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 sociology - Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi is located in the Punjab province, 275 km (171 miles) to the north-west of Lahore.
It is the administrative seat of the Rawalpindi District.
Rawalpindi is the nearest major city for the holiday resorts and hill stations of the Galiyat area, such as Murree, Nathiagali, and Ayubia.
www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Rawalpindi   (977 words)

  
 Rawalpindi - Definition, explanation
Rawalpindi city, also known as Pindi, has a history spread over several millenniums extending to the ancient times corresponding with the decaying period of Buddhism to the invasions of the Macedonians and then to the dawn of the Muslims era.
Rawalpindi remained under the rule of Gakkhars till Muqarrab Khan, the last Gakkhar ruler, was defeated by Sikhs in 1765 AD.
Abbottabad, Bahawalpur, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Islamabad, Lahore, Multan, Nowshera, Rawalpindi, Sialkot and Swat.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/r/ra/rawalpindi.php   (1689 words)

  
 Rawalpindi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rawalpindi remained under the rule of the Gakkhars till Muqarrab Khan, the last Gakkhar ruler, was defeated by the Sikhs in 1765.
Rawalpindi is the nearest major city for the holiday resorts and hill stations of the Galiyat area, such as Murree, Nathia Gali, and Ayubia.
Rawalpindi is on the ancient Grand Trunk Road (also known as G.T. Road or, more recently, N-5) which links Rawalpindi to nearly every major city in northern Pakistan, from Lahore in the Punjab to Peshawar in the NWFP.
www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DRawalpindi%26type%3Den   (1404 words)

  
 REPORT of THE COURT OF INQUIRY - More Murders
The second case relates to the murder of a revolting Ahmadi by an orthodox Ahmadi because the leader of the orthodox sect had been attacked in, a poster by a party to which the murdered man belonged, While considering the propriety of the death sentence.
In the present case, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that the murder was not committed with any sordid motive and that the offender, who is a youth of impressionable age, was made to believe that in the circumstances the murder had become an obligation by discharging which he could earn religious merit.
The motive for the murder in that case remained obscure but one of the eyewitnesses, who was believed both by the Sessions Judge and the High Court, had deposed that on being arrested on the spot the accused himself had confessed that he had murdered Badar-ud-Din because he was an Ahmadi.
www.thepersecution.org /archive/munir/p24.html   (1877 words)

  
 Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia
Well-placed sources maintain that cases of indiscipline and defiance were so rampant after the South Waziristan operation [1] on the Afghanistan border this year that the government decided to deal with the situation with an iron fist, and has adopted a new modus operandi to deal with problem.
These cases indicate that the military leadership of the country has decided to open a Pandora's box to expose its men and their jihadi connections, with the aim of wiping the slate clean.
The case is known as the Attock conspiracy case II.
www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/FL22Df03.html   (1169 words)

  
 CONVERTED KASHMIR: Memorial of Mistakes
Conspiracies are hatched in dark and secretly and, therefore, direct evidence to prove them is not necessary.
Sheikh Abdullah was the forerunner of this conspiracy.
When the conspiracy was confirmed and charges against all the accused were established the Lower Court referred the case for hearing to the Sessions court.
www.kashmir-information.com /ConvertedKashmir/Chapter20.html   (5475 words)

  
 Asia Cases 2003
Rawalpindi's Crime Reporter's Associations and Rawalpindi-Islamabad Photojournalists Association organized a demonstration in front of Parliament on Monday, October 20, 2003, protesting the manhandling of the journalists by the lawyers.
A day later when the case was brought to court, the judge ordered both father and son jailed until November 20.
Local journalists said that this case is representative of the abuse of power by army officers in the area.
www.cpj.org /cases03/asia_cases03/pak.html   (2312 words)

  
 Bangkok's Independent Newspaper
Rawalpindi, Pakistan - A Briton held in Pakistan for alleged involvement in a plot to blow up transatlantic jets said Friday the accusations against him were false as he appeared in court on other charges.
A judge at an special anti-terrorism court on December 13 dropped terrorism charges against Rauf relating to the conspiracy to detonate liquid explosives on jets flying from London to the United States in August.
He added that "the case is now in the ordinary court, which itself means there are no terrorism charges".
www.nationmultimedia.com /worldhotnews/read.php?newsid=30022279   (578 words)

  
 Søk pÃ¥ forfatter 'Zaheer' » Bokkilden
Rawalpindi Sazish - 1951 : Pakistan Mein Fauji Inqilab Ki Pehli Koshish
The Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case was the first of many conspiracies in the armed forces of Pakistan to overthrow the civilian government.
This is an account, in Urdu, of the 1951 Conspiracy based on official...
www.bokkilden.no /SamboWeb/sok.do?rolle1=forfatter&aktor1=Zaheer   (156 words)

