For the last four years he had opted to stay out of PPP Zardari and Gilani Group and instead gained many LPG Licenses in the name of his wife to become a multi millionare and that objective that objetcive he has gained.In my personal opinion he had been playing a double game, defying the constitution and all moral values.He hAD ONCE ANNOUNCE THAT HE WILL NEVER APPEAR BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF cHOUDHARY iFTIKHAR BECAUSE HE PRESUMES HIMSELF THE KEY FIGURE TO GET GET THE PRESENT SUPREME COURT RESTORED BY JOINING NAWAZ SHARIFF'S CAMAPAIGN TO GET THE COURT RESTORED. I am convinced that Aitazzaz Ahsan himself the main organ of corruption in this country who had bowed before the highly corrupt and criminal of Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD: Senior member of the PPP Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan said that President Asif Ali Zardari enjoyed immunity under article 248 of the constitution, Geo News reported. He was talking to media here on Wednesday.
Aitzaz Ahsan said that there was no harm in writing a letter to Swiss authorities as President Asif Ali Zardari enjoyed immunity under article 248.
Answering a question regarding former president Pervaiz Musharraf’s immunity, Ahsan said that he did not have immunity as there was a civil suit against him while President Zardari faced criminal cases in which he enjoyed complete immunity until he was holding the president office.
Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan would be defending Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani before the Supreme Court on Thursday in the contempt of court case.
Ahsan said the prime minister was not guilty of contempt of court in the NRO implementation case.
Aitzaz Ahsan along with other senior PPP members would accompany Prime Minister Gilani to the Supreme Court when he appears on Jan 19 to reply in person to the contempt of court notice, sources informed.
A big nuclear war is looming over South Asia and the Middle East that may burn and destroy to take the world to stone age as once threatened by the Junior Bush.
“There is no denying that there is a covert, bloody, and ongoing campaign aimed at stopping Iran’s nuclear programme, though no evidence has emerged connecting recent acts of sabotage and killings inside Iran to Jundallah,” the US intelligence officer was quoted as saying. Many reports have cited Israel as the architect of this covert campaign, which claimed its latest victim on Jan 11 when a motorcyclist in Tehran slipped a magnetic explosive device under the car of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a young Iranian nuclear scientist. The explosion killed Roshan, making him the fourth scientist assassinated in the past two years. The United States adamantly denied it is behind these killings. Israel’s relationship with Jundallah, which operates from Pakistan’s Balochistan province, continued to roil the Bush administration until the day it left office, this same intelligence officer noted. Israel’s activities jeopardised the administration’s fragile relationship with Pakistan, which was coming under intense pressure from Iran to crack down on Jundallah. It also undermined US claims that it would never fight terror with terror, and invited attacks in kind on US personnel, the report said.
“It’s easy to understand why Bush was so angry,” a former intelligence officer was quoted as saying. “After all, it’s hard to engage with a foreign government if they’re convinced you’re killing their people. Once you start doing that, they feel they can do the same.”
A senior administration official vowed to ‘take the gloves off’ with Israel, according to a US intelligence officer. But the United States did nothing - a result that the officer attributed to ‘political and bureaucratic inertia’.
“Israel is playing with fire. It gets us involved in their covert war, whether we want to be involved or not.”
The issue has now returned to the spotlight with the string of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists and has outraged serving and retired intelligence officers who fear that Israeli operations are endangering American lives.
It is not only Israel that will suffer heavily but the hole middle east and South Asia can come under nuclear attack because of imperial insanity of United States.US population is heavily suffering from joblessness and rising poverty levels within her territory.
NEW YORK - Agents with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency posed as American CIA agents in operations to recruit members of Jundallah, the Pakistan-based militant group, to conduct the Jewish state’s ‘covert, bloody, and ongoing campaign’ against Iran, a report in an influential US magazine said.
“It’s amazing what the Israelis thought they could get away with,” a US intelligence officer told the Foreign Policy about the operations that took place in London.
“Their recruitment activities were nearly in the open. They apparently didn’t give a damn what we thought,” the official was quoted as saying in the report citing memos from 2007 and 2008.
