Dozens dead in Pakistan clashes

Pakistani police intensify the spread in the locations that saw a suicide attack in Peshawar

Dozens were killed in clashes between troops and militants in Pakistan's tribal border area with Afghanistan, north-west of the country Tuesday, while killing at least ten people work in sectarian violence in the city of Karachi in southern Pakistan.

He said Pakistani security officials said fighting erupted when militants attacked a security post in the province honored tribal Joji near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.

The officials said that at least ten soldiers were killed and 32 others wounded, while 40 militants were killed and 30 wounded after the Pakistani military forces to respond and call the military helicopters to support the troops.

The military official said a local that more than 300 Taliban attacked a control center in the middle of last night, the army said the Taliban did not succeed in driving out paramilitary elements of the checkpoint that was held recently on this road "used by rebels on a regular basis" to go to the Kurram Agency in the north Waziristan, a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban.

Chen and Pakistani army troops backed by air force operations against militants in the area of ​​generosity since the beginning of this year, and the fighting is concentrated particularly in the area of ​​Joji, killing four soldiers and at least 30 militants in clashes last week's capabilities.

Taliban and Pakistan based group allied with al Qaeda and the Taliban - who are fighting foreign forces in Afghanistan - in the tribal areas in north-eastern Pakistan.

And ended in a series of attacks by the military failed, and failed to break the power of the group, did not achieve a preliminary peace talks between Pakistan and the Taliban made little progress so far, and previous peace agreements have failed to improve the level of security.

Sectarian violence

In the city of Karachi, the economic capital of Pakistan, police said today that at least 10 people were killed within 24 hours in political violence - religious.

She explained that among the victims wife and daughter of a lawyer in the province of Baluchistan in the southwest, where the mother and daughter returning home from a wedding last night when they were intercepted by unknown car on motorcycles and opened fire on them killing the driver as well.

Said Sharafuddin Memon, a senior official at the Interior Ministry in the state of the bond that "some were killed for religious reasons", in reference to the killing of Shiites by Sunni extremists, particularly in Karachi.

The security official in the city that these acts of violence that killed 25 people, mostly Shiites, including three lawyers and two doctors within a week.

Recorded and assassinations carried out by armed criminal gangs because of political differences, ethnic and sectarian regularly in this city with a population of more than 18 million people.

The Pakistani non-governmental organizations, said about 100 people died in 2011 in Karachi by the acts of violence, including 100 in one week in October / November last year.

Dozens dead in Pakistan clashes

Killing at least 20 members of the Taliban in Pakistan army air strike

Pakistani army continues its military operations against Taliban

Pakistani military announced that at least 20 members of Pakistan's Taliban movement were killed on Wednesday in army shelling of the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan stronghold of these Alemtemrdihn the Islamists and the main sanctuary for al Qaeda in the world.



Targeting in the Orakzai tribal hideouts of the Taliban, Pakistan, the main responsible for the wave of attacks - especially suicide bombings - which killed about five thousand people in each country during more than four years.



Said a senior official in the army on condition of anonymity, told AFP: "We have four strongholds were destroyed and could be a toll greater than that." And can not verify the tolls that are declared by the military operations against Islamist insurgents, preventing journalists from reaching the tribal areas, mostly under the control of the Taliban.



The raid targeted an air fighter stronghold of rebels under the leadership of Mullah and Mullah flood Mohiuddin known that they were from Pakistan, Taliban leaders. He said another official said killed 20 people, at least until time "indicated some of the information to the death of Mohiuddin in the raid." The tribal areas of northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan when a Taliban stronghold and haven for allies of al Qaeda and a rear base for the Taliban's Afghanistan mission.

