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Talking like an Afghanistani militant.
Naya KPK | News & Updates on the development in KPK.
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Talking like an Afghanistani militant.
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Federal Government should put the proposition of KPK government paying out Federal investment on these projects and having all the infrastructure to themselves. But the problem is that KPK and FATA don't even pay their bills let alone taxes. Always asking federal government for tax exemptions. And if somebody tries to do something right, he faces such fate
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Is that the best you can come out with?, shows by your remarks that you consider all Pakistani pukhtoons as afghans, I can understand your frustration.
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Police Restructuring.
WHAT has been happening in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the law and order front during the last over 10 months has largely gone unnoticed by the media and internal security analysts.
Slowly but surely, left to themselves and with a command team entirely selected by the inspector-general, the KP police are trying to make a difference and attempting to come up to public expectations. It is a classic case study indicating that given autonomy and independence in the administrative and operational domain, enhancing professionalism, introducing specialisation and providing the necessary resources, policing anywhere in Pakistan can improve.
It may be too early to assess the crime and terrorism situation but indicators over the last year are mostly positive in KP. A recent performance audit reveals that there is a welcome reduction in terrorist attacks and loss of valuable lives from July 2013 to June 2014 — 401 terrorism-related attacks took place during the said period as against a total of 456 cases during the corresponding period in 2012-13, indicating a 12pc decline.
The most significant decrease of 68pc in suicide attacks is a cause of satisfaction as these came down to eight last year in comparison to 25 in the corresponding period of the previous year. Similarly, there is a 26pc decrease in improvised explosive device blasts that came down to 237 last year as compared to 321 in the corresponding time frame. A declining trend of vehicle-borne IED attacks has also taken place (five against seven).
Given autonomy, policing in Pakistan can improve.
These developments indicate enhanced vigilance and improved coordination between the law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Another key indicator is the arrest of suspects and follow-up in the trial of the accused. Here too the KP police are showing promise: 260 accused involved in acts of terrorism were arrested from July 13 to June 14; 77 hardened criminals were accounted for in encounters with the police; 626 cases of terrorism were successfully solved and 109 terrorists were convicted by the Anti-Terrorism Courts.
However, there are some areas of concern that the KP police have to tackle ie increasing incidents of rocket attacks and targeted killings of state functionaries, including police and military personnel. These rocket attacks and targeted killings should hopefully decline with a focused military operation in the affected areas.
Without proper human resource development, training and capacity-building and, above all, development of expertise and specialisation, the police simply cannot cope with the Herculean task of combating terrorism and organised crime.
The following institutional and professional measures taken recently will go a long way in enhancing the capacity of the KP police: one, a school of investigation has been established at Peshawar to hone the skills of investigators, especially in the area of forensics. Two, a school of intelligence has been established at Abbottabad to encourage intelligence-led investigations. Three, owing to the peculiar security situation, SSG-led elite commando training has been made mandatory for promotion in all ranks. Four, recruitment of constables on merit will be made through the National Testing Service and promotions will also be ensured through an external provincial monitoring body.
These measures will only succeed if separate sub-cadres of investigators and intelligence officials are created and proper technical equipment is not denied to them by a premier federal intelligence agency.
IT skills and technological developments will also contribute to effective policing.
The police can deliver provided there is political will to give the police chief a free hand in operational and administrative matters over the force that he commands. A little less than a year in his job, the IG of KP police is enjoying his command and wants to bring about meaningful changes because he is getting the support of his political bosses and bureaucratic colleagues.
Above all, from additional IGs down to station house officers (SHOs), there are minimal extraneous influences that deter him from having his way in the working of his department. In a recent multiparty conference in Peshawar, the opposition parties praised him for political neutrality and professionalism.
The crux of the matter is that the police are gradually on a path of gaining the trust of the public. Given the history of public mistrust and political interference, it is not an easy task, not only in KP but in the other provinces as well.
The key factor in effective policing is to select an inspector-general carefully, give him security of tenure and a free hand in picking his team of commanders at various tiers, including district police officers and SHOs, hold him accountable for any transgressions of the law and Constitution, provide him technology and equipment for achieving success and respect him if he has the courage to say no to illegal commands and to scandalous orders to misuse his authority.
It is only then we will see democracy flourish and the rule of law established in Pakistan.
The writer is a retired police officer.
Published in Dawn, July 20th, 2014
Police restructuring - Newspaper - DAWN.COM
How could you guys miss this gem? @Leader @Jazzbot
WHAT has been happening in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the law and order front during the last over 10 months has largely gone unnoticed by the media and internal security analysts.
