Thursday, May 31, 2007
Pakistani human smugglers
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ISLAMABAD, May 27: The embassy of Pakistan in Greece has warned of a diplomatic disaster in the making as an estimated 10,000 illegal immigrants taken to Turkey by a gang of Pakistani human smugglers are likely to be pushed into Greece and Italy, possibly between now and September.
Since the alarm raised by the Pakistani mission in Athens, security agencies and relevant ministries have been treating it as a crisis situation, but so far no strategy has been worked out to counter the smugglers’ moves.
This is by far the biggest challenge related to human smuggling that the Pakistani security agencies are facing outside the country, as never before such a large number of people were illegally taken to a country with the aim of pushing them into Europe.
The crisis has been compounded with the revelation -- based on documents available with Dawn -- that the gang involved in such a major criminal act included not only a few influential people in Pakistan, but it is part of a network linked to powerful gangs behind hum smuggling in Iran, Turkey and Greece. It is learnt that the Pakistani mission in Athens has told the authorities in Islamabad that, based on information provided by some illegal immigrants, it had reasons to believe that a few police officials in Greece were also part of the network. These officials allegedly helped in providing safe passage, including the safety of armoured vehicles, to illegal immigrants.
The alarm about the new in flux of illegal immigrants was raised following a recent relaxation in Greek immigration rules, which the smugglers considered to be a golden opportunity to push more people through the Turkish border into Europe.
It is also learnt that among measures recently announced by the Greek government, illegal immigrants whose applications had earlier been rejected by local authorities for want of sufficient proof of their arrival in Greece before Dec 31, 2004, were now eligible to apply afresh.
Secondly, illegal immigrants married to a Greek national or an alien residing legally in Greece before the date are also eligible to apply again. Similarly, parents of children enrolled in government schools in Greece before this date are also permitted to apply. The new rules also apply to parents of children born in Greece before Dec 31, 2004.
It is not clear how many of these illegal immigrants have attempted to cross the border since the Pakistani mission started communicating with Islamabad and if any of them has been apprehended.
However, the Pakistani mission in Athens has pointed out that even if these illegal immigrants manage to slip into Greece, they will not be able to benefit from the new rules, which are meant for people already living there for several years. The embassy’s real worry is that these people are likely to create major problems for the Pakistani mission and the country by their illegal and unauthorised presence in Greece.
Information about the network, with particular reference to the present crisis, makes a disturbing reading about the extent of the gang’s influence, and how it has so far managed to manipulate systems right from Pakistan to Turkey, and even in Greece to continue to send illegal immigrants.
Upon entering in Greece, illegal immigrants are transported to Athens in vehicles resembling Greek army vehicles. Another illegal immigrant said that the vehicle in which he and other members of his group were travelling to Turkish/Greek border stopped at a certain place and a man wearing Turkish army uniform boarded the bus and helped them in leaving Turkey.
Investigation of cases of illegal immigration and human trafficking has revealed that smugglers use various methods to send people to and from Pakistan.
Islamabad was informed that the human smuggling mafia had been exploiting the weaknesses of the law-enforcement system in the four countries.
It was also informed that there had been a decrease in human smuggling after the arrest of Javed Aslam Arain in October 2006 through Interpol. After his arrest, his operation stopped and he plunged into a financial crisis.
However, he resumed his activities and a request for his extradition was turned down by a court of appeals in Athens.
This time a considerable surge in human smuggling from Pakistan to Turkey was witnessed and the operation appeared to be well-funded.
The Pakistani ambassador in Athens suggested that apart from taking other measures, the FIA should appoint a liaison officer there to curb human smuggling in a professional manner. The embassy also said that the FIA presence in Greece had now become more important after the posting of a police liaison officer at the Greek Embassy in Islamabad.
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Tehsil Nazim Phalia occupies bureaucrat’s land
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
A Culture of Contradictions, Review City Pakistan
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Whether it was the bloody crusades, continual suicide bombings aimed at obliterating enemies of God’s last religion or the war-bent aftermath of 9/11, nothing has made the ongoing clash of civilizations more apparent than a puny little cartoon, one that has brought to light the ugly face of western contempt. The debacle of a barbaric portrait of a man Muslims hold dearer than any ideal fathomable has proved to be nothing but a resounding slap on the face after all our years of ass kissing and nauseating yelps of enthusiasm when asked to ‘sit’, ‘stand’, ‘roll over’ and ‘play dead’.
