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NEWS

US Drone Strike Kills 10 in South Waziristan: Daily TimesThe second US drone attack in as many days killed 10 people in South Waziristan on Sunday, intelligence officialssaid, an incident likely to raise tensions in the standoff between US and Pakistan over NATO supply routes toAfghanistan. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical of Radical Elements)

Maj Gen Bajwa Takes Charge as ISPR DG Today: Daily TimesMajor General Asim Saleem Bajwa, who is replacing Major General Athar Abbas, will assume the charge of InterServices Public Relations (ISPR) Director General today (Monday). (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent;Critical of Radical Elements)

Indian Delegation Makes 15-Hour Journey to Pakistan: Daily TimesA senior member of an Indian delegation visiting Islamabad for an Indo-Pak Track II dialogue complained that ittook them 15 hours to reach the capital. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical of Radical Elements)

Pakistan Stands Tall at UN Peace Missions: Daily TimesWhen the world celebrated this year the UN Peacekeeping Day, Pakistan stood tall in the comity of nations beingthe 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 NewsPrime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said Pakistan-United States relations were multi-dimensional andimportant 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 non-acceptance of their demands. (Source: Karachi, Pakistan; Anti-Military Rule)

US Agrees to Pay $1.18BN of CSF Arrears: Dawn NewsThe United States has agreed to reimburse $1.18 billion or almost 75 per cent of the claims Pakistan has submittedfor 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 NewsThe 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 NationThe Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday suspended Senate membership of Federal Interior Minister RehmanMalik in dual nationality case, a private TV reported. (Source: Islamabad, Conservative, Part of the Nawa-i-Waqtpublishing 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 governmenttake up with the Centre the issue of implementation of the CNG bus project that has been delayed because of thelack of funding from Islamabad. (Source: Islamabad, Conservative, Part of the Nawa-i-Waqt publishing group)

Three-Day Iran Trade Fair Ends: The NationThree days Iran Fair 2012 came to an end on Sunday with attendance of more than 30,000 visitors and 75 Iranianand 45 Pakistani companies also participated. (Source: Islamabad, Conservative, Part of the Nawa-i-Waqtpublishing group)

Imran Wants Audit of Defense Budget: Pak TribunePakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan called for auditing the defense budget of the country bybringing 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 TribunePrime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday directed the Balochistan chief secretary and home secretary to takesteps to improve law and order situation in the province. (Source: Pakistan, Independent, neutral)

Four More Shias Lose Life in Quetta: Pak TribuneAt least six people, including four Shias and a policeman, were killed and another policeman injured when a groupof 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 TribuneLate al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden spent his fortune on financing "holy war" including the September 11 USattacks 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 TimesFormer Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak has been handed down a life sentence along with his former interiorminister Habib al-Adly for the killing of 225 protestors and wounding more than 1,800 during the movement for hisouster in January 2011. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical of Radical Elements)

SECOND EDITORIAL: Planning and Consistency Pay: Daily TimesWe lost our first T20 with Sri Lanka not on account of a big total to chase but in the illusion of a low score beingeasy to overtake. Sri Lanka, after a poor start, managed a score of 132 for seven. Pakistan lost its first threewickets 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 TimesIt is indeed my considered opinion that electricity and in particular the use of air-conditioning has undermined thefighting ability and the intellectual development of the Ummah. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent;Critical of Radical Elements)

VIEW: Chicago Summit: Daily TimesThere 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 TimesJinnah did not believe in a top down model but rather preferred the politics of consensus. The clerics may have hadan anti-Jinnah agenda; the reverse however is not true. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical ofRadical Elements)

COMMENT: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and His Legacy: Daily TimesAzads role for two decades after partition was one of the token Congress Muslim show boy as Jinnah famouslycalled him. (Source: Lahore, Pakistan; Independent; Critical of Radical Elements)

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NEWS (Top)

04 June 2012Daily TimesUS Drone Strike Kills 10 in South WaziristanWANA: The second US drone attack in as many days killed 10 people in South Waziristan on Sunday, intelligenceofficials said, an incident likely to raise tensions in the standoff between US and Pakistan over NATO supply routesto Afghanistan.

The remotely-piloted aircraft fired four missiles at a suspected terrorist hideout in the Birmal area of SouthWaziristan, officials said. A drone strike in the same area killed two suspected terrorists on Saturday. The deadincluded militant commander Malang Jan, an associate of warlord Maulvi Nazir who sends fighters to Afghanistanto support the Taliban, a security official told AFP.