Slowly but surely, left to themselves and with a command team entirely selected by the inspector-general, the KP police are trying to make a difference and attempting to come up to public expectations. It is a classic case study indicating that given autonomy and independence in the administrative and operational domain, enhancing professionalism, introducing specialisation and providing the necessary resources, policing anywhere in Pakistan can improve.
It may be too early to assess the crime and terrorism situation but indicators over the last year are mostly positive in KP. A recent performance audit reveals that there is a welcome reduction in terrorist attacks and loss of valuable lives from July 2013 to June 2014 — 401 terrorism-related attacks took place during the said period as against a total of 456 cases during the corresponding period in 2012-13, indicating a 12pc decline.
The most significant decrease of 68pc in suicide attacks is a cause of satisfaction as these came down to eight last year in comparison to 25 in the corresponding period of the previous year. Similarly, there is a 26pc decrease in improvised explosive device blasts that came down to 237 last year as compared to 321 in the corresponding time frame. A declining trend of vehicle-borne IED attacks has also taken place (five against seven).
Given autonomy, policing in Pakistan can improve.
These developments indicate enhanced vigilance and improved coordination between the law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Another key indicator is the arrest of suspects and follow-up in the trial of the accused. Here too the KP police are showing promise: 260 accused involved in acts of terrorism were arrested from July 13 to June 14; 77 hardened criminals were accounted for in encounters with the police; 626 cases of terrorism were successfully solved and 109 terrorists were convicted by the Anti-Terrorism Courts.
However, there are some areas of concern that the KP police have to tackle ie increasing incidents of rocket attacks and targeted killings of state functionaries, including police and military personnel. These rocket attacks and targeted killings should hopefully decline with a focused military operation in the affected areas.
Without proper human resource development, training and capacity-building and, above all, development of expertise and specialisation, the police simply cannot cope with the Herculean task of combating terrorism and organised crime.
The following institutional and professional measures taken recently will go a long way in enhancing the capacity of the KP police: one, a school of investigation has been established at Peshawar to hone the skills of investigators, especially in the area of forensics. Two, a school of intelligence has been established at Abbottabad to encourage intelligence-led investigations. Three, owing to the peculiar security situation, SSG-led elite commando training has been made mandatory for promotion in all ranks. Four, recruitment of constables on merit will be made through the National Testing Service and promotions will also be ensured through an external provincial monitoring body.
These measures will only succeed if separate sub-cadres of investigators and intelligence officials are created and proper technical equipment is not denied to them by a premier federal intelligence agency.
IT skills and technological developments will also contribute to effective policing.
The police can deliver provided there is political will to give the police chief a free hand in operational and administrative matters over the force that he commands. A little less than a year in his job, the IG of KP police is enjoying his command and wants to bring about meaningful changes because he is getting the support of his political bosses and bureaucratic colleagues.
Above all, from additional IGs down to station house officers (SHOs), there are minimal extraneous influences that deter him from having his way in the working of his department. In a recent multiparty conference in Peshawar, the opposition parties praised him for political neutrality and professionalism.
The crux of the matter is that the police are gradually on a path of gaining the trust of the public. Given the history of public mistrust and political interference, it is not an easy task, not only in KP but in the other provinces as well.
The key factor in effective policing is to select an inspector-general carefully, give him security of tenure and a free hand in picking his team of commanders at various tiers, including district police officers and SHOs, hold him accountable for any transgressions of the law and Constitution, provide him technology and equipment for achieving success and respect him if he has the courage to say no to illegal commands and to scandalous orders to misuse his authority.
It is only then we will see democracy flourish and the rule of law established in Pakistan.
The writer is a retired police officer.
Published in Dawn, July 20th, 2014
Police restructuring - Newspaper - DAWN.COM
How could you guys miss this gem? @Leader @Jazzbot
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Leader posted it in another thread yesterday: Police restructuring
Nevertheless, great news for tabdeeli lovers..
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Mobile court non-functional as govt delays legislation
By Waseem Ahmad Shah
— File photo
A custom-built bus emblazoned with the words “Mobile Court” is parked on the premises of the Peshawar Judicial Complex as it has been non-functional since Dec 7, 2013, when it last visited an area on the outskirt of the provincial capital. The mobile court, first of its kind in the country, was inaugurated almost a year ago on July 27 by then Peshawar High Court chief justice Dost Mohammad Khan, now a judge of the Supreme Court.