Depicting Hazrat Mohommad (PBUH) as a terrorist encapsulating a bomb for a turban seems to be the tip of an iceberg that has its vice-like grips of intolerance deeply rooted within a hotbed of social deconstruction. The west manages to give away time and again just how trigger-happy it can be when it comes to provoking the sentiments of the third world. Falling back on the crappiest excuse in the book, one that entails ‘freedom of the press’, they have demonstrated a culture of contradictions all of their very own. Is it not these very same Europeans who banned the head-scarf in France, who frisk search every man with a beard and suspicious name (read Muhammad) at almost every airport in the world and seek to root out all immigrants on the basis of their ties with suspected militants who have no more affiliation with them than Osama has with Heidi Klum? Freedom of art, craft and movement, my foot.The stance of the Danish government is to vindicate the cartoons’ right to be published under the banner of unrestraint but, instead, they should really ask themselves one question: does freedom of speech really have to come at the cost of having to tolerate speech one finds abhorrent? Ever find yourself asking just when and where the ‘liberalist’ west will draw the last straw? I know I do.
We Muslims may be called fanatics (and I do not, for a single second, doubt that we’d be much better off without a few radical elements), anarchists against the idea of pacifism and a far cry from tolerant in pursuits such as gender equality and the like, but one thing we are not and never have been are defilers of the prophets of any God sent creed, be it Jesus, Moses or any other messiah in a list that runs into the thousands.
It’s not our problem that fractions in the west have made Jesus Christ ‘superstar’ the butt of many perverse jokes, that they make dashboard tributes of him winking and flashing the thumbs up sign while personifying his new-found and revamped image of being an all round ‘nice guy’ and making movies such as The Last Temptation Of Christ in which he is shown giving in to the allure of a life less extraordinary. It’s not our problem that throughout the ages, Christians the world over are beginning to lose their faith for a new world order, one in which ‘sensibilities’ may be aversely affected if prayers are offered in schools, the word ‘God’ is not to be mentioned in front of impressionable young kids and the advent of a Muslim uprising is seen as a threat to life as they know it. It’s not our problem when radical Christian elements blow up abortion clinics to protect their Catholic faith and it sure as hell isn’t our problem when priests and other clerics of the holy order fondle young alter and choir boys due to their pent-up homosexual tendencies. But it is our problem if they jump onto the bandwagon of religious regurgitation by repulsively illustrating the entire enormity of our 1500 year-old faith within a few strokes of the hand that holds the pen of blasphemy in a comic strip of degradation.
What the west wanted, the west got: a backlash of violence and hatred that has the unguided potential to spew forth a tsunami of vengeance and brute force which is exactly the kind of reaction we have going against us. It’s pretty obvious that this is going to be played down as an ‘extreme’ answer by ‘barbaric’ religious fundamentalists, exactly the kind of image we’re trying to throw out the blood splattered window. Whether sufi, progressive or extremist, we all feel pretty passionate about the Prophet’s depiction and aren’t afraid to show it.
However, this is where our own common sense should come into play. Do we really want to give those Danish and European flag bearers of emancipation the response they’re crossing fingers for by picking up our guns, torching the councils of their representation and chanting hate slogans or do we opt for the more cool and calculated approach by waging a quieter, smarter war on liberal ignorance. The boycott of Danish goods is cute, but it can get a whole lot cuter with a 1.3 billion Muslim strong campaign against the documentations of degradation through a thought process that does not entail violence. Whatever the answer is, it does not lie in mayhem and disorder.
This fiasco is not about Christians vs. Muslims or the West vs. Islam, it is about the incapacity of a nation of focused fools to understand that they cannot, under any circumstances, play around with the divine sentiments of those who in many a case put their faith before their lives. That’s playing with fire territory so don’t go crying to mommy when your pants get burnt.
This was solely a premeditated act of disconcertation and malicious provocation, one that requires an immediate apology and rebuking of any further efforts to reprint this joke of expressional freedom.
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Saturday, May 26, 2007
Chief Justice of Pakistan's address to Supreme Court Bar Association
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
Road Rush in Islamabad
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Noting special to write or tell
Monday, May 21, 2007
سیاستدانوں کی غیر سیاسی مشیر ,,,,قلم کمان …حامد میر
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Telenor Mobile TV colliboration with PTV and Abu Dhabi Cricket Series
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This is India (after bomb blast in Makkah Masjid in India on Friday 18 May 2007)
This picture is taken after bomb blast in Makkah Masjid in India on Friday 18 May 2007. It is another attempt to down muslims of India. God bless us..................
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Peshawar Bomb Blast and joing of MeraPhalia Group
Yesterday I join meraphalia group and leave some introductory messages there including my blog address (reviewcity.blogspot.com) and web portal ReviewCity Pakistan (www.geocities.com/reviewcity/index.htm). I also create a new MSN Group namely PhaliaCity. Today I also uploaded new Home Page for ReviewCity Pakistan. Now 2 new links added to the website. 1. Picofday 2. SimplyGoogle. Now this is the list of all links.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Situation in the Country
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Situation in the Country
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