04 June 2012Daily TimesMaj Gen Bajwa Takes Charge as ISPR DG TodayISLAMABAD: Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa, who is replacing Major General Athar Abbas, will assume thecharge of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General today (Monday). Major General Bajwa wascommissioned in Punjab Regiment from the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul in March 1984 and has held variouscommand, staff and instructional appointments, including command of an anti-tank battalion, an infantry brigadegroup 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 Commandand Staff College Quetta. Major General Abbas remained as DG ISPR for about four and half years.

04 June 2012Daily TimesIndian Delegation Makes 15-Hour Journey to PakistanISLAMABAD: A senior member of an Indian delegation visiting Islamabad for an Indo-Pak Track II dialoguecomplained 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 sectorswhich took us up 15 hours to reach the capital, he said. The flight from Delhi to Lahore is some 45 minutes, but theonward 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 theonly carrier making bi-weekly trips to Mumbai and Delhi.

The delegation consists of senior former diplomats, policy experts, journalists and civil society activists who aretaking part in Jinnah Institutes annual Islamabad Dialogue. They discussed issues of bilateral concern, trade andeconomic 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 concernsand promoting the dialogue. Jinnah Institute will host the delegation for three days in Islamabad.

04 June 2012Daily TimesPakistan Stands Tall at UN Peace MissionsRAWALPINDI: When the world celebrated this year the UN Peacekeeping Day, Pakistan stood tall in the comity ofnations 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 operationsin Congo.

Over the past 52 years, Pakistan has been the most significant and consistent contributor for UN peacekeepingaround the world. Pakistan has hitherto participated in 41 UN peacekeeping missions, including some of the mostchallenging ones. Pakistan has so far contributed 142,452 troops in the UN missions across the world. Up till now128 Pakistani peacekeepers (10.24% of the UN total fatalities) have scarified their lives in noble cause of helpinghumanity, building peace and bringing stability across the regions under the banner of UN. Since 2006 Pakistanhas 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 ofPakistan peacekeepers has been acknowledged worldwide.

04 June 2012Dawn NewsNational Interest to Determine Pakistans Ties with US: PMQUETTA: 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.

We are trying to have an open, transparent, and mutually beneficial relationship with the US based on our nationalinterest, 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 AhmedKhan were also present on the occasion.

Prime Minister Gilani said a thriving, prosperous, transparent, and peaceful Afghanistan was in the interest ofPakistan.

We have improved our relations with all our neighbors including Afghanistan, India and Iran, the prime ministersaid, 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 inthe decision-making process regarding the future of Afghanistan.

He said Pakistan was facing many challenges including terrorism and security which were the countrys mostimportant issues.

The ongoing spate of terror has caused billions of dollars in losses to Pakistan, he said and mentioned that over30,000 soldiers and law enforcement personnel laid down their lives besides 5,000 civilians in the fight againstglobal 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 willlead 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 nationalstability were correlative and pointed that prices of petroleum products like other countries had also affectedPakistan.

Prime Minister Gilani said the country had faced long periods of non-democratic governments and said a look at thebalance 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 thatdespite 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 to13 billion dollars.

The prime minister said the government spent rupees three billion for rescue and rehabilitation of rain and floodvictims in Sindh and Balochistan and said inflation rate had been reduced to a single digit.

04 June 2012Dawn NewsTeachers Mark Sunday as Black Day

QUETTA: The All Government Teachers Association (AGTA) observed black day on Sunday in protest against thenon-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 onhunger 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 heldresponsible 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 privateschools in the province.

The teachers demands are: investigation into Rs1 billion development funds of the education department, postingsof senior officers, Implementation of teachers quota and stoppage of deducting the conveyance allowance duringvacations.

04 June 2012Dawn NewsUS Agrees to Pay $1.18BN of CSF ArrearsThe United States has agreed to reimburse $1.18 billion or almost 75 per cent of the claims Pakistan has submittedfor 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 allieshelping it in the war against terror.

The approval shows that despite increased tensions, the US financial assistance to Pakistan has continuedalthough 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 DavidDreier, Chairman of the House Rules Committee, to drop an amendment that would have made it difficult tocontinue to provide financial assistance to Pakistan.

