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Musharraf on Pakistani currency notes!
Islamabad: Former president and military dictator Pervez Musharraf was keen to have his photograph on Pakistan’s currency notes, a former prime minister has disclosed.
Former premier Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said that Musharaff wanted to replace Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s photograph on currency notes with his own photograph.
Jamali told Hamid Mir in ‘Capital Talk’ of ‘Geo News’ that the change in the currency note didn’t happen as he refused it.
He said he wasn’t aware as to who advised Musharaff that currency notes should carry his photography.
Musharraf seized power in 1999. He stepped down in 2008 and left Pakistan. He now lives in London.
Responding to a question, Jamali said Musharraf was ready to hand over disgraced nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan to the US in 2004. An American plane had even arrived in Islamabad for taking Khan to the US, but Jamali said he blocked the move.
“I informed my cabinet that we cannot hand him (A.Q. Khan) over to the Americans,” the ‘News International’ quoted him as saying.
Calcutta High court not answerable to CIC
- only to H.M. Queen of England- PIO !
New Delhi: Sixty–three years after Independence, the Calcutta high court still feels it is under the control of the Queen of England and not the President or Constitution of India.
The high court’s Public Information Officer (PIO) Imran Hafiz has submitted before the Central Information Commission (CIC) that it does not fall under the jurisdiction of the transparency panel. CIC, however, has rejected the high court’s argument.
In its submission dated August 30, 2010, the high court, quoting the Right to Information (RTI) Act, said, to qualify as the “appropriate government exercising jurisdiction over a public authority (the high court in this case), it must be a public authority which is established, constituted, owned, controlled or substantially financed by funds directly or indirectly by (i) central government (ii) state government)”.
“He (PIO) submitted that the Calcutta high court was not constituted by the central government or even under the Constitution of India, but by Her Majesty, the Queen of England, under Letters Patent dating from the time to Queen Victoria,” then chief information commissioner Wajajhat Habibullah quoted from the letter sent by Hafiz in his order.
“Under section 44, the powers of such legislation are preserved and therefore, cannot be deemed to have been transcended by the power of Government of India. He (PIO Imran Hafiz) went on to submit that as per article 246 of the Constitution of India, which deals with the law-making powers of parliament, the high court is not under the control of president of India or the government of India,” the CIC order said.
The PIO, however, agreed that the salary of justices, the bulk of finance of the high court, was borne by the consolidated fund of India and the high court staff was financed by the state government.
Rejecting the argument, Habibullah said, “The reading of the constitutional and statutory provisions leads that CIC will have jurisdiction over the high courts for the purposes of RTI Act.”
“Although Hafiz has ably contended it will not be Government of India or the Union or Constitution of India which established or constituted Calcutta high court, quite clearly in the context of the present, when so called majesties have ceased to exist and have been succeeded within India or from outside by the Sovereign Democratic Republic of India of which the Head of State is president of India, any claim of any public authority in India to have established by authority other than those mentioned under RTI cannot be accepted,” he said.
Dozy bear rescued by firemen after falling asleep on a tree
Oregon: Any firefighter can rescue a cat from a tree – but a black bear is a much bigger challenge! Crews had to shoot several tranquilliser darts at a 130 kg beast that scrambled area of Bend, Oregon – and then fell asleep.
The dozy animal had to be strapped to a harness and lowered by two firefighters who scaled the tree.
Police said the bear had been knocking over rubbish bins and getting up to other mischief before it scrambled up the tree.
“It was definitely the first bear rescue for me,” fire engineer Tom Edwards said. “We had a good time the bear had a good time and that’s the important part.”
The case of the dozy Oregon bear isn’t the first such incident to make news recently – just last month another bear was rescued from a similar predicament California.
Imam’s beard shaved off in Britain
London: A Muslim cleric who allegedly sexually abused young boys was held down and had his beard shaved off after he was arrested in Britain, a media report said. Mohammed Hanif Khan, 41, honoured by Buckingham Palace for his work in prisons, was attacked by three men on the day of his arrest, ‘The Sun’ reported. Shaving a Muslim’s beard is regarded as a sin, North Staffordshire Magistrates’ Court heard. Khan, who strenuously denies the abuse claim and faces trial in January, said he was knocked down by a head butt in Tunstall, Staffordshire. It is alleged that 31-year-old Mohammed Jameel, mohammed Nadeem, 28, and Mohammed Safir, 32, then held him down as he was shaved with electric clippers. Safir has admitted the charge, but the basis of his plea is not accepted by prosecutors.
