KARACHI: After several political parties turned down Muttahida Quami Movement-Pakistan’s (MQM-P) invitation to attend its all parties' conference (APC) today, the 'grand meeting' was postponed.
MQM-P’s chief Farooq Sattar, addressing the media alongside party leaders, thanked media persons.
He said with utmost seriousness, they planned the ‘all important’ APC and contacted political parties and sending delegations asking them to attend the meeting.
Sattar claimed after promising to come to the APC by Monday night, all of a sudden in the morning the APC was boycotted by the parties. “We got to know through the media about the political parties’ decision to boycott the APC,” said Sattar.
Around noon on Tuesday, several political parties through their spokespersons sent out the word, declining the MQM-P’s invitation aimed at reaching out to other political players.
He thanked those parties that were still ready to be a part of the APC.
Sattar claimed they are the second largest party of Sindh but still their attempt at uniting parties for the sake of a common goal was not taken seriously.
The MQM-P chief said the parties that boycotted today’s APC have in fact rejected the party’s stance that it adopted on August 23, a day after the controversial speech of the party’s founder from London and subsequent emergence of the ‘Pakistan’ faction of the MQM.
“Those that didn’t show up today have strengthened the London narrative,” argued Sattar.
He categorically rejected the practice of holding anti-Pakistan speeches and burning the country's flags.
Sattar said him and not Mustafa Kamal ensured the segregation of the MQM.
The parties that had turned down the invite include Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Jamat-e-Islami, Pakistan Muslim League factions (PML-N, PML-F), Sunni Tehreek, Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl and others.
Following news of the boycotts, an MQM-P official said the party tried to initiate a political discussion and it’s the personal decision of the parties whether to attend or boycott.
Meanwhile, Pak Sarzameen Party, and MQM-Haqiqi planned to attend the conference today, as will Pakistan Awami Tehreek and All Pakistan Muslim League.
MQM leaders Faisal Subzwari and Amir Khan met MQM-Haqiqi leader Afaq Ahmed on Monday, following the meeting, the MQM-H chief announced that he would be attending the APC tomorrow.
Speaking at a joint press conference at the PSP's office, PSP leader Anis Advocate said on Monday: “Principally we have decided to attend the meeting tomorrow,” and immediately added, “we hope that the MQM-P will hold a clear stance against the traitor of the country tomorrow.”
MQM-P leader Amir Khan reiterated their complete separation from the party's London faction.
Khan said that in the conference, the political leadership of the country will focus on the issues related to local bodies and corruption in the provincial departments.
The APC marks a year's passing since MQM founder’s controversial anti-state comments in a speech at Karachi Press Club. Following the incident and subsequent violence, the party disassociated itself from its founder to create its own faction with senior leader Dr Farooq Sattar as its leader.
A day after the incident, Sattar had reiterated that MQM will operate from Pakistan and that all the party's decisions will now be taken from its leadership based in the country.
Major political parties refuse to attend, MQM forced to postpone APC
Panel asks political parties to respond to Supreme Court observation
NEW DELHI: There are apprehensions that disqualifying candidates from contesting polls from the day charges are framed against them in a court -- as observed by the Supreme Court -- may be misused by a party in power if put into effect, a parliamentary panel has said.
The parliamentary standing committee on law and personnel, while examining electoral reforms, has asked political parties to send their feedback on the apex court's observation.
"It has been apprehended that the process of framing of charges and thereafter being automatically disqualified are likely to be misused, particularly by the party in power. Please comment," it said in a mail sent to the parties.
Currently, a candidate is disqualified from contesting for a certain period if he or she is convicted by a court. The present position is also based on a July 2013 SC judgement.
Politicians such as Lalu Prasad are barred from standing for an election on the basis of the apex court order.
Earlier this month, the apex court referred to a five- judge constitution bench a case on whether politicians charged with offences attracting five or more years of jail term should be barred from contesting polls.
The court was hearing a plea which sought to declare the provisions of the Representation of the People Act, which bars convicted politician from contesting elections for six years, as ultra vires to the Constitution.
Last month, the court had pulled up the Election Comissioner for not taking a clear stand on a plea seeking the barring of convicted politicians for life.
It had said the EC could not remain silent on the matter and wondered if it was "constrained" to give its views on the matter.
BOEING ASSIGNED TO DESIGN NEW BALLISTIC MISSILE
The U.S. Air Force just announced that the contract to develop preliminary designs for America’s next intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) has been awarded to Boeing, and a portion of that work will be done in Huntsville, Alabama.
This system will be critical to keep America safe as an offensive nuclear deterrent against rogue nations like North Korea and Iran going forward, as our current system, the Minuteman III is still operable, but aging.
