About 279 people contracted the disease, most of them from the countrys Western Division.Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease passed on by animals. Soil, mud, or water that has been contaminated with ani-mal urine can be the source of infection.Fijis national adviser for communicable diseases, Dr Mike Kama, told Radio Aus-tralia he has not seen so many

cases in Fiji for some time.Yes this is a spike. Weve been registering around 15 cases since the start of the fl oods.The daily rate had peaked at 30 cases, he said.

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Riot police fi ring tear gas and stun gre-nades routed protesters in Bahrains capital as the government came under mounting international pressure to release jailed leaders of last years uprising. An appeals court decision on Monday to grant a retrial to 21 opposition fi gures was not enough to defuse resurgent unrest among the Gulf Arab states majority Shia Muslims, and street rallies resumed on Tuesday. A heavy riot police presence cut short a demonstra-tion in the market area of Manama as tear gas and stun grenades were unleashed at several dozen who chanted anti-govern-ment slogans to mark World Labour Day. Several thousand protesters and suspected supporters were sacked or suspended from work last year during a crackdown on the uprising and some say they have not got

their jobs back. The cassation court, the highest judicial body in the Gulf Arab state, on Monday shifted the case of 21 men who were convicted in a military court to a civilian court and freed one, lesser-known prisoner. Seven of the 21 are abroad or in hiding. But the court ruled the men would remain in jail, including Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who has been on a hunger strike for three months. Khawajas wife Khadija al-Musawi said that Mondays court deci-sion does not change her husbands demand for an immediate release - which has become a centerpiece of anti-government protests in recent weeks. His condition to stop the hunger strike is to be free, said al-Musawi. If not, then the option is to die, and his death will be his freedom. In response, Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Mubarak

Al Khalifa, adviser to the governments Information Affairs Authority, said: We have full faith in the independent judici-ary system in Bahrain and will wait to see these appeals take place. We are confi dent the outcome will be just. He said the defendants faced serious criminal charges that went beyond the exercise of basic human rights. Rupert Colville, spokes-man for the UN human rights agency, told a news briefi ng in Geneva on Tuesday that it had urged Bahraini authorities to bring about the release of Khawaja. There is no reason for him to be held incommunicado and he should be given immediate access to his family, to the Danish ambassador...and to a doctor and a lawyer of his own choos-ing. Bahrain, where the US Fifth Fleet is based as a bulwark against Iran across the

Gulf, remains in turmoil over a year after Shia-led protests fi rst erupted, inspired by uprisings against autocratic regimes in Egypt and Tunisia. Opposition parties stage big rallies every week and clashes be-tween riot police and youth protesters break out nightly in Shia neighbourhoods around the island country, whose government is dominated by the Sunni al-Khalifa fam-ily. The unrest has cracked the stability of Bahrain and spurred Saudi calls for a union of oil-exporting Gulf Arab monarchies to help counter Iranian infl uence and neutral-ise protest movements. Opposition leaders said the protest campaign would continue until all prisoners were released and politi-cal and human rights reforms enacted. Source: Al-Jazeera

Acting Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan said here Monday the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would form its opinion on the status of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani after re-ceiving from the Supreme Court the detailed judgement in the contempt of court case. Talking to media persons here at a local hotel during break in a UNDP-funded Workshop on Finalisation of Electoral Rolls and Planning for upcoming General Election, the acting chief election commissioner, being a serving senior judge of the apex court, faced a volley of questions, but he stuckto his contention that they would consider the matter after hav-ing received the detailed verdict. Justice Shakirullah, who hails from Khy-ber Pakhtunkhwa, said they had received the short order of the seven-member SC bench and deliberated upon it but decided to consider the issue only when the detailed verdict would be before them. Over 200 ECP staffers from all parts of Pakistan attended the event besides the four Election Commission members (ECMs).

The acting chief election commissioner contended that the Election Commission would take a decision after having before it the SC judgment and the related provi-sions of the Constitution.Have you read the Constitution, was his reply when a reporter asked him what he was a legal expert would say whether or not Gilani was still a prime minister after having been convicted and handed down a few seconds punishment. Asked if the Speaker of the National As-sembly did not send a reference against the prime minister to the Election Commission, would they proceed against him on their own, the acting chief election commissioner said the electoral body would await the detailed judgment. In reply to a question, Justice Shakirullah said that both the Supreme Court and the Na-tional Assembly were constitutional institu-tions. The acting chief election commissioner yet again parried a question whether Gilani was still a prime minister after having been convicted in the contempt of court case. The acting chief election commissioner

said that there had been complications after the creation of new census blocks, but the electoral body was working hard to cope with them and the holding of the workshop was aimed at addressing such issues. He pointed out fi eld offi cers of the Election Commission had been invited, who were present in the workshop, from all across Pakistan to exchange views and come up with their problems so that their solutions would be found at the earliest. Justice Shakirullah noted that the prepara-tion of electoral rolls was a gigantic task and during its course, there had been cases of ab-normal increases and decreases in the number of voters in the preliminary voter lists. He had already issued directions in this connection. The acting chief election commissioner made it clear that to hold general election was not possible by 2200 offi cers and employees of the Election Commission. Therefore, all insti-tutions and departments would have to assist it to make the task possible. Earlier, for a few seconds power supply was suspended the moment Deputy Chairman

of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) Tariq Malik in his opening remarks said, Thank you for putting me on the spot. Unlike in 2007, when a massive number of cases of voter duplication were detected, this time around, while they were moving towards the fi nalisation of preliminary rolls, incor-porating changes, there had been no single case of voter duplication, despite the fact the number of voters had increased to well over 83 million. He said now there were no voters lists, but a database was available that made it quite easy to fi nd out any discrepancy in the entire process relating to the preparation of voter lists. About abnormal decrease and increase in number of voters in some districts, he said, tallying the data was on with respective ECP staff and this would be completed shortly. He claimed all efforts were to ensure one vote for every CNIC holder. He added no CNIC holder was missing from the preliminary voter lists.