  
 America's War on Terror Has Set a Pattern of Fit-up and Cover-up
The story appears to be almost entirely fictional: the house of a respected micro-biologist had been raided and his son arrested, but according to another family member Mohammed was not in the house; nor did the intelligence officers who kicked the door in even ask for him.
So shaky was the prosecution case that, when two further witnesses led the authorities to Pearl's body, the court ignored their evidence.
And if the poor and weak are prone to embrace unlikely conspiracies, perhaps it is in part because they see little reason to trust in the proclaimed virtues of law and order, democracy and judicial process that so rarely seem to be made to work for them.
www.commondreams.org /views03/0306-08.htm   (974 words)

  
 Red Star Over Rawalpindi
The conspiracy, the trial and the verdict were one-day stories for our media.
The conspiracy story itself is not a whodunit but a narration of facts based on official records.
It is significant that at every crucial point two characters pop up, both of whom were convicted in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy case.
www.india-today.com /itoday/29061998/books.html   (642 words)

  
 Region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In both cases, the General was attacked in the most sensitive hub of the areas controlled by the army.
One of these cases was so serious that it had to be tried in the inner recesses of the Attock Fort where Gen. Musharraf later imprisoned Mr.
In any case, there is hardly a Pakistani who doubts that Zia's own death in the mysterious plane crash was the handiwork of some angry officers of the Army and the Air Force.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/dec/29/29122005re.htm   (4447 words)

  
 Liaquat Ali Khan - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He also managed to quell the 1st coup attempt in Pakistan to overthrow his Government by Major General Akbar Khan in the famous or rather infamous Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case 1951.
Khan's time as Prime Minister was cut short by an assassin's bullet.
Khan was shot twice in the chest during that meeting by a man sitting in the audience’s only fifteen yards away, and the security forces immediately shot the assassin, who was later identified as Saad Akbar.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Liaquat_Ali_Khan   (489 words)

  
 India - Pakistan Crisis
Rawalpindi's Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Fareed Nawaz, told reporters it was an act of terrorism.
Doctors at Rawalpindi's Holy Family Hospital, just outside the Pakistan capital of Islamabad, said they were overwhelmed by the number of dead and wounded from the Shah-i-Najf mosque.
On Tuesday, Saeed was taken to the city court building in the southern port city of Karachi where a witness in the Pearl case was asked to identify him, said Manzoor Mughal, a senior investigator.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/72641/115-124   (4819 words)

  
 Pakistan lost motivation after injuries - Sify.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
That seems to be the case with the Pakistan cricket team.
To me, the tough season took its toll on the players and by the time the one-day series was half over, their gas tanks were empty.
The injury is a mystery to me and has led to the emergence of several conspiracy theories of which one is that Shoaib would proceed to Perth from Melbourne to take an additional clearance certificate from the University of Western Australia regarding his bowling action to avoid any controversy on the England tour.
www.sify.com /sports/columns/fullstory.php?id=14149531   (1037 words)

  
 The News - International
The IGP of Islamabad Police, Iftikhar Ahmad Chaudhry on Monday submitted his inquiry report before the chief justice which was conducted after the chief justice took a suo moto action after the FIR was lodged.
At the same time, the mobile telephone record of The News correspondent was obtained by the police team "to find out any pattern indicative of his connection with either the complainant or the accused party" but nothing could be found.
The police officer told the CJ on behalf of the IGP that an inquiry was being conducted against the inspector.
www.thenews.com.pk /daily_detail.asp?id=28508   (833 words)

  
 Khaleej Times Online - British airline plot suspect slams “injustice” in Pakistan court
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - A Briton held for alleged involvement in a plot to blow up transatlantic jets denied the accusations before he appeared before a Pakistani court on Friday.
It’s all fabricated,” the handcuffed Rauf told reporters inside the court in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, when asked about his alleged links to the conspiracy.
The charges said Rauf was in possession of 29 bottles of the chemical hydrogen peroxide, which were meant to be used to blow up the passenger jets.
www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticleNew.asp?col=§ion=subcontinent&xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/December/subcontinent_December749.xml   (516 words)

  
 Pakistan Diary
Rawalpindi, or in short Pindi as the local people call it, was the capital of Pakistan till 1964 when the construction of Islamabad was completed.
The public meeting organised by JLF in Rawalpindi Press Club was a crowded one, with several comrades coming from the North West Frontier Province and other places.
The idea was that in that case we could proceed to Karachi on March 1 evening, or March 2 morning at the most, and stay there for two days.
www.apnaorg.com /articles/pakistandiary   (6113 words)

  
 ARCHIVES: Rawalpindi Conspiracy Act 1951
The following act was passed by the Constituent Assembly in the wake of the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case.
— The expression 'Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case' means any case which may be placed before the Special Tribunal by the Central Government under subsection (2) of section 3, and which arises out of the reasonable conspiracy unearthed in February-March 1951.
— The Special Tribunal may, at any stage of the case, direct that an advo­cate, to be selected by the Special Tribunal shall be engaged, at the expense of the Central Government, to defend any accused person who is not represented by Counsel, and may also determine the fees to be paid to such advocate.
www.pakistanihistory.com /archives/51raw2.htm   (1010 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Moussaoui Said Not to Be Part of 9/11 Plot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
If allowed in court, Mohammed's statements could bolster Moussaoui's claim that he was not responsible for the deaths on Sept. 11, 2001, making it more difficult for the government to prove he committed a capital offense, his attorney and other legal experts said.
The Justice Department is seeking to overturn that ruling in a case being argued under seal before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
However, he said, the government's case would suffer if Moussaoui can demonstrate that he was trusted so little that he was not privy to any al Qaeda plans.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A40081-2003Mar27?language=printer   (1221 words)

