LAHORE: The police authorities stopped two land cruisers and asked the riders for search near Sherpao bridge area of Lahore.
However, four people riding the vehicles refused to allow the police to carry out their search, according to Geo News.
The incident took place at 3pm after which a traffic jam was witnessed in the area.
According to a Geo TV reporter, these vehicles have number plates of Islamabad and Lahore. The media has been barred to visit the area.
According to eyewitnesses, people riding the land cruisers are foreigners, who are not allowing the police to carry out search.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
An Open Letter from Pakistani Patriots to the Indo-American TTP and Their Backers
Sumayya Chawla | Team PKKH
Today is the day we look you in the eye and say “enough!” As we bury our Shaheeds, our eyes are heavy from the tears that we have shed and our shoulders heave with the grief that we have carried upon them. But before you even begin to delude yourselves with the idea that you have defeated this nation, take a very close look at the hands that have carried the martyrs to their graves, look closely and you will notice that these hands do not shake, that the feet that walk our loved ones to their resting places do not falter. Look at our eyes, and behind the tears and the grief you will see the rage, you will see the storm that is brewing on the horizon and the lightning that will strike you dead. We know you are afraid as you should be, afraid of a people that do not know the meaning of defeat; a people who only know how to sacrifice their all for the love of RasulAllah (PBUH), for this Ummah and for Pak Sarzameen. For every single one of us you kill, a thousand more shall rise. As you attack us from behind, we hit you from the front; we hit you where it hurts. We are hunting you down, one by one, and you have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. We want you to know that you will not break us. InshAllah. No matter how many of us you kill, Pak Sarzameen will always be protected by her sons and daughters, one hundred and seventy five million of us.
You thought that this nation was asleep; you thought that you could take us out in the dark of the night and we won’t resist. What you didn’t think was that this nation would finally wake up and understand your game, as we all do now. What you didn’t think or expect was that the little children whom you slaughter in our mosques would hurl your hand grenades back at you before they embraced shahadat. What you didn’t estimate when you were hatching your dirty plans was the power of Love that we have for Pakistan and Islam, the love that is shared by millions of Muslims all over the world. What you didn’t estimate or could even understand, was the spiritual awakening that is spreading like wild fire across this land. Thanks to your dirty game to sully the true spirit of Jihad, every child in Pakistan now knows the difference between true Mujahedeen, those blessed soldiers of Allah, and the child-killing monsters that you have bought for a few dollars and trained, to kill innocent Pakistanis. We are Muslims and we know what our religion stands for, you cannot fool us anymore. We have seen your real faces.
As our brave jawaans and officers strike terror in your hearts in Waziristan, the entire nation stands with them, shoulder to shoulder. You come to our cities, we will hunt you there. You come to our neighborhoods, we will hunt you there. The Pakistani Nation will not sit and go down quietly. We know who you are and we know your game. We will resist you with the power of our faith, with our unity and without any fear in our hearts except for the fear of Allah. We are a nation that has been through rivers of fire and blood before, and we survived and rose from the ashes. You haven’t seen anything yet. The Lions of this Ummah live here, in Pakistan. You have challenged the dignity of a nation whose hearts beat one to the sound of La Ilaha IllAllah, Muhammad Ur RasulAllah. With this Kalima in our hearts and the love of RasulAllah (PBUH) that runs in our veins, we will unleash a defeat so enormous that you will regret the day you were born. This is a promise and God willing, we will keep it.
Pakistan is the unfinished dream of this Ummah: we will take this dream to its Takmeel.
By God we will!
Today is the day we look you in the eye and say “enough!” As we bury our Shaheeds, our eyes are heavy from the tears that we have shed and our shoulders heave with the grief that we have carried upon them. But before you even begin to delude yourselves with the idea that you have defeated this nation, take a very close look at the hands that have carried the martyrs to their graves, look closely and you will notice that these hands do not shake, that the feet that walk our loved ones to their resting places do not falter. Look at our eyes, and behind the tears and the grief you will see the rage, you will see the storm that is brewing on the horizon and the lightning that will strike you dead. We know you are afraid as you should be, afraid of a people that do not know the meaning of defeat; a people who only know how to sacrifice their all for the love of RasulAllah (PBUH), for this Ummah and for Pak Sarzameen. For every single one of us you kill, a thousand more shall rise. As you attack us from behind, we hit you from the front; we hit you where it hurts. We are hunting you down, one by one, and you have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. We want you to know that you will not break us. InshAllah. No matter how many of us you kill, Pak Sarzameen will always be protected by her sons and daughters, one hundred and seventy five million of us.