An overcrowded ferry has capsized during a storm in northeast India, leaving at least 103 people dead and about 100 others still missing, police has said. Rescue workers fought heavy wind and rain to search for survivors in the Brahmaputra River in Assam state early on Tuesday amid the fl oating debris. Heavy winds and rain after the accident hampered rescue operations, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, Assams top elected offi cial, said. Women and children were among the passen-gers on the double-decker ferry, which was said to be packed with about 300 peo-ple. The district magistrate of neighbouring Goalpara district, Pritam Saikia, who has been supervising the rescue operations, said at least 100 people were still miss-ing. About 150 passengers swam to safety or were rescued by villagers, Saikia said. An inquiry has been ordered into the incident. Strong winds and rain proba-bly caused the accident, JN Choudhury, Assam state police chief, said. Choudhury said the accident occurred near Fakiragram in west Dhubri district, about 300km west of the state capital, Gawahati, and close to where the river enters Bangladesh. Witnesses told police the vessel was old and broke in two after capsizing in the swollen river, one of Asias largest. Hasnat Ali, a passenger, told local television that the boat was tossed about and many of those on the roof were thrown off and managed to swim to shore before the ferry was dashed to pieces. I managed to cling to a log and was later rescued by local villagers, he said. Ferry travel is one of the cheapest forms of transport in India, and many staying in smaller villages do not have any other options for travel. Another accident in the Dhubri district in the state last week claimed the lives of four women, she said. Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, issued a statement expressing shock and grief at the loss of lives. The Indian prime minister has announced a compensation of Rs 200,000 [about $4,000] each for next of kin of those killed in the tragedy. Gogoi said Singh had telephoned him and promised to rush disaster-response units from New Delhi and other locations. Army, Border Security Force and other rescue teams with mechanised boats have moved to the site but nightfall and bad weather are hampering rescue efforts, the Assam chief minister said. Boats are a common form of transport in Indias remote rural regions, but accidents are often caused by lax safety standards and overloading. In one of the last major ferry disasters in India, at least 79 Muslim pilgrims drowned when an overcrowded boat sank in the eastern state of West Bengal in October last year. The vessel, which was carrying an estimated 150 people, capsized in a river in the Sundarbans mangrove forest, 120km south of Kolkata, the state capital of West Bengal. Source: Al-Jazeera

Binyamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, has received a scathing attack from a former head of Israels internal security service over his handling of Irans alleged nuclear programme. Yuval Diskin,

the former director of the Shin Bet domestic intel-ligence service, said in a voice clip played on Israel Radio on Saturday that the countrys leaders were messianic and unfi t to tackle the Iranian nuclear programme. I have no faith in the prime minister, nor in the defence minister, said Diskin. I really dont have faith in a leadership that makes deci-sions out of messianic feelings. Diskin also told listeners that while he did not think Netanyahus decision was an illegitimate decision, he was really afraid that these are not the people whom Id like to see at the wheel during an operation like that. Other retired offi cials have also criticised Netanyahu and his defence minister, Ehud Baraks, rhetoric of intentions to open an unprecedented front with Iran and, potentially, with its allies on Israels borders. Meir Dagan, a former Mossad for-eign intelligence director, last year also ridiculed the Israeli war option. However, Diskins has been the most harsh criticism of Netanyahus threat of a pre-emptive strike on Iran if diplomacy fails. Theyre creating a false impression about the Iranian issue,

said Diskin. Theyre appealing to the stupid public, if youll pardon me for the phrasing, and telling them that if Israel acts, there wont be an [Iranian] nuclear bomb. Ron Kampeas, editor of the Jewish

Telegraphic Agency in the US, told Al Ja-zeera that when Dagan made the claims last year, there was an attempt by the Israelis to make him seem like an outlier. Now Diskin has come out and done it in more of a blunt way than Dagan had, he said. There was already a little dent, this is go-ing to make it a deeper dent. Government offi cials rebuked Diskin and questioned his motives, implying that he had his eye on a political career or was settling scores after Netanyahu denied him a promotion. Commenting on Diskins remarks, Amos Harel of the Haaretz newspaper said the temperature was rising in anticipation of nuclear talks in Iraq next month. Nothing

has been determined in the Iranian story, and the spring is about to boil over into another summer of tension, said Harel. Diskin spoke days after Is-raels top military commander, Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, told the newspaper that he viewed Iran as very rational and unlikely to build a bomb, comments that apparently undermined the case for a strike. Netanyahus rhetoric about a nuclear-armed Iran have stirred concern in Israel and abroad of a possible strike against its uranium enrichment programme. Iran says the project is entirely peace-ful and has promised wide-ranging reprisals for any attack. World powers, sharing Israeli suspicions that Iran has a covert bomb-making plan, are trying to curb it through sanctions and negotiations. Talks to do so are to resume in Baghdad on May 23, but US President Barak Obama rated on Thursday their chance of succeeding as low. Some experts believe that Netanyahus stance is a bluff to keep up pres-sure on the Iranians.Source: Al-Jazeera

They are Frances millions-strong minority with a voice that usually falls silent at election time. But this year, there is a special new effort to mobilize French Muslims to speak up at the ballot box in Sundays presidential race amid a surge of Islam-bashing among the French right. Imams and Islamic as-sociations are calling on Muslims to do their duty as citizens and go to the polls. And while theyre not offi cially endorsing anyone, the call itself is a bold move in a coun-try where statistics on religious affi liation are formally banned and where secularism is enshrined in the constitution. Socialist Francois Hollande the poll favorite is more likely to benefi t from the get-out-the-vote push, because conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy has spoken out against Muslim practices in his campaign and experts say that Muslims in poor neighborhoods and Muslim youth tend to vote for the left. But the Muslim vote is diverse, and theres no guarantee that the push will bring out voters, since Muslims have tended in the past to avoid politics. French Muslims have been pounded with blame throughout the campaign for what they eat (halal meat), how they pray (in the street), and for allegedly using their growing num-bers to supplant Frances civilization with their own. The massacre of Jewish schoolchildren and French paratroopers in March by an alleged Islamic extremist put Muslims in the spotlight anew and fed far-right fear mongering. Under the banner of patriotism and preserving the national identity, Mr. Sarkozy is trawling for far-right votes as he tries to undo Mr. Hollande. Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who ran an anti-immigration and anti-Europe campaign and sowed fears that France is being Islamicized, placed a strong third in the April 22 fi rst-round vote. Though she was eliminated, her 18 per cent score was a historic high for her National Front party and her supporters could now boost Mr. Sarkozys support in the runoff. For some Muslim religious leaders, it is time to act. We dont live on Mars. We live in France and we are constantly listening to what is happening, said Kamel Kabtane, the rec-tor of the Lyon mosque, who was among a group of imams at some 30 mosques in southeast France pressing Muslims to vote. By this initia-tive, we want to show that Muslims arent citizens of the second zone ... They can vote for whom they want but be present in the voting booth, he said. The more than 5 million Muslims in France the largest such population in western Europe could potentially prove a decisive weight for or against a candidate. But experts say their footprint on the political landscape is nearly invisible. The French model of integration is offi cially colourblind, demanding that immigrant minorities forgo their customs to meld into the universe of Frenchness. Statistics on race, ethnic origin and religion are formally banned, though researchers fi nd ways to circumvent the rule, like using last names to deduce who is who. Mr. Kabtane said the Muslim get-out-the-vote initiative in southeast France was the fi rst of its kind, although some mosques in the Paris area are also asking Muslims to go to the polls. In most cases, imams say they make a point not to advise the faithful how to vote. However, an expert on secularism, Jean Bauberot, says the anti-Muslim rhetoric by the right makes the preferred candidate clear the one on the left. In the current atmosphere, Nicolas Sarkozy is doing all he can to alienate the Muslim electorate ..., Mr. Bauberot said. When they (imams) say go out and vote, people think ... you shouldnt vote for Sarkozy. Source: Globe and Mail

