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NEWS US Drone Strike Kills 10 in South Waziristan: Daily Times The second US drone attack in as many days killed 10 people in South Waziristan on Sunday, intelligence officials said, an incident likely to raise tensions in the standoff between US and Pakistan over NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical of Radical Elements) Maj Gen Bajwa Takes Charge as ISPR DG Today: Daily Times Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa, who is replacing Major General Athar Abbas, will assume the charge of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General today (Monday). (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical of Radical Elements) Indian Delegation Makes 15-Hour Journey to Pakistan: Daily Times A senior member of an Indian delegation visiting Islamabad for an Indo-Pak Track II dialogue complained that it took them 15 hours to reach the capital. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical of Radical Elements) Pakistan Stands Tall at UN Peace Missions: Daily Times When the world celebrated this year the UN Peacekeeping Day, Pakistan stood tall in the comity of nations being the second largest troops contributing country in the world, said a statement by ISPR. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical of Radical Elements) National Interest to Determine Pakistans Ties with US: PM: Dawn News Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said Pakistan-United States relations were multi-dimensional and important and that the countrys national interest would determine ties between the two countries. (Source: Karachi, Pakistan; Anti-Military Rule) Teachers Mark Sunday as Black Day: Dawn News The All Government Teachers Association (AGTA) observed black day on Sunday in protest against the nonacceptance of their demands. (Source: Karachi, Pakistan; Anti-Military Rule) US Agrees to Pay $1.18BN of CSF Arrears: Dawn News The United States has agreed to reimburse $1.18 billion or almost 75 per cent of the claims Pakistan has submitted for the expenses incurred in the fight against militants along the Afghan border, diplomatic sources told Dawn. (Source: Karachi, Pakistan; Anti-Military Rule) Asghar Khan Petition: SBP Submits Habib Bank Commission Report in SC: Dawn News The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday submitted the Habib Bank commission report in the Supreme Court, Dawn News reported. (Source: Karachi, Pakistan; Anti-Military Rule) Security Pakistan's Prime Issue: PM Gilani: The Nation Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that national security is at the center of the government priority. (Source: Islamabad, Conservative, Part of the Nawa-i-Waqt publishing group) SC Suspends Malik's Senate Membership in Dual Nationality Case: The Nation The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday suspended Senate membership of Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik in dual nationality case, a private TV reported. (Source: Islamabad, Conservative, Part of the Nawa-i-Waqt publishing group) Govt Asked to Approach Centre to Execute Project: The Nation

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The Sindh Assemblys Standing Committee on Local Government has recommended to the provincial government take up with the Centre the issue of implementation of the CNG bus project that has been delayed because of the lack of funding from Islamabad. (Source: Islamabad, Conservative, Part of the Nawa-i-Waqt publishing group) Three-Day Iran Trade Fair Ends: The Nation Three days Iran Fair 2012 came to an end on Sunday with attendance of more than 30,000 visitors and 75 Iranian and 45 Pakistani companies also participated. (Source: Islamabad, Conservative, Part of the Nawa-i-Waqt publishing group) Imran Wants Audit of Defense Budget: Pak Tribune Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan called for auditing the defense budget of the country by bringing it in the knowledge of elected government as to where it is spent. (Source: Pakistan, Independent, neutral) Gilani Orders Balochistan to Improve Law, Order: Pak Tribune Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday directed the Balochistan chief secretary and home secretary to take steps to improve law and order situation in the province. (Source: Pakistan, Independent, neutral) Four More Shias Lose Life in Quetta: Pak Tribune At least six people, including four Shias and a policeman, were killed and another policeman injured when a group of armed men attacked a welding shop on Essa Khan Road on Sunday, police said. (Source: Pakistan, Independent, neutral) Osama Spent All His Fortune on jihad: Zawahiri: Pak Tribune Late al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden spent his fortune on financing "holy war" including the September 11 US attacks in 2001, said current al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in an Internet video. (Source: Pakistan, Independent, neutral) EDITORIALS EDITORIAL: Hosni Mubaraks Day in Court: Daily Times Former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak has been handed down a life sentence along with his former interior minister Habib al-Adly for the killing of 225 protestors and wounding more than 1,800 during the movement for his ouster in January 2011. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical of Radical Elements) SECOND EDITORIAL: Planning and Consistency Pay: Daily Times We lost our first T20 with Sri Lanka not on account of a big total to chase but in the illusion of a low score being easy to overtake. Sri Lanka, after a poor start, managed a score of 132 for seven. Pakistan lost its first three wickets for only 12 runs. On 95 the entire Pakistan team was out in 17 overs. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical of Radical Elements) VIEW: Real Muslims Dont Need Electricity: Daily Times It is indeed my considered opinion that electricity and in particular the use of air-conditioning has undermined the fighting ability and the intellectual development of the Ummah. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical of Radical Elements) VIEW: Chicago Summit: Daily Times There would be hardly another example of a head of state, and that too of an allied country and a frontline state, invited to the summit so late and with such a lack of standard protocol. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical of Radical Elements)

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VIEW: Pakistan: Myth of a Secular State: Daily Times Jinnah did not believe in a top down model but rather preferred the politics of consensus. The clerics may have had an anti-Jinnah agenda; the reverse however is not true. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical of Radical Elements) COMMENT: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and His Legacy: Daily Times Azads role for two decades after partition was one of the token Congress Muslim show boy as Jinnah famously called him. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical of Radical Elements) Supporting Documentation:

NEWS (Top) 04 June 2012 Daily Times US Drone Strike Kills 10 in South Waziristan WANA: The second US drone attack in as many days killed 10 people in South Waziristan on Sunday, intelligence officials said, an incident likely to raise tensions in the standoff between US and Pakistan over NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. The remotely-piloted aircraft fired four missiles at a suspected terrorist hideout in the Birmal area of South Waziristan, officials said. A drone strike in the same area killed two suspected terrorists on Saturday. The dead included militant commander Malang Jan, an associate of warlord Maulvi Nazir who sends fighters to Afghanistan to support the Taliban, a security official told AFP.

04 June 2012 Daily Times Maj Gen Bajwa Takes Charge as ISPR DG Today ISLAMABAD: Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa, who is replacing Major General Athar Abbas, will assume the charge of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General today (Monday). Major General Bajwa was commissioned in Punjab Regiment from the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul in March 1984 and has held various command, staff and instructional appointments, including command of an anti-tank battalion, an infantry brigade group and a strike infantry division. He has been brigade major of an infantry brigade and has also been on the faculty of Kakul PMA and Command and Staff College Quetta. Major General Abbas remained as DG ISPR for about four and half years.

04 June 2012 Daily Times Indian Delegation Makes 15-Hour Journey to Pakistan ISLAMABAD: A senior member of an Indian delegation visiting Islamabad for an Indo-Pak Track II dialogue complained that it took them 15 hours to reach the capital. We resolved to undertake the long journey to Islamabad for Indo-Pak peace, despite long delays on flight sectors which took us up 15 hours to reach the capital, he said. The flight from Delhi to Lahore is some 45 minutes, but the onward journey to Islamabad is subject to frequent delays and cancellations, making it an irritant for passengers.

