YOU ONLY RAISE FINGERS AT ME BECAUSE I'M A SOFT TARGET: VEENA MALIK

YOU ONLY RAISE FINGERS AT ME BECAUSE I'M A SOFT TARGET: VEENA MALIK

VEENA ‘KI JAWANI’ IN ‘BIGG BOSS’ GRAND FINALE

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VEENA ‘KI JAWANI’ IN ‘BIGG BOSS’ GRAND FINALE

Veena ‘Ki Jawani’ in ‘Bigg Boss’ grand finale

By Usman

Veena Malik will perform on “Sheila ke Jawani” for the finale of “Big Boss 4”. PHOTO: PUBLICITY

LAHORE: Veena Malik will perform on Tees Maar Khan’s popular song “Sheila Ke Jawani” in the grand finale for which the arrangements have been finalised, a source close to the actor told The Express Tribune. The administration of Colors TV, a private television channel that runs the reality show, has taken the decision to turn Veena Malik into “Sheila” of the mini screen since she was the most suitable contestant of the show to perform on the song, the source added. The song originally stars Katrina Kaif and is doing great on the charts.

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Latif Khosa appointed as Punjab Governor

Latif Khosa

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari appointed close aide Latif Khosa to succeed the murdered governor of the Punjab province Salman Taseer on recommendation by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani.

Earlier this week, President Zardari held consultations with senior leaders of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in connection with the appointment of Punjab governor at Bilawal House in Karachi. The announcement was made public after an elaborate meeting between Latif Khosa and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, which was held on January 9. 

Later on the same date, the PM Gilani sent to President Zardari the summary with recommendation for appointing Latif Khosa as new Punjab governor. According to President House’s spokesman Farhatullah Babar, Presdient Zardari today signed the summary.

After the approval by President Zardari, Sardar Latif Khosa has become the 33rd gvoernor of Punjab.

Analysts say Khosa will try to avoid antagonising the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to tamp down disputes that have paralysed the federal government. Though soft-spoken and non-confontational, he is an ardent supporter of the PPP.

Khosa is the successor of Salman Taseer, the outspoken governor of the central province of Punjab, who was gunned down by one of his bodyguards in Islamabad on Tuesday for supporting changes in the country’s blasphemy law.

Khosa said earlier on Saturday that Zardari had called him along with Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar and Finance Minister Hafeez Sheikh for a meeting in Karachi.

“I will accept whatever the decision of my leadership,” he said.

Taseer was fiery and often clashed publicly with Nawaz and his brother, Punjab Chief Minister Shabaz Sharif. Khosa, on the other hand, is soft-spoken and non-confrontational. But he is an ardent supporter of the PPP.

Khosa’s appointment comes just one day before an ultimatum given by Nawaz Sharif to Zardari’s government on Tuesday to accept a list of his demands or face expulsion of PPP members from the Punjab provincial government.

Latif Khosa is a Pakistani senator and advocate, and the previous Attorney General of Pakistan. He was appointed the Attorney General on 19 August, 2008. He co-authored an electoral fraud report with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto shortly before her assassination in December 2007. Khosa was one of Bhutto's top aides.

Senator Khosa appeared before the acting Chief Justice Javaid Iqbal in a hearing over the handling of the Iftikhar Chaudry sacking issue. Khosa claimed to be working to have the ex-Chief Justice reinstated.

Latif Khosa has been recently removed form the office of Attorney General of Pakistan on October 10th 2009 due to allegations and on 10 February 2010 as Advisor of Information Technology of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.

On 20 July 2010, advisor to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Information Technology Sardar Latif Khosa sent his resignation to the President after developing disagreements with the Premier.

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Salman Taseer’s profile

Salmaan Taseer, a businessman and politician who served as the Governor of the province of Punjab. He was a member of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and had also served as a minister in the caretaker cabinet of Prime Minister Muhammad Mian Soomro under Pervez Musharraf. He was appointed to the post of governor on 15 May 2008 in place of outgoing governor, Lt Gen Khalid Maqbool (retd) by former President, Pervez Musharraf.

Political career

Taseer started his political career in his student era, as a member of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in the late 1960s. He was a part of the movement for Bhutto's freedom and opposed his arrest and death sentence. He also wrote a political biography on Bhutto titled Bhutto: A political biography (1980).