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News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch must take responsibility for serious failings that caused Britains tabloid phone hacking scandal, lawmak-ers said Tuesday in a scathing report as a narrow majority also insisted the tycoon was unfi t to lead his global media empire. In a report on the mal-practice at Murdochs now shuttered News of The World tabloid, legislators accused Murdoch and his son James of overseeing a corporate culture which sought to cover up rather than seek out wrongdoing. Parliaments cross-party Culture, Media and Sport committee unanimously agreed that three key News International executives had misled Parliament by offering false accounts of their knowledge of the extent of phone hacking a rare and serious censure that can see offenders hauled before Parliament to make a personal apology. The panel said the House of Commons would decide on the punishment meted out to the three execu-tives: New York Daily News editor Colin Myler, an ex-News of The World editor, the British tabloids longtime lawyer Tom Crone and Les Hinton, the former executive chairman of News International and the former publisher of The Wall Street Journal. Members of the panel said the 81-year-old Rupert Murdoch had insisted he was unaware that hacking was widespread at the News of The World, blaming his staff for keeping him in the dark. That explana-tion was not accepted. The legislators said if that was true, he turned a blind eye and exhibited wilful blindness to what was going on in his companies. In a ruling opposed by 4 of the 11-member commit-tee all Conservatives the panel cast serious doubt on Murdochs credentials as an executive. The judgment on Murdoch implies that News Corp., which he heads, is also not fi t to control British Sky

Broadcasting, in which the company has a control-ling stake of 39 per cent. Ofcom, the broadcast regulator, said in a statement it is reading the report with interest. Louise Mensch, a Conservative Party member of the panel, told reporters the commit-tee had been divided over the harsh criticism of Murdoch. Four Conservative members opposed the suggestion that Murdoch was unfi t to lead a global company, but that stance was endorsed by four Labour Party members and one Liberal Democrat. The panels chairman, a Conservative, did not vote. Conservative panel member Philip Davies said the conclusion was not only over the top, but ludi-crous. Legislators agreed, however, that Mur-dochs son 39-year-old son James, a former News International executive chairman, was also badly at fault over the scandal. They said phone hacking at the tabloid dated back to at least 2001, and insisted that James Murdoch could have halted the practice as early as 2008. But they stopped short of accus-ing the younger Murdoch of misleading lawmakers when he claimed not to have fully read a 2008 email which he had received and outlined that hacking was widespread. The committee also criticized Hinton, who worked as a top Murdoch aide on both sides of the Atlantic for decades and resigned from his post as the publisher of The Wall Street Journal amid the hacking scandal. The report said he misled them over his repeated claim that hacking was not rife at the News of The World. Myler and Crone had also failed to present factual accounts of what they knew, the report said. Committee chairman James Whittingdale said it is for the House (of Commons) to decide what consequences follow from misleading Parliament.Source: Toronto Star

number to increase rapidly over the next two weeks so that UNSMIS [UN Supervision Mission in Syria] will build up to full operational strength by the end of May, Ladsous said. He said Syria has already refused visas for three proposed monitors. Meanwhile, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said two children were among 10 people killed in a mortar attack by government forces in the northern province of Idlib. Nine members of a single family were allegedly killed in a dawn bombardment on a village near the town of Jisr al-Shughur on Tuesday. The attacks follow two blasts on Mon-day which saw two government security buildings In Idlib damaged, killing at least eight people and causing serious damage. Syrian state media blamed the attacks on armed terrorists, a term it usually uses to describe those trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. In the eastern Deir al-Zor province on Tuesday, 12 soldiers were reportedly killed in clashes with opposition fi ghters. The SOHR said troops hit back with mortar and heavy machinegun fi re, killing at least one vil-lager and destroying a school. Source: Al-Jazeera

Volume 12 Issue 309 Jumada-al-Akhar 12, 1433 AH / May 4 20127Not only the scared and politically unaware voters but the absent electors too helped the corrupt/ineffi cient candidates become legislators who then elected/produced wrong rulers. Pakistan continues to suffer from political quagmire as the ruling elite fails to realise the seriousness of defying the judiciary, breach of law and misinter-preting the constitution openly by asserting with full confi dence that no prime minister would ever write letter to the Swiss authori-ties against the President. Recently the legal case of contempt of court case was concluded and the accused prime minster/chief executive of the federa-tion of Pakistan is a convict now. The criminal prime minister was sentenced briefl y for a few seconds for contempt of court under Article 204(2) of the Constitu-tion of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973 read with Section 3 of the Contempt of Court Ordinance (Ordinance V of 2003) for the willful fl outing, disregard and diso-bedience of the courts direction contained in paragraph number 178 of the judgment delivered in the case of Dr. Mubashar Hasan vs the federation of Pakistan. Clearly, the contemptuous attitude of PM Gilani has been substantially detrimental to the administration of justice for bring-ing the honourable judiciary into ridicule indeed. Also, there are some serious consequences in term of Article 63 (1) (g) of the 1973 Constitution which may be read as mitigat-ing factors towards the sentence passed against the prime minister. The Order from the court does not, however, directly

disqualify the Prime Minister as according the judgment, the conviction for contempt of court is likely to entail some serious con-sequences in terms of the said Article as it allows for the disqualifi cation of any Mem-ber of Parliament who has been convicted by a court for propagating any opinion or acting in any way that brings into ridicule the judiciary or Armed Forces of Pakistan. But the Court used the language likely to entail because the right to terminate parliamentarians tenure is constitution-ally vested in the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Election Commission. Thus, the outstanding issue remains wheth-er Mr Gilani could have been automatically disqualifi ed from holding public offi ce. Under Article 63 (2), once the Speaker has received notice of a parliamentarians conviction, he/she may forward the issue to the Election Commission within 30 days which must make a decision within 90 days. Therefore, the process to disqualify the prime minister has only just begun. Its a long way to go as it offers a time con-suming prescription. The Zardaris PPP is thankful to Aitzaz Ahsan for using delaying tactics to cause a judicial fatigue.Punishing PM Gilani under Section 5 of the Contempt of Court Ordinance 2003 with symbolic imprisonment inside the courtroom #4 till the rising of the court was short lived. The honourable bench rose after announcing judgment -- but without effectively fi xing the stubborn PM Gilani who wilfully ridiculed the top judiciarys decision (with regard to writing a letter to the Swiss government for reopening

of corruption cases against President Asif Zardari). Some legal experts, however, argue strongly that the PM stands removed from offi ce.The wording of the short order clearly indicates that the matter of prime minis-ters ultimate disqualifi cation has been thrown in the parliamentary procedural tangle. Whether the conviction brings us any closer to the implementation of the original NRO order of the full bench? The answer is simply no. The environment of uncertainty spawned by this display of judicial restraint will only contribute to the further deterioration of governance and the economy. More political turmoil is fast approaching as the Zardari regime has no interest in following the law or obeying court orders. In fact, PM Yousuf Raza Gilani is devoid of any moral authority to rule the country no matter what technicalities his legal experts may manufacture.Nevertheless, the prime minister appears to have been dealt with a severe blow because of his conviction. But the letter he was sup-posed to write remains unwritten. Defi nite-ly, the unruly rulers are fully determined to ignore the court with respect to writing to the Swiss authorities claiming that it would amount to putting BBs grave on trial. By defying the orders of the Supreme Court over and over again, he not only demon-strated that he has no respect for rule of law but also made it clear that his loyalty to Zardari goes far beyond the oath that he took as prime minister. In actuality, the criminals help each other.

