Musharraf Must Apologise & Quit: SDF Token Hunger Strike

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Mar 18, 2007, 7:36:30 AM3/18/07
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SDF Token Hunger Strike
 
Dear Friends
To protest against the highhandedness against the highest judicial office of the country, the trampling of the freedom of press and in sympathy with the peaceful protestors of the members of the bar, Sindh Democratic Forum (SDF) will observe a token hunger strike tomorrow at 11.00 A.M onwards on Monday the 19th, March 2007 in front of Hyderabad Press Club.
 
Please join us and raise your voice against dictatorial regime.
 
Regards
Zulfiqar Halepoto
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SDF Token Hunger Strike

 General Musharraf must apologize & quit
 
For disfiguring the constitution, Fatal body below to the judiciary, Attack on freedom of Press and Fascistic repression against peaceful demonstrations of the bar & Civil Society.
 
Sindh Democratic Forum (SDF)

 

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Mar 23, 2007, 11:41:30 AM3/23/07
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Dear All

Today is Wolrd Water day (WWD 2007) and the theme for this year is “Coping with Water Scarcity”

SDF is launching a paper on Water scarcity Crisis in Sindh.

'Coping with Water Scarcity' is the theme for World Water Day 2007, which is celebrated each year on 22 March. FAO will be the coordinating agency within the UN system for the theme. The theme highlights the significance of cooperation and importance of an integrated approach to water resource management of water at both international and local levels.
Equity and rights, cultural and ethical issues are essential to be addressed when dealing with limited water resources. Imbalances between availability and demand, the degradation of groundwater and surface water quality, intersectoral competition, interregional and international disputes, all center around the question of how to cope with scarce water resources.
The theme was decided among all members of UN Water at the World Water Week in Stockholm in August 2006. However, the Secretariat for UN Water based at UN DESA in New York is serving as the first point of contact within the UN system to deliver a coordinated response. .
Please visit the UN Water for Life Decade site for the latest information on World Water Day 2007
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Zulfi

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Mar 25, 2007, 4:28:06 AM3/25/07
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Profile of Nusrat Bhutto:
Jo Ruke to 

A Forgotten Vanguard of Pakistan’s Political History

 
تُون ھَڏِ ڪُڄاڙِيا، سَنجھي سَعيو نه ڪَرِين؟
سَوارا سَنڊَ کَـڻِي، کاھوڙِي وِيا؛
آڻِيندين ڪِيا، ڏُٿُ ڏوراڻي ڏيھَ جو؟
Loneliness

Loneliness like a good, old friend
visits my house to pour wine in the evening.
And we sit together, waiting for the moon,
and for your face to sparkle in every shadow.  (FAIZ AHMED FAIZ)
 
 Are we a short memory nation? Do we have a habit to forget our legends? If not than why we have stop thinking about our mother of the nation, which is in an intensive care, she is ill and perhaps serious and she is “struggling to save life” 
 
I don’t know, how many of us do hang on to this reality that we have a lady to remember, especially when there is an inspiration required to struggle against anti-people and anti-democracy syndromes like Musharraf regime.
 
Every day hundreds of people try to get in touch with the leadership of Pakistan’s leading political party PPP. From MBB to AAZ every one is trying to have “Cordial” relationship with the TOP BOSSES of the party, and why not because this is “power politics”.
 
Every day many of us try to “please” leaders to let them know that we are fighting for democracy and thus this will ultimately support PPP’s position… may be self-satisfactory Wishful Thinking…??????
 
 
A Young, beautiful, dynamic and civilised Iranain Kurd lady Nusrat Ispahani, daughter of a wealthy Iranian businessman came to karachi at the time of the Subcontinent's partition, from a very ich and elegent cultural background of persia. A Kurd blood converted into  great patroit Pakistani blood and She fought as against Zia as today the Kurds of Iraq are fighting against Bush
 
She married a graceful young politician of pakistan Zulfi Bhutto, who has changed the orthodox trends of pakistani politics and  become a great reformer of the nation.
 
She fought against Ayub’s dictatroship, she stood shoulder to shoulder to her husband and the entire nation against Zia’a dictatorship and during Bhutto’s controversial "trial and execution” she stood firm with the nation and did not compromise. She was the vanguard of MRD struggle against Zia. She lead MRD movement and in return what she got, hanged husband, dead bodies of two young sons, and ultimatly herelf in exile.
 
Musharraf gave her a gift for her unforgettable scarificies, an accountability court’s conviction in absentia and sentenced her to two years rigorous imprisonment under Section 31-A of the NAB Ordinance 1999 in a reference of acquiring properties and assets beyond her known sources of income.   
 
She was continuously elected to the National Assembly from the family constituency of Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan. During MBB’s governments in the past she held positions of a cabinet minister and Deputy Prime Minister. She currently resides with her daughter in DUBAI and suffers from the combined effects of a stroke and Alzheimer's Disease.
 