You thought that this nation was asleep; you thought that you could take us out in the dark of the night and we won’t resist. What you didn’t think was that this nation would finally wake up and understand your game, as we all do now. What you didn’t think or expect was that the little children whom you slaughter in our mosques would hurl your hand grenades back at you before they embraced shahadat. What you didn’t estimate when you were hatching your dirty plans was the power of Love that we have for Pakistan and Islam, the love that is shared by millions of Muslims all over the world. What you didn’t estimate or could even understand, was the spiritual awakening that is spreading like wild fire across this land. Thanks to your dirty game to sully the true spirit of Jihad, every child in Pakistan now knows the difference between true Mujahedeen, those blessed soldiers of Allah, and the child-killing monsters that you have bought for a few dollars and trained, to kill innocent Pakistanis. We are Muslims and we know what our religion stands for, you cannot fool us anymore. We have seen your real faces.
As our brave jawaans and officers strike terror in your hearts in Waziristan, the entire nation stands with them, shoulder to shoulder. You come to our cities, we will hunt you there. You come to our neighborhoods, we will hunt you there. The Pakistani Nation will not sit and go down quietly. We know who you are and we know your game. We will resist you with the power of our faith, with our unity and without any fear in our hearts except for the fear of Allah. We are a nation that has been through rivers of fire and blood before, and we survived and rose from the ashes. You haven’t seen anything yet. The Lions of this Ummah live here, in Pakistan. You have challenged the dignity of a nation whose hearts beat one to the sound of La Ilaha IllAllah, Muhammad Ur RasulAllah. With this Kalima in our hearts and the love of RasulAllah (PBUH) that runs in our veins, we will unleash a defeat so enormous that you will regret the day you were born. This is a promise and God willing, we will keep it.
Pakistan is the unfinished dream of this Ummah: we will take this dream to its Takmeel.
By God we will!
Militants destroy school in Khyber
A young girl stands beside the rubble of a school building destroyed by militants on the outskirts of Bara town on November 5, 2009. — AFP
According to official sources, dynamite was used to destroy the school. No casualties were reported.
At the time of the attack, students and teachers were not present inside the building.
A military operation was still underway in the Bara tehsil and a curfew was imposed. — DawnNews
Tags: Khyber agency,landi kotal,taliban schools,swat schools,bajaur schools
Yahoo Sells All Its Users Private Email Contents to Spy Agencies and Police for Small Price
Something we have alleged since 10 years, has now come into the open with the proof of U.S. email companies spying on their users.
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Yahoo isn’t happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides to “law enforcement” and spy agencies has leaked onto the web.
After earlier reports this week that Yahoo had blocked an FOIA Freedom of Information release of its “law enforcement and intelligence price list”, someone helpfully provided a copy of the Yahoo company’s spying guide to the whistleblower web site Cryptome.org.
The 17-page guide, which Yahoo has tried to suppress via legal letters to the Cryptome.org site run by freedom of information champion John Young, describes Yahoo’s policies on keeping the data of Yahoo Email and Yahoo Groups users, as well as the surveillance and spying capabilities it can give to the U.S. government and its agencies.
The Yahoo document is a price list for these spying services and has already resulted in many people closing down their accounts in protest. However, closing a Yahoo account is not as easy as one might expect: users have reported great difficulty in finding the link to delete their account, and, Yahoo will still keep data for another 90 days.
If you ask Yahoo! to delete your Yahoo! account, in most cases your account will be deactivated and then deleted from our user registration database in approximately 90 days. This delay is necessary to discourage users from engaging in fraudulent activity.
Please note that any information that we have copied may remain in back-up storage for some period of time after your deletion request. This may be the case even though no information about your account remains in our active user databases.
Many government leaders and officials around Africa, Asia and Latin America are known by Mathaba to widely be using Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail in spite of these Email services being hosted on U.S. computers and the ease that gives the hosts to access their data.. Mathaba has also long been aware of a great many business people, politicians and even Presidents who use the “free” web-based email services of Yahoo for their Email communications, thus making it easy for the U.S. and its owners to spy on them with negligible cost.
Cryptome also published lawful data-interception guides for Cox Communications, SBC, Cingular, Nextel, GTE and other telecoms and Internet service providers.
But of all those companies, it appears to be Yahoo’s lawyers alone who have been stupid enough to try to issue a “DMCA takedown notice” to Cryptome demanding the document be removed. Yahoo claims that publication of the document is a copyright violation, and gave Cryptome owner John Young a Thursday deadline for removing the document.