Since the rogues are united to keep the president off the hook, Pakistan cant get out of clutches of the certifi ed political vultures. Though, it appears with clarity from the short order of the seven-member bench of the Supreme Court in the contempt of court case that the prime minister has lost the moral and legal right to hold the post but the wording of the ruling especially the mention of Article 63(1) (g) referring to the disqualifi cation of the prime minister is highly confusing and vague.Until and unless hypocritical coddling is dealt with severely, the corrupt minds would continue to carry on with their dirty political schema. Therefore, Mr. Gilani must step down immediately to allow the justice to prevail in the best interest of Pa-kistan. Also, there is no justifi cation left for him to stay in offi ce any longer because he is now a heavy load on the national excheq-uer as well. Most importantly, a number of inconsistencies/contradictions including the non sense of presidential immunity clause in the constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan need an urgent fi x to accom-modate the Islamic law and jurisprudence in entirety for better governance to ensure blind justice for all in the troubled country.

Waan laysa lil insaniilla ma saaa

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Liberation Armys anti-state literature from the den. Sources said SSP Chaudhry Aslam had disclosed this information at a high-level meeting at the CPO Offi ce on Monday. Six police offi cials have so far laid their lives and another dozen have been injured in the last several days. Sources said the BLA was supporting the gangsters, adding that they were getting weapons via Hub-Sakran border. Meanwhile, scores of people, including women and children, staged a protest demonstration in Baloch Colony against the operation. The protesters

blocked the expressway and pelted vehicles with stones. They shouted slogans against the govern-ment and law enforcement agencies. The protesters demanded that the government bring an end to the operation. The protesters also pelted the police with stones when the latter tried to disperse them. Police then baton charged the protesters, injuring eight people. Separately, in Maripur and Malir Kala Board areas, scores of people protested against the ongoing Lyari operation. They block Maripur Road and National Highway and also threw stones at the vehicles. Heavy contingents of police reached the scene and disperse them.

From MYCs Management TeamThe Muslim Youth Centre would like to thank everyone who attended, donated and participated at our 12th Anniversary Fundraising Dinner on Sunday April 15th. Those who sent their donations, even though you could not attend, thank you kindly for your generosity. We congratulate our youth, Maryam Baksh and Jamal Dumas for their dynamic and eloquent speeches. We would like to convey our thanks to Ms. Jinny Sims MP, Ms. Sue Ham-mell MLA and Mr. Jasbir Sandhu MP for their special appearances and their

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By: Abdul-Majid JaffryOften, when Sunnah of the Holy Prophet Sallallaahu alayhi wasallam is mentioned we hear the remark, it is only a Sunnah, implying as if Sunnah is a mere matter of choice, not a duty or obligation, recom-mended, but not required. The response, for most part, is a result of the lack of under-standing of the importance and the place of the Sunnah in Islam and in a Muslims life.What is Sunnah? Allah sent his last Prophet and Messenger Mohammad Sallallaahu alayhi wasallam to teach and guide human-ity how to conduct their individual and collective affairs and live their lives in a manner pleasing to their Creator. In this regard, the virtuous acts and deeds taught by the Prophet, through his words and conduct, are called Sunnah. They range in their scope from the manner of drinking water to burial of the dead to solemnizing the marriage to regulation of trade practices, etc. Even a simple task of drinking water becomes an act of worship if the intention underlying it is to comply with the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet. On the other hand, intentionally and habitually disregarding the Sunnah invites anger of Allah and His Prophet. The Holy Prophet is reported to said, Whoever turns away from my Sunnah is not from me, meaning he is not my follower.How imperative is it to obey the Sunnah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihe Wa Sallam? The imperative signifi cance of the Sunnah is evident from the fact that Allah has not linked the success and salvation of humans with His obedience alone but also condi-tioned it upon the obedience to His Prophet. That is, Allah Almighty has enjoined on us obedience to His Messenger, just as He has enjoined His own obedience. In the Quran Allah says, And obey Allah and the Mes-senger that you may obtain mercy. (3:132). And at another place He warns, ...and whoso disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he is indeed on a clearly wrong path (33:36). To obey the Messenger means obey his Sun-nah, what he has enjoined and what he has forbidden. In the Islamic system of beliefs, Allah Sub-hanahu alone has the right to declare what is permitted and what is forbidden. He does so through the Quran and through His Prophet. Allah vested in His Prophet the authority of a lawgiver. The Quran says, ...(Prophet) enjoins them good and forbids them evil, and makes lawful to them the good things and makes unlawful to them impure things, and removes from them their burden and the shackles which were upon them... (7:157). Therefore, what the Holy Prophet enjoins or forbids is from Allah. (He does not speak from his desire; it is nothing except revela-tion revealed to him (53:3-53:4). Another verse that tells us about Prophets authority as a lawgiver, ...So take what the mes-senger assigns to you and abstain from that which forbids you ... (59:7). This verse is not limited to the division of the war booties as anti hadith groups claim, it is rather all

