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11th Hour (PPP Preparations on PML N & PTI March Call) 1st May 2012
Aapas ki baat – 1st may 2012
Separate electorate: Dual voting right for minorities urged
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Not holding LB polls is violation of Constitution: CJ
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Aaj Kamran Khan ke Sath 1st May 2012
Saying goodbye: 22-year-old Saheli passes away at Islamabad zoo
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11th Hour (PPP Preparations on PML N & PTI March Call) 1st May 2012

Posted: 01 May 2012 12:09 PM PDT

Aapas ki baat – 1st may 2012

Posted: 01 May 2012 12:09 PM PDT

Separate electorate: Dual voting right for minorities urged

Posted: 01 May 2012 12:08 PM PDT

FAISALABAD:

The discourse on the method of minority representation in parliament has hovered around joint electorate system verses separate electorate for decades.

The Pakistan Christian Post (PCP), in a recent memorandum to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), has demanded minority representation in Parliament on the basis of "dual voting rights" after members from the Christian and Hindu community expressed serious reservations on the joint electorate system, introduced by former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf in 2000.

Dual Voting Right is an electoral system through which religious minorities can elect their representatives in Parliament, similar to separate electorates, while simultaneously voting for general seat candidates.

Highlighting the joint electorate system as one based on patronage, the PCP has said that the joint electorate system empowers "Muslim political parties to distribute minority reserved seats in parliament in a ratio to their seats in assemblies through selection of their favoured religious minority leaders, often after taking bribes in millions of rupees".

In recent PCP polls 59% minorities favoured dual voting, 27% favoured joint electorates while 14% voted for separate electorates.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 1^st, 2012.

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Posted: 01 May 2012 12:08 PM PDT

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Not holding LB polls is violation of Constitution: CJ

Posted: 01 May 2012 11:45 AM PDT

QUETTA:

The chief justice of Pakistan has said that not conducting local bodies (LB) election is a violation of the Constitution, and problems will crop up for the government, if the court is petitioned against this.

Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said the court's job is to identify the problem – and it is for the government to address it. However, he added that the court orders are continuously ignored. Justice Chaudhry was heading a three-judge bench which was hearing a case regarding LB elections at Quetta Registry on Monday.

He said that whenever the third force came to power, the first thing they did was to hold LB elections. The late Gen Ziaul Haq and former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf conducted LB elections, but it was not understandable why a democratic government was reluctant.

Powers to hold LB election have been devolved to the provinces under the 18th Constitutional Amendment, but they have not fulfilled their constitutional obligation, Justice Chaudhry further remarked.

He said the court appreciated Parliament after the 18th Amendment, but Parliament was not happy with the judiciary. However, the bench was informed that Parliament was not unhappy with the court.

He said that if LB elections were not held, the bench will pronounce its judgment on the next hearing.

Punjab's Advocate General Ashtar Ausaf apprised the bench of difficulties his province was facing in holding LB elections. "You had to conduct the polls earlier," shot back Justice Chaudhry.

Sindh's Advocate General Attah Malik informed the bench that the provincial administration would conduct the polls by October 2012.

Balochistan's Advocate General Amanullah Kanrani said that his province was ready to conduct LB elections. However, it wanted to hold them along with the other provinces.

But Justice Chaudhry said the Balochistan government should hold the elections at the earliest in light of the problems it was facing. "This will help the province restore peace in the region."

The bench also issued a notice to the chief election commissioner to present in the court new voters' lists at the next hearing.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 1^st, 2012.

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Saying goodbye: 22-year-old Saheli passes away at Islamabad zoo

Posted: 01 May 2012 11:42 AM PDT

ISLAMABAD: A 22-year-old elephant gifted by the Sri Lanka government to Pakistan in 1991 passed away at Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad on Tuesday.

The elephant, named Saheli, had been brought to Pakistan to be partnered with a male elephant named Kaavan when she was one-year-old.

Faiz Mohammad, the caretaker of the elephants, wiped his tears as he narrated the story of losing Saheli. "I have been taking care of her ever since she was a year old," he said. "She was like my own child."

Mohammad said Saheli had been injured a few days back and was in a lot of pain. He said Saheli had been limping and her movement had slowed down.

Doctors had been coming in to check and treat the elephant for the last two days.

An elephant's life is 90 to 110 years of age, unfortunately Saheli was 22 years old and lived a short life at the zoo.

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Dr Saleem Sulheri, a veterinarian at the zoo, said that the body will be buried and the fossils will be extracted for preservation at Pakistan Museum of Natural History in Shakarparian.

The display of the elephant’s skeleton would add another attraction to Islamabad, as recently a whale shark was brought here from Karachi to after it was found dead on seashore.