Moved by Congressman Ted Poe, the amendment sought a blanket ban on providing financial assistance toPakistan 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 haveto deal with yet another amendment. Congressman Ron Paul, who has moved the amendment, is leading the effortto strip Pakistan of all American aid funds until they release Dr. Shakil Afridi who helped the CIA trace Al Qaedafounder Osama bin Laden.

I think we need to negotiate from a position of strength, Congressman Paul told Fox News. I dont think theadministration is standing up to Pakistan giving them a billion dollars and saying please let him go instead ofsaying 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 lobbyistswho did not want to be identified. To be Pakistans ambassador in Washington now is like being the Pakistaniambassador 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. Theyusually 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, theirsecond conversation in less than a week.

Mr. Nides, although based in Washington, is leading the US effort for reopening the routes Pakistan closed inNovember 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 tolead the talks.

04 June 2012Dawn NewsAsghar Khan Petition: SBP Submits Habib Bank Commission Report in SCISLAMABAD: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday submitted the Habib Bank commission report in theSupreme Court, Dawn News reported.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Jawwad S. Khwaja and Justice Khilji ArifHussain was hearing the 1996 petition of Tehriq-e-Istiqlals chief Asghar Khan about allegations of ISIs financing ofpoliticians 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 financialscam. The commissions had been set up to investigate the allegations of misappropriation of funds in the HabibBank Limited and the now-defunct Mehran Bank Limited and their collusion with the ISI to manipulate nationalpolitics.

During todays hearing, Attorney General Irfan Qadir requested the court for more time to collect information fromthe law ministry.

The requested was granted and the court subsequently adjourned the hearing to June 12.

04 June 2012The NationSecurity Pakistan's Prime Issue: PM GilaniPrime 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 confidencethat 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. PrimeMinister Gilani said the government not only met the challenges effectively but implemented its eighty percent ofelection manifesto.

He said prudent policies pursued by the government helped achieve macroeconomic stability. He said alleconomic 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 5.5percent 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 fromone 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 tempodespite global recession, he said.

The Prime Minister said the government is pursuing reforms agenda to alleviate poverty and ensure fiscalresponsibility and good governance. He said as part of these reforms we increased the support prices of differentcrops in line with the international market for the development of rural economy. This step paid dividend and thecountry has registered unprecedented production of wheat cotton rice and sugarcane. As a result of these policieswe 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 fromthis programme and we aim to expand it to nine million people, he said.

04 June 2012The NationSC Suspends Malik's Senate Membership in Dual Nationality CaseThe 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 nationalitycase and announced its interim order.

According to the report, Malik had claimed that he had forfeited his British citizenship but failed to provide sufficientdocuments to the SC. The SC had also suspended the National Assembly membership of PPP MNA FarahnazIspahani in the same case earlier. Apart from Farahnaz Ispahani and Rehman Malik, the petition also namesfourteen other parliamentarians as holding dual nationalities. The court has adjourned the hearing of the case tillJune 13.

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The NationGovt Asked to Approach Centre to Execute ProjectKARACHI The Sindh Assemblys Standing Committee on Local Government has recommended to the provincialgovernment take up with the Centre the issue of implementation of the CNG bus project that has been delayedbecause 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 inthe upcoming session of the provincial assembly, said its chairman, Haji Munwar Abbasi. We have suggested tothe 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 itsreport on the 75 CNG buses that had been lying non-functional at KMC depots and the Centre-funded ShaheedBenazir 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 ofBenazir 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 theprovincial government ask the Centre to initiate the project in the FY 2012-13 budget. The project has been drawnout 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 SectorDevelopment 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 andsubsequent support of Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah and the Sindh governor, loan-financing for the projectcould 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 Hinobuses were set ablaze during riots in Karachi, while remaining 48 Hino buses were in operation on three routs inthe city. Of 25 Daewoo CNG buses, only two were operating after getting necessary repair work frommanufacturers. But, defects occurred in the remaining 23 buses, said the officials, adding that a tender had beeninvited for repair work of these 23 buses but not a single person showed interest. The Karachi Mass Transit Cellinformed the Sindh Assemblys body that it intended to make fourth and final attempt of inviting tenders.

04 June 2012The NationThree-Day Iran Trade Fair EndsLAHORE Three days Iran Fair 2012 came to an end on Sunday with attendance of more than 30,000 visitors and75 Iranian and 45 Pakistani companies also participated.