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Often conferences or high profile governmental meetings are disturbed by PIA flight schedules. Currently PIA is the only carrier making bi-weekly trips to Mumbai and Delhi. The delegation consists of senior former diplomats, policy experts, journalists and civil society activists who are taking part in Jinnah Institutes annual Islamabad Dialogue. They discussed issues of bilateral concern, trade and economic integration, best practices in healthcare and water security on the first day of the conference. The delegation is set to meet with ranking parliamentarians and government officials to talk about bilateral concerns and promoting the dialogue. Jinnah Institute will host the delegation for three days in Islamabad.

04 June 2012 Daily Times Pakistan Stands Tall at UN Peace Missions RAWALPINDI: When the world celebrated this year the UN Peacekeeping Day, Pakistan stood tall in the comity of nations being the second largest troops contributing country in the world, said a statement by ISPR. Pakistans journey with UN peacekeeping operations began in 1960 when it deployed its first ever contingent in UN operations in Congo. Over the past 52 years, Pakistan has been the most significant and consistent contributor for UN peacekeeping around the world. Pakistan has hitherto participated in 41 UN peacekeeping missions, including some of the most challenging ones. Pakistan has so far contributed 142,452 troops in the UN missions across the world. Up till now 128 Pakistani peacekeepers (10.24% of the UN total fatalities) have scarified their lives in noble cause of helping humanity, building peace and bringing stability across the regions under the banner of UN. Since 2006 Pakistan has been the largest troops contributing country. At the moment Pakistan is the second largest contributor with present deployment of 9,461 peacekeepers in seven different UN missions and is currently contributing 9.71% of the total UN peacekeepers strength. Performance of Pakistan peacekeepers has been acknowledged worldwide.

04 June 2012 Dawn News National Interest to Determine Pakistans Ties with US: PM QUETTA: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said Pakistan-United States relations were multidimensional and important and that the countrys national interest would determine ties between the two countries. We are trying to have an open, transparent, and mutually beneficial relationship with the US based on our national interest, Gilani said in his address here at the Command and Staff College. Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Commandant Staff College Major General Sohail Ahmed Khan were also present on the occasion. Prime Minister Gilani said a thriving, prosperous, transparent, and peaceful Afghanistan was in the interest of Pakistan. We have improved our relations with all our neighbors including Afghanistan, India and Iran, the prime minister said, adding we want to play our role in the stability and peace in Afghanistan. Gilani said Pakistan was paying special attention in making its neighborhood peaceful, stable, and prosperous.

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He, however, clarified that Pakistan had an important role to play in the region and it should be taken on board in the decision-making process regarding the future of Afghanistan. He said Pakistan was facing many challenges including terrorism and security which were the countrys most important issues. The ongoing spate of terror has caused billions of dollars in losses to Pakistan, he said and mentioned that over 30,000 soldiers and law enforcement personnel laid down their lives besides 5,000 civilians in the fight against global and regional terrorism. I have a firm belief that these sacrifices will lead us to a future where our children and the generations to follow will lead a peaceful and productive life. He said economic growth, national security and democratic pluralism were the governments top priority. Referring to the rise in petroleum products prices in the country, he said economic development and national stability were correlative and pointed that prices of petroleum products like other countries had also affected Pakistan. Prime Minister Gilani said the country had faced long periods of non-democratic governments and said a look at the balance sheet of political history shows that only democratically-elected governments had provided constitutional, political, economic, and security solutions that have stood the test of time. He said nations prospered under democracies and thrived in the strength of their democratic institutions. Parliament, executive, and judiciary, all have to work well within their given domains for the peoples will, he said. He mentioned the floods of 2010, that caused a loss of around US 10 billion dollars to the economy, but said that despite all difficulties economic indicators have shown improvement since his government took office. Prime Minister Gilani said the national GDP witnessed growth while the Karachi Stock Exchange also increased to 13 billion dollars. The prime minister said the government spent rupees three billion for rescue and rehabilitation of rain and flood victims in Sindh and Balochistan and said inflation rate had been reduced to a single digit.

04 June 2012 Dawn News Teachers Mark Sunday as Black Day QUETTA: The All Government Teachers Association (AGTA) observed black day on Sunday in protest against the non-acceptance of their demands. The protest coincided with the prime ministers arrival in the provincial capital for a two-day visit. The protesting teachers said the governments indifference towards their problems had put the lives of teachers on hunger strike unto death at risk. They took out a procession and gathered at Bacha Khan Chowk.

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Speaking on the occasion, AGTA vice president Mujibullah Gharsheen said the government would be held responsible if anything happened to the 130 teachers on the hunger strike. He said that if their demands were not met by Monday (today) they would lock up all government and private schools in the province. The teachers demands are: investigation into Rs1 billion development funds of the education department, postings of senior officers, Implementation of teachers quota and stoppage of deducting the conveyance allowance during vacations.

04 June 2012 Dawn News US Agrees to Pay $1.18BN of CSF Arrears The United States has agreed to reimburse $1.18 billion or almost 75 per cent of the claims Pakistan has submitted for the expenses incurred in the fight against militants along the Afghan border, diplomatic sources told Dawn. The money comes from the Coalition Support Fund, which is used for reimbursing Pakistan and other US allies helping it in the war against terror. The approval shows that despite increased tensions, the US financial assistance to Pakistan has continued although it is becoming increasingly difficult to get congressional support for helping Pakistan. Last week, Pakistans Ambassador Sherry Rehman and her team succeeded in persuading Congressman David Dreier, Chairman of the House Rules Committee, to drop an amendment that would have made it difficult to continue to provide financial assistance to Pakistan. Moved by Congressman Ted Poe, the amendment sought a blanket ban on providing financial assistance to Pakistan from the funds earmarked for the next fiscal year. But this success brings only a temporary relief for Ambassador Rehman and her team as this week they will have to deal with yet another amendment. Congressman Ron Paul, who has moved the amendment, is leading the effort to strip Pakistan of all American aid funds until they release Dr. Shakil Afridi who helped the CIA trace Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden. I think we need to negotiate from a position of strength, Congressman Paul told Fox News. I dont think the administration is standing up to Pakistan giving them a billion dollars and saying please let him go instead of saying you dont get a penny until you let him go. Thats the way Id deal with them. And the Pakistani team fears that such moves will intensify on Monday when US lawmakers and officials return to work and are asked to react to a Pakistani courts decision to acquit four accomplices of the Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad. These are very difficult days for Pakistani diplomats and lobbyists in Washington, observed one of the lobbyists who did not want to be identified. To be Pakistans ambassador in Washington now is like being the Pakistani ambassador in Moscow in the 1980s when Pakistan was helping the Mujahedeen fight the Russians. But on Sunday, Pakistani diplomats seemed happy with the approval of 75 per cent of the CSF claims. They usually pay 75 per cent of the claims we put up, so $1.18 billion is the deal, said a diplomat.