The spacious coach comprises several portions, including a small courtroom, judge’s chamber, driver’s cabin, litigants’ waiting section, etc. The fully air-conditioned coach has three modes of provision of electric power – from generator, a solar energy panel and from normal electricity connection when it is parked. The green coach was prepared at a cost of Rs15 million with the financial support extended by the UNDP.
Under the project, the judicial officers and other court officials would visit faraway areas in different districts and decide cases there so as to provide justice to people at their doorstep.
The high court was planning to set up 11 mobile courts in the province. Four of the mobile courts had to be set up in the central districts, two each in Hazara and southern districts and three in Malakand division.
Following its inauguration, three visits of the mobile court were arranged in Peshawar. These visits were conducted on Aug 27, Sept 19 and Dec 7, 2013 in Hayatabad, Tarnab Farm and Daudzai areas, respectively. A civil judge-cum judicial magistrate Fazal Wadud Khan, who was designated as judge mobile court, had heard over 100 cases during those visits. Several longstanding disputes were resolved through alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism with the help of trained mediators.
This innovative project “Justice on wheel” was the brainchild of Justice Dost Mohammad Khan who took it upon himself to materialise the plan. The project has also earned appreciation from the National Judicial Policy Making Committee (NJPMC) in one of its meetings this year.
A meeting of the NJPMC, chaired by then chief justice of Pakistan Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, in March this year was briefed about the working of the mobile courts established in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The committee was informed that the project was aimed at expeditious justice by resolving disputes at local level through ADR mechanism. The committee had termed it a unique experience in Pakistan.
However, despite all these developments the successive governments have not been extending support to this project. One of the major hurdles in the functioning of the mobile court is lack of legislation in its support. The PHC had drafted two bills and sent it to the previous provincial government led by Awami National Party in 2012. Due to the indifference of that government the bills were not tabled in the assembly.
Subsequently, the present government led by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf came to power after May 2013 general elections, but so far no progress has made in this regard.
PHC Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel on Saturday expressed the hope that the government would enact laws in near future following which the mobile courts would resume functioning in the province. The two proposed laws include Criminal Mobile Courts Act, 2012, and Civil Mobile Courts Act, 2012. The drafts of these laws provide that these laws would be extended to such areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the government in consultation with the high court’s chief justice notifies from time to time.
The draft suggests that the government in consultation with the high court may establish one or more courts in each district or at any such other place or places as it may deem necessary. Such courts will hold sittings at town/union councils/police stations or other places specified by the high court on rotation basis as may be directed by the district judge.
The two drafts also provides for ADR, stating that subject to law, the court may resort to any mode of ADR as deemed fit in the circumstances of the case. The court shall be assisted by one or two advocates and elders of locality having professional skills of resolution of disputes through ADR.
Under the proposal, appeal against order of the mobile court could be filed with the court of district judge within 15 days of the passing of decree or final order by the court.
In the draft concerning criminal mobile courts it is provided that the court shall have exclusive jurisdiction to try cases and offences specified in the schedule of the proposed law. The schedule includes around 31 laws and offences in which these courts will be having jurisdiction.
Another major impediment to the functioning of such courts is the deteriorating law and order situation in the suburban areas of Peshawar as well as other districts. Targeted killings of police officials and explosions through improvised explosive devices in cases of extortion continue unabated. In such a situation arranging visits of the mobile court to any rural area is a challenging job.
Legal experts believe that the provincial government should enact the relevant laws at the earliest so as to provide legal backing to the functioning of these courts. They believe that these courts would be helpful especially in such areas of the province where regular courts are situated in district and tehsil headquarters far away from villages.
Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2014
By Waseem Ahmad Shah
— File photo
A custom-built bus emblazoned with the words “Mobile Court” is parked on the premises of the Peshawar Judicial Complex as it has been non-functional since Dec 7, 2013, when it last visited an area on the outskirt of the provincial capital. The mobile court, first of its kind in the country, was inaugurated almost a year ago on July 27 by then Peshawar High Court chief justice Dost Mohammad Khan, now a judge of the Supreme Court.
The spacious coach comprises several portions, including a small courtroom, judge’s chamber, driver’s cabin, litigants’ waiting section, etc. The fully air-conditioned coach has three modes of provision of electric power – from generator, a solar energy panel and from normal electricity connection when it is parked. The green coach was prepared at a cost of Rs15 million with the financial support extended by the UNDP.
Under the project, the judicial officers and other court officials would visit faraway areas in different districts and decide cases there so as to provide justice to people at their doorstep.
The high court was planning to set up 11 mobile courts in the province. Four of the mobile courts had to be set up in the central districts, two each in Hazara and southern districts and three in Malakand division.
