[Dawn] The body of a 40-year-old man, who was brutally murdered and buried by a gravedigger friend, was dug out from a grave in a North Bloody Karachi cemetery on Wednesday, officials said. I think I read this one when I was a teenager. Thought it was a pretty cheap story: Who's gonna suspect the gravedigger of doing it?
The murderer, who had earlier been tossed in the calaboose, suspected that the victim had developed a relationship with his wife. He led the Sherlocks to the shallow grave where he had buried the victim.
Police said the victim, Muhammad Ajmal, had been missing since May 14. His family suspected Habibullah to be behind his disappearance and informed the police about it.
"Both friends are the residents of Sector 7D-3 of New Bloody Karachi," said DSP Altaf Hussain, the area's supervisory police officer.
"Habibullah is a gravedigger by profession while Jamal worked as a construction worker. Jamal's family said he last left home with Habibullah on the evening of May 14."
The police picked up the suspect a couple of days ago and interrogated him during which he confessed that he had killed Jamal suspecting that he had illicit relationship with his wife.
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My oh my. Who would have ever thought to look for a dead person in a cemetery. Well, maybe not in Karachi. Or northern Mexico.
Amid all the glad-handing and rictus grins that greeted Barack Obama everywhere he turned during his whistlestop visit to the British Isles, Boris Johnson will undoubtedly have made a particular impression upon him.
At the end of the state banquet in the presidents honour at Buckingham Palace, the Mayor of London took the opportunity to have a quick word. Could you please write me out a cheque for £5 million? Johnson asked him.
The request for the president to settle the congestion charge bill that his country has run up was made with charm. The president smiled broadly. If he was about to reach for his chequebook, however, the swift intervention of Louis Susman, Obamas ambassador to London and his former fund-raiser, put paid to that.
I think this is a matter where our position is already well known, he said to Johnson with a steely glare as Obama departed. Still, Johnson was delighted to have got his request in. Mission accomplished, he texted a colleague afterwards.
The American Embassy owes a total of £5,291,520 in unpaid congestion charge bills, which makes it the worst offender among the diplomatic missions in the capital.
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I expect the UN to pay its bills, we should pay ours. That's about the value of the embassy grounds and building, so let's call it a fair trade, give him the keys, and move on out.
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London's mayor is a petty baffoon. He makes our petty baffoon president look like a Welsh titan.
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London's mayor is a petty baffoon. He makes our petty baffoon president look like a Welsh titan.
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How are these assessed - are they capitation or is this a turnpike toll? (Checking wiki)
Yeah, Boris can go to hell. Embassies can be asked to pay for services, like parking fees or turnpike tolls, but this is a tax. One sovereign state can't assess taxes on another sovereign state, or the creatures of that state acting in an official capacity, as I understand it.
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A thug who carried out horrific acts of torture for Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe has been allowed to live in Britain to protect his human rights.
An immigration tribunal found Phillip Machemedze inflicted terrible injuries on political opponents of the vile Mugabe regime.
But despite ruling he was involved in savage acts of extreme violence including smashing a mans jaw with a pair of pliers immigration judges said he could not be deported.
They said the 46-year-old, who is HIV positive, could himself face torture if he was returned home, having turned his back on Mugabes Zanu PF regime.
Both he and his wife who was granted asylum can stay in Britain indefinitely.
Machemedze worked as a bodyguard to a senior Zanu PF minister, as part of Mugabes feared Central Intelligence Organisation.
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Britain has an unfortunate modern propensity to support thuggery in Africa.
eg: allowing British military to train the Kenyan police force while the UN has done something useful for once and unmasked them for terrible corruption leading all the way to the top.
Kenyan police take out and shoot anybody they don't like for whatever reason including petty jealousy over a girl at a bar. They do not respect the rule of law all the way up the chain to Police Commissioner.
But the British give them arms and training. disgraceful.
Here they just continue their not-so-fine tradition.
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by contrast the US quite admirably has banned corrupt Kenyan politicians from travelling to the US and also their families. Well done USA.
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[Al Jazeera] Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, and Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, warned governments to tread lightly on internet regulation because moves to tame its rough edges risked hurting its virtues.
At the conclusion of a two-day forum in Gay Paree, their comments exposed deep rifts between tech titans, academics and policy makers, even as they tried to agree on a message to take to world leaders at the Group of Eight industrialised nations meeting on Thursday in Deauville, La Belle France.
With the forum, Nicolas Sarkozy, ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... the French president, was seeking to put his stamp on the debate over regulating the internet and encouraging the digital economy during his one-year term as president for the G8.
Despite a glittering guest list, the event dubbed the e-G8 internet forum ended up with few concrete policy recommendations and mostly vague conclusions that the delegation of six technology chief executives, including Schmidt and Zuckerberg, would present to leaders in Deauville on Thursday.