The Israelis, “flush with American dollars and toting US passports, posed as CIA officers in recruiting Jundallah operatives - what is commonly referred to as a ‘false flag’ operation,” the report by Mark Perry, an author and historian, said. According to the report, this information reached the CIA then Director of Operations Stephen Kappes, his deputy Michael Sulick, and the head of the Counterintelligence Center. Making its way to the White House, former President George Bush ‘went absolutely ballistic’ when briefed on its contents, according to the currently serving US intelligence officer. The report said the CIA and the White House were both asked for comment on the Israeli operations, but they did not respond. The Mossad was also contacted, in writing and by telephone, but failed to respond, the report said.
“There is no denying that there is a covert, bloody, and ongoing campaign aimed at stopping Iran’s nuclear programme, though no evidence has emerged connecting recent acts of sabotage and killings inside Iran to Jundallah,” the US intelligence officer was quoted as saying. Many reports have cited Israel as the architect of this covert campaign, which claimed its latest victim on Jan 11 when a motorcyclist in Tehran slipped a magnetic explosive device under the car of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a young Iranian nuclear scientist. The explosion killed Roshan, making him the fourth scientist assassinated in the past two years. The United States adamantly denied it is behind these killings. Israel’s relationship with Jundallah, which operates from Pakistan’s Balochistan province, continued to roil the Bush administration until the day it left office, this same intelligence officer noted. Israel’s activities jeopardised the administration’s fragile relationship with Pakistan, which was coming under intense pressure from Iran to crack down on Jundallah. It also undermined US claims that it would never fight terror with terror, and invited attacks in kind on US personnel, the report said.
“It’s easy to understand why Bush was so angry,” a former intelligence officer was quoted as saying. “After all, it’s hard to engage with a foreign government if they’re convinced you’re killing their people. Once you start doing that, they feel they can do the same.”
A senior administration official vowed to ‘take the gloves off’ with Israel, according to a US intelligence officer. But the United States did nothing - a result that the officer attributed to ‘political and bureaucratic inertia’.
“In the end,” the officer noted, “it was just easier to do nothing than to, you know, rock the boat.” Even so, at least for a short time, this same officer noted, the Mossad operation sparked a divisive debate among Bush’s national security team, pitting those who wondered “just whose side these guys [in Israel] are on” against those who argued that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
The debate over Jundallah was resolved only after Bush left office when, within his first weeks as president, Barack Obama drastically scaled back joint US-Israel intelligence programmes targeting Iran, the report said citing serving and retired officers.
The decision was controversial inside the CIA, where officials were forced to shut down “some key intelligence-gathering operations,” a recently retired CIA officer confirmed to Foreign Policy. This action was followed in November 2010 by the State Department’s addition of Jundallah to its list of foreign terrorist organisations - a decision that one former CIA officer called ‘an absolute no-brainer’.
Jundallah head Abdolmalek Rigi was captured by Iran in February 2010. Although initial reports claimed that he was captured by the Iranians after taking a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan, a retired intelligence officer with knowledge of the incident told Foreign Policy that Rigi was detained by Pakistani intelligence officers in Pakistan. The officer said that Rigi was turned over to the Iranians after the Pakistani government informed the United States that it planned to do so, the report said. The United States, this officer said, did not raise objections to the Pakistani decision, it added.
Iran, meanwhile, has consistently claimed that Rigi was snatched from under the eyes of the CIA, which it alleges supported him. “It doesn’t matter,” the former intelligence officer said of Iran’s charges. “It doesn’t matter what they say. They know the truth.”
Now is making the similar plans of speedy withdrawal of US Troops from Afghanistan,Obama may announce " We will just go through Pakistan". And Pakistan is nearby its only a hop,skip and a jump to the East ( China).
"I'm pleased to announce that the Department of Defense and I have formulated a plan for a speedy withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq," Bush announced Monday morning. "We'll just go through Iran."
Bush said the U.S. Army, which deposed Iran's longtime enemy Saddam Hussein, should be welcomed with open arms by the Islamic-fundamentalist state.
