The government has decided to elevate State Minister Hina Rabbani Khar to foreign minister. A source told Pakistan Today that President Zardari and the PM had decided in principle to elevate Hina so as the strategic dialogue process with friendly countries, including the US and the UK could go forward.
The source said a formal announcement would soon be made in this regard.
Education and Career:
In 1999, Hina done B.Sc Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences and went on to earn a M.Sc. in Management from the University of Massachusetts in 2001.  She was named to the World Economic Forum’s list of young global leaders in 2008. Hina Rabbani was elected as a member of National Assembly with a ticket from PPP from the constituency of Muzaffargarh, Punjab.

The US and Pakistani officials have expressed that Pakistan vowed to issue more than three dozen visas to CIA officers as part of confidence-building measures after the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a private TV channel claimed the other day.
It further stated the officials said the visas were part of an agreement to rebuild counterterrorism efforts by forming what Pakistani officials call a joint intelligence team.
According to the media reports, the agreement was reached after recent talks in Islamabad between senior US and Pakistani intelligence officials.
The US official said the visas would help replenish CIA staff after some were forced to leave.

Right at the gate entrance to the famous park, there was a big fuss. Alber Elbaz - alias a passionate fan, who was wearing a mask with the designer’s face – was collecting smiles and curiosity by offering the guests a funny welcome.
But the genuine attractions for the photographers’ cameras before the show began were Jade Jagger, Mick Jagger’s daughter, and Rosamund Pike, the British actress starring in Surrogates.
The Lanvin presentation started with the display of a huge willow planted against the setting. And, to emphasize the artistic effects, smoke and air jets were smoothly pumped giving the branches of the weeping willow a clumsy swing.
This was the ingenious mise en scène used by Elbaz to project the look for the new cold season in several stylistic moments. Stern cape coats made of fur, leather or cloth advanced gradually onto the stage followed by a crescendo of the outfits reaching their climax in an explosion of volume and colour.
The austerity of the dark colours shown in the beginning of the collection was considerably sugarcoated by the accessorizing massive floral jewellery. The conspicuous tone of the outfits was set by the overstatingly wide-brimmed hats which artfully fused the Jewish style caps with the fairytale magicians’ hats.
To the end of the défilé, Maison Lanvin surprised us with an inflow of short cocktail dresses gracefully arranged in loose folds. Showing a naked shoulder or reshaping the sleeves of the dresses by volume injections, they were ‘painted’ in colours descending from coral red and electric fuchsia to orange and mustard yellow. The elegance beyond reproach of the evening wear was paired by long leather gloves and rose-shaped bracelets. "I’ve jumped from one extreme to the other. From black to colour. From stern to loose. My finish is always colourful; I end in an optimistic tone because I myself am a very optimistic person”, Alber Elbaz said to me.
Although the theme of the collection was “Back to the Roots”, the general feeling was that Elbaz’s roots went rather for contemporariness. The glow of his clothes looked so present-day that the return to the conservative lines of the past did nothing else but stress the refined touch typical of his style.
Deeply rooted into the fashion industry for well above 100 years, Maison Lanvin convinced the guests to believe, without exception, that its show was indeed the most elegant performance witnessed on the Paris Fashion Week’s runaway. An elegance which rose above time and trends, in particular.

Lindsay Lohan isn't letting her house arrest prevent her from working - she shot a commercial at her apartment earlier this month. The ‘Mean Girls’ actress was sentenced to jail for violating her probation stemming from a 2007 DUI charge by allegedly stealing a necklace from a California jewellery store earlier this year. Lohan has been serving her time under home detention due to prison overcrowding and even invited friends to a rooftop party last week to keep her company in the confines of her property. And the star has also been keeping busy and earning cash by filming an advert for an auction website at her home. A representative for the company claims Lohan was originally offered £15,625 for her role in the commercial, but she turned the offer down before reaching an agreement for an undisclosed sum. It's not the first time Lohan has appeared onscreen since her house arrest - she also recorded a 90-second short film which was shown at the opening of art event Venice Biennale in Italy earlier this month.

  Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is pregnant with her first child, her father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan announced on Twitter on Tuesday. "I am going to become a grandfather Aishwarya expecting. So happy and thrilled!!!" Bachchan said, confirming the subject of weeks of speculation. Rai, 37, a former Miss World, has been married to actor Abhishek Bachchan for more than four years and the star couple had been fending off pregnancy rumors in the past year.
On Tuesday, Rai's media manager confirmed the pregnancy but did not give more details. Rai, who often features on "most beautiful" lists, has worked in several Hollywood and Bollywood films but has taken on noticeably fewer projects recently. She has no films under production but has signed up to filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar's ‘Heroine,’ which was announced at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Google and the various websites it owns were used by more than a billion people for the first time in May. The landmark figure, revealed in new data from ComScore, shows an 8.4 per rise year on year. Microsoft remained the second most popular destination with 905 million unique visitors in May. This was up approximately 15 per cent over the year, but Facebook rose by 30 per cent to 714 million unique users. Yahoo, which was overtaken by Facebook in October, saw an 11 per cent yearly rise to 689 million users.
A “global measurement panel” of 2million users helps ComScore to compile its estimates, and the data is then refined with page-view data it receives from more than 90 of the 100 publishers of web content. Google is one of the few publishers that does not contribute. The company declined to comment.
When ComScore first measured traffic, in 2006, Google had slightly fewer than 500million unique users per month, with Microsoft taking the top spot with 539 million. The addition of users to Gmail and Google has also been helped by the company’s purchase of video site YouTube. Users, however, spend more time on Facebook than Google; the social network’s users browsed the site for 250 billion minutes in May, compared to Google’s 200 billion.

The largest haul of Iron Age coins ever discovered in Britain has been secured for public display at Ipswich Museum. The Wickham Market hoard is made up of 840 coins and is the largest known and most complete Iron Age gold collection in existence. They were made around 2,000 years ago by the Iceni tribe, whose territory covered Norfolk, north Suffolk and parts of Cambridgeshire. The coins were buried about two generations before Iceni warrior queen Boudica led her people in revolt against the Romans in 60 AD. The gold was unearthed by metal detectors in 2008, and the area where they were found was excavated by Suffolk County Council archaeology service. Now the coins are going on display thanks to almost £300,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Art Fund and MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund.
This will prevent the coin collection being broken up between collectors.
Cliff Green, who owns the pasture where the coins were discovered said, “I had no idea there was anything of this significance on my land. A metal-detectorist had been working the fields for a while and had found a few bits and bobs but this was a bolt out of the blue. I am very proud that my land has this historical significance and I am glad the coins can be shared with the wider public.”
As well as being displayed at the museum, people who live in the former Iceni homelands will have the chance to see and learn about the collection, with Norwich Castle Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge set to host a touring exhibition.
Almost all of the coins were issued by Iceni and date from between 20 BC and 20 AD. The hoard also unusually contains five gold coins from the Corieltavi tribe who were based in the East Midlands.
This adds further evidence to the understanding of significant ties between Iceni and Corieltavi and the wider political landscape in an era when tribal identity and loyalty was everything.

All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) spokesman Fawad Chaudhry, commenting on the statement of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Shraif that he would bring all his foreign capital in Pakistan, said the chief minister should end this political jugglery.
He added that if Shahbaz had been sincere enough with this country and people, he should disclose his foreign assets honestly.
APML spokesman Fawad Chaudhry further stated that the APML would appreciate the return of Pakistan’s wealth from foreign accounts back into the country, however the disclosure of Shahbaz Sharif that he possessed Rs 3 billion in foreign accounts was astonishing for the people of Pakistan.

Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) is an international banned organisation, which believes in pan-Islamism with a goal to unify all Muslim countries under caliphate to govern by Islamic law. Since its inception in 1953 at Jerusalem by Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, the organisation has spread to more than 40 countries, with a special focus on the Arab world and the West.
Hizb ut-Tahrir calls for jihad against the West while claiming that it exploits Muslims around the world. It also renounces democracy describing it as an un-Islamic. According to the Hizb ut-Tahrir’s manifesto for Pakistan, it is working for establishing caliphate in the country as an obligation given in sharia. It is feared that the outlawed outfit enjoys sympathy within the society and has penetrated into state apparatus so as to forward its agenda.
Furthermore, it is said that a vast majority of the sympathisers comes from middle and upper middle educated classes, given it an edge to publicise its agenda through digital modes of communication like internet. In a message, available at internet, to the Pakistani armed forces, Hizb ut-Tahrir asked them to topple the government and work for setting up caliphate, as they had the strength and the resources to achieve the aim.
Hizbul tahrir (HT) is a political sect with few Islamic point of views. They see to bringing back the Islamic rulings-Khilafah-(as they proclaim). Due to this ambiguity, many views, that they consider Islamic, were announced by their founder and by their leaders. These views, as we shall see, contradicts Islamic views according to how the companions and their successors-the salaf- understood it.
The founder of this sect is a Palestinian called shaikh Taqiul Deen Al Nabahani who was born in Haifa, Palestine in 1909. He studied in his village, continued at Al Azhar, Cairo’s scientific house, then returned to work as a teacher, then as a judge in many Palestinian cities. After the invasion of the Israelis in 1948, he moved with his family to Lebanon. He started this sect in 1952, and became its leader. He produced few books, papers, and fliers which are counted as the roots for this sect. Since they keep most views and news secret, it is difficult to point out their leaders. Any how, shaikh Al Nabahani dies in 1979; and then Abdul Qadim Zallume, from Palestine as well, took over. He wrote a book called "This is how Khilafa was destroyed". Officially, the sect’s headquarters was established in Lebanon. Shaikh Ahmad Al Da`oor was responsible for sect members in Jordan, and Abdul Rahman Al Maliki (who wrote "the punishment" book) in Syria.
Thoughts And Beliefs: -