We estimate Yahoo stand a near-zero chance of success given that Young has thousands of intelligence and other leaked documents on his site and in the past decade has yet to remove a single document upon legal threats, the same 10-year track record held by Mathaba on documents on British Intelligence in spite of having computers seized and properties raided.
Mathaba is now also hosting the Yahoo leaked document on its servers around the world, and the cat is long out of the bag with the original document having been downloaded and distributed by many already.
When John Young was asked if there was anything he wouldn’t reveal on his site — a fault in the President’s Secret Service detail, for instance — he said, “Well, I’m actually looking for that information right now”, much to the chagrin of those who believe that the U.S. government and its hopelessly corrupt agencies should have a right to supress information from the public.
The Compliance Guide reveals, as has been known to Mathaba prior to the leak via our own sources, that Yahoo does not retain a copy of e-mails that an account holder sends unless that customer sets up the account to store those e-mails. Yahoo also cannot search for or produce deleted e-mails once they’ve been removed from a user’s trash folder.
The guide also reveals that the company retains the IP addresses from which a user logs in for just one year. But the company’s logs of IP addresses used to register new accounts for the first time go back to 1999. The contents of accounts on Flickr, the photo sharing and storage site which Yahoo also owns, are purged as soon as a user deactivates the account.
Chats conducted through the company’s Web Messenger service may be saved on Yahoo’s server if one of the parties in the correspondence set up their account to archive chats. This pertains to the web-based version of the chat service, however. Yahoo does not save the content of chats for consumers who use the downloadable Web Messenger client on their computer.
Instant message logs are retained 45 to 60 days and includes an account holder’s friends list, and the date and times the user communicated with them.
Young responded to Yahoo’s takedown request with a defiant note:
I cannot find at the Copyright Office a grant of copyright for the Yahoo spying document hosted on Cryptome. To assure readers Yahoo’s copyright claim is valid and not another hoary bluff without substantiation so common under DMCA bombast please send a copy of the copyright grant for publication on Cryptome.
Until Yahoo provides proof of copyright, the document will remain available to the public for it provides information that is in the public interest about Yahoo’s contradictory privacy policy and should remain a topic of public debate on ISP unacknowledged spying complicity with officials for lucrative fees.
Note: Yahoo’s exclamation point is surely trademarked so omitted here.
The company responded that a copyright notice is optional for works created after March 1, 1989 and repeated its demand for removal on Thursday. For now, the document remains on the Cryptome site.
Threat Level reported Tuesday that muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian had asked all agencies within the Department of Justice, under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, to provide him with a copy of the pricing list supplied by telecoms and internet service providers for the surveillance services they offer government agencies. But before the agencies could provide the data, Verizon and Yahoo intervened and filed an objection on grounds that the information was proprietary and that the companies would be ridiculed and publicly shamed were their surveillance price sheets made public.
Yahoo wrote in its objection letter that if its pricing information were disclosed to Soghoian, he would use it “to ’shame’ Yahoo! and other companies — and to ’shock’ their customers.”
“Therefore, release of Yahoo!’s information is reasonably likely to lead to impairment of its reputation for protection of user privacy and security, which is a competitive disadvantage for technology companies,” the company added.
The price list that Yahoo tried to prevent the government from releasing to Soghoian appears in one small paragraph in the 17-page leaked document. According to this list, Yahoo charges the government about $30 to $40 for the contents, including e-mail, of a subscriber’s account. It charges $40 to $80 for the contents of a Yahoo group.
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other U.S. “social networking” sites are at minimum providing information in similar fashion to U.S. agencies, and in some cases have also received substantial funding by U.S. government related entities as a most efficient and cost-effective means of spying on their users around the world. — Mathaba
– Includes extensive reporting by Wired.com’s Kim Zetter
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
have we forget the kashmir issue?
Kashmir, the valley known for its beauty. Justifiably termed as ‘paradise on earth’. Well known for its culture, food and heritage. Kashmir, no doubt a place on earth which is seeking for recognition from many years. This place is sacrificing from their money to lives with no hope of freedom. Their shrieks are too low to hear for those who are indulged in their own fun of collecting money. Their blood no worth to them so, far it’s their fortunate now. Every time this issue comes into highlights, generated some curiosity and settle down without any conclusions. My questions for all are ‘are they human beings? If so then why they have not the right to be called independent. Their children are not children? Dont they deserve a better and peace way of living? Don’t they deserve better education in peace environment? Why their voices are dumped in terror of fear? Why not they are as free as I m? Why every single person missed their every part of live which has to be lived up to the expectation?