With a $359 million contract, Boeing and Northrop Grumman will get to work on designing the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program, which will America’s current Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) system, the Minuteman III ICBM.
In 2020, the Air Force will choose one company to develop the new land-based element of America’s nuclear triad. Missiles launched from submarines and aircraft are the other elements of the triad.
As Boeing commented in its press release today,
“Since the first Minuteman launch in 1961, the U.S. Air Force has relied on our technologies for a safe, secure and reliable ICBM force,” said Frank McCall, Boeing director of Strategic Deterrence Systems and GBSD program manager. “As the Air Force prepares to replace the Minuteman III, we will once again answer the call by drawing on the best of Boeing to deliver the capability, flexibility and affordability the mission requires.”
Boeing’s work will be done in Huntsville, as well as in Ogden, Utah; Heath, Ohio; and other unspecified locations.
The Minuteman III replacement effort will include flight, command and control, and launch systems. The Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase of the program will be awarded to one company in 2020.
This project will bring a few hundred high-wage jobs to Boeing in Alabama, not counting the jobs it will create for their suppliers. Most importantly, it will play a vital role in bolstering our country’s national security.
CHILE LEGALIZES ABORTION
CHILE, August 21, 2017 – In a 6-4 vote today, Chile's high court upheld a law legalizing abortion in cases of rape, danger to the mother's life, and fetal disability.
Chile, known internationally for its strong pro-life laws, has been debating legalizing abortion. Its parliament passed the bill allowing some abortions, and the country's socialist President Michelle Bachelet has promised to sign it. Bachelet was the one who introduced the legislation.
This legislation allowing some abortions is constitutional, the Constitutional Court ruled.
Planned Parenthood and Amnesty International celebrated the decision as a "victory."
"Chile has finally moved one step closer to protecting the human rights of women and girls," said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas Director at Amnesty International. Hopefully "this reform opens the door for them to be able to fully enjoy their sexual and reproductive rights."
As other sources previously reported:
[Chile's pro-life law] restricted abortion to exceptional cases for decades and outlawed abortion entirely in 1989 under Dictator Augusto Pinochet.
As with all pro-life countries, the law never penalizes saving the life of the mother, even if it indirectly results in the death of her child in the womb. Unfortunately, this latitude is abused by women and abortionists who claim an abortion is for the woman's health.
"The reason given is the 'right of the woman to decide,'" said Bishop Cristián Cordero of Puerto Montt as the law was being debated. "To decide on the life or death of your child? Who gave you that right?"
Legalizing abortion "contradicts the first human right that is to the protection of life … as indicated in the Chilean Constitution," he said.
Bachelet is the former executive director of the United Nations office of Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
Amnesty International reported that now that Chile's pro-life law has fallen, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Suriname are the only countries left that completely protect pre-born babies from abortion.
Liberal Party Won't Back Impeach Bids vs Duterte, Robredo
MUST READ: LEAKED NEWS
Edward Joseph Snowden or simply Edward snowden, is an American computer professional, former CIA(central Inteligence Agency), a former NSA(National Security Agency) contractor, former US army reserved and the man behind the massive leakage of sensitive NSA files which contains massive surveillance of the American people. No, not just the USA but the surveillance is globally done.
By the way…what is the NSA?
NSA(national security agency) is an intelligence organization of the US government responsible for global monitoring,collection and processing of informations and datas for foreign intelligence and and counter intelligence purposes, a discipline known as signal intelligence.
So what about the NSA leaks? What are they? What do they contains?
NSA leaks is all about massive surveillance of the whole population through phones, computers and more gadgets we use nowadays. some programs that have been leaked by snowden are the X Key stone and PRISM.
X Key stone
X Key stone is a program that sees everything, it is a tool the NSA uses to search nearly everything a user does on the internet. X key stone is also described as the widest reaching system to reach through internet data.
PRISM
Another program that was leaked by snowden is the prism, it is a surveillance program that can directly access tech giants like google, facebook, Microsoft and apple.
NSA collects text messages and intercepts phone calls on some places like Bahamas, Afghanistan,metadata mexico, Kenya and Philippines.
Edward snowden is a man who left a high paying job, a rich life, his fiancé, his own country, his family and a lot more that he sacrificed to create a massive leaks about global surveillance that limits our freedom. Yet some call him a traitor to his country, but whom did he betrayed? Hes a man who left everything then went to Hawaii,fled to hong-kong then to Russia just to tell the people about a terrifying corruption that stole our freedom for “thinking”.
Snowden is now charged on a lot of violations against the law,but despite all the charges against him , Edward snowden also won numerous rewards like the IQ award,Ridenhour truth-telling prize, german whistle blower prize and more. Edward snowden is a great man who woke up a lot of subconscious minds about the reality were living.
Chelsea manning
Bradley Edward manning or Chelsea manning(a name he used after he became a trans woman) is a US army soldier who was convicted by court-martial back in july 2013 of violations of the espionage act and other offences after disclosing nearly three quarters of a million classified or unclassified but sensitive military and diplomatic documents to wikileaks.
Some leakage that have been made by manning were the war logs and collateral murder.
War logs
War logs states that there were much larger numbers of civilian casualties on wars led by the United states like in Iraq and Afghanistan than what the US previously reported.
Colateral murder
Colateral murder is an unsettling video that shows a US army apache helicopter in Iraq firing on a group of people who turned out to include journalists for reuters.
There are a lot more revelations manning did through those thousand documents. Sadly, manning is now currently serving 35 years in a male prison which is the worst thing when you are a trans-woman.
Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assange is an Australian computer programmer,publisher, a journalist, the founder and editor-in-chief of the wiki leaks.
Wikileaks is an international non-profit organization that publishes secret informations, new leaks and classified media from different anonymous sources.wiki leaks have already leaked millions of sensitive secret documents from different intelligence agencies like the CIA, NSA and other agencies from EU.One recent leaks are the Hillary emails.
Hillary emails
Wiki leaks leaked thousands of Hillary emails to the public which contains informations that showed the true intententions and identity of Hillary Clinton.the Hillary leaks holds informations like rigging an election in Palestine back in 2006, Clinton donors funding ISIS where in an email between Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager john Podesta, the former first lady and secretary of the region “to accuse quatar and saudi arabia of providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIS or ISIL and other radical sunni groups in the region”. The next one is my favorite because it is a clear and brilliant piece of evidence that almost all wars are only for corporate interests. It was first claimed by conspiracy theorist then exposed from the Hillary emails leaks which gave it a higher percentage to be legit.
“France’s client and qaddafi’s gold”
Out of all the thousand Hillary emails, this is what actually took my interests. The email identifies French president Nicholas Sarkozy as leading the attack on Libya with 5 specific purposes in mind : to obtain Libyan oil, ensure French influence in the region, increase sarkozy’s reputation domestically, assert French military power nad to prevent ghaddafi’s influence in what is considered the “Francophone Africa”. The email stated that ghaddafi had 143 tons of gold, which could be used for a currency that will liberate Africa from being an economically enslaved land through money and capitalism.
“John Doe”
John Doe is the pseudonym used by the anonymous whistleblower in the Panama Papers leak this 2016, who turned over 11.5 million documents from the law firm Mossack Fonseca to German journalist Bastian Obermayer of the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper . On May 5, 2016, John Doe published a statement The Revolution Will Be Digitised; Doe explained he made the files from Mossack Fonseca public to underline growing income inequality and financial corruption globally. The whistleblower has offered to help prosecutors build their cases, on condition of legal protection.
Panama Papers leaks
The leaked documents illustrate how wealthy individuals and public officials are able to keep personal financial information private. While offshore business entities are legal, reporters found that some of the Mossack Fonseca shell corporations were used for illegal purposes, including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion, and evading international sanctions.
The Panama papers leaks were the biggest leaks in history. In the documents which ranged from 1970’s to 2015, Mossack Fonseca came to function, as the german paper notes, “as a hub of a global industry led by major banks, legal firms and asset management companies”, secretly stewarding the estates of the world’s rich and famous, from politicians, FIFA officials, fraudsters and drug smugglers, to celebrities and professional athletes.” In short, to hide, transfer and in some cases, to clean dirty money. By april 3rd 2016, the news had reached numerous populations in countries around the planet. Heads of state and industry were implicated, as well as kings. Many of these individuals worked through their relatives, hiding away cash and in some cases circumventing sanctions. Notable persons who were exposed on this leaks were Vladimir Putin,Bashar Assad, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson(prime minister of Iceland), heads of Chinese government, middle eastern royalty,celebrities in india and even jackie chan. These people worked with mossack fonseca to create shell companies in other countries informally known as tax havens, an act which, in itself is not inherently illegal. However, journalists have noted the majority of these operations were made or designed to hide the identity of the actual owners or in other words, the people who are hiding the money. Some of the clients are big time criminals like mafiosos and bank robbers. The leaks are a major proof of illegal financial activity by some of the world’s wealthiest groups and individuals.
SOUTH KOREA PREPARES FOR WAR
PREPARING FOR WAR: South Korea conducts defence drills in face of Kim's provocation
THE United States is flexing its military muscle in South Korea amid growing tensions with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un after the dictator promised an “annihilating strike” if it was attacked by the United States.
The threat to “defeat enemies with nuclear justice” was issued during the country’s 105th Day of the Sun parade, in which the socialist state celebrated the anniversary of its founder Kim Il-Sung’s birth.
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