encompassing and general in its proclama-tion.The other dimension of the Sunnah of the Prophet is that it is a tangible expression of love for Allah, and the best way to gain Allahs love and forgiveness. Quran tells Prophet Sallallaahu alayhi wasallam to say to believers, If you do love Allah, Follow me: Allah will love you and forgive you your sins ... (3:31). This verse makes it plain that without adhering to the dos and donts of the Sunnah, no triumph in this world or the next can be achieved.The clear imperative to follow Prophet Mo-hammads rulings and decisions can also be seen unambiguously expressed in this verse But no, by your Lord, they can have no faith, until they make you (O Muhammad) judge in all disputes between them, and fi nd in themselves no resistance against your decisions, and accept them with full submis-sion (4:65). This verse clearly illustrates the supremacy of the Holy Prophets decisions and judgment governing all departments of life - religious, social, economic, political and cultural, etc. Here the Quran establishes Sunnah - Prophets decision and legal judg-ments - as irrevocable, not to be challenged or reinterpreted and must be accepted with full submission. The emphasis on the Sun-nah is to the point that if one knowingly denies the decrees and judgments of the Holy Prophet, he jeopardizes his faith.The obligation to judge all matters in the light of the Quran and the Sunnah is also recognized from the famous hadith of Muaz bin Jabal radiyallaahu anhu. When the Holy Prophet appointed him as a Judge in Yemen, he enquired him, What will you judge by when you decide a case? Muaz bin Jabal said, By the Book of Allah. The Prophet further asked, If you dont fi nd the answer in the Book of Allah, what will you do? Muaz bin Jabal replied, I will look into the Sunnah of the Allahs Prophet. The answer of Muaz bin Jabal very much pleased Rasulallah Sallallaahu alayhi wasallam. The hadith further confi rms that the Sunnah, after Quran, is a defi -nite and absolute part of the Muslim constitution. The Prophet Sallallaahu alayhi wasallam was created as an exalted standard of character (68:4) and the best exem-plar for the human race. In enjoining the believers to pattern their lives after the perfect example of the Prophets life, the Quran says, Certainly, there is an excellent example for you in the Messenger of Allah, for him who looks forward to Allah and the Last Day, and remembers Allah much (33:21). The Holy Prophet said about himself, Allah has sent me as an apostle so that I may demonstrate perfection of character, refi nement of manners and loftiness

of behavior and conduct. The believers have been exhorted to follow the Prophet Sallallaahu alayhi wasallam not only in the

details of complex matters of their collec-tive life, but also in the small details of their daily life. For example, matters of eating, drinking, dressing and sleeping, and those regarding which the Prophet gave specifi c guidanceToday, Muslims overwhelmed by the West and its civilization and raised on secular education have developed inferiority com-plex about their religious and cultural herit-age. Though they believe that the system of guidance, the Quran and Sunnah, is true, yet great many of them have abandoned Islamic values and ideals in favor of western standards and practices. Here it would be good to remember what the Holy Prophet said about imitating the non-believers. The Prophet of Allah said, Whoever imitates a people is one of them. Since the Sunnah is an integral part of Muslim faith, its negligence and abandon-ment would diminish the faith of a believer in the same measure. It is for this reason that the Holy Prophet Sallallaahu alayhi wasal-lam has promised a great recompense for the revitalization of an abandoned Sunnah. He said, Whoever revives a Sunnah from my Sunnah that has been abandoned after me, then he will have an equal reward of all people who acts upon it, without decreasing from their reward in any way.

Beware those who neglect and abandon the Sunnah and say, It is only a Sunnah: The Quran says, ....So, those who violate his (messengers) order must beware, lest they are visited by a trial or they are visited by a painful punishment (24:63). It is not just Sunnah, it is the way of life pre-scribed by none other than the Allah through the revelation to His Prophet.Abdul-Majid Jaffry is a retired aerospace engineer and a freelance columnist.

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Hadith Qudsi 3:On the authority of Zayd ibn Khalid al-Juhaniyy

(may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah (may the blessings and

peace of Allah be upon him) led the morning prayer for us at al-Hudaybiyah following rain-fall during the night. When the Prophet (may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) fi nished, he faced the people and said to them: Do you know what your Lord has said? They said: Allah and his Messenger know best. He

said: This morning one of my servants became a believer in Me and one a disbeliever. As for him who said: We have been given rain by virtue of Allah and His mercy, that one is a believer in

Me, a disbeliever in the stars (2); and as for him who said: We have been given rain by such-and-

such a star, that one is a disbeliever in Me, a believer in the stars.

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INA LILAH WA INA ILAYHI RAJIOONIt is with great sadness that we report the passing away of

- Sr. Hafi za Bibi Hussain (of Vancouver originally from Fiji, mother of Br. Mohammed Khalid Hussain)- Br. Parwiz Mohammad Saied (of Surrey originally from Afghanistan, brother of Khsraw Mohammad Saied of Texas)- Sr. Ashiana Razak Sharma (of Surrey originally from Fiji, wife of Br. Ranjay Sharma and daughter of Abdul Razak)- Sr. Alamtab Wahed (of Burnaby originally from Afghanistan, mother of Br. Laiq Wahed of Burnaby)- Sr. ZubaidaAkhtar (Wife of Br. Zahoor)We pray to Almighty Allah (S.W.T) for His mercy, to forgive all there sins and reward them with the best place in paradise, janaatul fi rdous and to give patience to the family, Ameen.

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How Obama fulfi lled the dreams of OsamaBy Hamid Mir

Osama bin Laden is history now but Al-Qaeda is still determined to make some new history. US offi cials have rightly claimed many times that Al Qaeda has be-come weaker after the death of Osama bin Laden but they cannot deny the fact that bin Ladenism is still a source of inspiration for the militants fi ghting from Afghanistan to Yemen and from Iraq to Palestine. Dead Osama is as dangerous as living Osama. The Obama administration has foiled at least 8 terrorist plots on the US soil since the death of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011. President Obama can take credit of bin Ladens death but he is not aware that actually bin Laden got the death of his own choice. It was his old dream not to be cap-tured by enemy but to be killed by enemy and no burial in any grave.Osama bin Laden always prayed to become a martyr like his old friend Shafi q-al Madni. I heard the name of Shafi q from bin Laden fi rst in 1997. I was the fi rst Paki-stani journalist to meet Osama bin Laden in March 1997 and I was the last journalist to interview him seven weeks after 9/11. I started writing his biography in 1998 and once I asked him about the people who impressed him a lot and created big impact on his life. Osama said that he was lucky to have brave friends like Shafi q-al Madni who always loved martyrdom. Shafi q from Madina was a very good player of soccer but he joined the Jihad against the Soviet troops in Afghanistan with Osama bin Laden. He remained on the frontline during the battle of Jalalabad in 1989.Shafi q al-Madni always wanted a unique and different kind of martyrdom. Once he told him: oh my Sheikh Osama, please pray that when I become a martyr the stom-ach of birds and animals should become my grave, I dont want to be buried in ground; I want that on the day of judgment birds and animals should tell the Allah Almighty that the body of Shafi q al-Madni was torn into pieces by the enemies of Islam because he was fi ghting in the name of Allah. Osama said that Shafi q al Madni was very good in destroying Russian tanks with his

