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went to perform Umrah in Saudi Arabia, have been betrayed by Travel Agent Mafia working in Pakistan, as the money of their return tickets have been refunded here in Pakistan, leaving them in Lurch in Saudi Arabia.
Over 800 Pakistanis went Saudi Arab through separate airlines belonging to various cities who are unable to get back to country due to lack of their return tickets while travel agents in Jeddah have denied them of any support or help to avert this malfunction.
According to sources, the corrupt travel agents in Pakistan have refunded the money of the return tickets of over 800 Pakistanis currently staying in Jeddah for Umrah and their subagents have advised the Saudi authorities to hand them over to Saudi Security Agencies.
Reports have also reached here regarding the involvement of country managers of some airlines in all this corruption while those victimized told Geo news that they cannot afford […]

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SEOUL: South Korea shrugged off North Korea’s firing of short-range missiles saying Friday they were part of routine military exercises and warning more launches are likely incoming days.
Whether the communist country will fire a long-range missile toward Hawaii remained unclear, though US defence officials said such a launch did not appear imminent.
The North fired four short-range missiles off its east coast Thursday, just ahead of the US Independence Day holiday that falls this weekend. The US and Japan called the North’s move “provocative.’’
But Defence Ministry spokesman Won Tae-jae said South Korea did not attach much significance to the missile launches, calling them part of a routine military exercise.
The short-range missiles are not seen as a threat by South Korea and the US, which have far more sophisticated weapons. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, citing an unidentified military official, reported that all four missiles flew about 60 miles. The launches, however, […]

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ISLAMABAD: The United Arab Emirates has announced a contribution of US$500,000 to the UN Trust Fund for Benazir Bhutto Inquiry Commission.
Spokesperson for the president Farhatullah Babar said the UAE Embassy in Islamabad had informed Pakistan’s Foreign Office, conveying the decision of the UAE government. The commission is led by Chile’s UN ambassador and includes a former Indonesian attorney general and Ireland’s former deputy police commissioner as members.
The spokesperson said the commission’s mandate is to “inquire into the facts and circumstances” of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. He said the commission was expected to arrive in Islamabad in mid-July and complete its work within six months. The commission will submit report to the UN secretary general.
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ISLAMABAD: The capital city police have arrested an alleged terrorist with the help of intelligence agencies from the Margala area, recovering explosive material from his custody, police said.
Inspector General of Police Islamabad, Syed Kaleem Imam, when contacted, confirmed that the terrorist, identified as Zahid Iqbal, belonged to Meramshah, South Waziristan and was an active leader of the Tehrik Jihad-e-Islami, involved in the kidnapping of Hamed Mirza, son of Air Commodore Farhan Mirza, and killing of Maj Gen Alavi.
He said the terrorist was an ally of Ilyas Kashmiri and Maj Haroon. “He is an expert in preparing explosive jackets and bombs and manufactured the explosive stuff in Kala Dhaka,” the IGP said, adding that he was also an expert in sniper shooting.
During interrogation, the terrorist disclosed that terrorists were present in a hideout in the mountains of Kalar Kahar, the police sources said and added that teams of civil and paramilitary […]

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ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday said that out of box and innovative solutions were to be found to enable the Pakistan Housing Authority (PHA) implement the Prime Minister’s Housing Programme. He urged the need for focussing on providing housing units to the poor and needy in the first place.
He said this during a briefing at the presidency on building houses for the government officials, general public and poor under the PM’s housing programme.The president said housing was a basic human need and the State’s neglect of this important sector had resulted in social unrest and discontent.
He said the provision of “Roti, Kapra Aur Makan” was the basic promise of the party when it was launched and galvanised the people to rally round the person of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and the Pakistan People’s Party.
“The prime minister had also announced on the floor of the House in March last […]

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US drone attacks and prisoner abuse are undermining efforts by close ally Britain to counter al-Qaeda’s anti-Western message among its Muslim communities, an influential former Islamist ideologue said on Friday.
Maajid Nawaz, director of Britain’s Quilliam Foundation, which calls itself a counter-extremism think tank, said Islamist influence in Britain had reached “a plateau” after a long period of growth born of past government neglect of extremist activity.

The brake on Islamist advances was made possible by a new awareness in Britain of the need to stand up to intolerant ideas among groups espousing purist Islamic rule, he told Reuters. But the possibility of further gains by Islamists remained, due to anger at Western security practices such as attacks by US pilotless “drone” aircraft in Pakistan that have killed many civilians as well as insurgents, he said in an interview. “At the moment we’re on a plateau with Islamism. There’s less coyness in […]

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H.E. Cardinal Hoyos

From: RORATE CAELI

Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, granted an interview to the largest Colombian daily, El Tiempo, which included the following:
And now, to what do you wish to dedicate yourself?

I will finish a book I have already begun on the ancient Gregorian Rite and the several conferences and seminars regarding this theme. And I will return to parish work, which is most gratifying.
And where will you live?

I will remain here in the Vatican. I remain a Cardinal, what happens is that I no longer have to “clock in”. I will remain in Rome, but I will have more time to go to Colombia.
And how do you feel?

I am happy that the Lord has allowed me to reach this age in good health. I feel happy with the projects which I advanced. I do not think about the past quarter hour, I think of […]

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LONDON: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Quaid Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Friday asked the PPP-led government to take a look again at the Charter of Democracy (CoD) he had signed with late Benazir Bhutto to get Pakistan on a truly democratic path or else the loser would be the State.
Talking to the Pakistani media here, Nawaz devoted most of his interaction castigating former president Pervez Musharraf, who fearing uncertainty about his future in Pakistan, had taken up a permanent residence in London, only a stone’s throw from the posh abode of Nawaz Sharif himself.
Goading the former general, the PML-N Quaid said Musharraf’s crimes against Pakistan were so horrific that he had no choice but to stay out of Pakistan.Nawaz said it was regrettable that the former military general had not yet been brought to stand trial for his misdeeds.
He said it took him and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto two years to […]

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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday sought the support of the United States to work out a permanent solution for uncontrolled, illegal crossings, particularly of militants and terrorists, and drug trafficking across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Gilani was talking to US Secretary for Homeland Security Janet Napilitano, who called on him here at the PM House on Friday. Referring to Janet’s initiative, as governor of Arizona, of erecting a wall between the US and Mexico border, the prime minister said a similar pattern of fencing between Pakistan and Afghanistan could be implemented to stop infiltration and drug trafficking.
He also called for immediate provision of military hardware, including Cobra helicopters, technology transfer as well as financial assistance to build the capacity of Pakistan’s law-enforcement agencies and their personnel to prepare them for controlling the affected areas after the military operation comes to a successful conclusion in the Malakand Division and […]

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Peshawar—A military transport helicopter went down on the border between Khyber and Orakzai tribal region on Friday afternoon, killing all the twenty-six security personnel on board, a government official said.
The official said the helicopter crashed due to a technical fault.
The military spokesman was not available for comment, but a government official said the Russian-made M-17 transport helicopter crashed in a mountainous area, some 20 km from Peshawar, on the border between Khyber and Orakzai tribal region.
All those on board the helicopter have been killed,’ the official said. He attributed the cause of the crash to ‘some technical fault.’
The official described the area where the helicopter crashed as remote and inaccessible. Paramilitary force had cordoned off the area and efforts were being made to retrieve the bodies, the official said.
Army Chief, Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has ordered an inquiry […]

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