This is unprecedented for the first time that any individual countrys exhibition has been hosted by Government ofPunjab through its investment promotion agency i.e. Punjab Board of Investment and Trade (PBIT). CEO PBIT DrSajid Yoosufani, while speaking at the closing ceremony, looked forward to more such people to people exchangesin 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 andlooked 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 asenior member from LCCI. The main partners of PBIT for this fair CM Pak (A China Mobile Company), FaisalabadIndustrial Estate and CDGL were also awarded shields for their participation.

04 June 2012Pak TribuneImran 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 thecountry 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 thecountry, and felt that the menace had increased so massively that if not stopped, it would eat up the country. Heagain 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 tobring 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 debtservicing.

On devaluation of rupee, Imran said that it pushes up inflation, while the leaders whose money was 'preserved' inforeign accounts benefited from it. He said the people of the country would not pay taxes as "their leaderships" hadnot been paying taxes.

He pointed out that 61% of the parliamentarians in the sitting assemblies did not bother paying taxes. He vowed tocollect taxes from the powerful segments of society and reduce expenditures by adopting austerity measures, aftercoming into power.

Coming down hard on Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the PTI chief termed the shifting of his camp office toMinar-e-Pakistan a drama, saying the PML-N had supported the PPP for three years, all the time knowing wherethe country was going.

Imran said the PTI was the only party that had public support, and it could block the entire country if wanted. "Thiswill, 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 theperformance statistics released by the government the other day, saying that it is also like the previous years; abudget 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 yearwith 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 endthe 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 foranywhere in the budget. "We are likely to end next year with another deficit exceeding 8% of the GDP and theeconomy 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 yearsfor any four-year period, is set to continue at an anemic level for the next few years unless fundamental reformdecisions are taken."


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

04 June 2012Pak TribuneGilani Orders Balochistan to Improve Law, OrderQUETTA: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday directed the Balochistan chief secretary and homesecretary 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 strategymust be evolved to ensure peace in Balochistan. He said any leniency on part of law enforcers would not betolerated. He also expressed his sympathies with the families of six people killed in a gun attack in Quetta onSunday.

Separately, Gilani said he had directed the Balochistan chief secretary to identify 35,000 graduates of Balochistanto be given jobs by the government.

"Fifteen hundred jobs in Federal Levies Force have already been provided to the people of Balochistan," he saidwhile 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 thegovernment would further recruit 10,000 youth in different departments. Out of them, 5,000 would be sent abroad toacquire 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 reachedRs 120 billion as compared to Rs 40 billion in the past. He said the government had allocated Rs 6 billion to providescholarships to the youth of Balochistan.

04 June 2012Pak TribuneFour More Shias Lose Life in QuettaQUETTA: At least six people, including four Shias and a policeman, were killed and another policeman injuredwhen 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 apasser-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," seniorpolice officer Jahangir Shah told AFP, adding that the dead included four members of the Shia Hazara communityand a passer-by.

The deceased were identified as Haji Abdul Nabi, his son Muhammad Hassan, Muhammad Tariq, Abdul Mananand 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 andopened fire at them. Two policemen were injured in the ensuing shootout. Sources said that two attackers werealso injured but they escaped in a rickshaw.

The deceased and injured were moved to Sandeman Hospital but one of the policemen succumbed to injuriesbefore 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 againstunidentified 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 inBalochistan, officials said.

Another member of the Hazara community was gunned down and another shot and injured near a bus stop onSariab Road on Saturday.

04 June 2012Pak TribuneOsama Spent All His Fortune on jihad: ZawahiriLate al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden spent his fortune on financing "holy war" including the September 11 USattacks 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 ofthe 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 onjihad, especially on financing the September 11 attacks in 2001" on the United States and the "attacks against theUS 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 thanjihad," Zawahiri said.

Bin Laden spent all his personal wealth on jihad, considering meat and electricity as luxuries so he could save hismoney 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-richkingdom, is estimated at between $30 million and $300 million, but some estimates put it at $1 billion. Bin Ladenwas 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 andTanzania at a time when he only had $55,000 to his name. Those bombings killed 224 people. Bin Laden'spersonal 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 asluxury. "Luxury is the enemy of jihad and if the mujahedeen were brought up to live in asceticism, they wouldtolerate 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, hecame 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 binLaden's "human side." He described a sensitive man who cried when his friends lost family members, remainedclose to his children despite the hard life of an international jihadist, and fondly remembered by name the 19men who carried out the deadliest terrorist attack ever on US soil.