RPGs. One day Shafi q and two other Arab fi ghters were trapped by the Russians in the battle for Jalalabad. The three men tried to escape but they were surrounded from all sides. Shafi q was senior to the other two. He decided to provide them fi re cover and ordered them to escape. He destroyed the tank coming from the front but became target of another tank gunfi re from his left. His body was torn tosmall pieces. His dream came true. He was killed on enemy territory and his dead body was not available. He was not buried in a grave. The stomach of birds and animals became his ultimate grave. Osama bin Laden said: Allah Almighty fulfi lled the dream of Shafi q al-Madni, he became a martyr and I pray to Allah that I should also become a martyr like Shafi q al-Madni who never wanted to be buried in the ground. Osama was so much impressed with Shafi q al-Madni that he purchased a speedboat and docked it at the bin Laden marina at the Jeddah harbour. He named it after Shafi q al-Madni. The engine of the boat was removed and replaced with a more powerful one. This Shafi q al-Madni boat was the fi rst step towards Al Qaeda mens training in opera-tions in the seas. Osama loved sea a lot. He read many books of Syed Qutab while fi shing in the Red Sea. He had never imagined that the US Ma-rines would bury him in the sea and he will not be buried in the any grave like his friend Shafi q al-Madni. The Obama administration never provided a grave to Al Qaeda but it certainly gave a martyr to Al Qaeda. The Pakistani authorities have demolished bin Ladens house in Abbotabad where he was killed on May 2, 2011 but Al Qaeda is not demolished. The Obama administration fears that may-be Dr. Ayman al Zawahri is still present on the Pakistani soil but there is lack of coop-eration between Pakistan and US against Al Qaeda after the Abbottabad operation and attack on Salala check post. Pakistan never gave CIA full access to interrogate Osama bin Ladens family. The big family was handed over to the Saudi authorities a few days back. Pakistanis

were careful because they feared a serious backlash from Al Qaeda. They knew many Al Qaeda leaders were hid-ing quietly in big cities like Karachi and they can become a big danger anytime. Why Pakistanis are not ready to underes-timate Al Qaeda? They know that Al Qaeda operators started moving from Karachi to Afghani-stan after the attack on Mehran base in Karachi last year. These operators helped Afghan Taliban launch at-tacks on the NATO forces in a more organised manner. They also advised Taliban not to listen to Pakistan for starting a dialogue with the US. Most of them are not active militants but they have become terror consultants. Incidents like the desecration of Holy Quran in Afghanistan and the detention of a Pakistani woman Afi a Saddiqui in a US prison are enough for Al Qaeda terror con-sultants to exploit the religious sentiments of the Muslim youth. The Obama administration must tell the world what actually motivated young American Muslims like Sami Osmakac and Amine El Khalafi to organise terror attacks in US. Both were arrested in January and February this year in the US. They never visited Pakistan or Afghanistan, they never met any Al Qaeda leader in their whole life but even then they developed hatred against US. Sami was caught because he was trying to fi nd out the Al Qaeda fl ag on web before hitting the targets. If some boys living in the US can develop hatred against America then what about those boys who live in Afghanistan and Pakistan, who see the occupation forces with their own eyes and who participate in the burials of those innocent children and woman killed in US drone attacks? It is this pressure from these angry young boys, which stopped the senior Taliban leader-ship from opening formal negotiations with Washington.

The US prevented more than 50 terror at-tacks on its soil since 9/11 but Afghanistan and Pakistan are not America. These two countries are the biggest victims of US war against terrorism since 9/11 and are still unsafe even after the death of Osama bin Laden. One can differ with the ideol-ogy of Al Qaeda but the fact is that his ideology still exists and is getting stronger because of the US policies. The combina-tion of fl awed US policies and dangerous Al Qaeda ideology creates angry boys who want to become martyrs like Shafi q al-Madni and Osama bin Laden. Obama can throw the dead body of Osama bin Laden in the deep sea but he cannot drown the ideology of Al Qaeda in the sea. If the US and its allies want to prevent Al Qaeda attacks in future they must throw out their bad policies in the sea. The least they should do is punish the US soldiers responsible for the burning of Holy Quran in Bagram; punish the soldier who killed many innocent people in Kand-har and punish the offi cers who organised attack on Salala check-post. Dont protect them, or you will be fulfi lling the dreams of Osama bin Laden.

By Mohammed Al Balushi Economics, regardless of whether it is micro economics or a macro, is a subject which needs to be understood from the roots to its branches. Economic is the subject

which does not differ from one religion to another. It is a subject which fi ts all societies. It is the need of all human beings. No matter if you are a president or an ordinary person from the same state. No matter if you are a true Muslim or belong to any other respected religions. It does not even matter if you are an atheist. Economics as a sub-ject is essential for all of you, because no one can survive without a piece of bread.Understandingly, Islam is the religion which covers all aspects and elements of life. Practically, how does Islam look and apply economics for a better life? According to Islamic literature Islamic economics began with the advent of Islam, which means fourteen centuries ago.

Some Islamic books does highlight that. Quran, however, doesnt explain in detail the fi scal policies but there are some economic teachings and guiding principles which determine such policies. However, the necessary details and teachings were classifi ed by Prophet Mohammed, (PBUH). In early Islam, the main sources of income were zakah, jiziya, and khumus. In those days whatever was collected in the shapes of (zakah, jiziya, and khumus) were equally distributed to the public (needy people). The second caliph Umar had justifi ed the taxes by saying; Taxes are justifi ed only when they are collected in a just and legal way and they are spent justly and legally.In the current world, how the sunnah and sharia assist in formulating principles for fi scal operation? How does modern Islam and Muslims see economic in its true Islamic way and principle? Today, is the collection of zakah taking place appropriately? And is the distribution equally and justly done to the have-nots in the society in the world of Islam? Unfortunately, all such practices are not mostly seen in todays Islamic world. Economi-cally, there are many good lessons from Islam, if applied many economic issues may get reduced. In many Islamic countries the proper distribution of wealth is lacking. One of the economists have said; There is no underdevel-oped country in the world, but there are some areas in the same country which are not developed by the ruler. In the same way, you fi nd one person is a billionaire while the other is penniless in the same country and within the same area.Before the conclusion, in my personal opinion I would say that it is not the religion which makes a good eco-nomic policy or a worse one. It all depends on you as

an economist and explaining everything in an economic way. For economists things are meaningless if they are not translated into economic language. Suppose you are a fi lm-maker and spend more than six months to com-plete the fi lm. The fi lm gets completed successfully. As an economist I am not interested how many days you have spent, where you went for shooting, what lighting methods you have used, what obstacles you have faced, instead, I am more interested in how much amount you have spent, what was your budget, and how much you have made as a net profi t. Suppose you are a novelist and published some hundred books. As an economist I might not be interest in reading all of your books, because, these are not yet translated to me in an economical language.But, I am very much interested to fi nd out how many books were sold and read by people.Individually, what is your contribution toward econom-ics? How much do you produce per hour, per day, per week and per month? Once, you understood your produc-tivity level and the value of it, then; it means you are on the right path, economically.Whenever, there is a conversation on economy, Adam Smith, the father of economy always comes to peoples mind. He stated in the Wealth of the Nation his famous book, that labour of every nation is the fund which origi-nally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from nations. This indicates that nations are producers and at the same time the consumers. It is the nations who produce materials and consume at the same time.

