[Pak Daily Times] Car theft incidents are yet again on the rise all over the country and in case some lucky man gets his vehicle recovered he has to face multiple hurdles erected by the police.
Some 373 cars were stolen from the federal capital in 2009 and this number rose to 393 in 2010. It seems criminals prefer to shift the stolen cars to the capital after tempering them because fake documents can be arranged easily here, said sources on condition of anonymity.
One such incident happened to Qasim Sidique Zia, a schoolteacher in Allahabad located over one hundred kilometers from Lahore. He owned a car XLI bearing registration number LEA-9241 being used as a cab. In June 2010 some persons came to him and said they wanted to shift a patient to Lahore. Qasim instructed the driver to shift the patient against charges of Rs 2,800.
When they reached Lahore customers said now they had to shift the patient to Islamabad for tests and offered to pay another Rs 8,200 as cab fare. When they reached Islamabad a passenger named Tahir said they needed to relax a while at a hotel and booked a room in a hotel in sector G-7, Sitara Market in the limits of Aabpara Police Station. They allegedly intoxicated the driver and made off with the car.
Qasim told Daily Times that a First Information Report (FIR) vide No 175/10 was registered with Aabpara Police Station and police after eight months succeeded to recover the car along with the suspects, but he was informed that the gang had sold the car to another person.
Qasim hoped that sooner or later he would get the car. He approached the police and was informed that he would get a cheque from the suspect rather than his car but for that he was asked to patch-up with the suspect. A cheque was handed over to him that later bounced. He approached Aabpara Police but to no avail. The police have allegedly favoured the suspects.
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[Pak Daily Times] The top UN human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... official urged Uganda on Sunday to halt "excessive force" against demonstrators, which she said had turned peaceful protests over food and fuel prices into a national crisis.
Eight people have been killed and more than 250 treated in Kampala's Mulago hospital for injuries during three weeks of unrest in the east African country, United Nations ...an organization whose definition of human rights is interesting, to say the least... High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in a statement.
The treatment of opposition leader Kizza Besigye during his latest arrest was "shocking" and it is reported that he has still has not fully recovered his sight after being sprayed at point-blank range with pepper spray on Thursday, she said. "The excessive use of force by security officers was plain to see in the television footage of the event. While I do not condone the violent rioting that followed, the Ugandan authorities must realize that their own actions have been the major factor in turning what were originally peaceful protests about escalating food and fuel prices into a national crisis," Pillay said. President Yoweri Museveni vowed on Saturday to defeat the protests. He accused organisers of plotting to destabilise his government through looting.
The unrest has the potential to unnerve investors in east Africa's third largest economy and weaken its currency, the Ugandan shilling. Noting that further protests were planned for Monday, Pillay said Ugandans must be allowed their right to peaceful assembly, and their legitimate concerns about the increased cost of living and demands for wider political dialogue must be addressed.
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Riots in africa over food/fuel prices are a little bit to do with the falling value of the US$
As it falls, food and fuel prices rise in US$ terms. But Africans find it hard to scrabble up more US$. Except Nigeria which counterfeits them.
So the food/fuel goes up in real terms there.
When the stomach is empty that's when the riots start
[Pak Daily Times] Soddy Arabia has beheaded a man in the Eastern Province convicted of killing his father, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. Hassan bin Ali bin Hassan al Abandi was convicted of having set his parents' house on fire "in an attempt to kill his mother following an argument between them", said the statement. His disabled father died and his mother was injured, it said. The execution brings to 11 the number of reported beheadings in the kingdom this year. In 2010, 27 executions were reported, down from 67 in 2009 and 102 in 2008. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under the kingdom's sharia law.
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It was the university in Saudi Arabia that turned Osama Bin Laden from a bright young civil engineering student into a rabid evil Islamist fanatic.
h/t Gates of Vienna
If the same methodology that was used in 1980 to chronicle the double digit inflation of that era were in use today, we would have an inflation rate of ten percent right now, according to Shadow Government Statistics. We are entering a massive era of stagflation which recalls to us our writing in Catastrophe, published two years ago, that inflation may well be the enduring legacy of the Obama presidency.
How does the federal government understate the inflation rate? Let us count the ways:
h/t Gates of Vienna
Italian women have a hard time combining maternity and paid work and are often forced to choose between a job or having children, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). And, of course, if they do chose kids---we all know how possible it is to manage a family on one salary nowdays
[Al Jazeera] Police in Maldives have used tear gas and batons to break up an anti-government protest in the island country's capital Male, reportedly injuring dozens of activists.
About 400 supporters of the former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom gathered in Male on Saturday night, demanding the resignation of incumbent President Mohamed Nasheed over Maldive's recent currency depreciation and worsening economy, Nasheed's office said Sunday.
The demonstration began peacefully but turned into a riot when demonstrators began trashing the streets, the Maldives police said.
"After we received some complaints from residents, the police approached demonstrators to tell them to return home, and they began throwing stones and bricks at the coppers," Ahmed Shiyam, Maldives police front man, told Al Jizz on Sunday.
"We had to use tear gas and batons to break up the crowd as it began smashing shop windows," Shiyam said. The incident ended early Sunday morning with the arrests of some vandals, he added.
The Maldivian government condemns the violent protest organised by Z-DRP, a faction of the main opposition Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) led by Gayoom, Mohamed Zuhair, the president's front man, said in a statement on Sunday.
Protesters' account
Protesters gave a different account, saying about 5,000 people attended the demonstration and that dozens were "crushed brutally", DRP front man Mohammed Shareef told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency by phone.
Nasheed was elected president in the country's first multi-party election in 2008, ending Gayoom's 30-years of one-party rule, but the country has recently struggled with soaring food prices and unemployment.
Gayoom leads the DRP, which accuses the Nasheed administration of wasteful spending and financial mismanagement.
The Maldivian currency has recently depreciated after the rufiyaa's peg to the dollar became unstable, affecting food and import costs.
"Like US President [Barack] Obama, President Nasheed inherited a terrible economic situation, with huge bills and debts," said Paul Roberts, the president's communication adviser. "You have to sometimes make difficult decisions to improve the situation."
"But [Sunday's protest] isn't a huge outpouring of anger and neither like an Arab Spring," he said. "There weren't thousands pouring out onto the streets."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