EDITORIALS(Top)

04 June 2012Daily TimesEDITORIAL: Hosni Mubaraks Day in CourtFormer Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak has been handed down a life sentence along with his former interiorminister Habib al-Adly for the killing of 225 protestors and wounding more than 1,800 during the movement for hisouster in January 2011.

Six co-accused security commanders were acquitted for lack of evidence. The verdict immediately drew thousandsof protestors into the streets. Some of them demanded Mubaraks execution, others feared weaknesses in the caseas reflected finally in the verdict could let Mubarak off on appeal. The verdict comes at an especially fraught time forEgypt, just two weeks before a crucial run-off election for president, in which the Egyptian voters have been left witha Hobsons choice between the Muslim Brotherhoods candidate Muhammad Mursi, who came in first in the firstround, 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 sincethe coup of 1952, is still calling the shots. Entrenched in power for decades, the military has acquired a military-

industrial-business complex that it will not surrender easily. Apart from fears of the sentence being overturned onappeal, critics also question why the former president has not been held accountable for the years of repressionagainst dissidents, the police state, and corruption. Mubaraks two sons have been acquitted of corruption chargesbecause of the statute of limitations and Mubarak himself has been acquitted in one corruption case because oflack of evidence. The former president has a great deal to answer for during the 30 years he was in absolutepower, 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 rapeas instruments for breaking the will of opponents, all these crimes have been left on the shelf and the case againsthim has been confined to the repression of the Tahrir Square protestors. That does not necessarily mean thatnone of this will come out in the wash eventually. After the political transition to an elected president (most likely tobe 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 societyto emerge from the sacrifices of citizens in removing the dictator. It would not be out of place to argue that theSpring 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, whatcooler minds were arguing even then was that the entrenched military would not be easy to displace and in factMubarak would be sacrificed by it precisely in order to keep its grip on power. As to the movement itself, the liberalsand 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 inthe first round of the presidential election. It is to be noted that in spite of the left-liberal vote being spilt amongstvarious candidates, a socialist, Hamdeen Sabahi, still managed to come third. The highly organized and disciplinedMuslim Brotherhood, veteran of decades of struggle, open and underground, would always have been a formidablefoe, 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 itsverdict. However, in real terms and on the ground, the old adage that He may be a b*****d, but at least hes ourb*****d still informs the contradictory stances of the great powers, paramount amongst them the US. Only a realpeoples revolution that sweeps away the old order completely can satisfy the inherent aspirations of the ArabSpring and masses. Until then, the struggle for a just democratic society continues, with its twists and turns,triumphs and disappointments.

04 June2012Daily TimesSECOND EDITORIAL: Planning and Consistency PayWe lost our first T20 with Sri Lanka not on account of a big total to chase but in the illusion of a low score beingeasy to overtake. Sri Lanka, after a poor start, managed a score of 132 for seven. Pakistan lost its first threewickets for only 12 runs. On 95 the entire Pakistan team was out in 17 overs. Pakistans new T20 captain agreedthat the team failed to apply itself. In the second T20 on Sunday, the reverse result transpired. Pakistan set a lowly123 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 captainfor any defeat and precipitate in removing him. Undoubtedly the captain bears the ultimate responsibility for theperformance 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 isconstantly dogged by controversies. Very little consistent planning or methodology is followed. Now thatMuhammad Hafeez has lost one and won one T20, thereby squaring the series, he should be left in place andallowed to mature in the job. Obviously Afridi, Shoaib Malik and Shakeel Ansar are being criticized for performingbelow the standard expected of them. Shakeel on his debut needs to be given experience in the middle orderinstead of one down. Umar Akmal was rightly moved to number four in the batting order, even if he did not doanything 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 everyso often, we should persist in building a team combining the fresh with the old, keep Muhammad Hafeez ascaptain, 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 longway in improving the T20 team.

04 June 2012Daily TimesVIEW: Real Muslims Dont Need ElectricityBy 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 thefighting 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 andby 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 Ihave thought about what he had up his sleeve, the more I am convinced that he had a diabolically brilliant planworthy of Professor Moriarty.

