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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's opposition leader Imran Khan's party has said it would sue Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for allegedly taking money from Osama bin Ladento promote jihad in Kashmir.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Khan has been demanding resignation from Sharif for alleged corruption.
PTI spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry said on Monday that he would file a petition in the Supreme Court seeking admission of a case against Sharif for "taking funds from a foreign individual to destabilise and conspire against democracy in Pakistan", the Express Tribune reported.
The PTI does not possess substantial evidence to fortify its case except for some interviews and excerpts from a book 'Khalid Khawaja: Shaheed-e-Aman' by Shamama Khalid, wife of a former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy Khalid Khawaja, who was brutally murdered in 2010 by Pakistani Taliban.
"Relying on the revelations made in certain interviews and a book, PTI intends to open up a shady chapter in the country's political history from late 1980s in an apparent bid to further malign Sharif," the report said.
The interviews and the book claim that Sharif took money, amounting to Rs 1.5 billion from former al-Qaida chief Laden to promote jihad in Kashmir and Afghanistan, the report said.
They also claim that later, an amount of Rs 270 million from this money was utilised to support a no-confidence move against Bhutto in 1989, the report said.
However in 2013, PTI leader Masood Sharif Khan Khattak - who is a former director general of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) - had submitted a statement before the Supreme Court in a case related to misappropriation of the IB funds in 1989.
In his nine-page statement, Khattak had claimed that the moving force behind the vote of no-confidence against Bhutto in 1989 was not political and named former president Ghulam Ishaq Khan and former army chief Mirza Aslam Baig, claiming that they wanted to keep Bhutto out of power, the report said.
Chaudhry, meanwhile said, "In the past, Sharif remained an active part of several conspiracies against the elected governments".
Last week, the PTI announced to open up another legal front against Sharif, saying it would file a petition demanding implementation on a 2012 verdict of the apex court in the Asghar Khan case which determined that Sharif and other politicians had received money from an intelligence agency prior to the 1990 general election to form an alliance against the Pakistan Peoples Party.
He said the two cases would be filed this week.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Khan has been demanding resignation from Sharif for alleged corruption.
PTI spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry said on Monday that he would file a petition in the Supreme Court seeking admission of a case against Sharif for "taking funds from a foreign individual to destabilise and conspire against democracy in Pakistan", the Express Tribune reported.
The PTI does not possess substantial evidence to fortify its case except for some interviews and excerpts from a book 'Khalid Khawaja: Shaheed-e-Aman' by Shamama Khalid, wife of a former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy Khalid Khawaja, who was brutally murdered in 2010 by Pakistani Taliban.
"Relying on the revelations made in certain interviews and a book, PTI intends to open up a shady chapter in the country's political history from late 1980s in an apparent bid to further malign Sharif," the report said.
The interviews and the book claim that Sharif took money, amounting to Rs 1.5 billion from former al-Qaida chief Laden to promote jihad in Kashmir and Afghanistan, the report said.
They also claim that later, an amount of Rs 270 million from this money was utilised to support a no-confidence move against Bhutto in 1989, the report said.
However in 2013, PTI leader Masood Sharif Khan Khattak - who is a former director general of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) - had submitted a statement before the Supreme Court in a case related to misappropriation of the IB funds in 1989.
In his nine-page statement, Khattak had claimed that the moving force behind the vote of no-confidence against Bhutto in 1989 was not political and named former president Ghulam Ishaq Khan and former army chief Mirza Aslam Baig, claiming that they wanted to keep Bhutto out of power, the report said.
Chaudhry, meanwhile said, "In the past, Sharif remained an active part of several conspiracies against the elected governments".
Last week, the PTI announced to open up another legal front against Sharif, saying it would file a petition demanding implementation on a 2012 verdict of the apex court in the Asghar Khan case which determined that Sharif and other politicians had received money from an intelligence agency prior to the 1990 general election to form an alliance against the Pakistan Peoples Party.
He said the two cases would be filed this week.
Read more at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/imran-khans-party-to-sue-nawaz-sharif-for-taking-money-from-osama-bin-laden/articleshow/58594813.cms
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DHARAMSALA: A US Congressional delegation visited the Dalai Lama at his headquarters in India on Tuesday, seeking to draw world attention to human rights in Tibet as President Donald Trump eyes warmer ties with China.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi flew with a bipartisan delegation to the Himalayan hill town where the 81-year-old Buddhist leader is based. The meeting is likely to upset China, which regards the Dalai Lama as a separatist.
"As we visit His Holiness the Dalai Lama, our bipartisan delegation comes in his spirit of faith and peace. We come on this visit to be inspired by His Holiness and demonstrate our commitment to the Tibetan people, to their faith, their culture and their language," Pelosi said.
The lawmakers' visit comes at a awkward time for Trump. Campaigning for election, he had cast China as a trade adversary and currency manipulator, but he now wants President Xi Jinping's support to restrain nuclear-armed North Korea.
"This is my home," the Dalai Lama said holding Pelosi's hand after welcoming the US delegation to his timber-built hilltop residence. He then corrected himself: "This is my second home. My real home - other side."