Killing at least 20 members of the Taliban in Pakistan army air strike

Pakistan: 40 dead, "one Taliban" in combat and 11 in sectarian violence

Taliban fighters in Pakistan's Orakzai

Killed at least 11 people by the sectarian violence in Karachi, as many as 40 of the "Taliban" were killed in clashes with army troops from West Pakistan.
An official at the Interior Ministry Sharafuddin Memon, yesterday, said that 11 "at least one person killed in assassinations in the early hours of the ¯ 24 last," adding that "some were killed for religious reasons", in reference to the killing of members of the Shiite minority at the hands of Sunni extremists, especially in Karachi, Pakistan's economic capital.
He explained that among the dead wife of the local council of the city and his daughter, a doctor and three-movement activists, "MQM".
It is noteworthy that Karachi is witnessing a continuous wave of violence claiming the lives of dozens, that does not work with the imposition of curfew for long periods in reducing this phenomenon.
Competing party "the people" movement "of migrant nationalism" and "the Islamic Group," Pakistan Movement "MQM" for influence in the city, note that the latter have a widespread influence.
In the north-west Pakistan, killing at least ten soldiers and wounded 32 others, while killing 40 of the "Taliban" and 30 wounded in clashes erupted after rebels attacked a military checkpoint.
The military said in a statement that he was forced to send helicopters to support troops in the battles that took place in the Kurram tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
He pointed out that the movement did not succeed in driving out the elements of the paramilitary checkpoint, which was held recently, on the road "used by rebels on a regular basis," to go to the Kurram Agency in North Waziristan, the stronghold of the "Taliban" Pakistan.
On the other hand, approved of President Barack Obama, the day before yesterday, that he is waging strikes by drones against "Al Qaeda" in Pakistan, now that Washington refrain until the present time to confirm this officially raids.
During the question and answer session with the pioneers of the Internet on my site "Google" and "YouTube", Obama's response to a question on the use of his drones by saying "Of course, many of these strikes targeting the tribal areas" north-west Pakistan.
He explained that these "operations have generally been targeted precisely against" Al Qaeda "and its allies, adding," There is a belief that we are fighting a lot of strikes at random, it targets specific actions, directed against the persons included on the list of terrorists and seeking exposure to the Americans. "
He stressed the need that "everyone understands that it be supervised very closely."

Pakistan: 40 dead, "one Taliban" in combat and 11 in sectarian violence

Haqqani fled from Pakistan after the lifting of the ban by the Supreme Court

Husain Haqqani

Former Pakistani ambassador rushed in Washington, Husain Haqqani Tuesday to leave the country after the Supreme Court lifted a travel ban that was imposed on it.

Haqqani and arrived to the Benazir Bhutto International Airport under heavy security guard, without giving any statements to the media.

Haqqani and left Islamabad in the early hours of Tuesday morning on a flight with Etihad Airways to United Arab Emirates on his way to Abu Dhabi, and from there to the United States.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has allowed the Haqqani yesterday to travel abroad on a petition filed by lawyer Asma Jahangir entrusted to him paid by the sons of her client that the residents abroad, and that he should be allowed to visit them.

The Haqqani, a key figure in the scandal, "Memo Gate", which erupted last month, and caused great strain between the civilian government and powerful military establishment in Pakistan after it was attributed to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari ordered that a confidential memo to the United States requesting from Washington to support his intention to change the leadership of the army and to include intelligence officers loyal to him and to the West.

Haqqani fled from Pakistan after the lifting of the ban by the Supreme Court

Mysterious illness killed 27 people in Lahore, Pakistan

Mysterious illness killed 27 people in Lahore, Pakistan

27 Pakistanis died after a mysterious illness after eating their pain medication was distributed free to nearly 25 thousand people in the city of Lahore, while still more than 100 people remained in hospitals and the state of 50 of them dangerous.

According to Pakistani media yesterday that the drug was distributed free of over 25 thousand patients, but 30% brought him back.

The head of the mark Iqbal Medical Institute, Dr. Jawad Akram during a press conference that 27 people have died of a mysterious illness suffered after taking the free medicines while 105 others were injured and at least 50 of them in serious condition.

He called Akram and connect each of the drug to stop eating it immediately.

With the finger and sent to the Institute of Cardiology in Punjab, said that the drug dealer, a preliminary investigation has cleared him.