  
 Pakistan News Service - PakTribune
All three accused Ghulam Mustafa, Farrukh Usman and Amir Khan were arrested on August 11th 2004 with their alleged involvement in a terrorist plot to attack and destroy Presidency, Prime Minister House, GHQ and Army House on the eve of independence day the August 14th, 2004.
All three arrested were kept under solitary confinement and remained under investigation for six months and in March 2004 a case was filed in Anti Terrorist court Rawalpindi under the charges of making a conspiracy.
During the proceedings of the case in ATC Rawalpindi government failed to produce any evidence against the accused persons and the court accepted the plea by the accused counsel that the case is registered after the six months of their arrest.
paktribune.com /news/index.shtml?119344   (410 words)

  
 Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia
This follows news on Sunday of the arrest of more than 10 suspects believed to be involved in a plot to bomb high-profile targets in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, including the US Embassy and the official residences of Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf.
Javaid Ibrahim Paracha, a former member of the National Assembly (parliament) and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Sharif group) is a case in point.
Waqar: The Jamiat-i-Alesunnat is the largest organization of Rawalpindi and Islamabad clerics, with a membership of 1,000.
www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/FH25Df03.html   (1515 words)

  
 sajjad zaheer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The result was that as soon as the latter launched the Rawalpindi conspiracy case in 1951, it arrested Comrade Sajjad Zaheer too and implicated him in the case.
She was a talkative lady and had boasted to a few ladies of her acquaintance that her husband was soon to become the country’s president.
The Rawalpindi case was, thus, a manufactured one --- from end to end.
www.ganashakti.com /old/2005/051219/world.htm   (2743 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Ludhiana Stories
Following a Vigilance enquiry, a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act was registered against him after his retirement.
Cases were also registered against two executive officers of the Ludhiana Improvement Trust on corruption charges and one of them died in America.
The police has registered a case under Section 307, 34 of the IPC against Balbir Singh of Agwar Ladhai, Manjit Kaur of Lamme, and Sarabjit Kaur of Jatpura on the charge of attempt to murder.
www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20060916/ldh1.htm   (3696 words)

  
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[The Lahore Conspiracy Case (LCC) prisoners had suspended their hunger strike on the assurance that the Government of India was considering the Jail Committee Report and that the jail reforms would be punished for participating in the hunger strike.
In most of these cases the periods of imprisonment have been enhanced while some of them have been removed from the Special class.
Unless and until we find a definite move on the part of the government to redeem its promise in the course of the next seven days, we shall be forced to resume the hunger strike.
www.shahidbhagatsingh.org /hunger_strike_demands.asp   (1987 words)

  
 The Mother Board :: View topic - UK 'plot' terror charge dropped
He has moved the case of Rashid Rauf, a Briton, from an anti-terrorism court to a regular court, where he faces lesser charges such as forgery.
But an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi found no evidence that he had been involved in terrorist activities or that he belonged to a terrorist organisation.
Several commentators said the threat was deliberately exaggerated to bolster the anti-terror credentials of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and that it helped to demonise British Muslims of Pakistani origin.
www.motherboards.org /forums/viewtopic.php?t=94286&view=previous   (527 words)

  
 DHIREN BAROT: THE CONTINUING AL QAEDA STRIPTEASE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The suspicion arose first in the case of Haroon Rashid Aswat, born in the UK in 1975 reportedly in a Gujarati family.
Barot and seven other suspects were charged by British authorities with “conspiracy to commit a public nuisance” by launching a terror attack in the United Kingdom using radioactive materials, toxic gases and chemicals.
What was the need to separate his case from that of the others and stage a drama by taking advantage of his readiness to confess.
www.saag.org /papers21/paper2020.html   (3800 words)

  
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This is clearly the worst period of my life and I just want to get out of it," the 'Rawalpindi Express' bemoaned.
The fast bowler who has had a controversy-ridden career since his debut in 1997, rubbished allegations that he had late night outs and misbehaved in India from where he was called back last month after testing positive for the banned substance.
The sources also said that even in the dope case, Shoaib's case was airtight as he had submitted a very incriminating statement to the drugs tribunal that banned him.
www.expressindia.com /print.php?newsid=76902   (543 words)

  
 News
He said contended that 42 witnesses were examined in the case.
He argued that the copy of the proceeding of the Military Court was not provided to the defense counsel according to rule of PAF Act however, he said, the entire record was made available to the defense counsel.
The Supreme Court Bench comprising Justice Faqir Muhammad Khokhar and Justice M Javed Buttar referred the case to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to fix it for early hearing.
www.pakistanlink.com /Headlines/Apr06/12/11.htm   (385 words)

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