Current Affaris & Political News http://www.currentaffairs.eu All about current affairs & political news Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:53:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Black water win contract during a network of companies http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/black-water-win-contract-during-a-network-of-companies/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/black-water-win-contract-during-a-network-of-companies/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:53:43 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=3044 Black water universal, the infamous American safety firm, formed a system of dozens of shell companies and subsidiary to try to get millions of dollars in administration contracts after the company faced strong censure for irresponsible conduct in Iraq, The New York Times reported Saturday.
The Senate Armed Services team this week released a chart that notorious 30 affiliate of Black water, now known as Ex. Services. The network was disclosed as part of a committee inquiry into administration contracting.
The newspaper said that it was unclear how many of the shaped company got American contracts but that at least three of them obtain work with the U.S. military and the CIA.
Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has asked the Justice Department to see whether Black water misled the government when using the subsidiaries to gain government contracts, according to The Times.
It said Levin’s committee found that North Carolina-based Black water, which now is known as Ex. Services, went to great lengths to find ways to get Black water Worldwide, the notorious American security firm, formed a network of dozens of shell companies and subsidiaries to try to get millions of dollars in administration contracts after the company faced strong criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, The New York Times reported Saturday.
The Senate Armed Services Committee this week released a chart that identified 30 affiliates of Black water, now known as Ex. Services. The network was disclosed as part of a committee’s investigation into management contracting.
The newspaper said that it was unclear how many of the created companies got American contracts but that at least three of them obtained work with the U.S. military and the CIA.
Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has asked the Justice Department to see whether Black water misled the government when using the subsidiaries to gain government contracts, according to The Times.
It said Levin’s committee found that North Carolina-based Black water, which now is known as Ex. Services, went to great lengths to find ways to get lucrative government work despite criminal charges and criticism stemming from a 2007 incident in which Black water guards killed 17 Iraqi civilians. A committee chart outlines the web of Black water subsidiaries.
Messages left late Friday with spokespeople for the Michigan Democrat and Ex. were not right away answer.
The 2007 incident and other reports of abuses by Black water employees in Iraq led to illegal investigations and congressional hearings, and resulted in the company losing a lucrative contract with the State Department to provide defense in Iraq. lucrative government work despite criminal charges and criticism stemming from a 2007 incident in which Black water guards lifeless 17 Iraqi civilians. A committee chart outlines the web of Black water subsidiary.
Messages left late Friday with spokespeople for the Michigan Democrat and Ex. were not immediately answered.
The 2007 incident and other reports of abuses by Black water employees in Iraq led to criminal investigations and congressional hearings, and resulted in the group losing a lucrative contract with the State Department to provide protection in Iraq.

]]> http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/black-water-win-contract-during-a-network-of-companies/feed/ 4 Gaza militant warn attack on Israel http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/gaza-militant-warn-attack-on-israel/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/gaza-militant-warn-attack-on-israel/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:16:07 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=3041 Thirteen Palestinian revolutionary groups have joined forces to step up attack on Israel following the “creative” peace meeting in Washington. The warning came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to meet every fortnight to arrangement a peace deal.
A spokesperson for Hamas, which was not concerned in the talks, said 13 militant groups in the Gaza Strip would work jointly to start “more successful attacks” against Israel. Asked if this included suicide bombings, he said: “All option are open”.
Hamas has claim blame for two shooting in the West Bank this week that killed four Israeli settlers and hurt two. Mr Netanyahu and Mr Abbas have been holding the first direct discussions between the two parties in nearly two years. US Middle East envoy Senator George Mitchell said the primary round of talks were held in “good faith and with a sincerity of reason”. Calling the initial debate “long and creative”, he added that the men have agreed to meet again on September 14 and 15 in the region – and then every two weeks.

]]> http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/gaza-militant-warn-attack-on-israel/feed/ 0 US goods plane crash in Dubai http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/us-goods-plane-crash-in-dubai/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/us-goods-plane-crash-in-dubai/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:00:23 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=3038 An American goods plane attempt to ground at Dubai’s airport in its place crashed nearby Friday, setting some cars on fire and killing several people.
Ambulances were quickening to the spot, located near a housing area, the place added. It did not report the model of plane or its size. The dead were thinking to be the goods plane’s crew. A large section of the plane was clearly on fire before it crashed.
Plane gone down on a public road, but the UAE’s news agency said it was an empty area. In October 2009, a Sudanese Boeing 707 cargo plane gone down in the desert outside Dubai, murder six crewmembers. UAE regulator has banned the plane’s Sudanese owner from in service in the state.