Following its inauguration, three visits of the mobile court were arranged in Peshawar. These visits were conducted on Aug 27, Sept 19 and Dec 7, 2013 in Hayatabad, Tarnab Farm and Daudzai areas, respectively. A civil judge-cum judicial magistrate Fazal Wadud Khan, who was designated as judge mobile court, had heard over 100 cases during those visits. Several longstanding disputes were resolved through alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism with the help of trained mediators.
This innovative project “Justice on wheel” was the brainchild of Justice Dost Mohammad Khan who took it upon himself to materialise the plan. The project has also earned appreciation from the National Judicial Policy Making Committee (NJPMC) in one of its meetings this year.
A meeting of the NJPMC, chaired by then chief justice of Pakistan Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, in March this year was briefed about the working of the mobile courts established in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The committee was informed that the project was aimed at expeditious justice by resolving disputes at local level through ADR mechanism. The committee had termed it a unique experience in Pakistan.
However, despite all these developments the successive governments have not been extending support to this project. One of the major hurdles in the functioning of the mobile court is lack of legislation in its support. The PHC had drafted two bills and sent it to the previous provincial government led by Awami National Party in 2012. Due to the indifference of that government the bills were not tabled in the assembly.
Subsequently, the present government led by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf came to power after May 2013 general elections, but so far no progress has made in this regard.
PHC Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel on Saturday expressed the hope that the government would enact laws in near future following which the mobile courts would resume functioning in the province. The two proposed laws include Criminal Mobile Courts Act, 2012, and Civil Mobile Courts Act, 2012. The drafts of these laws provide that these laws would be extended to such areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the government in consultation with the high court’s chief justice notifies from time to time.
The draft suggests that the government in consultation with the high court may establish one or more courts in each district or at any such other place or places as it may deem necessary. Such courts will hold sittings at town/union councils/police stations or other places specified by the high court on rotation basis as may be directed by the district judge.
The two drafts also provides for ADR, stating that subject to law, the court may resort to any mode of ADR as deemed fit in the circumstances of the case. The court shall be assisted by one or two advocates and elders of locality having professional skills of resolution of disputes through ADR.
Under the proposal, appeal against order of the mobile court could be filed with the court of district judge within 15 days of the passing of decree or final order by the court.
In the draft concerning criminal mobile courts it is provided that the court shall have exclusive jurisdiction to try cases and offences specified in the schedule of the proposed law. The schedule includes around 31 laws and offences in which these courts will be having jurisdiction.
Another major impediment to the functioning of such courts is the deteriorating law and order situation in the suburban areas of Peshawar as well as other districts. Targeted killings of police officials and explosions through improvised explosive devices in cases of extortion continue unabated. In such a situation arranging visits of the mobile court to any rural area is a challenging job.
Legal experts believe that the provincial government should enact the relevant laws at the earliest so as to provide legal backing to the functioning of these courts. They believe that these courts would be helpful especially in such areas of the province where regular courts are situated in district and tehsil headquarters far away from villages.
Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2014
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I am seeing all these beautiful pictures by PTI politicians especially by Ms Andleeb Abbas which she has been sharing on her twitter and facebook account. ( no offence to her followers but just to tell you I have been a student of her myself)
Sorry to say that reality seems to be a little different to what they have been posting via their fancy pictures...(no offence to PTI people)
E.g. Take the news regarding mass transit project which states that Trains are expensive so Peshawar MTS will comprise only buses which has been confirmed by CM whereas this fancy picture upload by my friend Khyber states another story that MTS will be combination of trains and buses.... :s :s What is this hypocrisy?
while posting these fancy pictures, PTI even forgets to take out the designer's name and signatures who designs these adds for them. e.g. Post by my friend @Leader regarding tabdeeli through sports....the picture looks really good and beautiful but can someone actually confirm if this work has actually been done or will be done in the future??? I have seen a lot of pictures lately but all plans plans plans with most of the work they say will be done.....is this tabdeeli???
When the current Federal and Punjab govt announces some project plan, then whole lot of crtisicm comes out from their mouth and PTI themselves have been posting pictures lately whereas no practical work, plans plans and plans. God knows will they implement these plans or not or is it just a publicity campaign.
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KPK's first female public prosecutor Ms. Haseena Syed interview in the Sunday Times.
Yes, I could die, but I will fight on for girls | The Sunday Times
Yes, I could die, but I will fight on for girls | The Sunday Times
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When is the KPK train/bus project suppose to complete would be great mile stone