In the 1988 general elections, Taseer became a member of the Punjab Assembly from Lahore. In the 1990, 1993 and 1997 general elections, he ran as an MNA but lost.

In 2007, he was appointed the interim Federal Minister for Industries, Production and Special Initiatives.

On 15 May 2008, Taseer was designated for the office of Governor Punjab by the PPP-led coalition government.

Personal life

Taseer was married to Aamna Taseer and the two resided in Lahore. They had six children; Maryam, Shehryar, Shahbaz, Sara, Sanam and Shehr Bano.
Taseer was known to be one of the trusted aides of Benazir Bhutto. He was a class fellow of Nawaz Sharif at Saint Anthony School, Lahore. He had obtained a degree in Chartered Accountancy from London.

Salman Taseer was the son of Muhammad Din Taseer, popularly known as M.D. Taseer, who is the first Ph.D. degree holder in the Sub-continent.

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Www Maati Tv Com

LAHORE: Music Art and Technology Informatrix (Maati Tv) will mainly serve as a platform for the youth to share their stories of social and development sectors.
Www Maati Tv Com

The web television will work on the principle of non-corporate parallel media. A project of Interactive Resource Centre (IRC) in collaboration with the South Asian Partnership Pakistan (SAP-PK) and the Church World Service Pakistan/Afghanistan (CWS), MaatiTV will initially have its correspondents in 20 districts and different educational institutions across the country.

In Punjab, Maati Tv will have its correspondents in Lahore, Multan, Bahawalpur and Faisalabad. In Sindh the correspondents will be located in Karachi, Hyderabad, Dadu and Juhi. Balochistan will have its representatives in Quetta and Jaffarabad while in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa it will have correspondents in Mardan, Peshawar and Kohat. The web television will also have representation in Gilgit and Hunza.

The correspondents from these districts will make documentaries on social and developmental issues which will be uploaded on the website. The head office of the web television will be in Karachi.

Executive Director of the IRC Muhammad Waseem told The Express Tribune that the organisation has trained the correspondents in documentary making, “We have worked in different educational institutions on peace building and students will also make documentaries on different social and developmental subjects. We have provided cameras and editing units to our correspondents and their documentaries will mainly only be three-minute long.” The youth does not have a platform to speak about social problems and this television will provide them with a platform to get involved in the social building process, he added.

Programme Manager IRC Nasir Sohail said, “Maati TV will be likeDemocracy Now, a non-corporate media in the US, we have also added the option of blogging in it. People can write their blogs or articles and we will generate debates on our documentaries or our blogs”.

When asked about data management of the site, he said, “We will have multi servers. We have this thing in mind and have sorted this out. Honorarium would be given to the correspondents for making each documentary”.

The television will also incorporate cell phone videos. “There will be a section in which we will have mobile phone videos. People can make documentaries on any social issue and we will upload them,” said Waseem.

Flood relief activities

Maati TV will focus on the rehabilitation work in flood-hit areas through a special segment. “The locals in the flood hit areas will serve as watchdogs. They will make documentaries on the relief activities and we will upload them on our website,” said Waseem. By 2012, 70 percent population of Pakistan is going to be under 30 and that is our target audience. When asked about the financial feasibility of the project he said, “We intend to have google ads and meet our expenses from there. Another option is that we will focus on corporate social responsibility and generate funds for it. If things go as per plan this project should become self sustaining in a year.”

Published in The Express Tribune, January 5^th, 2011.

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Salmaan Taseer's last interview video

Salmaan Taseer's last interview

Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was attacked and killed in a firing incident in Islamabad's Kohsar market on Tuesday.

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Politician Catches His Killer On Camera

2:01pm UK, Tuesday January 04, 2011

Sarah Gordon, Sky News Online

A Filipino man solved his own murder when he inadvertently caught his killer on camera while taking a family snap just moments before he was shot.

Reynaldo Dagsa, a local councilman in Manila, took a picture of his family celebrating the New Year, not noticing that behind his wife and daughter a man was taking aim at him with a gun.

Seconds later Mr Dagsa was shot in the chest and died on his way to hospital, confirmed local police chief Jude Santos.

While he was taking the picture of his family on New Year's Day, the killer appeared and he inadvertently took the picture of the killer with the gun aimed at him.