Based upon how load shedding was increasing steadily, I believe that our minister of load shedding intended tokeep decreasing the amount of electricity available to the public to the point where finally no electricity wasavailable at all. Once that point was reached, load shedding would also have ended. No load, no shedding! Thenslowly, he would start to provide some electricity, increasing the amount available every day, and take credit forreversing the entire load shedding problem. From then onward, instead of load shedding it would become loadprovision. All those so incensed about load shedding of 12 hours or more a day would suddenly become ecstaticover 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 isdone is done, so now to the problem at hand; how can we fix load shedding? There are the usual rational solutionsbut it was the recent action of the intrepid chief minister (CM) of Punjab, who decided to shift his office under theMinar-e-Pakistan that finally crystallized in my mind what indeed needed to be done to fix this problem. Desperatetimes 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 primeministers (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 governmentservants, 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 placesshould be forbidden to leave for colder climes or even to countries where air-conditioning is available until the loadshedding problem has been solved. If all this is done, I am sure that within a matter of weeks, this problem will beresolved 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-conditionedenvironment. I will remind them that the Brits ruled this country for 100 years without air-conditioning and did apretty good job of it. Also that Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the Quaid-e-Azam, delivered his famous inaugural speech tothe constituent assembly on August 11, 1947 in an assembly house that had no air-conditioning and that Pakistanwas 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. Mysuggestion to the CM is that he and his staff should permanently move to the Iqbal Park until load shedding is nolonger an issue with us. The entire cabinet of the Punjab should bivouac out there, sleep there and conductgovernment business out there. However, massive generators to provide electricity are verboten. All this will alsotremendously cut down on electricity use by the government of the Punjab and offer an important example for otherprovincial 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 ofgrade 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 anyland lines. By sleeping out in the open, the CM will learn firsthand about the scourge of mosquitoes and trafficnoise. 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 upwith 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-conditioningshould not be available in the Supreme Court (SC) or in his residence, may I remind him that Justice Munir, the firstPakistani CJ, not only wrote the brilliant Munir Report, but also dealt a death blow to democracy in Pakistan withoutthe help of any air-conditioning. 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. After all, thegreatest Muslim conquests and scientific progress took place before air-conditioning or even electricity wasinvented.

Therefore, if we in Pakistan wish to bring back the glory days of Islam, then we must indeed not only eschew air-conditioning but all electricity. And yes, that will indeed significantly decrease load shedding. Here, Imran Khan canplay his role in bringing glory to Pakistan by starting a national movement to not use any electricity. And ImranKhan would also look quite dashing on horseback.

04 June 2012Daily TimesVIEW: Chicago SummitBy 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 ofhis 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 hisAmerican host that might have come through off camera. Even if only a figment of the onlookers own morbidimagination, the circumstance of the US presidents deliberately cold-shouldering his Pakistani guest would besufficiently 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 much-debated and overly delayed invitation at all, Ambassador Rehman might have pressed the American hosts to giveher a clear outline of the programme of the presidents engagement with his American counterpart? Did theAmbassador have the vaguest idea about the way her president would be cold-shouldered? Her timely advice toour foreign office might have helped avoid much of the embarrassment that followed and was covered by the worldmedia.

The host country and NATOs impudence apart, for the president to go at all at such short notice, could have savedus a lot of embarrassment. There would be hardly another example of a head of state, and that too of an alliedcountry 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 WhiteHouse. The spokesperson rejected the claims that President Obama had refused to have an exclusive meetingwith President Zardari during the Chicago Summit. What then happened to prevent President Obama from havingeven a single one-on-one meeting from being formally scheduled and actually taking place with his Pakistanicounterpart?

Pakistans reservations about re-opening the overland supply route all the way from Karachi to Kabul is briefly themain factor contributing to the crisis, together with its principled demand for an unqualified apology from the US forthe November 2011, massacre of 24 Pakistani soldiers at the Salala post by random US land-air fire. The Salalapost 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 wasforthcoming, 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.... Inother 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-goingoperation, in a critical phase, should have risked. Much of that however, was more out of misplaced confidencethan 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 toPresident Zardari was made contingent to reopening the land supply route, practically without preconditions. TheNATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen went to the extent of telling President Zardari that the formalinvitation to the summit would depend on his prior unconditional acceptance of re-opening the road to Kabul in spiteof 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 painwas 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 enpassant with the head of state, once the most allied ally and a darling of both the White House and the Pentagonwas all but ignored

As for Pakistan, it cannot afford to repeat the costly blunder it committed by boycotting the Bonn Conference inDecember 2011. Thus Pakistan missed an opportunity to register its protest against the post-Abbottabad andSalala episodes respectively of May and November of the same year. The Salala killings barely a mouth old thencould 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 andmilitary levels, Afghanistan shall be a zero sum game. Pakistans isolation from the mainstream strategic andtactical war and peace operations might well be NATOs debacle. Unless by some miracle, the Afghan warultimately 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 Afghanistanclose to a confrontational, militant mode against Pakistan sooner than a fraternal embrace.