"And Iran's so nearby," Bush said. "It's only a hop, skip, and a jump to the east."
Pentagon sources said U.S. Central Command has been formulating the exit plan under guidelines set by Bush.
Ca he tell how long he or you will live if he cant,his prediction about you becoming the next President.Masses are looking after a chnace to round you you up and demand answers about massive corruption and rising poverty and hunger.People are committing suicides and you foolish maaming to be next President.But if unluckily you will be made President and Bilawal the next PM,you will do job dusting of Presidency and nothing more.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said Asif Ali Zardari had once called him a future president of Pakistan. When I was sentenced by a judge of an accountability court, Asif Ali Zardari, now the president of Pakistan, was present in that court and told the judge that he [judge] was sentencing a future president,” Gilani said in a ceremony to mark the regularisation of 490 PTV employees. Gilani said Zardari had called him the future president because PPP leaders and workers always considered Benazir Bhutto to be their prime minister.
Iran navy will not need to entangle with 5th Fleet.They have very dangerous and damaging Den Fang Anti ship missiles that can even sink biggest of the ships. Iran needs to to sink four to eight huge oil carriers to block the four lane designed for these ships.World should not make it mistake to ultimately face huge oil blockade of the century.
1 of 6. Iran's army's navy commander Habibollah Sayyari (L) gestures as he speaks with media during the Velayat-90 war game on Sea of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran December 28, 2011. ''Closing the Strait of Hormuz for Iran's armed forces is really easy ... or as Iranians say it will be easier than drinking a glass of water,'' Sayyari told Iran's English language Press TV.
(Reuters) - The U.S. Fifth Fleet said on Wednesday it would not allow any disruption of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran threatened to stop ships moving through the world's most important oil route.
Analysts say that Iran could potentially cause havoc in the Strait of Hormuz, a strip of water separating Oman and Iran, which connects the biggest Gulf oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. At its narrowest point, it is 21 miles across.
TEHRAN/DUBAI(Reuters) - The U.S. Fifth Fleet said on Wednesday it would not allow any disruption of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran threatened to stop ships moving through the world's most important oil route.
"Anyone who threatens to disrupt freedom of navigation in an international strait is clearly outside the community of nations; any disruption will not be tolerated," the Bahrain-based fleet said in an e-mail.
Iran, at loggerheads with the West over its nuclear program, said on Tuesday it would stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf if sanctions were imposed on its crude exports.
"Closing the Strait of Hormuz for Iran's armed forces is really easy ... or as Iranians say, it will be easier than drinking a glass of water," Iran's navy chief Habibollah Sayyari told Iran's English-language Press TV on Wednesday.
"But right now, we don't need to shut it ...," said Sayyari, who is leading 10 days of exercises in the Strait.
Analysts say that Iran could potentially cause havoc in the Strait of Hormuz, a strip of water separating Oman and Iran, which connects the biggest Gulf oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. At its narrowest point, it is 21 miles across.
But its navy would be no match for the firepower of the Fifth Fleet which consists of 20-plus ships supported by combat aircraft, with 15,000 people afloat and another 1,000 ashore.
A spokesperson for the Fifth Fleet said in response to queries from Reuters that, it "maintains a robust presence in the region to deter or counter destabilizing activities," without providing further details.
A British Foreign Office spokesman called the Iranian threat
"rhetoric," saying: "Iranian politicians regularly use this type of rhetoric to distract attention from the real issue, which is the nature of their nuclear program."
SANCTIONS
Tension has increased between Iran and the West after EU foreign ministers decided three weeks ago to tighten sanctions on the world's No. 5 crude exporter, but left open the idea of an embargo on Iranian oil.
The West accuses Iran of seeking a nuclear bomb; Tehran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
The Iranian threat pushed up international oil prices on Tuesday although they slipped back on Wednesday in thin trade.
"The threat by Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz supported the oil market yesterday, but the effect is fading today as it will probably be empty threats as they cannot stop the flow for a longer period due to the amount of U.S. hardware in the area," said Thorbjoern bak Jensen, an oil analyst with Global Risk Management.
