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KHAIRPUR: Allama Sher Ali, chief of banned outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba was shot down along with his associate in Khairpur area of Dost Muhammed Abro area near Pir Jo Goth, Geo News reported Monday.
DPO Khairpur Pir Muhammed Shah told Geo News that religious scholar Ali Sher Hyderi was on his way back home from Dost Muhammed Abro to Pir Jo Goth, when some unidentified miscreants opened fire at him, killing him and his associate Imtiaz on the spot.
The attacker also was killed in the retaliatory fire by the guards; however, he could not be identified.
According to DPO, at least six people were injured in the incident. The bodies and injured have been shifted to the Civil Hospital Khairpur.
Tension prevails over the entire area following the killings. Contingents of police have been deployed across the district to avert any potential untoward situation. Police are continuously on patrol in various areas.
Hyderi was the head of a religious outfit, Millat-e-Islamia and patron-in-chief of Jamia Hydri.
Later on, talking to Geo News, DPO Shah said Hyderi’s killing is the result of personal enmity, adding the attacker has been identified as Aushaq Ali Jagirani.

PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD: A meeting of federal cabinet will be held today with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in chair. The first textile policy of Pakistan will be submitted before the cabinet for approval.
Federal Minister for Textile Industry Rana Mohammed Farooque Saeed will announce the policy on television after the cabinet endorsement.

ISLAMABAD - Capital Police on Tuesday morning registered an FIR against former president Pervez Musharraf for detaining judges of the apex court including Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.Aslam Ghumman Advocate got registered a case in Secretariat Police Station alleging Musharraf for detaining over 60 judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan following the imposition of November 3, 2007 emergency.Police after seeking legal advice from legal branch registered the case under section 344/34 of Criminal Procedure Code of Pakistan.Ghumman in the FIR stated that the former president not only detained the judges but also harmed their families by sealing their houses and deputing police force there. He added that even the children of detained judges were not allowed to continue their studies. He also gave the reference of first session of the National Assembly in which Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani had ordered the concerned department to free the judges.Reuters/AFP add: Musharraf had imposed a state of emergency and sacked about 60 judges on November 3, 2007 when the Supreme Court appeared poised to declare him ineligible to contest a presidential election while in military uniform.On a plea filed by lawyer Mohammad Aslam Ghuman, Islamabad district and sessions judge Mohammad Akmal directed police to register a case against Musharraf, who is currently in Europe.“We have registered a case against Pervez Musharraf under Pakistan’s Penal Code,” Hakim Khan, the chief officer of the relevant police station, told AFP.“He could either be arrested on his return or through Interpol,” Khan told Reuters. If convicted he Musharraf could be jailed for three years, Khan said.The registration of the case will now see police investigate the charges levelled against the former head of state, who seized power in a 1999 coup.“It is a criminal case,” another police official told AFP.This is the first time that such a case has been brought against a former military ruler.“He detained judges and ousted them illegally so he has to be tried for his illegal and unconstitutional actions,” Ghuman told Reuters.Tuesday’s move comes just weeks after a 14-member bench led by Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry last month declared Musharraf’s acts illegal when he dismissed top judges and ordered their detention.

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police have decided to register a formal FIR against former President Pervaiz Musharraf for judges’ illegal confinement.
The petitioner Aslam Ghuman advocate said Secretariat Police station SHO informed him that FIR has been registered.
On the other hand, according to SHO Hakim Khan, the process of registering case against Musharrad is underway which will be completed according to court orders. Currently, sections are under consideration for the case.
On a petition filed by Chaudhry Mohammad Aslam Ghuman on Monday, Additional Sessions Judge Islamabad Mohammad Akmal Khan Monday ordered police to book the ousted dictator.
The petitioner had submitted an application with the Secretariat Police Station requesting for registration of an FIR against former President Pervez Musharraf and his accomplices including district management and police officers for keeping the judges in illegal confinement along with their families at their houses in the Judges Colony, Islamabad.

LANDI KOTAL: At least three militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Khyber agency here Tuesday while near one and half dozen schools have been set on fire in Malakand division by Taliban militants.Militants torched five government schools in Shangla and 12 in Buner districts among many were for girls.
Meanwhile, five people were killed and many others wounded in a clash between two groups in Orakzai agency.

ISLAMABAD Pakistan : Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday firmly said that the government was ready to take action against Musharaff if the parliament unanimously passed resolution.
Addressing the National Assembly, the Prime Minister ruled out the perception that parliament is rubber-stamp, and affirmed, “The parliament is supreme, we have not bypassed any one…we are ready to take action against Musharraf just the parliament unanimously passes a resolution against him.”
Earlier, addressing the lower house, leader of the opposition Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan lashed out the government on the grounds that the parliament is not free to take any decision and termed it a “rubber-stamp parliament.”