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By Hamid DabashiAll the indications are that the US and its regional allies are gearing up for a Libyan dj vu in Syria. That is a danger-ous and potentially catastrophic turn of events for Syria, and for the region at large, resulting in even more blood than the murderous Syrian regime has shed so far. The recent Al Jazeera report that the Lebanese navy in-tercepted a ship loaded with three containers of weapons destined for Syrian opposition forces is the most recent indication that the incessantly increasing violence has long since assumed regional and transnational proportions. The ruling regimes in Iran and Saudi Arabia are fi ghting their proxy wars on the backs of the Syrian people. To be sure, just like Gaddafi s, the bloody ruling regime in Syria is chiefl y responsible for the carnage that has un-folded over the past year - for if they had allowed peaceful demonstrations to result in a peaceful transition to democ-racy, the US and its regional allies would not have had the opportunity to try to fi sh from the bloody water that Bashar al-Assad has created, nor would there be any room for the opportunist manipulations such as those proffered by Rus-sia, China or Iran. The Annan PlanA former secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi An-nan is a perfectly credible intermediary, perhaps the only one with such a credential at this point, and it seems that his plan is quite comprehensive. It calls for an immediate end to bloodshed, the delivery of humanitarian aid, a pro-cess for opposition demands to be peacefully articulated, the release of political detainees, allowing foreign reporters into the country, and permitting peaceful demonstrations.But the ruling regime in Syria is abusing the Annan plan to murder more Syrians. Weeks after the Syrian acceptance of the Annan plan, Al Jazeera continues to report a mas-sive and bloody crackdown upon the opposition: Syrian troops, Al Jazeera reported as of April 24, 2012, have killed dozens of civilians in the city of Hama, activists have said, as UN military observers toured protest centres near the capital Damascus, and both Brussels and Washing-ton imposed new sanctions. As of April 23, shells fi red by Syrian security forces have killed at least 18 people in the central city of Hama, and the numbers are steadily on the rise. The UN reports that, by now, more than 9,000 people have died in Syria since the uprising began in March 2011. It is now well over a year that Syrians have been engaged in a defi ant battle against their repressive, criminal, regime.Annans plan, again at least nominally, has the support of at least elements within the ruling regime as well as its op-position, plus what ought to be global support. The United Nations Security Council has authorised the deployment of up to 300 unarmed military observers to monitor a cease-fi re in Syria that formally came into effect on April 12 as part of the Annan plan. There is every reason to believe that if genuinely endorsed by all parties, the Annan plan can work. Both Syrian regime and its nemesis abusing AnnanBut it is now all but evident that at least the more belliger-ent factions within the ruling regime in Syria is trying to abuse the Annan plan to try (in vain) to crush the uprising once and for all. The Assad regime is, of course, criminally ignorant - and that is the case not because the Saudis or the US are trying to abuse the situation to their advantage, but because the Syrian uprising, long in process and integral to the rest of Arab revolutions, will not die and will resurface. It is in the nature of these transnational uprisings and the synergy among them that, in the long run, no single na-tion can be robbed of its revolution - neither by their own corrupt ruling regimes nor by the ludicrous hypocrisies extending from Riyadh through Tehran and Tel Aviv to Washington DC. That Annans plan is being abused by the Syrian regime has been evident from the onset and by the uninterrupted assault on civilian population, of which the UN secretary-general has just issued yet another warning. According to Al Jazeera: Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, has said. The Syrian government is in contravention of an inter-nationally agreed peace plan by keeping troops and heavy weapons in cities. He also said he was gravely alarmed by

reports of shelling of popu-lated areas in Syria. No amount of white-washing these facts by the demented segments of the left can

exonerate the criminal disposi-tion of the ruling regime in Syria. More troubling is the spread

of violence, in manner and intensity, into districts in the capital where on Friday April 27, according to Al Jazeera, at least nine people [were] killed and dozens injured by a reported suicide bomber in the Damascus district of al-Midan.But the Syrian regime is not the only party trying to abuse the Annan mission. US offi cials are itching for it to fail, as the EU foreign ministers too have imposed a new round of sanctions on Syria, without allowing for the Annan plan to have a chance.More recently, the wives of the German and British ambassadors to the UN have released a video urging Syrias fi rst lady to help end the bloodshed in her country. The fi lm, posted on YouTube, asks Asma al-Assad to urge her husband to stop violence against Syrians. All these otherwise logical and perhaps even necessary gestures can systematically accumulate into a pretext for a US-NATO military strike along the lines of the Libyan model. Signs of that possible eventuality are already evident. Ac-cording to Al Jazeera: The French foreign minister has said the UN Security Council should consider military ac-tion in Syria if an international peace plan fails to stop the violence under President Bashar al-Assads government. Alain Juppe also demanded on Wednesday that 300 UN observers authorised to go to Syria be deployed within 15 days. He said Paris would consider peace envoy Kofi An-nans scheduled report on May 5 as a deadline for Damas-cus to comply with the plan. If this is a UN-Arab League plan that Annan is trying to implement, why are the French issuing these sorts of ulti-mata? Who died and made them the arbiter of truth? Annan must decide his own deadline and the terms of his negotia-tions, not the French. The same attitude is equally evident in the US, where The Christian Science Monitor recently reported how the ongoing violence in Syria, despite the regimes lip service to the Annan peace plan, has pushed the Obama adminis-tration to weigh stronger steps. Particularly noteworthy in this report is the position of the pro-Israeli neo-con opera-tion in Washington DC, known as WINEP (The Washing-ton Institute for Near Eastern Policy). Christian Science Monitor reports: No one here [in Washington] thinks the Annan plan is going to work, says Andrew Tabler, a Syria expert with The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. This plan does not deal with the disease itself. The disease is very simple. You have a minority-dominated regime that is not about to give up power, that has a 42-year record of not being able to reform, ruling over an opposition carved out of the youngest population in the Middle East outside the Palestinian territories. Its just a storm.Such clich-ridden verbosities, typical of WINEP sopho-moric prose, reveals where exactly the drum beats of a US-NATO military strike against Syria are being orchestrated.Neither the US nor its European or, a fortiori, its Saudi partners, is in a position to assume the moral high ground. As Bassam Haddad, Jadaliyya co-editor, has in a recent interview on Al Jazeera rightly stated the emphasis on the United States role as being pivotal in promoting democ-racy in the region is entirely fl awed. Let the Annan Plan workThe Syrian democratic uprising is caught between a bloody ruling regime at home and an ever-belligerent imperial design that wants to micromanage those democratic aspira-tions to its own advantage - which laser-beams on what it deems best for its garrison state: Israel. Israel is the biggest loser in the Arab Spring - for the expansionist militarism that is the Jewish state has no blasted clue how to deal with open-ended Arab democracies. Arab dictatorship is