The Strait of Hormuz is "the world's most important oil chokepoint," according to the U.S. Department of Energy. About 40 percent of all traded oil leaves the Gulf region through the strategic waterway.
The State Department said there was an "element of bluster" in the threat, but underscored that the United States, whose warships patrol in the area, would support the free flow of oil.
France urged Iran on Wednesday to adhere to international law that allows all ships freedom of transit in the Strait.
Iran's international isolation over its defiant nuclear stance is hurting the country's oil-dependent economy, but Iranian officials have shown no sign of willingness to compromise.
Iran dismisses the impact of sanctions, saying trade and other measures imposed since the 1979 Islamic revolution toppled the U.S.-backed shah have made the country stronger.
During a public speech in Iran's western province of Ilam on Wednesday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad implied Tehran had no intention of changing course.
"We will not yield to pressure to abandon our rights ... The Iranian nation will not withdraw from its right (to nuclear technology) even one iota because of the pressures," said Ahmadinejad, whose firm nuclear stance has stoked many ordinary Iranians' sense of national dignity.
Some Iranian oil officials have admitted that foreign sanctions were hurting the key energy sector that was in desperate need of foreign investment.
Though four rounds of the U.N. sanctions do not forbid the purchase of Iranian oil, many international oil firms and trading companies have stopped trading with Iran.
"SHOWING THEIR TEETH"
The United States and Israel have not ruled out military action if sanctions fail to rein in Iran's nuclear work.
An Iranian analyst who declined to be named said the leadership could not reach a compromise with the West over its nuclear activities as it "would harm its prestige among its core supporters."
As a result, he said, "Iranian officials are showing their teeth to prevent a military strike."
But he added that closing the Strait of Hormuz would harm Iran's economy, undermining the Iranian leadership ahead of a parliamentary election in March.
The election will be the first litmus test of the clerical establishment's popularity since the 2009 disputed presidential vote, that the opposition says was rigged to secure Ahmadinejad's re-election.
The vote was followed by eight months of anti-government street protests and created a deepening political rift among the hardline rulers.
With the opposition leaders under house arrest since February and the main reformist political parties banned since the vote, Iranian hardline rulers are concerned a low turnout would question the establishment's legitimacy.
Frustration is simmering among lower- and middle-class Iranians over Ahmadinejad's economic policies. Prices of most consumer goods have risen substantially and many Iranians struggle to make ends meet.
But its navy would be no match for the firepower of the Fifth Fleet which consists of 20-plus ships supported by combat aircraft, with 15,000 people afloat and another 1,000 ashore.
'Virginity tests' on Egypt protesters are illegal, says judge
Decision may open door to financial compensation for women subjected to tests during anti-government protests
Forced "virginity tests" on female detainees were ruled illegal in Egypt on Tuesday, after a court ordered an end to the practice.
Hundreds of activists were in the Cairo courtroom to hear the judge, Aly Fekry, say the army could not use the test on women held in military prisons in a case filed by Samira Ibrahim, one of seven women subjected to the test after being arrested in Tahrir Square during a protest on 9 March.
But the writer of this article has twisted the facts and declared "Pakistani death squads go after informants to U.S. drone program" Read about the brutal tortures and painful deaths of local people by US army,s Death Squads..
Pakistani death squads go after informants to U.S. drone program
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
December 28, 2011, 12:10 p.m.
A Pakistani villager holds the wreckage of a suspected surveillance drone that crashed in the town of Chaman, along the Afghan border.
(Shah Khalid / Associated Press / August 25, 2011)
Reporting from Peshawar, Pakistan—
The death squad shows up in uniform: black masks and tunics with the name of the group, Khorasan Mujahedin, scrawled across the back in Urdu.
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Pulling up in caravans of Toyota Corolla hatchbacks, dozens of them seal off mud-hut villages near the Afghan border, and then scour markets and homes in search of tribesmen they suspect of helping to identify targets for the armed U.S. drones that routinely buzz overhead.
