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I really can't understand what is going on.
First, the SP touches the feet and then the second new snip states the bloke is arrested.
First, the SP touches the feet and then the second new snip states the bloke is arrested.
I beg your pardon, sir!
SP Lahore touches Zardari’s knees
By Rauf Klasra
LAHORE: All the 50 national and international journalists accompanying Asif Zardari from Dubai were taken aback Saturday morning to see a top police officer of Punjab police moving forward and touching the knees of Zardari after delivering a special message in his ears inside the plane at Lahore Airport.
The move by SP Security Mobin seemed to be a bid to please Zardari and persuade him to accompany him without any hesitation or fuss.
This unprecedented gesture of touching the knees shown by an officer of rank of SP greatly pleased Zardari and he readily took his hand and went out of the plane.
SP Mobin with a military background is the same police officer who had sided with the police constable in Lahore when he had dared to stop the tinted glasses car of a major-general that had led to big hue and cry all over the country.
Earlier, when Zardari motioned officer Mobin to come closer and arrest him, he obliged but whispered something in Zardari’s ears. After thinking for a moment, Zardari went out of the plane holding the hand of the same officer.
Afterwards, when the incident was brought to the notice of SSP Aftab Cheema that his SP had touched the knees of a politician in the presence of so many journalists and it amounted to insult of the police uniform, he, too, was taken aback.
But, he made a comment that ‘Mobin belongs to Sindh and he might have followed a tradition of the province.’
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SP Lahore touches Zardari’s knees
By Rauf Klasra
LAHORE: All the 50 national and international journalists accompanying Asif Zardari from Dubai were taken aback Saturday morning to see a top police officer of Punjab police moving forward and touching the knees of Zardari after delivering a special message in his ears inside the plane at Lahore Airport.
The move by SP Security Mobin seemed to be a bid to please Zardari and persuade him to accompany him without any hesitation or fuss.
This unprecedented gesture of touching the knees shown by an officer of rank of SP greatly pleased Zardari and he readily took his hand and went out of the plane.
SP Mobin with a military background is the same police officer who had sided with the police constable in Lahore when he had dared to stop the tinted glasses car of a major-general that had led to big hue and cry all over the country.
Earlier, when Zardari motioned officer Mobin to come closer and arrest him, he obliged but whispered something in Zardari’s ears. After thinking for a moment, Zardari went out of the plane holding the hand of the same officer.
Afterwards, when the incident was brought to the notice of SSP Aftab Cheema that his SP had touched the knees of a politician in the presence of so many journalists and it amounted to insult of the police uniform, he, too, was taken aback.
But, he made a comment that ‘Mobin belongs to Sindh and he might have followed a tradition of the province.’
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Zardari denied public appearance
PPP leader taken into custody on plane; placed under house arrest; mediapersons aboard treated as ‘most wanted’; all main city roads blocked by police; PPP workers, leaders baton-charged, detained
By Ali Raza, Ziaullah Niazi, Faisal Shakeel, Sajjad Shafiq Butt & Tahir Hasan Khan
LAHORE: Asif Ali Zardari was forcibly taken into custody at the Allama Iqbal International Airport and was confined to the Bilawal House for more than nine hours here on Saturday.
Zardari returned from Dubai on a flight of Aero Asia along with several party leaders, activists and mediapersons. The plane landed about 7.12am and Zardari was not allowed to enter the international arrival lounge, confirmed a source in the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
The home secretary and other senior government officials were already present at the airport to monitor the situation.
Sources said SSP Operations Aftab Cheema and SP Security Capt (retd) Ahmed Mobeen went into the plane and took Zardari and Amin Fahim, President PPPP, into custody. Zardari and Amin Fahim were taken to the Bilawal House on Sher Khan road in Cantt from the old airport.
Several passengers of the same flight, seeking anonymity, claimed that when the plane landed, Capt (retd) Ahmad Mobeen went straight to Zardari, touched his knees and informed him that they were ordered to take him to the Bilawal House. Zardari neither offered any resistance nor did he try to deliver any speech in or outside the plane, they said.
