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Friday, May 10, 2013

Pakistan Election 2013 l The anticipation and fear of violence make a day of reflection in Pakistan


The anticipation and fear of violence make a day of reflection before the elections tomorrow in Pakistan, where polls predict that the outgoing Liberal coalition will be replaced by a conservative majority. Around 600,000 members of the security forces have been deployed across the country to ensure the normal conduct of the elections.
At least 117 people have died in attacks linked to the election campaign in the country, since the beginning of April. Most of the attacks have been perpetrated by the largest local Taliban group, and Therik Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which considers the election "un-Islamic".
In the latest violence, four people were killed today and 15 injured in new bombing in a market in the town of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan tribal district near Afghanistan considered a sanctuary for the Taliban and other insurgent groups linked to Al Qaeda , officials said.
The bomb was hidden in a motorcycle parked in a shopping area near the offices of the local candidates.
The attack has been claimed but, as a commander of the insurgents, the head of the Pakistani Taliban TTP, Hakimullah Mehsud has ordered run multiple suicide bombings on election day.
Also, today in the city of Quetta, west of the country, a car bomb explosion near an office of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has caused at least five wounded and numerous property damage.
Attempt

The son of a former 'premier', kidnapped

An election candidate and son of former Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani was kidnapped yesterday by a group of strangers for holding a rally on the final day of the campaign before the election call. Haider Ali Gilani was kidnapped, as reported by a police source, he left with his father and members of his training, the PPP, a fertilizer plant in Multan, in the east of the country and where the meeting took place. The local press says that the police suspect the possibility that it is a settling of accounts , or a kidnapping for ransom economic, although it does not rule out an act with political in the context of the electoral process. The TTP has decoupled the kidnapping, but had threatened to undermine members of the PPP, which has been one of the main goals of the insurgent terrorist campaign to derail the elections. The PPP led the outgoing government coalition, a liberal and that according to polls released by local media will be replaced by a conservative majority led by the Party of the Muslim League-N of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif .
Also according to the survey, Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf (PTI), the Conservative Party and led by former cricketer and local sports idol Imran Khan, is emerging, however, as the group recorded a higher increase in the quotation to the polls. On Tuesday, Khan was wounded in the head after falling into the void from a species of crane that lifted him to a stage located six meters high.

UN concern

The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern for the pre-election violence, according to UN spokesman Martin Nesirky.
Ban has sent his condolences to the families of victims who died in the attacks which were white politicians during the campaign.
The UN Secretary General "hopes that all Pakistanis voting peacefully participate, regardless of their religious affiliation , ethnicity or gender, and carry out their civic duty in this important day, "stated Nesirky.
Ban has welcomed Pakistani government's efforts to ensure safety during the day tomorrow and encourage people to vote, especially women .
Polling place

Pakistan Election 2013 l The privileged Pakistan


The students occupied the hall in silence and dressed in pristine shape with a white kamiz shawal and red tape put over the shoulder. On the stage a group of parents following the ceremony visibly moved. Their daughters have been chosen to play a role in the school over the next year : school leaders, captains of games, captains of discipline, theater prefect responsible for ring the bell at the end of recess ... Any liability, however small it may seem, is given a full solemnity, with the students taking the stage with martial step and swearing with uplifted hand to carry out the task entrusted to them. The choice has been made ​​democratically. The rest of the students have voted. In the country where the young Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban for wanting to study, there are also girls who go to school and receive an exemplary education that has nothing to envy to the best schools in any western country. "This is also Pakistan," said the Spanish religious Pilar Vila-San-Juan, who heads the Jesus and Mary College in the city of Lahore, in eastern Pakistan, and shows a certain annoyance that the media only we talk about how bad the country. "In this school there are Muslim and Christian, rich and poor, boys and girls. All juntitos scrambled, because tolerance is to live together and respect" he says. Although the Jesus and Mary is a Christian school in a country that believes fervently Islamic annually receives more than five hundred applications for registration for a hundred places available. Pets to all Christian girls and the best Muslim, those with higher notes, successfully pass entrance exams, and have open minded parents. "Because it makes no sense that someone who supports his father after not going to let you do gymnastics, or sit next to a Christian," says Sister Pilar, which is a somewhat peculiar nun. "I got a nun at age 23, after working for a long time as a hostess. Till I got tired and said, 'I'm no good to anyone but God!'" He explains. Since then carries the religious habit, who never removes. Whether in or out of school. In Pakistan women wear veils . She, coif.However, parents of the students treat it as if almost out God. He has earned their respect and leads the college at bay. Teach girls and girls academic content, but also to be people. And to say "hello". Thus, in Spanish. The origins of Jesus and Mary School date back to colonial times, when French nuns opened the first schools in 1856, which basically studying the daughters of British families. In Pakistan there are eight such schools, which offer courses approved by the University of Cambridge. In Lahore College classes are in English and Urdu, the official language of Pakistan.There are children up to ten years. And the nun Pilar has promoted the opening of special education classrooms that do not exist in any other part of the city and, as she says, are his great passion. The students are charged according to your family's financial capacity. Coinciding with the campaign for tomorrow's parliamentary elections in Pakistan, a group of organizations and individuals, named and Alif Ailaan-has launched a campaign with the question: "What will our politicians for education?". Have posted ads on billboards and newspapers, and have created a website where any Pakistani can send an email to the candidates on their electoral interrogating their educational plans. The group believes that Pakistan Alif Ailaan lives an "educational emergency", as the literacy rate among 15 to 24 years old is 56%. The Government allocates only 2.4% of gross domestic product on education. In Jesus and Mary colleges have formed the daughters of the most famous politicians of the country . There he studied the very Benazir Bhutto, the niece of General Musharraf, all Irman Khan sisters former cricketer who is emerging as one of the favorite candidates, and the daughter of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. "It was terrible. Did not study anything," said Pilar, who was his guardian. Now need that education they want for their daughters as well be for all children in the country.