]]> http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/us-goods-plane-crash-in-dubai/feed/ 2 Sialkot killing: major accuse SHO Rana Ilyas arrested http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/sialkot-killing-major-accuse-sho-rana-ilyas-arrested/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/sialkot-killing-major-accuse-sho-rana-ilyas-arrested/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:14:01 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=3035 Police force has arrested SHO Rana Ilyas, the main accused of Sialkot killing of two blameless brothers, Rs 2 lac prize was fixed on head of the SHO. The barbaric happening of Sialkot killing was occurred in the presence SHO Rana Ilyas.
When the Supreme Court took the so motto notice of the happening on August 20, SHO Rana Ilyas was arrested but he along with four policemen flee after two days. In its second trial of the case, the SC ordered to arrest the criminal and present him previous to the court on September 6. Rana Ilyas was allegedly fled to Sargodha and then he reaches Narowal. Police raid Narowal but the SHO runaway. In the meantime, the police took 37 family members of SHO Rana Ilyas into custody. Then, news about his flee to Iran was surface. But he along with constable Mubarak arrested from Salanwali area of Sargodha. According to police, his cell phone phone traced him. He will be produced before the court in the next trial.

]]> http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/sialkot-killing-major-accuse-sho-rana-ilyas-arrested/feed/ 0 Taliban face economic crisis: US General http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/taliban-face-economic-crisis-us-general/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/taliban-face-economic-crisis-us-general/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:07:51 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=3032 Noting that the Taliban has been ambitious to worry about Marjah in southern Afghanistan, a top US general stationed there has said that the rebel group is facing a sharp economic crisis. “We have intelligence that indicate to us that he (Taliban) has got a financial crisis on his hands,” US Marine Corps Major General Richard Mills said in a video-briefing from the region to the Pentagon journalists room.
The target of the Taliban’s opium “treasury” and various steps to weaken the terrorist organization’s opium profits have led to lack of money, he said.
As a result, Mills said, based in sensitive intelligence, he believe that local revolution in the Helmand region has less than one-half of what they had last year in working money. “He (the Taliban) has a cash-flow crisis,” Mills said, adding that the Taliban does not have the cash wanted to buy the military hardware needed in order to carry on conflict. The revolution in the region, he said, has been reduced from the use of rather costly Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) to simple ammunition, which are cheaper and easier to get. “It’s tricky for us to judge specially how much money he has lost. We believe that the local rebellion here within the region has less than one-half of what they had last year in working money. We based that on some sensitive intelligence that we’re able to work with and some things we’ve willful,” the general said.

]]> http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/taliban-face-economic-crisis-us-general/feed/ 1 Gates says Pakistan haven at a halt pressure Afghanistan http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/gates-says-pakistan-haven-at-a-halt-pressure-afghanistan/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/gates-says-pakistan-haven-at-a-halt-pressure-afghanistan/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:48:48 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=3029 A militant working out of safe havens in Pakistan stay a main risk to Afghanistan but help between Nato-led armed forces and the Pakistani armed forces is growing, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday. Shocking flood over the past month has delayed Pakistan’s forces from going after militant in the Fata and North Waziristan. Afghanistan frequently blame Pakistan for allow militant group to grow there, Afghan President Hamid Karzai describing them as a great risk to Afghan safety. Before leaving Afghanistan, Gates went south to Kandahar, the place of birth of the Taliban, to visit US troops and describe the Islamist militant as “a flexible foe”. He said he and Karzai approved on the need for step up help between the Nato-led International safety Assistance Force (ISAF) and the Pakistani armed forces to “get rid of” rebel sanctuary

]]> http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/gates-says-pakistan-haven-at-a-halt-pressure-afghanistan/feed/ 4 Suicide attack on Shia march lifeless 60 in Quetta http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/suicide-attack-on-shia-march-lifeless-60-in-quetta/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/suicide-attack-on-shia-march-lifeless-60-in-quetta/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:26:04 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=3026 At least 60 citizens have been kill while more than 160 with media men got hurt as a suicide bomber hit a rally being taken out in admiration of Al-Quds Day in Quetta, report said on Friday. The suicide bomber detonates his explosive vest when the rally organized by Shia students reached Meezan Chowk. Citizens started running in helter-skelter in wake of the explosion. Officials at hospital also said that they had received concerning 170 hurt citizens. Several men cowered in fear and tried to hide behind cars and motorbikes. Armed youths started firing after the explosion. a lot of people sustained bullet injury, official said. The march was organized by the Imamia Students’ Organization to mark al-Quds Day and express unity with the nation of Palestine. No group claimed blame for the suicide attack

]]> http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/suicide-attack-on-shia-march-lifeless-60-in-quetta/feed/ 2 SHO accuse in killing case flee state http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/sho-accuse-in-killing-case-flee-state/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/sho-accuse-in-killing-case-flee-state/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:55:08 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=3023 An ex-police official who was a main accused in twin brothers’ killing case has managed to run away the country, report said on Thursday. Rana Ilyas – SHO of the police station where the incident take place – was suspended by the establishment and later under arrest by the police on his supposed bad behavior and failing to save the two teenagers lynched by a mob in his being there. However, he managed to run away from police protection last week. Supreme Court of Pakistan that is trial the case on a so motto notice has ordered the police to present Ilyas before the court by today at all cost.