Pulling up in caravans of Toyota Corolla hatchbacks, dozens of them seal off mud-hut villages near the Afghan border, and then scour markets and homes in search of tribesmen they suspect of helping to identify targets for the armed U.S. drones that routinely buzz overhead.
One who did was a shop owner in the town of Mir Ali, a well-known hub of militant activity.
A band of Khorasan gunmen strode up to the shop owner one afternoon last fall, threw him into one of their cars and drove away, said a relative who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. They took him to a safe house being used as a lockup for others the group suspected of spying for the drone program.
For the next eight weeks, they bludgeoned him with sticks, trying to get him to confess that he was a drone spy. He wasn't, said the relative. Unable to determine whether he was guilty, his captors released him to another militant group, which set him free 10 days later.
For the next eight weeks, they bludgeoned him with sticks, trying to get him to confess that he was a drone spy. He wasn't, said the relative. Unable to determine whether he was guilty, his captors released him to another militant group, which set him free 10 days later.
Most of them are killed. The group, named after an early Islamic empire that covered a large part of Central Asia, dumps the bodies on roadsides, usually with scraps of paper attached to their bloodied tunics that warn others of the consequences of spying for the U.S. Executions are often videotaped and distributed to DVD kiosks in Peshawar, northwestern Pakistan's largest city, to hammer home the message.
In one video, an old man with a bruised and swollen face says he was paid $1,300 for information that led to a drone strike in a North Waziristan village last year. "I was misguided by the devil," says the man, who identifies himself as Subedar. "Khorasan Mujahedin never pressured me or used force against me. They showed me respect. May God give them victory."
Near the end of the video, he is shown with a bag over his head as a gunman first shoots him to death at point blank range with an AK-47 assault rifle, then pumps more than 30 rounds into his corpse.
But most intriguing question that he refused to the doctors to conduct autopsy which is the basic document to lodge FIR.Does Zardari feel tha CJ of Supreme Court would have completed these basic.
GARHI KHUDA BUKHSH - Embattled President Asif Ali Zardari used the fourth anniversary of the death of his wife Benazir Bhutto to ensure supporters he would not resign in the face of numerous crises building around him, while he also hit out at army and the Supreme Court.
Zardari, who became president after the former prime minister was killed in 2007 following her return from self-imposed exile, is facing perhaps the greatest threat to the government. Addressing a crowd of over 70,000 mourners at the Bhutto mausoleum in his first public speech since being treated in hospital in Dubai, Zardari brushed his illness under the carpet and urged the nation to foil ‘conspiracies against democracy’.
In a shot at the Supreme Court, which is considering an investigation into a memo asking the US for help against the military and which could implicate Zardari, he asked about the as yet unsolved case of his wife’s assassination. “People ask what happened to Benazir Bhutto’s case,” he said. “I ask (Chief Justice) Iftikhar Chaudhry: what happened to Benazir Bhutto’s case?”
(Reuters) - Iran's threat to stop the flow of oil from the Gulf supported crude prices on Wednesday and put world shares on the back foot, while looming Italian debt auctions hampered the euro.
Tehran said on Tuesday it would stop oil transiting through the Strait of Hormuz if sanctions were imposed on its crude exports over its nuclear ambitions, a move that could conceivably trigger military conflict with economies dependent on Gulf oil.
Brent crude oil steadied above $109 a barrel after climbing more than a dollar in the previous session. Prices have surged over 5 percent since December 16. <O/R>
Brent crude oil steadied above $109 a barrel after climbing more than a dollar in the previous session. Prices have surged over 5 percent since December 16. <O/R>
European shares dropped 0.4 percent .FTEU3 and Asian stocks also slipped, pushing the MSCI world equity index .MIWD00000PUS down 0.25 percent on the day.
"The only way Iran would actually close Hormuz is when it is attacked and war breaks, but such a possibility appears low as no country would want to take the risk when growth worldwide was likely to slow down," said Naohiro Niimura, a partner at research and consulting firm Market Risk Advisory Co.
"The only way Iran would actually close Hormuz is when it is attacked and war breaks, but such a possibility appears low as no country would want to take the risk when growth worldwide was likely to slow down," said Naohiro Niimura, a partner at research and consulting firm Market Risk Advisory Co.