04 June 2012Daily TimesVIEW: Pakistan: Myth of a Secular StateBy 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 hadan 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 livethrough the nightmare of communal rioting that had ensued months before Indias independence. Yet we are nocloser to reaching a consensus on the issue whether Pakistan was meant to be a secular state. It is debatabletherefore that those in tens of millions who headed both east and west during the eventful days, traumatized butrunning 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 theself-appointed guardians of Mohammad Ali Jinnahs liberal political legacy and actively advocate the form ofgovernance wherein there is a divorce between the state and religion. To this end, Jinnahs August 11, 1947speech has been quoted repeatedly. He says, You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to goto your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan...You may belong to any religion or casteor creed that has nothing to do with the business of the State... No doubt, Jinnah uttered these words, but is thisall he said on that historic occasion?

Jinnah delivered a composite speech in a recommendatory tone, in which he laid out a roadmap for Pakistansfuture. The speech must be read as a whole to make better sense of what was going on in Jinnahs mind on thathistoric 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 topreside over its meetings. However, at what would otherwise have been a joyous moment for him, the bloodstainedlandscape of northern India had gravely saddened him. Even the historic occasion and the thunderous applausecould not pull him out of his morbid mood. What had been nagging him all along was the plight of millions ofrefuges, 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 ethniccleansing 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 theconstituent assembly of its two foremost responsibilities: framing of the new constitution and functioning of the newassembly as a full and complete Sovereign body as the Federal Legislature of Pakistan. Underscoring theimportance of sovereignty of the assembly, he further said, The first and the foremost thing that I would like toemphasize is this. Remember that you are now a Sovereign Legislative body and you have got all the powers. Ittherefore, places on you the gravest responsibility as to how you should take your decisions...You will no doubtagree with me that the first duty of a Government is to maintain law and order, so that the life property and religiousbeliefs 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 andcorruption. That really is a poison... The old sage then chose to warn the elected leaders against the malaise ofblack-marketing, nepotism, and jobbery. He then chose to justify the division of India and hoped that the futurehistorian would agree with him.The next segment of his speech could rightly be classified as his unity, faith, discipline message, reminding themembers to work for their constituents and for the prosperity of all Pakistanis, irrespective of their differences. It isonly then that he uttered the famous words, music to some ears, about religious freedom. Finally, he chose toconclude 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 theworld.

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 Jinnahbeen a secular fundamentalist, he would have either not allowed the mullahs and the pirs into the House or orderedtheir expulsion. Rather, being a realist, he appreciated the multiple facets of the new state. He may have heldMustafa Kamal Ataturk in high esteem but unlike him, he was a pluralist. Jinnah did not believe in a top down modelbut rather preferred the politics of consensus. Therefore, those who make a point that he had an anti-clergy agendaare advancing their argument on flimsy grounds. The clerics may have had an anti-Jinnah agenda; the reversehowever is not true.

Notwithstanding the aforementioned, Pakistan could have not been a secular state otherwise as well. Sporadiccommunal rioting aside, neither the Muslims nor their religion was faced with a mortal threat at any time in thesecular British India. Nobody better than Jinnah appreciated this reality therefore, as late as 1946, he had no realdesire 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 haverobbed 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 ofa 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 Indiabut in West Bengal, fish is a part of Brahmins daily staple diet. Therefore, even if the Congress hierarchy had everdreamt of a Hindu India, the idea was shelved readily and prudently. Muslims of India however, were a differentcase altogether.

During the 1946 elections, the Muslim League ticket holders, mindful of the fact that the new nation could not beIndias clone, sparingly played the Muslim card; their Congress opponents with a secular manifesto really stood nochance. Contested on separate electorate basis, needless to say, the Muslim League trounced Congress in thatelection. 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 turnedaround and advocated a separation between the state and religion. Interestingly, neither that constituent assemblynor 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 ownway 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 non-temporal? Through this article, hopefully a debate would be started, determining once and all, the value we stillattach to those words uttered on August 11, 1947. Let me rephrase the question again: if Jinnah was secular; didhe want the same for Pakistan?

04 June 2012Daily TimesCOMMENT: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and His LegacyBy 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 famouslycalled him.