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Also, the US and Pakistani teams engaged in resolving the NATO routes dispute have continued their talks as well. On Saturday, US Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides spoke with Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh, their second conversation in less than a week. Mr. Nides, although based in Washington, is leading the US effort for reopening the routes Pakistan closed in November last year when a US air raid killed 24 of its soldiers. Mr. Shaikh is leading the Pakistani team. Also, a senior Pentagon official, Assistant Defense Secretary Peter Leovy, is returning to Islamabad this week to lead the talks.

04 June 2012 Dawn News Asghar Khan Petition: SBP Submits Habib Bank Commission Report in SC ISLAMABAD: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday submitted the Habib Bank commission report in the Supreme Court, Dawn News reported. A bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Jawwad S. Khwaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain was hearing the 1996 petition of Tehriq-e-Istiqlals chief Asghar Khan about allegations of ISIs financing of politicians in the 1990 election to prevent the victory of the Pakistan Peoples Party. In the previous hearing of the petition, the court directed Governor State Bank Yasin Anwar to assist it in the case. The court has time and again directed the authorities to produce the reports of two commissions on the financial scam. The commissions had been set up to investigate the allegations of misappropriation of funds in the Habib Bank Limited and the now-defunct Mehran Bank Limited and their collusion with the ISI to manipulate national politics. During todays hearing, Attorney General Irfan Qadir requested the court for more time to collect information from the law ministry. The requested was granted and the court subsequently adjourned the hearing to June 12.

04 June 2012 The Nation Security Pakistan's Prime Issue: PM Gilani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that national security is at the center of the government priority. Addressing the Command Staff College here in Quetta on Monday he said Pakistan has suffered immensely in economic and human terms in the fight against terrorism and extremism. He however expressed the confidence that these sacrifices will lead us to a future where our generations will leave a peaceful and productive life. Giving an in-depth view of the challenges faced by the country including that of security and economic. Prime Minister Gilani said the government not only met the challenges effectively but implemented its eighty percent of election manifesto. He said prudent policies pursued by the government helped achieve macroeconomic stability. He said all economic indicators have shown improvement since we came into power. Our GDP has grown by 3.7 percent.

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Inflation currently at 11 percent will be brought down to single digit next year. Our fiscal deficit has remained 5.5 percent while current accounts balance 1.8 percent. He said, Our national GDP has doubled from 10 trillion rupees to 21 trillion rupees. Tax revenues are doubled from one to two trillion rupees this year. During the last year we spent 2.2 trillion rupees on development. Prime Minister Gilani said foreign exchange reserves stand at 16.3 billion dollars. Our exports last year reached twenty five billion dollars historic mark. He said we are maintaining this tempo despite global recession, he said. The Prime Minister said the government is pursuing reforms agenda to alleviate poverty and ensure fiscal responsibility and good governance. He said as part of these reforms we increased the support prices of different crops in line with the international market for the development of rural economy. This step paid dividend and the country has registered unprecedented production of wheat cotton rice and sugarcane. As a result of these policies we are today exporting wheat and sugar. He said under the Benazir Income Support Programme the poor segments of the society have been targeted. So far 180 billion rupees have been spent under this programme. Currently seven million people are benefiting from this programme and we aim to expand it to nine million people, he said.

04 June 2012 The Nation SC Suspends Malik's Senate Membership in Dual Nationality Case The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday suspended Senate membership of Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik in dual nationality case, a private TV reported. A three member bench of the SC headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the dual nationality case and announced its interim order. According to the report, Malik had claimed that he had forfeited his British citizenship but failed to provide sufficient documents to the SC. The SC had also suspended the National Assembly membership of PPP MNA Farahnaz Ispahani in the same case earlier. Apart from Farahnaz Ispahani and Rehman Malik, the petition also names fourteen other parliamentarians as holding dual nationalities. The court has adjourned the hearing of the case till June 13.

04 June 2012 The Nation Govt Asked to Approach Centre to Execute Project KARACHI The Sindh Assemblys Standing Committee on Local Government has recommended to the provincial government take up with the Centre the issue of implementation of the CNG bus project that has been delayed because of the lack of funding from Islamabad. The committee has finalized its report on the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto CNG Bus project. It would be produced in the upcoming session of the provincial assembly, said its chairman, Haji Munwar Abbasi. We have suggested to the Sindh government to approach the federal government to remind it of its promise to carry out the bus scheme, under which a total of 8,000 buses 4,000 buses each for Karachi and the remaining province had to ply on

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roads in December last year, added Abbasi. The assemblys body, which met here the other day, finalized its report on the 75 CNG buses that had been lying non-functional at KMC depots and the Centre-funded Shaheed Benazir Bhutto CNG Bus project. According to the documents available with The Nation, the CNG bus project was considered and finalized in 2009, under which environment-friendly buses were supposed to come on roads on the fourth death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto on December 27, 2011. But, the lack of funding from the federal government delayed the project. However, Munwar Abbasi underlined the importance of the project, saying that the committee recommend to the provincial government ask the Centre to initiate the project in the FY 2012-13 budget. The project has been drawn out in consultations with all stakeholders, including public-private sector banks. The federal government allocated Rs2.5 billion for Karachi and Rs2.5 billion for other major cities of Pakistan, including Lahore, Hyderabad and Sukkur, for induction of 4,000 CNG buses under the Federal Public Sector Development programme. A sum of Rs300 million was transferred to the State Bank of Pakistan on December 30, 2009 for the disbursement of upfront grant of Rs300,000 per bus (Rs0.3 million for each bus), sources said. However, despite the intervention of President Asif Zardari during his visit to Karachi on April 20, 2009 and subsequent support of Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah and the Sindh governor, loan-financing for the project could not be streamlined by the federal government, the sources added. About the buses lying at the KMC depots, officials of the KMC informed the committee that out of 50 buses, 2 Hino buses were set ablaze during riots in Karachi, while remaining 48 Hino buses were in operation on three routs in the city. Of 25 Daewoo CNG buses, only two were operating after getting necessary repair work from manufacturers. But, defects occurred in the remaining 23 buses, said the officials, adding that a tender had been invited for repair work of these 23 buses but not a single person showed interest. The Karachi Mass Transit Cell informed the Sindh Assemblys body that it intended to make fourth and final attempt of inviting tenders.