Viber WhatsApp gives fight from PC


While there are alternatives to  using  WhatsApp  from a PC, none is created with the consent of the developer and thus have many limitations. However, the competition is so intense that the reign of  WhatsApp  begins to falter. A service falls, add now versions for computers that already had  Line  and now just launched  ViberLine  and  Viber , successful in their mobile versions, seem so willing to add functionality and keep the throne of  WhatsApp"Use  Line  on your smartphone when you're out and on your  Windows PC or  Mac  in the office or at home!", promise the developers of this application.

The Manchester United confirmed to David Moyes


The coach David Moyes of 50 years, has been the coach of Evertonsince 2002 .Liverpool team arrived after a successful spell as manager of Preston North EndNow is the replacement for Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United . The Scot Ferguson, who leaves office depues 27 years at the helm , was the one whorecommended his compatriot . 's board unanimously approved the arrival of new coach . Signed for six years and take over July 1"When we talk about the candidates we feel have the right attributes, unanimously agreed to give the job to David Moyes. David is a man of integrity with a strong work ethic," said Sir Alex Ferguson, according to the  United websiteMoyes will work hard. Alex Ferguson achieved 38 titles in its extensive process in front of the "Red Devils".  "I always said that we wanted the next director is a genuine man, and David Moyes, we have someone who understands the things that make this a very special club.'s A man who is committed to the long term and will build equipment for the future", said Bobby Charlton, team glory.

Pakistan Election 2013 l Kidnapped in the street the son of a former prime minister in the Pakistani finale

An election candidate and son of former Prime Minister Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani was kidnapped Thursday in a rally on the last day of election campaign on Saturday of which is expected to go a Conservative government. Haider Ali Gilani was kidnapped, according to police said he was leavingwith his father and several members of his party , the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of a fertilizer plant in his hometown of Multan, in the eastern province of Punjab. Police sources quoted by local newspaper Express Tribune reported that the goal of the attackers was the former Prime Minister Gilani, but that an inability to access it decided to take his youngest son. The sources explained that fifteen people arrived on the scene in several vehicles and opened fire on the present, as a result of which killed two people, including a candidate's aide kidnapped, and a dozen injured.Witnesses told, by the same means, Gilani's son also received a gunshot wound and was bleeding at the time of being placed in the vehicle their captors.The kidnapping of the son of the former prime minister of the PPP government for most of the last legislature  was banned by the Supreme Court last June - has been condemned by President Asif Ali Zardari, and the current prime minister, Hazar Khan Khoso . The incident has shaken the last day of the campaign before this evening the main parties made ​​their final acts before tomorrow's day of reflection and open the polls on Saturday at 8.00 local time (3.00 GMT) . The Muslim League of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has convened three meetings in their main stronghold, the eastern city of Lahore, which closes with a frenetic activity that was interrupted in solidarity with its rugged great rival. Imran Khan, the PTI leader, rushed on Tuesday from a mobile platform in one of his rallies and suffered serious injuries, including vertebral fractures, which remain hospitalized but have not followed suite directing his followers. The season finale is tonight PTI in Islamabad and will be headed by the number two of Khan and former Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mehmood Qureshi, although party sources told Efe that the charismatic party leader will speak from a screen. Nawaz Sharif is the favorite in all electoral forecasts to victory on Saturday, but the margin is to be seen to get and what other formations seek parliamentary support to form a stable government. The PTI, of conservative populist holds any hope of getting a number of seats enough to be in position to form a coalition government if the PML-N does not reach a comfortable majority or failed in their quest for alliances.