As Pakistan continues to dangle on the brink of failure and India thrives, there are many who have begun to askwhether Maulana Azad, the great Indian leader and Islamic scholar, was right and Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad AliJinnah was wrong in those final days of the British Raj. Both Azad and Jinnah were extremely intelligent leadersand were contenders for the leadership of Muslims. The westernized Jinnah managed to win the support of theMuslim 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 ofcourse. There are however, a number of predictions, all seemingly accurate, which are associated with Azad thatseem to reinforce further his image as the sage of the age. He is said, amongst other things, to have predictedPakistans dependence on western powers and growing discord between the religious right and liberals in Pakistanin an interview conducted in April 1946. The only problem is that the latter list of predictions has been transmitted tous through a dubious source. This source was Agha Shorish Kashmiri, a committed Ahrari leader who opposed thecreation of Pakistan (and ironically, played an important role in fomenting sectarian trouble against Ahmadis andShias in Pakistan).

No one other than Kashmiri seems to have seen a record of this interview and there is no primary source to confirmthis interview. The said interview does not appear in any of Azads papers or in any record of his life as preservedin India. In the view of this writer therefore, that interview was a concoction and a distortion invented by AghaShorish Kashmiri in the 1970s when he wrote an Urdu biography of Azad. TV shows like Khabarnaak have recentlyreferenced 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 hiscrystal 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, intoprominence, where he used fiery Islamic rhetoric to galvanize the religious Muslim masses behind the movement tosave the Caliphate in Turkey. Mahatma Gandhi and other Hindu leaders who, naively, assumed that deploying theabrasive theocratic logic of the Caliphate could somehow paradoxically bring Hindus and Muslims together on oneplatform, supported this movement.

Azad repeatedly denounced the Aligarh school and chastised Muslims for following the timid and pro-western waysof Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, when Islam was a complete code of life. He also gave the famous fatwa for Hijrat, whichdeclared that India under British rule was Dar-ul-Harb and that it was the religious duty of every Muslim to eitherresist the government or migrate to Afghanistan. It is noteworthy that Jinnah repeatedly warned Gandhi to stayaway from this pseudo-religious approach, which would ultimately divide Hindus and Muslims as well as Muslimsand Muslims.

The consequences of the Khilafat Movement and the rhetoric of Azad and Maulana Mohammad Ali were thatMuslim professionals left government service and other material benefits of the British rule and were led onto apath of self-destruction. Gandhi, Azad and other leaders of this movement went on to ask even Aligarh University torefuse British patronage (while paradoxically failing to ask the same of Benaras Hindu University). Since the entiremovement was built on a theological foundation, i.e. Pan-Islamism, it was bound to turn on itself. The MoplahMuslim uprising in the south completely shattered the faade of Hindu-Muslim unity created by the movement. Inretaliation, Hindus started the Shuddhi (which was aimed at re-converting Muslims to Hinduism) and Sanghtan(organizing and arming Hindus).


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In reaction to the Shuddhi and Sanghtan movements, Muslims came up with the Tabligh (propagation of faith) andTanzeem (organization) movements. This militant and hostile communal atmosphere laid the foundation for opencommunal warfare, leading to mass rioting and violence. The Khilafat Movement, which had temporarily unitedHindus and Muslims for an illogical cause, rendered religious identities non-negotiable. That Jinnah had predictedthis in his letters to Gandhi is a matter of record. Azads role for two decades after partition was one of the tokenCongress Muslim show boy as Jinnah famously called him. In his book, India Wins Freedom, Azad blamesJawaharlal Nehru for not coming to an arrangement with the Muslim League after the 1937 elections, completelysidestepping his own role in the horse trading that weakened the Muslim unity board and led to the final breakbetween the Muslim League and the Congress.

Similarly, Azad concedes, rightly, that the Cabinet Mission Plan would have kept India united and that Congresswas wrong in how it handled the Muslim League in the aftermath of the 1946 elections. It is also true that Azadwrote a letter to Gandhi, which suggested exactly that and which probably caused Azad to lose his place aspresident of the Congress. However, what Azad forgets is that he publicly justified and remained wedded toCongress 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 awell-known fact now that Jinnahs own idea of Pakistan was in a treaty arrangement with India, a sort of aEuropean Union type arrangement, and not of complete partition. In fact, according to Mountbatten, Jinnah had tobe forced into accepting partition. Therefore, the Jinnah-Azad binary itself is perhaps a distortion of history andshould be avoided in any serious investigation of partition.

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