1. The goal is to rise a Muslim country. They start with the Arabic speaking countries, and then the non- Arabic speaking ones.
2. The stress is on political issues first, and Islam second. They make sure that the followers of their sect understand this fact, and work by it.
3. The human brain is given more weight than it should. It is known that the human brain are two types - Muslim and atheist -, and the Muslim brain are two types - scholar and the ignorant one, and the scholar brain are two types - "working with the knowledge scholar" and "non-working with the knowledge" scholar. The ignorant has to follow and ask the scholar as Allah SWT says : "and ask the knowledgeable ones if ye know not". The true Muslim, therefore, must put his brain to what Allah and His prophet say; not to put the thoughts above both of them. In this area, the HT failed. One look at the book called "Iman’s path" (Tareequl Imaan) which was written by Al Nabahani would reveal how this sect have been affected by Al Mu’tazilah thoughts in putting the brains above Quran and Sunnah. They let their brains control Quran and Sunnah, and believe in what seems right to them.
4. The sect acts in teaching their members, and to plant the political thoughts into the brains of their followers. In doing so, they "take the millions and educate them altogether, and teach them Islam. They have to stand in front of the crowds to answer their questions, clear their doubts, and stand by them to melt them into Islam" - Essential understanding book, p.78. Further, in doing so, they do political work "by documenting occurrences and facts, by comparing both with Islam and its rulings, and to gain trust of people", Heated call book, p.96.
5. The philosophy of the HT is that every nation lives within two thick boundaries, the boundary of creed and thoughts, and the boundary of laws that govern people’s relations with one another. Therefore, if a nation wants to change its government, they have to concentrate on the outside thoughts (called the outside boundary). This is, then, followed by ousting the government.
6. The sect divides work into three steps as follows :-

1. First step includes the ideological war where the sect makes their thoughts the one to be taken.
2. Second step includes the reaction with the nations by culture and politics in order to complete the exchange of atheist thoughts that was brought in by foreign nations.
3. Third step is to take over power of the Muslim nation. They will ask whoever they see fit to help them with this take over.

7. The sect, in the beginning, put for itself 13 years to reach power, but this failed. So, they set another 30 years to reach power, but this, too, failed.
1. They proclaim that humans do not have spiritual feelings or bodily pleasures, but have instincts that must be fulfilled.
2. Shaikh Taqiul Deen Al Nabahani saw that the problems with raising a Muslim nation are as follows:-

1. Presence of thoughts that are not related to Islam.
2. Presence of educational teaching methods put by the imperialism.
3. Keeping this educational methods even nowadays.
4. Thinking big of other sciences more than its worth.
5. The distance between ruling body of Muslims, and the Muslims themselves. This is clear in politics and in monetary matters. The ruling body in Muslim countries depend on democracy, and not on Islam.
6. The thoughts of the Muslims is directed towards patriotism, nationalism, and communism.
7. Islamic nations do not live an Islamic life.