The Minister of Health Jhanzab Khan channel "minimum News" it will take firm action against those responsible for what happened.

Mysterious illness killed 27 people in Lahore, Pakistan

Height of the victims of counterfeit medicines in Pakistan by 117 people

Height of the victims of counterfeit medicines in Pakistan by 117 people

Continue to fall victims of fake drugs amid investigations and dismissal of the Punjab government for a number of officials, where he died three
Patients with heart disease because these drugs are suspected in Lahore, bringing the total number of casualties to 117 dead in four weeks.

The channel (Sky TV) reports that Pakistan's reported that three women died in the Punjab Institute of Cardiology on Sunday.
Medical sources said that these Pakistani women died because of the low number of platelets and white blood cells after a suspected drug abuse, which dismissed them from the Institute of heart disease.
The Prime Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has been suspended from work on Saturday, three officials of the Ministry of Health, blaming them of responsibility for those fake drugs and caused the deaths.

Height of the victims of counterfeit medicines in Pakistan by 117 people

Killed the leader of a banned group in Pakistan suicide attack

Pakistan suicide attack

Killed four people, one leader of the «Ansar al-Islam» rebel banned Akhundzada Hajj and seven others wounded in an attack by a suicide bomber in the area of ​​Baja near Peshawar Ghulam major cities in northwest Pakistan's tribal.

Police said the bomber arrived on foot to a house under construction is due to the movement's leader, noting that the group «Ansar al-Islam» taken from the Khyber tribal region, located between Peshawar and the Afghan border-based, and always engage in community with «-e-Taiba» rebel.

Pakistan has seen in four and a half years, hundreds of bloody attacks, mostly suicide and attributed to the movement «Taliban» condemning strategic alliance with Islamabad and Washington. The attacks resulted in the fall of more than 4,800 people. But the number of attacks declined in recent months.

In the province of Cram (North West), killed 6 militants, at least others were injured in a security operation against insurgents were deployed in several regions of the Cram, and also saw the destruction of the security forces caches of insurgents using the latest heavy weapons, and regained control of the regions of Jogi and Markhan Kando.

On the other hand, calmed the Supreme Court tensions resulting from the crisis, raising the authorities note a request for assistance the U.S. military in addressing the leadership of the Pakistani army, the worst in the relations between the civilian government and the military since the coup in 1999, it lifted the travel ban imposed since December (December) last Former Pakistani ambassador in Washington, Husain Haqqani. And decided a panel of nine judges, that Haqqani has the right to travel outside Pakistan, but to tell the Supreme Court formed a committee to investigate in the note, his plans in advance.

Haqqani and commented on the decision, saying: «I am pleased that the Supreme Court restored my right to travel after it was canceled without charge to the». He added: «I will join my family in the United States after consultations with the leaders of the People's Party».

Haqqani had returned to Pakistan in November (November) amid the outbreak of the crisis resulted from the alleged businessman Mansoor Ijaz that a senior Pakistani diplomatic note to the request for extradition and the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon). And the subsequent resignation from office Haqqani.

There was no evidence that the military orchestrated a coup, and called the U.S. Department of Defense memo as «no credibility». But the scandal has threatened in the following weeks to become a full-blown conflict between the military and civilian leadership, a crisis of Pakistan can not afford.

It was due to make a miracle testified before the inquiry this month, but he did not come to Pakistan because of security concerns, said constitutional expert Salman Akram Raja, said that «rejected miracles make a personal testimony and a demand to raise the level of insurance has angered the court, and has reduced his credibility.

Killed the leader of a banned group in Pakistan suicide attack

Prime Minister of Pakistan hints at the possibility of early elections

Prime Minister of Pakistan

Hinted at Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to the possibility of an early general election to be held at any time be agreed upon after the presentation of the budget of the Federal.

Gilani said - Speaking to reporters who met Sunday night at the official residence after his return from Davos, where he represented his country at the World Economic Forum: The timing of new elections will be agreed with the opposition parties and allies as and when required. "

Gilani said that the government will talk with the opposition to build a consensus on the bill on the constitutional amendment of 20 ".