]]> http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/sho-accuse-in-killing-case-flee-state/feed/ 0 World Bank, IMF step up help to Pakistan http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/world-bank-imf-step-up-help-to-pakistan/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/world-bank-imf-step-up-help-to-pakistan/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:40:15 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=3020 The World Bank on Thursday raised flood aid to Pakistan to one billion dollars while the IMF approve 450 million dollars in crisis finance to help the country cope with its worst-ever caring disaster. The World Bank would “raise its flood-related support in the present economic year to one billion dollars from 900 million dollars,” the bank’s president Robert Zoellick told Pakistan economics Minister Hafeez Shaikh, a declaration said. IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn announced separately that the fund “will give around 450 million dollars in direct crisis finance” to Pakistan to help it manage the result of the massive and overwhelming floods. The unparalleled floods have engulfed an area the size of England, moving more than 18 million people, counting eight million who are needy on aid handouts to stay alive.

]]> http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/world-bank-imf-step-up-help-to-pakistan/feed/ 4 Nawaz urge Center to step up help cash http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/nawaz-urge-center-to-step-up-help-cash/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/nawaz-urge-center-to-step-up-help-cash/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:45:03 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=3016 Chief of his own group Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Thursday called upon the central administration to give 0.1 million each to the flood-hit citizens for treatment. Chatting to media in Muzaffargarh, Nawaz hail the volunteers and party member transport out relief and treatment labors. He asked national government to give a Rs 20,000 as an Eid payment to the affecters. ‘Terrorists are hell bent upon destabilize the motherland’, Nawaz said while reply to a question on Lahore violence. ‘Citizens should show patience in expression of all the misery hitting them’ Nawaz said; advise them to show restrain as arson attack would be of no benefit.

]]> http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/nawaz-urge-center-to-step-up-help-cash/feed/ 1 US Muslims call for more defense amid anti-Muslim madness http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/us-muslims-call-for-more-defense-amid-anti-muslim-madness/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/us-muslims-call-for-more-defense-amid-anti-muslim-madness/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:22:40 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=3012 US Muslim leaders call Wednesday for more defenses from law enforcement in the middle of what they described as a signal of ‘Islam phobia’ over strategy to build an Islamic center and mosque near the site of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack in New York City.
“We ask for extra defense of the Muslim society,” Nihad Awad, state executive director of the Council on American-Islamic relationships (CAIR), said at a journalists meeting. “We call on local state and federal establishment to provide additional defense for the Muslim society in the next days and weeks base on the kind of madness that was seen.”
Several US Muslim group pointed to protest over the future mosque as well as plans to burn copies of the Holy Quran at a Florida church on September 11.
They said organized efforts not in favor of Muslims seemed to be rising.
Imam Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society, praised former president George W Bush for position up to those who would conflate Islam with violence. “We do not see this type of courage event now,” he said, accusing in cooperation political parties as being more worried about losing votes than standing up for them.
The FBI should defend houses of worship and find those who commit acts of fighting against them, said CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper, pointing to recent acts of vandalism at a mosque building site in Tennessee.

]]> http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/us-muslims-call-for-more-defense-amid-anti-muslim-madness/feed/ 0 US has offered a prize of up to $5 million for information about Hakeemullah http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/us-has-offered-a-prize-of-up-to-5-million-for-information-about-hakeemullah-mehsud/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/us-has-offered-a-prize-of-up-to-5-million-for-information-about-hakeemullah-mehsud/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:55:53 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=3008 US prosecutors have charged Hakimullah Mehsud, the head of the Pakistani Taliban, with organizing a hit that killed seven CIA workers at an American base in Afghanistan last December.

The US Justice section said on Wednesday that Mehsud, supposed to be in the tribal area of Pakistan, was charged with conspiracy to murder Americans overseas and to use a weapon of mass destruction.

“Criminal charge are meant to deal with Hakimullah if he’s capture,” a US spokesperson told Reuters news agency.

“He can face fairness in other way, also. That hasn’t changed.”

The attack on the CIA on December 30 is careful to be the second deadliest in the organization’s history.

US armed forces have attempt to assassinate Mehsud numerous times using unmanned aerial drone, and the US state department is offer a prize of up to $5 million for information about his position.