Local police chief Jude Santos

His family discovered the clue in the photo and handed it over to police and national newspaper the Philippine Daily Inquirer, which ran the image on its front page.

The picture clearly shows the killer stood behind the family, aiming his gun at Mr Dagsa, while another man acts as "lookout".

Mr Santos said: "While he was taking the picture of his family on New Year's Day, the killer appeared and he inadvertently took the picture of the killer with the gun aimed at him."

The murderer appears behind Mr Dagsa's family in the photo

The gunman was identified as Michael Gonzales, a suspected car thief who was out on bail and seeking revenge on Mr Dagsa for ordering his arrest last year.

Gonzales was arrested for the murder on Monday, although the photographed accomplice, identified as Rommel Oliva, has still not been caught.

Police are also searching for a second lookout, named as Francis Bumjal, who is thought to have been stood just out of shot.

Mr Dagsa, described by his family as a kindhearted man, was a member of the Barangay Peacekeping Action Team, which helps the police with crime prevention.

It is thought that it was his role within the team that led to his death.

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Top Pakistan Official Killed By His Own Guard

1:29pm UK, Tuesday January 04, 2011

Adam Arnold, Sky News Online

The governor of Pakistan's powerful Punjab province has been killed by one of his own guards at a market in the capital Islamabad, police have said.

It was the most high-profile assassination of a political figure in the country since former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in December 2007.

The latest victim, Salman Taseer, was shot dead by a member of his elite security team after he reached Khosar Market, police said.

Witnesses reportedly claimed a man fired two shots at the governor as he was leaving his vehicle.

One said: "The governor fell down and the man who fired at him threw down his gun and raised both hands."

The suspect was taken into custody following the shooting at the shopping centre, which is popular with Westerners and wealthy Pakistanis.

Five other people were wounded as security personnel reacted to the incident.

It is not known if the assailant was injured.

The governor meets a woman sentenced to death for blasphemy

Mr Taseer was a high-profile member of Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party and a close associate of President Asif Ali Zardari, Ms Bhutto's widower.

He was vocal on a range of subjects, including speaking out against the country's blasphemy law in recent days.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik claimed the governor was probably killed because he opposed that law.

Human rights groups say the legislation is often exploited by religious extremists as well as ordinary Pakistanis to settle personal scores.

Islamist groups have been angry over what they believe were government plans to change or scrap the law.

They have defended the controversial legislation and slammed those who were against it.

Plain clothed policemen survey the site where the governor was killed

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Police Release New Footage Of Royal Attack

3:43pm UK, Tuesday January 04, 2011

Kat Higgins, Sky News Online

Police have released new footage of an attack on Prince Charles' car during the tuition fees protests in London in an attempt to trace those responsible.

Metropolitan Police detectives who are investigating the violence on December 9 issued CCTV pictures from the Regent and Oxford Street areas of the city.

It was on these busy shopping streets that the Rolls-Royce taking the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall to the theatre was attacked by demonstrators.

Up to 20 people set upon the car, some were carrying bottles and chanted "off with their heads" and "up the republic".

There has been widespread criticism of the apparent lapse in security which left the pair visibly shaken and shocked but unharmed.

The video and images show four people officers from theOperation Malone team would like to trace in connection with events.

Although the images are grainy police hope the individuals will be recognised

One shows a woman striking the Royal car and breaking the back window of one of the convoy vehicles.

She is pictured with a man, whom police would like to trace as a potential witness.

Officers are also keen to identify two men seen separately attacking the car.

At least three metal dustbins were also hurled at two other cars in the convoy which was travelling to Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium.

Detective Chief Superintendent Matthew Horne, heading the operation, said: "The student protests saw a number of incidents of violence escalate across central London, including in the shopping areas of Oxford Street and Regent Street during some of the busiest Christmas shopping periods.

"Police officers were attacked, and buildings and shops had their windows smashed, amongst other acts of vandalism, including an attack on the Royal convoy.

PETER BLEKSLEY ON ROYAL ATTACK

"We believe that most of the people whose pictures we have released today may have committed serious offences of violent disorder and criminal damage in this area and urge them, or anybody who knows them, to come forward and speak to us.

"We understand the importance of the right to protest, but people who break the law and endanger those who wish to protest peacefully by committing criminal offences must face the inevitable consequences of their actions."

Royal security expert Peter Bleksley told Sky News the Royal couple's protection team "fundamentally failed in their duty" that day.