10. It is prohibited on the sect’s members to think of grave’s tortures and the appearance of the lair messiah. Whoever think these nonsense is in great mischief.
1. The leaders of this sect see that they should not enter into asking to do good, and prevent evil-doings because it may interfere with their present work. These will be done later when the Islamic nation starts.
2. The sect has a constitution that is made up of 187 sections waiting to be implemented whence the Islamic state starts. The constitution, however, is far from reality.
3. In the beginning, the sect concentrated its efforts on spreading in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon; then to other Islamic countries. Now, they have spread their sects in non-Muslim countries such as Germany, Austria, and Britain.
4. They use the word "state" to name the countries they work in. Every "state" is chaired by a committee called "state’s committee" which is formed from 3-10 members. All "state committees" follow the central leadership office.
5. They used to have a newspaper called "Al hadharah" (Modernization) that used to be published in Beirut, Lebanon.
6. The founder of this sect, shaikh Al Nabahani, had nationalistic thoughts. He published a book in 1950 called "Arab’s letters" where he explained how the Arabs should be leaders in the first place, then other Muslims.
7. He was in contact with the "Ikhwan group" in Jordan, but later decided to start his own sect. He was asked by many to change his views (such as Shaikh Sayyed Qutb), but shaikh Al Nabahani refused; and therefore Shaikh Sayyed Qutb said his famous sentence : "Let them they will end from where we started".
8. They get in trouble most of the time due to their aggressive behaviors towards people who live with them and due to their ideas to reach governments. This made rulers keep an eye on them, and imprison them or destroy them. Their thoughts are limited in changing governments, and they use some parts of Islamic teachings that fits them for this matter (as will be seen).

Islamically Speaking: -

1. The sect’s limited Islamic education make them think that educating people of their goals will make them interact with them, and will help the sect into reaching their goals and power. They forgot Allah’s Sunnah in testing people who call for Islam, and forgot the realities of thousand obstacles that faces them.
2. They organized verses and sentences according to having definite clues or speculative clues. They said that if one finds a verse in the Holy Quran which is definite, but has speculative meanings; then it should not be taken into creed. The reverse is true (no definite clues, but has correct meanings). This was not the understanding of the salaf, as was pointed out in the beginning. This is found in their older books, even though they are trying to change it now.
3. On the same token, they say that prophet’s hadith should be the same, and further, it should come from many, not just one narrator (i.e. it has to be coming by "tawator" not "aahaad"). This means that aahaad hadiths are not taken into their Islamic belief. We know that, for example, prophet Mohammed PBUH sent many messengers alone to Yemen in order to spread the word of Islam (Ali Bin Abi Taalib, Mu’aadh Bin Jabal, and Abi Mousa Al Ash’ari). He, PBUH, told Mu’aadh (alone) : "Let be the first thing you tell those people is to bear witness that there is no god but Allah". Who doubts this first belief in Islam ? No one. Did the message of Islam reach the Yamanis ? Yes. Are they accountable if they do not believe in Allah’s Oneness ? Yes. But, according to the beliefs of HT, the Yamanis are not accountable. The reason is that the companion Mu’aadh Bin Jabal went alone to Yemen. He might be forgetful, he might be a lair, or he may make a mistake. Was this the belief of Al salaf ? No. Allah SWT says : "They follow only jest". Where did this idea come from ? the closest ones who believe this way are the Khawaarij’s and the Mu’tazilah. There was a person from HT who went to Japan to spread the sect’s beliefs there. One of the sections he talked about was that he does not believe in the aahaad hadiths, and that the Muslims made a mistake in this area (he was trying to get the Japanese sympathy). Among the audience, there was a smart Japanese student who told this HT member to return to where he came from, and come back with many members of HT sect because he is alone (singular), and what he is saying could be a lie, fiction, or that he made a mistake.
4. The sect came up with many legislatures (Fatwah) which contradicted Islam. Of these are :-

1. To look at porno pictures is permitted.
2. To kiss a foreign woman with or without lust is permitted.
3. Women could be congressmen, and non-Muslims could be members in the congress.
4. Women could wear tight trousers and wigs, and can disobey her husband any time she wishes to.
5. A Muslim country leader could be a non-Muslim, and the Muslim country may pay taxes to non-Muslim countries.
6. Muslims can fight under leadership of non-Muslim country with its soldiers.
7. No prayers for the Muslim space man. No prayers nor fasting for the north and south pole’s inhabitants.
8. Jailing 10 years for the one who marries those who Allah forbade to marry.
9. One could fly, drive, or use the ship for traveling as long as the contract is made with a foreign country’s vessel company. But one should not make a contract with a Muslim country because they are not good to make contracts with.
10. And many more.