Every One in Pakistan and abroad, party workers, sympathizers and well-wishers within Pakistan and abroad to pray for the health of Begum Nusrat Bhutto, former first lady of Pakistan, widow of Zulfi and mother of Shaheed Murtaza and PPP’s Chairperson Benazir Bhutto and leader of millions of people of Pakistan.
 
Please review my article “Profile of Nusrat Bhutto: A Forgotten Vanguard of Pakistan’s Political History” in Daily Khabroon on March 28th, 2007
 
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Zulfiqar Halepoto

 

 

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Mar 27, 2007, 2:33:36 AM3/27/07
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Dear Friends
Sorry for cross posting. Here is the final agenda of National Conference on “PEOPLES PERSPECTIVE ON MEGA DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN” Leading development professionals, water experts, economists, researchers, environmentalists, writers and civil society activists are presenting “Peoples’ Perspective” on Mega Projects disaster in Pakistan. This is an open invitation program for all interested.
 
Regards
Zulfiqar Halepoto
  
 
National Conference
PEOPLES PERSPECTIVE ON MEGA DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN
March 28, 2007, [9.30 AM. 4.00. PM], Hotel Regent Plaza, Karachi
Introductory / Inaugural Session
930-935
Recitation from Holy Quran
 
935- 945
Welcome Address / Conference Objectives
Nisar Ahmed, Chairperson
Participatory Development Initiatives [PDI]
945-955
Opening Remarks
Fateh Marri/ Adam Malik Actionaid Karachi
955- 1015
Mega Development and Gender: An Overview
Hina Shahid, Program Officer
Actionaid International Pakistan
1015-1030
An Overview of the Role of IFIs in Mega Development
Khadim Hussain
Program Manager, Actionaid International
1030-1100
Tea Break
 
Technical Session: 1
1100- 1110
Displacement, Resource conflict & development
Muhammad Rafique Wassan
The Aga Khan University
1110-1120
Issues in Mega Irrigation and Drainage Projects in Sindh
Zulfiqar Halepoto, Sindh Democratic Forum [SDF]
1120-1130
Accountability mechanism in World Bank: Is it adequate for social justice?
Mustafa Talpure, Researcher, Social Activist
1130-1140
Community Perspective on Diamond Bar Island City
Mohammed Ali Shah, Chairman
Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum [PFF]
1140-1150
Diamond Bar Island City & Sustainable Development
Naseer Memon, Researcher and writer
 
1200- 1220
Mega Projects and Their Relevance: A case study of Karachi
Dr. Noman Ahmed
Professor and Chairman
Department of Architecture & Planning NED
1220-1230
Mega Projects in Balochistan
M.H Malah & Azmat Ali Budhani, Collective for Social Research
1230-1240
Ecological Imbalance due to Coastal Water Pollution:  A case study of Tasman Sprit Oil Spillage
Ghazala Rubab Khan
Head Environment Department
DHA Karachi
1240-1255
Question – Answer Session
 
1255-13.00
 Comments by the Chair:
Dr. Kaisar Bengali renowned economist
1300-1400
Lunch / Prayer
 
Technical Session: 2
1400- 1420
Dams and Development in Pakistan
Idris Rajput, Water Expert
1420-1440
Peoples Perspective on Gwadar Deep Sea Port
Prof. Dostain Jamaldini, Balochistan
1440-1500
Formative Assessment of ADB funded Sindh Rural Development Project
Dr. Rajab Memon, Ex Vice Chancellor Sindh Agriculture University Tando Jam
1500-1510
Community Perspective on Sindh Coastal Development Project
Sikander Brohi, Director
Participatory Development Initiatives [PDI]
1510-1520
Mega Projects and Future of Karachi
 M.B Naqvi, Writer Columnist
1520-1530
Question – Answer Session
 
1530-1640
 Comments by the Chair:
Ex. Senator Qazi Abdul Majeed, Water Expert
1540-1550
Conclusion and Recommendations
Conference Organizers
16.00
End of the Conference/Tea
 

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I understand Begum Nusrat Bhutto is ill and have an irreversable ailment some thing which will sadden any tender heart. What a Tragedy that she has gone thru most turbulent times in her life. The nation we live in mostly weep and honour only those who have gone away. Has any one above politics ever cared to celeberate her Birthday where as in today's times every tom,dick and harry is celeberating thier Birthdays.
Let the Civil Society wake up and form a Society dedicated to her life and work and call it Begum Nusrat Bhutto Society for the Emancipation of Women's Dignity or some some thing similar to that to work for Women's emancipation while keeping her Life as a role model and also write her Biography. I in my humble way can only offer her my Highest Salutations. May God grant her Good Health and Quality Life.
Mushtaq ali Talpur
abana.kakh@gmail.com


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Pakistan under complete anarchy

This moment is very alarming for all of those who believe in democratic, progressive and peaceful Pakistan
 
Dear friends
Militants wreck havoc in Tank district of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, which is ruled by Religious forces Alliance (MMA). A collage professor was killed by religious extremists, because of opposition of taking schools students to Taliban Camps fro Guerrilla training.  
 