04 June 2012 The Nation Three-Day Iran Trade Fair Ends LAHORE Three days Iran Fair 2012 came to an end on Sunday with attendance of more than 30,000 visitors and 75 Iranian and 45 Pakistani companies also participated. This is unprecedented for the first time that any individual countrys exhibition has been hosted by Government of Punjab through its investment promotion agency i.e. Punjab Board of Investment and Trade (PBIT). CEO PBIT Dr Sajid Yoosufani, while speaking at the closing ceremony, looked forward to more such people to people exchanges in future which would enhance the socio-economic ties between both the countries. The head of the Iranian delegation Ali Khaksar thanked PBIT and the Punjab government for making it possible and looked forward to hosting Pakistan solo exhibition in Mashad, Iran in November of this year. Iranian exhibitors were awarded certificates and shields by PBIT VC Dr. Miftah Ismail. Also in attendance were the head of the Iranian delegation Ali Khaksar, commercial consular Iran, CEO Expo and a senior member from LCCI. The main partners of PBIT for this fair CM Pak (A China Mobile Company), Faisalabad Industrial Estate and CDGL were also awarded shields for their participation.

04 June 2012 Pak Tribune Imran Wants Audit of Defense Budget

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan called for auditing the defense budget of the country by bringing it in the knowledge of elected government as to where it is spent. Addressing a post-budget press conference on Sunday, Imran termed corruption the biggest evil haunting the country, and felt that the menace had increased so massively that if not stopped, it would eat up the country. He again urged the PPP and the PML-N leadership to declare their assets. The PTI chief accused both the PPP and the PML-N of supporting the status quo and urged their leadership to bring back the money they had stashed in foreign accounts, to show they were sincere with the country. Imran called the new federal budget a total fraud, opining whatever tax was collected would be paid in external debt servicing. On devaluation of rupee, Imran said that it pushes up inflation, while the leaders whose money was 'preserved' in foreign accounts benefited from it. He said the people of the country would not pay taxes as "their leaderships" had not been paying taxes. He pointed out that 61% of the parliamentarians in the sitting assemblies did not bother paying taxes. He vowed to collect taxes from the powerful segments of society and reduce expenditures by adopting austerity measures, after coming into power. Coming down hard on Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the PTI chief termed the shifting of his camp office to Minar-e-Pakistan a drama, saying the PML-N had supported the PPP for three years, all the time knowing where the country was going. Imran said the PTI was the only party that had public support, and it could block the entire country if wanted. "This will, however, be an unconstitutional act, so it would not be exercised." He said that the details of assets of the PTI leadership and members of its Central Executive Committee would be posted on the party's website after June 30. It's a dead budget: PTI The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has termed the annual budget exercise "meaningless" on the basis of the performance statistics released by the government the other day, saying that it is also like the previous years; a budget which is dead on arrival and grossly wrong in estimating the fiscal deficit. "The government has presented a budget each year and then proceeded to completely ignore it and end the year with no semblance to the original budget presented," a PTI spokesman said on Sunday. "Starting the year with a budget that set a target of 4.7% of GDP as the fiscal deficit, by its own admission will end the year with a budget deficit of almost 7% (including circular debt) and which in reality will probably end up close to 8%," he added. The spokesman said that the Rs 250 billion, and growing, of overdue payables to the IPPs were not accounted for anywhere in the budget. "We are likely to end next year with another deficit exceeding 8% of the GDP and the economy sunk further in a debt trap." He said, "The economic growth seen by the country in the last four years, which is the lowest in the last 50 years for any four-year period, is set to continue at an anemic level for the next few years unless fundamental reform decisions are taken."

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He said the budget presented by the government did not address any of the fundamental structural problems being faced by the country. "There is nothing substantive in it that deals with the high rate of inflation, the increasing unemployment and other problems."

04 June 2012 Pak Tribune Gilani Orders Balochistan to Improve Law, Order QUETTA: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday directed the Balochistan chief secretary and home secretary to take steps to improve law and order situation in the province. Talking to a delegation of Hazara community at Governor's House, the prime minister said that a concerted strategy must be evolved to ensure peace in Balochistan. He said any leniency on part of law enforcers would not be tolerated. He also expressed his sympathies with the families of six people killed in a gun attack in Quetta on Sunday. Separately, Gilani said he had directed the Balochistan chief secretary to identify 35,000 graduates of Balochistan to be given jobs by the government. "Fifteen hundred jobs in Federal Levies Force have already been provided to the people of Balochistan," he said while talking to a PPP Balochistan delegation led by its provincial president Mir Sadiq Umrani. "1,500 more jobs will be created in the Federal Levies Force in Balochistan this year," Gilani said, adding that the government would further recruit 10,000 youth in different departments. Out of them, 5,000 would be sent abroad to acquire required skills in their respective fields, the prime minister added. He said that under the 18th Amendment, provisional autonomy had been granted to provinces in order to empower them. He said that under the 7th National Finance Commission Award (NFC), the share of Balochistan had reached Rs 120 billion as compared to Rs 40 billion in the past. He said the government had allocated Rs 6 billion to provide scholarships to the youth of Balochistan.

04 June 2012 Pak Tribune Four More Shias Lose Life in Quetta QUETTA: At least six people, including four Shias and a policeman, were killed and another policeman injured when a group of armed men attacked a welding shop on Essa Khan Road on Sunday, police said. They said unidentified armed men, riding a motorcycle, opened fire on the shop, killing five people, including a passer-by. "Four of the victims belong to the Shia community and it could be the case of sectarian targeted killing," police said. "They [attackers] entered a welding shop when workers were having their lunch and killed five people," senior police officer Jahangir Shah told AFP, adding that the dead included four members of the Shia Hazara community and a passer-by. The deceased were identified as Haji Abdul Nabi, his son Muhammad Hassan, Muhammad Tariq, Abdul Manan and Naqeebullah, the passer-by.

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The attackers were escaping after killing the five people when a police patrolling team spotted the gunmen and opened fire at them. Two policemen were injured in the ensuing shootout. Sources said that two attackers were also injured but they escaped in a rickshaw. The deceased and injured were moved to Sandeman Hospital but one of the policemen succumbed to injuries before making it to the hospital. A heavy contingent of police and Frontier Corps (FC) reached the crime scene and cordoned off the area. No group had claimed responsibility for the attack until filing of this report. A case had been registered against unidentified people and an investigation was underway. Sunday's attack came as Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani flew to Quetta to discuss the law and order situation in Balochistan, officials said. Another member of the Hazara community was gunned down and another shot and injured near a bus stop on Sariab Road on Saturday.