They said the security officers accompanied by the police commandos surrounded Zardari on the plane and immediately shifted him to a car parked on the tarmac. Security agencies did not allow other passengers to come out of the lounge until Zardari had been taken out of the airport.
Earlier at the Dubai airport, Asif Zardari, along with his team members and journalists boarded the plane early on Saturday.
Asif told the media that he and his team members would leave for Lahore in a schedule flight and not in a chartered flight and land in Pakistan at 4am on Saturday. However, the plane left the Dubai airport at 4.30am and landed at the Lahore airport at 7.30am.
A close adviser of Zardari claimed that the announcement about the changes in the programme was a dodge to foil the government plan.
Talking to The News by phone from Bilawal House, Asif Zardari said the rulers’ claim that democracy has been restored in the country stands exposed.
He said the MMA was allowed to hold a million-man march, Chaudhry Shujaat was allowed to take out procession in Lahore but the PPP workers and supporters were barred to receive their leader.
He made it clear that the party had no plans to bring out a rally or hold a public meeting. He said the rulers proved that they did not believe in the democratic society and were worried about the popularity of the PPP and Benazir Bhutto.
Unprecedented security measures were adopted to stop PPPP leaders and activists from reaching the airport. Heavy contingents of police, elite force and lady police force at and around the airport were equipped with batons, tear gas and riot gear.
Police were also deployed along the main roads to the airport and were also present at every crossing.
Outside the airport, hide and seek between police and PPPP activists and leaders continued whole Friday night into Saturday. The prominent leaders arrested from the airport were Naheed Khan, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Senator Safdar Abbasi, Zahid Pervaiz (MPA Gujranwala), MNA Shakeela Rashid, MNA Mrs Yasmin-ur-Rehman, Javed Qureshi, MPA Jhelum, MNA Naseem Chauhdry, MPA Rehana Bangish, Rubeena Qaim Khan, former minister Malik Hakmeen, PPPP MNA ticket-holder from Faisalabad, Ejaz Virk, former federal minister from Quetta, Mir Baz Khetran, Advocate Mohammad Saleem Butt from Quetta, Abdul Rehman of Karachi, Asima Moghalpura, Haji Sabir, Naib Nazim Gujranwala, Ali Akbar Mitho, Information Secretary Jhelum Ejaz Shah and Azam of Lala Musa.
Naheed Khan, Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Senator Safdar Abbasi were sitting in a car (LRU 5689) in the airport parking lot and they were spotted at about 3.30am by DSP Ejaz, CIA Na****ot. He requested them to come out of the car, but they refused. Shah Mehmood Qureshi said they were not violating section 144 over which the DSP opened the car’s door and dragged Senator Safdar Abbasi out of the car. During this struggle, Abbasi’s clothes were partially ripped.
They were later taken to South Cantt police station and from there to a rest house of the Irrigation Department in Sajan near Batapur. Some PPP leaders alleged that the authorities shifted them to "a torture cell" of the military in Mehfoozpura.
Even female activists, including MNAs and MPAs, were thrown into a police truck, with the cops continuing their baton-charge.
Dr Shahid Masood, a senior journalist said police commandos confiscated laptops, cell-phones, cameras and films and tapes of the journalists besides giving the mediapersons a good thrashing. He said senior journalists accompanying the leader were manhandled and police "played football" with them, as they were thrown down in the lounge and on the stairs.
Both SSP Operations and SP Security misbehaved with the local and foreign journalists travelling with Zardari from Dubai. Aftab Cheema and Ahmad Mobeen got physical with the journalists and snatched their cellular phones, cameras and video films. They deleted all the pictures from the cell phones besides destroying video films. "There were more than 200 commandos led by the city’s top cop and treated the journalists as pariahs," Adnan Malik of Geo Television said, adding that it appeared from the expressions of the SSP Operations and SP Security as if they had caught ‘the most wanted men’ and were "going to shoot them in encounter". The other journalists manhandled were Mazhar Tufail, Gohar Butt, Ishfaq, Mian Habib, Omar Shami, Sohail Warraich and Amir Mir.
