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SC questions hyperlink between basic rights breach and NAB amendments

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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Courtroom on Monday heard Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s petition difficult amendments within the Nationwide Accountability (NAB) Ordinance by the federal government.

A 3-member SC bench comprising of Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan and Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah heard the case.

Through the course of proceedings, Justice Ijaz remarked that the NAB amendments made the trial so tough that corruption couldn’t be proved.

PTI’s lawyer Khawaja Haris contended that if all NAB circumstances have been despatched to accountability courts, a number of suspects could be acquitted of all prices. The acquittal of corrupt individuals had instantly affected the elemental rights of the individuals, he asserted.

Upon this, Chief Justice Umar Atta Bandial, whereas addressing Imran Khan’s lawyer, mentioned that he “finds” a brand new level within the case after each weekend.

Justice Mansoor Ali Shah inquired how basic human rights have been being instantly violated by the NAB amendments. He requested whether or not any particular person may file a petition towards the passage of price range by the Meeting.

Justice Mansoor Ali Shah requested if the Federal Board of Income (FBR) had given tax exemption to somebody, would it not be a violation of primary human rights.

Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial mentioned that there was a benchmark of (acceptable) legislation, beneath which there was lawlessness, including that all of them agree that there ought to be a legislation of accountability.

He mentioned the United Nations’ Anti-Corruption conference was very clear on this regard. He requested may Pakistan “transpose” UN conventions into its legal guidelines.

Justice Mansoor Ali Shah mentioned that the United Nations Conference on Individuals with Disabilities was not a part of the Structure of Pakistan. He requested ought to the courtroom begin ordering Parliament to legislate on worldwide conventions? On this means, the worldwide conference itself could be known as the Structure of Pakistan, he added.

He mentioned that courts may intrude with legal guidelines made by the chief after they battle with the structure.

Justice Ijaz mentioned that the rights of the individuals could be affected because of corruption of public cash.

Khawaja Haris mentioned that many circumstances of FIA have been transferred to NAB with none authorized process.

Justice Ijaz mentioned that legal guidelines ought to be in accordance with worldwide requirements. There was no nation on the earth that supported corruption, he added.

He mentioned that he didn’t discover any stable motive for the amendments within the outdated NAB’s act. It was the operate of the courtroom to find out the usual of legislation, he added.

Justice Ijaz remarked that even holding an additional buffalo was an accountable act in Hazrat Umar’s (R.A) time. Corruption ought to be made such a painful crime that nobody dares to commit it, he added.

He mentioned that this might be proved that the NAB amendments have been made maliciously and to learn sure people.

Justice Mansoor Ali Shah mentioned that he didn’t agree that the courtroom set the authorized commonplace. The authorized commonplace was decided by the structure, not the courtroom, he added.

He requested if there have been no legal guidelines on corruption, then the courtroom may ask to create them. He requested how may it’s that the current NAB amendments have been null and void and the outdated legislation got here into pressure routinely?

Imran Khan’s lawyer mentioned that the corrupt accused have been sitting fortunately at residence after being acquitted with the present NAB amendments.

Justice Mansoor Ali Shah mentioned that right here individuals have been sitting of their homes even after sabotaging the structure.

He requested was any confirmed corrupt felony acquitted after NAB amendments?

Justice Ijaz remarked that corruption prices have been now being waived off with the NAB amendments.

Justice Mansoor Ali Shah requested when it was not proved after the trial whether or not an individual was corrupt or not, how the elemental rights have been affected.

Justice Ijaz mentioned that after the NAB amendments, the trial had been made so tough that corruption couldn’t be proved.

Subsequently, the courtroom adjourned additional listening to of the case until November 17.

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Naqvi warns of stern response to future PTI ‘assaults’ on police

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— Interim authorities constitutes JIT to probe violent clashes between police and supporters of Imran Khan

LAHORE: The caretaker authorities of Mohsin Naqvi in Punjab has shaped a joint investigation staff (JIT) to analyze the alleged torture of police personnel by the hands of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) supporters in Lahore over the previous week.