04 June 2012 Pak Tribune Osama Spent All His Fortune on jihad: Zawahiri Late al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden spent his fortune on financing "holy war" including the September 11 US attacks in 2001, said current al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in an Internet video. "The rich Sheikh Osama spent all his money on jihad," said Zawahiri, Bin Laden's number two who took charge of the jihadist group after the world's most wanted man was killed in a US raid last year. Zawahiri's message, posted on websites, was introduced as the second part of his memoirs on the life of Bin Laden. "He spent generously on jihad, especially on financing the September 11 attacks in 2001" on the United States and the "attacks against the US embassies in Nairobi and Dares Salaam" in 1998, Zawahiri said. However, Bin Laden's personal life was "austere" and he was "very stingy in spending on anything other than jihad," Zawahiri said. Bin Laden spent all his personal wealth on jihad, considering meat and electricity as luxuries so he could save his money to help fund terror attacks, he said. The wealth of Bin Laden, who came from a rich family behind grandiose construction projects in the oil-rich kingdom, is estimated at between $30 million and $300 million, but some estimates put it at $1 billion. Bin Laden was born to a wealthy family, but ran into financial troubles after he was pushed out of Sudan in 1996, Zawahiri said. Shortly thereafter, he said, Bin Laden spent $50,000 to help finance 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania at a time when he only had $55,000 to his name. Those bombings killed 224 people. Bin Laden's personal wealth also helped finance the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Zawahiri said bin Laden used to encourage the mujahedeen to live without electricity, which he considered as luxury. "Luxury is the enemy of jihad and if the mujahedeen were brought up to live in asceticism, they would tolerate the burden of jihad," al- Zawahiri quoted bin Laden as saying.

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Zawahiri said bin Laden was also generous to his bodyguards, who were devoted to him. Once in Afghanistan, he came under shelling, but the bodyguards took bin Laden to a wall and formed a human shield around him. In the first video in the series, posted on jihadist websites in November, Zawahiri said he wanted to show bin Laden's "human side." He described a sensitive man who cried when his friends lost family members, remained close to his children despite the hard life of an international jihadist, and fondly remembered by name the 19 men who carried out the deadliest terrorist attack ever on US soil.

EDITORIALS (Top) 04 June 2012 Daily Times EDITORIAL: Hosni Mubaraks Day in Court Former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak has been handed down a life sentence along with his former interior minister Habib al-Adly for the killing of 225 protestors and wounding more than 1,800 during the movement for his ouster in January 2011. Six co-accused security commanders were acquitted for lack of evidence. The verdict immediately drew thousands of protestors into the streets. Some of them demanded Mubaraks execution, others feared weaknesses in the case as reflected finally in the verdict could let Mubarak off on appeal. The verdict comes at an especially fraught time for Egypt, just two weeks before a crucial run-off election for president, in which the Egyptian voters have been left with a Hobsons choice between the Muslim Brotherhoods candidate Muhammad Mursi, who came in first in the first round, and second placed former prime minister under Mubarak, Ahmed Shafiq. Critics of the verdict argue that it proves the old order is still in place. The military, which has been in power since the coup of 1952, is still calling the shots. Entrenched in power for decades, the military has acquired a militaryindustrial-business complex that it will not surrender easily. Apart from fears of the sentence being overturned on appeal, critics also question why the former president has not been held accountable for the years of repression against dissidents, the police state, and corruption. Mubaraks two sons have been acquitted of corruption charges because of the statute of limitations and Mubarak himself has been acquitted in one corruption case because of lack of evidence. The former president has a great deal to answer for during the 30 years he was in absolute power, courtesy the army and in the aftermath of Sadats assassination. The military courts that tried and sentenced thousands of political opponents of the regime in the 1980s and 1990s, the renditions in collaboration with US President Bush in the war on terror, the systematic use of torture and rape as instruments for breaking the will of opponents, all these crimes have been left on the shelf and the case against him has been confined to the repression of the Tahrir Square protestors. That does not necessarily mean that none of this will come out in the wash eventually. After the political transition to an elected president (most likely to be the front runner from the Muslim Brotherhood), who knows what other accountability processes may kick in? At this point, it may be salutary to revisit the Arab Spring, on which many hopes resided for a new state and society to emerge from the sacrifices of citizens in removing the dictator. It would not be out of place to argue that the Spring was overhyped and expectations as to its outcome overly optimistic. In the flush of victory against Mubarak, this heightened sense of expectation, especially given the mood on the street, was understandable. However, what cooler minds were arguing even then was that the entrenched military would not be easy to displace and in fact Mubarak would be sacrificed by it precisely in order to keep its grip on power. As to the movement itself, the liberals and left were inherently coming to political agitation spontaneously and without the backing of a party organization, unlike the battle hardened Muslim Brotherhood.

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The first attempts to give the disparate forces of the left-liberals a political identity resulted in splits, reflected also in the first round of the presidential election. It is to be noted that in spite of the left-liberal vote being spilt amongst various candidates, a socialist, Hamdeen Sabahi, still managed to come third. The highly organized and disciplined Muslim Brotherhood, veteran of decades of struggle, open and underground, would always have been a formidable foe, more so in the face of a scattered and divided rival camp of the real movers of the revolution. Does Mubaraks day in court mean the day of the dictator is over? Conceptually, yes, history has delivered its verdict. However, in real terms and on the ground, the old adage that He may be a b*****d, but at least hes our b*****d still informs the contradictory stances of the great powers, paramount amongst them the US. Only a real peoples revolution that sweeps away the old order completely can satisfy the inherent aspirations of the Arab Spring and masses. Until then, the struggle for a just democratic society continues, with its twists and turns, triumphs and disappointments.

04 June2012 Daily Times SECOND EDITORIAL: Planning and Consistency Pay We lost our first T20 with Sri Lanka not on account of a big total to chase but in the illusion of a low score being easy to overtake. Sri Lanka, after a poor start, managed a score of 132 for seven. Pakistan lost its first three wickets for only 12 runs. On 95 the entire Pakistan team was out in 17 overs. Pakistans new T20 captain agreed that the team failed to apply itself. In the second T20 on Sunday, the reverse result transpired. Pakistan set a lowly 123 target, but the Sri Lankans folded for 99, a la Pakistan the other day. Cricket in Pakistan has not been blessed with proper planning and consistency. We are quick to blame the captain for any defeat and precipitate in removing him. Undoubtedly the captain bears the ultimate responsibility for the performance of the team. Even if it is conceded that Hafeez was thrown into the deep end without any grooming (say as vice-captain under an experienced hand), since we are rebuilding the team in preparation for this years T20 World Cup, we need to give the captain and the younger players being blooded a fair run. Pakistan unfortunately has been following a whimsical approach in appointing captains. Even team selection is constantly dogged by controversies. Very little consistent planning or methodology is followed. Now that Muhammad Hafeez has lost one and won one T20, thereby squaring the series, he should be left in place and allowed to mature in the job. Obviously Afridi, Shoaib Malik and Shakeel Ansar are being criticized for performing below the standard expected of them. Shakeel on his debut needs to be given experience in the middle order instead of one down. Umar Akmal was rightly moved to number four in the batting order, even if he did not do anything extraordinary. Here too, patience will bring rewards, haste will deliver negative results. Now that we have achieved mixed results, instead of reverting to our usual habit of chopping and changing every so often, we should persist in building a team combining the fresh with the old, keep Muhammad Hafeez as captain, and allow the team to settle down and find its true level. With Dav Whitmore around, this would be the way to go. Muhammad Hafeez could take advantage of two former captains in his team. Their experience will go a long way in improving the T20 team.