Commenting on the statement made by the parliamentary opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, that the opposition will not engage in dialogue with the Government on the proposed bill, Gilani said: The leader of the opposition make statements consistent with the role.

Gilani and warned that no place in the political life of the establishment of buffer walls but to build bridges .. Emphasizing the need to establish a dialogue between the government and the opposition on all issues.

He added: We want to hold free, fair and transparent, because the smooth transition of power will establish a tradition of emulation in the future.

He continued by saying that President Asif Zardari will address a joint session of Parliament in a timely manner "during the first week of February" .. He pointed out that Zardari would then be the first president to address a joint session of Parliament for the fifth time.

The Prime Minister noted that the government drew up last year to the ability to view the next budget in May and can thus allow more time for MPs to discuss issues pertaining to their constituencies.

It is noteworthy that the 20 proposed amendment to the Constitution, which aims to create new regions receive strong opposition from nationalists in the southern province of Sindh, where they see that it will allow the government amended the old frontiers of territories without consultation with the regions concerned.

The Pakistan People's Party supports the establishment of the territory Srajka South Punjab and Hazara region in the north-west.

Prime Minister of Pakistan hints at the possibility of early elections

Pakistan's Supreme stretched out investigation into the scandal Zardari memorandum of America

Pakistani President Asif Zardari

Approved by Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday to extend the time frame set for the Judiciary Committee to investigate the circumstances of the scandal, secret memo, which was attributed to Pakistani President Asif Zardari that he is prepared for the United States requesting from Washington to support his intention to change the leadership of the army and intelligence services to include officers loyal to him and to the west, another two months to allow them to complete the investigation into the controversy over the alleged note.
Today I met a body of 9 members headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to consider the petitions of three different one from the judicial committee in charge of investigating the note and seek to extend the deadline for the completion of its work.
These formed the Judicial Committee on 30 December last year with a mandate to complete the investigation into the controversy on that note one month, the Committee was unable to complete its work due to the non-appearance of the American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, a key figure in raising the scandal, for it to be heard, the Commission submitted a request to the Supreme Court to extend the deadline granted to them.
It also allowed the court today to former Pakistani ambassador in Washington Husain Haqqani to travel abroad on a petition filed by lawyer Asma Jahangir entrusted to him paid by the sons of her client that the residents abroad, and that he should be allowed to visit him.
She said that "her client will appear before the court when telling him so," and, accordingly, the court allowed for Hussain Haqqani to travel abroad after he was banned from leaving the country on the orders of a former Supreme Court.
The scandal (Memo Gate) last month, a major cause of tension between the civilian government. And the powerful military establishment in Pakistan after attributed to Pakistani President Asif Zardari that he is prepared, it was said that Ambassador Haqqani and Mansoor Ijaz played a mediating role between the U.S. Administration, Zardari .. The scandal led to the dismissal of Ambassador Haqqani, under pressure from the Pakistani military leadership.

Pakistan's Supreme stretched out investigation into the scandal Zardari memorandum of America

Nawaz Sharif, he is willing to resign in support of efforts to overthrow the government of Pakistan

Nawaz Sharif

Head of the Muslim League and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the former that his party is ready to respond to the demands of some political parties in Pakistan's other opposition party members to submit their resignation from the Federal Parliament, provided that this will help in overthrowing the government of President Asif Ali Zardari.

This came in a press statement made by Nawaz Sharif in the city of "Bear Cote" in the Sindh province of South-East Pakistan, according to the ABS, "a. T. Y" News Pakistan's own, as explained Nawaz Sharif that the current government stands in the way of application of the system Democrats face right in Pakistan, saying the current government is the main cause of the crises taking place in Pakistan at the present time, and must apply all of the Federal Supreme Court decisions, because it is abstaining from the obstacle in the implementation of true democratic system in Pakistan.