Saying the choice in a press convention on Monday, the interim chief minister additionally warned the opposition social gathering of former prime minister Imran Khan that any “future mistreatment” of legislation enforcement officers can be met with an “equal response.”

Intermittent clashes between Khan’s supporters and Punjab police and paramilitary Rangers personnel have erupted over the previous few weeks.

The clashes started when Islamabad police tried to arrest Khan at his Zaman Park residence in Lahore in reference to the Toshakhana case. PTI supporters resisted the arrest, leading to a number of accidents among the many police personnel.

One other conflict erupted on Saturday when legislation enforcement businesses raided Khan’s home in his absence. PTI employees reportedly clashed with police whereas attempting to cease them from getting into the home.

Naqvi expressed concern over the “mistreatment” of legislation enforcement officers and warned that the police will now reply to any mistreatment equally. He additionally famous that the police had been unable to implement courtroom orders as a result of their lack of ability to enter the home.

Naqvi additionally criticised Khan’s “behaviour” and threatened to withdraw the safety the federal government supplied if he continues to verbally abuse police personnel. He declared that the police couldn’t defend somebody who mistreated them and anticipated the identical drive to safeguard them.

He additional mentioned he had given full powers to the provincial police chief, Usman Anwar, to do what he deemed applicable, and that no political social gathering had reacted as aggressively as PTI throughout its protest.

Naqvi additionally assured the police that authorized motion can be taken wherever mandatory and warned that anybody resorting to violence would face a stern response. He introduced that the caretaker authorities would write a letter to the Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) concerning the matter.

Moreover, Naqvi introduced compensation for injured police personnel, with Rs100,000 for minor accidents and Rs500,000 for main accidents.

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Dammed thirsty: the cross-border battle for water

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PARIS: With half the world experiencing water shortage for no less than a part of the 12 months, the large dams being constructed by some nations to spice up their energy provides whereas their neighbours go parched are a rising supply of potential battle.

Forward of a UN convention in New York on world entry to water, AFP appears at 5 mega-projects with very totally different penalties, relying on whether or not you reside upstream or downstream.

MEGA-DAM ON THE NILE

The waters of Africa’s longest river, the Nile, are on the centre of a decade-long dispute between Ethiopia — the place the Nile’s largest tributary, the Blue Nile, rises — and its downstream neighbours Sudan and Egypt.

In 2011, Addis Ababa launched a $4.2 billion hydroelectric challenge on the river, which it sees as important to lighting up rural Ethiopia.

Sudan and Egypt, nonetheless, see the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as a menace to their water provides — Egypt alone depends on the Nile for about 97 p.c of its irrigation and ingesting water.

Ethiopia has insisted the dam won’t disturb the stream of water and turned on the primary turbine in February 2020.

IRAQI, SYRIAN THIRST

Lengthy used to drilling for oil, war-scarred Iraq is now digging ever deeper for water as a frenzy of dam-building, primarily in Turkey, sucks water out of the area’s two nice rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates.

Turkey launched the development of a big complicated of dams and hydroelectric crops throughout the southeast within the Eighties.

In 1990 it accomplished the large Ataturk Dam on the Euphrates River, simply 80 kilometres (50 miles) from Syria’s border.

Extra not too long ago, in 2019, the traditional city of Hasankeyf on the Tigris was submerged to make method for the huge Ilisu Dam.

Iraq and Syria say Turkey’s dam-building has resulted in a drastic discount of the water flowing via their lands.

Baghdad recurrently asks Ankara to launch extra water to counter drought, however Turkey’s ambassador to Iraq, Ali Riza Guney, ruffled feathers final July when he stated, “water is essentially wasted in Iraq”.

Syria’s Kurds in the meantime have accused their arch-foe Turkey of weaponising the Euphrates, accusing it of intentionally holding again water to spark a drought, which Ankara denies.

