Implementation of Article 6 in Pak would result in hanging of 2-3 lakh: MQM

October 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Supreme Court's detailed judgement on Pervez Musharraf's emergency declaration binds the Gilani government to prosecute the former president under Article 6. The country's apex court has pointed out that Musharraf should be punished for the crimes he committed on Nov 3, 2007, and thus made the government bound to act in accordance with the Constitution.

September 24th, 2009 LONDON - Brit university vice-chancellor Terence Kealey, who is at the centre of a row over an article about female students being a "perk" to be enjoyed by male academics, has defended his comments. According to the Daily Telegraph, Kealey was criticised for making the suggestion, and the article has also prompted claims that the comments displayed a "lack of respect" for women.

September 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Former President General Pervez Musharraf has no plans to take a flight back to Pakistan until the demand for his trial under the Article Six of the Constitution is placed on the backburner, sources said. "He would return to Pakistan once all the sensitive issues relating to his trial for November 3, 2007 actions are resolved," The Nation quoted sources, as saying.

September 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has revealed that former President General Pervez Musharraf had stepped down from the Presidency as a part of a deal which was facilitated by 'international and local' guarantors. "All international and local powers, which have stakes in the region, were guarantors of General Pervez Musharraf's negotiated resignation," Zardari told media person during an Iftar party here.

September 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf Sunday said former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif would not seek his trial for high treason. Sharif has assured King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia that he would respect the agreement (not to call for Musharraf's trial) under Article 6 of Pakistan's constitution, Musharraf told a TV channel.

September 4th, 2009 PESHAWAR - An article in The Frontier Post has suggested, though without substantiated proof, that India's external intelligence agency - the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) - is operating in Balochistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in collaboration with newly established Afghan intelligence agency RAAM (earlier name KHAD). According to the article, Afghanistan has made two detachments in Riasat 25 and 33.

August 28th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's former chief nuclear scientist A Q Khan has given a clarification to the recent spate of reactions to his article on the importance of computer technology. The News quotes him as saying: "The acknowledgement as to the source was put at the end of Part II because it was originally written as one long article.

August 23rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Presidency in Pakistan has rejected reports of protecting former President General Pervez Musharraf from being tried under the High Treason Act (Article 6) of the Constitution. A Presidency statement described such reports as baseless and an attempt to malign the office.

August 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has decided to submit an application to the Government seeking action against former President General Pervez Musharraf instead of presenting a resolution in the National Assembly. Under a new strategy, the PML-N would submit an application under Article 6 of the 1973 Constitution, which states that anyone who now abrogated or attempted or conspired to abrogate or subvert the constitution shall be "guilty of high treason." "We did not want to bring a resolution and have it fizzle out in parliament because of the opposition by some political parties.

August 14th, 2009 Quetta (Balochistan, Pakistan), - Balochistan Chief Minister, Nawab Aslam Raisani, fell unconscious on Friday while delivering a rather interesting speech at an Independence Day ceremony here. Before he was taken away by paramedics, Raisani said the sense of deprivation among the smaller ethnic groups is the result of the non-implementation of the 1940 Lahore resolution in letter and spirit and that there is an 'urgent need' to 'reconsider' the 1973 constitution.

August 6th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has announced that it intends to move a resolution in the National Assembly during the current session, seeking former President Pervez Musharraf's trial under Article 6 of the Constitution. "The PML-N has decided to move a resolution in the National Assembly during the ongoing session to invoke Article 6 against Musharraf for breaching the Constitution of the country," Leader of the Opposition Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told the House in categorical words.

May 30th, 2009 LONDON - Silvio Berlusconi, apparently, has a thing for controversies. Speculations regarding the Italian prime minister's relationship with an 18-year-old aspiring model are still on, and now, a new scandal has popped up.

May 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Visitors at this year's Chelsea Flower Show were asked by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to donate their unwanted underwear for its summer Grow Your Own campaign at Hampton Court Palace. The clean unwanted bras, briefs and boxer shorts donated would be used in display of how to grow your own fruit and vegetables in unwanted underwear.

May 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Visitors at this year's Chelsea Flower Show were asked by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to donate their unwanted underwear for its summer Grow Your Own campaign at Hampton Court Palace. The clean unwanted bras, briefs and boxer shorts donated would be used in display of how to grow your own fruit and vegetables in unwanted underwear.

April 27th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistan Army's offensive against the militants in the Lower Dir region of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) is certainly a result of the continuous pressure from the United States, a times online article said. In the recent past the United States has been expressing concern over the expanding writ of the Taliban in Pakistan, and when reports about the insurgents laying siege of Buner, only 60 miles away from the federal capital poured in, the Obama Administration pressed the panic button immediately.