Islamabad: Former president and military dictator Pervez Musharraf was keen to have his photograph on Pakistan’s currency notes, a former prime minister has disclosed.
Former premier Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said that Musharaff wanted to replace Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s photograph on currency notes with his own photograph.
Jamali told Hamid Mir in ‘Capital Talk’ of ‘Geo News’ that the change in the currency note didn’t happen as he refused it.
He said he wasn’t aware as to who advised Musharaff that currency notes should carry his photography.
Musharraf seized power in 1999. He stepped down in 2008 and left Pakistan. He now lives in London.
Responding to a question, Jamali said Musharraf was ready to hand over disgraced nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan to the US in 2004. An American plane had even arrived in Islamabad for taking Khan to the US, but Jamali said he blocked the move.
“I informed my cabinet that we cannot hand him (A.Q. Khan) over to the Americans,” the ‘News International’ quoted him as saying.
Calcutta High court not answerable to CIC
- only to H.M. Queen of England- PIO !
New Delhi: Sixty–three years after Independence, the Calcutta high court still feels it is under the control of the Queen of England and not the President or Constitution of India.
The high court’s Public Information Officer (PIO) Imran Hafiz has submitted before the Central Information Commission (CIC) that it does not fall under the jurisdiction of the transparency panel. CIC, however, has rejected the high court’s argument.
In its submission dated August 30, 2010, the high court, quoting the Right to Information (RTI) Act, said, to qualify as the “appropriate government exercising jurisdiction over a public authority (the high court in this case), it must be a public authority which is established, constituted, owned, controlled or substantially financed by funds directly or indirectly by (i) central government (ii) state government)”.
“He (PIO) submitted that the Calcutta high court was not constituted by the central government or even under the Constitution of India, but by Her Majesty, the Queen of England, under Letters Patent dating from the time to Queen Victoria,” then chief information commissioner Wajajhat Habibullah quoted from the letter sent by Hafiz in his order.
“Under section 44, the powers of such legislation are preserved and therefore, cannot be deemed to have been transcended by the power of Government of India. He (PIO Imran Hafiz) went on to submit that as per article 246 of the Constitution of India, which deals with the law-making powers of parliament, the high court is not under the control of president of India or the government of India,” the CIC order said.
The PIO, however, agreed that the salary of justices, the bulk of finance of the high court, was borne by the consolidated fund of India and the high court staff was financed by the state government.
Rejecting the argument, Habibullah said, “The reading of the constitutional and statutory provisions leads that CIC will have jurisdiction over the high courts for the purposes of RTI Act.”
“Although Hafiz has ably contended it will not be Government of India or the Union or Constitution of India which established or constituted Calcutta high court, quite clearly in the context of the present, when so called majesties have ceased to exist and have been succeeded within India or from outside by the Sovereign Democratic Republic of India of which the Head of State is president of India, any claim of any public authority in India to have established by authority other than those mentioned under RTI cannot be accepted,” he said.
Dozy bear rescued by firemen after falling asleep on a tree
Oregon: Any firefighter can rescue a cat from a tree – but a black bear is a much bigger challenge! Crews had to shoot several tranquilliser darts at a 130 kg beast that scrambled area of Bend, Oregon – and then fell asleep.
The dozy animal had to be strapped to a harness and lowered by two firefighters who scaled the tree.
Police said the bear had been knocking over rubbish bins and getting up to other mischief before it scrambled up the tree.
“It was definitely the first bear rescue for me,” fire engineer Tom Edwards said. “We had a good time the bear had a good time and that’s the important part.”
The case of the dozy Oregon bear isn’t the first such incident to make news recently – just last month another bear was rescued from a similar predicament California.
Imam’s beard shaved off in Britain
London: A Muslim cleric who allegedly sexually abused young boys was held down and had his beard shaved off after he was arrested in Britain, a media report said. Mohammed Hanif Khan, 41, honoured by Buckingham Palace for his work in prisons, was attacked by three men on the day of his arrest, ‘The Sun’ reported. Shaving a Muslim’s beard is regarded as a sin, North Staffordshire Magistrates’ Court heard. Khan, who strenuously denies the abuse claim and faces trial in January, said he was knocked down by a head butt in Tunstall, Staffordshire. It is alleged that 31-year-old Mohammed Jameel, mohammed Nadeem, 28, and Mohammed Safir, 32, then held him down as he was shaved with electric clippers. Safir has admitted the charge, but the basis of his plea is not accepted by prosecutors.
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