Besides, the Airport Security Force (ASF) and city police officials also treated local journalist rudely and pushed them back from standing outside the arrival lounge.
Strict security measures caused great inconvenience to the passengers with valid tickets for the day and only drivers were allowed to accompany the passengers. Police did not allow their relatives to go near to the arrival and departure lounges at the airports and anyone who tried to argue was thrashed and beaten up. Many families cursed the police for their attitude.
Hundreds of PPP leaders were arrested at the pickets set up on roads. Police had set up pickets at all inter-district roads so that no one could sneak into the provincial metropolis to welcome Mr Zardari.
As assigned by the provincial government, Lahore Capital City Police personnel on Saturday continued their massive crackdown on the PPP.
A heavy police contingent rushed to the Chowk near the Corps Commander House and arrested several PPP workers and leaders including Sohail Malik, Ghulam Abbas, Aslam Gil, Malik Karamat Khokhar, Allah Nawaz Sial, Hafeez Javed Puppy and Sohail Butt.
Dozens of the PPP workers were arrested near the Lakshami Chowk and detained at different police stations minutes after they tried to demonstrate there. MPA Ashraf Khan was reportedly leading the workers who got angry over finding their way to the airport blocked.
Two buses full of PPP workers reaching here from Jaranwala, Faisalabad were stopped at Regal Chowk and were impounded while passengers were arrested and locked up.
Several PPP workers who had managed to cross all the obstacles and gathered at the road leading to the airport were caught and shifted to the various police stations. These workers had somehow or the other had been hiding at an airport neighbouring locality, Ali Park. Police contingents were also reported to have baton-charged the workers who put up stiff resistance when they failed to make it to the airport.
The police blocked several city roads by parking trailers, tractor-trolleys and other long vehicles. The roads included Ferozpur road, Wahdat road, Jail road, and entry points to The Mall and Jail road. All the entry routes to Lahore had also been blocked.
Other PPPP leaders arrested were Ghulam Mustafa Khar, Aitzaz Ehsan, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Nayar Bokhari, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Tasneem Qureshi, Dr Fehmida Mirza, Mrs Shamshad Bachani, Zumurad Khan, Murtaza Satai, Fozia Habib, Shery Rehman, Ch Manzoor Ahmed Khan, Asad Muzafar, Jehangir Badr, Samiullah Khan and Mansoor Wasan. Senior PPPP leaders Nawab Yousaf Talpur, Naveed Qamar, Khalid Kharal, Pir Ghulam Rasool Jilani and Tahir Khaliq. They were confined from 10am to 3pm at the residence of Ch Ahmed Mukhtar on Main Boulevard, Gulberg. On being freed they all met Zardari at the Bilawal House.
Police also severely beat up Uzma Bokhari MPA and she was under treatment at Services Hospital. PPPP President Balochistan Lashkari Raisani, Aftab Shaban Mirani, Haji Chan, Tauseef Pelicho, Senator Raza Rabbani and MNA Ali Nawaz were also arrested.
The entire scene did not affect the business activity in the city but the general public suffered a lot. Rush was observed at city bus stops because police did not allow vans to ply the routes.
According to an estimate, about 5,000 PPP workers and leaders were arrested in Lahore alone Friday night and Saturday. Approximately 50 to 100 activists are being detained at each of the police stations in the city. The release of these workers was expected to start late Saturday night.
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PPP leader taken into custody on plane; placed under house arrest; mediapersons aboard treated as ‘most wanted’; all main city roads blocked by police; PPP workers, leaders baton-charged, detained
By Ali Raza, Ziaullah Niazi, Faisal Shakeel, Sajjad Shafiq Butt & Tahir Hasan Khan
LAHORE: Asif Ali Zardari was forcibly taken into custody at the Allama Iqbal International Airport and was confined to the Bilawal House for more than nine hours here on Saturday.
Zardari returned from Dubai on a flight of Aero Asia along with several party leaders, activists and mediapersons. The plane landed about 7.12am and Zardari was not allowed to enter the international arrival lounge, confirmed a source in the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
The home secretary and other senior government officials were already present at the airport to monitor the situation.
