| Now is the time when Pakistani complaints of national humiliation are entirely justified. |
...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain...
and his deputy Hafiz Abdur Rehman Makki seeking government's protection against United States' act of announcing bounty on their (petitioners) heads.
| What can the Pakistani government do? Declare the American bounty nonexistent? That won'qt work. Or perhaps provide him bodyguards? They could put someone on the roof to announcing incoming Predator missiles, and provide bodyguards to call the police as the SEALs' helicopters fly away... |
| Go ahead, Chief Justice Saeed -- declare the United States of America out of order. That'll do the trick. |
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
was JuD chief, which was a charitable organization and had no nexus with Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
. He said previously the petitioner was wrongfully jugged by the government in 2009 on charges of having links with Al-Qaeda but a LHC full bench had set aside the detention after the government failed to bring any evidence against the petitioner. Mr Dogar pointed out that national and international media on April 3 highlighted a news that US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman stated in New Delhi that head-money of $10 million and $3million had been announced on Hafiz Saeed and Hafiz Makki, respectively.
The counsel argued the US was acting on the instigation of India and the act of announcing head money while visiting India spoke for itself. He mentioned that Pak courts, including SC and LHC, had already exonerated Saeed from all charges levelled against him by India and the US.
| No evidence presented by unbelievers can possibly be valid, after all, no matter how true. It's in the Koran somewhere. |
He said the Foreign Office made it clear to the US that concrete evidence be provided against the petitioners and even Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
said there was no evidence against the petitioners.
The counsel said the minister also stated the US violated international laws by attacking Pakistain's illusory sovereignty.
He said the prime minister, addressing a joint sitting of parliament, had also said the Saeed issue was an internal one and it concerned Pakistain only.
Therefore, the announcement of bounty was liable to be withdrawn and the petitioners needed to be protected being citizens of Pakistain, said Advocate Dogar.
He prayed to the court to direct the government to protect the petitioners and make arrangements for their security under Article 9 of the Constitution.
He prayed that the government be directed to seek withdrawal of the bounty announcement by the US. The counsel also sought an order against any possible adverse action against the petitioners or their families on the part of the Pakistain government or any agency without taking prior permission from the high court.
After hearing the arguments, the chief justice sought replies from both federal and provincial governments through their law officers and adjourned hearing till April 25.