He then reflected on his fate as a refugee, since fleeing from his homeland in 1959.
"Here the last 58 years I am the longest guest of Indian government," the Dalai Lama said. "But, emotionally, some concern about deep inside Tibet, and also in China proper there are 400 million Buddhists."
The Dalai Lama said he would be willing to visit China but this was not possible while Beijing still considered him a "dangerous splittist."
POLICY ON TIBET
After Trump's election last November, the Dalai Lama said he was keen to meet the incoming US leader. It now looks unlikely the Nobel peace laureate will get a White House invite - an honour accorded by recent American presidents - anytime soon.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson last week played down the role of human rights in US foreign policy, raising fears the Dalai Lama could lose one of his last friends in the West.
Pelosi last visited the Dalai Lama in 2008, in the aftermath of a Chinese crackdown on an uprising in Tibet that coincided with the Beijing Olympics.
The situation in the Tibet Autonomous Region has worsened since then, according to experts and human rights activists, as authorities crack down on dissent and pursue systematic policies to assimilate Tibetans.
"The level of repression in Tibet has increased tremendously," said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
Numbers crossing from Tibet into India and neighbouring Nepal have slowed to a trickle, she added, sapping the vitality of the Tibetan emigre community in South Asia.
Reports continue to emerge from Tibet from time to time of isolated acts of protest against Chinese rule.
A 16-year-old student, chanting "Tibet wants freedom" and "Let His Holiness the Dalai Lama come back to Tibet", burned himself to death on May 2, Radio Free Asia's Tibetan service has reported.
Representative Jim McGovern, a Democrat travelling with Pelosi, has called for a new US policy towards Tibet to safeguard the identity of the Tibetan people and hold China accountable for human rights abuses.
China took control of Tibet in 1950 in what it calls a "peaceful liberation" and has piled pressure on foreign governments to shun the Dalai Lama.
Most recently, Beijing denounced New Delhi for hosting the Dalai Lama when he travelled to Arunachal Pradesh - territory it claims as Southern Tibet - to give spiritual teachings to his followers.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi flew with a bipartisan delegation to the Himalayan hill town where the 81-year-old Buddhist leader is based. The meeting is likely to upset China, which regards the Dalai Lama as a separatist.
"As we visit His Holiness the Dalai Lama, our bipartisan delegation comes in his spirit of faith and peace. We come on this visit to be inspired by His Holiness and demonstrate our commitment to the Tibetan people, to their faith, their culture and their language," Pelosi said.
The lawmakers' visit comes at a awkward time for Trump. Campaigning for election, he had cast China as a trade adversary and currency manipulator, but he now wants President Xi Jinping's support to restrain nuclear-armed North Korea.
"This is my home," the Dalai Lama said holding Pelosi's hand after welcoming the US delegation to his timber-built hilltop residence. He then corrected himself: "This is my second home. My real home - other side."
He then reflected on his fate as a refugee, since fleeing from his homeland in 1959.
"Here the last 58 years I am the longest guest of Indian government," the Dalai Lama said. "But, emotionally, some concern about deep inside Tibet, and also in China proper there are 400 million Buddhists."
The Dalai Lama said he would be willing to visit China but this was not possible while Beijing still considered him a "dangerous splittist."
POLICY ON TIBET
After Trump's election last November, the Dalai Lama said he was keen to meet the incoming US leader. It now looks unlikely the Nobel peace laureate will get a White House invite - an honour accorded by recent American presidents - anytime soon.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson last week played down the role of human rights in US foreign policy, raising fears the Dalai Lama could lose one of his last friends in the West.
Pelosi last visited the Dalai Lama in 2008, in the aftermath of a Chinese crackdown on an uprising in Tibet that coincided with the Beijing Olympics.
The situation in the Tibet Autonomous Region has worsened since then, according to experts and human rights activists, as authorities crack down on dissent and pursue systematic policies to assimilate Tibetans.
"The level of repression in Tibet has increased tremendously," said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
Numbers crossing from Tibet into India and neighbouring Nepal have slowed to a trickle, she added, sapping the vitality of the Tibetan emigre community in South Asia.
Reports continue to emerge from Tibet from time to time of isolated acts of protest against Chinese rule.
A 16-year-old student, chanting "Tibet wants freedom" and "Let His Holiness the Dalai Lama come back to Tibet", burned himself to death on May 2, Radio Free Asia's Tibetan service has reported.
Representative Jim McGovern, a Democrat travelling with Pelosi, has called for a new US policy towards Tibet to safeguard the identity of the Tibetan people and hold China accountable for human rights abuses.
China took control of Tibet in 1950 in what it calls a "peaceful liberation" and has piled pressure on foreign governments to shun the Dalai Lama.
Most recently, Beijing denounced New Delhi for hosting the Dalai Lama when he travelled to Arunachal Pradesh - territory it claims as Southern Tibet - to give spiritual teachings to his followers.
Read More at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/u-s-lawmakers-visit-dalai-lama-highlight-situation-in-tibet/articleshow/58594388.cms
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