Sources said SSP Operations Aftab Cheema and SP Security Capt (retd) Ahmed Mobeen went into the plane and took Zardari and Amin Fahim, President PPPP, into custody. Zardari and Amin Fahim were taken to the Bilawal House on Sher Khan road in Cantt from the old airport.
Several passengers of the same flight, seeking anonymity, claimed that when the plane landed, Capt (retd) Ahmad Mobeen went straight to Zardari, touched his knees and informed him that they were ordered to take him to the Bilawal House. Zardari neither offered any resistance nor did he try to deliver any speech in or outside the plane, they said.
They said the security officers accompanied by the police commandos surrounded Zardari on the plane and immediately shifted him to a car parked on the tarmac. Security agencies did not allow other passengers to come out of the lounge until Zardari had been taken out of the airport.
Earlier at the Dubai airport, Asif Zardari, along with his team members and journalists boarded the plane early on Saturday.
Asif told the media that he and his team members would leave for Lahore in a schedule flight and not in a chartered flight and land in Pakistan at 4am on Saturday. However, the plane left the Dubai airport at 4.30am and landed at the Lahore airport at 7.30am.
A close adviser of Zardari claimed that the announcement about the changes in the programme was a dodge to foil the government plan.
Talking to The News by phone from Bilawal House, Asif Zardari said the rulers’ claim that democracy has been restored in the country stands exposed.
He said the MMA was allowed to hold a million-man march, Chaudhry Shujaat was allowed to take out procession in Lahore but the PPP workers and supporters were barred to receive their leader.
He made it clear that the party had no plans to bring out a rally or hold a public meeting. He said the rulers proved that they did not believe in the democratic society and were worried about the popularity of the PPP and Benazir Bhutto.
Unprecedented security measures were adopted to stop PPPP leaders and activists from reaching the airport. Heavy contingents of police, elite force and lady police force at and around the airport were equipped with batons, tear gas and riot gear.
Police were also deployed along the main roads to the airport and were also present at every crossing.
Outside the airport, hide and seek between police and PPPP activists and leaders continued whole Friday night into Saturday. The prominent leaders arrested from the airport were Naheed Khan, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Senator Safdar Abbasi, Zahid Pervaiz (MPA Gujranwala), MNA Shakeela Rashid, MNA Mrs Yasmin-ur-Rehman, Javed Qureshi, MPA Jhelum, MNA Naseem Chauhdry, MPA Rehana Bangish, Rubeena Qaim Khan, former minister Malik Hakmeen, PPPP MNA ticket-holder from Faisalabad, Ejaz Virk, former federal minister from Quetta, Mir Baz Khetran, Advocate Mohammad Saleem Butt from Quetta, Abdul Rehman of Karachi, Asima Moghalpura, Haji Sabir, Naib Nazim Gujranwala, Ali Akbar Mitho, Information Secretary Jhelum Ejaz Shah and Azam of Lala Musa.
Naheed Khan, Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Senator Safdar Abbasi were sitting in a car (LRU 5689) in the airport parking lot and they were spotted at about 3.30am by DSP Ejaz, CIA Na****ot. He requested them to come out of the car, but they refused. Shah Mehmood Qureshi said they were not violating section 144 over which the DSP opened the car’s door and dragged Senator Safdar Abbasi out of the car. During this struggle, Abbasi’s clothes were partially ripped.
They were later taken to South Cantt police station and from there to a rest house of the Irrigation Department in Sajan near Batapur. Some PPP leaders alleged that the authorities shifted them to "a torture cell" of the military in Mehfoozpura.
Even female activists, including MNAs and MPAs, were thrown into a police truck, with the cops continuing their baton-charge.
Dr Shahid Masood, a senior journalist said police commandos confiscated laptops, cell-phones, cameras and films and tapes of the journalists besides giving the mediapersons a good thrashing. He said senior journalists accompanying the leader were manhandled and police "played football" with them, as they were thrown down in the lounge and on the stairs.
