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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Pakistan rejects Pentagon's report on NATO attack


Pakistan has rejected the US report pertaining to NATO s attack on Pakistani check post on November 26 that killed 24 soldiers, saying that with Brigadier General Stephen Clark as head, the investigation can never bring out unbiased findings, our sources reported Wednesday. According to sources, Pakistan has dismissed the report on NATO attack as the head of investigating team Brigadier General Stephen Clark has been linked to the strategic team involved in the attack. And that is why he is believed to be an inappropriate choice to carry out investigation as a neutral party. A report by military investigators was delivered to General Ashfaq Kayani on Sunday by a US officer based in Islamabad, who explained the findings to the general, Pentagon spokesman Captain John Kirby told reporters. The full report from the joint US-NATO investigative team was not released publicly until Monday to allow time for the Pakistani leadership to read the findings first, Kirby said. "We wanted General Kayani to be able to see the entire thing," he said. The approach represented "an appropriate professional courtesy" to Kayani, he added. A summary of the report was released Thursday and the officer who led the investigation, Brigadier General Stephen Clark, briefed reporters by phone the same day.

Pakistan Government corruption has broken all records


The Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) says corruption touched its limits in the country in the outgoing year. Addressing a news conference, TIP Chairman Sohail Muzaffar said that delay in action against corrupt elements dented the process of accountability badly. He said the list of scandals is endless -- Steel Mills, NICL, Punjab Bank, Rental Power Plants (RPPs), Haj operations, KESC, PIA, Railways and WAPDA to name a few. He also said that the Supreme Court’s decisions are openly being violated, while institutions seem least interested in implementing court verdicts. The TIP has declared Land Administration and Police the most corrupt departments in its 2011 survey, while Education and Military remained least corrupt. The TIP survey report puts taxation at third place in corruption; judiciary at fourth; energy sector at fifth; tendering and contracting at sixth; customs at seventh while health sector was allotted eighth slot.