04 June 2012 Daily Times VIEW: Real Muslims Dont Need Electricity By Dr. Syed Mansoor Hussain

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It is indeed my considered opinion that electricity and in particular the use of air-conditioning has undermined the fighting ability and the intellectual development of the Ummah. Concerning load shedding, I have an important revelation that must be brought to the attention of my readers and by extension, the public. In the past, I have been a trifle harsh about our now former minister of load shedding, especially about his statement after he took over his ministry that load shedding would end in a day. The more I have thought about what he had up his sleeve, the more I am convinced that he had a diabolically brilliant plan worthy of Professor Moriarty. Based upon how load shedding was increasing steadily, I believe that our minister of load shedding intended to keep decreasing the amount of electricity available to the public to the point where finally no electricity was available at all. Once that point was reached, load shedding would also have ended. No load, no shedding! Then slowly, he would start to provide some electricity, increasing the amount available every day, and take credit for reversing the entire load shedding problem. From then onward, instead of load shedding it would become load provision. All those so incensed about load shedding of 12 hours or more a day would suddenly become ecstatic over load provision for 12 hours a day. Brilliant, dont you think? Sadly, it seems that the higher ups in our government had never heard of Professor Moriarty and more importantly, did not have the smarts to understand the intricacies of this plan and have evidently replaced this minister. What is done is done, so now to the problem at hand; how can we fix load shedding? There are the usual rational solutions but it was the recent action of the intrepid chief minister (CM) of Punjab, who decided to shift his office under the Minar-e-Pakistan that finally crystallized in my mind what indeed needed to be done to fix this problem. Desperate times need desperate measures. My suggestion is that as of June 6, all air-conditioning should be turned off in all official residences, offices, especially those of the ESCOs and WAPDA, and assemblies. This of course, includes the presidency, the prime ministers (PM) house, houses of parliament, secretariat buildings, provincial and central; the Supreme Court and the provincial superior courts, the judges residences, ministerial residences, private palaces of all government servants, including the PM, the president, the CMs, provincial ministers and other important servants of the people. The ban on air-conditioning should also extend to all official vehicles. More importantly, all residents of these places should be forbidden to leave for colder climes or even to countries where air-conditioning is available until the load shedding problem has been solved. If all this is done, I am sure that within a matter of weeks, this problem will be resolved and if not, I will donate 1,000 rupees to the PMs flood relief fund. Of course, the government functionaries will complain about the impossibility of working in an un-air-conditioned environment. I will remind them that the Brits ruled this country for 100 years without air-conditioning and did a pretty good job of it. Also that Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the Quaid-e-Azam, delivered his famous inaugural speech to the constituent assembly on August 11, 1947 in an assembly house that had no air-conditioning and that Pakistan was run rather well for quite some time without any air-conditioning. Why June 6 as a start date? Well, think of John Wayne, Normandy and Omaha Beach. Now back to the intrepid CM of Punjab who has decided to hold his camp office under the Minar-e-Pakistan. My suggestion to the CM is that he and his staff should permanently move to the Iqbal Park until load shedding is no longer an issue with us. The entire cabinet of the Punjab should bivouac out there, sleep there and conduct government business out there. However, massive generators to provide electricity are verboten. All this will also tremendously cut down on electricity use by the government of the Punjab and offer an important example for other provincial governments to follow.

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As far as bathroom facilities are concerned, there should be one port-a-potty for the CM, two for all officers of grade 20 and above, two for officers from grade 17 to 19 and those below that rank can use natural facilities. Considering the availability of wireless internet and cell phones, most communication can take place without any land lines. By sleeping out in the open, the CM will learn firsthand about the scourge of mosquitoes and traffic noise. And yes, it will bring all our khadims (servants) from the CM down closer to the people as well as nature. Perhaps, as the CM lies in the open and watches the stars, he will through such a commune with nature, come up with even better ideas on how to run the government of Punjab. Before the most honorable Chief Justice (CJ) of Pakistan gets perturbed by my suggestion that air-conditioning should not be available in the Supreme Court (SC) or in his residence, may I remind him that Justice Munir, the first Pakistani CJ, not only wrote the brilliant Munir Report, but also dealt a death blow to democracy in Pakistan without the help of any air-conditioning. It is indeed my considered opinion that electricity and in particular the use of airconditioning has undermined the fighting ability and the intellectual development of the Ummah. After all, the greatest Muslim conquests and scientific progress took place before air-conditioning or even electricity was invented. Therefore, if we in Pakistan wish to bring back the glory days of Islam, then we must indeed not only eschew airconditioning but all electricity. And yes, that will indeed significantly decrease load shedding. Here, Imran Khan can play his role in bringing glory to Pakistan by starting a national movement to not use any electricity. And Imran Khan would also look quite dashing on horseback.

04 June 2012 Daily Times VIEW: Chicago Summit By A. R Siddiqi There would be hardly another example of a head of state, and that too of an allied country and a frontline state, invited to the summit so late and with such a lack of standard protocol. Almost the most revealing news photograph at the Chicago Summit caught President Barack Obama with two of his distinguished guests, President Abdul Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan, engaged preferentially with the former. It was a rare sight of the three presidents getting together, even if informally, on the margins of the Chicago Summit. As the two presidents, Obama and Karzai talk, the third, President Zardari, looks on as a mute observer. He must have been waiting for an odd friendly gesture or a good word from his American host that might have come through off camera. Even if only a figment of the onlookers own morbid imagination, the circumstance of the US presidents deliberately cold-shouldering his Pakistani guest would be sufficiently substantiated by the generally lukewarm reception to the latter. Did President Zardari or Ambassador Sherry Rehman indeed make any formal request at all to the White House for such a meeting and was the same rejected by Washington? Before the Pakistani president accepted the muchdebated and overly delayed invitation at all, Ambassador Rehman might have pressed the American hosts to give her a clear outline of the programme of the presidents engagement with his American counterpart? Did the Ambassador have the vaguest idea about the way her president would be cold-shouldered? Her timely advice to our foreign office might have helped avoid much of the embarrassment that followed and was covered by the world media. The host country and NATOs impudence apart, for the president to go at all at such short notice, could have saved us a lot of embarrassment. There would be hardly another example of a head of state, and that too of an allied country and a frontline state, invited to the summit so late and with such a lack of standard protocol. The