Both SSP Operations and SP Security misbehaved with the local and foreign journalists travelling with Zardari from Dubai. Aftab Cheema and Ahmad Mobeen got physical with the journalists and snatched their cellular phones, cameras and video films. They deleted all the pictures from the cell phones besides destroying video films. "There were more than 200 commandos led by the city’s top cop and treated the journalists as pariahs," Adnan Malik of Geo Television said, adding that it appeared from the expressions of the SSP Operations and SP Security as if they had caught ‘the most wanted men’ and were "going to shoot them in encounter". The other journalists manhandled were Mazhar Tufail, Gohar Butt, Ishfaq, Mian Habib, Omar Shami, Sohail Warraich and Amir Mir.
Besides, the Airport Security Force (ASF) and city police officials also treated local journalist rudely and pushed them back from standing outside the arrival lounge.
Strict security measures caused great inconvenience to the passengers with valid tickets for the day and only drivers were allowed to accompany the passengers. Police did not allow their relatives to go near to the arrival and departure lounges at the airports and anyone who tried to argue was thrashed and beaten up. Many families cursed the police for their attitude.
Hundreds of PPP leaders were arrested at the pickets set up on roads. Police had set up pickets at all inter-district roads so that no one could sneak into the provincial metropolis to welcome Mr Zardari.
As assigned by the provincial government, Lahore Capital City Police personnel on Saturday continued their massive crackdown on the PPP.
A heavy police contingent rushed to the Chowk near the Corps Commander House and arrested several PPP workers and leaders including Sohail Malik, Ghulam Abbas, Aslam Gil, Malik Karamat Khokhar, Allah Nawaz Sial, Hafeez Javed Puppy and Sohail Butt.
Dozens of the PPP workers were arrested near the Lakshami Chowk and detained at different police stations minutes after they tried to demonstrate there. MPA Ashraf Khan was reportedly leading the workers who got angry over finding their way to the airport blocked.
Two buses full of PPP workers reaching here from Jaranwala, Faisalabad were stopped at Regal Chowk and were impounded while passengers were arrested and locked up.
Several PPP workers who had managed to cross all the obstacles and gathered at the road leading to the airport were caught and shifted to the various police stations. These workers had somehow or the other had been hiding at an airport neighbouring locality, Ali Park. Police contingents were also reported to have baton-charged the workers who put up stiff resistance when they failed to make it to the airport.
The police blocked several city roads by parking trailers, tractor-trolleys and other long vehicles. The roads included Ferozpur road, Wahdat road, Jail road, and entry points to The Mall and Jail road. All the entry routes to Lahore had also been blocked.
Other PPPP leaders arrested were Ghulam Mustafa Khar, Aitzaz Ehsan, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Nayar Bokhari, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Tasneem Qureshi, Dr Fehmida Mirza, Mrs Shamshad Bachani, Zumurad Khan, Murtaza Satai, Fozia Habib, Shery Rehman, Ch Manzoor Ahmed Khan, Asad Muzafar, Jehangir Badr, Samiullah Khan and Mansoor Wasan. Senior PPPP leaders Nawab Yousaf Talpur, Naveed Qamar, Khalid Kharal, Pir Ghulam Rasool Jilani and Tahir Khaliq. They were confined from 10am to 3pm at the residence of Ch Ahmed Mukhtar on Main Boulevard, Gulberg. On being freed they all met Zardari at the Bilawal House.
Police also severely beat up Uzma Bokhari MPA and she was under treatment at Services Hospital. PPPP President Balochistan Lashkari Raisani, Aftab Shaban Mirani, Haji Chan, Tauseef Pelicho, Senator Raza Rabbani and MNA Ali Nawaz were also arrested.
The entire scene did not affect the business activity in the city but the general public suffered a lot. Rush was observed at city bus stops because police did not allow vans to ply the routes.
According to an estimate, about 5,000 PPP workers and leaders were arrested in Lahore alone Friday night and Saturday. Approximately 50 to 100 activists are being detained at each of the police stations in the city. The release of these workers was expected to start late Saturday night.
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/index.html
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