‘Terror’ blacklists

The United States also officially added the Pakistani Taliban to its list of so-called foreign terrorist organizations on Wednesday, imposing financial and journey sanctions on the group, which claimed responsibility for a unsuccessful bombing in New York’s Times Square in May.

Mehsud is the head of the organizations known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Taliban group of Pakistan.

Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, said in a declaration that the TTP met the criteria to be built-in on the list, which bar any material support to and freeze the financial assets of group deemed involved in violence.

The TTP was formed in December 2007 as an alliance of Pakistani armed groups to attack the Pakistani state. It believes the administration is illegal because it is helping the US-led war in neighboring Afghanistan.

The TTP hit the US headlines following the Times Square bomb attempt, which saw a naturalized US citizen of Pakistani origin arrested following a sport helpfulness motor vehicle rigged with a crude explosive device that built-in firecrackers and propane gas tanks was found in New York’s main visitor center.

Faisal Shahzad, the alleged attempted bomber, later pleaded in the wrong and said he had received bomb-making guidance and $12,000 from the TTP in Pakistan to help the bomb attempt.

US officials have praised Pakistan’s efforts not in favor of armed groups, but Clinton ruffled some feathers when she told the CBS television network that Pakistan would facade “severe consequences” if a winning attack in the United States were traced to Pakistan.

There are 46 groups on the US list of “foreign terrorist organizations,” including al-Qaeda and the Palestinian group Hamas.

]]> http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/us-has-offered-a-prize-of-up-to-5-million-for-information-about-hakeemullah-mehsud/feed/ 0 Triple blasts leave 29 lifeless, over 200 hurt in Lahore http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/triple-blasts-leave-29-lifeless-over-200-hurt-in-lahore/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/triple-blasts-leave-29-lifeless-over-200-hurt-in-lahore/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:23:30 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=3005 Twenty-nine citizens were killed and over 200 others injured, some badly, in three blast that rip during a march on the event of Yaum-e-Ali in Lahore on Wednesday.

The blasts left 29 citizens dead while over 200 wounded, including women and children were shift to hospitals. A number of them are said to be in serious condition.

A police constable was also killed in the blasts, CCPO Lahore said.

A banned group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al-Almi claim responsibility of the deadly blast.

The first explosion that occurred in the center of the march at Karbala Gaame Shah was followed within minutes by two high power suicide blasts at Bhaati Chowk, police force sources confirmed.

Commissioner Lahore said that the second and third blast was suicidal and that a head of one of the suicide bombers has been recovered.

help and rescue labors kick started following blast and dozens of hurt, including women and children were shifted to different medical services including Meo Hospital.

Later, the participants of the March and angry citizens pelted police vehicle with rocks and damaged public property. TV footage showed a motorcycle and furnishings on fire with rising bonfire.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani powerfully condemned the blast and ordered the troubled authorities to carry out inquiry.

]]> http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/triple-blasts-leave-29-lifeless-over-200-hurt-in-lahore/feed/ 0 Firing at religious march in Karachi, four hurt http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/firing-at-religious-march-in-karachi-four-hurt/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/firing-at-religious-march-in-karachi-four-hurt/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:26:49 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=3001 Four people were hurt on Wednesday, as unidentified gunmen open fire at a religious march in Karachi. The firing happening was report near the Empress Market area in a religious march on Yaum-i-Ali. The hurt have been moved to Jinnah hospital for treatment.

]]> http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/firing-at-religious-march-in-karachi-four-hurt/feed/ 0 18 killed, 200 hurt in Youm-e-Ali march blast in Lahore http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/18-killed-150-hurt-in-youm-e-ali-march-blast-in-lahore/ http://www.currentaffairs.eu/2010/09/18-killed-150-hurt-in-youm-e-ali-march-blast-in-lahore/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:08:27 +0000 awais http://www.currentaffairs.eu/?p=2998 At least 18 people have been killed and 200 others get injured in three suicide blasts occurred in Lahore when march of Youm-e-Ali were on their way to end at Karbala Gamay Shah. First explosion occurred near Karbala Gamay Shah in Youm-e-Ali march when a suicide bomber blew him up while the constable was frisking him. Two persons along with the constable were martyred in the explosion. According to Mayo hospital source, at least 100 injured persons have been taken there who were hurt in following charge. Women, children and policemen were among the hurt. At least 2 dead bodies and 30 injured were shifted to Ganga Ram hospital while 12 injured were shifted to Services Hospital. Second explosion was also occurred near Karbala Gamay Shah in which several people were injured. Another explosion was occurred in Bhati chowk, which was occurred 20 minutes after the first explosion. Commissioner Lahore Khusru Pervaiz has confirmed that all three blasts were suicide blast.

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