 

Some Of Their Publications :-

1. Political moves encyclopedia (2 parts) - Fathi Yakan - 1983.
2. Al Dousiyyah - Sect’s main book.
3. This is how khilafah was destroyed - Abdul Qadeem Zallum
4. Contemporary Islamic thoughts - Ghazi Al Tawbah - 1969.
5. Palestinian encyclopedia - Milan, Italy - 1984.
6. The way to Muslim’s group - Hussain Jabir - 1984.
7. Problems with the call and callers to Islam - Fathi Yakan -1974.
8. Constitutional points given to Al Khomeini and expert committee - 1979.
9. Many books by their leader, Al Nabahani, including - Islamic thoughts, Islamic order, ruling in Islam, understanding HT politics, sect body, point of start, the thought book, and man others.
10. And finally, a small HT booklet, published in Arabic on May 9^th, 1985, which explains the goals and policies of the sect. Some points are chosen for the reader to think about. They start, on page 5, to say that HT is political sect. Politics is its work, and Islam is its base (should be Islam is its work). This is mentioned many times in the booklet, but on p.28; it is mentioned clearly that they take from Islam as much as they see fit for their sect’s ideologies. On p. 25, it says that the sect’s work is not to educate or guide !!! On p.26, it says that Islamic creed is a brain creed; i. e. whatever is not acceptable by the brain, it is not taken into belief. This, as we explained, is their belief, and the booklet is full of such things.

At a time when the government is taking desperate measures to bridge the fiscal deficit by offering exchangeable bonds of Rs50 billion of its blue chip entity Oil and Gas Development Corporation Limited, the auditors have pointed out that the lethargy of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in auctioning available frequencies during the last calendar year has resulted in a massive loss of Rs67 billion to the national exchequer.
This was revealed by the Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) in the audit report 2010-11 on the accounts telecommunication sector. The report reveals that due to sluggishness on part of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the national exchequer sustained a loss of Rs67 billion as the PTA failed to carry out auction process causing huge loss to government kitty despite frequencies made available by the Frequency Allocation Board (FAB) in January 2010. “PTA presented proposal regarding auction of available Wireless Local Loop (WLL) spectrum in 1900 MHz Band during the 35th meeting held on January 11, 2010. The board approved the auction of the available spectrum of 5 MHz (1885-1890/1965-1970 MHz) in all 14 telecom regions, 10 MHz in NTR-II and 15 MHz in HTR in 1900 MHz Band.
The Board further approved the requirement of Pakistan Army to be considered in other frequency bands to meet their future requirements; and it was further decided that the committee already formulated on agenda item 3, will also set base price for auction of this spectrum within 30 days,” says the report.
The AGP pointed out that the available WLL spectrum in 1900 MHz was not auctioned as decided in the Board meeting which resulted into loss of Rs66,112 million (around 66 billion) to national exchequer. “The decision of the Board was not implemented within 30 days. The loss was calculated on the basis of previous auction of WLL frequencies.
The FAB made these frequencies available for auction but PTA did not carry out the auction process causing loss to national exchequer,” the report adds. The report points out towards another similar case where the government sustained a loss of Rs1,048 million (around 1 billion) due to non-auction of available WLL spectrum in 3.4-3.6 GHZ band and the PTA also refused to produce the record before audit authorities. “In this case too, the FAB made these frequencies available for auction but PTA did not carry out the auction process causing loss to national exchequer,” the report says.

The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) activists on Tuesday celebrated the 58th birth anniversary of Benazir Bhutto (BB) in Lahore by donating blood for Pakistan Army.
A blood camp was arranged by the Punjab PPP in collaboration with the Sundas Foundation at Charring Cross in front of the Punjab Assembly where dozens of party workers and members of provincial assembly donated blood all day.
According to the organisers of the camp, blood collected from blood camps throughout the province would be donated to the Pak Army, busy defending the country at internal as well as external fronts. The party leaders said that the PPP’s practice of donating blood was exemplary and other parties must follow it.
Meanwhile, cake-cutting ceremonies were separately held at the Governor’s House, PPP provincial headquarters, the offices of auxiliary bodies and at the residences of different party office bearers on Tuesday.
Talking to reporters after the cake-cutting ceremony at the PPP provincial headquarters, PPP President Imtiaz Safdar Waraich said BB was a great leader who promoted a culture of political tolerance and signed agreements like Charter of Democracy with those who filed fake cases against her.
He said no political leader in the sub-continent was as widely mourned as BB. He said PPP workers were happy to celebrate BB’s birthday but were also sad as she was no more among them. BB struggled for the common man and always shared sorrows of the poor, said the chairman, adding that she always practiced politics of the federation instead of any province.
Praising BB’s services for the nation, Waraich said she promoted national unity to strengthen the country. Several PPP leaders and workers including Punjab PPP General Secretary Samiullah Khan, Finance Secretary Aurang Zeb Barki, Deputy General Secretary Usman Malik, Deputy Information Secretary Iqbal Sialvi, Advisor to prime minister for youth affairs Mian Ayub, Hasnat Shah, Sami Ullah Durrani, Allama Yousuf Awan, Altaf Qureshi, Chaudhary Yaqoob Kamahan, Karamat Khokhar, Sohail Malik, Shamim Niazi, Aslam Gil, Malik Ehsan Ganjial, Fahim Thakur and Rai Tahir were also present.
At the Governor’s House, Governor Latif Khosa cut BB’s birth anniversary cake. Addressing the occasion, Khosa said that BB’s sacrifices for the democracy would never be forgotten. A large number of party workers and leaders attended the ceremony.
Employees of the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETBP), in a separate ceremony, offered special prayers for BB and praised her services for the nation and democracy. ETPB executive engineer Khursheed Toor, People's Labour Bureau Information Secretary Muhammad Saleem Mughal and PPP Zone 140 President Muhammad Afzal Butt were also present.