But he added the tensions would be a major source of volatility in 2012 along with the euro zone debt crisis. He expected Brent to trade between $105-$110 in 2012.
By Mike Peacock
LONDON |
Wed Dec 28, 2011 4:29am EST
LONDON(Reuters) - Iran's threat to stop the flow of oil from the Gulf supported crude prices on Wednesday and put world shares on the back foot, while looming Italian debt auctions hampered the euro.
Tehran said on Tuesday it would stop oil transiting through the Strait of Hormuz if sanctions were imposed on its crude exports over its nuclear ambitions, a move that could conceivably trigger military conflict with economies dependent on Gulf oil.
Brent crude oil steadied above $109 a barrel after climbing more than a dollar in the previous session. Prices have surged over 5 percent since December 16. <O/R>
European shares dropped 0.4 percent .FTEU3 and Asian stocks also slipped, pushing the MSCI world equity index .MIWD00000PUS down 0.25 percent on the day.
"The only way Iran would actually close Hormuz is when it is attacked and war breaks, but such a possibility appears low as no country would want to take the risk when growth worldwide was likely to slow down," said Naohiro Niimura, a partner at research and consulting firm Market Risk Advisory Co.
But he added the tensions would be a major source of volatility in 2012 along with the euro zone debt crisis. He expected Brent to trade between $105-$110 in 2012.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS fell 0.9 percent, keeping it on course for a 2011 loss of 18 percent, underperforming a 12 percent decline in European shares .FTEU3 and a 9 percent drop in world stocks.
Japan's Nikkei stock average .N225 ended down 0.2 percent, on track for a 17.6 percent drop this year. .T
EURO CURBED
The euro held above an 11-month low against the dollar, with thin year-end trade set to keep the common currency subdued ahead of Italian debt sales. <FRX/>
Rome will sell up to 9 billion euros of six-month treasury bills and 2.5 billion euros of two-year zero coupon bonds later on Wednesday. Demand from domestic banks was expected to ensure a smooth auction, albeit at a high cost.
It faces the more difficult task of selling long-term debt on Thursday when there will be a greater reliance on international investors to buy 8.5 billion euros of paper with maturities of up to 10 years.
The euro stood at $1.3063, holding above its 11-month trough of $1.2945 hit earlier this month. Safe-haven German Bund futures were barely changed.
The euro zone must clear several hurdles including a wall of debt auctions, pressing on with tighter common fiscal standards and building a meaningful firewall around its bond market before it can hope to regain market confidence about its ability to contain the debt crisis.
Italy faces around 150 billion euros of debt refinancing in February-April alone.
Latest figures showed banks deposited a record 452 billion euros ($538 billion) at the European Central Bank, showing no sign that interbank lending is reviving.
In the United States, fresh data suggested the economy was on track for moderate recovery, with improving labor market conditions lifting U.S. consumer confidence to an eight-month high in December although U.S. single-family home prices fell more than expected in October.
Wall Street ended flat on Tuesday following a five percent rally last week. .N
Gold edged lower, tracking falls in industrial metals and equities.
"There have been a couple of positive signs on the U.S. economy, but it's hard to be hung up on them too much," said a Singapore-based trader. "The economic prospects are so dire that it seems to have taken people's appetite away from commodities, especially in industrial metals, late in this calendar year."
The 19-commodity Reuters-Jefferies CRB index .CRB -- largely influenced by U.S. crude oil -- is set for a 7 percent drop in 2011, faring slightly better than equities.
U.S. crude oil was among the best performers this year with a 10 percent increase, while gold gained 12 percent as a loss of confidence in key currencies such as the euro accelerated flight to bullion, traditionally seen as a safe haven.
(Editing by John Stonestreet)
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS fell 0.9 percent, keeping it on course for a 2011 loss of 18 percent, underperforming a 12 percent decline in European shares .FTEU3 and a 9 percent drop in world stocks.
Aitazaz Ahsan Is A Big Business man and No More Protector Of Law