The outcome highlights the difficulty of finding a way to regulate the internet that is acceptable to governments, industry and civil society.
In a speech to the e-G8, Sarkozy stressed the role that the state should play in the context of what he called the "total revolution" of the internet.
"We must participate in a revolution that has been born in the heart of civil society for civil society, yet which has a direct impact on governments. Because if technology is neutral and must remain so, it is clear that this is not the case for the ways in which the internet is used," the French leader said.
Regulation condemned
An editorial piece on Rue89, a left-leaning French news website, condemned Sarkozy's push for internet regulation, and the absence of civil society at the e-G8.
"While the words of freedom, openness, creation and venture should have been expressed in [Sarkozy's] speech, they were largely absent," Rue89 writes.
Media rights and civil society groups complained that the forum was giving a voice mainly to big businesses and it boded ill for online freedom.
"President Sarkozy's disastrous design for the internet has become glaringly apparent," web freedom group Access Now said in a statement on Wednesday.
"As many nations endeavour to improve basic and universal access, the increase of restrictive policies in both the developed and developing world is a regressive and deeply worrying trend."
It called on the G8 member states to use the e-G8 meeting to help expand internet access and combat online censorship.
With blogs and Tweets oiling the wheels of revolution in some countries, and scans and downloads sparking trade disputes in others, the stakes are high for leaders seeking to profit from the web but also to rein in online crime.
Zuckerberg, the 27-year-old entrepreneur who created the social network with 500 million users around the world, was greeted like a rock star during a question-and-answer session on Wednesday and praised for creating a tool that helped touch off democracy movements in the Arab world.
"People tell me on the one hand 'it's great you played such a big role in the Arab spring, but it's also kind of scary because you enable all this sharing and collect information on people'," Zuckerberg, who was clad in a T-shirt and jeans, said.
"But it's hard to have one without the other ... You can't isolate some things you like about the internet and control other things that you don't."
Arab revolutions
Zuckerberg denied on Wednesday that his global social networking site was to thank for enabling the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt through protesters coordinating online.
"Facebook was neither necessary nor sufficient for any of those things to happen," the 27-year-old New Yorker told the "e-G8" gathering of Internet bosses in Gay Paree.
"It would be extremely arrogant for any specific technology company to claim credit" for protest movements in the Arab world such as those that ousted long-term rulers in Tunisia and Egypt this year, he added.
"People are now having the opportunity to communicate" more widely than ever before, he said, adding: "That's not a Facebook thing. That's an internet thing."
Twitter's Tony Wang, meanwhile, told the e-G8 attendees that his company would share user information with authorities should they be "legally required" to do so, in reference to a debate in Perfidious Albion over the website's defiance of a super injunction.
"Platforms have a responsibility, not to defend that user but to protect that user's right to defend him or herself," Wang said.
"If we're legally required to turn over user information, to the extent that we can, we want to notify the user involved, let them know and let them exercise their rights under their own jurisdiction."
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The Internet is better than any government. Hereto shall not be touched. There must be a wild west somewhere.
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The internet was designed to route around nuclear attack damage. It will learn to reroute around politicians' damage while making fun of their manhood.
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Don't fool yourself - if enough governments get together and agree, they CAN wreck the innertubes.
"In an age of mobile artillery, fixed fortifications are a tribute to the stupidity of man. Anything built by man can be destroyed by man."
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Oklahoma-born imam Suhaib Webb, who loads public pronouncements with pop culture references, has a growing following, especially among some young Muslims. Traditionalists are suspicious.
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Would this be an Americanized Islam that preaches equality for all under the law, freedom of religion and speech, that women are people, not property, and that generally speaking, it is wrong to kill Jews?
If Islam is going to avoid its own personal Nagasaki moment, it is going to need a Martin Luther.
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"Would this be an Americanized Islam that preaches equality for all under the law, freedom of religion and speech, that women are people, not property, and that generally speaking, it is wrong to kill Jews?"
I know some Muslims like that, Steve. (And notice that I give them the respect of spelling their religion's name correctly when I speak of them, unlike when I talk about the wankers in the Muddled East.) In fact, one of them was telling me when he was a teenager about his imam/teacher, who teaches that kind of stuff to his students. And specifically he teaches them (most of whom are foreign-born) that they are not Pakistanis, or Arabs, or whatever, but Americans.
The normal people I know who are of the Muslim religion think the seething jihadis are a bunch of nuts, and don't mind saying so.
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Always remember there is a jealous God here that deplores that religion if only for spite.
Most of whom I met there were very kind - the rest of the mess, there is no tolerance for. They need to turn on these problemic relationships with the kill the Jews party. It diverts attention to the real needs there.
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The body of a 40-year-old man, who was brutally murdered and buried by a gravedigger friend, was dug out from a grave in a North 