its preferred choice as to how to manoeuvre to keep itself fl oating. The Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is abso-lutely correct that post-revolution Egypt is a larger threat to Israel than Iran - but his habitual warmongering calls for troop deployments to Sinai border, whereas that threat is not a military threat; it is a democratic threat. A free and democratic Egypt is infi nitely more dangerous to the Jewish apartheid state and its occupied territories than the repressive theocracy of an Islamic Republic that can scarce keep itself in power against its own rebellious population. But the world at large is now heroically and imaginatively liberated from the criminal atrocities of the geopolitics of the region that wishes to safeguard the Israeli garrison state at all cost - costs that become quite steep during a US presidential election year. In that geography of despair, now fi nally exposed and overcome, Saudi Arabia, the US,

and Israel become beacons of democracy, and the com-bined calamity of the ruling regimes in Iran and Syria, plus their client operators in Hezbollah become the resistance front. It is the obscenity of that equation that is once and for all exposed for what it is: an obscenity. Remember the Libyan uprising, when African countries wanted to negotiate a deal with Gaddafi , but the NATO bombing did now allow it to develop - sharing responsibili-ty with Gaddafi s own criminal banality trying to abuse that peace plan to stay in power. The task that now Kofi Annan is facing is that which South African President Jacob Zuma was trying to accomplish in Libya, when he conducted incessant shuttle diplomacy on behalf of the African Union to fi nd a peaceful solution to the confl ict. Three months into the bombing of Libya, the African Union was still trying to solve the confl ict peacefully. We are here today to say that it is important that such a process be conducted and owned by the Libyan people, involving mutual concessions in a dialogue without predetermined conditions, said Hamady Ould Hamady, the Mauritanian Foreign Minister, addressing the Security Council on June 15, 2011, on behalf of the AU High Level Ad Hoc Commit-tee on the Crisis in Libya. This time in Syria, let Annan be Annan - a peace envoy, a harbinger of non-violent transition in Syria - and not an ex-cuse for the US-led military intervention. It is not just the criminal ruling regime in Syria that is trying to abuse the Annan plan hoping to crush the opposition. The US and its allies too are trying to abuse Annan as an excuse to wage a military strike. But Annans plan can work. He is the only one in a position to give the ruling regime (not just Bashar al-Assad) a way out of this bloody cul de sac. Uncondition-al surrender should never be the ruling paradigms in these or any other confl ict resolution - not because Gaddafi then or Assad now deserves a face-saving strategy, but because Libyan and Syrian people need it for their future. What ultimately prevents that possibility is not just the quagmire of violence in Syria. It is the imaginative geogra-phy of world politics that has historically written Asia, Af-rica, and Latin America out of the vital decisions affecting the globe. The US and EU have assumed disproportionate power of decision-making in global affairs and the UN is simply a diplomatic extension of their warmongerings. It is that grotesque geography of imperial domination that must be once and for all dismantled for the world determined to liberate itself, to begin to see itself.

Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia Univer-sity in New York. His new book, Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism has just been released by Zed.

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Volume 12 Issue 309 Jumada-al-Akhar 12, 1433 AH / May 4 201213 A cultural exhibition of various

Islamic countries in Pakistan

Park Cleanup operation by

ICNA & MCNA Volunteers

Sent by: Inam Khan, SurreyISLAMABAD: A cultural exhibition of various Islamic countries, in connection with the 24th Annual Cultural Week, began at the Faisal Masjid campus of the Interna-tional Islamic University on May 2.Students from approximately 25 Islamic countries, includ-ing Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Kazakhstan, Tur-key, Kenya, Bangladesh and Iran, set up stalls to portray their culture. The wife of Iranian ambassador inaugurated the event, whereas diplomats from the embassies of various Islamic countries attended the opening session.IIUI Rector Professor Fateh Muhammad Malik, President Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad President and Vice President Prof Dr. Sahibzada Sajidur Rehman were also present on the occa-sion.The most attractive stall at the event was set by the stu-dents of Saudi Arabia to exhibit various aspects of the Arab culture, food and dresses. Similarly, students from all four provinces of the country set up their stalls to highlight the culture of their areas. There was a special focus on differentiating the culture of

rural from urban areas. All departments of the university also set up their stalls.The diplomats and guests visited all the stalls and showed keen interest in the cultural exhibition. Speaking on the occasion, the wife of the Iranian ambas-sador said that she was happy to see a bouquet of various cultures of the Islamic countries presented at the exhibi-tion. Professor Fateh Malik said the pur-pose of such events was to provide the students of different Islamic countries with a platform within the campus to present and exhibit their cultures. It is a step to create unity among the Muslim world.Hussain Rawish said that despite the differences in the cultures of Muslims, some common features were clearly exhibited at the cultural show. He urged the students to play their due role in the development of Pakistan.

By: Ghulam MustafaOn April 29, more than 25 brothers, sisters and kids did the operation Newton Athletic Park cleanup on volun-teer basis under the ICNA & MCNA Kids club organization.It was the great team efforts, which is a very healthy approach and promote volunteerism in our Muslim com-munity. May Allah give them best of reward.(Aameen)

Imran Tipu, B.Sc. Civil EngIn our series of articles for roofi ng and renova-tion solutions, the current sixth article is regarding Garage door installation.Garage Door Installa-tion; Tips for Do-it-yourself and Common Mistakes to AvoidOne aspect of a new construction or reno-vation project is updating the garage door; now a days homeowners often opt for the convenience of a garage door opener, as well. While a manual garage door torsion spring system is adequate for basic un-insulated steel garage door types, an insulated garage door, wood garage door, or elaborate cus-tom garage door may require an overhead garage door opener to handle the added weight. Prices Vary DrasticallyDepending on which type and size door is selected for the project, garage door prices can vary drastically. A basic style utiliz-ing steel garage door panel construction is commonly priced under $400; a basic wood panel garage door for a 2-car garage can be purchased under $600; elaborate custom wood or steel garage doors can range from $1200 and onward. For the basic steel and wood panel styles, expect to add about $100+ to the price for installation.

Choose the Right Garage Door Opener System For an 8-foot garage door, consider at least a minimum lift motor size of 1/3 hp; for a 10 to 12-foot door, at least hp. Garage Door Installation; Diffi -cult, but not ImpossibleGarage door installation may be a mod-erately diffi cult task, but a determined homeowner with some salty mechanical skills will be able to pull it off as a Do- it-yourself project. However, dealing with garage door springs can be very dangerous therefore never attempt the task alone. ALWAYS follow manufacturer instructions and cautionsAll installation kits available include com-plete manufacturers instructions on how to install a garage door safely, and correctly. The most common garage door problem is binding or twisting. Apparent when rollers and tracks show signs of wear, through time; and the door shudders and binds when opening and closing. This is a direct result of improper or incomplete installation. The basic procedure to install a garage door begins with attaching the seal to the bot-tom of the fi rst panel. And then set the fi rst panel levelly in the opening. Once in place, partially drive a couple of nails in each side of the jamb to keep the panel wedged in place. Always Use Lag Screws not nails!

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