The capital (the most high alert city of Pakistan) Islamabad was taken hostage by religious extremists and the leading Daily DAWN quotes “ Move to impose talibanisation”
 
These are the stories of just one day. On the other hand the entire country is under heavy unrest. Two highly important and strategically sensitive provinces NWFP and Balochistan are under civil war with no control of the government because of illegitimacy of present regime.
 
Sindh is crying for its constitutional and legal rights. MQM and other test-tube fake, sick, fractured and frustrating political individuals like Arbab Rahim are making Sindhi nation more annoyed.
 
Seraiki people are   also indebted by the trap of poverty, lawlessness and access to fundamental human rights like Sindhis.
 
On the other front the mainstream political leadership (Benazir Bhutto Saheba and Mian Nawaz Sharif) are forcefully kept out of country and as a result the country and the people are pushing towards depoliticization.
Institutions are not functioning, governance is in its worst form, Supreme Court Chief Justice is humiliated and country has now entered into the phase of total anarchy and there is great threat of forces of Talibanisation mindset may takeover the country of millions of peaceful, democratic and secular people.
 
 
On the third hand the entire government including Musharraf are doing picnic outside country having too many unwanted tours. 
 
Please read the below a recent report of International Crisis Group (ICG) on the Talibanisation of Pakistan.

 
Regards
Zulfiqar Halepoto
0300 8377241

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP - NEW REPORT
Pakistan: Karachi’s Madrasas and Violent Extremism
Islamabad/Brussels, 29 March 2007: A network of Pakistani madrasas supporting violent jihadi groups poses a significant threat to domestic, regional and international security.
Pakistan: Karachi’s Madrasas and Violent Extremism,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines the negative role these religious schools continue to play five years after President Pervez Musharraf promised a full reform of the sector. Deplorable public schools, the sectarian tilt of state institutions, the marginalisation of moderate voices and military government’s reliance on religious parties for political survival have led to the growth of madrasas at an explosive rate over the past two decades. They are either unregistered or registered under laws that have no effective implementation.
“The government’s inaction has allowed well-financed networks of madrasas, sectarian parties, and militant groups to flourish in Karachi and elsewhere in Pakistan”, says Samina Ahmad Crisis Group’s South Asia Project Director. “Not all madrasas in the city are active centres of jihadi militancy, but even those without direct links to violence promote an ideology that provides religious justification for such attacks”.
Karachi’s madrasas have trained and dispatched jihadi fighters to Afghanistan and Indian-administered Kashmir, contributing to a climate of lawlessness and bitter sectarianism. In 2006, the city was rocked by high-profile acts of political violence: in three separate attacks, suicide bombers killed a U.S. diplomat, assassinated the head of the most prominent Shia political group and wiped out the entire leadership of a Sunni militant group locked in a struggle for control over mosques with its Sunni rivals.
The international community needs to press President Musharraf to fulfil his commitments, in particular to enforce genuine controls on the madrasas and allow free and fair national elections in 2007. It should also shift the focus of its donor aid from helping the government’s ineffectual efforts to reform the religious schools to improving the very weak public school sector.
“So long as the military continues to rely on the mullahs to retain power, madrasas and the violent extremism they encourage will become ever more powerful in Pakistani society, undermining the security of the state and its citizens”, says Robert Templer, Crisis Group’s Asia Program Director. “Real reform will only be possible through the strengthening of the country’s moderate parties and forces, with free and fair national elections in 2007 an essential first step”.
Contacts: Andrew Stroehlein (Brussels) 32 (0) 2 541 1635
Kimberly Abbott (Washington) 1 202 785 1601
To contact Crisis Group media please click here
*Read the full Crisis Group report on our website: http://www.crisisgroup.org
The International Crisis Group (Crisis Group) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation covering over 50 crisis-affected countries and territories across four continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.

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Sorry for cross-posting
Plz review an important UNDP review on poverty
Cheers
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Subject: Poverty in Focus: Analysing and Achieving Pro-Poor Growth

Analysing and Achieving Pro-Poor Growth – Poverty in Focus
 This issue of IPC’s journal Poverty in Focus concentrates not so much on the definition of pro-poor growth as the analysis of it and its policy implications and results. The authors spell out and apply different definitions and measures in discussing various policy-related aspects of pro-poor growth.
 Available online at: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCPoverty_in_Focus010.pdf
 
Featured articles:
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  • Pro-Poor Growth and Gender Inequality: Insights from new research, by Stephan Klasen
  • Analysing the Distributional Pattern of Growth, by Andy McKay
  • Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Lessons from country experiences, by Louise Cord
  • Integrated Economic Analysis for Pro-Poor Growth, by Susanna Lundström and Per Ronnas
  • Employment and Pro-Poor Growth, by Azizur Rahman Khan
  • Formalising Informal Firms: What can be done?, by Esther K. Ishengoma and Robert Kappel
  • The Policy Origins of Poverty and Growth in India, by Timothy Besley, Robert Burgess and Berta Esteve-Volart
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Come on Mr. Halepoto. What is there to 'cheer' about in a report on poverty?

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