This came in commenting on the decision of the Federal Supreme Court on call Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on the 19th of January, to a court of law to explain the reasons for its application to a court decision issued in 2009 on the abolition of the National Reconciliation Act, which enabled a number of politicians to return to Pakistan, including including President Asif Ali Zardari and his late wife, Benazir Bhutto, without exposure to the issues that were waiting in the judiciary of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif said his party is working to implement real democratic system in Pakistan. In the context of this case revealed the Pakistani media local as in step a quiet decided to lead the Pakistan People's Party (NDP), which met at the presidential palace, headed by President Asif Ali Zardari approved on the appearance of the Prime Minister before the Court, noted that in case of refusal to appear would not stay in front of the court no choice but to national convicted of treason, of its failure to implement the decisions of the court as the chief executive.

Amid this development informed President Asif Ali Zardari, the leaders of parties in the ruling coalition that the development of relations between the government and the military is gradually improving, he said in his speech to his allies in the government that his party did not support the creation of tension between the national institutions. For their part, political analysts commented in the Pakistani press on the developments, saying that he had noted that the government of President Asif Ali Zardari of dealing wisely with internal pressure, and that its decision on the Prime Minister to appear before the courts - contrary to customary among Pakistani politicians - indicates that the government responsive to judicial decisions. They expected to submit Pakistani Prime Minister apologized in court during the hearing.

Nawaz Sharif, he is willing to resign in support of efforts to overthrow the government of Pakistan

Pakistani Interior: Musharraf's arrest if he returns

Pervez Musharraf

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Wednesday that the Pakistani authorities will arrest the former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in the event of his return to Pakistan, as announced after three years in voluntary exile.
The owner of the Shura Council of Pakistan «I assure the Council that he would be arrested if the distinguished landing on the territory of Pakistan, as it is classified as a wanted criminal to justice». He added that «there are three cases registered against him and was named in these cases, and then arrested».
In a word, over the phone, delivered by Musharraf during a rally in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, on the eighth of January, he promised the former governor to return to his country in the period between the seventh and twenty and thirty of January to contest the general elections expected to take place later this year .
Musharraf had seized power in 1999 in the third military coup witnessed in Pakistan, to become the fourth military ruler of the country.
However, it was forced to leave the presidency in August 2008 after the formation of Pakistan People's Party government in the aftermath of the elections.
The court issued an order in October, his arrest for the killing of rebel leader Akbar Bugti in Balochistan province, south west of the country during a raid carried out by the army in 2006.
Also issued by another court in February of last year, a warrant of arrest for the killing of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in a huge explosion in 2007.
On the other hand, said a lawyer for the Pakistani government, on Wednesday, she can ask Switzerland to return to open an investigation of corruption against President Asif Ali Zardari also ordered the judiciary, but he enjoys immunity as head of state.
Geelani's lawyer said that the best pride «writing a letter to Swiss authorities is not a problem», pointing out that the Prime Minister may be subject to pressure the judiciary and directs the message to the Swiss.
The «But Asif Ali Zardari had full immunity in Pakistan and abroad under his head».
In March / March 2010, considered the Prosecutor of the Geneva Convention, which was the Swiss case against Zardari in 2008 that the «impossible» re-open the file because of that immunity.
In December 2009, the Supreme Court overturned the amnesty decree issued in 2007 exempts the next President Zardari at the time of prosecution for corruption, especially in the case of embezzlement of public funds from bank accounts in Switzerland. The court accused the government of failing to act for the resumption of prosecutions.
And increasing pressure on the Supreme Court Gilani, reinforcing pressure on the heads of state and government accuses the press and public opinion of corruption and abuse of power and run the risk of anti-strong army against the backdrop of a severe economic crisis.
Although the army has ruled out the possibility of a coup, analysts expect this to result in pressure on the government to early elections this year.

Pakistani Interior: Musharraf's arrest if he returns

Mansoor Ijaz

Mansoor Ijaz

Calmed down in the Supreme Court of Pakistan tensions in the worst crisis facing the country in the relations between the civilian government and the military since the coup in 1999 after lifting a travel ban imposed on the former ambassador in Washington has angered military leaders after the emergence of a suspicious note.