A court in Bahrain on Wednesday convicted 21 prominent activists, most of them leaders of the majority Shiite community, of conspiring to overthrow the government during anti-government protests this year and sentenced them to long jail terms. Eight of the men were sentenced to life in prison by a special military court. Ibrahim Sharif, a secular Sunni Muslim who had joined the Shiites in calling for constitutional reform, was sentenced to five years. The monarchy has accused the men of working with Iran to overthrow the government. Of the 21 sentences, seven were handed down in absentia, mostly to men thought to be in Britain. The defendants pumped their fists in the air and shouted “peacefully,” as guards dragged them away from the courtroom, Reuters reported from Manama, the capital, citing people who attended the trial. The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that court ruling was not final and that the accused have a right to appeal within 15 days. The statement said representatives of human rights organizations in Bahrain attended the session, as did representatives of local and foreign media and a number of relatives of the accused.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has said that suicide attacks are taking place in the country due to continuation of one-man policy.
“Pakistan borders are being violated. Drone planes fly from inside Pakistan and launch attacks. But government is deceiving the people. Hypocrisy is being practiced. Eye is blinked to US on drone attacks implying do whatever it wills. Suicide attacks and terrorist acts are taking place due to one-man policy in the country”, PML-N chief said this while addressing a public meeting here Wednesday.
He alleged that 150 billion dollars are provided to Pakistan under the Kerry Lugar Bill but corruption to the extent of Rs 500 billion to 700 billion is being committed.
Guard of honor should not be presented to those who abrogated constitution, he said adding their hands instead be broken.Chief of his own faction Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday decried the PPP government for having established double standards in the US-led war against terrorism, saying that US drones fly from nowhere but the Pakistani soil, report said. Addressing a rally in Palandri, he said country’s sovereignty was at stake and its future could be terrible. The friends of the present government are plundering this country, he alleged. He lashed out at those who violated constitution and courts. Nawaz said Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the then prime minister of India, had assured him that the Kashmir issue would be resolved by the year 1999 but Musharraf embarked on the Kargil war and brought a bad name to Pakistan.

PML-Q legislator Marvi Memon has resigned from National Assembly (NA) seat.
Sources said that Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain had expressed his grave concerns over the activities being pursued by Marvi Memon since last two months as she not only met PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan but also participated in sit-ins besides giving statements against party policy. She was served show cause notices twice but she did not give reply to these notices.
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain had directed Marvi Memon to resign from the seat of the National Assembly; therefore, she handed over her resignation to NA speaker Fahmida Mirza a day earlier.
The sources added that PML-Q leadership had already decided to expel Marvi Memon from party and finalised the name of new legislator in her place.
PML-Q has decided to elect Tanzeela Aamir Cheema, daughter-in-law of federal minister Chaudhry Anwar Ali Cheema, on the reserved seats of women in the assembly.

Four army majors are being questioned in Pakistan in connection with a brigadier who was detained over links to the banned Hizbut Tehrir group, an army spokesman said on Wednesday.
Military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told Reuters the men had been questioned but had not been detained.“They are being questioned in relation to the brigadier case,” he said.
The arrest of Brigadeir — the highest-ranking officer held in a decade — has raised fears about the growth in the military of the group which sees Pakistan as a powerful base for the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate.