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MQM caught spying red-handed for foreign nationals and smuggling classified state material outside Pakistan and violated Official Secret Act.  According to a report published in the press Waseem Akthar (MNA) and former advisor to the Chief Minister on policing caught with spying devices and equipments. It is reported that MQM members in Karachi were sending recordings of the meetings with President Asif Zaradri, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilliani, Chief Minister, and Interior Minister   Rehman Malik. MQM also recoded and smuggled classified proceedings of sensitive meetings at the Rangers Headquarters in Karachi discussing security plan of Karachi most important city of Pakistan. The mode of transfer of the information is not been mentioned but one can assume sending as multi media file (voice recording) via internet or by an airline employee coming to London from Karachi.

Questions come to mind are why MQM politicians recorded and smuggled sensitive recordings to London: (a) they are forced to do for third party or parties (b) Altaf Hussain’s mistrust on local leaders in Karachi (c) Paranoia and HPD of Altaf Hussain.? Read more…

A private company owned by President Asif Ali Zardari and his son Bilawal Zardari purchased 2,460 Kanals (307 acres) of prime land in Islamabad in March 2009.

Valued at a CDA price of over Rs 2 billion, for a mere Rs 62 million, proving after a long wait that a 1997 NAB reference against Zardari for the same deal was justified, but had to be dropped then for lack of some missing links.

The deal which Zardari was accused of in 1997, was thus completed this March, 15 years later, after a complex process of legal cases, suits and counter-suits, between a person once declared by the then government as a front man of Asif Ali Zardari, another person believed to be closely associated with the president and a private company that is jointly owned by the president, his son and a few others.

Documents and legal papers, including the sale deed and court judgments given by the PCO-led Islamabad High Court, available with The News, prove that a Karachi-based private company, Park Lane Estates (Pvt) Ltd, purchased almost 2,500 Kanals of land near Sangjani from Faisal Sakhi Butt, who himself purchased the land from a Pakistani-American living in Houston, USA, named Muhammad Nasir Khan, for merely Rs 62 million. Nasir Khan was the original purchaser of this land in 1994 and was declared to be the front man of Zardari in the Ehtesab Bureau reference filed against him in 1997.

The latest officially CDA-assessed price of similar land, adjacent to the land in question, is Rs 850,000 per Kanal. If the Park Lane land is assessed on the basis of the rate fixed by the CDA, its market valuewould be around Rs 2 billion for the entire lot. A big chunk of land, adjacent to the presidentís land, is being acquired by the CDA at this rate although Zardari and his company got it for only Rs 25,000 per Kanal, a magic deal by all standards.

However, what is important to note is the fact that all the legal requirements were met in the purchase and transfer of this land to Park Lane Estates Pvt Ltd.

According to the Form-A Annual Return of this company, its share capital, as reflected in the SECP record, shows it has 120,000 shares of which Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Ali Zardari own 30,000 shares each. Zardari is shown as a Director and his son as a member with four others who appear as members and debenture holders.

Another man closely associated with Zardari, Muhammad Iqbal Memon of Federal B Area Karachi, is not only the Chief Executive of the company but is also reflected as its director besides owning 30,000 shares. Three other persons with the same address as that of Iqbal Memon own the remaining 30,000 shares. Memon was himself a much wanted man after the dismissal of the second Benazir government.

Besides President Zardari and Muhammad Iqbal Memon, the other directors are Rahmatullah Habib, Muhammad Younus and Altaf Hussain. All these directors and Bilawal Ali Zardari own the total 120,000 shares of the company as on August 31, 2008.

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TRUTH AND THEORY | DAWN Editorial

AS Karachi began burying its dead, worrying questions were being raised about the arson that followed Monday’s attack on an Ashura procession. It was initially thought that enraged mourners and their sympathisers had gone on the rampage, torching commercial buildings, police stations and vehicles to vent their anger. That was alarming in itself but there are now suggestions that there may be more behind the violence than spontaneous rioting. Building after building was torched within minutes, and some feel this points to a terror campaign that was planned in advance and executed with precision shortly after the blast. Then there are reports that chemical accelerants were used in setting the fires that were still burning on Wednesday. At least one fire department official believes there are “visible signs” that phosphorus was used in Monday’s acts of arson. If so, the ‘pre-planned’ theory may gain further ground. Needless to say, Ashura mourners are unlikely to be carrying phosphorous on their persons.

Theories abound but nothing can be said with certainty as ever-resilient Karachi recovers from the events of Monday. When all the evidence isn’t in, it serves no purpose to point the finger of blame at ‘non-state actors’ or foreign intelligence agencies. For the truth to be unmasked, all angles must be explored without political interference or prompting. The key here may lie in the footage ostensibly recorded by the city government’s growing CCTV network. Cameras were apparently in operation all along the procession’s route, and as such there is every chance that the outbreak of rioting may have been captured on film. Besides detailed chemical analysis of the crime scenes, investigators must focus on gleaning as much evidence as they can from this potentially crucial footage.

The efficacy of Karachi’s emergency response set-up also needs to be revisited. True, both the police and firefighters were hampered by rioters who attacked them when they arrived on the scene. That may be so but eyewitnesses claim that fire tenders were slow in reaching the trouble spots to begin with. This charge is backed by Karachi’s capital city police officer, who made a pointed negative reference to “the capability and performance of our fire department”. Lastly, it is hoped that the authorities and private organisations will come good on their collective promise to raise reparation funds for the colossal losses — estimated at nearly Rs30bn — caused by Monday’s arson. Two years down the road, many are still awaiting compensation for the violence that rocked Karachi and other parts of Sindh following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Past injustices must not be repeated.

Story Via DAWN.COM

LONDON: Imran Khan, the Chief of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf in a letter sent to Prime Minister Gordon Brown has alleged that a British citizen, Altaf Hussain, who styled himself as the leader of a Pakistani political party, Muttahida Qaumi Movement, sitting in London, sought to incite ethnic violence and vigilantism by calling on his supporters to arm themselves and fight ‘talibanisation’ – a label he tried to put on the two million Pashtun workers of Karachi.

‘As a result 36 people were killed over two days of violence. When the Sindh Inspector General of Police implicated the MQM in his inquiry, they demanded his immediate removal,’ the letter released to the press on Friday alleged.

The letter also charged that on Altaf Hussain’s call from London the MQM was involved in the 12th May 2007 carnage in Karachi where 48 people were killed and 200 sustained bullet wounds, including 10 workers belonging to the PTI. Mr Khan asked the British PM to refer to Britain’s Karachi Consulate’s report on the incident.

The letter said it was shocking to find that no investigation had been conducted into the activities of Mr Hussain despite his public criminal record in Pakistan, ‘considering that the British government has arrested people on mere suspicion in the Heathrow case and the recent Pakistani students’.

Story Via :- Dawn News

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Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf Chairman, Imran Khan, has said that there is no threat to Karachi from the recent fear of  Talibanisation but the real threat is from MQM Chief Altaf Hussain.

Tehrik-i-Insaaf Chairman was talking to the media at the Lahore Airport after the authorities stopped him from boarding a Karachi-bound flight, DawnNews reported.

He said that there is no writ of the government in Karachi and asked the government to explain under which law he has been stopped from travelling to Karachi.

Imran Khan went on to say that the MQM is not a party; it’s a mafia.

The PTI Chairman said that the government is trying to protect Altaf Hussain and the May 12 Karachi carnage case. Read more…

MQM – The Talibans of South Threaten Government | pkpolitics.com.

Karachi Nazim Mustaffa Kamal gets upset when media reporters catch on to his lie’s.

Watch Karachi Nazim Mustaffa Kamal get rude to Media Reporter.