The Supreme Court had banned Ambassador Hussein Haqqani, from leaving the country in December, a check in the memo that requested U.S. help to rein in the military leaders of Pakistan after the U.S. operation that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan in May last year.

And decided a panel of nine judges on Monday that the right to travel outside Haqqani, Pakistan, but by the news that the Supreme Court formed a committee to investigate the note with his plans in advance.

Haqqani told Reuters after the decision, "I am pleased that the Supreme Court restored my right to travel, which was canceled without charge to me."

He added, "I will join my family in the United States after consultations with the leaders of Pakistan People's Party."

And highlighted the scandal known as the "scandal of note" strained relations between the civilian governments of Pakistan and the military forces over the decades.

Haqqani and returned to Pakistan in November of last year amid the crisis broke out when he claimed the businessman Mansoor Ijaz in October, a senior Pakistani diplomat that the extradition request and the memorandum to the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon). He resigned from the post of Ambassador Haqqani after his return to Pakistan.

Ijaz said later that the diplomat is Haqqani, who denies any connection with the note. There was no evidence that the army was plotting a coup and called the U.S. Defense Department memo at the time that they have lost credibility.

But in the months following the scandal that threatened to turn into a full-blown conflict between the civilian leadership and military unrest which Pakistan can not afford. It was due to make a Ejaz testified before the inquiry in January, but did not come to Pakistan because of what he said were security concerns.

Said Salman Akram Raja, a constitutional expert said Ijaz refused to give evidence in person and demand to raise the level of insurance has angered the court and reduced the credibility

Mansoor Ijaz

Former Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani

Husain Haqqani

The United States urged Islamabad to ensure "fair treatment" of the former Pakistani Ambassador Hussein Haqqani, accused of giving the Americans a note asking them to prevent the army from coming to power.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department Victoria Nuland, told reporters, "We hope that all measures are designed to solve Ambassador Haqqani put fairly and transparently and in the shortest possible time limits (...) In the framework of respect for international standards."

She added, "watching the situation carefully."

After this case, dubbed "Memoget", I asked Haqqani, the Pakistani government to resign and ordered an investigation. And invited the former ambassador, who denies his involvement in this case to appear before the court.

And requests the classified document delivered to U.S. help Washington to prevent a possible coup, the army after the operation carried out by a private American force killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in northern Pakistan in the second of May last.

Accused of a large part of the parties to the case of President Asif Ali Zardari that he wrote the note.

Former Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani

Pakistan Suicide Bombing Kills 80

Emergency has been declared in Peshawar hospitals as relief efforts are underway.
At least 80  people were killed and hundreds of others were injured when two suicide bombers ripped through an FC centre in Shabqadar area of Charsadda on Friday.

Talking to the media in Shabqadar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa senior minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour said that 80 people were killed in the twin suicide bombing. He said that the officials should have not been dispatched in a group owing to present security situation. He said that no pressure would be accepted on the national interests.

According to Charsadda Deputy Superintendent of Police Jehanzeb Khan, the bombers came to the FC centre on motorcycles and blew themselves up at the main gate where 35 personnel were on duty.

The explosions detonated as 818 newly trained cadets were getting into buses and coaches for a 10-day leave after their course, and they were wearing civilian clothes, FC commandant Officer Akbar Hoti said. He said nine officials are in serious condition.

“At least 80  people have been killed," Charsadda District Police Officer Nisar Khan Marwat said, adding that the suicide bombers were two in number. At least 8-10 kilogrammes of explosive material was used in the blasts, he said.

At least 70  victims were the Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel, he said, adding that five civilians were also among the dead. At least 19 dead bodies and 119 injured were brought to the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.

At least 12 vehicles and 15 shops also destroyed in the blasts, Marwat said.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistani has accepted the responsibility of the suicide attack.

Pakistan Suicide Bombing Kills 80