CHINA’S MEKONG DAM SPREE

China is a frenetic dam builder, setting up 50,000 dams within the Yangtze basin up to now 70 years — together with the notorious Three Gorges.

However it’s China’s tasks on the Mekong River, which rises in China and twists south via Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam, that the majority alarm its neighbours.

The Mekong feeds greater than 60 million individuals via its basin and tributaries.

Washington has blamed China’s actions for inflicting extreme droughts in Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.

In 2019, the US monitor Eyes on Earth revealed satellite tv for pc imagery displaying the dams in China holding “above-average pure stream”.

Beijing insists its reservoirs assist to keep up the steadiness of the river, by storing water within the wet season and releasing it within the dry season.

WATER RIVALRY IN KASHMIR

The Indus River is likely one of the longest on the Asian continent, reducing via ultra-sensitive borders within the area, together with the demarcation between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan in Kashmir.

The 1960 Indus Water Treaty theoretically shares out water between the 2 nations however has been fraught with disputes.

Pakistan has lengthy feared that India, which sits upstream, may limit its entry, adversely affecting its agriculture. And India has threatened to take action from time to time.

In an indication of the tensions, the arch-rivals have constructed duelling energy crops alongside the banks of the Kishanganga River, which flows into an Indus tributary.

TENSIONS ON RIO PARANA

The Itaipu hydroelectric plant, located on the Parana River on the Brazil-Paraguay border, has typically been the supply of tensions between the 2 co-owner nations.

One of many two hydroelectricity crops that produce essentially the most energy on the planet, alongside China’s Three Gorges, had its vitality shared out underneath a 1973 treaty.

However Paraguay demanded extra and ultimately acquired thrice more cash from Brazil, which makes use of 85 p.c of the electrical energy produced.

In 2019, a brand new deal on the sale of energy from Itaipu almost introduced down Paraguay’s authorities, with consultants arguing it could scale back Paraguay’s entry to low-cost energy.

The 2 nations promptly cancelled the deal.

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Maryam Nawaz claims ‘educated terrorists’, not political staff staying in Zaman Park

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LAHORE: Chief Organizer of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), Maryam Nawaz on Sunday claimed {that a} group of “educated terrorists and miscreants from proscribed organizations” had been residing in Zaman Park Lahore, as an alternative of political staff.

In her tweet on Sunday, she expressed her issues over the latest violent incidents in Zaman Park and careworn the significance of not ignoring them.

In accordance with her, the perpetrators of those violent acts had been extremely educated terrorists and miscreants.

Moreover, she accused Imran Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of supporting banned organizations.

Maryam alleged that Imran Khan has a historical past of supporting such outfits and that among the individuals concerned within the latest violent incidents in Zaman Park had been recruited from these banned teams.

Emphasizing the essential function of the state important to play in making certain the protection and safety of its residents, Maryam careworn that it was important for the federal government to take immediate and efficient motion earlier than it’s too late.

She known as for a proactive strategy by the state in addressing these points, somewhat than ready for them to escalate additional.

In the meantime, Federal Data Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb on Sunday mentioned that PTI is a terrorist group, so the Supreme Court docket ought to take take suo motu discover towards this “terrorist celebration”.

She mentioned whereas addressing a presser in Lahore. She mentioned that Imran had gone mad with the starvation of energy. She puzzled on the logic of Imran as he was claiming that he can be bought killed if he went to court docket. Marriyam mentioned that the Ladla (blue eyed) had been offered safety and facilitated. lashed out at PTI Chairman Imran Khan for intimidating judiciary by his ‘terrorism’, making enjoyable of the judicial system.

Marriyum mentioned that the previous premier had ruined the economic system. She known as her ‘mendacity political terrorist and a international agent who has launched an assault on the state’.

She mentioned that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf just isn’t a political celebration, rater ‘a terrorist’ has been imposed on our society. She mentioned the court docket is summoning him and he’s refusing to seem earlier than it. The minister said that weapons and petrol bombs had been discovered from Imran’s residence throughout police search operation.

 

 

 

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