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Wednesday summoned former president Pervez Musharraf during hearing of the judges’ case in the apex court .
The court has issued notice to the former president when the federation categorically refused to defend him in the court.
Chief Justice of Pakistan heading the 14-judges larger bench Wednesday earlier asked questions from the Advocate General about making the former president Pervez Musharraf a party with regard to the steps taken on Nov 3, 2007.
The Chief Justice asked from Hamid Khan Advocate whether the former president Musharraf can be summoned in the court.
In his remarks the CJP said that determining the responsibility of the steps taken on Nov 3, 2007 is necessary.

LAHORE: Government of Punjab has filed a plea in Supreme Court on Tuesday for withdrawal of the appeal against the court verdict in Hafiz Saeed detention case.The appeal being withdrawn due to the lack of substantial evidence, sources said.

ISLAMABAD: Tremor jolted upper parts of the country on Monday morning. However, no casualty was reported.
According to private news channel, quake hit Abbotabad, Muzaffarabad, Mansehra, Batgram, Noseri, Jora, Utthmaqam, Chinari and Hattian areas of Neelum Valley at 7:57am.
The magnitude of tremor was recorded 4.2 at Richter scale and its epicenter in Manshera.

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, has said that NATO has no mandate to stop the drone attacks inside Pakistani territory as they were being carried out by he United States.
Di Paola, who is in Islamabad on an official visit in which he met top military brass of the country, told a news conference here Thursday that Pakistan has a right to “protest over the drone attacks” on its land.
He claimed that the relations between Pakistan and NATO will not be kept restricted only to cooperation on Afghanistan and vowed to “achieve victory over militants” in the region with the help of the governments and people of the two countries.
Di Paola further claimed that the NATO forces will leave the region once they achieved “their objectives”, saying that his forces have no ambition to “conquer Afghanistan like Alexander the Great”.

At least three persons were injured in a suicide bombing at Nasir Bagh road near Police Colony in Peshawar, reports said. According to eyewitness accounts it was a suicide attack in which the attacker was killed and three persons were injured. The ambulances reached to the place of the incident and the injured were being transferred to Khyber Teaching Hospital. According to sources, the car of Speaker NWFP Assembly Karamatullah Chagharmati was passed through the place some time before the blast.

Six people have died in a second missile strike by a suspected US drone in as many days in north-west Pakistan, officials and residents say.
At least three to four missiles hit a suspected training camp for militants in South Waziristan early on Wednesday, witnesses said.
At least 12 militants were killed in a similar attack in the area on Tuesday.
The attacks are targeting a stronghold of Pakistan's top Taliban commander, Baitullah Mehsud, in South Waziristan.
There have been dozens of such strikes since last August, killing hundreds of militants and civilians.
Most of the strikes have taken place in the tribal regions of North and South Waziristan.
The strikes come at a time when the Pakistani government is engaged in operations against the Taliban commander in South Waziristan.
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Eyewitnesses said the missiles were fired at a training camp in the mountainous Karwan Manza area, some 10km south-east of Ladha town in South Waziristan.

The area has forest cover and is said to house several residential and training facilities for militants loyal to Mr Mehsud.
Pakistan has seen several drone strikes in the past one year. Last month, a suspected drone struck twice within hours killing more than 60 people - most of them militants who had gathered for the funeral of those killed in the first strike.
Pakistan has been publicly critical of drone attacks, arguing that they kill civilians and fuel support for the militants.
The US military does not routinely confirm drone attacks but the armed forces and the Central Intelligence Agency operating in Afghanistan are believed to be the only forces capable of deploying drones in the region.
In March, US President Barack Obama said his government would consult Pakistan on drone attacks.

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court has suspended Carbon Tax on petroleum for interim period during hearing of a constitutional petition challenging the recent hike in prices of petroleum products. bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry in an order suspended the carbon tax notification till the conclusion of the hearing of the case.
The court observe d that carbon tax being levied in several other countries to improve the ecology but it is also a burden over general public.
The court directed the Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) to issue an order in this respect on May 08.

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Monday said that National Electric Power Regulatory (Nepra) would not be allowed to overcharge electricity rates till conclusion of the hearing of suo moto notice by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.During the hearing of suo moto notice he said the system could be handed over to private companies if Nepra failed to execute it and provide electricity to masses on cheap rates.
Referring Iran’s stances pertaining to the tackling of power crises, he said “We have the example of Iran before us who maintained its entire system and enabled itself to export the electricity.”
Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has adjourned the hearing till July 30.