He said it was "staggering" that there had not been a more public examination of what they did wrong so they can face the consequences.

Protests took place across the country in November and December by students opposed to a rise in tuition fees to a maximum of £9,000 a year.

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Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri photo

Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri

The security guard Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri accused of gunning down governor Punjab. PHOTO: ONLINE

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BJP lawmaker stabbed to death by school principal

PATNA: A senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker, Raj Kishore Kehri, was stabbed to death by a woman who had accused him of raping her, according to a report in the Washington Post

The woman, Rupan Pathak, pulled out a knife from her shawl and stabbed Kesri in his stomach Tuesday killing him instantly.

Kesri’s guards overpowered Pathak, a school principal, and beat her up. She was hospitalized and has been charged with murder.

The top police officer in Bihar state, Neelmani, said that Kesri inaugurated Pathak’s school four years ago and had been accused by her of sexually harassing her last year.

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ISLAMABAD: Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was attacked and killed in a firing incident in Islamabad’s Kohsar market on Tuesday

ISLAMABAD: Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was attacked and killed in a firing incident in Islamabad’s Kohsar market on Tuesday.

Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer

6:10pm

Interior Minister Rehman Malik says the first point of investigation will be to find out whether the suspect Qadri carried out the attack as part of a larger plot or on his own.

Malik confirmed the suspect, Qadri is twenty six-years-old.

In life, Salmaan Taseer was never afraid of controversy and was never one to remain silent even when his stance on issues like militancy and the blasphemy law brought the venom of the right wing pouring on to him. Zarrar Khuhro

5:55pm

Government announced three day country-wide mourning period.

Chief Minister Punjab, Shahbaz sharif has arrived at the hospital.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik says investigation has been ordered into how the assassin Qadri was selected for the security of the governor.

Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri

5:40pm

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that all personnel of the governor’s security convoy have been arrested.

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has announced a two week mourning period. All functions of the party have been postponed.

5:30pm

All VIP functions are under threat says Interior Minister Rehman Malik, adding that, “our colleagues criticise us when we increase vip security”.

Governor Taseer was killed to destabilise Pakistan say MQM Chief Altaf Hussain.

One of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer’s last tweets online:

Mera azm itna bulund hae Parae sholon se dar nahin. Mujhe dar hae tu atish e gul se hae Ye kahin chaman ko jala na dein

Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri

5:25pm

According to Syed Ali reporting for Express 24/7, the arrival of a huge crowd of people to Polyclinic is causing chaos at the hospital and preventing Governor Punjab’s body from being moved to PIMS for a post-mortem.

5:15pm

The name of the guard who carried out the attack has been confirmed as Mumtaz Qadri.

Saba Imtiaz: According to Rehman Malik, Salmaan Taseer’s guard shot him because he called the blasphemy laws a ‘kala qanoon‘.

5:10pm

Interior Minister Rehman Malik will head the enquiry into Governor Punjab’s assassination.

Karachi has been put on high alert after the attack.

5:06pm

Syed Ali reporting for Express 24/7 confirmed that Governor Punjab has been pronounced dead. Initial reports suggest Taseer received a critical injury in his neck.

attack place crime scene.PHOTO: REUTERS.

PHOTO: REUTERS

5:03pm

The Governor of Punjab was leaving his residence in Islamabad when one of his guards shot him in the chest.

President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani have condoled over the death of the Punjab Governor.

An eyewitness, while speaking to the police, has provided his account of how the gunman aimed at Taseer and shot him.

5:00pm

The alleged suspect ‘Qadri’ was allegedly part of Rawalpindi’s elite force, Express 24/7 reported.

The suspect is being held and interrogated by Rawalpindi police.

4:50pm

The hospital says the Governor received nine bullets.

4:48pm

Attackers were part of the governor’s convoy, witnesses say.

4:46pm

Police source say they have arrested a suspect in the attack.

Zulfiqar Mirza, Sindh Home Minister Qaim Ali Shah, as well as Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Shahbaz Sharif and Nawaz Sharif condemned the attack.

4:30pm

The governor died on the spot, according to governor house spokesman Farrukh Shah.

According to initial reports, unidentified persons fired upon the governor’s convoy and he was shifted to the Polyclinic hospital for treatment.

Witnesses said that two uniformed personnel attacked him.

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