Who is responsible for all this?
Blame who? Government, history, their fortunate or just blame u and me?
Why it is always treated as to be part of Pakistan or to be part of India?
I wish it tend to be treated a part of world where human survive and want to grow too. They are striving hard to live. Why nobody does any better for them? Well said by someone;
‘‘none who have always free been free can understand terrible fascinating power of hope of freedom to those who are not free’’
We are selfish. Indeed this is a harsh world where no one thinks for any ones pain. We are still sleeping. If any one have heart or feeling who is reading this my humble request is to all of them is now the time to raise our voices, we the youth, the assets,proud,and the largest popularity of our nation are going to speak speak for those who are our brother and sisters. We are going to make our voices reached to the world. The least we can do. The better we can do. Something we can do for the sake of humanity. We going to stop the immoral cruel on the people of Jammu Kashmir. They are slave but we are free, cant we become their voice as we too survived the pain of being slaves in the past.
Let us join our hand and unite our voices for the people of Kashmir. No long the day will come when Kashmir will be stated as a free. Soon one morning will bring the light of freedom to them. Let us not give them the hope. Let us give them the gift of freedom. I have done my bit. Its time for your least to do for your brothers and sisters.
by marium mehboob
Qatar coordinator
Who is responsible for all this?
Blame who? Government, history, their fortunate or just blame u and me?
Why it is always treated as to be part of Pakistan or to be part of India?
I wish it tend to be treated a part of world where human survive and want to grow too. They are striving hard to live. Why nobody does any better for them? Well said by someone;
‘‘none who have always free been free can understand terrible fascinating power of hope of freedom to those who are not free’’
We are selfish. Indeed this is a harsh world where no one thinks for any ones pain. We are still sleeping. If any one have heart or feeling who is reading this my humble request is to all of them is now the time to raise our voices, we the youth, the assets,proud,and the largest popularity of our nation are going to speak speak for those who are our brother and sisters. We are going to make our voices reached to the world. The least we can do. The better we can do. Something we can do for the sake of humanity. We going to stop the immoral cruel on the people of Jammu Kashmir. They are slave but we are free, cant we become their voice as we too survived the pain of being slaves in the past.
Let us join our hand and unite our voices for the people of Kashmir. No long the day will come when Kashmir will be stated as a free. Soon one morning will bring the light of freedom to them. Let us not give them the hope. Let us give them the gift of freedom. I have done my bit. Its time for your least to do for your brothers and sisters.
by marium mehboob
Qatar coordinator
List of NRO financial beneficiaries presented in SC
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) submitted a list containing names of 248 people, who were accused of siphoning off for themselves amounts of money from the national exchequer, Geo News reported Tuesday.These NRO beneficiaries include President Asif Ali Zardari, Rehman Malik, Jahangir Badar, Yousuf Talpur, Ahmed Mukhtar, Pak Ambassador in the US Hussain Haqqani, Haji Nawaz Khokhar, Pir Mukarramul Haq, Brig (rtd) Imtiaz, Usman Farooqi, Salman Farooqi, former President Habib Bank Younus Dalmia, Mirbaz Khetran and Aftab Sherpao.
Former MPAs including Agha Siraj Ahmed, Ghaniur Rehman, Habibullah Kundi are on the list.
According to NAB list, former Secretary to PM Ahmed Sadiq, former Chief Secretary Javed Ahmed Qureshi, Syed Zahir Hussain, Former Secretary Trade Aslam Hayat Qureshi, Former Finance Secretary Javed Talat, former Secretary Salman Farooqi, AR Siddiqui, Former Secretary to PM Saeed Mehdi, former DG NHA Iqbal Ahmed, Adnan A Khawaja and Nadeem Imtiaz are included.
Former MNAs Haji Kabeer, Rana Nazeer Ahmed, Sardar Mansoor Leghari and Chaudhry Abdul Hameed are included in the list.
Former MPAs Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, Malik Mushtaq Awan, Mian Rasheed, Tariq Anees, Mian Tariq Mehmood, former DG OGDC Shahid Ahmed, former MD Utility Stores Sadiq Ali Khan, former GM Port Qasim Authority Abdus Sattar Dero, former chairman NDF Maula Bux are included in the list of people who availed of NRO financially.
According to NAB list presented in the SC, there are at least seven abolished references of President Zardari. Among them, Rs1.82 billion in ARY Gold, Rs270 in a tractor project, and there is mention of at least Rs50 million in Polo Ground.
According to the NAB report, there are at least two cases of Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
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