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photograph and the adverse reaction it created in Pakistan brought forth only a churlish response from the White House. The spokesperson rejected the claims that President Obama had refused to have an exclusive meeting with President Zardari during the Chicago Summit. What then happened to prevent President Obama from having even a single one-on-one meeting from being formally scheduled and actually taking place with his Pakistani counterpart? Pakistans reservations about re-opening the overland supply route all the way from Karachi to Kabul is briefly the main factor contributing to the crisis, together with its principled demand for an unqualified apology from the US for the November 2011, massacre of 24 Pakistani soldiers at the Salala post by random US land-air fire. The Salala post is well inside Pakistans territory, and the US saying sorry is hardly a substitute for an unqualified apology. Thus for want of a mere word, the Summit was all but lost at a crucial level. While no such apology was forthcoming, the NATO high command could still take Pakistans help and cooperation for granted. The chief of the NATO forces, General R Allen of the US, grandly declared that Pakistan was going nowhere.... In other words, regardless of what has happened, and might still happen in the future, Pakistan would toe the NATO (the US) line, willingly or otherwise, as before. That was the last thing the general in command of an on-going operation, in a critical phase, should have risked. Much of that however, was more out of misplaced confidence than a brutal acceptance of things not going well and according to plan. Not to speak of something as privileged as an exclusive meeting with President Obama, even a formal invitation to President Zardari was made contingent to reopening the land supply route, practically without preconditions. The NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen went to the extent of telling President Zardari that the formal invitation to the summit would depend on his prior unconditional acceptance of re-opening the road to Kabul in spite of the Salala massacre of some 20 plus Pakistani soldiers in unprovoked land-air fire by the US. Where do we stand after the deliberate show of a woeful lack of courtesy to Pakistan? What aggravates the pain was to find the host going out of his way to fawn on his newly made strategic partner, President Hamid Karzai, talking to him one-on-one in a pre-scheduled meeting. On the other hand, aside from a couple of encounters en passant with the head of state, once the most allied ally and a darling of both the White House and the Pentagon was all but ignored As for Pakistan, it cannot afford to repeat the costly blunder it committed by boycotting the Bonn Conference in December 2011. Thus Pakistan missed an opportunity to register its protest against the post-Abbottabad and Salala episodes respectively of May and November of the same year. The Salala killings barely a mouth old then could have been projected with a much greater force of conviction and argument while the iron was still hot. What NATO and the US must accept is that without Pakistan actively engaged at the vital two-fold diplomatic and military levels, Afghanistan shall be a zero sum game. Pakistans isolation from the mainstream strategic and tactical war and peace operations might well be NATOs debacle. Unless by some miracle, the Afghan war ultimately turns the Durand Line into a line of peace and amity, it would remain an abiding threat to regional peace and stability. Any bilateral, US-Afghan process like the strategic pact of May 2, 2012 would well bring Afghanistan close to a confrontational, militant mode against Pakistan sooner than a fraternal embrace.

04 June 2012 Daily Times VIEW: Pakistan: Myth of a Secular State By Ashraf

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Jinnah did not believe in a top down model but rather preferred the politics of consensus. The clerics may have had an anti-Jinnah agenda; the reverse however is not true. Pakistan may be no heaven on earth but we are undoubtedly much better off today than our elders who had to live through the nightmare of communal rioting that had ensued months before Indias independence. Yet we are no closer to reaching a consensus on the issue whether Pakistan was meant to be a secular state. It is debatable therefore that those in tens of millions who headed both east and west during the eventful days, traumatized but running very high on religious nationalism, had any clearer notion of the ideological contours of their new nation. This is not to suggest that those who never had to migrate had hedged their bets in favor of secularism. This does not mean that there are no takers for secularism in todays Pakistan. Self-proclaimed liberals are also the self-appointed guardians of Mohammad Ali Jinnahs liberal political legacy and actively advocate the form of governance wherein there is a divorce between the state and religion. To this end, Jinnahs August 11, 1947 speech has been quoted repeatedly. He says, You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan...You may belong to any religion or caste or creed that has nothing to do with the business of the State... No doubt, Jinnah uttered these words, but is this all he said on that historic occasion? Jinnah delivered a composite speech in a recommendatory tone, in which he laid out a roadmap for Pakistans future. The speech must be read as a whole to make better sense of what was going on in Jinnahs mind on that historic day. Those who pick and choose willfully distort history to achieve their own contemporary political ends. On August 11, 1947, the first constituent assembly of Pakistan unanimously elected Mohammad Ali Jinnah to preside over its meetings. However, at what would otherwise have been a joyous moment for him, the bloodstained landscape of northern India had gravely saddened him. Even the historic occasion and the thunderous applause could not pull him out of his morbid mood. What had been nagging him all along was the plight of millions of refuges, who either had voluntarily or involuntarily chosen to migrate to Pakistan. The British Raj had decided to quit India in a hurry and by doing so had thrown millions of defenseless Indians before the wolves. The ethnic cleansing that took place was unprecedented in the recorded history of the human race. Rather than choosing to lecture on the virtues of secularism, Jinnah decided to start his speech by reminding the constituent assembly of its two foremost responsibilities: framing of the new constitution and functioning of the new assembly as a full and complete Sovereign body as the Federal Legislature of Pakistan. Underscoring the importance of sovereignty of the assembly, he further said, The first and the foremost thing that I would like to emphasize is this. Remember that you are now a Sovereign Legislative body and you have got all the powers. It therefore, places on you the gravest responsibility as to how you should take your decisions...You will no doubt agree with me that the first duty of a Government is to maintain law and order, so that the life property and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State... Of course, Jinnah was not only an astute politician, but also a visionary. He had realized that the scourge of corruption would eat up the very foundations of the new state, therefore he reminded the constituent assembly: The second thing that occurs to me is this: One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering...is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison... The old sage then chose to warn the elected leaders against the malaise of black-marketing, nepotism, and jobbery. He then chose to justify the division of India and hoped that the future historian would agree with him. The next segment of his speech could rightly be classified as his unity, faith, discipline message, reminding the members to work for their constituents and for the prosperity of all Pakistanis, irrespective of their differences. It is only then that he uttered the famous words, music to some ears, about religious freedom. Finally, he chose to conclude the speech by affirming, ...My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure

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that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest Nations of the world. Those who have analyzed Jinnahs speech have often overlooked the fact that it was made before a group of ... mullahs, pirs, nawabs, rajas, shahs, and khans... (Stanley Wolpert, Jinnah of Pakistan, page 338). Had Jinnah been a secular fundamentalist, he would have either not allowed the mullahs and the pirs into the House or ordered their expulsion. Rather, being a realist, he appreciated the multiple facets of the new state. He may have held Mustafa Kamal Ataturk in high esteem but unlike him, he was a pluralist. Jinnah did not believe in a top down model but rather preferred the politics of consensus. Therefore, those who make a point that he had an anti-clergy agenda are advancing their argument on flimsy grounds. The clerics may have had an anti-Jinnah agenda; the reverse however is not true. Notwithstanding the aforementioned, Pakistan could have not been a secular state otherwise as well. Sporadic communal rioting aside, neither the Muslims nor their religion was faced with a mortal threat at any time in the secular British India. Nobody better than Jinnah appreciated this reality therefore, as late as 1946, he had no real desire or hurry to carve out a separate secular state for the Muslims of India. Furthermore, the exigencies of real politic precluded Pakistan from turning into a secular state. It would have robbed the new state of its raison detre. Pakistan had to be a special state, formed in negation of secular India. It, therefore, could have not been secular Indias twin. Indias demographics, of course, were ideal for the formation of a secular state. Notwithstanding its large minority population, the Indian Hindus, even today, are extremely diverse, owed largely to the fact that Hinduism is not a religion but a mythology. A deity worshipped in Delhi, is not necessarily worshipped in Chennai. Brahmins are strict vegetarians all over India but in West Bengal, fish is a part of Brahmins daily staple diet. Therefore, even if the Congress hierarchy had ever dreamt of a Hindu India, the idea was shelved readily and prudently. Muslims of India however, were a different case altogether. During the 1946 elections, the Muslim League ticket holders, mindful of the fact that the new nation could not be Indias clone, sparingly played the Muslim card; their Congress opponents with a secular manifesto really stood no chance. Contested on separate electorate basis, needless to say, the Muslim League trounced Congress in that election. The same politicians, let us be mindful, became members of our very first constituent assembly. Therefore, those who had won their seats on the Muslim card and separate electorate could have not turned around and advocated a separation between the state and religion. Interestingly, neither that constituent assembly nor any subsequent assembly has ever chosen to pass a resolution demanding Pakistan to be a secular state. Parliament represents the collective will of the people. Pakistan was formed for the Muslims of India, in which they could not only live but also thrive according to their own way of life. That way of life naturally demands safeguarding its various aspects through legislation. How a State could stay neutral or in an extreme case, divorced from religion while regulating both the temporal and nontemporal? Through this article, hopefully a debate would be started, determining once and all, the value we still attach to those words uttered on August 11, 1947. Let me rephrase the question again: if Jinnah was secular; did he want the same for Pakistan?

04 June 2012 Daily Times COMMENT: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and His Legacy By Yasser Latif Hamdani

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Azads role for two decades after partition was one of the token Congress Muslim show boy as Jinnah famously called him. As Pakistan continues to dangle on the brink of failure and India thrives, there are many who have begun to ask whether Maulana Azad, the great Indian leader and Islamic scholar, was right and Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was wrong in those final days of the British Raj. Both Azad and Jinnah were extremely intelligent leaders and were contenders for the leadership of Muslims. The westernized Jinnah managed to win the support of the Muslim masses while the religious scholar, Maulana Azad, was sidelined. In his autobiography, Azad made a prescient observation about Pakistan breaking into two, which came true of course. There are however, a number of predictions, all seemingly accurate, which are associated with Azad that seem to reinforce further his image as the sage of the age. He is said, amongst other things, to have predicted Pakistans dependence on western powers and growing discord between the religious right and liberals in Pakistan in an interview conducted in April 1946. The only problem is that the latter list of predictions has been transmitted to us through a dubious source. This source was Agha Shorish Kashmiri, a committed Ahrari leader who opposed the creation of Pakistan (and ironically, played an important role in fomenting sectarian trouble against Ahmadis and Shias in Pakistan). No one other than Kashmiri seems to have seen a record of this interview and there is no primary source to confirm this interview. The said interview does not appear in any of Azads papers or in any record of his life as preserved in India. In the view of this writer therefore, that interview was a concoction and a distortion invented by Agha Shorish Kashmiri in the 1970s when he wrote an Urdu biography of Azad. TV shows like Khabarnaak have recently referenced these predictions and the myth therefore, is now fully under way as being accepted as the gospel truth. What is equally bothersome about this attempt to re-invent Azad as a latter day Nostradamus, staring into his crystal bowl and predicting the future is that it completely disregards his own role in the first five decades of the 20th century. The Khilafat Movement brought Azad, who was a well-respected Islamic scholar in Sunni circles, into prominence, where he used fiery Islamic rhetoric to galvanize the religious Muslim masses behind the movement to save the Caliphate in Turkey. Mahatma Gandhi and other Hindu leaders who, naively, assumed that deploying the abrasive theocratic logic of the Caliphate could somehow paradoxically bring Hindus and Muslims together on one platform, supported this movement. Azad repeatedly denounced the Aligarh school and chastised Muslims for following the timid and pro-western ways of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, when Islam was a complete code of life. He also gave the famous fatwa for Hijrat, which declared that India under British rule was Dar-ul-Harb and that it was the religious duty of every Muslim to either resist the government or migrate to Afghanistan. It is noteworthy that Jinnah repeatedly warned Gandhi to stay away from this pseudo-religious approach, which would ultimately divide Hindus and Muslims as well as Muslims and Muslims. The consequences of the Khilafat Movement and the rhetoric of Azad and Maulana Mohammad Ali were that Muslim professionals left government service and other material benefits of the British rule and were led onto a path of self-destruction. Gandhi, Azad and other leaders of this movement went on to ask even Aligarh University to refuse British patronage (while paradoxically failing to ask the same of Benaras Hindu University). Since the entire movement was built on a theological foundation, i.e. Pan-Islamism, it was bound to turn on itself. The Moplah Muslim uprising in the south completely shattered the faade of Hindu-Muslim unity created by the movement. In retaliation, Hindus started the Shuddhi (which was aimed at re-converting Muslims to Hinduism) and Sanghtan (organizing and arming Hindus).

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04 June 2012

In reaction to the Shuddhi and Sanghtan movements, Muslims came up with the Tabligh (propagation of faith) and Tanzeem (organization) movements. This militant and hostile communal atmosphere laid the foundation for open communal warfare, leading to mass rioting and violence. The Khilafat Movement, which had temporarily united Hindus and Muslims for an illogical cause, rendered religious identities non-negotiable. That Jinnah had predicted this in his letters to Gandhi is a matter of record. Azads role for two decades after partition was one of the token Congress Muslim show boy as Jinnah famously called him. In his book, India Wins Freedom, Azad blames Jawaharlal Nehru for not coming to an arrangement with the Muslim League after the 1937 elections, completely sidestepping his own role in the horse trading that weakened the Muslim unity board and led to the final break between the Muslim League and the Congress. Similarly, Azad concedes, rightly, that the Cabinet Mission Plan would have kept India united and that Congress was wrong in how it handled the Muslim League in the aftermath of the 1946 elections. It is also true that Azad wrote a letter to Gandhi, which suggested exactly that and which probably caused Azad to lose his place as president of the Congress. However, what Azad forgets is that he publicly justified and remained wedded to Congress erroneous interpretation of the groupings clause, which led to the collapse of the Cabinet Mission Plan. Therefore, the myth of Azads prescience is problematic because it papers over facts leading to partition. It is a well-known fact now that Jinnahs own idea of Pakistan was in a treaty arrangement with India, a sort of a European Union type arrangement, and not of complete partition. In fact, according to Mountbatten, Jinnah had to be forced into accepting partition. Therefore, the Jinnah-Azad binary itself is perhaps a distortion of history and should be avoided in any serious investigation of partition.

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